Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 2000 — Page 7

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National News

Publisher Wilbert Tatum yfl still fighting (NNPA) — Wilbert A. Tatum, publisher emeritus of the New York 'j'- Amsterdam News, is this year’s ’ recipient of the John H. Sengstacke rri» “Against the Odds” Award. ' He drops front-page, signed, ’''•' editorial bombs on New York wt Mayor Rudolph Giuliani every

single week.

But what many people don’t know is that this year’s recipient -f 1 "* has been doing his work for the past two years from his hospital *' bed, and then from a wheelchair, ^ when a fall two years ago left him

paralyzed.

“Our view of the world is simple,” said Tatum, who led his paper as editor-in-chief and publisher for 14 years before turning it over to his daughter, Elinor, in 1997. “We tell it the way it is, and let the devil take the hindmost.” Tatum made national headlines in the late 1980s when he wrote more than 100 signed editorials

• I'.* demanding the resignation or ouster

.7 • of then-Mayor Ed Koch. The other recipients, to be awarded at the NNPA National Convention in Chicago, are Ebony/ Jet founding publisher John H.

.t ' Johnson, Nation of Islam leader

(and Final Call publisher) Louis Farrakhan, longtime Chicago jour-

•f ;-' nalistic legends Vernon Jarrett and -J?' Lu Palmer, ahd Charles Tisdale, 'jj *' publisher of the Jackson Advocate.

The awards were created this

'fi? year to honor lifetime achievements

by Black press publishers, said NNPA President John J. Oliver Jr.

j “I am really ... I’m over- • whelmed,” said Tatum of the honor.

“The simple reason is that those of us who are journalists in the Black

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MH. we mean.”

Tatum said his recuperation

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Saturday, Aug. 26, Rev. A1 Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, and Martin Luther King III, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), will lead a march on Washington to celebrate the 37th >anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” speech by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the historic march on Washington of 1963. The march will begin at noon. The “Redeem the Dream” march will focus on police brutality and racial profiling, and leaders from throughout the country will mobilize to force action by the White House and Congress toenact legislation that penalizes offenders of either of the aforementioned forms of discrimination. At a May 24th press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Sharpton, King, and Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam Records and the CEO of 360 HIPHOP.com, the official Web site for the march, urged people from across all racial and ethnic lines to “Redeem the Dream” on Aug 26. Sharpton said the marchers “are not anti-police, they are they are anti-police brutality.” The purpose of the march, he said, “is to demand responses from President Clinton and presidential candidates. Vice President A1 Gore and George W. Bush about the crisis of police brutality.”

would prevent him from attending

the ceremony.

'Redeem the Dream’

Colorado students fight to abolish slavery in Africa WASHINGTON (NNPA) — A group of Aurora, Colo., fifth-grad-ers recently visited here to push President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeline Albright to help halt the slave trade in Sudan. An arrangement was made for them to meet with a Sudanese man who escaped slavery, several leaders in the African nation’s abolitionist movement, and several congressmen sympathetic to the issue.

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ic anniversary of King written Clinton to ask for his supt<;: demonstration P 01 * ' n l ^ e ' r e ^ orts - • NEW YORK (NNPA) — On The y he,d a P ress conference,

with some help from Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Reps. Donald Payne, D-NJ., and Frank Wolf, R-Va., and other anti-sla-very activists. Their activities were organized by the Sudan Campaign, which attempts to draw attention to Sudan’s internal conflicts, which prominently includes the taking of children as slaves. Former U.S. surgeon. general to address Black church-sexuality conference at Howard University WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Former U.S. Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders is the scheduled keynote speaker at a conference on how to get more Black churches involved in actively discussing teen pregnancy, HIV, sexuality, reproductive choice and domestic vio-

lence.

The theme for the fourth National Black Religious Summit on July 3-7 at Howard University’s School of Divinity, is “Breaking the Silence: Education, Advocacy and Ministry in the New Millen-

nium.”

“The Black church has always been a big part of Black America,” said the Rev. Carlton Veazey, president/CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and a sponsor of the conference. He said he wants to keep the Black church as relevant in the future as it has been in the past. “It is my expectation that this conference will further equip Black church leaders in shining that much-needed light in their communities and congregations,” he

added.

About 800youths in 75 churches in more than 13 states across the nation have been involved with the coalition’s Black Church Initiative’s “Keeping It Real! A Faith-Based Model for Teen Dialogue on Sex and Sexuality.” v. WStvv , *«££?<

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