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‘Salute to a Healer’


Services for Dr. Waldo Cain


will be held Saturday, Aug. 28, with family hour at 10 a.m. and “A Salute to a Healer” ser- vice at noon at


Plym-


outh United Church of Christ, 600 E. Warren. Rev. Nicho- las Hood III is pastor. A r r a n g e - ments are being handled by Swanson Funeral Home. Call (313) 923- 1122 for more information.


Waldo Cain Dr. Cain’s appointment to


the staff of Harper Hospital came as a result of the merger of Grace and Harper hospitals. He was also on the staffs of several African-American pro- prietary hospitals, including Burton Mercy, Kirwood Gen- eral, Parkside and Trinity.


Dr. Cain wa s a clinical as-


sociate professor of surgery at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. He was a member of the National Medi- cal Association, the Detroit Medical Society, the Michi- gan State Medical Society, the Wayne County Medical So- ciety, the Society of Military Surgeons, the American So- ciety of Abdominal Surgeons, and the American College of Surgeons.


He was also a lifetime


member of the NAACP, a member of the Sigma Pi Phi Boule Honor Fraternity, and a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.


WHAT’S INSIDE


First Lady to campaign (A-3) Democrats are deploying


First Lady Michelle Obama to the campaign trail to help them retain control of Con- gress in the Nov. 2 mid-term elections and boost her hus- band in the 2012 presidential election.


Introducing the New Kia Sportage (B-1) No longer is Kia one of


those car companies you’d only consider if low on cash and just needed a non-expen- sive new ride to get around in. And that message doesn’t ring any clearer than with the new 2011 Kia Sportage.


‘Gotcha!’ journalism (C-1) Leland Stein weighs in on


what he sees as a trouble- some direction journalism is taking, citing, among other things, a recent interview with Eastern Michigan University head football coach Ron Eng- lish wherein his words were misconstrued, thus showing him in an unfavorable light.


IN CONCERT


From King’s Dream to Obama’s Reality


By Bankole Thompson CHRONICLE SENIOR EDITOR


Saturday, Aug. 28, will


mark the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom convened by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other deputies of the Civil Rights Movement. The same date also commemorates the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, as well as the 2008 Denver nomination of Barack Obama becoming the first Black presi- dent of the United States.


It is without doubt that at


the time when King and others like the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., Rev. Joseph Lowery and Rev. Ber- nard La- fayette were fighting


COMMENTARY Rev. Jesse Jackson And so 47 years later what have African President Barack Obama Bankole Thompson


the stench of racism and Jim Crow laws, no one had any idea that one day a man named Barack Obama would be president. But Robert F. Ken- nedy predicted then that 40 years later an African American could be president of the richest nation in the world.


Americans gained in the fight for equal- ity?


Is there economic parity? Are civil rights laws been fully enforced


to protects the rights of everyone, includ- ing those without access to political power and connections?


Has racism died? Dr. King dreamed of a nation that would


judge his children by the content of their See AFTER THE MARCH page A-4


Community, law enforcement work to tackle crime


By Brandon Clark SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE


A consortium of law enforcement agencies at the local,


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state and federal levels were in attendance at a town hall meeting at Fellowship Chapel on Detroit’s northwest side. The focus was on how to build better relationships between communities and police agencies. Rev. Wendell Anthony, head of the Detroit Branch NAACP and pastor of Fellowship Chapel, was moderator.


“We do not have to live the way were living. A few folk


make a majority folk feel they’re under siege,” Anthony said. “It’s a together process. Its not ‘I go, you go,’ it’s ‘we go.’”


U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade introduced the Compre-


hensive Violence Reduction Partnership (CVRP) to the audi- ence.


“Back in May we had rash of crimes, the shooting and murder of a police officer, the death of a 7-year-old girl,


Barbara McQuade See CRIME page A-4 Wendell Anthony —Eric Hobson photos August 25-31, 2010 479 Ledyard • Detroit MI 48201 313.963.5522 $1.00 Expected nominees at Dems weekend convention Virg Bernero, the winner in last month’s Democratic guber-


natorial primary, is expected to receive the official party nomi- nation this weekend at Cobo Hall (Aug. 28-29) where hundreds of delegates will meet to choose their major candidates for the November election.


Wayne State University law professor Jocelyn Benson is ex-


pected to receive the nomination for secretary of state. Oak- land County Circuit Judge Denise Langford Morris, the first African American on the bench, is widely regarded by Demo- cratic insiders as well as grassroots organizations as the fa- vorite choice for the Michigan Supreme Court, while Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton will be the nominee for attor- ney general.


Virg Bernero


After King March


47 Years A Matter of Economics Jocelyn Benson Denise Langford Morris David Leyton


See President Obama’s imagined interview with


Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on page A-4.


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