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...public discussion focused on the current status of Black journalist and community activist Mumia Abu-Jabal's execution date. Abu-Jamal faces the death penalty for killing a white Philadelphia police officer...
...says he's "not generally a fan of musicals," is writing The CapeMan with Nobel laureate Derek Walcott and plans to bring it to Broadway next year. In a publicity stunt casting call last week, young a cappella groups competed in a doo-wop contest. The winners, TROY JACK, JAMAL REED, KEN MCKLENDON and JOEDI IMBERT, had the voices for Simon's musical but not the attitude. They want to give the $5,000 prize money to their churches...
Lastly, as noted in the most recent issue of Sports Illustrated, players like Chris Dudley, Jimmy Jackson, Jamal Mashburn, Dikembe Mutombo and Kevin Johnson have added a charitable spirit to the NBA. Through hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, these men have aided everthing from the Dallas public school system to the medical needs of Zaire's poor...
Save the Life of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Death RowPolitical Prisoner and Former Black Panther!Abolish the Racist Death Penalty! Partisan DefenseCommittee Black History Month Rorum. Speakersinclude Howard Zinn, Professor Emeritus, BostonUniversity; Diane Dujon, Massachusetts WelfareRights Union and Betty Johnson, communityactivist. Boston University, 725 CommonwealthAve., Room B12, College of Liberal Arts, Boston.Call 492-3928 for more information. $5 suggesteddonation goes to Jamal legal defense...
TORONTO: Separation Anxieties Two years ago in Pakistan, Fatima Jamal gave birth to triplets. One of the babies, Faryal, was normal, but her sisters Hira and Nida were joined at the head. Early last week doctors at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children performed a 17-hour operation to separate the twins. At week's end Nida remained under heavy sedation and on a ventilator. Doctors feared cerebral swelling might cause brain damage. Hira, however, was awake and breathing on her own. ``It was like seeing a dream come true,'' marveled the father, Anwar Jamal...