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A p ril 20. 2005
Rosa Parks, OutKast settle lawsuit
Band will work
to develop civil
rights programs
(A P) — Rosa Parks and the
music group OutKast have settled
Newly elected Pope Benedict XVI, the former Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger o f Germany waves to the crowd Tuesday from the
central balcony o f St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. (AP Photo)
Rock Legend Johnnie Johnson Dead at 80
Conservative Cardinal Master o f
boogie woogie
Elected Pope
remembered
Calls himself ‘simple, humble worker
(AP)-Rock nrollIegendJohnnie
(A P) — C ard in al Jo sep h
Ratzinger of Germany, theCatho-
lic C hurch’s leading hard-liner,
was elected the new pope Tues
day in the first conclave of the
new millennium. He chose the
name Pope Benedict XVI and
called himself "a simple, humble
worker.”
Ratzinger, the first German pope
since the I Ith century, emerged
onto the balcony of St. Peter's
Basilica, where he waved to a
wildly cheering crowd of tens of
thousands and gave his first
blessing as pope. Other cardinals
clad in their crimson robes came
out on other balconies to watch
him.
‘‘Dear brothers and sisters, af
ter the great Pope John Paul 11, the
cardinals have elected me - a
simple, humble worker in the vine
yard of the Lord," he said after
being introduced by Chilean Car
d in a l Jo rg e A rtu ro M edina
Estivez.
"The fact that the Lord can
work and act even with insuffi
cient means consoles me, and
above all I entrust myself to your
prayers,” the new pope said. “I
entrust myself to your prayers."
T he crow d resp o n d ed by
chanting "Benedict! Benedict!"
If the new pope was paying
tribute to the last pontiff of that
name, it could be interpreted as a
bid to soften his image as the
V atican’s doctrinal hard-liner.
Benedict XV, who reigned from
19 14 to 1922, was a moderate fol
lowing Pius X, who had imple
mented a sharpcrackdow n against
doctrinal "modernism.”
On Monday, Ratzinger, who
was the powerful dean of the
College of Cardinals, used his
homily at the Mass dedicated to
electing the next pope to warn the
faithful about tendencies that he
considered dangers to the faith:
sects, ideologies like Marxism, lib
eralism, atheism, agnosticism and
relativism - the ideology that there
are no absolute truths.
Ratzinger served John Paul II
since 1981 as head of the Congre
gation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
In that position, he has disciplined
church dissidents and upheld
church policy against attempts
by liberals for reforms. He turned
78 on Saturday.
Happy 25th
Anniversary!
Kirk and
Shera Green
a 1999 law suit over an OutK ast they will develop educational pro
Parks gained a place in history
song that used P arks’ name in a grams for youth about Parks’ role for refusing to give up her seat to
title.
in civil rights.
a white man on a segregated city
OutKast and their record labels
OutKast will also perform on a bus in M ontgom ery, A labam a, in
w ill w ork w ith the Rosa and Parks tribute CD with other con 1955. Her arrest triggered a 381-
Raymond Parks Institute for Self temporary artists.
day bus boycott by blacks o rg a
Development, according to Parks’
Archer says the settlement im nized by the Reverend M artin
guardian, Dennis Archer. He says plies no fault by the defendants.
L uther King Junior.
Johnson, an A frican-A m erican
known as the master o f boogie-
woogie died April 13 at the age of
80.
C huck B erry, his longtim e
friend and collaborator, went di
rectly to Blueberry Hill nightclub
in St. Louis, where Berry and
Johnson had played together as
recently as a year ago, to rem em
ber "the man with a dynamite right
hand" with whom he shared a
half-century of music and m em o
ries.
Johnson was "my piano player
who no one else has come near,”
said Berry, 78, who teamed with
Johnson for hits like "Roll Over
Beethoven” and “No Particular
Place to Go."
Johnson, a self-taught pianist
with a low-key persona;never won
the fame heaped upon Berry. But he
eventually became known as the
“Fatherof Rock ‘N’ Roll Piano” and
Turner. Each perform ed at clubs
on both sides o f the nearby M is
sissippi River.
On New Year’s Eve 1952 at The
Cosmopolitan in East St. Louis, 111.,
Johnson called Berry to fill in for an
ailing saxophonist in his Sir John
Trio.
Their collaboration formed the
bricks of rock ‘n roll as the two
stirred hillbilly and blues in one pot
to create a unique sound.
Johnson often composed the
music on piano, then Berry con
verted it to guitar and wrote the
lyrics. Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode,”
was a tribute to Johnson.
Berry said he would perform a
tribute concert in Johnson’s honor,
ideally at downtown St. Louis's
roughly 70,000-seat Edward Jones
Dome.
“W e’ll fill that sucker,” he said.
Though Berry said he’ll miss his
friend and his music, he’s not mel
ancholy.
Johnnie Johnson, a rock 'n ’ roll pioneer teamed with Chuck
“My turn is coming very soon,”
Berry for hits like "Roll Over Beethoven ” and "No Particular Place
he
said. “Would you shed a tear for
to Go." (AP photo)
Chuck? I hope not, because I don’t
was inducted into the Rock and collaboration helped define early see why one should weep when
Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 in the rock ‘n ’ roll and put St. Louis on something inevitable must come.
“sidemen” category.
the music map along with the
“At 7 8 ,1’m glad to be anywhere,
Jo h n so n ’s and B erry’s long budding team o f Ike and Tina anytime.”
Journalist Pay Found Legal by Administration
(AP) - Senior Education Depart
ment officials showed poor judg
ment in hiring conservative com
mentator Armstrong Williams to
promote Bush Administration pro
grams, a department investigation
found Friday.
However, the department’s in
spector general said there was no
evidence of legal or ethical viola
tions.
The departm ent paid $240,000
to W illiam s, a com m entator with
new spaper, television and radio
audiences, to prom ote President
B ush’s “No Child Left B ehind”
law. The deal was part o f a $ 1.3
m illion contract the departm ent
had with Ketchum, a public rela
tions firm.
Williams, who is black, was hired
to conduct “minority outreach”
about Bush’s law by producing
ads with then-Education Secretary
Rod Paige. Records show Williams
was also hired to provide media
Armstrong Williams
time to Paige and to persuade other
blacks in the media to talk about the
law.
“We did find that department
officials made some poor manage
ment decisions and exercised poor
judgment and oversight," the in
spector general said. “As a result,
the department paid for work that
most likely did not reach its in
tended audience and paid for
deliverables that were never re
ceived.”
Huge Wave Hits Cruise Ship
(AP) - The Norwegian Dawn,
carrying about 2,000 passengers,
returned to New York Harbor Mon
day after being damaged by a huge
wave at sea and docked at its berth
on the Hudson River. About 300
other passengers - many from cab
ins flooded by the seven-story
wave - decided to leave the ship
early in Charleston, S.C., and drive
or fly home.
The 965-foot white ocean liner
left New York on April 10 and was The Norwegian Dawn cruise ship sails up the Hudson River in
sailing back to New York from the New York on Monday. The ship was damaged by a freak seven-
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Victory for Black Homeowners
The Law Offices of Adrian J.
Moody P.C. secured a solid victory
on earlier this month for 24 west
Philadelphia homeowners whose
homes were destroyed by fire fol
lowing the bombing of the anti-
government group, MO VE’s head
quarters, in 1985.
A federal jury awarded $12.8
million in damages to residents af
ter finding that the City of Philadel
phia, Mayor John Street, and other
city officials violated residents civil
rights when in July 2(MX), Mayor
Street stopped repairs on the re
built homes telling the residents
that there homes were imminently
dangerous and that they would be
taken by the City of Philadelphia
and destroyed if the residents did
not take a buyout.
In May 1985, former Philadel
phia Police CommissionerGregore
Sambor ordered a package of explo
sives dropped on the rooftop of the
The plaintiffs in this case
have waited 20 years fo r
justice to be served.
MOVE headquarters in a west Phi la-
delphia neighborhood. Officials
were trying to remove the rooftop
bunker the MOVE members had
constructed.
The ensuing fire spread across
the neighborhood destroying 61
homes. Many o f the homeowners
who lived in the neighborhood for
several decades w atched their
homes bum to the ground as fire
officials refused to immediately ex
tinguish the blaze.
"The plaintiffs in this case have
waited 20 years for justice to be
served,” said lead attorney Adrian J.
Moody. “We are pleased with the
verdict because it finally brings jus
tice to the homeowners who have
suffered from the senseless deci
sions by some of our city leaders.”
The 24 plaintiffs are among 61
African American homeowners
whose row houses on the 6200
block of Osage Avenue were lev
eled by the bombing, fire and gun
battle that killed 11 people includ-
ingapoliceofficeronM ay 13,1985.
The confrontation is considered
one of Philadelphia's most notori
ous and deadly conflicts with po
lice.