Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plains is the next incarnation of Hank Aaron. Protesting the dumping of friends like Bernie Carbo, Tim McCarver and Rodney Scott eventually got Lee kicked out of baseball but it still bugs the hell out of him. The worst was Carbo. Baseball fans the world over remember Carleton Fisk's body-English home run off the foul pole that won the sixth game of the '75 World Series, but Bostonians remember Carbo's ninth inning pinch hit homer to tie the game as much if not more...
...says Eleanor Holmes Norton, former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, "a threat to the future of black people without equal." Last week a national black sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, held the first of 43 local conferences it has planned on the subject. At Nashville's Fisk University, about 200 scholars and officials from all over the country gathered for marathon discussions - alternately erudite and emotional, brooding and hopeful - on the black family's plight...
...Fisk conference, sponsored by the N.A.A.C.P. and the National Urban League, would have been unlikely a few years ago: dirty linen was washed only in private by the black Establishment, if at all. This apprehension lingers: the ten Fisk workshops were closed to the press. But black leaders talked frankly about sensitive issues. Said National Urban League President John Jacob: "As for the black male and his responsibilities, we are openly acknowledging that problems exist. We are not defensive any more." But Jacob contends that the remnants of American racism are also responsible for the broken black family...
...Fisk workshops emphasized voluntarist remedies, such as black church programs and promoting home ownership among working-class blacks. They also urged a "domestic Marshall Plan," as well as wage and price controls. Although the black family's problems do not seem soluble by quick fixes, there are a few heartening signs. Among black teenagers, the birth rate has declined slightly; more effective access to contraception could accelerate that trend. Some recent research has found that the "culture of poverty" is escapable. According to one University of Michigan study, most children from poor families do not become impoverished adults...
...equipped to enter the labor force or to form families." At least black leaders are now declaring that family instability is an urgent concern. "It has been the strong black family that is the reason for our survival as a people," said N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks at the Fisk conference. "When the strongest link of our culture is threatened, our very survival as a race is threatened...