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URBAN LEAGUE BRING
CONCERNS TO CAPITOL
HILL
BLF ANALYZES SU­
PREME COURT
DECISIONS
Executives of the National Urban
League’s 113 affiliates, on Thurs­
day, August 3, will lead delegations
of affiliate representatives and local
officials to Capitol Hill to meet with
Senators and members of Congress
around the issues of drug trafficking
and civil rights.
The Capitol Hill meetings take
place prior to the National Urban
League’s 79th annual conference
August 6-9 at the Washington Con­
vention Center. The conference will
address these issues from the Capitol
Hill visits and other public policy
and legislative concerns for securing
economic, political and social equal­
ity for African Americans and other
disadvantaged minority groups.
Over 16,000 participants repre­
senting the public, private corpora­
tions, and federal government sec­
tors are expected to attend the 1989
annual conference. The conference
officially begins Sunday,August 6.
The keynote address by John E. Jacob,
President and Chief Executive Offi­
cer, National Urban League will take
place at 6 p.m.
On Tuesday, August 8, the dis­
cussion of drug trafficking will con­
tinue with Congressman Charles B.
Rangel (D-NY) speaking at the fo­
rum session on “ Drugs and Crime:
What Choice Do We Have?” Con­
gressman Rangel is Chairman, Se­
lect Committee on Narcotics Abuse
and Control.
“ It is important that the National
Urban League conference address the
drug problem and its devastating effect
upon our youth and our communi­
ties,” said Jacob.
For inquiries about the confer­
ence, contact the National U rban
League Conferences D epartm ent
at (212) 310-9037/8/9 or, from July
26-August 9, at (202) 371-5051.
The Black Leadership Forum
(BLF) held a press conference at the
National Urban League headquar­
ters in New York City to analyze
recent Supreme Court decisions and
offer legislative and social remedies.
Hosting the press conference was
John E. Jacob, Vice Chair of the BLF
and President and Chief Executive
Officer of the National Urban League,
who delivered a statement on behalf
ofthB L F .
In speaking for the BLF, John
Jacob said: “ African Americans have
acted on the faith that we could take
our cases all the way to the Supreme
Court. In addition to being a ‘friend
of the court,’ we felt that we had a
friend in the C ourt” .
“ This term of the Supreme Court
has dramatically shaken us of any
complacency in relying on what should
be an accepted American p recept-
equal justice under law.”
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CASE
The National Urban League will
again present the Job Opportunity
Showcase at its annual conference
August6-9 in Washington D.C. The
Job Opportunity Showcase matches
job seekers to job openings provided
by 200 leading corporations, govern­
ment agencies.and public service or­
ganizations exhibiting at the confer­
ence. Over 4,000 new posiuons are
expected to be available. Companies
conduct on-site interviews with ap­
plicants during the conference and
follow-up interviews after the con­
ference.
The Job Opportunity Showcase
has been an important part of the
National Urban League Conference
since 1982 and has helped hundreds
of individuals find new jobs. The
Heart of the job matching system is a
variety of computer hardware and
special software designed by Digital
Equipment Corporation exclusively
for the National Urban League Con­
ference. Digital also locally hires and
trains data entry personnel to de­
velop the data base of jobs and resu­
mes.
“ Job Opportunity Showcase has
been a resounding success thanks to
Digital and the many other corpora­
tions that participate by providing
jobs. Last year we had 1,200 job
seekers and more than 4,200 posi­
tions,” said John E. Jacob, President
and Chief Executive Officer of the
National Urban League.
Digital Equipment Corporation,
headquartered in Maynard, Massa­
chusetts, is the leading worldwide
supplier of networked computer sys­
tems and services. Digital offers a
full range of computing solutions
and systems integration for the entire
enterprise from the desktop to the
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A Los Angeles native with a
seminary degree and an 18-year
broadcasting career will start work
Sept. 1 with the world mission arm
of the United Church o f Christ to try
to build connections between the
church’s racial and ethnic minorities
and its work overseas.
“ The time has come for the church
to take seriously the role of people of
color in the mission field,” says the
Rev. Arthur Lawrence Cribbs, Jr.,
who has accepted the new position of
secretary for racial and ethnic minor­
ity recruitment and constituency de­
velopment with the United Church
Board for World Ministries. The board
has more than 200 personnel engaged
in medical, agricultural, social, edu­
cational and church programs in 40
countries.
“ The complexion of the world
has changed radically in recent years,”
Mr. Cribbs says, “ one of our defi­
ciencies is that we have not included
African-American, Hispanic and
Asian-American people substantially
in the mission of the church.” He
says he hopes to work with the church’s
domestic mission arm -th e United
Church Board for Homeland Minis-
tries-to target young people in United
Church-related colleges and semi­
naries and get them interested in
mission work.
Mr. Cribbs, 39, last month re­
ceived his M.Div. degree from Chi­
cago Theological Seminary and was
ordained a United Church minister at
Chicago’s Church of the Good Shep­
herd (Congregational), United Church
of Christ, where he is a member.
Clarence D.
Coleman
Clarence D. Coleman, former Vice
President of the National Urban
League, died in Atlanta, GA July af­
ter a long illness. A funeral service
was held Tuesday, July 11 at friend­
ship Baptist Church in Atlanta. John
E. Jacob, President and Chief Execu­
tive Officer of the National Urban
League, called Mr. Coleman’s death
a sad occasion, but joined many of
Mr. Coleman’s other admirers, family
and friends in celebrating his life and
many accomplishments.
Mr. Coleman retired from the
National Urban League in 1982. He
joined the staff of the Atlanta Urban
League in 1948 holding positions of
Director, Community Organization,
and Associate Director. In 1959, Mr.
Coleman was named Assistant Di­
rector, Southern Regional Office of
the National Urban League and in
1962 was appointed Director of that
office.
Among his most notable accom­
plishments while with the League
were his role in increasing the affili­
ates in the southern region from 11 to
23 and his role in the creation of The
State of Black America, the League’s
authoritative annual report.
In 1979, Mr. Coleman received
the Ann Tanncyhill Award for out­
standing service to the National Ur­
ban League. In October 1988, he
was the recipient of the League’s
prestigious Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Medallion in recognition of his life­
long commitment to the promotion
of racial understanding and coopera­
tion in American society.
A. native of Cartersville, GA, Mr.
Coleman was a graduate of Clark
College. He received a master’s degree
in social work from Atlanta Univer­
sity.
“ Throughout his more than forty
years’ involvement in the Urban
League Movement, Clarence was
loyal, hard working and imaginative.
He always went beyond the call of
duty in performance and had a repu­
tation for perseverance and diligence,”
said John E. Jacob, President and
Chief Executive Officer of the League.
Surviving Mr. Coleman are his
wife, Dorothy and three daughters,
Vivian Dean and Tanya Seidu, both
of Atlanta, and Gwendolyn Alston of
Plainfield, NJ.
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Entrepreneur Cheryl D. Miller, center, accepts the Sixth
Annual Crystal Award at the recent national convention of
the National Association o f Negro Business and Professional
W om en’s Clubs (NANBPW ).M iller is president of Cheryl D.
M iller Designs, Inc., New York, N.Y. With M iller are, from
left, Jaqui Gates, president o f N ANBPW and Allene Roberts,
manager, constituency programs, Philip Morris Companies
Inc. Philip Morris sponsors the award.
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