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pee - poet ee Se Targeting the Black Community The NAP is actively involved in courting the black community on many fronts. In addition to its support for Louis Farrakhan, it has attempted to forge an alliance with New York radical activist Rev. Al Sharpton, and its newspaper runs a weekly ad for an “Al Sharpton Defense Fund” The National Alliance contains effusive praise both for Farrakhan and Sharpton on a regular basis. Moreover, in general, a great many of the articles in National Alliance feature subjects of particular interest to the black community, regarding political, social and cultural events. Dr. Lenora Fulani has also been a strong supporter of Tawana Brawley, whose 1988 claims of having been raped by a white police officer were later discredited. Fulani marched in Poughkeepsie along with other backers of the New Alliance Party in March 1988, in support of Brawley’s “strug- gle against white male supremacists.” Fulani stated of Brawley: “Her struggle is our struggle. Her fight is our fight.” (New York Daily News, March 8, 1988.) The group’s deceptively named front group, the “Rainbow Lobby” (a nanie very similar to that of Rev. Jesse Jackson's “Rainbow Coalition”), actively solicits money in black and liberal communities around the country. The organization's entertainment enterprise, “All Stars Talent Show.” sponsors talent competitions in black communities throughout the New York area under the sponsorship of another front group, “The Community Literacy Research Project.” NAP’s most prominent black figure, Dr. Fulani, frequently writes for such black newspapers as Big Red Neuss and the Black American, and party press releases about Fulani are published in many of the major black newspapers in the New York area. And, as noted, the Institute for Social Therapy and Research has a mayor facihtw in Harlem. Indoctrinating Students The American Psvchological Association's newspaper, the APA Monitor, described the party's Barbara Taylor School in its April, 1985 issue. (Barbara Taylor is a leading member of the party.) The school comprises a day care center and elementary school at two sites in Harlem, and purportedly has one hundred students, ages 3-13. The Monitor reported that the school curriculum is “scientifically based” on the thebdries of Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky and, among others, party leaders Lenora Fulani, Fred Newman, and Lois Holzman. Key social issues are explored by “visiting courts and government offices, creating mock trials and role plays, and the use of the media” The school states that contributions to it are tax-deductible. In a profile of the school, New York Newsday(October 6, 1988) reported that students were sent to Poughkeepsie to march in a demonstration in support of Tawana Brawley, and to a demonstration in Washington “memorializing those who suffered in the bombing of Libya.” The article reported that the school had “social therapy groups” for its children, and that “numerous leaflets posted on the door promote New Alliance Party activities. . ” Newsday wrote: The Barbara Taylor School seems suffused not just with an unusual educational approach but with a specific political agenda. . . While the curriculum for social studies is “adapted” from a traditional seventh-and-eighth grade syllabus established by the Board of Education, there is a noticeable twist. “The basic foundation of the curriculum is the perspective of historical materialism,’ the introduc- tion begins. “It is not the history of great men; it is the history of the organization of produc- tion. It is a working class history of the U.S” -