Fasting during month of Ramadan
by Minister Louis Farrakhan SEE COLUMN

Twenty years into epidemic, lack of action, knowledge & funding costing lives

The media first painted AIDS as the disease of gay white males�a characterization some doctors and activists never agreed with�and that image stuck. The gay community mobilized to get attention, funding, change behavior and provide information. Infections among gay white males have fallen, but Blacks remain disproportionate AIDS victims.

LOS ANGELES�Candidness, displeasure, passion, vigor, and humor engulfed presentations made by a panel of minority actors as they championed the plight of Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans and Asian Americans in television and film at the NAACP Diversity In Television Hearing held November 29 at the Century Plaza Hotel.

From Carter G. Woodson to Marcus Garvey, from the 1950s when Paul Robeson and W. E. B. DuBois and the Council on African Affairs fought to end colonialism in Africa, to the present Summit on Africa, Africanists and others interested in a positive image for Africa have strived to correct the Western image of Africa. While most of that negative image was portrayed by Hollywood and the white-controlled media, the most recent attack on Africa�s image is more devastating as it comes from "one of Africa�s own."

Guarding Against The Enemy Within
by Minister Louis Farrakhan

Tonight, I want to talk to you briefly about the enemy within. It is one thing to know that we have an enemy outside. That enemy is easier to guard against. But the most difficult enemy to struggle against is the internal enemy, the one that comes from your family, the one that comes from your bosom, the one that comes from your loins, the one that comes from your ranks.

Clinton compromises on Puerto Rican bombing range

WASHINGTON (IPS)�President Bill Clinton, seeking to defuse a festering protest that has united Puerto Rico against the U.S. Navy, promised Dec. 3 to phase-out in five years all military training on Vieques Island, the main live-fire training ground for the U.S. Atlantic fleet since 1941.

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