New York Amsterdam News back issues from April 2003:
Black writers connecting with community and history
Apr 02, 2003; ... Moorer, Talise D. New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 It is a popular belief that influence on multimedia depictions of people of color must be attained by people of color. The process must be infiltrated by effective means: telling the stories that need to be told by those ...
In the spirit of her ancestral women; Pauline Barfield
Apr 02, 2003; ... Officer, Debbie A. New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 For a long time, women like Mary Church Terrell, Bessie Coleman, Mary Elizabeth Bowser, Frances E. Harper, Susie Baker King Taylor and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin remained obscure. Today, thanks to relentless ...
EBay upgrades its policy regarding the N word
Apr 02, 2003; ... Carrillo, Karen Juanita New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 EBay finally got the message. In mid-March, the Internet auction company acquiesced to activist's demands and said that by the end of April 2003, it will begin advising those who use its site to no longer use racial ...
Grenade attack suspect flown to Germany
Apr 02, 2003; ... Browne, J. Zamgba New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 Asan Akbar, the U.S. Army sergeant accused this week of throwing a grenade into three military tents in Kuwait, killing one of his comrades and severely injuring several others, has been transferred to ...
Flying high with Grady
Apr 02, 2003; ... Scott, Ron New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 Jazz at Lincoln Center will present the versatile Grady Tate and rising young star Lizz Wright for its finale to this season's "Singers Over Manhattan," taking place tonight through Saturday, March 29, at 8 p.m. in the Stanley H ....
No longer immature, Marques steps forward
Apr 02, 2003; ... Frazier, Craig D. New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 Like Usher, Ray J. and Tyrese, Marques Houston is probably plastered on the walls of many teenage females' rooms. What Marques may be able to do a little better than these other artists is write songs. The ...
Eminem's `8 Mile' ahead with DVD, Oscar, rap
Apr 02, 2003; ... Pryce, Vinette K. New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 The very week Eminem released his "8 Mile" DVD performance of a determined white Detroit rapper, he made history as the very first hip-hop advocate to win an Academy Award. To be honored with an Oscar is awesome enough, but ...
Nightmarish aliens haunt `Dreamcatcher'
Apr 02, 2003; ... Pryce, Vinette K. New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 Stephen King spares no souls. In his latest film adaptation, "Dreamcatcher," the writer takes actor Morgan Freeman on a military mission to stop aliens from invading the northeast. Freeman, cast as commanding officer ...
Mac & Rock star as `Head of State'
Apr 02, 2003; ... Pryce, Vinette K. New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 A few films have allowed a Black man to decide the course of the nation. Through disasters and invasions, some have shown that Blacks would make wise and prudent decisions. None has shown how an average Black man would ...
children's PRESS LINE; Students call for more war talk in classrooms
Apr 02, 2003; ... Konstan-Pines, John New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 "Before I was able to hold my parents' hands and feel safe, but now I realize they don't know everything." -- Natasha, 11 Safiya, 8: When the war started on Wednesday, we started having shelter drills. When ...
Men's shirts: True colors for spring
Apr 02, 2003; ... White, Renee Minus New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 There's an upbeat pop of positive color dominating Van Heusen's new shirt collection. Their palette is exciting, encouraging and solid. It augurs well for happier times on the horizon. This company features ...
Heads up for spring
Apr 02, 2003; ... White, Renee Minus New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 "Smart women know hair color and hairstyle are as much a fashion statement as clothes," said Kim Whitehurst, Clairol's color master. According to a recent survey of more than 1,100 women conducted by Harris Interactive ...
Should Blacks seek justice in the world court?
Apr 02, 2003; ... Maddox, Alton H., Jr. New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 I suspected that I was hearing things. King George was admonishing the Iraqis, on Sunday, March 16, to comply with the Geneva Convention. In short, he was demanding that Iraq treat American prisoners of war ...
A mayor in the making
Apr 02, 2003; ... Tatum, Wilbert A. New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 Pedro Espada Jr. may well become mayor of New York City, sooner rather than later Following Pedro Espada Jr.'s "people's inauguration" as a member of the City Council from the 18th District in the Bronx, it was fairly ...
Black New Yorkers; A busy poet with poems for the missing
Apr 02, 2003; ... Boyd, Herb New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 Listening to Rashidah Ismaili AbuBakr tick off writing projects on her agenda is to wonder if there are enough hours, months, even years for her to complete them. One of the book ideas she's been researching for 10 years is a ...
THE URBAN AGENDA; Use Federal Funds to Create Jobs, Not to Subsidize the Superrich
Apr 02, 2003; ... Jones, David R. New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 Remember the much-publicized federal aid to New York City to repair the economic damage done by September 11? The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) received $2.7 billion in a community development block grant ...
Resistance to invasion grows
Apr 02, 2003; ... Browne, J. Zamgba New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 A chorus of condemnation against a U.S.-led military confrontation in Iraq continues to reverberate loud and clear across the nation and beyond as the war enters its second week with no end in sight. Critics say that ...
Dr. King's antiwar message inspires forum
Apr 02, 2003; ... Boyd, Herb New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 Attempting to muffle the drums of war that are beginning to reach a tragic crescendo in Iraq, clergy, writers and activists are hosting "An Evening of Resistance to the War" in Iraq on Thursday at the Riverside Church. The ...
Dilan to Homeless Services: Share the burden and the plan
Apr 09, 2003; ... Browne, J. Zamgba New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 A Brooklyn lawmaker has accused the city Department of Homeless Services (DHS) of assigning a disproportionate number of homeless shelters in certain neighborhoods, including his own council district. Erik Martin Dilan ...
Black New Yorkers; The sergeant and the minister are one
Apr 09, 2003; ... Boyd, Herb New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 When 100 Black ministers stood on the steps of City Hall and endorsed H. Carl McCall for governor last year, the Rev. Anthony Austin was right in the middle of the throng. When the Rev. Al Sharpton was leading his crusade against ...
The battle against federal, state and city budget cuts intensifies
Apr 09, 2003; ... Allen, Zita New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 Opposition to the looming state and city budget deficits and the budget cuts that seem inevitable has reached critical mass with the formation of a remarkable coalition of labor, community-based grassroots and ...
Brooklyn jazz festival
Apr 09, 2003; ... Scott, Ron New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 Manhattanites have always been very territorial; if their destination isn't within walking distance or a short ride away on public transportation, the likelihood of them showing up is greatly diminished. However, with the fourth ...
Falling `Apart' at the seams
Apr 09, 2003; ... Grant, Natasha New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 Men are mad most of their life. Throw in a badge, and an endless cache of guns, and what you may get in return is unadulterated lunacy. Vin Diesel stars, alongside Larenz Tate, as a "shoot first, ask questions later" ...
April dance calendar
Apr 09, 2003; ... Warren, Charmaine P. New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 Begin the spring by watching dance in Brooklyn at Brooklyn Arts Exchange with Christalyn Wright's Wright Now! PerformanceXperience, April 11-13. See if you can be prodded to answer the question "What starts now and ends ...
`Brown Butterfly' is an amazing knockout!
Apr 09, 2003; ... Dais, Risasi New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 At the zenith of his career, inside the ring, Muhammad Ali was indeed the greatest boxing champion of all time. However, outside of the ring, he was the most popular person in the universe, not only for his incredible ...
children'sPRESSLINE: Kids aware of threats and safety during wartime
Apr 09, 2003; ... Decrescenzo, Charles New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 At the Global Kids Annual Conference in late March, 550 teens gathered in the New School University's Tischman Auditorium to discuss issues of war and peace. CPL asked the kids how their lives have changed since the ...
children'sPRESSLINE: U.S. Muslim kids feel heat of war in Iraq
Apr 09, 2003; ... Konstan, Jonathan New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 Recently, when three men were caught scaling the Williamsburg Bridge, initial news reports claimed the men were of Middle Eastern descent. It turns out the incident was a drunk prank by three white men, but the fear of ...
Spring shoe details for women and men
Apr 09, 2003; ... White, Renee Minus New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 Spring shoe fashions are sure to turn heads! The look is all about embellishments. From handbags and dress shoes to sandals and casuals, the details are what will set each shoe apart. Feminine styling dominates the ...
Mo'Nique's new book!
Apr 09, 2003; ... White, Renee Minus New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 "Skinny Women Are Evil: Notes of a Big Girl in a Small-minded World" (Atria Books, hardcover, publication date April 8), penned by Mo'Nique with Sherrie A McGee, is just the book to read during these troubled times ....
Wanted: A person to fill Dr. King's shoes
Apr 09, 2003; ... Maddox, Alton H., Jr. New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 Since ancestors like David Walker, Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth comprise the foundation for the Black liberation struggle in the United States, it is difficult, if not impossible, to ...
Help America vote
Apr 09, 2003; ... Wright, Keith T New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 As some of you are aware, in response to the debacle of the 2000 presidential election, the federal government enacted the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). This legislation would provide federal funds to states over the ...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, R.I.P.
Apr 09, 2003; ... Tatum, Wilbert A. New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 A political giant and intellectual, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, has died. He passed away from a brief illness following surgery for appendicitis. The senator from New York served 24 years in the Senate. He gave up his ...
The war is almost over: We hope
Apr 09, 2003; ... Tatum, Wilbert A. New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 If we are not being lied to by spokespersons for the Pentagon and field commanders in Kuwait, the war that may or not be a war is almost over. The noose around Baghdad, according to them, tightens by the minute ....
Nontraditional roles of women in business
Apr 09, 2003; ... Moorer, Talise D. New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 Some would say, even in jest, that next to God, women have all the brains. And that theory certainly wasn't disproved by any of this week's profiled women. Guyanese-born Jennifer Fung-Schwartz, who migrated to the ...
Leading Black women receive awards
Apr 09, 2003; ... Delaney, Yvonne New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 The Community Directed Ownership (CDO) and Inner City Women's Committee celebrated their 11th annual Women's History Month Awards and Dinner recognizing "Women in Housing, Community/Economic Development and Services." CDO ...
McCall continues to fight for higher ed
Apr 09, 2003; ... Browne, J. Zamgba New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 Experience as a former president of the New York City Board of Education could come in handy for former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall, who was named recently to co-chair the state Public Higher Education ...
Build relationships, noted motivator advises
Apr 09, 2003; ... Boyd, Herb New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 When multi-reedist James Kelly and his trio played their final tune, Stevie Wonder's "I'll Be Loving You Always," the reception was over and the Network Journal's salute to "25 Influential Black Women in Business" took on a more ...
Dr. King on violence and war
Apr 09, 2003; ... Boyd, Herb New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 Nothing is more contradictory to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. than the war now raging in Iraq. A drum major for peace and justice, Dr. King spoke out against the war in Vietnam during his time, and according to his ...
Gov to prep hospitals for terror threats
Apr 09, 2003; ... Browne, J. Zamgba New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 Gov. George Pataki has earmarked about $1.8 million for eight regional hospitals to prepare for and respond to potential acts of terrorism, including biological, chemical or radiological attacks. "While we cannot ...
Bush, Cheney plan for Iraq reconstruction
Apr 09, 2003; ... Brooks, Charles New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 For months while the Bush administration was planning for war in Iraq, they were also laying down the groundwork to rebuild the Middle Eastern country when the war is over. The plans for postwar Iraq call for the country to ...
Black solidarity against the war
Apr 09, 2003 ... New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 A newly formed antiwar group composed of and supported predominantly by Black labor activists and organizations, "Black Solidarity Against the War," has put out a call to African-Americans and other people of color to show solidarity ...
`Beyond Vietnam,' beyond Operation Iraqi Freedom
Apr 09, 2003; ... Moorer, Talise New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 Antiwar sentiment has erupted around the globe over Operation Iraqi Freedom. On the home front, nowhere have such feelings manifested more strongly than from the sanctuary of the historic Riverside Church in Harlem, the very ...
Pataki's Medicaid cuts hurt New York's working families
Apr 09, 2003; ... Allen, Zita New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 The City's Health and Hospitals Corporation and the massive network of hospitals and health care clinics that fall under its umbrella stand to take a major budgetary hit if Gov. Pataki's proposed Medicaid cuts go through, ...
Rep. Owens: `Stop the war because we need the cash'
Apr 09, 2003; ... Browne, J. Zamgba New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 Two advocacy groups on Capitol Hill, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), have come up with a joint 2004 alternative budget. Titled "Leave No Family Behind," the ...
Assessing Bush's war
Apr 09, 2003; ... Brooks, Charles New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 As Operation Iraqi Freedom enters its third week, coalition forces executed a relentless campaign of air strikes over Baghdad while the ground troops continued to battle resistant Iraqi forces. In Baghdad, Iraqi ...
Harlem soldiers ready for Iraq
Apr 09, 2003; ... Boyd, Herb New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 FORT DIX, N.J. -- Military personnel here wear two types of uniforms: One is the regular dress, what veterans used to call a camouflage outfit, and the other a sand-colored uniform. When the soldiers are issued the latter, which ...
War on Iraq; The community speaks out
Apr 02, 2003; ... Browne, J. Zamgba New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 Within hours after the U.S.-led military aggression against Iraq got underway, the Amsterdam News was out in full force on the streets of Harlem to obtain reaction from the community residents regarding the ...
Iraq's troubled history
Apr 02, 2003; ... Boyd, Herb New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 Since the fourth century BCE, when Alexander the Great laid waste to the territory, the land now known as Iraq has been both a vital crossroads between Europe and Asia and a contested zone of brutal conflict ...
Lead paint bill stalled
Apr 02, 2003; ... Boyd, Herb New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 Common Cause, a nonprofit nonpartisan citizen's lobbying organization, recently released a report that has caused a common stir among a few City Council members, including Speaker Gifford Miller. The report asserts that Miller, ...
Only days to save kids from failing schools
Apr 02, 2003; ... Dawkins, S.L. New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 Harlem children stuck in low-performing schools have four more days for their guardians to alert Schools Chancellor Joel Klein that they demand transfers to better academies. More than 90 parents and grandparents listened ...
Judge invalidates council term-limits amendment
Apr 02, 2003; ... Browne, J. Zamgba New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 Just when City Council Deputy Majority Leader Bill Perkins, Speaker Gifford Miller and four others thought they had won all challenges to their fight to serve on the City Council two additional years, a Brooklyn judge ...
As America invades Iraq, Muslims take to the streets
Apr 02, 2003; ... Reyes, Damaso New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Within hours of the start of the second Gulf War, thousands of Indonesian Muslims had taken to the streets to voice their outrage at the start of hostilities. Shouting "America, terrorists" and "No more ...
Thundering drums and marching feet against the war
Apr 02, 2003; ... Boyd, Herb New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 It was a line composed of thousands of antiwar protesters that stretched from one square to the other - from Times Square to Washington Square Park. The long coil of people snaked its way through Manhattan on sunny last Saturday, ...
YOUNG, BLACK & DEAD
Apr 02, 2003; ... Brooks, Charles New York Amsterdam News 04-02-2003 For months, African-Americans stood opposed to President George Bush's campaign to wage a pre-emptive military strike against the people of Iraq. Several African-American elected officials and activists recognized ...
Educators, mentors draw star power and esteem for mobilizing a generation
Apr 16, 2003; ... Moorer, Talise D. New York Amsterdam News 04-16-2003 Making sense of sometimes illogical mandates, in and outside the classroom, is difficult at best when you're trying to teach the younger generation how to make a difference. And yet, there is that gifted pool of motivators ...
Jackie Taylor brings `Jackie Wilson' alive
Apr 16, 2003; ... Salaam, Yusef New York Amsterdam News 04-16-2003 The play "The Jackie Wilson Story: My Heart is Crying, Crying," written and directed by Jackie Taylor, has played in various theaters in many cities in the United States. Now that it's at Harlem's Apollo Theater, it can ...
Children's PRESS LINE; What kids think of war
Apr 16, 2003; ... Chang, Angel New York Amsterdam News 04-16-2003 NEWS TEAM: ANGEL CHANG, 17; DANIELLE HUTCHINGS, 17; LEE-ANNE TORQUATO, 16 Kids are putting together the pieces of war through eavesdropped conversation and snippets of TV news. CPL asked kids what they think war ...
Children's PRESS LINE; Students rely on after-school programs for safety and learning
Apr 16, 2003; ... Chang, Angel, Guzman, Gary New York Amsterdam News 04-16-2003 NEWS TEAM: ANGEL CHANG, 17; AND GARY GUZMAN, 18 Recently, 1,000 people gathered in Manhattan during an April rain shower to rally against budget cuts in after-school education funding. Below, two boys who take ...
What about `Choosing Truth'?
Apr 16, 2003; ... White, Renee Minus New York Amsterdam News 04-16-2003 In "Choosing Truth: Living an Authentic Life (Simon & Schuster, February 2003, $22.00), best-selling author, entrepreneur and newspaper columnist Harriette Cole offers a powerful antidote to the current longing ...
Zang Toi blooms an English rose collection for spring
Apr 16, 2003; ... White, Renee Minus New York Amsterdam News 04-16-2003 Zang Toi's spring/summer 2003 collection blooms with sass and elegance. One floral gown after another, his beautiful floral prints awed the audience. For this show, he found inspiration from visiting the Cotswolds ...
Leading Blacks doing the dirty work for crumbs
Apr 16, 2003; ... Maddox, Alton H., Jr. New York Amsterdam News 04-16-2003 Two??? the news during the first week ??? and the University of Michigan affirmative action cases before the Supreme Court. In these matters, it is the stories that are intriguing or disappointing, depending on ...
The war is almost over: We hope, Part 2
Apr 16, 2003; ... Tatum, Wilbert A. New York Amsterdam News 04-16-2003 The war is over. We hope. For whatever we can call this three-week war, it is over. Not many men and women have died. Not yet. A lot of money has been spent by the Bush administration to prosecute a war that may have ...
Doc promotes hysterectomy alternatives
Apr 16, 2003; ... Browne, J. Zamgba New York Amsterdam News 04-16-2003 An estimated 600,000 hysterectomies are performed annually in the United States, and it is said to be the most commonly performed surgery on women of childbearing age in the country. But Dr. Ernest Bartsich, a ...
THE URBAN AGENDA; Congressman Rangel Asks the President Tough Questions
Apr 16, 2003; ... Jones, David R. New York Amsterdam News 04-16-2003 New York's Congressman Charles Rangel has been asking why President Bush is pushing another round of billion-dollar tax cuts while at the same time he is financing a war in Iraq. He is also questioning the wisdom of using ...
Death toll rises as New York Marine is killed in Iraq
Apr 09, 2003; ... Browne, J. Zamgba New York Amsterdam News 04-09-2003 Relatives and friends of Marine Lance Cpl. William White in East New York, Brooklyn, were still trying to cope with his accidental death last week in war-torn Iraq as the Amsterdam New went to press on Wednesday. His ...