Mountain West Minority Reporter and Sentinel | 1990-05-01 | Page 4

10,000 National Black Leaders confab held Their numbers were fewer than expected, but those attending the ‘10,000 National Black Leaders Conference’’ were spirited in proclaiming God and the family as keys to improving the social and economic conditions for black Americans. ‘‘God, the church, and the family have been the sources of strength and hope in the pilgrimage of strength of the (Black) people, who ... (otherwise) could not have surviv- ed,’’ Bishop Joseph Bethea of the South Carolina United Methodist Church told about 1,000 people at the Carolina Coliseum. ‘They have brought us this far, and they are our best hope for tomorrow,”’ added Bethea, whose church claims 245,000 members. Dr. William F. Gibson, a Greenville dentist and chairman ‘of the national board of the NAACP, said of the conference, ““This is an occasion whose time has come.”’ Gibson, who stressed the conference’s theme of inspiring people to act for positive change in light of numerous problems, said much could be accomplished using the political and purchasing power of the 30 million Black Americans. “You can’t talk about helping our children if you don’t participate in the political process,’ he said, adding that voting and monitoring elected officials were the only ways to ensure the Black community get needed housing, health care, and education. : He encouraged participants to spend their dollars with Black businesses, and to negotiate with corporate America to ensure Blacks get jobs and promotions. “If they won’t negotiate in good faith, we’ve got to be prepared to use our dollars to wipe out that color line,’’ Gibson said. ‘‘Black Americans have come a long way since the civil rights marches of the 1960s,’’ Gibson said, ‘‘but the community must not lose sight of the effectiveness of peaceful protest and economic boycotts to re-raise the consciousness of America.”’ Publisher and businessman Redfern II had billed the conference as a meeting of 10,000 people who are succeeding nationwide at developing programs to combat drug abuse, family disintegration, and disenfranchisement. economic | Only a tenth of that number showed up, with most of the participants from South Carolina. The conference follows the three-day National Black Family Summit, during which about 1,500 professionals discussed possible solutions to problems in the Black community, including poverty, illiteracy, crime, and drug and alcohol addiction. Augustus Rodgers, who coordinated the family summit, told the gathering that the multitude of problems facing Black Americans should not cause people to lose hope or to suffer from low self-esteem. | *‘Although the family stands on the edge of a major opportunity,’’ he said, Spike Lee visits Duke University Spike Lee says films like ‘‘Driving tortable with how racism is treated in Miss Daisy’’ suggest that America may have found a comfort zone in the por- that film than it was treated in ‘Do the Right Thing,’’’ Lee said during his visit trayal of race relations in the movies. to Duke which was not nominated for the best- Morgan Freeman is a great actor, one of our greatest actors, he still plays a subservient role. I think a lot of white. Americans are more comfortable with a black man who’s a chauffeur who is Lee dealt with racism in his critically acclaimed ‘‘Do the Right Thing,’’ picture Oscar. ~ ‘*Driving Miss Daisy,’’ about a feisty southern widow’s friendship with her black chauffeur, won four Academy Awards. **T think America is a lot more com- really University. a second-class ‘‘Even though citizen, than Mookie or the Mayor or any of the characters in ‘Do the Right Thing,”’’ he said. : Charch 4 Mountain West Minority Reporter & Sentinel, May 4, 1990. ‘‘we have gathered together to acknowledge the spirit of hope,’’ Rodgers said. ‘‘The people of the nation must work together to save the family.”’ Many speakers stressed the impor~ tance of healing the fractures within the Black community in order to improve its social and economic status, but no specific solutions to the problems facing Black Americans were offered during the summit or the gathering. “‘For too long we have been living in the ‘me generation,’’’ said Columbia City Councilman E.W. Cromartie. ““Now is the time that we say the “we’ generation, to meet all our goals.”’ Rodgers and other leaders stressed that the purpose of the conference was to shine a light on the positive contribu- tions of the Black family. Church schedule Deliverance Temple . Church of God in Christ Bishop M.A. Givens, Tuesday Bible Study Wed. Spanish Bible Study . Thur. Native American Bible Study Pastor 3100 South Redwood Road (3060 South Lester Street) West Valley City, Utah Phone: [phone] Schedule of Services Sunday School isuicsc he 9:45 Morning Worship .................655 11 Evening Worship ................0+066 7 as announced Wednesday Bible Study .............. 7 Shiloh Baptist Church 10th North Buccaneer Drive Calvary Baptist Church 532 East 700 South Rev. a.m . Schedule of Services cc askac. he 9:30 a.m .. sunday School! .i0;. p.m . Morning Worship .................665 11 Evening Worship ...............0ss000 7 p.m . Holy Communion .. Each Ist Sunday Prayer Services Tues. 7 Mass Choir Rehearsal Thurs. 7 Children’s Choir Rehearsal ... Sat. 11 Bush singing praise of rock music legend The upcoming U.S.-Soviet summit may have been the big story of the day, but President Bush didn’t let that get in the way of his opportunity to be photographed with rock star Michael Jackson. In fact, he let Jackson become part of the summit story. The black-and- crimson clad singer, sporting shiny, silver ornaments on his black boots, stood at the President’s side outside the Oval Office as Bush made the first comments about his newly announced May 30-June 3 summit meeting with Soviet president Mikail Gorbachev. White House aides said Bush invited Jackson to the White House to congratulate him on being named entertainer of the decade by the Capital 3 Children’s Museum in Washington. SUAGHY SCHOO! coo) oct se esesk ee esss 9:30 a.m W OISHIDASERVICE sien. yee heres es 11 a.m Wed. Night Prayer Service .......... 7 p.m - 820 South 300 East. Elder Bobby Christian 862 West 300 North Rev. Willie Dunn, Jr. Pastor/Bishop Phone: [phone] or 964-0098 Schedule of Services Morning Sunday School ............ 10 Morning Worship ................ 11:15 Evening Worship ...............0..006 7 Friday Bible Study ..,.....:....... 7:30 a.m. a.m _ p.m p.m Miracle Rock Church 131 North 900 West Jaramillo, Pastor Phone: [phone] “Upon this rock I will build my church.”’ —Mt. 16:8 Schedule of Services _ Sunday Morning Worship .......... 10 a.m tet 7 p.m Sunday Evening Worship Dao extraordinaire Monday, Little Richard says if it weren’t for skin col- or, he —not Elvis Presley— could have reigned as the king of rock and roll. “If I was white, do you know how huge I would be?”’ Little Richard asks “‘Come | The a house into your home. - Mason Bible celebrate Jesus with us.” The Rev. Clifton B. Wilkes, Pastor Phone: [phone] | Schedule of Services Sunday School ; Morning Worship Mid-Week Prayer Service Wednesday _ eeeesecesoseeseoeerseosae eeoeeerereoseneeeeeeoseosaseos 4 been as big as he was.”’ who C.H. The Rev. Curtis F. Sewwll, Sr., Pastor Phone: [phone] ' Schedule of Services Sunday School ................. wees 9:45 a.m. Missionary ............. 2nd Sunday, 4 p.m. Choir Rehearsal ........... Saturday, 2 p.m. Elvis had been black he wouldn’t have rock pioneer, p.m., Trinity African Methodist Episcopai Church | in the April 19 issue of Rolling Stone. “‘T think Elvis was more acceptable bé~!]5=' ing white in that period. I believe if’). The 6:30 College Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., Bible Band Friday, 7:30 p.m., Evangelical Service New Pilgrim Baptist Church 1624 South 1000 West Salt Lake City, Utah Little Richard Entertainer R. Allen, Pastor “Everyone is welcome here.’’ Holiness ... at any cost. “Jesus loves you. So do we.”’ Schedule of Services Sunday School ..................++ 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship ................ 11:30 a.m. Evening Worship ...............0+ 7:30 p.m. Fellowship Max a.m a.m p.m. night p.m. p.m. a.m. Ebenzer Church of God in Christ Inc. Worldwide Gospel Church Non-Denomination Francis A. Davis Phone: [phone] Schedule of Services *“We’ve come here singing, we’ve come here praying ... We’ve come to present a plan,’’ Rodgers said. ‘“We have not come to sing the victims’ song. We have come to tell the world that the family is not dead.”’ 7 p.m. ». THE AMERICAN HEART ASSGEIATION MEMORIAL PRGGRAMa / recorded i SY classics such as ‘“‘Tutti Frutti’’ and' ‘‘Lucille,’’ says he can recal being upstaged only once in his flamboyant 43-year performing career. The man who did it: the late Jimi Hendrix. SG, \ wv \SN ss - Prey ©? 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