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Jazz singer Alberta Hunter is dead Page 4 VOLUME 14 NUMBER 25 Jessye Norman to give benefit for Paine College Internationally acclaimed soprano and Augusta native Jessye Norman has accepted the position of Honorary Chairperson of Paine College’s Campaign for Excellen ce, President William H. Harris announced today. Ms. Norman will perform a benefit concert to kick-off the first phase of the $6 million campaign to build a library and performing arts theater complex on the Paine campus. “We are honored and delighted that Ms. Norman has agreed to lend her full support and outstanding talent to this en deavor’’, said Harris. The concert is scheduled for Jesse Jackson returns to Operation PUSH The Rev. Jesse Jackson will return to Operation PUSH and will redirect his efforts to “refocus and reinvigorate” the PUSH In ternational Trade Bureau, it was *» announced this week. According to associates in Operation PUSH, while con tinuing his political endeavors with the Rainbow Coalition, Jackson is determined at the same time to have a major new economic thrust in the private economy. His re-entrance into the economic arena will be announced at a meeting to be held at the PUSH national headquarters in Chicago on Nov. 15. At that time members of the PUSH Inter national Bureau along with cor porate officers of companies who have signed trade agreements will be convened. Also invited will be other businessmen who are in terested in involving themselves in the movement. Tutu continues to speak out against Reagan NEWPORT, R.l. Bishop Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, said Friday U.S. support of South Africa’s gover nment is “shortsighted because his country’s Black majority will one day prevail and remember its friends. “We are very idealistic about the U.S.A, and it is very disillusioning that your country seems to havt (a talent) for backing the wrong hor se,” said Tutu, a leading opponent of apartheid and Anglican bishop of South Africa. Apartheid is the official policy of racial discrimination and segregation against South Africa’s majority Black population. Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, visited Newport as part of a celebration of the 2OOth anniversary of the consecration of historic Trinity Episcopal Church. The Reagan administration’s 4 “record is a very distressing one,” ' he said. “Many people may have forgotten but I haven’t... that the president of South Korea was” the first head of state to visit the ad ministration. “He is head of one of the most oppressive nations,” Tutu said at a news conference before taking part in a Trinity Church service. The bishop, who likes to describe himself as “just a simple minded minister,” said the ad- Augusta NeuiiWeuteui : * ' Jessye Norman ** ’l BbH Rev. Jesse Jackson The Rev. Willie T. Barrow, who has been serving as interim director of PUSH, stated, “While the relationship between politics ministration contributes to “viscious racist policies” of the South African white minority by adopting a policy of “constructive engagement” with the gover nment. “There was a time when the United States certainly played a positive role, wh en* it seemed to be concerned about human rights,” Tutu said. “This has not been the case in the last four years.” He said he does not specifically ask for a boycott of South African interests during his current tour of the United States because “I would be guilty of an indictable offense in South Africa. What I would speak about is pressure,” Tutu said. He said he would like to see the United States tell South Africa that it is “an embarrassment” to the United States because it is an ally which supports apartheid. Tutu said he has not suffered as much as some other political op ponents of apartheid but acknowledged he has received death threats. He said he has taken some precautions, such as keeping the blinds closed when he is in a room, or in his office, but the assassination of Indira Ghandi by her own guards shows that the most stringent protection can fail. Nobel winner continues criticism of Reagan Page 1 January 21, 1985, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Chapel on the Morehouse College campus in Atlanta. Although the original desire was to hold the concert locally, the Atlanta location was finally chosen because no suitable facility currently exists in Augusta. While negotiating a date and location for the concert from her home in London, Ms. Norman noted “When our campaign suc ceeds, this problem will not arise again. It is my hope to return to Augusta to open the doors of the Paine College Theater sometime in 1987 for my first hometown per formance since April, 1982.” and religion is being hotly debated these days, the relationship bet ween politics and economics is very clear. There is a direct relation ship. “We live in a political economy. Rev. Jackson was made most aware ot this fact when he involved himself in his bid for the presiden cy. With this experience in hand, he hopes to apply much of what he learned in breathing fresh air into the PUSH campaign for the in volvement of minorities in the economic arena.” “We are very serious about using Rev. Jackson’s increased national political stature to challenge the private sector, to rejuvenate the PUSH International Trade Bureau and to serve those who supported the concept of the Rainbow Coalition,” he added. “Involvement in the economic arena is the only hope for political advancement.” jjr ■ \ \ Aw Mrs. Ruby L. Jenkins Ex- Paine professor dies Mrs. Ruby L. Jenkins, director of music at Paine College for more than a half century, died Tuesday at the age of 86. She received her elementary, high school, and undergraduate education at Paine College, and earned a second bachelor’s degree and a master’s at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. She began teaching at Paine in 1920 and retired in 1972. Mrs. Jenkins was a memberr of Trinity C.M.E. Church since childhood. Funeral services will be held at Trinity Friday at 4 p.m. The burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery, with the Rev. Jerry Poole officiating. A member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, she is survived by her husband, Solomon M. Jenkins; a niece, Thelma King, Chicago; a nephew, Bobby John son, Brooklyn, N.Y.; and a cousin, Gertrude Manning of Augusta. Millie 2X1." sues Newark I Page! | November 17,1984 Bi ■ B ® iA ■ B JI MB * i •- . DADDY KING at Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change with his namesake’s family (from left), Martin L. King 111, Bernice, Coretta Scott King, Yolanda, and bis own daughter, Christine King Farris. ‘ 'Daddy King ’ ’ rose above tragedy ATLANTA Funeral services were held Thursday at Ebenezer Baptist Church for Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. Those close to him called him “Daddy King.” And to civil rights activists, he was a father figure and a fighter whose spirit spurred a movement that still thrives. King, 84, died Sunday in his home in Atlanta, where he led the city’s first voting march in 1932 and was pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church for 44 years. Born in a sharecropper’s shack in Stockbridge, Ga., on Dec. 19, 1899, King was the second of 10 children. King’s life was graught with tragedy—he lost one son, Dr. Mar tin Luther King Jr., and his wife of 48 tears, Alberta, to assassins. His son, the Rev. Adam Daniel King, drowned. “I’m trying to be as strong as I Millie sues Newark for concert boycott NEWARK, N.J.—Charging that her First Amendment Rights are being violated, singer Millie Jackson will file suit against the city of Newark which she claims is denying her the right to sing in the city auditorium because she sang a few years ago in South Africa. A city law introduced by City Councilman Donald Tuck and passed recently by the full Council will affect her scheduled concert in Newark on Nov. 12. Councilman Tucke said that South Africa is a national issue that concerns all Blacks and that he felt that city funds should not be used to support artists who may have cooperated with that gover nment. He also added that he had met and discussed the issue with Black Mayors throughout the country and he was sure they would follow his lead in their respective cities. Looking upon the law as an ac tion that could cost her over $35,000, Jackson said she regards the edict as unconstitutional plus it denies her freedom of speech as embcdied in the First Amendment. “Sure, I admit that I went to South Africa in 80,” she siad. “But since then I realized my error and have expressed my regrets at doing so. “In talks with those conversant with the inhuman system of gover- a,,’" "‘H’al service y Jenkins, 1c A _ ine prof. Page 1 Less than 75 percent Advertising can, as daddy would want me to be,” Christine King Farris, King’s only surviving child, said Sunday. President Reagan was “sad dened by the news,” a spokesman said. Although tragedies surrounded his life, friends remembered his strength. “Before he was famous, Martin Luther King was always fighting for people’s rights and standing up for the little people of this coum munity, and telling people not to hate, ” said Atlanta Mayor An drew Young, a chief aide to King’s slain son. “Daddy King was the patriarchh of the movement and an era has passed with him. They don’t make them like that anymore,” said Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. King took the assassination of his namesake hardest: He fainted Bm W -* si ’&'&• J MILLIE JACKSON nment there and their apartheid rulerhsip, I made known in no un certain manner that I would never perform there again until the Black majority is given an equal voice in government. “Now am I to be persecuted for past errors in judgment? To deny me the right to perform is a public place that my taxes also help to support is illegal and amounts to a boycott which I will take into court to protest legally.” From othei sources it was lear ned that the Newark Council ac tion will be duplicated across the while viewing the body and visited his crypt often. But he never became bitter: “I speak to my people about what it means to love,” King siad. “We have to rid ourselves of every oun ce of hate. I can’t afford to hate. I know what it leads to.” He continued to be active in politics and the civil rights movement. In 1976, former President Jim my Carter —stung by criticism that he had appealed to segregationist Southern voters —said King’s ap pearance at a downtown Atlanta rally was a pivotal point in his presidential run. “He stood up and held my hand and let the world see it, and that was the turning point in my campaign,” Carter said. Former Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., who led the city during the turbulence of hte 19605, said of King: “He cannot be replaced.” nation by more than 300 Black Mayors to punish all performers, both Black and white, who’ve per formed in South Africa. A year ago Jackson’s concert in Newark Symphony Hall was picketed although she had said she would not make any repeat per formances in South Africa. Rev. Herbert Daughtry, a Brooklyn minister, who talked with her siad that his Black United Front played no part in the picketing as he was convinced of her sincerity. See Millie Jackson, Page 5 30C