The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Partners With Reps. John Lewis and David Scott and The Morehouse School of Medicine To Host Forum In Atlanta

Symposium to Address Issues on Unity, Education, Health and Wealth

Atlanta, GA (BlackNews.com 11/20/06) - The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), Reps. John Lewis and David Scott, and the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) will present a District-Level Forum (DLF) on Saturday, November 18, 2006 from 12:00 pm-6:00 pm. The forum theme is Unity, Education, Health and Wealth: It Takes a Healthy Village to Raise a Healthy Child. The day-long event will be held at the National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), 720 Westview Drive SW, Atlanta, Georgia.

Funded by the Ford Foundation, this CBCF initiative encourages civic participation at the grassroots level while promoting a community-based learning experience model. The District Level Forums provide an opportunity for national and local leaders to discuss important policy issues with community residents. The event is free and open to the public.

"The DLF allows us to bring a taste of our Annual Legislative Conference, which is held in Washington each year, to the Atlanta area. Leading experts on financial literacy, education, and healthcare will share information and facilitate dialogue on issues critical to individual and community success," said Dr. Elsie Scott, Interim President and CEO of the CBCF.

Dr. Ivory A. Toldson, CBCF Senior Research Analyst and Howard University Assistant Professor added, "The DLF in Atlanta will be an interactive, community-based learning experience that will engage community advocates, professionals and emerging leaders. We're also providing networking opportunities with a reception and after-social called, Rhetoric! hosted by DC-based Momentum USA."

Three panels will be presented. The first panel, "Live Long and Prosper," will include Dr. Dennis Kimbro, national best-selling author of Think and Grow Rich and Dr. David Satcher, Poussaint-Satcher-Cosby Chair in Mental Health at MSM and former U.S. Surgeon General. The second panel, "Be Smart! Taking Control of Learning and Education in our Community," will be moderated by Collins Spencer, Anchor, WSB-TV (ABC) Channel 2 Action News. Panelists include Dr. Asa Hilliard, Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Urban Education at Georgia State University, and Dr. Haki Madhubuti, Founder/President of Third World Press and Co-Founder of Betty Shabazz International Charter School in Chicago, IL.

The third panel, "Emerging Leaders Breakout: Promoting Healthy Behaviors and Leadership Among Young Men and Women," will feature Orrin C. Hudson, a chess master who CNN dubbed "Pied Piper of Positivity," and Jessica Care Moore, national award-winning poet, activist, and Moore Black Press CEO.

Morehouse School of Medicine's Dr. LeRoy Reese, an Associate Professor and Dr. Daniel S. Blumenthal, Professor and Chair of the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, enthusiastically accepted the role of local liaisons for the Atlanta DLF. "It is events like this that will ultimately persuade individuals to become more involved with the development of public policy at the grassroots level," said Dr. Reese. Dr. Blumenthal added, "Morehouse School of Medicine is the perfect forum to host an event that will encourage students, community members and experts to work together to empower our community."

For additional information about the DLF event or to register call (866) 447-7103 or visit the CBCF website at www.cbcfinc.org

CBCF was established in 1976, as a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research and educational institute. Our mission is to serve as the catalyst that educates future leaders, minority-focused organizational leaders, and organized labor to effect positive and sustainable change in the African American community.

The Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) is a historically black institution established to recruit and train minority and other students as physicians, biomedical scientists, and public health professionals committed to the primary health care needs of the underserved. MSM is not affiliated with Morehouse College.

Highlights from Past Issues . . .

During one of my stays in Mexico, I lived with a well-to-do Mexican family. Family members routinely asked if my son was into gangs and drugs (He was a university senior at the time). I chalked their insensitivity in part up to the one-dimensional depiction of blacks in the global media world, and in part to negative racial attitudes in the country.

And Blacks in Mexico suffer from those attitudes. They make up about two percent of the population, and that's only a rough estimate. The Mexican government propagates the myth of a color-blind society and has never designated any racial categories. There is no formal ban in Mexico on employment discrimination. Classified ads in magazine and newspapers are filled with requests for job applicants who are young and beautiful, and though its unstated, the lighter and more fair skinned the better.

In recent years, the guerrilla war in Chiapas, and land battles between Indian groups and government officials in other parts of the country have drawn national and international attention. This has forced the government to make minimal reforms to deal with the economic and racial ill treatment of the Indians. But the government has not shown the same level of sensitivity and enlightenment toward its black population. They remain invisible, and the lowest of the low on the country's social and economic totem pole. They are crammed into enclaves in the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Veracruz, where the schools are underserved, the roads and public services are poor, and they are subject to harassment by police.

Then there's Pinguin. An entire generation of Mexican school children (and many adults) has grown up delighting in the zany frolics of the popular comic hero. Pinguin has grossly distorted monkey like features, a baldhead and big ears. His mother is a grotesquely fat, bandanna-wearing mammy. The black mammy domestic was the stock racist image of black women in countless 1930s and 1940s American movies. But Pinguin's mother isn't a domestic. She routinely wears her bandanna around their house, and it's a ramshackle house in a poor barrio.

The Pinguin series ran in Mexican newspapers and magazines during the 1960s and 1970s. It was created by Sixto Valencia Burgos, one of Mexico's top creative artists. In 1998, Burgos became president of the Mexican National Association of Comic Artists. The Pinguin series is so popular that decades after Burgos discontinued the series, fan clubs still sprout up on both sides of the border. The comic books are still wildly popular collector's items in Mexico, and other parts of Latin America, and continue to be much discussed and much read.

Gilberto Rincon, President of the National Council to Prevent Discrimination, noted that a report on racism in Mexico was released prior to Fox's racially loaded quip in May about blacks and immigrant jobs. That was a small sign that top Mexican officials grudgingly realize that race does matter in Mexican affairs. Now Mexican officials can take another small step and dump the Pinguin stamp. Then they can take the bigger step and fully come clean on the country's racism and do something about it.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a columnist for BlackNews.com, an author and political analyst.

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THE RAPE OF IRAQI WOMEN AND GIRLS BY U.S. SOLDIERS

By A. Akbar Muhammad

(5/11/04) Over four months ago, I received an e-mail from one of my friends, a sister who keeps me up to date on information from around the world. The e-mail linked to an article that stated American soldiers were raping Iraqi women and girls. I reviewed the e-mail and put it down. One side of me said no, the other side of me said maybe so. The pain I felt reflected upon the reality of what happens in war.

There aren't any doubts in my mind about the reports on torture of Iraqi prisoners. All you have to do is look at the pictures of Saddam Hussein after his capture when he was being examined on television across the world. He appeared to be drugged and unaware that he was being filmed to be humiliated and disgraced in front of the entire world. Can you imagine what the other captives have suffered at the hands of the American soldiers? For U.S. soldiers to go into a country steeped in Arab and Islamic culture and rape women in order to extract information from them, speaks not only to an unacceptable form of behavior to be condemned by the civilized world, but shows the arrogance and beastlike nature of those who have occupied the country of Iraq.

The excuse for this behavior is that the Reservist lacked proper training and had no knowledge of Arab people and culture. Given this ignorance, and because of this they went into Iraq as raving beasts. The pictures that have surfaced say more about the mentality of the soldiers in Iraq than words could ever say. According to an article in the Washington Post on May 4, 2004, by George F. Will, President Bush in another one of those cases of engaging his mouth before he engaged his brain said on Friday, April 30 in the Rose Garden the following:

"There are a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-governing. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people's whose skins aren't necessarily are a different color than white can self-govern."

Black people are of a different color and we come from a different culture than that of white Americans. What was President Bush trying to say in a slip of the lip in the Rose Garden? Even further, what did President Bush mean in light of what has been uncovered in Iraq? Somebody help me out! To the millions of Americans who are not of his skin color he spoke as if all Americans are white in color. Maybe he is correct that there are some in America that only see the true American as his skin color. Where was he trying to go? I need help from someone other than his spin-doctors and handlers who have a difficult time making up his mind and making sense of his disjointed statements. In the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's press conference at the National Press Club on Monday, May 3, he mentioned the Neo-Conservatives (neo-cons). Perhaps they are the ones making up his mind.

Perhaps the mindset of the US soldiers in Iraq is indicative of what the President described. The sadistic, barbaric pictures I viewed depicted soldiers in U.S. uniforms gang raping Iraqi women in a most vicious manner, sodomizing them and forcing them perform oral sex on soldiers while they held a gun to their head. It is the same mentality that their fathers and their great grandfathers (white Americans) had, the former slave owners, who raped our Black men and women during the days of slavery.

These pictures and the mention of what these soldiers did to the Iraqi women were available, then later blocked from the Internet. However, I was fortunate enough to make copies of the pictures before they became unavailable on the Internet. The difference from the days of slavery in America was that there were no cameras then. If there were cameras available to take pictures, I am sure with their sadistic minds, they would have been made. They would make the same pictures as they made of the men and women they hung from trees across America. From the 1880s to the 1950s photographs were taken depicting white men, women and children smiling while our people were burning and hanging.

Black men and women, in particular, know what goes on in the prisons of America where nearly 2.4 million men and women are incarcerated. When Black men and women see these pictures, they are not surprised because this mentality runs rampant in the prison systems of America. Stories of rape and how the prison guards facilitate the sodomy and torture of men through sadistic sexual methods are well known. They look upon us as animals and the abuse taking place in America's private prisons alone is enough to tell us clearly what they would do with the Iraqi people. The entire trend of the lifestyle called the down low comes directly out of the prison systems of America. It was mentioned that one of the soldiers involved in these tortures Ivan Franklin or perhaps Ivan The Terrible was a prison guard in the Virginia prison system.

The rape of the Iraqi women in those prisons has been completely omitted from the Western press reports. The pictures were so vicious and humiliating to the entire Muslim and Arab world that the press has not mentioned them in the worldwide coverage on abuse scandal. In Bush s speech to the Arab world, he was too arrogant to say I am sorry or apologize for the behavior of these soldiers. After the beating he took in the press for not apologizing, he then offered his apology. However, this gesture was not a humble apology. He was too arrogant to say that I am asking the Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld to hand in his resignation. He knew that an apology would mean reparations and compensation to the men and women who have been brutalized in this most vicious fashion. It was said the CIA and the military intelligence instructed them to do this to ready them for interrogation.

The only thing that America can do now is fire Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, apologize to the Arab world, leave Iraq and let the Iraqi's go on to self-govern themselves. I am sure that the consultants for America from the Arab world have told them that many of these men and women will commit suicide, some of them will be killed because the faces of the women who were viciously raped and forced to perform oral sex on soldiers have been flashed in many parts of the world. These families cannot forgive and forget this. It is not within their culture to say all is forgiven and shake hands with Americans tomorrow. The people who have sense can see that this came from up on high and yet America refuses to begin to deal with them from the top. Perhaps President Bush should resign or the Congress should impeach him because ultimately the buck stops at his desk.

When was it written or said that America could or should outsource the guarding of prisoners of war, they are bringing in people who worked in the prison systems in America as private contractors or consultants. A clear example of this is that American Administrator of Iraq, Paul Bremer's security force are private contractors. They are former soldiers many of them who are paid as much as $1,500 per day. This is why the soldiers with experience are falling over themselves to leave the military and take these jobs. This is another reason that the American government is considering the draft to continue to pursue these wars throughout the world.

In a recent news report covered on the inspection of the Abu Ghraib prison, according to the commentator, imprisoned women were screaming out for help and proclaiming their innocence. I thought long and hard on why the pictures of the women being raped were not shown in America and how they were wiped off the website. I also reflected on why the writings that I have read from one paper to another failed to mention what these women have suffered in Iraq.

In one article it was mentioned that this perverted, sadistic sexual abuse of the prisoners was the best way to break them quickly and make them talk. I could not help but wonder if this is what the American military and government officials learned from the Serbs of former Yugoslavia. The Serbs insidious ethnic cleansing program, which was used to rid their country of the minority Muslim population, is responsible for the rape of approximately 60,000 Muslim women and the killing of their men. Is this the route that the American government is taking to change the culture and the politics of the Middle East and the Muslim world?

A. Akbar Muhammad, African Representative of Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam is based in Ghana. Please send your comments to africandtheworld@aol.com

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MINISTER FARRAKHAN SPEAKS ON THE MIDDLE EAST, IRAQ, IRAN, SYRIA, LIBYA AND THE UPCOMING U.S. ELECTIONS

Washington, DC - (4/24/04) Minister Louis Farrakhan, Leader of the Nation of Islam will conduct a press conference on Monday, May 3, 2004, 9:00 am at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. He will speak on the Palestinian Israeli conflict and how America's Middle East policy will affect the future of the United States and the world. The theme of this press conference is entitled, "Guidance to America and the World in a Time of Trouble".

He will also speak on the War on Terror, Iraq, Homeland Security, the Patriot Act, the upcoming election and the Black Agenda. He will ask the questions, Should Reparations be a part of the national dialogue in this election year? Is Senator Kerry able to change the course that President Bush has put the nation on? And should President Bush be impeached?

The press conference will also be available via satellite throughout the United States, Great Britain, France, the Middle East and North Africa. The press conference can be viewed live via webcast at www.finalcall.com

Press Conference: Monday, May 3, 2004
National Press Club
Ballroom
529 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20045 9:00 a.m.

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TV ONE'S "ON POINT WITH ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS" FEATURES RARELY SEEN SIDE OF NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER CONDOLEEZZA RICE

-- Interview explores the personal side of the National Security Adviser, including such topics as family, faith, racism and her relationship with the President and other Cabinet officials -

(3/4/04) TV One, the new cable network targeting African American adults, offers viewers a rarely seen personal glimpse of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in an interview conducted for On Point With Armstrong Williams, a series of special interviews by conservative commentator and columnist Armstrong Williams.

In the episode that premieres Sunday, March 7 from 7-8 PM (ET), the most powerful woman in the world today discusses her life, job, family, faith, the impact of racism on her life and her relationship with the President and other key Administration officials. She also addresses controversial issues such as the University of Michigan affirmative action case and the President's 2003 State of the Union address that included the allegation of Iraq seeking uranium in Niger. The special will also repeat that night at 10 PM (ET) and 1 AM (ET).

In discussing the subject of racism, Dr. Rice tells of growing up in a segregated Alabama under Jim Crow, where "you couldn't not see 'Colored Only' fountains." She tells how, as a child shopping with her mother for an Easter dress, a sales clerk directed her to a store room, rather than the fitting room, to try on her dress and of her mother's insistence that her daughter use the fitting room or no purchase would be made. She also tells of being raised by loving parents who taught her she could be anything she wanted to be and of growing up in a nurturing and supportive black middle class community.

"There was a very strong sense [in the middle class black community] that Birmingham's problem with segregation was not going to diminish the horizons of those kids," Dr. Rice said.

When asked about last year's State of the Union speech, Dr. Rice told Mr. Williams she takes responsibility for the inclusion of the uranium language in the speech, noting, "It should never have been the case that we had in [the President's] speech. . .words that the Director of Central Intelligence didn't want in that speech. I feel terrible about it, and I told [the President] that."

Regarding the University of Michigan affirmative action case, Dr. Rice said that, since she had been the Stanford provost and had to deal with similar issues there, the president had asked her opinion on the subject. "I told him. . .that we shouldn't have quotas, that there were problems with the Michigan program, but it was important. . .that race be allowed to be a factor because race is a factor in American life. You can't ignore that."

The interview with Dr. Rice was taped February 24 at the Old Executive Office Building in Washington. On Point with Armstrong Williams is an interview series of specials that features prominent Americans in politics and public policy, such as Dr. Rice, Democratic Presidential candidate Al Sharpton and Education Secretary Roderick Paige.

Launched in January 2004, TV One (www.tv-one.tv) offers a broad range of entertainment-oriented original programming, classic series, movies, fashion and music that focus on African American themes, issues culture and politics. TV One's investors include Radio One [NASDAQ: ROIA and ROIAK; www.radio-one.com], the largest company that primarily targets African American and urban listeners; Comcast Corporation [NASDAQ: CMCSA and CMCSK; www.comcast.com], the leading cable television company in the country; Constellation Ventures; Syndicated Communications; Pacesetter Capital Group; and Opportunity Capital Partners.

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Colin Powell Says Violence Down in Haiti

3/1/04. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is pleased with the international community response to the crisis in Haiti. He says, "the looting and violence has gone somewhat overnight. We'll have to see what daylight brings." Powell, who constantly has to defend President Bush, rejected critics' claims that the administration waited too long to take action. Bush has said that "I urge the people of Haiti to reject violence and give this break from the past a chance to work and the United States is prepared to help."

Troops Deployed to Haiti

3/1/04. United States, Canadian, and French peacekeeping troops have been deployed to Haiti, including 200 marines to Port-au-Prince.. On Sunday, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitian President, resigned and left Haiti, reportedly in Bangui. New interim president, Boniface Alexandre, Haiti's Supreme Court Chief Justice, was installed as mandated by Haiti's constitution. Aristide was the first democratically elected president in Haiti's 200 years of independence. His term was set to end in 2006; however, his election was allegedly fraudulent and opponents wanted him out. The United Nation's Security Council has voted unanimously send a multinational peacekeeping force to Haiti for about three months.

The Real Haiti Dilemma - Commentary

By Kwaku Person-Lynn, Ph.D.

(3/12/04). The significance of the Republic of Haiti goes far beyond anything currently reported in the news. It is almost an unwritten code by America and
France that Haiti remains destabilized and the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its anguish began with the first European contact by Columbus in
1492. Within a 25 year period after his arrival, the indigenous Arawak of Haiti virtually disappeared under Spanish genocide. It is no coincidence that 2004 is
the 200 year celebration of Haiti's independence (1804), and the same year a democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forcefully removed
by American military.

The sequence of events started on France soil. The French Revolution of 1789 involved almost all of Europe, but ironically inspired slave rebellions all over the Caribbean. In Haiti, there was an extra incentive created by a law passed in the National Assembly of France entitled the "Declaration of the Rights of Man." This guaranteed citizenship to people of color. Haiti, then called Saint Dominque, was France's wealthiest producing colony. The wealth was generated from a plantation system based on the labor of enslaved Afrikans.
Beneficiaries of the wealth were mainly French planters and gens de couleur of African and French descent, Creoles. Its main crops were sugar cane, cocoa, cotton, and coffee.

When France reneged on its promise, rebellions began. This sparked a multifaceted thirteen year revolution. The planters wanted independence from France, the free Creoles wanted full citizenship, while the enslaved Afrikans wanted freedom. The dominating equation is that Afrikans outnumbered all the other groups reaching approximately one half million.

In August 22, 1791, what ultimately became known as the "Haitian Revolution," was ignited by an enormous slave revolt led by a high priest named Boukman. General Toussaint L'Ouverture of Haiti, a former slave, fought with Spain and Britain against the French until they abolished slavery. He then switched sides and fought with the French believing this would help bring freedom and independence. Other Haitian Afrikan leaders figured prominently and maybe more importantly, generals Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe. Haiti was beginning to function as an independent state, much to the displeasure of the French elite.

In 1801, Napoleon Bonaparte, self-described Emperor of France, set out to restore order in his wealthiest colony by dispatching General Leclerc, his brother-in-law, along with thirty thousand of his best troops to arrest Toussaint, reinstate slavery, and restore French rule. This turned out to be Napoleon's greatest tactical error. His troops were bitterly defeated. As a result, on January 1, 1804, Dessalines declared the nation independent, under its indigenous given name of Haiti ('higher place'), thus, making it the first black
republic in the world and the first independent nation in Latin America.

This brings us to the central point why western nations of European descent withhold loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to Haiti and keep it destabilized through three decades of dictatorship and a current head of state who as been overthrown two times. The real hidden issue, the West is never going to forgive this tiny Black nation defeating a powerful European nation that dispatched its best troops, and then had the gall to form their own independent government in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti represented a potent example of successful Black power. The fallout of France's defeat had international implications.

Plantation owners in the United States feared the worst. Afrikans in Haiti destroyed some 200 sugar plantations, 600 coffee plantations, 220 indigo and cotton plantations and killed most of the Europeans (Dr. Edward Scobie). If it could happen in Haiti, it could happen on their plantations. President Thomas Jefferson enacted an economic embargo against Haiti, with America and Europe refusing to acknowledge its independence for decades. Tighter codes were enacted against enslaved Afrikans in America. Stricter security and harsher punishments were given for the slightest offense. Not having the resources or the troops to maintain it, France eventually loss the Louisiana Territory. In addition, there were over 250 recorded slave revolts in the United States, not including those that were not reported. In racial terms, a small island controlled by Blacks defeated one of Europe's strongest White nations. This was totally unacceptable in the Western world. Though this is the undercurrent of Haiti's problems, the only seemingly viable solution is for Haiti to rely on the land of its ancestors for financial relief, until it can create an economy allowing it to become self-sufficient once again. Maybe there are other solutions, but history has not favored any of them thus far.

Kwaku Person-Lynn is the author of On My Journey Now - The Narrative And Works Of Dr. John Henrik Clarke, The Knowledge Revolutionary. E-mail address:
DrKwaku@hotmail.com. Website: www.drkwaku.com

AMBER BOOKS RELEASES "FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE: THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SURVIVAL GUIDE"

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Author - John V. Elmore, Esq.

Phoenix, AZ - (3/18/04) Amber Communications Group, Inc. imprint (Amber Books) has published FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE: The African-American Criminal Justice Survival Guide (ISBN# 0-9727519-3-9 / $14.95 / Paperback) by John V. Elmore, Esq.

In keeping with the mission that we, as publishers of Amber Books, strive to dedicate ourselves to - the best information and knowledge, provided by our authors and self-help books for our African-American community - We are proud to announce the publication of what we feel is THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS WRITTEN IN THE LAST THIRTY YEARS! We, at Amber Books, hope that this book can help you and your family to understand the most devastating and destructive force in our African-American communities...the American Criminal Justice System.

FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE: The African-American Criminal Justice Survival Guide is a powerful and thought-provoking WAKE-UP CALL For ALL AFRICAN-AMERICANS to fight for and to save your life and the lives of the next generation of African-Americans!

FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE author John V. Elmore, Esq. states: "It hurts me to see so many of our young African-American men and women going to jail instead of college. Many go to jail, having been wrongfully convicted of crimes that they did not commit. Others will go to jail because of a lack of economic opportunities; and others go to jail simply because they did not have someone to show them a better way. I hope this book will serve as a tool to wake up and fight to save the lives of our African-American young people so that they will avoid the criminal justice system. I hope it will educate you and your loved ones about the system and help you make intelligent decisions about the way you conduct your lives."

Powerfully written by John V. Elmore, Esq. and edited by Yvonne Rose, with a foreword by Tony Rose, Publisher of Amber Books, FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE Will Teach You: How to Choose the Best Attorney to Help You Win Your Personal Fight for Justice; How to Understand Your Rights and Know What to Do if You Are Arrested; How to Survive if You Get Caught up in the Criminal Justice System; How to Check Your Appearance and Conduct in Court to Get the Best Possible Outcome; Everything You Need to Know About Bail, Juries and Jail; How Drugs and Alcohol can Lead to a Life of Crime and Torment ...How to Make the Right Choices.

According to George Fraser, Author of Success Runs in Our Race, "This book is a must read for all those that are serious about avoiding the pitfalls, tricks and the misconduct of America's criminal justice system."

Mr. Elmore is a practicing criminal defense attorney with offices in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New York. He is a former New York State Trooper, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney and New York State Assistant Attorney General.

According to Terrie M. Williams, Founder and President of The Stay Strong Foundation," "This book is necessary...because if we don't give our kids time, the system will".

For review books, contact: Amber Books at 480-460-1660 / 201-433-4324 or email: amberbks@aol.com

For interviews or speaking engagements, contact Mr. Elmore at: 716-852-6781 or email: jvelaw21@yahoo.com

Visit: WWW.AMBERBOOKS.COM to see the complete ACGI collection

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BIG OBSERVES 40TH ANNIVERSARY MARCH ON WASHINGTON

BIG Members Encouraged to Attend All Planned March Activities throughout the Year

Denver, CO - (9/2/03). A commemorative ceremony of the 40th Anniversary 1963 March on Washington is scheduled to be held during the 25th Blacks In Government (BIG) Annual National Training Conference in Denver, CO. In a combined effort of Blacks In Government, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Committee, and the Colorado Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Commission, we invite you to share with us in reclaiming the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 40 years later, as we revisit the March on Washington, DC.

Join us on Thursday, August 28 in the Atrium of the Wellington E. Webb Building, 201 West Colfax, Denver, Colorado at 8:00 AM. The 40th Anniversary March on Washington will extend from August 23, 2003 to November 2, 2004. BIG members are also encouraged to participate in the years' activities and support the 40th Anniversary March on Washington in every way possible. Visit the BIG Press Room at the Adams Mark Hotel, Directors Row H to get a copy of The 40th Anniversary March on Washington press release and time table of scheduled events.

The Historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom lead to the passing of the now historic Civil Rights Act of 1964. And the 20th Anniversary March held in 1983 lead to the passage of the South Africa Sanctions Bill and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Bill that became public policy. Likewise, this year's March will lead up to the achievement of a specific goal.

For more information about the 40th Anniversary March on Washington contact Mark Thompson on 202-544-8026.

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South Carolina Attorney General Attacks NAACP "Border Patrols"

The attorney general of South Carolina states that it is illegal for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to use interstate welcome centers for picketing. He has threatened to sue over its tourism protests. The NAACP is urging travelers not to spend money in the state until the Confederate flag is removed from Statehouse grounds. The latest protests are part of a two-year boycott.

President Bush's Welfare Reform Plan

On Wednesday, March 6, President Bush backtracked on a controversial element of his welfare reform plan. Originally, he said that welfare recipients who are required to take community service jobs should not be covered by minimum wage and other worker protection laws, now he says they will. The 36-page plan for renewal of the 1996 welfare overhaul includes recommendations to Congress that include a significant increase in the number of people each state must put to work.

President Bush believes by toughening present laws, he can push more people from public assistance into jobs. He says, "Work is the pathway to independence and self-respect. Many are learning it is more rewarding to be a responsible citizen than a welfare client; it is better to be a breadwinner respected by your family." He has been criticized because the nation is in a recession and forcing people with little education and experience in a bad economy is not wise.

Bush has pledged $200 million in federal funds for programs targeted at encouraging low-income couples with children to marry and would allow states to put recipients in education and training programs. He calls it a "tough-love" approach.

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Highlights from Past Issues . . .

THE RAPE OF IRAQI WOMEN AND GIRLS BY U.S. SOLDIERS

MINISTER FARRAKHAN SPEAKS ON THE MIDDLE EAST, IRAQ, IRAN, SYRIA, LIBYA AND THE UPCOMING U.S. ELECTIONS

TV ONE'S "ON POINT WITH ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS" FEATURES RARELY SEEN SIDE OF NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER CONDOLEEZZA RICE

Colin Powell Says Violence Down in Haiti

Troops Deployed to Haiti

The Real Haiti Dilemma - Commentary

AMBER BOOKS RELEASES "FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE: THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SURVIVAL GUIDE"

BIG OBSERVES 40TH ANNIVERSARY MARCH ON WASHINGTON

South Carolina Attorney General Attacks NAACP "Border Patrols"

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