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Minority Voice

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EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA'S MINORITY VOICE - SINCE 1981

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 14-27, 1996

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Voting rights on trial in post-
reconstruction S. Carolina

In April 1877, William J. Whip-
per, an African-American mem-
ber of the South Carolina General
Assembly, left office in the waning
days of Reconstruction to assume
alocal judgeship but was prevented
from ever taking his seat on a
bench. He was among the last Af-
rican-Americans to serve in the
General Assembly for the next 100
years. Today, more than 100 years
later, Seth Whipper, his great-
great nephew, is fighting to retain
his seat in the General Assembly
and to vindicate the rights of the
voters who put him there.

That fight has now moved to the
courts in a trial that recently con-
cluded before a three-judge fed-
eral panel in Columbia, S.C. The
case received scant attention in
the national press, but it is being
closely watched by voting rights
advocates and civil nights activists

throughout the country. A deci-
sionis expected before election day.

The trial consists of two com-
bined cases - Smith v. Beasley
(challenging state Senate districts)
was brought by a white former
Democratic senator and a group of
citizens; and Able v. Wilkins (chal-
lenging state House districts) was
brought by private citizens.

The outcome of these cases, the
first such legislative challenge to
go to trial, will determine not only
the fate of many majority-Black
voting districts in South Carolina,
but will indicate how vulnerable
such districts are to attack by white
voters and offfice-holders in light
of the Supreme Court Ts recent re-
strictions beginning with Shaw v.
Reno in 1993.

South Carolina has had a long
and painful history of denying
equal voting nights to its African-

American citizens. Indeed, for the
first 80 years of this century, not a
single African-American served in
the South Carolina Senate, al-
though Blacks have comprised as
much as 40 percent of the state Ts
voting age population (a number
that has declined to 27 percent in
recent years). Other examples of
the state Ts history of racial inequal-

(Continued on page 5)

An anguished
matron sues for
child support for

one-year-old

By: J. Zamgba Browne

A married, devout Christian
woman strongly believes Jesus was
born by immaculate conception,
but her year-old son, Darrion
Marcus Denson, is no Holy Ghost
miracle, but the child of a popular
married preacher from Brooklyn.

The 64-year-old Pentacostal
bishop Ts shoulder was a comfort
for Rena Denson, a member of his
huge flock at the Bible Way Church
of Our Lord Jesus Christ to lean
on. But later, it turned into a very
cold should when she dragged him

Ricky Donnell Ross, 36, was a
trailblazer in the crack cocaine
trade in Loss Angeles and other
parts of the U.S.

A celebrated drug dealer, Ricky
reaped millions as an unknowing
pawn of Central Intelligence
Agency and U.S. Drug Enforce-
ment Agency operatives, who sup-
plied him with unlimited amounts
of cocaine. His suppliers used the
profits to pay for the CIA-spawned
Contra war versus Nicaragua Ts
leftist government in the 1980s.
Ricky Ts connections were first re-
vealed in a series of articles pub-
lished by the San Jose Mercury
News and in court testimony.

He granted The Final Call an
exclusive interview at the Metro-
politan Correctional Center, where
he is awaiting sentencing on co-
caine trafficking charges.

The Contra connection

In his interview, Ricky described
how he was seduced into the lucra-
tive cocaine brokering market in
1981. It would be more than a

into court, seeking child support.

Danson, an attractive young
matron who is married to a
preacher, when briefly separated
from him, sought spiritual coun-
selling from the Rt. Rev. Bishop
Huie L. Rogers, but it seemed the
pastor had other things on his
mind.

oTnow fully realize, ? says the 35-
year-old tearful Denson, ohow he
intended on making our relation-
ship more than just a spiritual
one. ? She emphasized in court pa-
pers that she didn Tt initiate the
secret rendezvous with the bishop
that left her pregnant.

In a highly emotional letter to
the Executive Board of Bishops,
Denson charged that Rogers took
advantage of her while she was in
a vulnerable state from the trauma

decade before Ricky would learn
that his key supplier, Oscar Danilo
Blandon Reyes, a man whom he
called a friend, had a master Ts de-
gree in marketing and was a DEA
informant, with connections to the
CIA.

Known simply as oFreeway
Rick, ? Ricky started out as a poor,
illiterate, high school dropout from
South Central Loss Angeles and a
talented tennis player.

At 19, Ricky said, an older
teacher, who taught at a job cen-
ter, turned homon tococaine. Ricky
said he looked up to the man and
started selling cocaine for him.

The money was good. Ricky went
solo. His teacher Ts Nicaraguan
supplier and Oscar Danilo Blandon
Reyes, supplied him.

Ricky Ts operation grew, soon he
was one of the biggest cocaine deal-
ers in South Central and Danilo
Blandon became his sole supplier.
Their business relationship grew
personal, said Ricky, adding that
he would spend time at Danilo Ts

Married Brooklyn pastor has son
by married member of his church

she was experiencing over the sepa-
ration from her husband, the Rev.
Porter Denson.

oI have always looked to the
church in good as well as bad
times, ? Denson told the Board of
Bishops. oI turned to the Lord and
my pastor when I felt it was neces-
sary to save my marriage, rebuild
my family, and above all
strengthen and enrich my spiri-
tual life, o she added.

Denson said she was reluctant
to come forth with the allegation of
osexual misconduct ? against
Rogers, an incident which she
claimed took place at the Radisson
Hotel, Kingston Plantation, S.C.

oFrom May 31 through June 4,
1994, ? Denson further explained
in her lawsuit filed with Nassau

(Continued on page 4)

A pawn in the CIA drug game

home, far from the crowded ghet-
toes of L.A.

Danilo schooled his protege in
the art of staying olow key ? and
taught him how to market mass
quantities of cocaine at bargain-
basement prices, said Ricky.

oAt first we were just getting
eight ounces or so worth $16,000, ?
he explained. oAs time went on
Danilo started supplying kilos
(worth tens of millions of dollars).
I don Tt know how it was possible. I
didn Tt question him. I just took it
as a blessing. ?

By 1984, oFreeway Rick ? was a
kingpin, with over a dozen crack
houses in South Central, churning
out $20,000 to $40,000 a day in
profits. His network of drug deal-
ers peddled a staggering 500,000
crack nuggets daily.

Ricky used cashiers T checks to
buy close to $6 million in prop-
erty "motels, tire shops, junk
yards, apartment buildings,
houses.

(Continued on page 5)

Judge absolves Philly
Officials of MOVE tragedy

by Michael Z. Muhammad

PHILADELPHIA " "When

person does something they

At poor
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that way during deliberations. | still feel
very strongly. ?

Another juror, Connie Inin, sided with
this point of view im
pleased. | felt their conduct was intention-
al. ? Regarding the judge's decision Ms.

adding. oEm not

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But these criminals are given immunity.
Pam mad as hell. ? said an angry Ramona
Africa, following United States District
Court Judge Louis H. Polluck Ts Aug. 27
ruling overturning a jury decision in a
civil trial held hast June.

The ruling exonerated former police
and fire Commissioners Gregory Sambor
Land William Richmond trom any lhabili-
ty for their role in the May 13, 1985 fire
that killed 1] members of the MOVE
family. Found guilty of willful miscon-
duct by the jury in the civil trial, they
were cach ordered to pay the plaintiffs
$1 a week for the next 11 years. Many
felt the pair had gotten off easy with that
verdict.

Both Mr. Sambor and Mr. Richmond
played key roles in allowing the MOVE
home to burn following a confrontation
with the police. The fire started after a
bomb was dropped on the home by the
police.

In his opinion, Judge Pollack seemed
to classify the actions of Mr. Sambor and
Mr. Richmond as dumb and dumber, but
stopped short of finding willful miscon-
duct, in ordering the reversal. Judge
Pollack wrote, o... the evidence adduced
at trial does not establish by a prepon-
derance of the evidence that any one or
more of the actions of either of the
defendants constituted willful miscon-
duct. ?

Ramona Africa

The judge reasoned that given the
clear consequences, No matter how hos-
tile Commissioner Sambor was towards
MOVE, he never would have taken oso
self-ruinous a course of conduct ? such as
disobeying a direct order from a superior
and then display treachery in misleading
Commissioner Richmond.

The point of contention was whether
or not Mr. Sumbor and Mr. Richmond
disobeyed a direct order from then City
Managing Director Leo Brooks to put
the fire out

Jurors in the case certainly seemed to
think they did. Jean E. Bender, a juror in
the civil case, told the press, oI truly
believe someone. should be held account:
able for what happened that day, 1 fell

Prcas Fae phcto

Irvin asked, oWhat was the purpose of me
being there if he was going to rule? ?

Equally upset with the decision was
Louise James Africa, who lost her son,
Frank Africa, and her brother, MOVE
founder John Africa, in the fire. oThey
can always find a loophole. But they did
in fact conspire to kill my brother, my
son and those children and that was a
willful act. It was all a ig conspiracy.
The judge was in on it too. You can't get
justice, ? she said

Mr. Sambor had no comment on the
ruling. Mr. Richmond said, oNo one
went out there with evil intent. It was a
matter of judgment. We had to make
judgment calls and we were not always
right. ?

The judge did allow the jury's $1.5
million verdicts against the City of
Philadelphia to stand.

oThis shows the public that if you use
the courts, go through the system, you
still can't get justice, ? said Ramona
Africa, the only adult to survive the
blaze and leading plaintiff in the case.
She had argued all along that forcing city
officials to admit wrongdoing, not mone-
lary compensation, was the
her civil suit.

Displaying the flery spirit she ts
known tor, Ms, Africa told the press: oTt
ain T Lover ?

reason for .

~ County Family Court, oIhadsexual
» intercourse with Bishop Rogers in
_ Myrtle Beach, S.C. ? She also
charged that Rogers is the father
of her son, born March 28, 1995.
Denson said she has suffered a
- lot because of Rogers. oHe was my
pastor and someone whom I re-
spected and looked to for spiritual
guidance and leadership, ? she de-
clared. oThis entire ordeal has been
devastating to me, to the point
where my faith has been shat-
tered, ? Denson continued.
A registered dental hygienist,
Denson further noted that she
never wanted to tell her story. oBut
my attempt to protect him, his
ministry, his family and my guilt,
directly resulted in ruining my
marriage, ? she stressed.
Meanwhile, Rogers hasn Tt ad-
mitted to the court if he ever bed-

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. Pastor

ded Denson. But sources close to "
the case and church said that he ~
has been spending tons of money "

to avoid taking a blood test re-
quested by Denson.

However, Denson reported that
throughout her nine month preg-
nancy, Rogers provided financial
support. But she explained that
the $1,000 monthly allowance
wasn Tt sent directly to ehr in Co-
lumbia, S.C.

oHe would send it to his col-
league, Bishop A.C. Jackson, who
passed it on to my husband, ? ac-
cording to Denson. oThe money
was then hand-delivered to me, ?
she said, adding that the flamboy-
ant minister made total payments
of $10,000.

When Denson first approached
Rogers about the marital problem
she was having with her husband,
she said he tried to convince her
that as far as he was concerned,
she was not married in the eyes of
the church because her husband
had been married before.

It was not long after this meet-
ing in March 1994, according to
Denson, that she left Brooklyn to
join the U.S. Army, but was dis-
charged two months later. She said
while she was in the military,
Rogers used to phone her practi-
cally every day.

oHe even provided me with a
callingcard so I could stay in touch
with him as well as make other
telephone calls, ? she explained.
Denson also said the bishop vis-
ited her a number of times.

After her son was born, Denson
said the bishop started to lose in-
terest not only in her but the child
as well. He refused to give child
support and she sued him in a
Florida court. The case was turned
over to Nassau Family Court be-
cause Rogers lives in the area.

oAll lam askingis for the bishop
to support his child, ? said Denson.
She and her minister husband are
on teh verge of recounciling their
differences, and he toois on Rogers T
case to pay up. But Denson said
the bishop has accused them of
trying to extort money from him.

oMy husband and I have victims
and are now being further victim-
ized by Bishop Rogers, ? Denson
declared. oI have enough proof to
substantiate my story and will
present it at the appropriate time, ?
she added.

Rogers vehemently denied the
allegation and in a telephone plea
for comparison begged the
Amsterdam News not to print the
story because oit will hurt me very
badly. ? He also said that it would
also hurt his family and his con-
gregation.

oPlease, please, brother don Tt run
that story. Let me talk to the edi-
tor, let me talk to the publisher.
Maybe I can persuade them not to
carry the story, ? Rogers declared.
He later phoned the Revs. Herbert
Daughtry and Al Sharpton to help
him talk the paper out of carrying
the article.

After trying without success,
both preachers decided to issue
separate statements about Rogers T
character. Daughtry said he had
known the bishop for many years
and has the highest regard for
him.

oHe has had many years of pro-
ductive ministry, ? said Daughtry
of Rogers. oHe has served the com-
munity for over 43 years and in all
that time, I never heard any ru-
mor or allegation against him, ?
Daughtry declared.

Daughtry, who is also a
Pentacostal minister, said he had
only heard and seen the highest
example of character and ministry
in Rogers. oI will hope that people
would withhold judgement until
all the facts are in, ? said Daughtry
before he was told some court-
related details about the case.

Sharpton also jumped to the

BEATRICE MAYE

GOOD IDEAS
AND/OR TIPS

1. Talk slowly, it could save your
life The simplest way to calm down
when your blood pressure is going
through the roof: Speak slowly.

2. The Gallop Poll revealed that
men and women are equally intel-
ligent.

8, There are 24 hours in a day.
How many belong to you?

4. Eye contact is as effective as a
solid handshake.

5. Stand tall. Good posture shows
others that you respect yourself
and that can make them respect
you.

6. Buy premium gasoline. Your
car will run better.

7. Use a pretty flowerpot to hold
your dishwashing supplies. The
saucer will keep your sink area
puddle free.

8. Use aclean, empty shoebox to
store envelopes of dry mixes in
your cupboard.

9. Store the makeup you use
daily in one small basket.

10. An old-fashioned candy box
adds a feminine romantic touch to
your dresser top, and it Tsjust nght
for sorting and storing earrings.

11. Store an extra blanket in a
zippered pillow case on the couch.

12. Buying furniture? Choose
end tables with drawers.

13. Mount a wall rack to hold
brooms, mops, and rakes in place.

14. Instead of stacking extra
blankets in the closet, fold them
and tuck them into a pillow sham
on your bed.

15. Make sure wedding gowns,
christening gowns, have been
cleaned before you store them. A
reputable dry cleaner will clean
and box them.

16. Unplug all appliances when
they are not in use.

17. Stop loose clothes from slip-
ping off wire hangers by winding a
couple of thick rubber bands
around the end of the hanger.

18. Slip your old keys into the
hems of draperies. The little extra
weight makes them hang nicely.

19. Blow the dust off silk flowers
with a hand held hair dryer set on
low.

20. No ruler when you need one.
Look in your wallet. A dollar bill 6/
8 inches long, folded in half, it Ts 3/
16 inches.

Tip Sheet for Parents & Teachers

Parents Should:

Working Hand in Hand to Educate Children

hours away from work can be made up by stay-

w Get your children ready to learn. Let
them know that school is interesting and impor-
tant, and that parents are valued partners.

@ Talk with your child Ts teachers. Establish
a personal relationship. They need your help and
have as much to learn from you as you do from
them! A quick phone call or a meeting at school
or at your home can tune both of you in to ways
to help your child do well in school.

@ Attend events at your child Ts school.
Back-to-school nights and teacher conferences,
sports events and school plays " all give you a
chance to get to know your child Ts teacher. Plus,
your child will swell with pride when you make
school visits.

@ Be prepared. Find out about your child Ts
teachers, classes and the school rules. Know
what type of homework is assigned, how often
and how long it should take to complete.

@ Talk often with your child about what 1s
happening at school. Ask specific questions
about schooi work, teachers and activities.

@ Create a good learning environment at
home.

@ Support learning through everyday activi-
ties with your child. Read with your child.
Check homework. Limit television and video
games.

@ Observe and listen. Compare your child's
progress with others by looking at work dis-
played in school. Peek in the classroom " see if
the children are happy and alert. Read school
bulletin boards and talk with your children Ts
friends to get a bigger picture of what is going
on at school.

@ Ask teachers for advice. They know
about child development and they spend a lot of
time with your child.

@ Provide teachers with information.
Changing family circumstances like divorce, ill-
ness or the death of a pet can upset a child Ts
learning.

@ Ask your employer to support education.
Family-friendly policies such as flextime, ex-
tended lunch hours, and compressed work weeks
give employees a few hours during the school
day to get involved in school activities. The

ing at work late or coming in early.

@ Volunteer. Ask community members to
volunteer too. The involvement of adults im-
proves schools. Every school activity should be
done enthusiastically.

@ Get involved in parent-teacher organiza-
tions and school reform. Learn how your
school board works. Help teachers and adminis-
trators set rules. Ask a teacher, principal or an-
other parent for advice on how you can partici-
pate.

Parents and Teachers Should:

@ Set high expectations and praise children
often.

@ Establish good learning habits. Help
children plan long range projects and develop
an interest in hobbies.

@ Engage in casual conversations and
friendly hellos " in person or on the phone "
throughout the year. If a difficult situation
arises, it will be easier to discuss if a personal
relationship has been established.

@ Talk in person, over the phone or send
notes ~vhen there Ts good news as well as prob-
lems.

@ Use fax machines and E-mail, if they are
available at both the school and the home or of-
fice, to increase the convenience of communica-
tion.

@ If you cannot meet each other at school,
see if you can meet at a mutually convenient lo-
cation.

@ Make a list of your questions and con-
cerns and voice them in a constructive way. Do
not take offense to each other Ts questions and
ideas.

@ Remember " parents and teachers are
the biggest influence on young lives. Be sure to
make the most of every learning opportunity by
working as partners.

Source: Institute for Educational Leader-
ship and the Mattel Foundation. For more in-
formation, write to: Hand in Hand, 1010 Wis-
consin Ave., NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC
20007.

defence blindly. oI have known
Bishop Rogers most of my life, and
always found him to be a man of
integrity and high standard, ? ac-
cording to Sharpton, who also said
he and Denson Ts husband were

school mates.

oIt is a painful situation for me
and I will hope to talk to both sides
to see if we can resolve this matter

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child, and protect the needy abil-
ity of the church to go forward, ?
Sharpton declared.

'M'Voice

It has come to my attention that
the County Commissioners are
presently holding Closed Session
meetings with out of state attor-
ney firms regarding the possible
selling of Pitt County Memorial
Hospital to a group of buyers from
the Charlotte area.

The County Commissioners

SHEILA FRIZZELL

have also had discussions with an
attorney firm from out of state
regarding the hospitals 501 (c) (3)
corporation status.

Why do the County Commis-
sioner continue to go into Closed
Sessions to discuss the hospital
and its future.

Why are the Citizens of Pitt

National Association for Equal
Opportunity in Higher Education
presents a certificate to Sheila
Frizzell, principal of Ahoskie
Graded School, Ahoskie, born in
Baltimore Md to Monty and Pearl
Frizzell. The NAFO Ts certificate
indicates Sheila as one of the 1996
Distinguished Alumni of the Year.
She was nominated by Saint
Augustine Ts College where she re-
ceived a B.A. Degree in Early
Childhood Education in 1981. She
also attended North Carolina A&T
State University where she re-
ceived her M.S. in Education in
1982 and her M.S. in Supervision
in 1986.

Among the awards she has re-
ceived are: oWho Ts Who Among
College and Universities ?, and
oHonor Graduate, 1981 ?.

She is a member of the NAACP,

Depression Screening

pleasure has gone out of your life,
or if you have trouble sleeping or
eating, you may be suffering from
clinical depression. Depression is
more than a case of the blues. The
| symptoms last for months, and
! nothing can cheer you up. Depres-
sion is an illness, and effective
" treatments are available. If you
think that you might be suffering
from depression, the Mental
Health Association in Pitt County
will offer free depression screen-
ings during National Depression
Screening Week, October 7 - 11, at
the following sites:

| If you feel sad or empty, if the
|

October 7 - Farmville, 10:00 am-
2:00 pm
Comm

unity Center, 4175S. Main

Cctober 8 - Winterville, 10:00
am-2:00 pm
Community

Railroad Street

Building, 201 N.

October 9 - Ayden, 10:00 am

2:00 pm
Community Building, E. 2nd
Street

October 10- Greenville, 10:00 am
- 2:00 pm

Senior Center, 1717 West Fifth
Street

October 11- Gnifton, 10:00 am -
2:00 pm

Civic Center, Creek Shore Drive

The free screening program will

Why do Commissioners ho ed sess sso

County not given the opportunity
to hear all the details and give
their input.

The people of Pitt County and
East Carolina Med. School have
worked too hard and put too much
money in the hospital to just bar-
gain it away at any price!

NAFO presents Frizzell with
certificate

ASCD, IRA, Alpha Kappa Mu and
Phi Delta Kappa.

HIV/AIDS

workshop

Home Health and Hospice Care,
Inc. is sponsoring an HIV/AIDS
workshop on Monday, September
23 at 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the
Hampton Inn, 1403 Richlands
Road, Kinston.

Registration is free. Lunch is
provided at alow cost. A certificate
of attendance will be presented at
the completion of the workshop
and a copy will be forwarded to
your employer for your personnel
file.

The public is invited.

For more information, contact
Kimber Roche T at 1-800-274-8212
or Sharon Sauls at 1-800-260-4442.

include an educational presenta-
tion, an anonymous written de-
pression screening test, and the
opportunity to review the results
of your screening test with a men-
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the constitutionality of the
Voting Rights Act; South
Sarolina Ts congressional delega-
on opposed every civil rights bill
_ proposedevery civil rights bill pro-
posed in Congress between 1957
to 1965; South Carolina refused to
implement the 1993 oMotor Voter

Act ? which encourages voter reg-

istration among the poor; after
Whipper left the state senate at
the end of Reconstruction, not a
single African-American was
elected to state-wide office until
the 1970s; and the South Carolina
Senate was the last statewide elec-
tive body in the South to include
an African-American member.

The voting rights case has hada
similar history of drawn out
battles. The case first began in
1991, when the state Ts General
Assembly failed to enact state and
congressional redistricting plans
to address the malapportionment
demonstrated by the 1990 national
census.

In response to the assembly Ts

federal lawsuit charging the exist-
ing districts violated the
Constitution Ts oone-person, one-
vote ? principle as well as Section
two of the Voting Rights Act, which
prohibits dilution of voting power
along racial lines. A three-judge
panel was convened. At that time,
Blacks constituted 27 percent of
all registered voters, but only 13
percentofthe members of the state
House and 11 percent of the mem-
bers of the state Senate.

In Jan. 1993, while the lawsuit
was pending, the General Assem-
bly revised course and passed re-
districting plans for the state
House and Senate. The plans, how-
ever, were vetoed by then-Gov.
Carrol Campbell, who argued the
legislature had, in fact, reduced
the number of majority-Black dis-
tricts and fragmented minority
populations to the benefit of white
incumbents.

Several months later, in May
1992, the three-judge federal panel
issued its own interim state and
congressional redistricting plan in
response to the 1991 lawsuit. The
plan, the judges ordered, was to

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obstruction, Black voters filed a

take effect for the Nov. 1992 elec-

tions, as well as for all subsequent
elections until the legislature en-
acted plans that met with the U.S.
Department of Justice Ts approval
under Section five of the Voting
Rights Act.

The judge Ts plans, however, were
appealed, and in June 1993, were
vacated by the U.S. Supreme
Court. The high court ruled that
the lower court had failed to ana-
lyze its plans under the vote-dilu-
tion standards of Section two, and
remanded the case to the three-
judge panel. Thejudges, frustrated
that their interim plans had been
vacated, gave the General Assem-
bly a second chance to draft a plan
which could pass constitutional
muster.

But the House leadership con-
tinued to resist drafting true re-
districting reforms. Then House
Speaker Robert Sheheen, a Demo-
crat, kept tight control of the en-
tire process, limiting access to the
computer used to plot new district
lines and excluding the judiciary
subcommittee, which is nominally
responsible for redistricting, from
negotiations. The state Ts Black
Caucus, which was also excluded
from the process, had proposed a
plan that would have created ad-
ditional Black majority districts,
but it was rejected without discus-
sion or debate.

The result of all this was a House
redistricting plan passed in Jan.
1994 which, once again, had fewer
majority black districts instead of
more. The leadership Ts motives
were clear: when asked why the
House had rejected an additional
black majority district in one of
the countries, Speaker Sheheen
replied, oBecause white Democrats
are an endangered species. ?

This time around, although
Campbell refused to sign the re-
districting legislation, he did not
vetoit. Asa result, the House plan
went into effect without his signa-
ture, leaving its fate up to the
Justice Department instead of the
three judge panel.

In May 1994 the Justice Depart-
ment rejected the plan. Its oobjec-
tion letter ? noted thatincumbency
protection had driven the process,
resulting in a plan that was retro-
gressive, and that the state had
failed to meet its non-discrimina-
tion burden under the Voting
Rights Act. The Justice Depart-
ment also identified nine geo-
graphic areas across the state
where the potential to draw or
enhance majority Black districts
existed. The House was instructed
to go back to the drawng board.

By now, the Black Caucus was
frustrated with the white Demo-
cratic leadership, and mistrustful
ofthe leadership Ts sincerity to pur-
sue reform. The Caucus broke
ranks to open negotiations with
Republican members of the House,
who were also feeling locked out of
the redistricting process. With the
assistance of an historian and de-
mographer, the new coalition de-
veloped acompromise plan, which
was introduced over Sheheen Ts
objections. The new plan, which
contained 31 majority Black House
districts, passed two days later on
May 14.

Soon after, the plan was ap-

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Community Day

YOUTH IN ACTION

Date: September 28, 1996
Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm
Location: Mt. Calvary FWB Church
411 Watauga Avenue
(Street will be blocked off

ALL ARE WELCOME TO JOIN US FOR THIS FUN

DAY IN THE LORD

Hotdogs, Snow Cones, Chips, Games, Singing, Motivational
Speaker, Steppers for Christ, etc,

Voting Rights

proved by the Justice Department
and - for the first time in this
century-it looked like Black South
Carolinians would be afforded
something approaching equal po-

Going,

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interest rate will
cease to exist on
any savings bond

after
October 1,1996

Sam and Betty rushed to the
bank on October 28, 1986 and
with good reason. The govern-

-ment had just announced that

the guaranteed interest rate on
U.S. Savings Bonds would drop
from 7.5% to 6% on November 1,
1986. They joined the tens of
thousands of Americans who
purchased bonds during those
last four days of October 1986,
making it the most intense pur-
chase period in the history of the
savings bond program.

Sam and Betty were wise to
lock in their bond investment at
the 7.5% rate. However, are they
aware that their investment is
about to enter a period of sub-
stantially lowered interest?

oContrary to what many bond
holder Ts think, the rate of inter-
est at purchase is not good for the
life of a savings bond, ? says Dan
Pederson, author of oU.S. Sav-
ings Bonds: A Comprehensive
Guide. ? In fact, all bonds pur-
chased in the mid- | 980s with a
7.5% guarantee carry an origi-
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years. After the first ten years,
the bonds enter a ten-year ex-
tension at anew guaranteed rate
of 4%! Four percent is the best
representation of what the bond
will earn the first two to five
years of the extension.

If you don Tt track and manage
your savings bond investments,
the results can be more than just
upsetting "they can be devas-
tating. Suppose Sam and Betty
were saving for retirement when
they purchased $10,000 of Se-
ries EE Bonds ($20,000 face
value) in October 1986. If they
believe that the 7.5% interest
rate is good for the life of their
bonds, they are expecting their
investment to more than double
in value every ten years. In other
words, they are expecting their
bonds to be worth $91,051 in 30
years. In reality, the guaranteed
interest rate drops from 7.5% to
4% after ten years: Assuming
that the guaranteed rate for their
last maturity period is 7%, the
value of their investment after
30 years will be $61,740 "
$29.311 less that they expected!
(This example assumes that the
combined market rates would
produce a lower value that the
combined guaranteed rates.)

So how do you track savings
bond investments? For a reason-
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prepare a customized report on
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litical opportunity. In fact, the
November 1994 elections brought
six African-Americans and three
whites to the State House in the
nine contested districts.

In the spring of 1995, the South
Carolina Senate passed a new re-
districting plan for the Senate, with
preclearance from the Justice De-
partment, that created two addi-
tional Black majority districts. The
plan became law, and was to take
effect for the 1996 elections.

In response, a group of regis-
tered white voters and Greg Smith,
a former state senator, filed a fed-
eral lawsuit in November 1995
challenging three of the new Sen-

ate districts, including the two
Black majority districts. In Janu-
ary 1996, another group of citizens
filed a federal lawsuit against the
state, charging that nine of the
new House districts were uncon-
stitutional under the Shaw v. Reno
decision.

The redistricting plan is being
defended by South Carolina, and
by a group of odefendant-interve-
nors ?-African-American voters
who, given past history, are con-
cerned that the state would not
provide an adequate defense. The
intervenors are being represented
by the American Civil Liberties
Union Ts Voting Rights Project.

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One day Ricky's partner was
showing off a .22 pistol to Danilo.
The next day Danilo brought him
a brand new Uzi submachine gun
ostill in a box~ ? and gave Ricky a
.22 with a silencer.

Ricky and partner became gun
dealers selling the Uzis, AK-47s,
and Colt AR-15 assault rifles that
became the trademark of bloody
Crip versus Bloods gang wars and
ddrive-by shootings in the 1980s.

Danilo once tried to sell his part-
ner agrenade launcher, Ricky said.

Ricky traveled with Danilo to
Detroit, Miami, Atlanta and New
York. In New York, Ricky said, he
met one of Danilo Ts dealers, who
boasted of a 500-kilo-a-month op-
eration worth about $10 million.

Ricky also knew Danilo was
sending guns to the Contras. oAf-
ter two or three years together, he
told me that he got ran out of his
country and they were trying to
fight and get his country back, ?
Ricky said.

Danilo Blandon, an illegal citi-
zen and founder of one Contra army
was once described by a federal
prosecutor as one of the biggest
Nicaraguan cocaine dealers in
America.

Time to ~Chill Out T

In January 1987, with crack
markets exploding in major cities,
police went after L.A. Ts crack prob-
lem. They formed the Freeway Rick
Task Force dedicated to putting
Ricky Ross out of business.

Ricky headed to Cincinnati with
his girlfriend, who was battling
crack addiction and had family
there. They settled into a subur-
ban home.

After couple months, Ricky said,
Danilo visited him and offered a
cut into 13 kilos of cocaine that he
needed distributed. Ricky went to
work and soon monopolized
Cincinnati Ts virgin crack market,
using the same strategies and
Nicaraguan drug connections.

He started selling crack as far
away as Cleveland, Dayton, India-
napolis and St. Louis.

Ricky Ts luck ran out in 1988.
One of his cocaine loads ran into a
drug-sniffing dog at a New Mexico
bus station and drug agents even-
tually connected it to him. He
pleaded guilty to crack trafficking
and received a mandatory 10-year
prison sentence which he began
serving in 1990.

Pawn

oFreeway Ricky ? becomes
an informant

Federal prosecutors from Los
Angeles approached Ricky days
after the arrest and offered a deal.
If he would help prosecutors in-
vestigating a drug scandal engulf-
ing the Loss Angeles County
Sheriffs elite narcotics squads,
they would help cut down his jail
time.

Ricky became a government in-
formant.

oThey wanted me to talk about
searches the task force made on
crack houses, money at the houses,
did they beat up (people) or steal
money, ? Ricky said. oThey wanted
me to contact people on the streets
and find out information. ?

Forhis testimony, Ricky received
five years off his sentence and an
agreement that his remaining drug
profits would not be seized.

He was still behind bars in 1994,
awaiting parole, when San Diego
DEA agents targeted him for a
oreverse ? sting, one in which gov-
ernment agents provide the drugs
and the target provides the cash.

Within days of his parole and
return to Los Angeles in October
1994, Ricky said, Danilocalled him,
saying he had 600 kilos of cocaine
worth about $12 million and he
wanted Ricky to help sell it.

Ricky said he initially decline
butlater gave in to the persistent
phone calls and obtained a buyer
for 100 kilos of the cocaine Danilo
claimed he had.

On March 2, 1995, in a parking
lot near San Diego, Ricky looked
inside a cocaine-laden Chevy
Blazer. Suddenly the place was
swarming with police.

Ricky jumped into a friend Ts
pickup, sped off and was captured
after the truck swerved into a
hedgerow. He has been injail with-
out bond since.

Ricky stood trial in March and
the government Ts star witness
against him was his old friend,
Danilo. On Danilo Ts testimony,
Ricky and two other men were
convicted by an all-white jury of
conspiracy charges, conspiring to
sell the DEA Ts cocaine. Ricky now
faces life in jail, with no chance of
parole.

Ricky Ts eyes teared as he de-
scribed Danilo Ts testimony, oIt was
like he was killing me. It was noth-
ing I could do but sit there and

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take it. There Ts a tape they played
in court where (Danilo) said, ~I
haten " " "-+, but they pay cash, ?
Ricky recalled.

oI would have died for him. He Ts
the worst. When I see how (the
government) twists the rules for
him and they want to give mea life
sentence, to me, it Ts sickening. ?

Danilo received $45,000 in gov-
ernment rewards and expenses for
Ricky Ts arrest, records show.

U.S. District Judge Marilyn Huff
postponed Ricky Ts August 23 sen-
tencing until September 13 to al-
low his attorney, Alan Fenster, to
question two inmates at the Met-
ropolitan Correctional Center in
San Diego about their knowledge
of Danilo Blandon Ts alleged drug
dealing while working for the DEA.

Atty. Fenster told The Final Call
that he hopes such testimony will
convince the judge that Ricky de-
serves a new trial because of
prosecutorial misconduct.

oOur contention is that (Ricky)
was minding his own business and
was an unsuspecting victim ? of
the DEA Ts reverse sting, Atty.
Fenster said.

oIf the judge finds government
misconduct was so outrageous, she
has the power to dismiss the
charges, ? the attorney added. oThis
was a trial by ambush. The de-
fense was denied information on
Mr. Blandon that would impeach
him. The government really sand-
bagged us. ?

Ricky, who taught himself to
read and write about five years
ago, said he could be looked at two
ways: As a villain or as a victim.

Asked if he was ever concerned
about how crack cocaine was af-
fecting the Black community,
Ricky admits, oNot at first. Itnever
crossed my mind. ?

He feels opartially responsible ?
for the legions of crack babies as
well as addicts who prostitute
themselves to sustain their drug
habits.

oT took drugs and I transferred
them from (Danilo Ts) hands totheir
hands, ? Ricky concedes. oI feel that
I was a ~strawberry T too. I was
manupulated. I was just like the

prostitute. ?

Ultimately, he said, the U.S.
government is responsible for the
crack epidemic. oThey put itin our
hands. They financed it. It was

their planes that brought it over
here, ? Ricky said. oTheir guy, Os-
car Danilo Blandon, he set up the
market. They picked me. I didn Tt
go to Nicaragua. This could go

higher than the CIA. They ¢
that drugs corrupt whole gov

ments. ?

T

BLACK MAN RISING... a one-act choreopoem by James H. Chapmyn, will be performed

in Hendrix Theatre, East Carolina University, Greenville on Tuesday, October 1 at 8:00 p.m.
The production is one of the events being sponsored by the ECU Student Union in celebration
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Friday, 8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

~Black Man Rising T to be acted at ECU

Black Man Rising, a one-act
dramatic presentation, will be
presented in East Carolina
University Ts Hendrix Theatre
Tuesday, October 1, beginning
at 8 p.m.

The show Ts script is a
ochoreopoem ? by James H.
Chapmyn, set in the present, the
past and the future. Its author
describes the work as oa compi-
lation of vignettes that look in-

side many of the triumphs young
black men face daily. ? The sto-
ries presented are based on truth
and intended to serve as a stimu-
lus for discussion.

A discussion with the actors
will follow the performance.

Black Man Rising is sponsored
by the ECU Student Union in
observance of ECU Ts Cultural
Awareness Week.

Admission to the Black Man

Rising show is $5 per person for
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in advance. ECU faculty and staff
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from the Central Ticket Office in
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1996, The North Carolina Black
Leadership Caucus (NCBLC) will
host its Twentieth Annual Confer-
ence and Family Summit to dis-
cuss issues vital to the African
American community. Citizens
from across the state will meet at
Saint Augustine Ts College, 1350
Oakwood Avenue, Raleigh, North
_ Carolina beginning at 8:00 a.m.
_ for this brainstorming session. The
_ theme for this year Ts conference is
oTwenty Year Legacy to African
American Leadership ?.

Speakers include State Senator
Jeanne Lucas and United States
Senatorial Candidate Harvey
Gantt. Special recognition will be
given to NCBLC past presidents
Dr. E. Lavonia Allison, Mr. Faiger

M. Blackwell, Mr. Robert oBob ?

|
| On Saturday, September 28,

Mary Beth Corbin, a teacher at
+ Wahl Coates Elementary School
in Pitt County, has been named to
3 the Compliance Commission for
* Accountability. The new Commis-
o sion was established by the State
~ Board of Education to advise the
+ Board on testing and other issues
* related to school accountability and
- improvement.

| The 20-person group includes
teachers, principals, central office
+ administrators, school board mem-
obers, and representatives of par-
ents, business and the university
system.

- The testing code of ethics, test
osecurity and administration, the

aspects of schooling, and possible
~auditing procedures are among the
issues to be considered by the Com-
+ mission as it works to ensure the
integrity of the accountability pro-
gram. The Commission also may
t consider other issues for the State
Board.
| Dr. Richard Thompson, Deputy
tate Superintendent, describes
the establishment of the new Com-
mission as a critical part of the
§$tate Board Ts efforts to improve
opublic schools through The ABCs

Davis, Dr. Betty Eddleman, Attor-
ney Peter Greer, former Mayor
Clarence E. Lightner, State Rep-
resentative H.M. oMickey ?
Michaux, and Mr. Elijah oPete ?
Peterson.

Early registration fees are $25
for youth, $50 for adults, and must
be received by September 9, 1996.
On-site registration fees are $30
for youth and $55 for adults. All
registrations include workshops
and meals. Checks should be made
payable to: NC Black Leadership

Conference and mailed toNC Black |

Leadership Caucus, c/o Bernard
Allen - Conference Coordinator,

Post Office Box 26282, Raleigh, :

NC 27611.
For more information call 919/
231-1970.

| Pitt County teacher named
tonew Commission on
School Accountability

of Public Education. Accountabil-
ity for results is the centerpiece of
the ABCs.

Thompson said the decision was
made to create the Compliance
Commission to give more opportu-

~nity for local educators and others

to provide input into accountabil-
ity decisions of the State Board.

oThe Board and our department
understand that we do not have all
the answers of how to improve
public schools. We are committed
to providing more and more deci-
sion-making at the local level and
decision-making at the state level
that is based on local needs. ?

The State Board appointed Dr.
David Ricketts, superintendent of
McDowell County Schools, as the
first chairperson of the new Com-
mission. Thompson said Ricketts T
leadership demonstrated in the
piloting of the ABCs during the
1995-96 school year made him an
oexcellent choice ? to guide the new
Commission.

Staff of the Division of Account-
ability, under the direction of Lou
Fabrizio, will assist the Commis-
sion.

The first meeting of the Compli-
ance Commission will be held in
October.

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By DENNIS SCHATZMAN

Here Ts a quéstion for Geraldo
Rivera, Charles Grodin, Rush
Limbaugh, Armstrong Williams,
Gloria Allred and a host of other
high-profile syndicated talk
show hosts. Will they devote as

|much airtime to the startling

expose.that the U.S. Central In-
telligence Agency introduced
crack cocaine to the nation Ts
Black communities in order to
fund the CIA-backed Nicaraguan
Contra army in the early 1980s
as they did to the O.J. Simpson
trial and its aftermath?

The answer is, I suspect, a
resounding ono. ? Along with that
onada ? comes the revelation that
the real motive of these talk show

barons is not ogetting to the real |.

issues ? as they so often claim.
Instead, it is the pursuit of the
almighty ratings, largely gar-

inered from a mostly conserva-

tive white listening and viewing
audience that is more interested
in pummeling an acquitted Black
man whom they believe killed
two white people. The more sin-
ister reality that the United
States government - their gov-
ernment - flooded minority com-
munities with crack cocaine un-
der the guise of onational secu-
rity ? is of no interest to them.

I covered the Simpson trial for
the Los Angeles Sentinel and over
200 other Black-owned newspa-
pers who belong to the National

Newspaper Publishers T Associa-
tion. I appeared on many of these
talk shows during the trial largely
because of the ounique perspec-
tive ? I brought to the coverage of
the trial, and also because I was
once a sitting judge in my home-

screen in Spike Lee Ts oShe Ts Gotta
Have It ? - ohere is the deal. ? _

A recent series of reports pub-
lished by The San Jose Mercury
News, says a San Francisco drug
ring, comprised of CIA and U.S.
Drug Enforcement Agency opera-

town of Pittsburgh, Pa.

I have since watched in amaze-
ment as I witnessed talk show
hosts, who claimed to be oobjec-
tive journalists ? openly skewering
a man who was acquitted of two
murders largely because there was
virtually no evidence that linked
Simpson to the crime.

Two hosts, Rivera and Grodin,
openly express their hatred for
Simpson and usually invite guests

who share their views. Theyre.

usually invited back repeatedly.
These two, more than any other
hosts, prompt me to raise ques-
tions about the talk show
industry's journalistic integrity.
For those who haven't been
keeping up "as Nola Darling said
in her only appearance on the big

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| have watched in amazement as
oobjective journalists ? skewered a
man acquitted of two murders be-
cause there was virtually no evi-
dence linking 0.J. to the crime.

tives, fronted tons of cocaine to
Los Angeles street gangs based
largely in Black communities,
Millions of dollars in drug profits
were then directed to the anti-
Communist Nicaraguan Demo-
cratic Force, better known as the
Contras. Among the point men in
this sinister scheme was former
Reagan administration intimate,
retired Col. Oliver North. Coinci-
dentally, North is now 4 syndi-
cated talk show host based in
northern Virginia. Almost in-
stantly, the cocaine that flooded
Los Angeles spread nationwide.
oWhile the [Contras T war
against Nicaragua Ts communist
Sandinista government] is
barely a memory today, ? wrote
Gary Webb of the Mercury News,

Gospel Radio

oBlack America is still

pling with legions of homeless
crack addicts. Thousands of: |
young Black men are serving "
long prison sentences for selling
cocaine, a drug that was virtu-
ally unobtainable in Black neigh-
borhoods before the CLA Ts army
started bringing it into South
Central Los Angeles in the 1980s
at bargain basement prices. ?

The influx of crack cocaine
has caused criminal justice sys-
tems in virtually every state to
increase penalties for drug traf-
ficking. The federal government
has established mandatory 10-
year-prison sentences for the sale
of crack cocaine. Dealers in pow-
dered cocaine "a favorite of white
dealers and users " land cushier
sentences. Yet this crack di-
lemma that primarily affects
minority communities has been
largely ignored by the ever-pow-
erful talk show hosts who have
gained new-found popularity
since they've launched onto the
O.J. Simpson double-murder
trial and acquittal.

I Tm willing to bet that none of
these shows will give more than
60 minutes total to this block-
buster story. Reason: the ramifi-
cations of this sinister plot
largely affects only the oleast
among us. ? Thus, no story.

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states: oI believe it is in the inter-
ests of Black America to have the
opportunity for the most open and
comprehensive dialogue on the
available options. ?

Dr. Fulani Ts letter further states:
oAs I travel the country and the
airwaves, I find our people are
more and more interested in evalu-
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Earlier in the week Dr. Lenora
* Fulani, Reform Party activist and
~ supporter of Ross Perot Ts indepen-
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and General Colin Powell to a pub-
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weighing multiple strategies. Ob-
viously the media is aware of this.
This is why in the last several
weeks alone there have been front
page articles in the. New York
Times on Jack Kemp Ts visit to
Harlem, Bill Clinton Ts visit to the
National Baptist Convention.and
my relationship to Ross Perot. ?
To date Dr. Fulani has received
no response from Jackson or

~ular challenges Jackson, Powell to debate
~on presidential options for black voters

Fulani Ts call for a debate she wrote
in a recent USA Today column:
oDemocrats are abandoning the
black community while the Re-
publicans grandstand for our votes

Powell.

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for the Presidency, Fulani is part
of the national effort to create the
Reform Party. In support of

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Pitt County Concerned
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1996 Theme
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Legacy of
Rev. Alonza L. Mills ?
Saturday, September 28th
7:00 p.m.

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Dr. Golden Frinks has worked
effectively combining Leadership
in Civil Rights,Business and
Church Communities.

Anative of Wampee,South Caro-
lina. He was educated in the North
Carolina Public Schools. He is a
graduate of the Scurlock Schoo! of
Photography,Washington,DC.,where
he graduated as a Photo-Journal-
ist. He did further graduate stud-
ies at the University of
Youngstown,Ohio. "

Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr.
asked him to become North Caro-
lina State Director in 1962,for the
Southern Christian Leadership

Conference where he performed
many valuable services for the
movement of the 60 Ts. He was ar-

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rested more than 218 times and
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1992,and spent more time in prison
than any Civil Rights Leader in
America,and rank third behind
Nelson Mandela in jail time. He
was National Field Secretary and
Program Director under Dr. Ralph
David Abernathy,then president
of SCLC 1968-1977,

He organized the SAVE Marie
Hill Committee in 1969. A sixteen
year old black girl sentenced to
death for the murder of a white
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that raised the issue of protection
of Black Women in prison. Miss
Little was charged with killing the
jailer who used his authority to
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Dr. Frinks as Field Secretary for
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This is something that I
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You are my God. I worship you.

In my heart, I long for you,

As I would long for a stream in a
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I have seen your power and your
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In the place of worship.

Your love means more than life
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Civil Rights Act

prison that integrated Black and
White Prisoners.

Dr. Frinks now serves as State
Director of the North Carolina
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference. He is National Crisis
Coordinator for National Coordi-

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nating Council for African-Ameri-
can Economic Solidarity.

Dr. Frinks is married to the
former Miss Ruth Holley of
Edenton, North Carolina and they
have one daughter, Dr. Golden
Frinks Wells.

COMMUNITY FOCUS, an organization of area residents

who feel the nered to recognize the positive activities of

minorities acknowledges the civil rights achievements of Mr.
Golden Frinks. Friday, Oct. 4, 1996, 7 :00 p.m. at the Hilton
Inn, Greenville Blvd., Greenville, NC. Tickets are still
available. Telephone 758-1785 or 757-3423.

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410 EVANS STREET MALL
GREENVILLE, NC 27834
(919) 758-4516
800-637-2403

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Greenville, NC 27834

Representative
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Monday-Saturday 10-6 p.m.
800-637-2403