Buffalo Criterion, 1988-02-18

              serving working leading in wny inner cities since 1923 price only 25 per copy rochester wny's oldest and largest afro-american weekly for over 60 years - featuring paid legitimate circulation thursday february 18-24 1988 established in 1925 i/ol 64 — no 8 the buffalo criterion niagara region over 2,000 eligible for unemployment benefits juneteenth festival just around the corner rochester burger king chain battles against drug abuse rev sherrell's black history publication release 1988 part ii note in part i i covered some of the revolutionary names that my black history will touch upon the work will be a tribute to the united states postal service the department of interior of the national park service in this issue 1 will devote my theme to my personal ***"" m*m**m**m*mm***mm***mma**s**mm*am*m in fame h the final will be devoted to my publication release for this i once again am thankful to the readers the criterion press and the staff members and all amen first let me say that i have nothing to hide about my public life in new york or the life that i lived for the past decade while away in trade school and working along the five great lakes in the united states and canada and also along the mississippi river i consider myself a man of sharing caring and concern for all mankind with god's help i tried to live up to my personal motto if i can help somebody my living will not be in vain another motto that i have found to be inspirational is red yellow black or white they are precious in god s sight over a 15-year period over 20.000 poor southern black migrant farm workers lives were made better in five western new york counties along with potter county pennsylvania from the moment of their arrival blankets clothing and toys for tots were given to the workers to make them happy — the whole works in addition gospel singing was also offered i had over 10,000 worth of p a systems and 16 m.m sound projectors handy to show african films these items and musical instruments were scattered all over the five counties during that era soul singer james brown's a southerner song i'm black and i'm proud was popular along with aretha franklin's song respect i promised the farm workers that they could have saturday night dances and copyright 1988 by rev calvin l sherrell provided them with free fish sandwiches and pop many times the dances were stopped to raffle off to the children new bicycles from various suburban areas i fought hard to keep various sheriff deputies and the state police off the camps i won this respect over the years by sundays i was back on the road again from one county to another with my co-workers many times preaching 10 to 15 sermons per sunday my toy collection grew so huge over the years until i had enough quality items mostly new to have christmas rallies for over 500 blacks in buffalo for the last five years of my ministry with the migrant workers of the deep south toys and food stuffs also were divided between a number of pentecostal churches and first shiloh baptist church in buffalo the most marvelous thing that ever happened in my 15-years of work with the black migrant ministry was a singing convention leading up to the ending of my work with the migrant workers the singing convention was held at the wyoming county fair grounds in october of 1972 our guest singers were rev george and his wife dr edith washington the gospel six singers and the souls of solomon one of the growers provided us with a huge flat bed truck to be used as a platform for the singers the high school students of wyoming county came over and decorated it red white and blue the migrant workers were bused in on county school buses some of my financial supporters of warsaw arcade and castile were on hand the sheriff said to me later man you need to go to attica cause you don't seem to toy around with words the next thing i knew i was inside attica with the fantastic northington singers and the gospel six and others i never paid my singers under 500.00 per show including nursing homes and senior citizen homes that's about the cheapest price you can pay for professionals to sing for you this is what i call rural country living i hope and pray to my lord that one day that type of unity and brotherly fellowship will spread into troubled cities such as your buffalo(s philadel phia's chicago's and yes your howard beach(s and you name it don miss part 111 — final rev calvin l.sherrell dubard joins the wiz jon i dußard son of mr and mrs raymond e dußard of bennett vill age in buffalo has joined the staff at radio station wizf in cincinnati ohio he is the new program director there mr dußard is a 20-year radio veteran and joined wizf from wbmx-fm in chicago in addition to his air duties he is responsi ble for ' the wiz sound a native of buffalo mr dußard entered broad casting at the ripe age of 15 and has worked at radio stations wblk and wufo in buffalo and has done tours of duty in new york city washing ton d c st louis missouri dallas and houston texas mr dußard says he is excited about moving to the tri-state and working at wizf cincinnati is a lovely city i've already fallen in love with the landscape and downtown flair i'm planning to move wizf into a more community oriented posture to keep our listeners aware of what's going on in the city and i plan to involve wizf in as many events as possible while also creat ing activities to enhance the already active cincin nati lifestyle dußard said a newlywed dußard says that he is looking forward to rolling through the tri-state hills with a music intensive attitude and helping the wiz celebrate its upcoming first anniversary and his own with a fresh approach he is sure greater cincin nati will enjoy jon i dubard women's club to honor echols kenneth echols assis tant superintendent for school integration buf falo board of education is being honored by the mary b talbert federated women's club at their annual dinner-dance sat feb 27th at the heartstone manor 333 dickßd indepew ny at 7:30 p.m kenneth echols integrated education awards given to black role models by abdullah luqman the 1988 quality integrated educa tion awards were presented to some of the outstanding black role models from the buffalo community who have been instrumental in promoting intercultural relations throughout western new york wednesday feb 10th in room 801 city hall in each of their fields law education government community service dentistry medicine civil rights and community service and journalism of endeavor these individ uals have successfully fostered increas ed understanding acceptance and respect among all people these dedicated people have attempted to achieve that peace harmony and understanding among mankind that was advocated by dr martin luther king jr recipients of the awards were for law appellate judge samuel green his birthday chief city court judge wilbur trammell and lawyer for the board of education in the desegregation case of aubrey mccutcheon for education board of education members bettye blackman florence baugh and mozella richardson for government council president george k arthur and former congressperson shirley chisholm for community service julian dargan for dentistry dr myron s mcguire for medicine dr benjamin murphy and dr a clifford brown civil rights and community ser vice daniel acker and for journalism the editor and publisher of the buffalo criterion frank e merriweather jr editor and publisher of the buffalo challenger barbara banks and buffalo news reporter carl allen the fight for integrated schools in buffalo has been going on since the 1870s when blacks in buffalo rose up against being confined to the african school they have been fighting that same battle ever since then with a truce period from time to time judge barbara merriweather sims relayed the reason for the need of the black press as transmitted to her by her mother in accepting the award on behalf of her brother the editor and publisher of the buffalo criterion frank e merriweather jr saying that the white media generally only report the news that cast blacks in a negative light so you have to have a black press to report the positive things that blacks do to show that black people are also honorable members of the human race as i was sitting here listening to everyone laughing i could not help thinking of how serious education is said barbara banks i truly admire mr heck because he has a very difficult job trying to integrate the buffalo public schools successfully but i think that integration quality integration can only come with the integration of the curricula with the truth about african history the integrating of children without that is zero because what you are fighting is racism my challenge to mr heck superintendent revilleand to the board of education is to push for true integration of african history into the curricula so that the result will be gregory here for lecture human rights activist to speak at ub black comedian human rights activist and social satirist dick gregory will speak at the state univer sity of new york at buffalo at 730 p.m tuesday feb 23 in butler audi torium in the school of medicine and biomedical sciences on the south campus his visit to suny-buf lalo is co-sponsored by the black student union and the speaker's bureau kjtj - m-fm-m,mmi*,*m7 j m7*m*m totx of the student association the program is free and open to the public gregory whose appear ance coincides with black history month is well known for using comedy to make people think as well as laugh he has repeatedly used his suc cess as an entertainer to assist causes such as world peace alleviation of world hunger and the rights of native americans and others dick gregory gained fame as a comedian and is today a human rights activist social satirist author lecturer recording artist actor philosopher and political activist moreover he combines these roles to serve the cause of human liberation and alleviate human suf fering he is the provocative and outspoken dick greg ory civil rights movement of the 19605 is well-docu mented as are his etforts toward world peace hun ger and rights of ameri can indians his efforts however have had a cost gregory was virtually bar red from the entertain ment business he was jailed numerous times tor his part in demonstrations and cancelled bookings travel costs and legal fees have run over one million dollars yet dick gregory con tinues in his struggle for human dignity he ran from chicago to washing ton d c . in 1974 to call attention to world hunger his fasts have become legendary as he employs them to symbolize the suffering of oppressed people everywhere his participation in the his 1980|ourney to iran saw him take only liquids for 145 days as he prayed for the release of ameri can hostages and for the cessation of world hostili ty while in iran gregory met with the ayatollah khomeini the last wes terner to do so more recently he visited ira hunger strips in england and while arriving too late to help the experience was the catalyst for his litsjualy s'utafrviissi 1 iast in new orleans in 1981 there he proved fasting to be not only effective but could be done without risk to life in 1982 gregory assisted the era movement by instructing hunger strikers in illinois on proper fasting methods a self-taught authority on nutrition gregory's nine books include dick gregory national diet for folks who eat cookin's with mother nature in addition to his acclaimed autobiography nigger certainly difficult to label dick gregory is simply as he says for people the lecture is made possible by s a speakers bureau and co-sponsored by the black student union and minority affairs roscoe henderson is chair of the speakers bureau dick gregory founder's day luncheon set alpha kappa alpha international president janet jones ballard of richmond virginia will address the aka interna tional founder's day luncheon sponsored by gamma phi omega gam ma lota and xi sigma chapters of alpha kappa alpha sorority inc sun feb 21st at the hilton waterfront hotel buffalo at 1 p.m ms ballard director of alumni affairs at virginia state university in pe tersburg virginia is the international leader of more than 100.000 alpha kappa alpha women in the united states west germany western africa the bahamas etc her leadership reigns over 700 graduate and undergraduate chapters she is presently the national parlimentarian of the links inc her activities have included past membership on the national board of the ywca she is currently a member of he richmond virginia ymca board of directors former leader and council committee chairperson of the girl scouts past board mem ber of richmond league of women voters united way of greater richmond and the jack and jill inc she is an active member of the richmond law club former president vir ginia parliamentary law association national as sociation of parliamentary american institute of par liamentarian and national pan hellenic council of which she was former parliamentarian alpha kappa alpha is an international service organization founded in january 1908 at howard university in washing ton d c the interna tional global service luncheon is a public luncheon nellie b king is chairperson janet jones ballard education awards — see page 7 echols — see page 7 see page 3 see page 3 see page 7