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SNOOP DOGG: AKA The Doggfather

Local Leader Calls for
Removal of Confederate
| Monument

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seeapecerenirec ~ Local community
leader, Reverend Ozie Hall,
has ignited what could
become a dividing issue for
Pitt County Board of
Commissioners and other
area leaders, in his bid to
have a confederate solider
monument, adjacent to the
entrance of the Pitt County
Court House, removed.
Reverend Hall

maintains that he has received

numerous complaints about
the presence of the
confederate monument from
local African Americans and
Whites alike, whose
ancestors refused to
participate in the rebellion against the United States.

In an earlier release Hall is quoted as saying, othe
presence of the monument sends the wrong message to the
public, Furthermore, we recognize that some will say it is
only history; without a doubt it, the monument should be
removed from the entrance of the halls of Justice and sent to
a museum where it can truly be admired and appreciated by
confederacy followers

The following is a draft of the proposed ordinance
sent to the Pitt County Board of Commissioners

PITT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

Proposed Ordinance

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE REMOVAL OF THE
CONFEDERATE

MONUMENT LOCATED AT THE PITT COUNTY
COURT HOUSE,

WHEREAS, a monument was erected on the
grounds of the Pitt County Court House in 1914 dedicated
to the County's Confederate Dead: and

WHEREAS, said monument is located on the
grounds of the present Pitt County Court House and
located on the of 3rd Street and Evans
Greenville; and

WHEREAS, the monument displays at
statute of an armed Confederate Soldier: and

comer Street in

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BUSTA RHYMES: Keeping a vow of
silence

THE RAP SHEETS say it all.
TheyT ve got the body...

count and the prison cred,

the bootlicking posses and

the adoring wanna-bes.

They drive luxurious cars

and flash wads of cash.

story page5S

Junior Mafia

Kx-aide:I passed money to Campbell

By JEFFRY SCOTT, BETH
WARREN

The Atlanta Journal
Constitution

Published on: 01/31/06

A trusted aide who lived in
Bill Campbell's basement
apartment testified Monday
that he funneled money to
the former Atlanta mayor to
be used for gambling and
taking girlfnends on trips
Dewey Clark sobbed
repeatedly as he described
his relationship with
Campbell and how he
bonded with the ex-mayorTs
family. He was the first
witness in the federal
corruption trial against
Campbell to say that he saw
a contractor pass money to
him

Clark's weeping started
barely
began testifying Monday
afternoon. Later, he
described his relationship
with Campbell after being

judge paused testimony after a
male spectator said, This is
fexpletive}� and stalked from

emotions and caused audible
reactions from Campbell
supporters, enough for U.S
District Judge Richard Story
to admonish the gallery, The

ina wad of tissue. oHe said, 1
want you to go wherever |
go.� He said, Just be loval
DonTt embarrass me.T

) cont. pgs
(Clark's testimony fired

1O minutes after he

hired when Campbell
became mayor in 1994

Birthday Celebration . . .the brothers got togetere for an evening Of reminicsing on

oI said, Just trust me, we're
fnends the slky-voiced
{ lark cad hurying hy Tace

lawyer white.s birthday at the bachelor benedict. On hand was James Jimmy
Streeter,Rufus Huggins, John B. Smith. Zack Reddick
Ben Dudley and

fommy Harris, Robert White. the

birthday boy Garland Allen photo Jim Rouse

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The Minority Voice Newspaper February 14 - 28, 2006 pg2

Both Congress and President
Bush have come up with their
budget proposals and both
sets of figures do the same
thing fi cut domestic programs
that would assist the poor
while extending tax cuts to
rich people who need them
the least. In other words, they
are pulling a reverse Robin
Hood by taking from the
needy and giving to the
greedy.

This is done under the guise
that the federal government
has gone on a spending spree
and that domestic programs
are the culprit. That might
make for good propaganda,
but it is far from the truth.

JAMES CLINGMAN
"EXXON'S EXCESSIVE EX-
CESS",

The Wilmington Journal

Have you ever made so much
money that you were embar-
rassed about it? I didnTt think
80; and itTs very unlikely you
ever will. But in case you do,
it will probably be called excess
profit, which means surplus, ad-
ditional, or extra. 1 doubt if it
will be called excessive profit,
which means extreme, unwar-
ranted, unnecessary, and
disproportionate. Thatgs the
kind of profit Bed
by Exxon Mobil so far. 1 would
add that the other
big oi! companies, Dutch Shell
($25 billion}, ConocoPhillips,
British Petroleum, Chevron,
and the whole gang of outlaws
are not so far behind Exxon
They adroitly refused to appear
before a Congressional commit-
tee to explain their windfalls

It must be nice for a company
to make the most money ever
in one quarter, $11 billion, with
a total of $36 billion in one year.
al! in the face of disaster, grief,
oh yeah, and death along the

Gulf Coast. That happens to
be -where U.S. oi! is
turned into gasoline and sent on
its way t© @ pump near you. |
wonder what it feels like to be
able to announce such excessive
profits and then thumb your
nose at Congress (1 peeyen we
should get nd of Congress) be
cause of your disrespect for
that august body, or because
you are simply embarrassed
to discuss the topic before the

Pil cut right to the chase
We have seen al!
sorts of Gas Out days, Gas

=elite)at-1 17,0) e)faltelats

Overall funding for
defense, homeland
security, and international
affairs (which includes
funding for post-war
operations and
reconstruction in Iraq and
Afghanistan) rose from 3.4
percent of the GDP [Gross
Domestic Product] in 2001
to 4.2 of GDP in 2006, an
analysis by the Center for

Budget and Policy

programs shrank during
this period, declining from
3.4 percent of GDP in
2002 to 3.1 percent in
2006.1 Bush is taking from

Pulling a oReverse Robin
Hood o* on the poor "

GEORGE E. CURRY:

heat, even from some
moderate Republicans,
for mismanaging the
federal deficit.

When he took office,
Bush inherited a record
$236 billion surplus. By
2000, a $158 billion
deficit had developed and
the White House
estimates that this year,
the figure will reach $400
billion.

Some of the deficits can
be attributed to BushTs
decision to wage war in
[rag and Afghanistan. To
a much lesser degree,
there was also the
unexpected federal
expenditures associated
with Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita. But a large and
avoidable reason the

federal government is sinking
deeper into the hole is
because Congress and the
Bush administration have
enacted a series of tax cuts
that favor the wealthy.

The president defends the tax
cuts, the first to be enacted by
a U.S. president during
wartime.

Amenican families all across
this country have benefited
from the taxcutson
dividends and capital gains,
he said in a Jan, 6 speech to
the Economic Club of
Chicago. Half of American
households thatTs more than
50 million households fi now
have some investment in the
stock market.

As 1s often the case with
politicians, itTs what is not

_" oil baronsT billion dollar
oexcessive excess�

Out Weeks, and other cam-
paigms to deal with these oil
thieves, the ones who met
with the ovice� president and
wrote the nationTs energy
policy, the ones who named
an oil tanker after Condo-
leezza Rice, and the ones who
lie to us on their way to the
bank. None of those tactics
has worked. So what can we
do besides complaining
about the high prices at the
pump and the excessive
profits of the oil barons?
Probably
nothing that will cause them
to hurt at all; so let's just
have some fun.

From this day forward,
let's stop patronizing Exxon
Mobil gas stations.Let's-stop
patronizing all stations that
purchase their gas from
Exxon Mobil. I'm sure they'll
get a kick out of our meager,
insignificant, silly little
Davidian plan to bring Goliath
to his knees. They'll probably
sit back a laugh their heads off
at us, just like the Philistine
did

After all, we're just lowly
consumers, millions of cus-
tomers who need what they're
selling. What could we do to
possibly hurt them? Maybe the
reality of the situation is that
we cannot hurt them. But let's
just keep our money away
from them anyway, and spend
it elsewhere

Watch your gas tank and buy
some gas, not when it's nearly
empty, but when you see a gas
station that is not ExxonMob
il; buy a few dollars worth.
I know the other gas compa-
mies are nipping us off too, but
we have to start somewhere
Unless you are willing to give
up your expeditinT , escaladinT ,
humminT, and navigatinT ways,
and drive something a little
smaller and easier on gas, you
will be buying gas from one of
these ~ just donTt let
Exxon be your gas of choice
It 1s sharneful that some
compames; such as pharma-

wheat) er
ceutical, banking, tobacco,
energy, health insurance,
and others are so greedy,
excessive, and dishonest in
their business practices that
it would lead their execu-
tives to do some of the
things we have witnessed in
the recent past. A few have
gone to jail, but many more
are still walking
the streets and sitting in the

every cent we have. You
know that too. So what are
you willing to do about it?
That's the question for those
of us who suffer from their
acts of piracy.

That's my take on it. That
will be my little insignificant
way of fighting back. But you
know what? It may be insig-
nificant to them, but to me its

said that you'd better
examine.

What this statistic ignores,

. however, is that nearly two-

fifths of this stock is held in
retirement accounts, such as
401 (k)s and IRAs, the Center
on Budget and Priorities
points out. This distinction is
ctucial, because capital gains

_ and dividend income accruing

inside these retirement
accounts are not subject to
taxation, and thus would not

-receive a tax benefit from the

reduction in the tax rates on
capital gains and dividend
income.

So what's the real deal?

More than half 54 percent fi of

all capital gains and dividend
income go to the 0.2 percent
of households with annual
incomes of more than $1
million. By contrast, only 4
percent of this income reaches
the 64 percent of households
that have annual incomes of
less than $50,000, according
to the Center.

An analysis by the Urban
Institute-Brookings Institution
Tax Policy Center shows that
tax legislation that has gone in
effect since 200 I-has
exacerbated the gap between
rich and poor. The middle fifth
of households received an
average after-tax reduction of
$742 or 2.6 percent.
Households with annual
incomes of more than $1
million received an average
reduction of $103,000 or 5.4

percent, more than double the
rate for middle-class families.
Yet, Bush brags that tax cuts
are working by reinvigorating
the economy.

The non-partisan
Congressional Budget Office
disagrees. It observes:
increases [in the revenue
projections] occur mainly
because of a rise in projected
GDP, which derives from
higher prices in the economy,
not real economic activity.

Finally, the wealthiest sector of
the U.S. population is being
showered with favoritism.

Some of the tax cuts that were
enacted in 2001 are still being
phased in, stated the Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities.
These taxes are heavily tilted
to those at the top of the
income scale. These tax cuts
include the elimination of the

~ tax on the nationTsargest

estates, as well as two tax cuts
that started to take effect on
January 1, 2006 and will go
almost entirely to high-income
households.

The Tax Policy Center reports
that 97 percent of the tax cuts
from these two measures will
go to people with incomes
above $200,000. As a result,
the tax cuts ultimately will be
even more skewed toward
high-income households than
they were in 2005.i

As usual, that leaves poor and
middle-class citizens out in the
cold.

DID YOU KNOW

The Department of Veterans Affairs(VA) provides a
variety of memorial benefits to eterans,including
burial space. Presidential Memorial Certificates, A burial
flag and a headstone or marker. VA operates a system of
122 cemetaries throughtout the country and also helps
stateg build state cemeteries.

tt arp

millions of small stones at
this giant will have the same
effect

that David's one small stone
had on Goliath.

The ball is in your court.
Why would you stand still
and do nothing when some-
one is picking your pocket
and you know it? That's
what's going on with Exxon

aac ee

The ball is in your court. Why would you stand still
and do nothing when someone is picking your
pocket and you know it?

ET a TES a TT I ea

boardrooms not having paid
a price for their mistreat-
ment of

their consumers
at least.
Remember: When oil execs
did testify in 2005, the
Senate Commerce Chair-
man, Ted Stevens (The guy
from Alaska with the bridge
to nowhere. Don't they also
have some oil up there
under the frozen tundra
too?), reyected calls by
some Democrats to

have the executives sworn
in, saying the law already
required them to tell the
truth. Are you kidding me?
Since when did the law
have anything to do with
these crooks and what they
do�.

But let's concentrate on
Exxon for now. We cannot
continue to complain about
their billions in excessive
profits without doing
something, whatever we
can do, to reflect our
outrage. I know they. have
no conssence; I know they
have no © ssion; |
know they are unethical: |
know they are liars; | know
they are gouging us for

not yet,

a tremendous step; itTs great
for my psyche;it's more than
just complaining. And if more
of us take a similar action
against this behemoth, our
collective act of slinging

and others, and they are
doing it to you. DonTt stand
still and act as though their
picking your pocket is all
nght. Do something! I know
what I am going to do. No
more Exxon Mobil

fill-ups for me. I will give my
few dollars to one of the other
thieves. We do have choices
you know.

Try it; it should be a lot of
fun, if nothing else.

Use excessive restraint to
decrease ExxonTs excessive

profits.

James E. Clingman, an adjunct
professor at the University of
CincinnatiTs African American

Studies department, is former
editor of the Cincinnati
Herald newspaper and
founder of the

Greater Cincinnati African
American Chamber of Com-
merce. He hosts the radio
program, Blackonomics,� and
has written several books.
including Black-o-Know}-
edge-Stuff. To book

Clingman

for 4 speech or purchase his

books, go to his Website,

www.blackonomics.com or

call him at 513/ 489-4132.

Coli Co) at-1 1-48) o)falleyats

rs. Beatrice Maye

Dear Editor:

According to a study released
Tuesday, May 11, 2004, based
on a mail survey of 725 public
middle and high school
teachers and a telephone
survey of 600 parents of
public school students in
grades 5 " 12, the way
teachers see it, todayTs
classroom environment often
deserves a D-as in disrespect,
distracting and disheartening
enough to drive many of them
away.

Most teachers in middle and
high schools say misbehavior
by a handful of children is
such a disruptive, pervasive
force that a majority of
students suffer from it,
according to this study which
was financed by Common
Good, a bipartisan legal
reform coalition. oIf you start

totaling up the hours that
teachers could be teaching
and students could be
learning, itTs just
staggering,� said Public
Agenda President Ruth
Wooden.

More than three in four
teachers said they could
do their job more
effectively if not for
discipline problems. More
than eight in ten said most
students suffer because of
a few troublemakers.

The challenge, the study
found, is complicated.
Education colleges donTt
prepare teachers to deal
with rowdy students.
Schools back down from
discipline when parents
threaten lawsuits and
children in special
education are treated too
lightly even when their
misbehavior has nothing
to do with their
disabilities. The biggest
cause of student behavior
problems, according to
teachers and parents, is
that too may parents fail
to teach their kids
discipline.

oCelebrating Community: A
Tribute too Black Fraternal,
Social, and Civic Institutions�

To the Editor:

February 2006 African
American History Month is
observed annually. The
theme, oCelebrating
Community: A Tribute to
Black Fraternal, Social, and
Civic Institutions,� is the 80"
celebration. Dr. Carter G.
Woodson, founder, is
nationally known, othe Father
of Black History Week.�

Can we as a people be neatly
packaged in one month of the
year and that nonblacks are
only interested in our culture
for 28 (29, if itTs leap year)
out of 365 days? We are the
achievers, the dreamers,
inventors, and wallbreakers,
the movers, the shakers, and
the bringers of the first
successful heart transplant.
We are the burden of
motherhood and the dream of
fathers, the bricklayers, the
runners, and the flyers, the
marchers, the dancers, and the
scholars, " the preachers,
teachers, and the doers.

AL BAYYINAH THE CLEAR
EVIDENCE

~

By Noria Namaz

I was wandering, looking for
a purpose for my life. At
eighteen years old I
voluntarily excommunicated
myself from the church of my
child hood and from

Christianity all together. Now

| walked towards a distant
light hoping to relieve the
restlessness in my soul

The stirrings said I made a
promise I had to keep. But |
could not remember what the
promise was. On my spiritual
search | saw many doors, |
remembered in the Gospel
Jesus saying oKnock and it
shall open up to you�,
knocked and many doors
opened. This journey was like
riding on a magic carpet. |
visited many religious

so |

viewpoints from atheism to
the mystical religions of the
Near and Far East.

impressed with their

I was
similarities. In fact in
Hinduism I found Krishna, a
Hindu incarnation of god two
hundred years older than
Christ. The Hindus believe
god incarnated many times
From this | came to
understand why Christianity
emphasizes the one
incarnation. | argued with my
intellect the existence of a
god. Amidst all this religious
confusion, how could I know
with certainty His true

religion? Again from the
Gospel of Jesus I knew I had
to search this out, | was
required to find the truth to
have a chance at salvation.

The Christian theology of my
childhood taught that Jesus
was an incarnation of god
and as Jesus god died for my
sins. I could not reconcile
this theology with the
stirrings of my soul. My soul
asked if God is merciful and
just, can he be unjust to his
own self. If god is not
created, how can he
incarnate. What form of
creation could hold him? In
this form my spirit and my
intellect wrangled. One
wanted to deny God
altogether and other wanting
to nd itself of a persistent
itch. We made a promise we
mustkeep. Instinctively I
knew the promise was
spiritual and I knew the
promise must be fulfilled
before I die. I knew I would

be very sorry if I did not keep

this promise. My soul cried,
we must search for the truth
or we will be lost forever

My search took me on a
global spiritual journey. |
followed the command Jesus
gave, seeking, asking and
knocking. Finally when the
haze cleared, the distant light
was closer and under it I
could see a clear inscription
that read, oThere is no deity
worthy of worship exoept
Allah�

Ailah, i had heard that name
in my childhood. I
recognized it as the God of
the Islamic religion. The

inscription spoke theotruth. It
implied that in this world we
have many deities. I was

taught to worship Jesus, saints

and holy people. Others
worshipped other incarnations
and the sun, moon and the
stars as well. Yet Jesus in the
Lords Prayer taught us to
worship the God he
worshiped. My soul did not
like Christian theology, nor
did it prefer any of the others.
But upon reading this
inscription I could feel a
calmness covering my soul. Is
Islam the religion of my
search? oo

At first this leg of my journey
was also difficult. In this
country Islam took many
forms. However, my soul
said, oWe are close.� Finally |
sat down to read a book. A
book revealed over fourteen
hundred years ago to a man
named Muhammad, the
Qur'an
It is there I found the source
of my promise. A promise to
the Lord of Lords, my Creator
and Sustainer, that Him and
Him alone would I worship. |
made that promise after the
creation of Adam"when
Allah pulled me along with all
of Adam's descendants from
his groin. Together would we
stood before our Glorious
Lord and bore witness that He
is our God and He is Who we
will worship. With this the
restless stirrings of my soul

rr ~

ended and it became at peace
I said, oRest my beloved soul�
and declared, oThere is no
deity worthy of worship
except Allah, and Muhammati
is His Prophet and Last
Messenger to the world�

The Minority Voice Newspaper February 14 - 28, 2006 pg3

Community Voice

From the Desk of Mrs. Beatrice Maye

Yes, we are unique. Our skin
is the color of strength,
sweetness, and earth. Our
music makes us cry and shout.
We are the beacon of style and
expression. Whatever we
touch moves. We do not just
talk, we rap. We do not just
run, we fake, double take.
We're not just smart, we've
got game! We do not put
inventions to waste; we give
them sound and vibration,
harmony, and soul. Who can
do it like we do it? Yes, every
accomplishment, African
American throughout
American history, continue to

_ enrich the lives of present and

future generations.

Hints that a Black woman will
possibly make a Good Wife to
the Blackman......

1. She is attentive and a
good listener.

2. She enjoys going
partying but has an
equally good time at
home.

3. She will have a strong
spiritual commitment
that helps her

distinguish between
right and wrong.

4. She will be partially -
modest in her style of
dress.

5. She will like babies and
children and include
them in her life.

6. She enjoys cooking
and preparing special
meals or treats for the
Blackman.

7. She will respect her
parents, his parents,
and older people.

8. She has good personal
hygiene.

9. She does not wear a
ton of make-up.

10. She is proud of her
man and claims him no
matter who is present.

11. She keeps her house
at least half-way clean.

12. She is not a flagrant
spender and almost
manages her money.

13. She is truthful and
freely expresses her
sexuality and desires
when in private with
her man.

AmericaTs Return to the WildT

14. She shares
voluntarily and
offers help when she
can.

15. She does not hold
grudges too long
and will apologize
when wrong.

16. She will go out of
her way to do
special things for the
Blackman.

17. She will speak well
of him when he is
not around.

18. She will defend him
against verbal
attacks from others.

19. She does not show
out or curse loudly
in public.

20. She smile when she
meets him.

21. She controls her
anger and does not
go wild when angry.

22. She will take
instructions on some
things without being
combative.

23. She is respectful of
Black men in
general.



By: Susie Clemons

A.M. talk radio Pontiff,
televisionsT noted Hannity
and Colmes other spin
doctor, Ms. Laura Ingram,
recently ranted that a certain
people outside of America
are trying to destroy what
her great symbol stands for.
Wonder how she came up
with that one; moreover,
who was she talking about?

Clearly, she need look no
further than the ClantonTs of
the O.K. Corral reincar-
nated cowboy boot, ten
gallon hat, red bandana
wearing bandit sons; in
particular, gun slinginT
Cheney, bullet proof Bush,
card shark Abramoff, lyinT
Kalifornia Cunnipgham,
cattle rustling ofltiaw Delay
and sneaky sneak Specter.

They've not only seized
the White House and 109�
Congress, but they have
single handedly returned
America to the outrageous
ride em hard lore of the
WildT WildT West.

And to prove that
they re serious, theyT ve
blown up every covered
wagon they've encountered,
from health benefits for the
elderly to student loans for
college and Smart Start
funding to name a few.

Back in 2000, when the
Republicans wrestled power
from the Dems, who would
have thought illegal wire
tapping, congressional kick
backs and money
laundering, blatant thievery
and abuse of power would
become the norm for
American politics

Add to that Cheney's
recent gun slinging battle

WildT West

Most everyone wants to
know why 78 year old
Whittington was playing
cowboys and Indians with
Mr. 65 year old - suppose to
have a weak heart- Cheney
while at republican lobbyist
Katherine Armstrong's
50,000 acre Texan ranch,
while she and her sister
watched the sporting horror
unfold? The question is who
in the tarnation would want
to watch Cheney shoot a
gun? Is he that good?

Of the near fatal accident,
Cheney is quoted as saying
othe image of him, Whitting-
ton, falling is something I'll
never be able to get out of
my mind.�

Cheney, admits he had a
beer before the shooting
incident" but no one
bothered to ask him how
many. Was he drunk when he
shot his friend in the face?

Furthermore, if Cheney
could see that big burly guy
going down for the count, as
he is quoted as saying, how
could he miss the girth of
WhittingtonTs head before
firing? Was this a failed
attempt at euthanasia?

If not, the rest of us donTt
stand a chance. Besides,
Cheney has never completely
explained how he got priority
status to make millions off
Halliburton contracts not
only in [rag but also New
Orleans. Remember anything
is possible with this bunch of
cowboys.

lronically, WhittingtonTs
shooting happened on the eve
of what sneaky sneak Senator
Arlen Specter and others had
know was about to become
his oEarmark� spending
coming out party

Specter has, over the past
four years, paid the firm of
lobbyist Michael Herson, the
husband of SpecterTs long
time legislative aide, Vicki
Siegel Herson, 48.5 million
dollars of Earmark money
clearly a conflict of interest

That's money HersonTs
husband alleges not lobbying
Specter for, and money that
Specter says he did not know
was being paid to Henson's

Defense firm" which
Herson in turn directed to
six clients.

Albeit, Specter is
trying to come'across like
the absent minded
professor, and that may be
the case considering that
he has not been in the best
health lately.

He has since said he
will ask all of his
legislative aids if they have
family members who are
lobbyist.

Okay so maybe Specter
didnTt know, but Siegels
husband, Michael Herson
knew where the cash
windfall originated.

Sad to think however
that Mr. HersonTs un-
ethical business practices
out-weighed his duty to
protect his beloved from
scandal, or himself for that
matter

Maybe it true that
when one occupies a seat
of hidden unregulated
power for as long as
Specter, and some of
others in the 109°
Congress, corruption,
forgetfulness and looking
the other way is a most
jealous mistress.

Arlene Specter, Delay,
Abramoff, Cheney, Bush,
Cunningham and a heap of
others have made it quite
clear they have no desire
to play fair, or to be held
as trust worthy agents for
the people

Therefore, they, having
demosnstrated with
regularity that their way is
the oNew American Wild,
Wild West� - the vote is in
on the real liberty destroy
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" SuejetteTA. Jones

They speak of sorrow,
oppression and strength.
They cry for freedom and
faith, many of the words
familiar even to the littlest
ones: oHeTs Got the Whole
World in His Hands.� But
beyond the simple melodies
and easy -to-remember lyrics
that helped make them staples
of American popular music,
Negro spirituals are an
enduring legacy of the slaves
who relied on them for both
solace and hope. More than a
century later, the message is
no less powerful or inspiring.

The founder of The
Spirituals Project. a Denver-
based nonprofit group whose
mission is to preserve and
promote spirituals like
oSwing Low, Sweet Chariot o
and oWade in the Water�
remarked, oPeople all around

the world can relate to it "
" thatTs one of the reasons
the songs are still alive.�

W.E.B. DuBois called
spintuals othe articulate
message of the slave to the
world.� Negro spirituals link
the suffering and hope of
salvation of the slaves with
the suffering and salvation of
the Gospel universal
elements that transcend race
and culture. Many credit the
Fisk Jubilee Singers, who
toured the United States and
Europe in the late 19° century
with helping bring the Negro
spiritual to a broader
audience, (See Personal Note
at the end of the aricle.)

Over the years, the spiritual,
which experienced a
reawakening during the civil
rights movement of the
1960s, has become more
entwined with gospel music, a
more formal style that arose
in the urban North in the late
19� century and is
characterized by
arrangements and
instrumentation. Originally
accompanied only by hand-
clapping and foot-stomping,

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spirituals now often are
composed and arranged, and
sung in a concert environment

A debate continues over the
use of dialect, or traditional
phrasing, in which words like
heaven and children become
oheb n� and ochillum�. That
brings authenticity to it, but it
makes some people
uncomfortable. Some say the
reluctance by somee blacks to
embrace spirituals may be
attributable to the painful
thoughts they can conjure.
Blacks donTt like to remember
Slavery, and there is a danger
of appreciating spirituals
simply for their entertainment
value. They cannot be
properly understood unless
there is a powerful empathy
with what itTs like to be a
slave. You have to have the
capacity to identify in order to
understand.

If our ancestors could get
through two and a half
centunes of chattel slavery,
present-day black people
ought to be able to cope with
whatever they're going
through in the inner city,
according to James Cone

Keeping the Tradition of the Negro Spiritual Alive

who teaches black theology
at Union Theological
Seminary in New York.

Extracted
from the Associated Press

Coda

A Tribute to Walter
Plemmer�

The Tarboro Jubilee
Singers was founded and
organized in the Spring of
the Bicentennial year,
1976, by the late Walter
Plemmer of Tarboro, NC.
Plemmer was an
accomplished musician,
having served as band
director, choral director, as
well as director of drama
and cultural arts in the
Tarboro Schools system.
His great desire was to
have acommunity musical
group that would express
themselves creatively, to
sing songs of intellectual
and aesthetic value, to

perform monuments written

by the worldTs outstanding
masters of composition and
most of all to keep alive in
the hearts of people the

wealth of Black spirituals that
represent a major segment of
American music.

The group presented many
concerts since it was
organized. One of its major
Messiah during the Christmas
season accompanied by the
String Quartet of East
Carolina University. It was
performed at the 1982
WorldTs Fair at Knoxville, TN;
a Goodwill performance in
Nassau, Bahamas, (that was
arranged by the then
Representative L. H. Fountain
of Tarboro); several concerts
aired on WNCT-TV;
appearances at Sycamore Hill
Baptist Church, Jarvis
Memorial Methodist Church,
Tabernacle Center of
Deliverance (Dr. George A.
Hawkins " Pastor) and other
presentations at churches
throughout North Carolina
and Virginia too numerous to
mention.

Plemmer'Ts arrangements of
Negro spirituals and his own
compositions were beautifully
rendered and kept the

audiences spellbound. Many
of the renditions were sung A
Capella (that is, without
instrumental accompaniment)
and the blend of 4-part and
sometime 8-part voices was
melodies.

The Tarboro Jubilee Singers is
still in existence-today " but
not of the magnitude and
renown that it had under the
late Walter Plemmer. Some of
the Greenville natives who
sand with the group were:
Selena Davenport Forbes,
Gracie Mebane Vines, Miriam
Carraway, Rev. Anton Wesley
and wife, and Suejette Jones.
The memories of Walter
Plemmer still alive on in our
hearts.

Respectfully submitted by:
Suejette A. Jones

Personal Note:
Johnella Frazer, my piano
teacher during my years at

Virginia State University, had
been a member of the Fisk

Jubilee Singers.

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BY ADAM NICHOLS
DAILY NEWS STAFF
WRITER

The rap sheets say it all.
They've got the body count
and the prison cred, the
bootlicking posses and the

-adoring wanna-bes.,They
drive luxurious cars and flash
wads of cash.

Gangsta rappers share a lot of

similarities with La Cosa
Nostra, and last Sunday the
hip-hop hoodlums displayed
yet another dreadful trait they
share with the Mafia.

After Busta Rhymes' body-
guard was shot dead in
Brooklyn just feet from some
of the biggest names in hip
hop - including 50 Cent,
Junior Mafia and Lil' Kim
recorded "La Belle Mafia."
And all the big-shot rappers
surround themselves with a
family - huge gangs who
supposedly pride themselves

on their loyalty and toughness.

A shooting last year outside
the Hudson St. studio of the
radio station Hot 97 was
blamed on a dispute between
the posses of rappers 50 Cent
and The Game.

"Certainly, if you look at
African-Americans and
Latinos, there's a loyalty to

rap

one community," Powell said.
"T've interviewed Tupac,
Biggie Smatts, Ice T, and they
always had people they
surrounded themselves with."
But experts say the rappers'
desire to pass themselves off
as a modern-day Mafia falls
short.

"The simple thing is, the hip-
hop community emulates what
they believe organized crime
is," said Murray Richman, an
attorney who has represented
members of all five of New
York's major crime families as
well as rappers, including Jay-
Z and DMX.

"It's wishful thinking on their "

part. They are emulating what
never really existed. It is life
imitating art," Richman said.
"I do see similarities. The
poverty aspect, comihg up
from an ethnically identifiable
group. But in reality, that is
armchair social work.

"Their glamorization of the
Mafia through names like
Capone and Gotti is an emula-
tion of a criminal culture, not
an ethnic culture."

Gerald Shargel, a lawyer who
has defended both John Gotti
and Irv Gotti (Lorenzo),
agreed.

"As far as the violence is

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I passed money

the courtroom.

Clark testified that he
funneled money from city
contractor George Greene
and strip club owner Michael
Childs.

Greene, the owner of Sable
Communications, began
kicking in more cash for
CampbellTs second campaign
in 1997 after Campbell
chewed him out ofor not
being a loyal supporter� in
his 1993 campaign, Clark
said.

Greene also wrote several
checks to Clark totaling
thousands of dollars,
according to.large replica
checks put on display for the
jury. Clark said he used
GreeneTs payments as
spending money and to fly
CampbellTs mistresses to
various locations and put
them up in hotels.

Clark said he even saw to it
that champagne was in the
rooms. Clark said he
sometimes took room keys
to Campbell, who then
reimbursed him in cash.
Later, when testifying about
Childs, Clark said he was
standing next to Campbell at
a fund-raiser when Childs
said he needed a liquor
license for a new club,
oStrawberries.�

He said Campbell told Childs
that ohe would support him
when the campaign was
over.�

After that, Clark testified, he
was the bagman for cash
from Childs to Campbell and
met with Childs o10 to 12
times� in 1997 and 1998.
ChildsT payments were

onothing smaller than $2,500�
and oup to $10,000,� Clark
told the jury.
Childs has pleaded guilty to
burning down competitorsT "
nightclubs and is cooperating
with authorities. Greene also
is Cooperating.
The first alleged bribe from
Childs took place at.the
Smokehouse restaurant, near
Cheshire Bridge and Piedmont
roads, Clark testified. It was _
$5,000, he said, adding that
Childs otold me not to mess
with the mayorTs money. He
told me to come back and he
would take care of me.�
Clark also testified that Fred
Prewitt, CampbellTs friend and
chairman of the cityTs Civil
Service Board, passed cash to
the former mayor. Prewitt
otold me he was going to put
a roll [of cash] in the mayorTs
hand big enough to choke a
goat.�
Clark said he saw Prewitt pass
money to Campbell while they
were headed to the airport.
He said Prewitt told him it
was $10,000, then joked,
oWatch him walk all the way
to the airport with his hand in
his pocket.�
Clark, a Memphis native who
worked on CampbellTs
campaign before being hired
as an assistant, said he
answered the telephone and
responded to constituent mail
but also kept appointments for
the mayor and did banking for
him. He testified that he
became almost a member of
the Campbell family " taking

out trash, cutting grass,
playing basketball with his son

and even eating Thanksgiving
dinner with them.

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concerned, I don't see any
similarity to traditional orga-
nized crime," he said. "In the
hip-hop world, it just doesn't
seem to have a common plan.
The violence that you read
about is like something out of
the Wild West, a dispute. It's
action and retaliation."

By contrast, the violence so
idolized in Mafia movies was
always considered "just
business," a way to protect
money-making interests - and
power, said Powell.

"That's the huge difference,"
he argued. "The Mafia had,
and has immense power. The
hip-hop community does not.
"Look at the shooting last
week, or any other hip-hop
shooting. It's over an argu-
ment. There's no trace of
controlling a power base or
any kind of territory.

"One was real life, ultimately
about power and control. The
other is certainly real in terms
of people getting killed and
going to jail, but it's rooted in
the entertainment industry."

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Celebrating Black
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Booker
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The Pitt County Branch NAACP Monthly Mass meeting held at York Memorrial AME
Church featured keynote speaker 1st Congressional District Congreeman GK. Butter-
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praise from many in attendance. Our camera shows Congreesman Buterfield, center, -
along with Greenville city Council members Mildred Atkinson Council (1) and Rose
Glover. The bottom photo shows other community leaders with Butterfield, from left to
right, Mr. Robert Fitzhugh, Mr Les Cox, Winterville Town Alderman Bill Worthington,

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Virginia, reportedly oh April
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his family was so poverty

stricken that he worked in salt T

furnaces and coal mines
beginning at age nine. Always
an intelligent and curious
child, he yearned for an
education and was frustrated
when he could not receive
good schooling locally. When
he was 16 his parents allowed
him to quit work to go to
school. They had no money to
help him, so he walked 200
miles to attend the Hampton
Institute in Virginia and paid
his tuition and board there by
working as the janitor.
Dedicating himself to the idea
that education would raise his
people to equality in this
country, Washington became a

___ teacher. He first taught in his

home town, then at the
Hampton Institute, and then in
1881, he founded the
Tuskegee Normal and

3

Industrial Institute in

Tuskegee, Alabama. As head

of the Institute, he traveled
the country unceasingly to
raise funds from blacks and
whites both; soon he became a
well-known speaker. In 1895,
Washington was asked to
speak at the opening of the
Cotton States Exposition, an
unprecedented honor for an
African American. His Atlanta
Compromise speech explained
his major thesis, that blacks
could secure their
constitutional rights through
their own economic and moral
advancement rather than
through legal and political
changes. Although his
conciliatory stand angered
some blacks who feared it
would encourage the foes of
equal rights, whites approved
of his views. Thus his major
achievement was to win over
diverse elements among _
southern whites, without
whose support the programs

(1856-1915)
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Educational Administrator,
Professor, Organization
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Poet

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many today, Washington
instituted a variety of
programs for rural extension
work, and helped to establish
the National Negro Business
League. Shortly after the
election of President William
McKinley in 1896, a
movement was set in motion
that Washington be named to
a cabinet post, but he
withdrew his name from
consideration, preferring to
work outside the political
arena. He died on November

14, 1915.



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. PITT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Proposed Ordinance

Commissioner
Coulson:

We can have the
debate

Dear
sD APEME PITT COUNT

WHEREAS, a monument was erected on the grounds of the
Pitt County Court House in 1914 dedicated to the CountyTs Confederate
Dead; and
, WHEREAS, said monument is located on the grounds of the
present Pitt County Court House and located on the comer of 3rd Street
and Evans Street inGreenville; and !
, __ WHEREAS, the monument displays at its top a statute of an
armed Confederate Soldier; and
, WHEREAS, the monument bares the inscriptions oOur
' Confederate Dead,� oErected by the people of Pitt County in grateful
remembrance of the courage and fortitude of her Confederate Soldiers�,
oDedicated 1914,� and oTo the Heroes of 1861-1865 Theirs not to
make reply... Theirs not to reason why... Theirs but to do and die;�
and



The debate on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 7 :00 p.m. at
_the C.M. Epps Recreation Center. Dave J ordan for WITN-7
, can be the moderator |

WHEREAS, the Pitt County Court House presently houses
the General Courts of Justice in Pitt County, the Office of the District
Attorney, and the Pitt County Sheriff Department; and

WHEREAS, the vast majority of criminal defendants
appearing before the Pitt County Courts are African Americas and

- descendants of former slaves held in bondage under the system of chattel
slavery that the Confederacy sought to maintain by criminal acts of
Treason against the United States of American as defined in the United
States Constitution, Article III, Section 3; and

WHEREAS, the United States government successfully
prosecuted the Rebellion and Treason committed by the Confederacy;
and

Coulson

Having said that, slavery is
not in Pitt County to my
knowledge. But single parent
homes, disobediaent children

Hall

The removal of that
monument would represent a
great victory to unshackle
the minds of black children,

WHEREAS, slavery was abolished by the 13" Amendment to

in schools, jails packed to the United States Constitution and African Americans were made
youth, and adults who bursting wa ay other citizens of the United States via the 14° Amendment to the United
___ Presently suffer from social embarrassments and States Constitution and entitled to equal protection of the law; and
inferiority complexes created bl i d well WHEREAS, the existence of the monument located at the "
by white supremecy problems are alive and we Pitt County Court House is a reminder to African Americans of the

here. Removing a monument

days of injustice, lynching, burning at the stake, and other hideous
will address not one of these.

inhumane acts committed against them under the system of slavery
and subsequently by those who sought to maintain segregation and an
evil system that exploited fellow human beings because of the color of
their skin; and .

WHEREAS, the monument is offensive to the African
American Community in Pitt County and the descendants of white
citizens who choose the moral high ground and refused to support the
Confederacy or participate in open criminal acts of Treason against
the United States government; and

WHEREAS, many loyal Americans lost their lives due to the

@ criminal acts of the Confederacy; and

WHEREAS, the Pitt County government seeks to promote
diversity and the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination; and

WHEREAS, this Pitt County Board of Commissioners
denounces racism, bigotry, and crime; and

WHEREAS, this Pitt County Board of Commissioners

mythology, and who

never strive for success in life

because they know only pain
and suffering from

their life experiences.

Seven Future Events That
Will Shake The World



Faith May recognizes that Confederate Soldiers are viewed by many Pitt County
residents as criminals who. committed Treason against the sovereignty
of the United States; and

WHEREAS, this Pitt County Board of Commissioner
T recognizes the need to not send the wrong message to the citizens of

Pitt County and especially those who appear before the Pitt County
Courts; and

WHEREAS, at the time the monument was erected in 1914
Pitt County practiced legally enforced segregation; and

WHEREAS, conditions have changed since the monument
was erected and African American now have a right to not be placed in ,
fear and apprehension over the quality of justice administered in the |
Pitt County Courts or about other services available to the general public
at the Pitt County Court House; and

WHEREAS, it is not the intention of this Pitt County Board
of Commissioner to personally offend any person whose ancestors
participated on the side of the Confederacy:
Enactment:
NOW THEREFORE, be it enacted by the Pitt County Board
of Commissioners as follows:
The Pitt County Manager is hereby directed to cause the

The Book of Revelation calls this world ruler
the oBeast� (13:1-10). It describes him
controlling a global economy, a world
government and a world religion in which he
claims to be divine and insists that he be
worshipped as God. It portrays a ofalse
Prophet� who assists the Beast in his global
deception and world rule (Revelation 13:1 1-18).
However, in the end, the anti-christTs promise of
peace will culminate in plunging the world into
the most terrible wars the planet has ever
known. .

The world was shocked and stunned by the
devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Tear-inducting,
gut-wrenching images of human loss and suffering
have filled the airways for several weeks. Virtually
no one was left untouched by the impact of one of _

''" the'worst naturaf disasters in American history.
The outpouring has rekindled our pain and
heartache, as in the days after 911.

In many ways, the current catastrophe is but
a microcosm of the real End Time disasters that are
predicted in Scripture. Jesus did, in fact, warn that
the days of Noah� when the oflood came and took

\

them all away� (Matthew 24:37-II Thessalonians Me

2:1-12 indicates that the wicked one cannot come
on the scene until after the removal of the

_ Restrainer. A careful reading of this passage
indicates that the antichrist will rise to power after
the rapture of the Church.

The next four future events that will shake the world will be
printed in the next issue of the Minority Voice Newspaper;
you will not want to miss it!
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October 2005 Issue

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removal of the monument presently located on the grounds
of the Pitt County Court House at the corner of 3" Street
and Evans Street in Greenville within 90 days of the
effective date of this Ordinance.

2. The monument shall be removed and placed in storage at
the Pitt County Public Works.

3. This Ordinance shall be effective on 1 May 2006.

This the day of February, 2006.

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Journalist and Photo Editor appeared. After the demise of brought about a flowering of became the last of the former only gradually until the ead Party still seemed
Daily Sundial LTUnion, Roudanez published black newspapers in the slave states lacking a black 1920s. The former me wtter sltemative Tees
California State University the bilingual New Orleans _ South. By the end of 1865, paper when St. LouisT The _ believed that the partyof abe |

Nogthridge Tribune until 1870. Both black newspapers hadbeen | Negro World was founded in Abraham Lincoln von D an we cena
1827-1861: Origins of the newspapers supported the . established in Louisiana, 1875. | create anew world Ww me a south

Black Press Republican Party and, after the Alabama, Tennessee, South The black press of the black economic, social, an orang

war, strongly advocated voting Carolina, and Georgia. Most Reconstruction period _ political interests would be

Freedom's Journal, the first
black newspaper in the United
States, started as a weekly
abolitionist journal in 1827. It
was the result of a meeting in
New York City of black
leaders, who realized that.
such a publication was
important to efforts towards
uniting free blacks against
Slavery. Editors Samuel
Cornish and John Russwurm
advocated education and
stressed the importance of
civil rights for free- blacks.
However, Russwurm and
Cornish disagreed on editorial :
policy, and the newspaper,
after it changed its name to
The Rights of All, only lasted
until 1829. Other black
newspapers, most of them
similarly short-lived, appeared
in New York City, Albany,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and
Columbus, Ohio.
For example, Willis Hodges
started his own newspaper,
the Ram's Horn, in New York
in 1847 in response to the
New York SunTs stance
against black voting rights"
the SunTs famous motto oThe
Sun shines for all� did not
include black men. The RamTs
Horn lasted about a year.
Enjoying greater longevity,
however, was Frederick
DouglassTs newspaper the
North Star, which appeared in
Rochester the same year as _
the RamTs Horn and lasted,
despite financial troubles and
a name change, until 1860.
Typically, the early black
newspapers rarely lasted more
than a year or two for several
reasons. First, the target
audience, the base population
of educated free blacks, was
seldom large enough to
financially support a weekly
newspaper. Second, most of
these newspapers ignored the
many literate but uneducated
free blacks that lived in the
North. A third reason was that
the publishers usually lacked
adequate funds to weather the
difficult early years.
So, while more than 40 black
newspapers were founded
before the start of the Civil
War, most of them lasted only
a year or two, suffering from
financial problems and a small
readership. Nonetheless, the
black press spread westward,
as far as Kansas by 1855 with
the start of the Kansas Herald
of Freedom in Lawrence. The
earliest black newspaper on
the west coast, San
FranciscoTs Mirror of the
Times, appeared the same
year. All of them protested the
lack of civil rights for blacks.
in the North and protested
against the inhumanity of
southern slavery.
1861-1877: The Civil War
and Reconstruction
During the Civil War, the
SouthTs first black newspaper
appeared in New Orleans.
Louis Roudanez, a free black
immigrant from the
Caribbean, published LTUnion
in French from 1862 to 1864.

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Marian Anderson

1902-1993

Known as the contralto of the century, Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia on February "
27, 1902. Young Marian displayed her gifted voice in her church choir. She sang all parts:

_ Soprano, alto, tenor and bass. When she made her debut in New York on December 31, 1935, a
reviewer described her performance as omusic-making that was too deep for words.�

In spite of her undeniable talent, certain groups were not willing to accept a black performer into
their realm. In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution banned her from singing in
WashingtonTs Constitution Hall, which they owned. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from
the group in response and sponsored an Easter morning concert at the Lincoln Memorial. |
Marian Anderson gave one of her most memorable performances to a crowd of 75,000 people.
The Metropolitan Opera in New York never had a black singer perform in any of its productions

until January 17, 1955. Anderson made history with her performance in VerdiTs oA Masked
Ball.�

Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
1912-1969

Born in Washington, Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was an army brat whose father set him a challenging
example. The elder Davis became a brigadier general in 1940, the U.S. ArmyTs first black
general. . ;

The younger Davis paralleled his fatherTs illustrious career. He graduated from West Point in
1936 and began his military career at Fort Benning in Georgia. In 1942, he joined the Army Air
Corps and took command of the 99th Fighter Squadron, the famous oTuskegee airmen,� as a
lieutenant colonel.

Davis, known for his dignified manner and eloquent speech, became the first black brigadier

general in the history of the U.S. Air Force in 1954. In 1965, he rose to the rank of lieutenant
general.

Patrick Francis Healy

1834-1910

A younger brother of Bishop James Healy, Patrick was the nationTs first black to earn a Ph.D. He

and the rest of his five siblings contributed greatly to the world through their service as religious

and civic leaders. ;

Throughout his lifetime Healy received numerous medals and commendations. He was the 29th

president of the prestigeous Georgetown University from 1873-1882.

As a tribute to his outstanding leadership during his tenure, Georgetown erected the Healy
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lying - but trusting two felons to protect her. The
diminutive diva paid longtime friends Suif Jackson and
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a grand jury to protect them after a 2001 shootout outside
Hot 97 studios in Manhattan. Her misplaced frust isa
textbook example of the danger of using untrained
associates, rather than professionals, as security, experts
said. The slaying of Busta RhymesT bodyguard last Sunday
once again spotlighted the questionable and dangerous
ways hip hop stars protect themselves. oITd rather play it
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Country (1962) and Just
Above My Head (1979), all
deal with the struggle for
individuality against
intolerance. He also wrote
several plays, including Blues
For Mister Charlie (1964),

and Evidence of Things Not
Seen (1986), a book about
racially-motivated child
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reputation with his first novel,
Go Tell It On The Mountain
(1953), an autobiographical
tale of growing up in Harlem.
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his generation, known for

novels and essays that tackled
black-white and hetero- |
homosexual relationships. He
was particularly a noted
essayist during the Civil
Rights movement of the
1960s. Baldwin turned to
writing after being
encouraged by Richard
Wright, and, like Wright, left
the U.S. after World War II
and moved to France. His
novels, including Giovanni's
Room (1956), Another
Country (1962) and Just

Above My Head (1979), all

deal with the struggle for
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1875 at New Canton, Va.

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the long-neglected field of
black studies to scholars

: and also popularized the
' field in the schools and

colleges pf blacks, To
focus attention on black
contributions to civilization,
he founded Negro History
Week in 1926. This
celebration and
remembrance would later
evolve into Black History
Month.

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family. He supported
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coal mines of Kentucky
and was thus unable to
enroll in high school
until he was 20. After
graduating in less than
two years, he taught
high school, wrote
articles, studied at
home and abroad, and
-received his Ph.D. from

NY Harvard University

(1912). In 1915 he
founded the |
Association for the
Study of Negro Life and
History to encourage
scholars to engage in:
the intensive study of
the past as it related to
Africans and their
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the world. Prior to this _
work, the field had been
largely neglected or
distorted in the hands of
historians who accepted
the traditionally biased
picture of blacks in
American and world affairs.
In 1916 Woodson edited
the first issue of the
associationTs principal
scholarly publication, The
Journal of Negro History, f
which, under his direction,
remained an important
historical periodical for
more than 30 years.

Angela Davis:

Angela Davis, radical black
activist and philosopher, was
arrested as a suspected
conspirator in the abortive
attempt to free George Jackson
from a courtroom in Marin
County, California, August 7, |

1970. The guns used were
registered in her name.
Angela Davis was
eventually acquitted of all
charges, but was briefly
on the FBITs most-wanted
list as she fled from arrest.
Angela Davis is often
associated with the Black
Panthers and with the
black power politics of
the late 1960s and early
1970s. She joined the
Communist Party when
Martin Luther King was
assassinated in 1968. She
was active with SNCC
(Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee)
before the Black Panthers.
Angela Davis ran for U.S.

Vice President on the ©
Communist Party ticket in
1980.

Angela Davis has been an
activist and writer promoting
womenTs rights and racial
justice while pursuing her
career as a philosopher and
teacher at the University of
Santa Cruz and San Francisco
University " she achieved
tenure at the University of
California at Santa Cruz
though former governer
Ronald ReaganTswore she
would never teach again in the
University of California
system. She studied with
political philosopher Herbert
Marcuse. She has published on
race, Class, and gender

Elijah McCoy

Elijah McCoy was born in
Colchester, Ontario,
Canada on May 2, 1844,
the son of former slaves
who had fled from
Kentucky before the U.S.
Civil War. Educated in
Scotland as a mechanical
engineer, Elijah McCoy

returned to the United
States and settled in
Detroit, Michigan. He
began experimenting with
a cup that would regulate
the flow of oil onto
moving parts of industrial
machines. His first
invention was a lubricator
for steam engines, U.S.
129,843, which issued on
July 12, 1872. The
invention allowed
machines to remain in
motion to be oiled; his
new oiling device�
revolutionized the
industrial machine
industry. Elijah McCoy
established his own firm -
and was responsible for a
total of 57 patents. The

term oreal McCoy� refers to
the oiling device used for
industrial machinery. His
contribution to the lubricating
device became so popular
that people inspecting new
equipment would ask is the
device contained the real
McCoy. This helped
popularize the American
expression, meaning the real
thing. His other inventions
included an ironing board and
lawn sprinkler. .

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NC police take thousands
of license plates from
uninsured drivers

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. " At least 5,300 cars across
North Carolina have had their tags taken away by police
and deputies empowered by a new law to confiscate the
plates of uninsured vehicles.
The law that took effect Dec. 1 gave local law
enforcement the authority to confiscate plates that had

_ been revoked for lack of insurance. Before then, the job
was left to the Division of Motor Vehicles.
Local officials didnTt always know when plates had been
revoked, and if they did, all they could do was issue a
ticket.
oAll they were doing was giving a $50 citation, and the
person drives away and still doesnTt have insurance,�
said state Rep. Dale Folwell, R-Forsyth, who introduced
the legislation. ' |
Now local officers can see on their computers when a
vehicleTs license plate has been revoked because of
lapsed insurance. Police department spokesman Capt.
Bill Cobb said removing the plates takes only a few
minutes.
About 400,000 drivers in the state are thought to be
uninsured. Officials estimate the number of plates
confiscated since Dec. 1 at 5,300 but say the actual
number could-be much higher.
Cobb said that he didnTt know how many plates hisT
department had collected. oEvery week or two. weeks
weTre taking them over to DMV,� he said.
The changed law is part of an effort to force drivers to
pay their insurance bills. Lawmakers and insurance
companies hope that doing so will lead to lower
insurance payments for everybody else.
oThe purpose is to reward people who are doing the
right thing by following the insurance laws of North
Carolina and to punish those who arenTt:� Polwell said.
The state Department of Insurance estimates that
insurance companies will get 16,000 claims involving
uninsured drivers at a cost of $80 million this year.
Officials hope that taking their plates will either keep
them off the road or force them to become insured.
oIt ultimately will drive down the cost of uninsured-
motorist coverage,� said Frank Folger, the legislative
counsel for the insurance department. oAnd the more
people who buy insurance, generally speaking, that has a

tendency to have a positive impact on rates.�