Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 1 June 2000 — Page 5

The Muncie Times, June 1, 2000, page 5

NEWS BRIEFS compiled by Andre Scott U.S. Congress. If Foley- shows the purchase price 7 NY congress members demonstrating against Davis is elected, she would at $10. A spokesperson for want Justice Dept, probe racial profiling. SeventyFBI set to probe become the first African the highway department of NYPD five other people were Oklahoma death American to hold a seat said the statue of arrested with Sharpton. from a non-minority- limitations might have Seven members of New The judge dropped CHICKASAW, Okla.— The majority district since E.P. expired in the Heaston York’s congressional charges against 73 other body of 34-year-old Trent MacCabe in 1909. case. But the younger delegation have written to protesters. Civil rights Wayne Blakes, an African Heaston said his father U.S. Attorney General leaders, including the American, was discovered RICHMOND, Va.— The was not compensated for Janet Reno, asking her to president of the NAACP, by three white men governor’s press office the property taken by the investigate the city’s police have asked for special hanging from a tree, released a statement highway department and department. Reps. Eliot accommodations for The three men called the saying there is no truth to the family has deeds and Engel, Charles Rangel, Sharpton. They called the police. Police Chief Bob the rumor that Linda Byrd- maps proving their claim. Gregory Meeks, Edolphus sentencing of Sharpton Hicks said the hanging was Harden, director of the They are now considering Towns, Major Owens, “political courtroom antics.” ruled a suicide. Hicks said Department of Minority litigation. NydiaValasquez and relatives have called his Enterprise, was about Jerrold Nadler, all signed Fight for a new trial office to say they do not to leave. The rumors Pa. legislator wants the letter. The lawmakers reaches new level believe Blakes’ death was escalated when the state tobacco money spent on want the attorney general NEW YORK—The theater a suicide and are internal auditor cited the blacks to personally take charge at Madison Square Garden demanding an invest!- department for poor of the investigation into the was sold out 3 days in gation. Hicks said he is financial management and A Pennsylvania legislative NYPD,‘which has been advance of a 3-hour calling in the FBI to accused Byrd-Harden of representative said he going on for more than 2 rally here to demand a new conduct another invest!- failing to return unused wants the state’s $11 years. They said Reno’s trial for African-American 9 ation - travel money in a timely billion share of the attention is particularly journalist and radio manner. Gov. Gilmore tobacco settlement to be important following the commentator Mumia Angela Davis speaks in appointed Byrd-Harden to spent in the black shooting of four African Abu-Jamal. The multiLA the $89,000 post in 1998. community. Why? Be- Americans — Amadou national, mostly youthful LOS ANGELES,—Cali- cause, according to Rep. Diallo, Gidone Busch, crowd was brought to its fornia State University Tennessee man may sue Joe Preston, African Melvin Ferguson and feet as speaker after lecture organizers had to highway department are Americans have been Patrick Dorismond—in the speaker denounced the turn people away, who overland heavily targeted by city in the last 13 months, railroading of Abu-Jamal to came to hear the An African American tobacco companies when it The letters were written death row in Pennsylvania, revolutionary, Angela Davis Tennessee family is comes to smoking. Preston following a public forum in “Mumia is all of us,” said speak. Davis whose seeking to reclaim land explained that people are a March on racial profiling. Monica Moorehead, a chair prominence escalated that is said was illegally product of their environ- Among the participants and organizer of the during the late 60s said taken more than 30 years ment and since billboards was Mary Gaines from event.” (He) is the defining that more people are afraid ago. According to Eddie advertising cigarettes have Yonkers, N.Y., whose son figure in the racist, of a single black man Heaston, a Memphis been concentrated in black was fatally shot in the criminal justice system walking down the street resident, the Tipton County neighborhoods, their back by a police officer in today.” Well known figures, than the Los Angeles Highway Department built residents should be the the Bronx while on his way such as actors Ossie Davis Police Department. Davis a r0 ad over his father’s beneficiaries of the money, home from work. The and Ed Asner, attorneys went on to discuss the land three decades ago. He said the funds could be officer was convicted of the Leonard Weinglass, Dan tensions among black men He said his father, Leslie, placed in existing shooting. Williams, Johnnie Cochran, and women over their roles purchased the 11-1/2 acres programs that research and Ron Kuby, as well as during the civil rights of land in 1953. But in the lung, ovarian and colon N.J. court sentences former New York City movements. 1960s the highway cancer among blacks. Sharpton to 10 days in Mayor David Dinkins and department redirected a Preston is, however, facing jail comedians Dick Gregory Okla. mayor may run road over the northwest stiff opposition from his and Marga Gomez, all state legislative portion of it and gave the legislative colleagues. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.— appeared. The event was land to the west to Some want the money Civil rights leader the Rev. a major step in the struggle TAFT, Okla.—Taft mayor, Heaston’s neighbors, to be spent on improving Al Sharpton was sen- to break through the Lelia Foley-Davis said she His father was left with health care in the state and tenced to 10 days in a campaign of silence, may run for the state about 9 acres, he said, in wiping out debts and New Jersey jail. Sharpton vilification and lies against house. Foley-Davis is The Tipton County constructing new was charged with ob- Mumia in the mass media, considering the run Registrar’s office, highways. structing traffic while where if his case is because Bill Settle who meanwhile, said the land entering a casino last July mentioned at all, he is holds the seat says he has never been surveyed 3. Sharpton, along with usually referred to as a may retire to run for the and that held by Heaston 200 other protestors, was “convicted cop killer.”