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Ray Charles Tribute Planned
(AP) — Friends o f the late Ray disease. He was 73.
Charles will sing his praises during
The event will raise money for
a tribute concert planned for the the $ 15 mil lion Morehouse College
fall.
Center for the Arts in Atlanta.
Bill Cosby will host and Michael
Charles gave the black liberal
McDonald. James Ingram, Gerald arts college $2 million to help fund
Levert and Angie Stone are slated the com plex, which will contain a
to perform at the Sept. 29 concert at performance space in his name.
the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
“This college is near and dear to
Charles, famous for such hit his heart,” Digney said. “He per­
songs as “W hat’d I Say,” "Georgia formed there, it’s in his native Geor­
on My Mind” and “Hit the Road, gia, and it was where he received
Jack,” died June 10 o f acute liver his honorary degree.”
Sunday, August 15th
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My Friend James Thomas Jackson
Throughout the 300 years o f the
importation o f black slaves to the
Americas, individuals responded
to the influx o f adversity in a variety
o f ways. Whether the torment of
being transported in the cramped,
filthy, stinking holds o f the slave
ships while bound in chains, or the
long afterwards of being sold to
white masters, those certain indi­
viduals have responded to their
miserable circumstances with ex­
traordinary courage, strength of
character, and greatness of spirit.
After the formal abolition o f sla­
very, the Emancipation Proclama­
tion, signed by Abraham Lincoln
on Jan. 1,1863, there followed in the
southern states more than 90 years
o f institutionally approved racism.
Change only began to take place
after the bold stand made by Rosa
Parks when she knowingly sat down
in the white section o f the bus and
refused to give up hear seat, in
Montgomery, Ala. on Dec. 1,1955.
Envisioning that “big change
that was on the way,” as he saw it,
was poet, essayist, dramatist, jour­
nalist, novelist and writer of short
stories, James Thomas Jackson.
A high school dropout, Jackson
dedicated his life to writing, a habit
that kept him in poverty; he worked
at odd jobs until his death at age 59.
He was bom in Temple, Texas.
As a boy in Houston, he regularly
confronted the reality of coping as
a black man under laws that en­
forced white superiority. It galled
James Thomas Jackson
and found his ‘niche in the word,’
to quote him from an essay first
published in the Los Angeles Times
in 1975.
The essay, ‘How Waiting in Line
at the Drug Store Awakened a
Young Black’ became the corner­
stone for a book, a collection o f all
his work titled. Waiting in Line at
the Drug Store, published by the
University of North Texas Press in
late summer o f 1993. The book is
now being used in some black stud­
ies programs.
He judged all by the ‘content of
their character,’ toquote Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., a hero o f his. His
friends were of many strips and
colors.
He died in early spring of 1985 in
the hospice ward of the W est Los
Angeles Veterans Administration
Hospital, three days after doctors
predicted he had three months to
live. It was as if his magnificent
spirit had whispered softly: “Move
on brother. It’s time to go.”
He was my friend.
him, but it never caused him to
lapse into victimhood or to feel less
worthy as human or equally loved
by God.
Drafted into a segregated Army
in 1943 at the age of 18, he first felt
the urge to write. Letters home were
as easy as breathing. He began
June Acosta is a freelance writer
writing letters for Army buddies from Raleigh Hills and retired book­
earning beer and cigarette money. keeper from south-central Los An­
After 8 years, he returned home geles.
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and certification had nothing to do
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Over the past year, under the
m anagem ent contract, the joint
venture partners made impressive
strides to improve ethnic minority
contracting and employment, an
area the selection committee was
impressed with during the group’s
presentation. The partners will as­
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