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EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA TS MINORITY VOICE SINCE 1981

JULY 8 - JULY 14, 16

Camille Cosby: America Taught My Son Ts Killers To Hate Blacks

From our institutions to our media, racism and prejudice are omnipresent

by Camille O. Cosby

LOS ANGELES I believe
America taught our son's killer to
hate African-Americans. After
Mikail Markhasev killed Ennis
William Cosby on Jan. 16, 1997, he
said to his friends, "I shot a nigger.
It's all over the news."

This was not the first time

Markhasev had attacked a black
person. In 1995, he served time in
a juvenile center for stabbing a
black man who was standing at a
gas station.

CONGO INVESTIGATION CONCLUDES AS GOVERNMENT HOPES

TO MOVE ON TO RECONSTR

On June 25 the Secretary
General of the United Nations
released a report on human rights
violations in the Democratic
Republic of Congo (ex-Zaire). The
report was compiled by a special
investigative team sent to the
Congo in the summer of 1997,
shortly after a liberation movement
headed by now-president Laurent
Desire Kabila ended the 32 year old
dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko.
The team was to investigate allega-
tions that Kabila's Alliance of
Democratic Forces for the
Liberation of Zaire (ADFL) com-
mitted massacres against the

Rwandan Hutu refugee populations
who were fleecing ahead of the
ADFL troops.

Presumably, Markhasev did
not learn to hate black people in his
native country, the Ukraine, where
the black population was near zero.
Nor was he likely to see America's
intolerable, stereotypical movies
and television programs about
blacks, which were not shown in
the Soviet Union before the killer
and his family moved to America
in the late 1980s

James Baldwin wrote in his
book 'THE PRICE OF THE
TICKET T, "The will of the people,
or the State, is revealed by the
State's institutions. There was not.
then, nor is there. now. a single
American institution which is not a
racist institution."

Yes, racism and prejudice are
omnipresent and eternalized in
America's institutions. media and
myriad entities. Here are a few
examples:

* The Voting Rights Act signed by
President. Lyndon B. Johnson in
1965 will expire in 2007. Congress
once again will decide whether
African Americans will be "al-
lowed" to vote. No other Americans
are subjected to this oppressive
nonsense.

* African-Americans. as well as all
Americans, are brainwashed every
day to respect and revere slave-

Sending this human rights
mission to the Democratic Republic
of Congo was viewed by many in
the region, as well as by some
international observers, as a cynical
attempt by the international com-
munity to deflect blame away from
its own role in the region's tragedy.
For it was the Western. powers T
complicity with the criminal re-
gimes of Zaire's Mobutu and
Rwanda's genocidal Hutu Power
movement that help set up condi-
tions in which war, death, disease,
revenge killings and refugees crises
could be the only possible outcome.

During his trip to Africa this
past spring, President Clinton ac-
knowledged this burden of guilt.
Speaking to genocide survivors in

if

Prince Hall Mason Honors It's 80

Plus Year Old Members

Flashback

foto by Jim Rouse

A Mason Foto

The appreciation ceremony was a magnificent ideal designed to
show appreciation to all members of Lodge #35, and recognize members
eighty-plus years of age, and to encourage members to be more active in
Masonic projects and in the community.

Recognized for their years of diligence and dedication to Lodge #35
were: D. D. Garrett, Earnest H. Eaton, James Ebron, Sr. W. H. Jones,
and Thadeus J. Wooten. George Davies received special recognition for his
support to Worshipful Master Frizzell.

Greetings were given by District Deputy Grandmaster, District #10
PG.M., Howard Pearce, and also by District Matron O.E.S., District #10
PH. Affiliate, Yvonne Pearce.

After the welcome and greeting, presentations were given to some of
the members and leaders of the Greenville community. Benjamin Braswell,
James Rodgers and Anthony Foreman recognized dignitaries present and
James Dixon introduced the speaker. Monty Frizzell gave background
information on he oe ?,? sya Or. vest Shields, Jr., had
inspiring remarks in his message. '§ presentation was
aa around what a mason is or should be.

Two of the honorees--Earnest Eaton and W. H. Jones (pm) worked on
the repair and beautification Fetecs.. roof work, painting, and ceiling.

rother W. H. Jones (Chaplain) and Ernest Eaton (Treasurer) are
both eighty plus years of age. They are retired carpenters who worked on
the building with brothers James Dixon, James Rodgers, Ronnie Cannon
and Monty Frizzell. Community activities include: scholarship workshop,
youth valentine social, meeting place monthly for youth organizations,

The highlight of our masonic year was the Grand Lodge which was
attended by James Dixon, secretary; Earnest Eaton, treasurer, and Monty

Frizzell, worshipful master, Pearl Frizzell and Joan Eaton, both members
of the Ladies Delight, Chapter #10, O.E.S., also attended the PH, Mason,
Grand Lodge of the state of North Carolina. A special thanks to James
"Pete" Hagans for all of his support.

owners and people who clearly '

waffled about race. In truly, the
enslavement of millions of Africans
immeasurably enriched the treasur-
ies of America's government and
individuals. Interestingly, several
slave-owners' images are on
America's paper currencies; George
Washington($1), Thomas Jefferson
($2), Alexander Hamilton ($10),
Andrew Jackson ($20), Ulysses
Grant ($50) and Benjamin Franklin
($100).

Grant was the last U.S. president to
own slaves. Even Abraham Lincoln
($5) said, "I do not stand pledged to
the prohibition of slave trade
between the states... 1, as much as
any man, am in favor of having the
superior position assigned to the
White race."

* God and most Christian holy
people artistically have been recre-
ated in images of whiteness. This
shrewd propaganda undeniably
lessens the worthiness of most of
the Earth's people. Because of those
visual constructs. the churches
have a deep problem with race.

* America Ts educational institu-
tions T dictionaries define "black" as
"harmful, hostile, disgrace, un-
pléasant aspects of life." "White" is
described as odecent: honorable:
auspicious, without malice."

Kigali. Rwanda, he said that the
international community must bear
its share of responsibility for this
tragedy... We did not act quickly
enough after the killings began. We
should not have allowed the refu-
gee camps to become safe haven for
the killers. We did not immediately
call these crimes by their rightful
name: genocide. Indeed, the United
Nations not only failed in its
obligations to intervene and pre-
vent the 1994 genocide in Rwanda,
but took other steps which had the
effect of spreading Rwanda's mur-
derous ethnic conflict of Zaire, and
guaranteeing that Zaire's transition to
democracy would not be a peaceful one.

For instance, when the geno-
cidal Hutu Power regime was on
the brink of defeat by the Rwandan
Patriotic Front, a UN-sanctioned
intervention force headed by
France and code-named Operation
Turquoise stepped in and allowed
the regime's soldiers, militias and
government leaders to escape, with
all their weapons, across the border
to Zaire. Along with them came
more than one million civilian
Hutu refugees, frightened into flee-
ing by radio broadcasts falsely
announcing that all Hutus would be
killed in revenge by the new
Rwandan government.

The arrival of these refugees
in Zaire provoked a humanitarian
operation which, despite the good
intentions of many heroic aid
workers, was a disaster in itself.
The United Nations failed to
disarm the refugees, or to separate
civilians from combatants. They
allowed the camps to be set up
close to the border with Rwanda,
and the soldiers sheltered there
used the camps as staging grounds
for attacks on the new Rwandan
government. The extremist Hutu
Power government-in-exile " re-
established itself in the camps.
Incredibly, the aid agencies related

_* A medical school at the
University of Texas in Galveston

conducted a controversial study

primarily on black babies from
1956 to 1962. The researchers
withheld an essential fatty acid
from the babies' formulas that
humans need for the growth of the
whole body and nervous system.
Those: black babies were used as
laboratory animals, and several of
the infants died during the course
of the study. Previously, this re-
search had been done on dogs. This
is just one of several unethical
medical studies on African-
Americans that has been documented.
Also, racism negatively has
impacted African-Americans'
health. Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, a
Harvard psychiatrist says, "Some
research suggests that the high
prevalence of hypertension among
African-Americans. compared to
whites. is related directly to the
stresses associated with being a
black person, living in a racist
society."
* D. W. Griffith's 'THE BIRTH OF
A NATION T, an undisguised racist
film, was recently rated by the
American Film Institute as No. 44
of America's top 100 films. This
movie depicted black people as
subhuman creatures. T

UCTION AND ELECTIONS

to this regime as a legitimate
authority over the refugees, entrust-
ing these criminals with the distri-
bution of food and other survival
needs. The leaders sold the donated
food on the black market and
purchased weapons. The Rwandan
Hutu Power regime had been allied
with the Zairian dictator Mobutu.
and when the ADFL's offensive
against Mobutu began, the Hutu
troops garrisoned in the refugee
camps were the only soldiers in the
country wiling to fight. (The rank
and file of Mobutu's own army
mostly deserted.)

This situation placed innocent
Hutu refugees in mortal danger.
Kept from returning home by their
own soldiers, who used them as
human shields or as bait to attract
supplies from aid agencies, some
200,000 embarked on a forced
march across Zaire. Perhaps tens of
thousands of them died. Their fate
was the subject of the Secretary
General's investigation.

Because the investigative team
was perceived as politicized. the
new. Congolese government did not
fully cooperate with it, and little
actual forensic work was accom-
plished. Although the investigative
team assembled ample evidence
that many, many people met violent
deaths during the Congo's civil war.
it did not prove that the ADFL
forces deliberately committed viola-
tions of humanitarian law or crimes
against humanity, This finding.
together with the Congolese gov-
ernment's announced intention to
initiate its own investigation. will
hopefully put and end to the
international community's largely
gratuitous exercise. Perhaps al long
last, the new Congolese government
will be permitted to turn its full
attention to the needs of the
surviving victims of this tragedy.
and to the rebuilding of a demo-
cratic Congo. 444

* Gangs. such as the Ku Klux
Klan, unite because of racial
hatred. A gang will convince
themselves that they are racially
superior to "outside" groups. which
must be harmed or eliminated.

Violence is prevalent in
America. According io Gavin de
Becker's research in his book "THE
GIFT OF FEAR T. "The energy of
violence moves through our cul-
ture... Our country's murderers rob
us of almost a million years of
human life every year... In the past
to years alone. more Americans
died from gunshot wounds than
were killed during the entire
Vietnam War."

USA TODAY recently pub-
lished a report from Pride. a
nonprofit drug-prevention "_pro-
gram. Pride's survey shows that
nearly one million school kids
(grades six through 12) carried
guns to school during the 1997-98

school vear. Fifty-nine percent were
white, 18% were black. More than
half also used an illegal drug on a
monthly basis.

Ennis - William Cosby was
shot and killed in a middle-to-
upper income, predominately white
community. The misperception im-
mortalized daily by the media and
other entities is that crimes are
committed in poor neighborhoods
inhabited by dark people.

All African-Americans, regard-
less of their educational and eco-
nomic accomplishments, have been
and are at risk in America simply
because of their skin colors. Sadly,
my family and I experienced that to
be one of America's racial truths.

Most people know that facing
thetruth brings about healing and
growth. When is America going to
face its historic and current racial
realities so it can be what it says it is?

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by Kitty J. Pope

New Black Panther Party Emerges
after Byrd Slaying |

"We have come to say very simply , by the power of our God that the
black man and black woman must stand up and defend themselves at all

costs. "

Those were the words of Khallid Abdul Muhammad, representing the

New Black Panther Party at the funeral of James Byrd, Jr. The New
Panthers came in response to the brutal killing of Byrd who was dragged
to his death by three white men who have been accused of the crime.

The same organization calling themselves the New Black Panthers
showed up for the Ku Klux Klan march weeks later to denounce the
group. The Klan said that they were marching to. declare that the three
men charged with the murder was not a part of their group.One Klan
member shouted this is Klan country.

Another New Panther leader Malik Z. Shabazz who is reportedly the
attorney for the group. came with at least 50 other members carrying guns
and shouting black power. The New Panthers were also joined by members
ofthe Black Muslim group and its leader Quanell X of Houston. The New
Panthers held a counter-Klan demonstration.

"These men are here to freely exercise their divine and constitutional
rights to defend ourselves and carry arms and loaded weapons to defend
the Black community against this murderous and hypocritical outfit known
as the Ku Klux Klan," said Shabazz. (Cont'd on Page #)

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The world Ts most widely eaten
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years.. (Photo: Jim Rouse)

out North Carolina, each year the
Mills familly comes together during July 4th Weekend to celebrate
their family heritage and their religeous beliefs. Shown above is Sister
Marther Mills with her sister Debbie on the right. Marther who grew
up in Pitt County has_work in the U.S Senate for the last twenty-five

Like many many families throught

Top Dissident Dies Suddenly In Nigeria...

Former Political Prisoner Abiola Stricken During Meeting with U.S. Officials

Nigeria's most famous politi-
cal prisoner, Moshood Abiola, died
Tuesday after getting sick at a
meeting with visiting AMerican
officials lobbying for his freedom.

Abiola, 60, began coughing
and wheezing soon after the meet-
ing began in the Nigerian capital,
Abuja. He had been meeting with a

delegation led by US.
Undersecretary of State Thomas
Pickering.

"We all helped to put him in a
car," said Pickering, a former
ambassador to Nigeria, in an
interview with CNN. "There was
no ambulance immediately avail-
able."

President Clinton said in
Washingtort that U.S. officials then

\

watched Nigerian doctors al a
government clinic try to save
Abiola's life.

Abiola had been in jail since
June 1994. He had proclaimed
himself Nigerian president afler
elections in 1993 were annulled
just as he was about to win.

Nigeria's government said the
cause of death was a heart attack.
The State Department said there
was no reason not to believe Abiola
died of natural causes.

Abiola's family had been
warning that his health was dete-
riorating after four years in deten-
tion under harsh conditions.
ponies politicians said Abiola's

mn death would spark suspt-
cions of foul play. They predicted

that unrest would erupt in Nigeria,
Africa's most populous country at
103 million people.

"He may have died in front of
Pickering, but what happened to
make him die in front of Pickering
is another question," said Nigeria
expert Richard Joseph of Atlanta's
Emory University. "The govern-
ment will have a hard time
convincing Nigerians that he didn't
die because of the harsh conditions
he suffered in prison."

One of Abiola's daughters,
Hafsat Abiola, said in an interview
with CNN that the timing of her
father's death was suspicious. "It
was too convenient," said Hafsat
Abiola, who lives in Bowie, Md.
"All of a sudden at the even of his

release, he dies."

Rioting erupted in parts of
Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city. Gangs
of young people, shouting that
Abiola had been murdered, at-
tacked cars and shops in parts of
the city. There were demonstrations
in other cities as well.

Abiola's death came just as
the end of his imprisonment ap-
peared imminent. Nigerian military
ruler Abdulsalam bakar had
made some mioves toward demo-
cratic rule since he replaced dicta-

tor Sani Abacha, who died
suddenly of a heart attack June 8.
Abubakar had ordered the

release of at least 30 political
prisoners and had opened talks
with Abiola. (Cont'd on Page 4)

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Credo of the Black Press

The Black Press believes that America can best lead the world away from racial
and natural antagonisms when it accords to every person, regardless of race,
color or creed, full human rights. Hating no person, fearing no person in the
firm belief that all are hurt as long as anyone is held back..

History: Five Black U.S. Presidents..!?

by Leroy Vaughn, MD

Joel A. Rogers and Dr. Auset Bakhufu have both written books documenting at least five former presidents

of the United States had black people among their ancestors. If one considers the fact that European men far
outnumbered European women during the founding of this country and that the rape and impregnation of an
African female slave was not considered a crime, it is even more surprising that these two authors could not
document black ancestors among an even larger number of former presidents. The presidents they name include
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge.

The best case for black ancestry is for Warren G. Harding, our 29th president from 1921 until 1923. Harding
himself never denied his ancestry. When republican leaders called on Harding to deny the "Negro" history, he
said. "How should I know whether or not one of my ancestors might have jumped the fence." William Chancellor,
a white professor of economics and politics at Wooster College in Ohio, wrote a book on the Harding family
genealogy and identified black ancestors among both parents of President Harding. Justice Department agents
allegedly bought and destroyed all copies of this book. Chancellor also said that Harding's only academic
credentials included education at Iberia College which was founded in order to educate fugitive slaves.

Andrew Jackson was our seventh president from 1829 to 1837. The Virginia Magazine of History Volume
29 says that Jackson was the son of a white woman from Ireland who had intermarried with a Negro. The
magazine also said that his eldest brother had been sold as a slave in Carolina. Joel Rogers says that Andrew
Jackson, Sr., died long before President Andrew Jackson, Jr.. was born. He says the president's mother then went
to live on the Crawford farm where there were Negro slaves and that one of these men was Andrew Junior's
father. Another account of the "brother sold into slavery story" can be found in David Coyles book entitled "Ordeal
of the Presidency" (1960).

Thomas Jefferson was our third president from 1801 to 1809. The chief attack on Jefferson was in a book
written by Thomas Hazard in 1867 called "The Johnny Cake Papers." Hazard interviewed Paris Gardiner who
said he was present during the 1796 presidential campaign when one speaker stated Thomas Jefferson was a
mean-spirited son of a half-breed Indian squaw sired by a Virginia mulatto father. In his book entitled "The Slave
Children of Thomas Jefferson." Samuel Sloan wrote that Jefferson destroyed all of the papers, portraits, and
personal effects of his mother Jane Randolph Jefferson when she died on March 31.1776. He even wrote letters
to every person who had ever received a letter from his mother asking them to return that letter. Sloan says,
"There is something strange and even psychopathic about the lengths to which Thomas Jefferson went to destroy
all remembrances of his mother, while saving over 18,000 copies of his own letters and other documents for
posterity. ?

One must ask. "What is it he was trying to hide?"

Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president from 1861 to 1865. J.A-Rogers quotes Lincoln's mother, Nancy
Hanks, as saying that Abraham Lincoln was the illegitimate son of an African man. William Herndon, Lincoln's
law partner, said that Lincoln had very dark skin and coarse hair and that his mother was from an Ethiopian
tribe. In Herndon's book entitled "The Hidden Lincoln", he says that Thomas Lincoln could not have been
Abraham Lincoln's father because he was sterile from childhood mumps and was later castrated. Lincoln's
presidential opponents made cartoon drawings depicting him as a Negro and nicknamed him "Abraham
Africanus the First."V V5 Coolidge was our 30th president and he succeeded William Harding. He proudly
admitted that his mother was dark because of mixed Indian ancestry. However. Dr. Bakhufu says that by 1800
the New England Indian was hardly any longer pure Indian because they had mixed so often with blacks. Calvin
Coolidge's mother's maiden name was Moor. In Europe the name Moor was given to all black people just as the
name Negro was used in America.

All of the presidents mentioned were able to pass for white and never acknowledged their black ancestry.
Millions of other children who were descendants of former slaves have also been able to pass for white. American
society has had so much interracial mixing that books such as "The Bell Curve" discussing IQ evaluations based
solely on race are totally unrealistic. ,

Are So Few White Males Behind Bars?

Ofari Hutchinson

By

For the last few years the Sentencing Project, Washington, D.C.-based public advocacy group, has issued a
report on crime and punishment in America. It's findings are well-known and predictable. Nearly one out of three
young Black males are in prison, on parole or on probation. And they make up nearly half of those incarcerated
in America's prisons. The response to the report is just as predictable. Many Blacks and liberal critics of the
criminal justice system say Blacks are jailed in huge numbers because of racially biased judges, juries, and
prosecutors, discrimination in the enforcement of drug laws, poverty, lack of education, and the prison
construction boom.

Many conservatives, and law enforcement officials say it's because young Blacks commit more crime than
Whites: their crimes are more violent and that much of the public, including many Blacks, demand that they be
locked up. While both sides debate the issue of why so many Black males are behind bars they don't ask why so
many White males who commit crimes aren't. The recent shoot-out between the LAPD and two young White
bank robbers in North Hollywood makes this more of a crucial question than ever.

Few would argue that the two would-be hold up men were dangerous criminals. One of the bandits had three
arrests and two felony convictions. One of the convictions was for a weapons violation in L.A. The other was a
felony conviction for real estate fraud in Denver. After pleading guilty to the charge in Denver he fled the state
to avoid sentencing. The other bandit had a felony conviction for the weapons charge. Yet the fact that the pair

were on the streets of North Hollywood and not behind bars raises the following questions about the workings of
the criminal justice system. .

*When they were stopped in Los Angeles in 1993 with what one expert called a "bank robbers kit" of legal
and illegal weapons and military equipment in their car and arrested, did authorities thoroughly check to
determine if they were wanted for crimes in other states? Did they discover that one was a wanted felon? If so,
why wasn't he extradited to Colorado for sentencing? Did the Denver police send notices about his flight to the
FBI and local police agencies nationally?

- *When they were released from jail why were some of their
ordered by the court to return them. But the presiding judge in
authorized release of their weapons only after the district attorney "agreed" to the release
objection" to their release. So who did what? And why?

*When other White males are arrested on weapons charges and police confiscate their banned firearms, what
charges are filed against them? How vigorously are they prosecuted? If the charges are subsequently dropped, are
their guns returned to them?

*When young White males who are repeat offenders are arrested and again convicted of serious crimes, how
many actually receive and serve their prison sentences? How many are allowed to plea bargain lesser sentences,
receive probation, community service, are fined and make restitution, are referred to diversion or rehabilitation
programs, or are placed under house monitoring? a

The North Hollywood bandits are probably not the exception. In 1990, 32,000 more young White juveniles
were arrested for murder, forcible rape, robbery and assault than young Blacks. Yet more Blacks than Whites
were imprisoned and more Blacks than Whites were tried as adults.

In 1991, more than 70 percent of males arrested were White, and 25 percent were Black. But between arrest,
trial and prison many seemed to disappear from the system. Only 35 percent of Whites were held in custody while
44 percent of the Blacks were held.

According to annual FBI Uniform Crime Reports since 1991, more Whites are arrested for murder, rape,
robbery, assault and drug related crimes than Blacks, but they are less likely to be imprisoned than Blacks. The
gaping disparity between arrest and imprisonment is greatest in California. Although Blacks are seven percent
of the population, they account for 20 percent of felony arrests, and 31 percent of those imprisoned. By contrast
Whites are 53 percent of the population and account for 33 percent of felony arrests, but only 29.5 percent of
those are imprisoned. Blacks are 4.7 times likelier to be arrested than Whites and 7.8 times more likely to be
incarcerated.

Even if we accept the argument that Blacks disproportionately commit more crimes than Whites, and avoid
muddying the issue by claiming a racial taint to the enforcement of California's three strikes law, it still does not
explain why so many fewer Whites that are convicted of felony crimes are imprisoned than Blacks who commit

If the answer is legal incompetence, official indifference or racism, we should say so. As the tragic events
in North Hollywood proved, when violent offenders no matter what their color are allowed to slide through the
legal cracks, we all pay a heavy and deadly price. 7
wa Earl Ofari Hutchinson is the author of The Assassination of the Black Male Image and Beyond O.J.:

weapons returned? The police said they were
the case disputed that. He indicated that he
and the police had "no

Race, Sex and Class: Lessons for America.*

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Minority Business: America's Competitive

Advantage...
By William Reed , Business Exchange

Like so many of her fellow African-Americans in the workplace, Joan Parrott-Fonseca is in a job that is
here today but could be gone tomorrow. Parrott-Fonseca is director of the Minority Business Development Agency
(MBDA) at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and like many other programs in Washington. D.C. designed to
help minorities get a leg up in American society. the MBDA is in constant danger of elimination by a Congress
that's had enough of such assistance programs.

But that threat did not stop Ms. Parrott-Fonseca from convening the 14th annual observance of Minority
Enterprise Development (MED) Week this past September. "MED Week is a time to celebrate the many
achievements of America's minority business community. This year's theme, "Minority Business: America's
Competitive Advantage." is most appropriate as we prepare to enter the global economy of the Ist Century," says
Parrott-Fonseca, whose job is to direct MBDA's minority business development initiatives through the agency's
funded network of community-based technical assistance centers throughout the U.S.

MED Week is a yearly conference held in Washington and is co-sponsored by the MBDA and the Small
Business Administration (SBA). It is the culmination of many federal. state and local MED Week events held
throughout the previous month. The conference provides opportunities to learn how minority firms contribute to
the economic prosperity of the U.S. by capitalizing on diversity and innovation in marketplaces. The conference
activities included an awards banquet which honored government agencies, corporations and advocates dedicated
to the cause of minority business development and successful minority business enterprises. It incorporated two
different trade fairs, one for corporations and government to display their opportunities for minority contracting
and suppliers, and one for minority vendors to display their wares to potential buyers. Discussions included
updates on legislative items, national issues and government programs and regulations. Attendees got an
opportunity to meet and talk with members of both houses of Congress, while seminars featured experts in vital
business areas of: information technology, domestic and international market development. government
regulations, capital access, bonding, procurement, contracting and insurance.

To bring corporations and minority businesspeople to the table, Joan Parrott-Fonseca got two top-flight
African-Americans to co-chair the MED Week Public-Private Sector Committee. Joy Crichlow director of New
York-based ConEdison's minority business program and James McGhee an Auburn, Washington minority
entrepreneur. "They bring many years of successful experience in minority business ownership and corporate
management of minority programs," says Parrott-Fonseca. Corporate executive Crichlow said, "It is significant
that I am co-chairing this event with a minority entrepreneur. As we move towards the year 2000, it is important
that more events and efforts are typified by such unions. Joint ventures, second tiering and team projects will
become the wave of the future in the minority/small business arena. In addition, it encourages the utilization of
these valuable businesses and their services. "Teaming" helps us to overcome obstacles aimed at hindering the
progress of minority businesses."

The MBDA and MED Week were initiated during the Richard Nixon presidency, whom many Blacks say
was the best presidential sponsor of Black enterprise. Currently, Black-owned enterprises have grown to over
700,000 with business receipts totaling $34 billion a year. The majority of Black-owned firms, 54 percent, are
concentrated in service industries and account for 34 percent of business receipts. The retail trade industry
accounts for the next largest concentration of Black-owned firms at 14 percent of the firms and 22 percent of the
receipts. But, minority enterprise programs and legislation are under fire. The Small Business Administration's
8A Program, a $6 billion set-aside program, is set to be abolished by Rep. Jan Meyers, chairwoman of the House
Committee on Small Business. Concern about the 8A program is based on figures that say the noncompetitive
contracts awarded to 8A companies are 20 to 25 percent above actual market value and costing American
taxpayers up to $1.2 billion above market value for 8A contacts. And critics say 8A program contracts go to a
handful of well-positioned companies, more than $1 billion to 25 companies in the Washington, D.C.area while
more than half of all 8A-registered firms receive no contracts.

A strong minority business community is essential to the nation's ability to maintain its competitive posture
in the global market, and it's essential that people like Parrott-Fonseca be in place to assure that minority
businesses are incorporated into the American enterprise mainstream. But, African-Americans have to support
people like Parrott-Fonseca while also taking more personal action toward their own economic development. Until
we renew the fervor and vision that sustained us in our fight for political equality, we will not achieve our rightful
place in the economic mainstream of this great nation.

For information on MBDA programs contact them at: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 14th & Constitution
Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230, (202) 482-4547 or (202) 482-4045.

William Reed is publisher of Who's Who in Black Corporate America, 2054 National Press Bldg.,
Washington, D.C. 20045, (202) 547-4125. :

"First God made idiots," observed Mark Twain. "That was for practice. Then HE made school boards."
From what I have read in the papers, learned from frustrated students, apprehensive teachers, inundated in
school administrators and angry parents, it appears we are in for another great experiment in education. These
experiments usually occur just before the public is so fed up that they are ready "to throw the bums out." .

May I remind you that most of these experiments have happened before and failed. But just before this
once crashes and burns, the superintendent will appear before the county commissioners, again, and explain,
again, that what he needs to fix the problem, again, is 25-50 million more dollars.

The state and federal programs are equally as bad. When the state funded the basic education program
about ten years ago, the public believed that at long last our students would have help with the three "R's."
Sorry folks, not a penny out of beings.

Does anyone remember the old 'McGuffey Reader? ? It taught phonics and children learned to read. Does
anyone really believe that, "Look Dick. Look Jane. See Spot Run" will hold any five or six years old attention
for longer than three seconds. The "whole language ? doesn't work but is still the practice. Never mind that
Polly Williams, a politician, Marva Collins, Marcus Garbey, and the Ivy Leaf School and hundreds more have
proved that inner city poor kids can learn, Proof, we have the most successful criminal class since prohibition.

Look folks, we can't blame GOD for this. We elected these people and put them in charge of our chil-
dren's future. Probably the most important vote we cast every election is for the school board.

The hospital board of trustees is appointed by our county commissioners and the UNC board of
Governors. But, no, fellow citizens, we cannot shirk our responsibilities. We elected the county commissioners
who appoint them. We were inundated for 16 months by the monotonous chant "We will be in charge." Sorry
folks, we "ain't" and they "ain't." There were two "no" votes in raising prices at the hospital and the county
only appointed one of these trustees. Where were the other ten? I distinctly remember a commissioner saying
that if the hospital made $30 million last year, they were charging too much. Sorry, Mr. Commissioner, they
did. But you still gave them the hospital on June 1 and the trustees raised the prices on June 16. So much for
"we will still be in charge."

There are many boards which I shall cover later.

I hope you will not consider this sacrilegious, but the Bible says "Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord,"
but will HE vote these people out or leave it to us, regular, ordinary, tax paying citizens, to practice good
sense.

»M ? VOICE ~ JULY 8-JULY 14, 1998-3

The power of a Grandma.

Children have a very special relationship
with Grandma and Grandpa. That's why
grandparents can be such powerful allies in
helping keep a kid off drugs.

Grandparents are cool. Relaxed. They're
not on the firing line every day. Some days
a kid hates his folks. He never hates his
grandparents. Grandparents ask direct,
point-blank, embarrassing questions youre
too nervous to ask:

"Who's the girl? ?

"How come you're doing poorly
in history? ?

"Why are your eyes always red? ?

"Did you go to the doctor? What did
he say? ?

The same kid who cons his parents 1s
ashamed to lie to Grandma. Without
betraying their trust, a loving, understand-
ing grandparent can discuss the danger of
drugs openly with the child she adores.
And should.

¢ The average age of first-time drug use
among teens is 13. Some kids start at 9.

© | out of 5 American kids between 9 and 12
is offered illegal drugs. 30% of these kids
receive the offer from a friend. And 12%
named a family member as their source.

¢ [legal drugs are a direct link to in-
creased violence, to AIDS, to birth defects,
drug-related crime, and homelessness.

As a grandparent, you hold a special place in
the hearts and minds of your grandchildren.
Share your knowledge, your love, your faith
in them. Use your power as an influencer to
steer your grandchildren away from drugs.

If you don't have the words, we do. We'll
send you more information on how to talk to
your grandkids about drugs. Just ask for
your free copy of "A Parent's Guide to
Prevention." Call 1-800-624-0100.

Grandma, Grandpa. Talk to your grand-
kids. You don't realize the power you have to
save them.

Office of National Drug Control Policy
Partnership for a Drug-Free America

DRUGS DON TT WORK!

The Governor's Prevention Partnership

800-422-5422

www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov

- Panthers-Cont'd from Pg.1 virth of the New Black Panther
- In an interview, Shabazz country. :
- gaid that the party has been The original Black Panther
ae ee Party, which was founded in 1966
as a group f by Bobby Seale and Huey
Byes rua muni, He tepred Tes 000 members naonwide
group is actively recruiting : } na 3
all across the state of Texas and There were chapters in more than
will begin to open branches in half of American and an interna
other cities by the end of the year. tional branch in Algeria. The
The New Black Feather Party original Black Panther Party fed
dressed in black tee shirts, bla the hungry, helped to protect some
wearing the old tradi- of the citizens from racist police
tional Black barets (symbolic of and presented a new pardigm o
the original Panthers) appeared to Black political and social activism.

be ready for defense in the event of
trouble. Although there were no
reported incidents of violence, the

The white power structure
and most white people still saw the
original Panthers as militant and

Black and oppressed communi

7,.We want an end to

federal, state, county, ci
a jury of peers for al
the Laws of this country.

The Original Black
Panther Party Platform*
1, We want freedom, We want power to determine the destiny of our

2.We want full employment for our people.
3. We want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our black and op- |

pressed communities.

4. We want decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings.

5. We want decent education for our Pl raed that ex the true nature |
of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us

our true history and our role in the present-day society.
6 We want completely free health care for all black and oppressed peo-
e.

lice brutality and murder of black ople, other
people of color, and all oppressed people inside the United States.

8. We want an immediate end to all wars of aggression.

9. We want freedom for all black and oppressed le now held in U.S.
and military prisons and fails. We want trials
persons charged with so-called crimes under

10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace
and people Ts community control of modern technology.

*The preceding represents an abbreviated outline of the Black Panther
political platform and mandates. Contact the M-Voice for the complete
manifesto of the Black Panther Party political platform and1 dates.

President Nelson Mandela
soth Birthday Celebration

South African Ambassador, NAACP &
Howard University Host Tribute...

BALTIMORE The _ Honorable
Franklin A. Sonn. Ambassador of
South Africa, NAACP President
and CEO Kweisi Mfume and
Howard University President H.
Patrick Swygert will host an 80th
birthday celebration in honor of
Nelson R. Mandela. the president
of South Africa.

"I can think of no one more
deserving of this great tribute than
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. who
emerged from almost 29 years of
imprisonment without bitterness
and worked tirelessly and without
equal for reconciliation and nation-
building in South Africa," said
Ambass: or Sonn.

"President Mandela is a bea-
con of light that shines around the
world. His greatness is unparalleled
in the struggle for freedom. human

kindness and self-determination. It
is indeed an honor to salute Mr.
Mandela on his 80th birthday."
added Mr. Mfume.

The reception will be held in
the Armour J. Blackburn Center
ballroom on the main campus of
Howard University in Washington,
D.C., Friday, July 17, 1998 from
6:30 PM. to 9:00 PM.

Howard University President
Swygert pointed out oduring his
historic 1994 tour, Nelson Mandela
visited only one institution of
higher learning: Howard
University, where he received an
honorary degree. Certainly, we are
once again delighted to host this
grand celebration in honor of this
great man."

President Mandela's was born
birth date on July 18, 1918.

:
©
:

pee: Mian

The chairman of President
Clinton's advisory board on race
relations said recently that the
dragging death of a black man in
Texas last month was "nothing
new'," just a flagrant example that
racism still exist in America.

John Hope Franklin said the
killing June 7th of James Byrd. Jr.
was unusual only in it's level of
cruelty. Byrd was chained to a
pickup by his ankles and dragged
for 2 1/2 miles in what authorities
have said was a racially motivated
killing. Three white men have been
charged.

"I don't want to sound cal-
loused, but that's nothing new, "

Franklin said in Nashville, Tenn.,
last Tuesday, after delivering the
keynote address at the 32nd race
Relations Institute at Fisk
University.

Franklin, a history professor
at Duke University, said the killing
lends no more urgency to the
board's task "than the burning of
black churches in previous years"
and that subtle forms of racism,
such as exclusion, can be just as
devastating.

He said the president's advi-
sory board on race expects to
present Clinton with a final report
in September.

4464

Greenville

eee

a Randy Pag CM E a Rte po Hoge with
ancy Jenkins. The City of Greenvi out the red carpet
dariag the July 4th weekend to cekcrabe that has been made
since ae when the old C.M. Eppes School producced some
the best professional talent of that day. has been a staunch
supporter of the reunion for the last 18 however we do need to
have our year, Comment & Photo: Jim

against the bbe ee even
though they sponso drives,
free Realth clinics, and free break-
fast pro for children. This

view of the Panthers led to the

murder and imprisonment of sev- | ateme

eral panther members by the law
enforcement agencies.

Those killed included 20 year
old Fred Hampton who was gunned
down with fellow Panther Mark
Clarke in an early morning raid of
the Panthers headquarters in 1969.
The attack was masterminded by
the city's police force and an FBI
program. The original Panther
Party died when its leaders Huey
Newton was killed and Bobby Seale
was imprisoned. Other Panther
chapters and leaders across the
country was targeted by police
agencies and the FBI and many
died in raids or were imprisoned.

Before the original Panther
Party systematically died out in the
mid - 70's, it had attracted some of
the most vibrant and rev@utionary
minds including H. Rap Brown,
Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis
and Mumia Abu-Jamal. The legacy
of the original Panthers and its
leaders as well as the young
revolutionaries have remained in
the minds of many people as more
than a militant organization. They
are often remembered as examples
of men and women who were
unafraid of taking power in their
own hands to defend the rights of
their people and to fight oppression
at whatever cost to themsevles.

The new Black Panther
Party like the original is being
tossed into the limelight by the
media who is depicting them as a
quasi-military group or Black mili-
tia. While all of the objectives and
platforms of the New Panther Party
are not fully known, it is conceiv-
able that many bold and daring
black youth will be attracted to this
new organization. Whether this
New Black Panther Party will be
able to play as a significant role in
social reform as the original is yet
to be seen.

4004

Abiola Passes Suddenly
(Continues from Page 1)

Some experts said Abiola Ts
untimely death would force
Nigeria's military rulers to move
quickly toward restoring civilian
tule.

"Abiola's death will. put more
pressure on the government to open
thing up more dramatically. more
quickly and more completely." said
Africa specialist James Zaffiero of
Central College in Pella. lowa.

Nigeria's most prominent
opposition politician was a multi-
millionaire businessman.

During his detention, the
business interests that made him
one of Africa's richest men crum-
bled. One of his wives was assassi-
nated by unknown gunmen in
Lagos in 1996.

A stocky man with a deep
growling voice and a broad smile.
Abiola was an accountant by

training. He worked for a while for .

the U.S. International Telephone

and Telegraph Corp. and rose to

become vice president for Africa
and the Middle East in 1971. But
then he branched into business for
himself.

Preninrseyy Quy
Dy

The Members of the
Congressional Black Caucus are
deeply saddened and share a pro-
found sense of loss by the untimely
death of Nigerian President-elect
Moshood K.O. Abiola. We send our
deepest regrets to the family and
friends of the late President in both
the United States and Nigeria.

The shock of his death comes
at a time when we were receiving
reports which pointed to the release
of President Abiola. Indeed, in
recent days, we had witnessed the
welcoming of our diplomats to
Nigeria and were thrilled to hear of
their plans to meet with President
Abiola in prison. In addition, we
were extremely encouraged by
General Major-General Abdulsa-

lam Abubakar's release of some
twenty-six prominent political pris-
oners. We also were encouraged by
U.N. Secretary General Kofi An-
nan's statement,

following his
with General Abubakar,

meeting

othat he believed all remaini w
pedrigene ty oeres tag

The CBC had _ spared - no
efforts in denouncing the imprison-
ment and treatment of President
Abiola, who was elected to lead
Nigeria in 1993, only to be
imprisoned when he sought to
claim his office by the recently

by _ deceased dictator General Sani -

Abacha. His death leaves us terri-
bly disheartened.

At this moment, we can only
mourn the loss of President M.K.O.
Abiola. We will say a prayer for the

the Nigerian.

family of President Abiola and for -

"i evoMreint hee ney

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% cup chopped celery
¥, cup light mayonnaise or
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2 tablespoons chopped
black olives or sweet
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1 hard-cooked egg, chopped

2 teaspoons lemon pepper
seasoning

2 teaspoons lemon juice

8 slices bread

DIRECTIONS:

In medium bowl, combine
all ingredients except bread,
mix well. Chill several hours.
Divide tuna salad onto 4 slices
of bread; top with remaining
bread. Makes 4 sandwiches.

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HOW TO MAINTAIN GOOD
MENTAL HEALTH

. Talk it out.
Escape for a while -- book,
movie, trip, take a walk.
_ Give in occasionally.
. Do something for others.
. Get plenty of rest.
Recognize good traits in other
people.
_ Take time for recreation.
. Deal with one problem at a
ume.
_ Make overtures for friendship.
_ Cooperate -- makes life easier.
_ Keep in touch with God.
.. Be cheerful. SM/LE! SMILE!
SMILE!

TEN MAXIMS FOR AGING
*** Live for today.
*** Keep busy.
*+** Manage your time.
*** Love with all your heart, mind,
and soul.
*** Strive to
cheerful.
*** Develop a friendly. comfort-
able relationship with yourself.
*** Learn to be charitable. even
indulgent. toward others T short-
comings.
*** Remain sympathetic and un-
derstanding toward young people.
*** Develop a genuine interest in
others' problems.

stay well and

" ##* Keep growing day by day.

Desk

THOUGHT QUESTION:
Why do you suppose suffering
is So i nt in the Christian life?
What are the five evil quali-
ties in our lives that | PETER
Chapter 2, Verse 1, say to thrust
aside?

IF WHEN YOU'RE TROUBLED..

"Remember that people who hurt

you often do so out of their own
problems, not out of their percep-
tion of you."

"Remember that we often fail
because we try for something
bigger than ourselves, and that is
what we should be doing."

"When defeat, sorrow, death, the
loss of a loved one, you've been let

. go of a job that gave meaning to

your existence, you've done some-

thing wrong, a beloved child is in .

trouble, someone you love has left
you... find a compassionate person
to whom you can talk to from the
bottom of your heart; then reach
out and help somebody."

"Link yourself to the great inex-
haustible power that spins the
universe."

"Live one day at a time, or better
still, take one step at a time. Get
the job done you've been putting
off. Wash your own socks. Look
around you in the love world of
nature."

Finally, practice gratitude. Every
day, look for reasons to be gratcful.
You may find yourself saying. "Just
to have been born, just to have
lived at all... how wonderful that
is!"

It's hardly ever that we can get
through even a day without some
hurt, some trouble, some problem.
but we can rise, walk again and be
grateful for life.

ALARMING
Do you know that there may be as
many as 60 million adults who
cannot read the front page of a
newspaper? Congress was told
Thursday, July 30, 1985.
The Census Bureau also showed
that 835,620 adults in North
Carolina lacked educational skills

« of Mrs. Beatrice

equivalent to an 8th grade educa-
tion and another 701,000 adults did
not have a high school diploma

WHAT LEADS TO A

SUPERBOSS?

Dr. Warren Bennis, Professor
of Management at the School of
Business Administration at the
University of Southern California,
says Five (5) traits his superleaders
had in common:

** VISION: the capacity to create
a compelling picture of the desired
state of affairs that inspires people
to performance.

+** COMMUNICATION: the abil-
ity to portray the vision clearly and
in a way that enlists the support of
their constituencies

** PERSISTENCE: the ability to
stay on course regardless of the
obstacles encountered.

** EMPOWERMENT: the ability
to create a structure that harnesses
the energies of others to achieve the
desired result.

te ORGANIZATIONAL
ABILITY: the capacity to monitor
the activities of the group. learn
from the mistakes and use the
resulting knowledge.

WORDS TO LIVE BY
** If you don't know where you are
goin T, you will probably not wind
up there.
**# Don't make excuses unless you
have to.
** Always try to do the right thing
unless your conscience tells you
otherwise.
** If you've got to cry, do it by
yourself... and be quiet about it.
** Most people don't look dumb....
until they start talking.
** To save energy, do not go out
lookin T for trouble, chances are, it
will find you soon enough.
** Always be nice to your mama.
** Whatever you do, try to have a
reason to do it.
** Nobody ever got into trouble by
keeping his mouth shut.
** Always be ready to take a
chance: Look what it did to Rocky.
** If you can't sing good... sing
loud.
** People not to talk back to:
-- Your teacher

£ Youve Got What It Takes,
We Want You On Our [eam

C
Wi: play to win and people notice.

CP&L T's commitment to high-

performing minority and

owned businesses is winning praise
from people who know. The Carolina
Minority Supplier Development
Council recognized CP&L for the
bridges we've built with minority
business. The Sterling Consortium,

a diversified group of minority

entrepreneurs, singled out CP&L as

women-

the Corporation of the Year.

? The Piedmont Minority Supplier Development Council likewise recognized CP&L. as the

Corporation of the Year. And singled out our own Jerry Fulmer as MBE Coordinator of

the Year. The Raleigh-Durham Minority Development Agency also honored Jerry Fulmer

And people notice.

" as Minority Business Advocate of the Year. And CP&L was
recognized by the North Carolina Institute for Minority Economic
Development for its continued dedication and support of mimorty
business in North Carolina. We're always scouting new talent.
If you're in top form, we want you. Together we have what

it takes to be a winning team. Just remember, we play to win.

To learn more about CP&L's Supplier Diversity and
Business Development Program, write to
Jerry J. Fulmer, Supplier Diversity and Business
Development Manager, P.O. Box 1551, CPB-2C3,
Raleigh, NC 27602, or call 91 9-546-2193.

cP&L

The Power to Lead

Maye
~~ Ist Sergeants

-- The police
-- Your mama

** Life is like a rubber band: the ,

harder you go forward, the harder
you snap back. So do not make
slip-ups.
** If you see a line, go stand in it.
Probably can't hurt nothin T.
*+* Always say "thank you", even if
you don't mean it.
** Always save enough money for
one phone call and one use of a pay
toilet.
** Do not eat anything if you do
not know what it is.
** There are times when you
cannot let the right thing stand in
your way.
** Do not cry over skim milk.
FROM: Gumpisms: The Wit and
Wisdom of Forest Gump by
Winston Groom.
JAMES WILLIAMS
- CELEBRATES HIS 80TH
BIRTHDAY:

Friday, July 3rd at 6 o'clock,
p.m. at the DuBois Center on
Hooker Road, the five children of
James and Mildred Williams:
Jimmy, Mitchell, Ronald, Diane
and Rosalyn, sponsored an elabo-
rate celebration, honoring their
father, including memorable pres-
entations and tributes from rela-
tives and _friends with
approximately one hundred persons
in attendance. Specials guests from
New York, New Jersey,
Washington, D.C., and Maryland
attended.

A backyard barbecue in the
Williamses home on Saturday af-
ternoon was attended by thirty-five
relatives and friends.

The birthday celebration
ended with a social hour in the
adjacent room at the DuBois
Center. An elaborate meal was
enjoved by all.

The children's gift to their
father was a gold I.D. bracelet.
"The glory of children are their
fathers." (PROVERBS 17:6) was the
theme throughout the celebration.

RR KKK EE
"These days it is easier for kids to
find drugs than it is for them to
find hugs." Dr. Joycelyn Elders.

RALEIGH- "A $12,000 pilot pe

- gram which granted local

systems money to buy fresh pro-
duce from small North Carclina
farmers resulted in about $40,000
in sales to local growers, a 300
percent return on the grants.
Fifteen counties were se

=| to participate in the

Arthur N. Wallace

Arthur Napoleon Wallace re-
cently received the Chancellor's
Academic Scholarship and plans to
attend NC Central University to
pursue a degree in pre-medicine.
Other scholarships were awarded
by Professional services of
Greenville and Phi Beta Sigma
Fraternity. Inc.. of which his father
is a member.

Napoleon is listed in Who's
Who Among American High School
Students. Other awards have in-
cluded: the D.H. Conley High
school offensive player of the year
in football, the Big East All-
Conference Award and the Daily
Reflector all team award. He is the
first black to become a member of
the D.H. Conley golf team.

Napoleon is the son of Arthur
and Faye Wallace of Grimesland
and the grandson of Catherine and
Napoleon Minor of Edward.

including: Bertie, Craven, purkam,
Granville, Hertford, "_Iredell-
Statesville. Jones, Macon, Nash-
Rocky Mount, Pitt, borin, easy
Stokes. Surry, Warren, and Wilson.

"Our goal was to increase
small and minority farmers T expo-
sure to buyers and help them create
more business. ? said N.C. Ag
Commissioner Jim Graham. "Many
of the participating school systems
found the quality and freshness of
the produce so good, they bought
more produce and spent considera-
bly more money than they received
in grants. ?

School systems purchased
fresh strawberries, sweet potatoes,
tomatoes and onions in April and
May with the funds.

The program is a partnership
between the N.C. Department of

Agriculture and © Consumer
Services. the N.C. Department of '
Public Instruction, the US.

Department of Agriculture and the
Department of Defense.

"| am pleased with the success
of this program." Graham added.
"We have seen a steady decrease in
the number of small farmers,
particularly minority farmers, in
the past few years. We'd like to see
that trend reverse because small
farms are important to the economy
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PB. Young Sr., who was born
in the town of Littleton, in Halifax
County. was the publisher and
owner of the Journal & Guide for
52 vears.

The marker was dedicated last
June 28. after Halifax County
Minister William Bennett submit-
ted a request for the tribute to be
placed on Highway 158, 150 yards
from Young's birthplace.

The ceremony was attended
by a host of dignitaries including:
Littleton mayor, the Hon. Mason
Hawfield, Mayor Kai Hardaway of
nearby Enfield) N.C., _ state
Representative L.W. Locke and
Willie Gilchrist. superintendent of
Halifax County public schools.
TKevnote speaker was Dr. Henry
Lewis Suggs. professor of history at
Clemson University.

The family was represented by
Davis Young grandson of PB.
Young. Other attendees included
current publisher of the New
Journal & Guide. Brenda H.
Andrews.

A national spokesman for
Blacks. Young. Sr. had published
the Journal & Guide for more than
50 years when he died in 1962.

He arrived in Norfolk in
1907. fresh out of college and was
hired as a reporter for the then
Lodge Journal & Guide. By 1910,
after increasing the paper's circula-
tion from 600 copies to 1,000,
Young purchased the paper for just
over $3000. He was just 27 years
old.

Over the next half a century,
Young gained local, state and
national stature as a community
leader and astute businessman. The
Journal & Guide also became
increasingly recognized for its
excellence in publishing and at one
time was the largest employer of
Blacks in the South.

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IGH " A__ Settlement
Provides Full Tax Exemptions and
$799 Million in Refunds.
Representatives of federal, state
and local government retirees have
reached:a Settlement with the State
of North Carolina. As a result.
qualified retirees will no tonger be
taxed on their government retire-
ment benefits. North Carolina will
also pay $799 million in partial tax
refunds.

The Settlement successfully
concludes nearly a decade of
litigation between government re-
tirees and the State of North
Carolina. The Settlement benefits
taxpayer who, before August 12.
1989," had five years of creditable
service with federal, North
Carolina state or local govern-
ments, or who were otherwise
vested in certain government retire-

ment plans. The settling class
actions started. because of North
Carolina's response to the U.S.
Supreme Court decision in Davis v.
Michigan."

This decision held that federal
and state retirees must be taxed the
same. North Carolina then enacted
legislation which eliminated long-
standing full tax exemptions on
state and local government retire-
ment benefits.

In Bailey v. State of North
Carolina, T state and local retirees
challenged the legislation as an
unconstitutional breach of promise
by the State. The State claimed that
increased retirement benefit formu-
las made up for the lost tax
exemptions. Yet, state and local
retirees proved at trial in 1995 that
the increased benefits were not
equivalent to tax exemptions and

ATLANTA -- Coretta Scott King
will present Myrlie Evers-Williams
with the NAACP's 83rd Spingarn
Award at its annual convention on
July 16 in Atlanta. The Spingarn
Medal is considered the highest
award in the civil rights arena. The
first medal was awarded in 1914.

The distinguished award rec-
ognizes the African American with
the "highest or noblest achievement
during the preceding year or years."
The purpose of the award is to
bring attention to distinguished
merit and achievement and to serve
as a reward for such achievement
and as an inspiration to minority
youth.

"I cannot think of anyone
more deserving of this medal than
Myrlie Evers-Williams." _said
NAACP President Kweisi Mfume.
"Her dedication to the cause of
equal opportunity is unparalleled in
our community.

NAACP) Chairman " Julian
Bond said he is proud of his
predecessor's work to restore the
association to greatness. "Myrlie
Evers-Williams was the right per-
son at the right time to bring
integrity, accountability and stabil-
ity back to this historic organiza-
tion." Bond said.

In 1963, Ms. Evers-Williams
accepted the Spingarn Award post-
humously on behalf of her slain
husband. Medgar Evers. With the
award going to her this year. it
marks the first time in the history
of the medal that it has gone to two
members of the same family.

Among the distinguished win-
ners of the Spingarn Medal in the
past: W.E.B. DuBois, A. Philip
Randolph, Thurgood Marshall,
Martin Luther King. Jr.. Langston
Hughes. Duke Ellington, Rosa
Parks. Lena Horne. Bill Cosby.
Jesse Jackson. Colin Powell.
Barbara Jordan. and Maya
Angelou.

Ms. Evers-Williams is the
author of a book. 'FOR US. THE
LIVING. T (Doubleday and
Company, 1967), that depicts the
life of her late husband Medgar and
the civil rights struggle in
Mississippi in the 50's-60's. The
book has been recently re-released
in paperpback by the University of
Mississippi Press. In March, 1983.
PBS "American Playhouse" pre-
sented a ninety-minute treatment of
the book. In a separate historical
film detailing the events culminat-
ing in the death of Medgar Evers,
Mrs. Evers-Williams also anchored
a special HBO __ production.
"Southern Justice. the Murder of
Medgar Evers". Her fight for
justice was also the subject of a Rob
Reiner film, "Ghosts of
Mississippi."

Her other literary achieve-
ments including "_ contributing
Fditor, Ladies Home Journal. She
was one of the magazines T editors
who covered the Vietnam Peace
Talks in Paris. France. Her many
articles received wide acclaim.

Determined to continue as an
active participant in her struggle
for justice and equality. Ms. Evers-
Williams lectures extensively be-
fore civil rights groups, women's
organizations, social groups and at
universities. Her attributes as a role
model to young people have en-

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couraged many to pursue careers in
law, education and social service.

On February 18, 1995, Myrlie
Evers-Williams was elected to the
position of Chairman of the
NAACP. Faced with the challenge
of rebuilding the organization, she
won election by one vote. One year
later, she was re-elected unani-
mously by the 64 member Board of
Directors to her second term and
Chairman. With the support of a
strong member base of the NAACP.
she is credited with sprearheading
the operations that restored this
association to its original status as
the premier civil rights organiza-
tion. In 1998, she handed the
chairmanship to another civil
rights pioneer--Julian Bond--and
the NAACP Board of Directors
honored her with the title
"Chairman Emeritus."

Today. she also oversees the
Medgar Evers Institute and directs
MEW Associates. Inc. The insti-
tute, founded in 1998. is dedicated
to leadership and development.
MEW Associates. Inc.. founded in
1997, is a lecture and consulting
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did not even keep up with inflation.
The North Carolina Supreme Court
recently ruled in favor of the Bailey
retirees. Federal retirees, in Patton
y. State of North Carolina, T sought
to eliminate the tax on their
retirement benefits so that federal

and state retirees are taxed the

same.

The Settlement resolves all of
these class actions. Class member
retirees will receive full tax exemp-
tions. State and local class mem-
bers will also receive initial refunds
of approximately 95% of the taxes
paid on their government retire-
ment benefits for the last nine years
plus interest. Federal class mem-
bers will receive approximately
70% of the tax refunds potentially
recoverable through further litiga-
tion. Administration and litigation
costs and attorneys fees will be

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Archives of the M-Voice

subtracted from these refund
amounts. Initial payments to fed-
eral retirees are lower because some
aspects of their claims are less
certain and final resolution of the
federal retiree lawsuit promised to
take much longer.

The Settlement becomes final
when the General Assembly enacts
appropriate legislation and
Superior Court Judge Jack
Thompson gives final approval. A
hearing on any objections, alloca-
tion of Settlement funds, and
payment of costs and attorneys T fees
will be laid at the Wake County
Courthouse in Raleigh, N.C., on
July 22, 1998 at 10:00 a.m. The
deadline for requesting exclusion
from the combined Class Action
and proposed Settlement ("Opting
out") is July 15, 1998.

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and the rest of the country is an threatens security wai angi

issue about which all citizens Pitt county. Unfortunately, many

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County (and especially in West ings seemin
Greenville) has seen a rash of.
violent crimes that could have absolutely

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sound meaningful policies and tion in our community would
plans. However, people like City call for more progressive pro-
Councilman Chuck Autry have grams and ideas that have al-
successfully
informal gatherings of some implemented in other cities
icials, clergymen, pro- around the country such as

Policing, _ Curfew
togethr and discuss the crime Laws and Ordinances, Cash and
question and suggest solutions to Gift Certificates in exchange for

watch programs.
For instance, take Com- electe
munity Policing for example
This concept would involve Policing is interfacing oface to
comprehensive and effective
foot and mobile patrols on bikes
and mopeds, etc. This could be
done in conjunction with police
substations
placed in areas _ around
Greenville. More unmarked cars
would enhance this effort. And if
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Officials and the commu-
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face" with the communities they
serve to protect.
Another _ concept
comprise of effectively enforced
strategicaly Curfew Laws that would com-
prised of "disk-to-dawn" pro-
grams to prevent and combat the
rashness youth centered vio-
lence, and these rules should

Flashback Fotos from the
Archives of the M-Voice

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apply to youth under the age of
17. There are already a number
of curfew programs through out
the country staffed with volun-
teers and social. service workers
that receive violators. Violators
are than counseled and referred
to recreation, job or anti-drug
programs.

The Cash for Handguns
program would involve the
Clergy, business community, and
elected officials conducting peri-
odical fund raisers to sustain
such a program. Stolen and
unregistered handguns should
be exchanged at designated
centers for cash or gift certificates
and be destroyed. Too many
handguns are in the wrong
hands.

An Around the Clock Hot
Line program would be accessi-
ble to counsel drug users and
guarantee anonymity. Once
again, the members of the clergy,
social service professionals, and
other qualified volunteers skilled
in the art of counseling could
staff the center.

A Zero-Tolerence Plan
similar to that implemented in
New York City which saw a
dramatic drop in overall crime, is
a massive anti-drug campaign;
with drugs being the source of
much crime that would include
distributing flyers = around
Greenville. Additionally, County
Commissioners could seek funds
to support a broader approach
to disseminating anti-drug infor-
mation all over Pitt county.
Literature and verbal forms of
information (i.e.,via radio, televi-
sion, newspapers, etc.) could be
implemented to educate resi-
dents on the dangers, pitfalls and
the penalties for ille 4 drug use.
Furthermore, each church could
help to provide counseling and
outreach seminars for people
addicted to the scourge of drugs.
Additionally, more community
ministries should play more of an
active role.* They could spread
a message of hope and informa-

oh sed

peal ma a»

tries would quanti ly restore -
hope and optimism in residents "
feeling a sense of powerlessness.
And in brief, a Digital "
Display System could coordi-
ia ae information
rom the police artment,
Council, betta and ae.
ments if the business commu-
nity where data relating to
violent crimes, drug statistics,
oetc. could be dioplaved and
jointly evaluated. This would be
another way in educating the
ublic and heightening their
evel of sensitivity.

A finally, a Neighborhood
Watch Coordinator should be
empowered to organize and
employ citizen patrol officers to
drive through the neighborhoods
periodicall and report suspicious
activities. This is a type of citizen
patrol. A Citizen Patrol
Academy to implement this con-
cept of crime prevention could
be established and embellished
on as the funds permit.
Prospective students wanting to
be involved in such a program T
could receive scholarship funds
in exchange for their services
while committing themselves to
community service. Partial fund-
ing could come from the busi-
ness and non-business
community to stimulate partici-
pation.

Elected officials and others
should welcome the aforemen-
tioned approaches to crime de-
terrence and prevention. Elected
officials. who play politics with
public safety and the need for
community peace should be
denied reelection if they do not
work actively to promote "do-
mestic tranquility." [The Nation
of Islam is noted for their
proactive stance in discoura
ing the use and sale of drugs in
numerous black communities
around the country - Editor's
Note.] .

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DURHAM--North Carolina Cen-
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pleased to announce the appoint-
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Hamilton Houston Chair, Professor
Jerome McCristal Culp, Jr. of Duke
University School of Law. Professor
Culp will serve as the Charles
Hamilton Houston Professor of Law
for the summers of 1998 and 1999.
and Spring semester 1999.
Professor Culp will coordinate
a seminar series each summer
named for civil rights pioneer
Charles Hamilton Houston and
focusing on current issues in racial
justice, Professor Culp's area of
research and teaching expertise.
The seminar will be open to
members of the North Carolina
Central University School of Law
community and will meet several
times in July and August. Each
meeting will focus on a paper to be

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Gray a native of Greenville of
C.M. Eppes High School will be "
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Sunday, July 19, 1998 along with
his congregation from Mt. Olive
Baptist Church of Winston-

Salem, NC.

The Homecoming/Quarterly
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will begin at 4:30 PM. Come and "
having a good time in the Lord!!
The Pastor of Bell Ts Chapel is
Reverend Danny Lewis of

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presented by a visiting scholar.
Additionally, a reading group will
meet at Professor Culp's home to
discuss several books on the semi-
nar topic of racial justice.

In the Spring 1999 semester,
Professor Culp will teach a course
in employment discrimination and
a seminar on critical race theory.
He will also host the 1999 Charles
Hamilton Houston Summer
Seminar.

The School of Law is pleased
to have this distinguished scholar
visit. In addition to teaching law at
Duke since 1984, Professor Culp |
has served as law clerk to federal
Court of Appeals Judge Nathaniel
Jones, also a former lecturer at
NCCU School of Law, and been a
Resident Fellow at the Rockefeller
Foundation and a MacArthur
Distinguished Scholar at the Joint
Center for Political Studies. His
subjects include Black
Jurisprudence, Employment
Discrimination, Labor Law, and
Law and Economics.

The Charles Hamilton
Houston Chair was endowed by a
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Franklin Anderson and was the
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ture is
Martin Luther King Jr. witha state

holiday.

oFolks, we have to do this. ?
state Rep. Jackie Weatherspoon,
one of two Blacks in the
400- member House, urged the
Executive departments and
Administration Committee.

_ Last month, the Senate passed
the bill to add King's name to Civil
Rights Day, and Gov. Jeanne
Shaheen hopes to have the opportu-
nity to sign it into law.

The House traditionally has
been unfriendly to King day sup-
porters, killing similar proposals in
each of the last three years.

This is the 10th time since
1979 the Legislature has been
asked to name a state holiday after
King, assassinated in 1968. New
Hampshire is the only state without
a holiday honoring him.

The bill's supporters say New
Hampshire's singular status 1s a
national embarrassment. They say
it hurts the state's economy because
some people or groups take their
business elsewhere when they real-
ize the state doesn't have a King
holiday.

For example, a national asso-
ciation of community loan funds
wanted to hold its annual training
session in the state -- until it
realized there was no King holiday.
said Betsy Black. who w orks for the
New Hampshire Community Loan
Fund.

She estimated: it cost the state
about $60.000.

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s Day Supporters Make Appeal to Holdouts in House

One critic, David Tardif, said
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"Are you feally to
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lawmakers and President Clinton
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preserve the nation's public educa-
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danger of becoming extinct, par-
ticularly in urban areas. However,
Price said voucher plans, which
many in Congress support, could
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sponsibility in educating all of the
nation's children.

"Vouchered schools do not
play by the same rules governing
admissions, discipline and expul-
sion. What's most offensive, vouch-
ers could subsidize the flight of
White students. The persistence of
unofficial segregation is problem
enough in public education without
underwriting it with taxpayer's
money," said Price.

The Urban League president
praised President Clinton for issu-
ing a "call to action" to make
America's education system the
envy of the world. "Answering that
call is the urgent domestic chal-
lenge facing the nation. And the
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ance, ? he noted. In Steinberg's
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they could bring home grades of C
or worse without. upsettin iB their
parents, 40 percent said their
parents never attended school pro-
grams, and only one in three
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versations with their parents.
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significant negative roll in under-
mining academic achievement ac-
cording to Dr. Steinberg's findings,

with almost 20 percent of students
responding that they did not try as
hard as they could in sc
because of worries about what their
friends might think. A high school
English teacher whose students are
predominantly from White middle-
Class homes observed that owhen I
check notebooks there are virtually
no notes. They lose their books and
they don't bring pens or notebooks
to class. When I try to discipline, some
of them just pick up and walk out."
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