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Carmichael to lead soul session• here BLACKNEWA'RI( ---- ::Jhe Voice o/ ?tewark'-1 .Jlnner eity VOL. I, NO. I NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, APRIL, 1968 IOe Newark Black Convention set /or lune Black church, fraternal, social every segment of the Black Com persons in Newark are Black , and and anti-poverty groups are now munity to take part in the conven it is estimated that by 1970, 7 of lining-up delegates and contribut tion so that the candidates chosen every 10 persons in Newark will be ing finance to the Black Political will represent as diverse a repre Black. l Convention to be held here June sentation as possible. -78 of every 100 children in Stokeley Cannic'hael 21 thru 23 at West Kinney Junior The groups responding to the the Newark Public School system To give policy statement High School here in Newark. This Black Convention call expressed are Black. The mayor of your city Singers, dancers slated is the first step in the Black desires to work with the United appoints the Board of Education Brother Stokely Carmichael People's efforts to gain self-go-. Brothers in all areas, especially in members who in turn are respon will take a few hours from his vernment by 1970. the voter registration coming up sible for the second class education Black Nation-organizing to come t.o The thr~day convention will this summer. that Black Children are receiving Newark and let Black People know be a history-making event in which The communique from the in Newark's schools. what's happening throughout the the Black Poulation will come to Brothers said: -The Black Communities of Black World. The Brother will be gether and pick Black Candidates "Self-government is a must by Cleveland, Ohio and Gary, Indiana the featured speaker at an evening for every available city office. 1970. Newark City elections are 30 helped themselves in 1967. The . of Black Soul and Black Culture at The Black Convention is being months away, but now is the time Black Community of Newark must Central High School, Friday, April convened by the United Brothers for the Black Comuunity to get to the same in the elections of 26. The affair will begin at 7 p. m. of Newark, an all-Black group of itself together." 1970. our time, and will cost a tray ($3). profesional , business, and lay-men It listed these pertinent Black -Newark has 5 city council This spring cultural event is of the Black Newark Community. Facts : men-at-large, but only 2 are Black. one in a series being presented by The Brothers have appealed to -Today almost 2 of every 3 We must act NOW to gain greater the United Brothers of Newark . city government representation! The Brothers are showing our peo Newark drunk after King's murder; Direct personal invitations ple what a righteous place Newark have been sent to individuals can become if controlled by the thought to have influence in the Black majority population. These United Black ~rothers maintain peace Black Communities. The Brothers affairs have already proven to be In the wake of Brother Martin forces keeping our Black Youth feel this is the most important better than anything ever put on Luther King's death a drunk calm from getting slaughtered on the area to cover in order to avoid ne in Newark Symphony Hall. sat on this cracker -ruled city and streets by trigger-happy racist po groes becoming pawns of the crack Brother Carmichael will speak its Black People. licemen. er esta:blishment. on his efforts to continue the work Sirens baited. But no g:uns. From the Tuesday of Brother However , most Black People of the late great Brother Malcolm King's funeral, when the mad whine are expressing deep concern about X as regards internationalising the Days before police director of television lies drove our people the inefficienc y of the present Black People's Struggle. He is also dominicy Spina told poet Leroi Jone out of their houses to the streets mayor , city-councilmen, and other expected to rap on the hunky's in dominick Spina told poet Leroi to seek relief from an age old frus city officials. Over three-fourths of tentions to perpetrate genocide on Jones that he had ordered his po tration, the Brothers were out in the groups contacted have res black People throughout ehe world. lice not to shoot our people for ponded with delegate names and Brother Carmichael has called the streets . They told the people- taking stuff out of stores. financial contributions. this a very important engagement young and told-what was happen Agreeing with one citizen (at ing, and to be cool in the face of because he will make a major least in theory) that a man 's life policy statement. It will be one of what could have been a bloody was worth more than a six pack. defeat. his rare public appearances since But how long will such humane BlackMen must unite During the critical Thurday his international diplomatic mission reason continue? Yo guess is as last year. good as anybody's. and Friday evenings that followed, formed school jobs the Brothers were on the .streets Though Brother Carmicael has Hours after the murder of walking-trying to do what was Brothers will have to organize -,see CARl\UCHAEL, page 8 - Brother King by an average white best for Black Survival. to cop a gig in the construction of man, administration officials in the forthcoming Medical College. Newark walked , around in a daze Remember: You never fight an Black enemy unprepared, or when he trying to get Black Men to tell Black People must have an expects it. Always choose the time, CollegeStudents them how to run the city they organized group for each trade that the place, and the method; anything think they own. will be needed in the construction. else is suicide. And Brother you organizingthis month All the crackers sat around We have an opportunity to have better believe it: No matter what The 26th of April has been set (the superintendent of schools was one third of all journeymen and the bushsmokers and abstract "re red and drunk . .. do he teach your aside by the National Black Anti volutionaries" might tell you. one half of all apprentices in each children drink-study?) pumping trade. War Anti-Draft Union as the day But one thing the crisis did for students throughout the Third Black Men for the low-down. prove is that it is Black People who This is one of the few things World to join the Black Students Black Men best come together should run Newark, because only the cracker gave up after he saw of the United States in an Interna and decide what to do with Newark. Black People could have dealt with the Black People were nC\t going to tional Student Strike. Then dictate policy to chuckie that racial situation without blood It also the day Black Stu babe. He's ready to be took. let him have the whole thing is shed. without a fight. dents from all over the racist u. s. During the recent disturbances Now it is up to us to take this will covene at Shaw University in In order to make these groups by the crackers,the UnitedBrothers town ,and turn it into something effective, Brothers will have to - STUDENTS, pagel - Security Unit was one of the main we need. - IIED OOU.EGE .JOBS, ..... ' _ April, 1968 Page 2 BLACK NEWARK MartinLuther King Let Us Not ForgetThis Time Evenif you do not now accept this. brothe1·, was only another in a seemingly What we are saying what we have to do, it is endless line of black deaths .. lives flung unless fantasy deadness on yom· part BLACK on the line for the pearl of great price. They man to deny the final stroke of madness in call it free-dam or Liberntion, Equa l Rights. reservoir. It is where we have been totally the words flow from th e places. chumped off in America by these same And Doctor King made a place a system swine our mountains of dead brot hers have of asking for this gift, or even, demanding tried futilely to find ways to live with. this "Free -dam" as a right. He sa id, "non * * * violently", so as to place himself as idealist Doctor King was ahead of his time. and as he said, dreame1·. He said, "non-vio Black men do not rule yet. Only we under lence" to dr aw the contract between his own stand the need for non-violence. Only black spir itua lity and the sick materialism of th e ·,i; men dealing in a world made benevolent and world arou nd him. All men of feeling and Saint Malik (Malcolim X) intelligent, shaped in the image of our own soul are non-violent, unless their lives hav e true black souls, feel the eternal peace ·our been distorte d so they hate themse lves, or bear upon the essential question of the power higher nature demands, and move the world the y have been attack ed by wild beasts. It less ness of Black People in America. He through the sources and resources of the was the beasts propagand a that they were would have led a voter registration voter Great Peace. themselves men that fata lly misled Doctor education drive in Newark, for the purpose Doctor King was of course ahead of his King. of achieving power for Black People , that time.