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Show Mountain West Minority Reporter & Sentinel, October 5, 1990 7° News Blacks wait longer for organs - Pittsburg (AP) — Black patients waiting for kidney transplants wait for the organ an average of five living relatives. The paper cited data obtained from the United Network months VA, which has a government contract to control the’ national Organ Procurement and T ransplantation Network. ““We are very concerned about this variance, but we do, and have always, take every possible safeguard to ensure that race never is an issue in the fair allocation of organs,’’ said Dr. James Wolf, UNOS president longer than whites, a newspaper investigation found. An article in the Pittsburg Press Sunday said the disparity between faces is so great the federal government has ordered an immediate investigation into the causes. The differences exist despite a federally funded distribution system that is not for Organ Sharing, of Richmond, Continued from page 6 women of this day, Dr. Man 0 Ross, cooperates and helps to move this convention forward. We are one convention made up of auxiliaries. Thank God for the cooperation we are receiving from all. Our Laymen, under the dedicated leadership of Walter Cade, is moving the work of our men forward. Cade is a fine Disney Studios plans to initiate minority hiring program Walt Disney Studios said it is preparing to launch one of the most aggressive minority hiring programs the Hollywood filmmaking community has ever seen. The film studio was recently rankChristian gentleman. Thank God for . ed at the bottom of two surveys on our moderators under the leadership job opportunities for minority screenof the Rev. Edward Snall,’’ added | writers. However, the studio is exDr. Jemison. pected to announce the names of 27 Walter Cade attended the Baptist based on ability to pay and is supposWorld Alliance in Seoul, Korea ed to be color-blind. | _ and director of the kidney transplant - recently and was elected to head the The newspaper reviewed 13,888 program at Northwestern Memorial | World Baptist Alliance Laymen. kidney transplants performed naHospital in Chicago. - The Rev. B.F. Johnson of Newark, tionally in 1988 and 1989 and found The newspaper reported that its N.J., was named chairman emeritus that black patients spent an average study closely ‘corresponds to of Home Mission Board and the Rev. 14 months on the waiting list before preliminary data developed during a Warren Lewis of West Virginia, vice their transplant. Whites waited slightcontinuing investigation by the U.S. chairman, was made chairman. ly less than nine months for kidneys. Department of Health and Human Dr. Jemison named a board to hanThe study looked only at Services, HHS Secretary Louis dle loans, etc., for the convention. transplants using organs taken from Sullivan has publicly referred to the The members of the board include brain-dead donors, not those from findings during speeches this month. Dr. Jerry Moore, Walter Cade, Harvey Freeman, Albert Johnson, David Smith, Chester Green, H. Clayburn, and Charles Varnado. The convention closed following Miami (AP) — Another black na- devised a marketing plan, and met tional organization has changed its with some of the groups that rejected the sermon by Dr. Jemison Sept. 9. He gaveled the 110th session to an mind about bringing their convention Miami. » end, with plans for the 111th session to Miami, joining a boycott inspired *“We’re anxious for that business,”’ in Washington, D.C., in September by area politicians’ snub of anti- she said. _ 1991. | apartheid leader Nelson Mandela. The boycott began. ‘after Jocal The National Forum for Black Ad- politicians refused to welcome ministrators had planned to bring Mandela June 28 and gained strength after police violently broke up a Hai1,700 delegates to Miami in 1993, tian demonstration a week later. but now they’ve joined a 7-week-old _ Participants wantan apology from action which organizers say will drain 9,000 delegates and $4.5 million to those who snubbed Mandela, an in$13. 5 million from Dade County’s. vestigation of the police’s handling of the Haitian protest, review of imtourism economy. The money has to go somewhere, migration laws that they discriminate and Broward County, Dade’s » against , Haitians, and more jobs for. |... SBOG py cighbur t6' the north, is working for c ‘black: people:4 | in. the area Si EIS Ge coh ovr tete industrys:c4 it, said county commissioner Nicki The group of administrators joinGrossman. ed stich organizations as the National ‘‘Other south Florida communities don’t deserve that boycott,’’ said Bar Association, the National Medical Association, and Omega Psi Grossman, chairwoman of Broward’s Phi fraternity in eaneeine gatherings Tourism Development Council. Broward has formed a task force, in Miami. Black group joins Miami boycott Guild of America west. Surveys of job opportunities for minority writers the guild conducted in 1987 and last year showed that screenwriters were being shut out because of ethnicity, age, and gender, according to Jeff Wallace, WGA _ west’s human resources coordinator. “In ’87 and ’89, Disney came in the worst,’’ said Wallace. writers, all of them Latin, Asian- | “It’s refreshing to see them take American, black, or women, that this aggressive approach.”’ were selected for a new writing fellowship program. Those selected from more than 2,000 applicants can receive $30,000 for a year’s work. The group will be divided equally among the studio’s three divisions: Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, and Hollywood Pictures. ‘“The hope is that we’ll be able to. develop first-rate screenwriters,’’ Cheryl] Hill, the Hollywood Pictures executive who heads the program, said. ‘‘If we happen to produce something they write, theyll be compensated additionally.”’ The effort is attracting praise from civil rights groups and the Writers “Wallace said other studios have made ‘‘pro-active suggestions’’ in response to the surveys while some film companies have yet to react. Warner Bros. had a similar program in the 1970’s, Wallace said, and 20th Century Fox has made an effort to hire minority writers for its episodic television programs. ‘‘Not to belittle the efforts of any of the other companies, but so far Disney is the only company to come to. us with a program of this size,”’ Wallace said. “‘Disney just took the lead.’’ According to sources, nobody it contacted could remembera similar effort as large and most called it unprecedented. CHECKING HAS x BEEN| SO EZE. Black infant death rate twice of white Boston — Black infants were more than twice as likely to die as white infants in Massachusetts, according to the latest compilation of figures by the state. In its report last Thursday on 1987 stastics, the Department of Public Health said the death rate for all infants in the state dropped from 8.4 per 1,000 to 7.2 per 1,000 in 1987. 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