Black scholars, activists challenge motives of U.S. government

DETROIT�There is still a battle against drug sales and drug use in America. But the real war is for the country�s drug budget�money that nearly every part of the federal bureaucracy receives, say those who want stronger public health policies, social services and economic development to stem the drug crisis.  The nation�s leading analysts on drug war reform say both President George W. Bush and former President Bill Clinton�s $20 billion drug budgets far surpass President Ronald Reagan�s $1.5 billion and Richard Nixon�s $65 million drug budgets.

Rev. Leon Sullivan: A Giant of a man

WASHINGTON (NNPA)�The Rev. Leon Sullivan, the veteran civil rights leader who created �The Sullivan Principles� and organized bi-annual summits between Africans and Black Americans in Africa since 1991, died April 24 as the sixth of his African-African American summits, originally slated for May in Abuja, Nigeria, had been postponed. �It is my father�s wish that we continue our efforts in his mission and keep his fight for Africa, particularly the sixth African-African American Summit, on course,� Hope Sullivan-Rose, the reverend�s daughter, said in a statement.