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Serving Eastern North Carolina Since 1981

TAMPA, Fla. The Rev.
Henry Lyons; former presi-
dent of one of the nation's
largest Black church organi-
zations, on June 18, was
ordered to repay $5.2 million
for bank fraud and tax
evasion.

Rev. Lyons, already serving
five and one half years in
state prison for bilking com-

panies and

stealing from charities, also
was sentenced by a federal
judge to four years.and three
month~ behind bars. But the
federal sentence will be
served concurrently with the
state sentence.

"Il do ask for mercy today,"
Rev. Lyons told U.S. District
Judge Henry Lee Adams Jr.

"I'm 57. I don't have a lot of
time to right all the wrong I
have done." Rev. Lyons
pleaded guilty March 17.to
fedral charges related to his
business dealings as head of
the National Baptist
Convention USA. He admit-
ted failing to,pay taxes on
$1.3 million in income, de-
frauding a bank and making

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Old Eppes High School

(Blacks being Left Out

said a son to his father, after- he
read a story to the youth about a
lion being slain by a hunter.
"Dad, in these stories, why does
the lion always lose?" The day's
reply: "Son, it will always be
that way - until the lion learns
how to write . . There has been
= a wave of controversy lately
5 over millennium-centered "best
| lists" complied by so-called "ex-

| perts. ?

One: such survey in question
recently was a Time magazine
compilation that named the 20
~ top minds of the century No
Blacks, no Hispanics, no
women. That was insult enough,
we guess, not to include such
_ African-American scientists and
intellectuals as George
| Washington. Carver, W.E.B..
DuBois, or Percy Juhan and

9) William Junius Wilson.

But to add insult to injury.

By June Preston

ATLANTA (Reuters) - A legisla-
tor in Alabama -- the only U.S.
state whose laws still ban inter-
racial marriage -- planned
Tuesday to ask the Attorney
General to pave the way for
residents to vote in October on
eliminating the prohibition.

The law barring marriages be-
tween blacks and whites was
rendered void when the U.S.
Supreme Court struck it down
years ago but remains in the
Alabama constitution. Removing
the language from state law
requires voter approval although
the impact would be almost
purely symbolic. Alabama has
} a long history of racism and this
interracial marriage ban is part
_ of it," State Rep. Alvin Holmes,
the legislator campaigning for

i, the October vote, told Reuters.

Alabama was a major battle-
' ground during the 1960s civil
| rights movement and is still a
P stronghold of Confederate nos-
) talgia, but voters are expected to
f approve eliminating the ban by a
i e majority
ill passed easily by the state
regislature called for residents to
vote to revise the Alabama
, constitution, But the measure ran

especially for sports bulfs,
pseudo-baseball "authorities"
Street and Smith's " Sports

Business Journal have had the
audacity to name a
Major League Baseball Team of
the Century that includes abso-
lutely no African Americans or
Hispanics on the first team.In
fact, the great Willie Mays, John
Gibson, Roberto Clemente and
Ken Grif fey Jr. are relegated to
the bench on their faux team and
no minorities made the cut for
the five starting pitchers, unless
you want to count Sandy
Koufax, who was Jewish. Jackie
Robinson, Hank Aaron and
"Mr.Cub" Ernie Banks barely
made the "B"
list. Does that "B" stand for
"Blacks?" Joe Morgan and Ozzie
Smith - perhaps the greatest
shortstop ever to sit on

the bench on the "B" team.

afoul of legal technicalities by
failing to specify a date for the
vote.
Lawmakers had thought it would
be on Oct. 12 but the Secretary
of State's office has ruled that,
according to procedure, the vote
must wait until the general
election in November 2000.
Holmes of Montgomery, who
sponsored the measure in the
legislature, said he will visit
Attorney General Bill Pryor
Tuesday and ask him to interpret
the referendum law in a way that
would enable the vote to go
ahead on Oct. 12. That is when
Alabamians consider whether
the state will have a lottery.
The Secretary of State's office
appeared to stand firm in its
position. It won't be on the Oct.
12 ballot," said Steve Prince, a
spokesman in the Secretary of
State's office.
Prince said lawmakers have two
ways to get a referendum on the
ballot -- set the date in the
language of the bill itself or pass
a resolution that sets the date.
We don't know what hap-
pened," Prince said, There was
never a House or Senate resolu-
tion passed,

oAt some point in the legislative

jof US History - Again

Ludicrous. Insulting.Racist and
unrealistic.Why, half of the so-
called "Team of theCentury"
didn't even compete against the
Black players of their time. who
were banished to the Negro
Leagues because of segregation
and probably would _ have
whipped the "Team of the
Century" badly, even on their
worst days. The lion has learned
how to write this time, and
among his admonitions are the
words "bunk." baloney" and
"bull" to some "best" lists. Thank
God such lists do not embody
the full measure of the man - and
women they omit.

You can keep your doggone lists.
We'll take history and reality and
day over biased speculation.
Now we know whowrote history
as we teach it today.

~ Alabama Lawmakers Fight Ineraial Marriage Ban

process there was a mispercep-
tion that the language in the bill
was enough to set the date for
Oct. 12," he said.
The Alabama law was voided
when the U.S. Supreme Court
struck it down years ago in a
case involving a Virginia couple.
The Alabama Constitution pro-
hibits lawmakers from passing
any laws * to authorize or legal-
ize any marriage between any
white person and a Negro, or
descendant of a Negro," provi-
sions the legislature ignored
when it acted to hold a vote on
lifting the ban.
Although the ban is unenforce-
able, Holmes said some rural
areas of Alabama. still deny
marriage licenses to mixed race
couples who apply for them.
oT've had blacks tell me they
went to a probate judge to get a
license and they were told the
probate office had run out of
them," he said. They don't tell
them point blank that they aren't
going to give them a license
because they are black, they just
say, 'We don't have any licenses.
ven call you. T Then they never
0."

ose statements. Rev. Lyons
was convicted in
state court in February of
extorting $4 million from
companies which conducted
businesses with the church
Organization as well as tak-
inz a $250,000 donation
from the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai 'B'rth which
was to have been used to
rebuild Black churches that
had been burned. The co-
defendant in the Lyons case,
Brenda Harris, plead guilty
on April 12 to a single minor
charge bringing her case to
a halt. Ms. Harris, a planner
for the. National Baptist
Convention, pled guilty to
failing to inform thepolice
when a crime was being
committed. Ms. Harris, who
claims to have had an_ affair
with Rev. Lyons will lose the
$700.000 home purchased
with money from the former
convention director as well
as any bank accounts. It was
this home which tiggered an
investigation into the minis-
ter's lavish spending follow-
ing a fire set by his wife

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once she learned the house
was Rev, shared by her.

-husband and Ms.Harris.

Ms. Harris maintains Rev.
Lyons provided her with a
substantial amount of the ~
down payment as well as
lavish jewelry and gifts dur-
ing their two-year relation-
ship, but said her relationship
with the .

married minister was not
about money or gifts, but
love. "He was a good person
to me," she said. .
Another co-defendant in the
case,. conventions public re-
lations director Bernice
Edwards who was acquitted
in state court,plead guilty to
two federal tax evasion
charges and is scheduled for
sentencing in
September. Sentencing for
Ms. Harris is, scheduled for
July 26. As part of the plea
agreement, prosecutors won't
seek a prison term, according
to her attorney Peter
Strianse.Following her plea
she expressed apologies for
her part in the crimes.

Pictured World War II Veteran Ben Chapman

World War II Vet. Speaks On Racial Shar

The "M" Voice Newspaper Was
given the rare opportunity to
converse with Ben Chapman a
World War 2 veteran. We dis-
cussed everything from the word
"Japs" the racial slur used by
Commissioner Dave Hammond to
the present state of Black
America.

The "M" Voice : How do you
feel about the comments made by
Commissioner Hammond ?

Ben Chapman : Well | believe it
it was a slip of the tongue lets not
Over react and blow this thing out
of proportion. | remember on Dec.
7, 1941 | was on my way to
Sunday school with my father. He
turned on the radio and the
President said, the Japanese had
just bombed Pearl Harbor and
the "Japs" Air Force has just
destroyed our Battleship the
President called them "Japs"

The "M" Voice : Do you think
Commissioner Hammond _ in-
tended any malice with his com-
ment ?

Ben Chapman : No, | believe in
the back of his mind he thought
the comment was off the record
but, when talking to white
America you have to remember
nothing is off the record. | also
think the clergy should have
ulled him to the side and asked

im what was your temper when

you made this comment. Tell him
to be frank and let him know if he
'is in the right they will support

him. But, the clergy in Greenville
does not support each other.

The "M" Voice : What do you
think about the comparison of
Commissioner. Hammond's com-
ment "How many Japs are ex-
pected to arrive" to that of Walter
William's comment "There's a
Nigger in the wood pile?"

Ben Chapman :When Williams
made his comment, all of his
supporters stood up and spoke
about how many millions of
dollars he donated to ECU and
what he has done for the Black
community. See, he owns all of
the Trade Marts in Greenville but,
for as much money as he has put
into the Black community he has
taken an equal amount out.

The "M" Voice: Should Black
America support Commissioner
Hammond regardless of of per-

sonal feelings about the com-
ment?
Ben Chapman : Yes, we can

actually turn this thing around,
We have more evidence on them
than they have on us. We are
ignorant to them, 3rd class citi-
zens, they control the banks the
schools. They are the people we
have to go to for most an anything,
and as long as you can keep a
nation dependent : you can control
that nation.

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in discord
*ve got just two questions for
the scurrilous, lowdown
snake in the grass who illegal-
y leaked Durham Public Schools
intendent Ann Denlinger Ts
rformance evaluation.

«First, oHow could you stoop so
lew as to violate the sanctity of
er personnel files like that? ?

And second,
oWhy didn Tt
you call me
instead of
those other

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The revela-
tions in the
leaked files
were not sur-
prising,
certainly not
iC to me. If any-
te they Tre almost yawn-induc-

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g, because anyone even casual-
ly aware of the infighting on the

board knows that the white board
members think Denlinger walks
an water while the black ones

ink she is all wet.

«*That was exemplified in the

evaluations, which ranged from
effusive to pathetic: Arnold Spell
gave her 388 points of a possible
400 " I guess ol T Arn must've fig-
ured his wife would get
suspicious if he gave her 500 "
while Mozell Robinson essential-
ly ogonged ? the superintendent
with a score of 93. Ouch.

Even if race isn Tt the primary
motivation " and both sides
insist it isn Tt " the white board
-members come off looking like
giddy cheerleaders incapable of
objectivity, while some black ones
risk sounding like petulant chil-
dren nursing hurt feelings by
criticizing Denlinger Ts ointer-
personal ? shortcomings without
at least acknowledging that the
schools are working " either
because of or in spite of her.

In judging the Super " and
even I, someone who never says
a bad thing about anyone, have
been a harsh critic when she
deserved it " it Ts important to
note that she didn Tt inherit a
smoothly running system with a
long, harmonious history. It was
on the verge of success when she
took hold of the reins, but the
recently merged system was a
still contentious and racially
riven one which, frankly, many
people wanted to see fail.

Thus, most parents, black or
white, will be less concerned that
Denlinger might have hurt some
board members T feelings than
that test scores are improving.

If some board members fail to
see that, the question that must
be asked is: oWhat Ts more impor-
tant to them, good schools or
good feelings between board
members and the

- superintendent? ?

Parents should care if
Denlinger " as her critics
screamed from the day she
became a candidate " is truly
intent upon purging all black
administrators from the system,
but they also have a right to
know why the Rev. Philip Cousin,
a black board member,
disparaged Denlinger with a
score of 120, yet refuses to
explain why.

Remember that old Negro spir-
itual, oJesus on the Main Line
(Tell Him What You Want) ?? I
just hope the Rev. Cousin
answers when Jesus calls,
because he certainly isn Tt
answering when reporters or
colleagues call seeking
comment.

Tension on the school board "
and between the board and the
superintendent " is not
inherently bad, Nor is harmony
inherently good. Both become
bad, though, if the board
members who are always
pleased by Denlinger are white
and the ones who are always dis-
pleased are black.

Want to tell Barry what you think? Call
him at 636-281 Lor o-mall him at

Dear Sheriff:

Please assist and assure
the citizens of Pitt County by
publicly responding to the fol-
lowing five questions surround-
ing the fatal shooting of
Mr.Stephenson by Mr. Lee at
| the convenient store and your
department's subsequent investi-
gation and your seemingly rapid
response to the incident:

1) Commissioner Jeff Savage
says you told him that you deter-
mined the death was a result of
self-derense after a two-hour in-
vestigation by your department.
Neither the facts, nor your ap-
pearance on the 11:00 PM news
support that. Therefore, will you
please state the actual time the .
shooting occurred and when the
case was investigated and

2) Also, there has been no re-
port of what the store's surveil-
lance video revealed from that
evening. If there were a video
tape, what , if anything, did it re-
veal and is it available for public
inspection?;

3) Media reports suggest Mr.
Stephenson was armed. If so,
with what type weapon was he
armed, where did the bullet enter
the deceased's body and were the
deceased's fingerprints lifted
from the alleged weapon as part
of your department's investiga-
tion?;

4) Rumors have surfaced that
Mr. Lee has relatives who are
deputies and that
they were, in fact, the official in-
vestigators of the alleged crime.
If this is true, was the investiga-
tion conducted objectively and
fairly?;

5) Finally, news reports also
further stated that a sign in Mr.
Lee's store read: "We don't call
9-]-1-" If this is true, what did
the sheriff's department conclude
as the intent of the of the sign
and the specific message meant
to be conveyed? Thank you in
advance for your prompt, profes-
sional and thorough response to
your citizenry. We are confident
this will give citizens of Pitt
County the assurance a commu-
nity needs to maintain a high
level of confidence in its law en-
forcement.

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Until, President Clinton
called attention to the issue in
his State of the Union address,
mandatory public __ school
uniform policies were sporadic
local occurences. A few school
districts had been quietly
experimenting with uniforms
for years, but the issue caught
President Clinton's eye after
the Long Beach, California
school district released some
numbers suggesting that after
only one year, its mandatory
uniform policy had not only
brought about _ significant
decreases in vandalism and
fighting, but had also led to
higher test scores. Now that
the
has elevated school uniforms
into the realm of federal
education policy, a question
needs to be answered: Are
uniforms a good idea?

The most concise response
to this question is, nobody
knows. The superintendent of
the Long Beach School District
claims that the district's
self-generated data~ showing
decreases in certain form of
student misconduct is proof
that uniforms work. But other
steps to improve student
behavior, like increasing the
number of teachers patrolling
the hallways during class
changes, were also taken by
the district around the same
time the uniform policy was
introduced. Without further
study, it is impossible to say
with any certainty that the
uniforms were responsible for
the changes. The fact is that
there are no empirical studies
that show that uniforms
consistently produce positive

President's endorsement °

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The Minority Voice: June 17 - July 7, 1999

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School Uniforms

SPECIAL COMMENTARY

Loren Siegel

4 :
changes in student behavior
over the long run. At best,
school uniform policies are
purely experimental.

The experiment presents
some very practical problem,
First, although President
Clinton said he _ supported
uniforms oif it means that
teenagers will stop killing each.
other over designer jackets, ?
the Long Beach policy, like
virtually every other uniform
policy in the country, applies
only to elementary and middle
school students, and not to
teenagers. While younger
children may be amenable to
uniforms "might even like
them "teenagers are different.
It's axiomatic that adolescence
is a time when young people
strive to express. their
uniqueness and individuality
in many different ways, and
especially through fashion. Of
course as_ several political
cartoonists have pungently
observed, teens are already in
uniform-baggy pants, T-shirts
and baseball caps worn
backward. But: these are
ouniforms ? of teens' own
choosing, and not fashions
dictated from above. School
administrators and _ teachers
know the teenagers are sure to
rebel against uniforms
policies; that's why so far

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they've been reluctant to
impose them at the high school
level.

Second, for a public school
uniform policy to be legal, it
has to have an opt out
provision. Every child in this
country has the right to a
public school education, and
that right cannot be
conditioned upon compliance
with a uniform policy. Some
parents and children will have
religious objections to
uniforms. Others won't want
to participate aesthetic
reasons. If given a choice, it is
hard to imagine that most or
even many teenagers will opt
to wear the uniforms.

Beyond these practical
considerations, the call for
school uniforms is not

constructive because it is a
Band Aid solution to a set of
serious problem that defy my
answers. There is something
profoundly cynical about our
political leaders promoting
uniforms in the face of
crumbling school buildings,
overcrowded classrooms, and
dwindling education funds.
The debate over uniforms is a
diversion. Attractive, modem
and safe school buildings,
small class sizes, schools with
well stocked libraries, new
computers and an way of

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elective courses like musi¢,
drama and art "those are the
kinds of changes that would
produce long lasting and
dramatic improvements in
student deportment and
achievement. But of course
that would require us to
invest, rather than disinvest,
in our public school system.

If policy makers are serious
about finding solutions to the
problem of school violence,
maybe they should ask the
real experts: the students
themselves. The ACLU
recently conducted a series of
focus groups and discussions
with high school students and
asked them what they thought
would help. Uniforms didn't
am make it onto the list. Their
suggestions:

1) Since school violence
mirrors that of society at
large, schools should
seriously confront and
discuss issues of racism
and cultural conflict,

2) oSafe corridor T programs
should be supported to
protect the safety of students
as they go to and from school,

3) School entrances should be
secured, :

4) More extracurricular T
activities and clubs should be T
established,

5) Open-mike assemblies

should be held on a regular
basis to give students the

opportunity to express
themselves,

6) Programs to help students
find part-time jobs should be
established, and . :

7) Conflict resolution
techniques should be taught.

Now, that is a real plan!

By

Keith W. Cooper

On Monday June 21, 1999, the Pitt County Board of
Commissioners approved the
final budget for Fiscal Year 1999-2000. Unfortunately, there is
not much in that budget to put smiles on the faces of blacks in
this county of over 126,000 residents. There are many
"missed opportunities" that should have been met and numer-
ous mistakes which should've been avoided. Why would com-
missioners agree to set aside $800,000 for a new animal
shelter when too many people are homeless? The "animal cas-
tle" should not have been a top priority. Commissioners
missed a chance to give the Pitt County School System the $3
million requested for increased teacher salaries and supple--
ments, Curriculum and Instruction, local non-certified per-
sonnel, etc. Teachers' supplements are below the state average
along with per-pupil spending. What about Mental Health?
Many vital Mental Health programs, like Respite, have been
cut or devastated. The satellite offices in Farmville, Ayden,
and Bethel were closed due to Mental Health's budget short-
fall ($1.8 million). If commissioners had implemented an over-
sight program many years ago, the present budget crisis

The assignment was meant

Chris Roos holds an exam paper on a reading assignment that
included a derogatory term for blacks. The assignment outraged
black parents. Roos was fired but plans to try to get his job hack.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS a

Story with slur costs
S. African teacher job

ble of teaching students. ?
An Education Department spokes-

selves?

nothings"

quated fire truck. Also, a
Robinson's ridiculous pro

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for you and your families since those
elected. If not, we must send a clear message to those "do- -
when they seek reelection. We don't have to settle
for mediocrity and business as usual. We deserve better.
How might an $800,000 animal shelter look? Well, the door-
knobs might be gold plated. A poodle might parade around
with a powdered nose, rouged jaws, and lipstick. A
Dalmatian might take a picture beside a replica of an anti-
Saint Bernard might be given a
pulpit where he can preach a sermon on how commissioners
became the laughingstock of the county by accepting |
By the way, Kibbles and Bits
may be replaced with Kibbles and Chunks. Fancy Feast could
become Fancy Feast with Caviar.

could've been avoided. Who cares about the hungry? Each
year, 13 million people around the world die of hunger. In
this country, between 2 and 5 million children go to bed hun-
gry each night. County Manager Tom Robinson, who makes
$101,000 annually, said he could not find ,

money to help feed hungry citizens in this county.
Furthermore, commissioners didn't
meet the needs of those less fortunate than we. Since blacks
proportionately go to bed hungry in Pitt County, the black
commissioners should have demanded money to address the
problem. Instead, they let Robinson have his way. Are com-
missioners adequately represent their constituents or them-
Look around you. Has the quality of life improved

pressure him to help

commissioners were

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to teach racial equality. The
reaction to it illustrates the
problems that remain five
years after the end of
apartheid.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa " When a
white teacher assigned his racially
integrated class a story containing
a derogatory term for blacks, it cost
him his job " even though the
work Ts message was that regard-
less of skin color, everyone is the
same underneath.

Chris Roos T dismissal Wednesday
underscores that five years after
apartheid Ts demise, race remains a
flashpoint in South Africa Ts schools.

Black parents were furious that
Roos assigned. oUnto Dust, ? a book
containing the word okaffir, ? a racial
slur {n South Africa. The story by
He Charles Bosman, who died
in 1951, explores the theme that
blacks and whites are equal.

About 100 angry parents protest-
ed Monday at the Cullinan Combined
School in the capital, Pretoria,

Roos said he assigned the story
to his sixth-graders oto explain to
the children the issues of racism
and that we are all equal, ?

oBut I Tm the pig of the school
now, ? he said. oThe ter told
me to leave and said I'm not capa-

. man thinks Roos T intentions were
good but said wounds from white rule
remain too fresh for him to have
addressed racial issues in that way.

oThe story has a very powerful
anti-racist message. I am convinced
the teacher Ts intentions were
noble, ? said Aubrey Matshigi,
spokesman for the provincial
Education Department. oBut
maybe the timing is a bit incorrect.
Our schools are still trying to grap-
ple with race issues. ?

The parents maintained that
Roos showed a lack of sensitivity in
assigning the story and that some
of their children were upset by it.

oIf we Tre living in a new South
Africa, it Ts stupid to come up with
such assignments, ? said one father,
who refused to give his name.

The dispute exposes racial sen-
sitivity that goes deeper than the
use of a hated word. A government
commission recently denounced
the ovirtual apartheid ? that persists
in schools, with the separation of
white and black residential areas
hampering true equality in educa-
tion. School playgrounds have
become obattlefields ? between
cory and white students, the report

Roos said he plans to go to the
teachers T union and Education

Department to try to get his job
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Political Perspectéi

[s There Common Ground for Blacks and Republicans " Back Wonen Moe ich iG Birk

Raleigh, NC - The political
landscape may be green on both
Sides of the (political) fence for
North Carolina African
Americans Twelve (12) Pastors
from key regions of the State
gathered in Raleigh to meet with
the leadership of both parties to
G@iscuss education initiatives for
children in low wealth commu-
nities. The group identified
themselves as Pastors for
Children~" It is not uncommon
for Black clergymen to meet
with Democrats. However, when
prominent Black Leaders request

ties." Rev. Barber is registered
independent. "More informed
voters are realizing that local(
Democrats or Republicans), and
state (Democrats or
Republicans) and __ national
(Democrats or Republicans) are
not, :

necessarily the same and are
often times very different de-
pending on what level YOU
meet them at," Barber con-
cluded. Black voters in North
Carolina are becoming more
politically diverse. Rev. Troy
Williams (Fayetteville) a black

to meet with conservative Republican offered this pro-
Republicans it might tend to spective. "This kind of dialog
raise a few eyebrows. Perhaps
former Republican House dence the North Carolina
Speaker Harold Brubaker stated

it best when he said, This the than willing to continue open

first time in my 24 years in the
House that something like this
has happened" Rev. William
Barber I] (Goldsboro), one the
organizers related to. following, political options open." After
"This is a very diverse group,
some are Democrats, some are Democrat leadership they
Republicans and some are regis- (Democrats) suggested _ the
tered Independent Party affirma-
tion Is not the issue we care
about the plight of children
living in low wealth communt-

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rack cocaine " the power-
ful, smokable and very
destructive form of the

drug " accounts for more than
80% of cocaine arrests in New

York City. oCrack is extraordinari-

ly addictive, ? says Dr. Brian
Grobois, deputy chief of psychia-
try with the Jewish Board of
Family and Children Ts Services.
oPeople are willing to do any-
thing or everything to get their
next fix. ?

oCrack is different than hero-
in or alcohol, ? T agrees Tiaya
Ashwood, of the Family Health &
Support Center. The addict's
attention span is less, the cen-

tral nervous system is more
And the addiction accelerates

A heroin addict or alcoholic can
maintain themselves much
longer, years. ?

The powerful addictive prop-
erties of crack have much to do
with the fact that it is smoked,
not snorted. This allows it to
reach the brain much more quick-
ly. Crack is also cheap (Some-
times as little as $1 or $2 a hit)
and shorttived (the high lasts
five or 10 minutes). Unlike pow-
dered cocaine, which became a
favorite of the middle class and

THE BIOLOGY OF COCAINE

ocaine activates the pro-
Ce: of dopamine, the

brain chemical responsible
for stimulating pleasure when
we eat, socialize or have sex.
Under normal conditions,
dopamine carries the electrical
signal for pleasure from nerve
to nerve, turning off when it is
blocked by a particular protein.
Cocaine, however, blocks that
protein so there is nothing to

decrease the levels of dopamine

and, by extension, the feelings
of pleasure. Cocaine " and par-
ticularly crack cocaine, the pow-
erful, smokable form of the drug
" bestows an overstimulated,
overenergized, hyped-up kind of
pleasure.

Prolonged use of cocaine
and/or higher doses of the drug
can cause paranoia as well as
erratic and violent behavior.
Prolonged snorting can result in
ulceration of the nose Ts
mucous membrane and can
damage the nasal septum
enough to cause it to collapse.
It can also be fatal: A report
published this month in the
Journal of the American Heart
Association has found that the
risk of heart attack increases
nearly 24 times in the hour
after using cocaine " even
among individuals who had
no prior symptoms of heart
disease.

The reasons for that increase
are many: a sudden rise in blood
pressure, heart rate and contrac-
tions of the heart's left ventricle,
or constriction of the coronary
arteries so that blood flow to the
heart is obstructed.

Gaueclomietciectal mel

is promising. I have all confi-
Republican leadership is more

discussions with the African
American community. Blacks
have nothing to lose and every-
thing to gain by keeping their

meeting with the House

Pastors for Chidren skip their
meeting with Republicans based
upon the history of the
Democrat Party with the black

community. Former House
speaker Brubaker, Minority
Leader Richard Morgan and
Rep. Julia Howard were the
three Republicans who met with
the group (Pastors for Children).
The (Republicans) outlined very
candidly and in a straight for-
ward manner their conservative
agenda. It was clear that there
were some philsophical differ-
ences, however, some Black
Pastors were admittedly " sur-
prised to learn that on many
points they agreed..One Pastor
commented on.

the Republican presentation re-
ferring to the Bible to make his
point said, "Like King Agrippa
said to Apostle Paul in the Book
of Acts . . . almost thou
persuadest me!..." Black leaders
keeping an open mind and hear-
ing both sides (Republicans and
Democrats can only mean a
win/win scenario for the African
American community. addition-
ally, maybe just maybe
Republicans will get lucky and
Blacks will really remember
their history and return to their
party roots. The Party of
Lincoln.

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NEW YORK, Jun 17 (Reuters
Health) -- Black women are four
times as likely as whites to die
during or shortly after childbirth --
one of the largest health-related
disparities between the races in
the US, according to a report
released Thursday by the Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta,
Georgia.

African-American women are
more likely than whites to die of
any pregnancy-related cause, in-
cluding hemorrhage, blood clots
or hypertension, and regardless of
whether or not they have received
prenatal care. Overall, about 7.5
maternal deaths occur for every
100,000 births, a number that
could be reduced, say CDC
officials.

At least T three states --
Massachusetts, Nebraska and
Washington -- have reduced that
rate to about 3 deaths per 100,000
births for white women, the
national goal for all women by the
year 2000. The main thing to
remember is that maternal mortal-
ity is a rare event.

On the other hand, it can serve as
a marker for other issues, ? said Dr.
Lynne Wilcox, director of the
division of reproductive health at
the CDC. in an interview with
Reuters Health.

What we are finding is that this
is a persistent disparity. We are
calling for looking more closely at
monitoring and identifying these
deaths.

But also we think there needs to
be a great deal more research,
particularly prevention research,
that looks at things like content of
care. whether or not women are

getting to care in time, whether or
not there are health behaviors that
may be affecting their behaviors,
if violence is an issue " she said.
There are a number of areas here
that need further investigation"

It is not exactly clear why black
women are at greater risk than
whites, but it does not appear to
be race per se that is to blame, or
a lack of prenatal care.
Although prenatal care reduces
the risk for maternal mortality,
healthcare access and use do not
explain fully the disproportionate
risk for maternal death for black
women," according to the CDC
report. oOther factors, such as
quality of prenatal (care), delivery
and postpartum care may explain
part of this difference."

The CDC report included data on
maternal mortality in the US
between 1987 and 1996, a time
when maternal mortality remained
stable at about 7 deaths per
100,000 births and a total of 3,086
women died during childbirth or
as a consequence of pregnancy-
related complications. In an analy-
sis of 26 states, the maternal
mortality rate for white women
ranged from 2.7 in Massachusetts
to 9.2 in Vermont. For black
women, the maternal mortality
rate ranged from 8.7 deaths in
Massachusetts to 28.7 in New
York.

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By James Vines

As the summer began to
fade away and Fall was just
around the comer, the memory
of my friend still fresh on my
mind, I decided to go in seclu-
sion until | could get the horrible
sight of my friend out of your
mind. So I got a list of my books
that I was to use in my senior
year in school. The closer the
opening date got, the sadder |
got, because I knew that I would
never hear the voice of my
friend call for me every morning
as he passed my house on his
way to school. I remember the
times we had walking with the
rest of the girls and boys as we
hurried to get to school before
the bell rang.

I studied real hard that
year because I had made up my
mind that I would leave home

and go North after I graduated »

from high school. The school
year ended May 31, 1941 and 1
was among the best students
graduating with a B+ average,
but that did not erase the
memories of my best friend. I
did what some folks thought
was good, but I knew that I
should have finished with
straight A Ts but sadness was still
in my heart. After the graduat-
ing exercises were over I gath-
ered my things together and
planned to leave the next day,
but this was not to be. I don Tt
care how far ahead you plan but
you can not out-plan God. So |

decided to spend on more week
with my mother whom I love
very dearly, but I didn Tt know
that my aunt and my mother had
already planned to give me a
graduating present that included
a trip to Baltimore. So June 21,
1941 we packed our clothes in
the 1939 Buick owned by my
aunt Ts friend, After everything
was packed in the car we said
our goodbyes and headed for
Baltimore. It started out to be a
very lovely trip as we rode
through northeastern North
Carolina. The tobbaco was just
beginning to grow and the early
corn was just about to tassel
out. It was harvesting season for
white potatoes and as we rode
through the country we could
see the workers as they picked
up the potatoes and carried
them to the dumping truck,

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t

On one occassion we
stopped and chatted with some
of the workers. We finally
reached the N.C./Virginia bor-
der after passing through
Weldon, N.C.

Our next stop would
have been Petersburg, VA, but
about six miles out of
Petersburg we met another car
driving on the wrong side of the
highway and crashed head on
into us. After the crash the only
thing I can remember is getting
out the car lying on the side of
the road and then I blacked out.

I don Tt know to this day when
and how I got to the hospital.
After I had been there about two
days my mother came to see
me, and I have never been so -
glad to see someone from home :
in my life.
She came to the side of |
the bed and took me by the hand :
and began to pray. After she
finished praying the only thing I
could think of was oMama, I am
going to be a better boy. ? After
the accident I had a lot of hatred
and malice that had grown in -
me after what had happened to :
me and my friend.

I believe God shows us
how we should live in many
ways. After my mother left the
room they said I could have one
more visitor so she left and my
next visitor was Donovan
Phillips who was just opening a
new undertaking business in
Greenville.

I don Tt know how to say
I was glad to see a undertaker

but I was glad to see him. He
came up to the bed and
said, ?Little Bro. how are you
doing? ? I said I was fine and
that | was glad to see him. Then
he said to me, oI have come to
take you home. ? You know
what kind of thoughts came into
my mind, when he said,
ohome ?. We packed what we
had and the nurse came in and
took me to the car and we
headed back for North Carolina.

Be sure to read the
next episode of this true story ;
next week. :

The Minority Voice: June 17 - July 7, 1999

4

POOR MOM

Mom Is a scholar, a child
psychologist, a race car/stunt
driver,medical expert, clairvoy-
ant/find Spouse's keys, kids li-
brary books, peacemaker,
magician (extraordinary home-
budgeting skills, assembling di-
-lapidated science fair projects,
semi-professional athlete (devel-
oping proficiency in soccer, bas-
. ketball, Little League baseball,
pre-beginner ballet, hobbles (dab-
bling In cooking, cleaning and
laundry), and yet Dad comes in
and says, "What have you been
doing allday."

THE WAY WE'LL BE - 10
FUTURE TRENDS IN
FAMILY LIFE

1) Work - Working at home will
give parents more flexibility, but
probably won't make life any less
hectic.
2) Homegrown enterprises or
microbusinesses - "will cut into
the mass-produced retail market
and thrive on a revitalized main
street.
3) Families - Ten years from now,
divorce will decline but so will
traditional marriages.
Instead, you'll see more unusual
arrangments: communal living
and serial marriages, with starter
marriages as a first tryout In living
together.

4) Parenting will take place later
and later. Forty- year-old
MOBY'S (Mother Older, Baby
Younger) will be common-
place,child-rearing takes place af-
ter a full career.

5) The percentage of married
couples with children fell from.
50.3
percent. Following this trend, an
entirely different household will
emerge. More people will live
together in multi-family arrang-
ments

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oA CARNAL MIND ?

A carnal mind is defined as

a mind that is sinful, worldly,

Read the Word xf God and know the tru

fleshy and unspiritual. Shelhamar
has listed these traits of a carnal
mind:

1......A secret sense of pride: an
exalted feeling in view of your
success Or your position.

2......A love of human praise; a
secret fondness to be noticed.

3......Stirrings of anger or impa-
tience; a touchy sensitive spirit.

4......A self will; a stubborn un-
teachable spirit.

5.....A carnal fear: a shrinking
from reproach and duty.

more kids will live with one
parent; more children will be born
to unmarried parents; and the
family will once again become an
extended family.

6) Education - Parents will in-
creasingly home-school their chil-
dren. In 1946, about 1.2 million
students were taught at home this
figure Is growing, at a rate of 15
percent a year and will skyrocket
as more parents begin working at
home.

7) Students will begin going to
school only two or three day's a
week and Instead use on-line
"distance learning", software and
televideo phones to participate in
a virtual classroom. Interactive
schools will feature academics
superstars from every field of

study:
8) Health = People will live past
125 years. AIDS, even most

cancers, will be cured. A special-
ist, thousands of miles away will
examine you via a long-distance
doctor or patient monitor, foods to
eat will take resourcefulness, as
more bacterial scares ". will
surface -just magnify the tainted
apple juice situation.

9) The hottest rage is going to be
longevity centers rangng from
family clinics to luxury retreats.
These will feature clean air,

clean water and doctors schooled
in anti-aging therapies who teach
you how to improve your health.

10) Fast food for the increasingly
health-conscious will mean clean,
pesticide-free food--not burgers
and fries.

By: The Tutarist (Gerald Celent,
Director of Trends Institute and
author of Trends 2000. Eric
Clemons, Professor of
Operations and Information man-
agement, Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania. Faith
Popcorn and Lys Marigold,
Consumer Trend Experts
and author of Clicking.

A TRIBUTE TO THE
LATE MRS. ESTHER
LAUGHINHOUSE

Mrs.Esther Laughinghouse was a

woman of strength, character and
dignity, of patience and calmness.
When she spoke, her words and
kindness was the rule for every-
thing she said. Her children bless
her. There are many women in the
world, but she was one of the
hest.

She feared and reverenced the
Lord. She's to be praised for the
many fine things she's done, the
spotless life she lived for she was
a friend to the friendless, and a

TAOUSNCES

6......A jealous disposition: a se-
cert spirit of envy.

7......A lustful stirring; undue af-
fection and familiarity toward
those of the opposite sex.

8......A dishonest deceitful disposi-

tion: covering up your real faults.

9 ....Unbelief: lack of faith and
trust in God.

10....Formality and deadness; lack
of concern for lost souls; indiffer-
ence.

.... Stinginess, being over-

exacting about trifles.
12....Sectarianism; cool and cal-
lous toward others who differ with
you: failing to cooperate with
others for the salvation of souls;
sitting back with a critical and
over-wise air.

Perhaps you ask yourself,
oHow can anyone be without
some of these traits to say the least
of all of them? ? The answer is we
will never be one hundred per cent
free from some carnlity and cer-
tainly not free from all of the
twelve traits listed because the
Scriptures tell us that were born in
and shapen in inquity. Therefore, it

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a carrier of gossip. Her personal-
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HOW TO PUT THE
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(By; Barbara Bartocci)

is a constant hourly and daily
struggle. We cannot, in our own
strength. solve the great, self-
purifying problem, but by giving
ourselves wholly to christ and
constantly denying the demands of
the personal self. We grow into the
divine image and claim our ulti-
mate freedom.

The Apostle Paul, who was
the greatest ambassador for Jesus
Christ, and to whom God re-
vealed more things than he did
to any other disciple, says. oI die
daily. ? It means dying to all of
the carnal traits heretofore men-
tioned. Paul further states in

1) Be happy.

2) Don't quit. (Don't let failure
discourage you.)

3) Accept today. (Realize that
problems offer us opportunities
to
4) Say thanks. (Count your
blessings.)

5) Don't worry. (Ask
something I can fix??"?
6) Be kind. (Do something kind
for a friend, a stranger someone
who rubs you the wrong way.)

7) Reach out. (Honor each
person with eye contact and a
smile.

It doesn't matter if the person
smiles back.)

8) Seek grace. (Look past your
doubts to see God.)

9) Stay honest. (Do it always and
in all ways.)

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District caused by the death of
longtime Sen. Wyona LIPMAN.
Mayor-Senator JAMES now
becomes one of six New Jersey
Mayors who also hold seats in
the state legislature. James T
salary as Mayor and Senator
totals $203,530 annually, making
him the highest paid official in
the state where the Governor,
Christie WHITMAN, earns only
$85.000.

GEORGETOWN
UNIVERSITY TS LEGENDARY
JOHN THOMPSON, the first
African-American Basketball
Coach to win a _ national
championship and one of 19
nominees for the 1999 Basketball
Hall of Fame, has reportedly
agreed to a onice out-of-court
settlement ? in the divorce from
his wife, Gwen, after 24 years, in
an attempt to avoid a possible
flagrant-foul like tussle over his
millions earned through his Nike
stock and multiple business and
real estate holdings. The couple Ts
sons are both basketball coaches:
John 35 at Princeton and Ronnie,
30, at Georgetown. . .

US: TRANSPORTATION
SECRETARY RODNEY
SLATER will commission the
Alex HALEY, formerly a 283-
foot Navy ship which has
received a $20-million overhaul,
on July 10 into the Coast Guard
Armada. The late Haley, famed
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
oRoots, ? spent 20 years in the
Coast Guard, rising from ship Ts
steward to be the first head of its
public affairs office, and
becomes the first journalist to be
honored by having his name on a
Coast Guard Vessel. . . .

AFRICAN - AMERICAN
BUSINESS and political leaders
are letting Democratic Party
Officials know that they must be
considered as major players on
party activities after the African-
American party initiative led by
Rep. Charles B. RANGEL, dean
of the New York Congressional
Delegation, grosses some $1.3
million from its June 10
reception with President William
CLINTON and Ambassador of
Music Lionel HAMPTON ....

Rep. RANGEL, Vice
President Al GORE, Rev. Al
SHARPTON, Statesman-
Businessman Percy E. SUTTON
and Manhattan Boro President
C. Virginia FIELDS were among
the speakers at the National
Newspapers Publishers
Association annual convention
last week at the Sheraton New
York Hotel. Religious leaders
participating included the Rev.
Simon BOUIE, President of the
Ministerial Interfaith Association
of New York: the Rev. Dr.
Nathaniel GRADY SR., Public
Affairs Officer of the United
Methodist Church; and the Rev.
James E. BOOKER JR.,
Manhattan Director of Christian
Education of the A.M.E. Church.

THE REV. JESSE JACKSON
is in Europe this week working
to free 13 jailed Iranian Jews
who face hanging if convicted of
charges of spying for Israel.
During his trip he will also
receive Golden Dove of Peace in

debts exceeded his

Italy for his help in winning
freedom for others in trouble. .
WITH FORMER NEW YORK
City Police Commissioner Lee P.
BROWN as Mayor of Houston,
the Lone Star State of Texas
boasts of a colorful Lone Star
State in law enforcement existing
in no other state; the Chief of the
Houston Police Department is
C.0. BRADFORD; the FBI
Special Agent in charge is don
K. CLARK; Ernest HOWARD
the special Agent in charge of
the Drug Enforcement Agency;
Bruce MARQUIS is Chief of the
Houston Independent School
District; and A.B. CHAMBERS
and Reuben DAVIS are
Constables in Harris and fort
Bend Counties. PWB
(Policing While Black) should
help to eliminate the fear of
DWB (Driving While Black)
deep in the heart of Texas. ...
WHEN MEMBERS- OF
CONGRESS released their 1998
financial disclosure statements,
Florida's rep. Alcee = L.
HASTINGS reported that his
assets.
Hastings, a former wrongly-
impeached judge, said he owes
legal fees of at least $2.2 million.

ATTORNEY CHRISTOPHER
EDLEY JR.. a Harvard Law
Professor and member of the
U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1s
one of the chief drafters of a
book President CLINTON hoped
to issue as a follow to his
Initiatives On race....

AROUND NEW YORK

THE COUNCILWOMAN
FROM QUEENS, HELEN
MARSHALL, chair of the City
Council's Committee on Higher
Education, and Harlem's
Councilman Bill Perkins created
a storm this week when Marshall
accused CUNY task force Chief
Benno SCHMIDT of oethnic
cleansing ? and Perkins charged
that Schmidt's report was full of
Outrageous oracial stereotypes
and innuendoes. . . ?

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PROMINEN T
BUSINESSMAN and Civil
Leader Al WILSHIRE has left
Brooklyn Union Gas to become
manager of government relations
at Con Edison....

IT WAS A WHO TS WHO of
the city Ts government, business
and foundation leaders mingling
with Harlem leaders at the
Abyssinian Development
Corporation Ts fifth Harlem
Renaissance Day of Commitment
Breakfast Under The Tent June
18 where ADC chair, Rev.
Calvin O. BUTTS III, said over
$400,000 was raised from the
affair. He also announced that
within the year the old Casino
building at 138th Street and
Adam Powell Boulevard, would
be under construction as a
catering and banquet facility. . . .

REV. DR. PRESTON
WASHINGTON, head of the
Harlem Congregations for
Community Improvement, happy
after the city Ts Housing &
Preservation Development
Depart-ment announced that
HCCI was part of the winning
team for the development in the
$35.4 million redevelopment of
the lot at 145th Street and
Bradhurst Avenue, leaving the
selection of a supermarket
Operator to the four-group
development team... .

THE STATE UNIVERSITY
OF NEW YORK trustees gave
approval for the opening of eight
controversial charter schools this
September, including the John A.
REISENBACH Charter School
and the Sinsulu Victory
Academy in Harlem, strongly
supported by Caana Baptist
Church's Pastor Wyatt Tee
WALKER and the Urban
League's Chief Denise
WALCOTT. ..

THOSE HEBREW
ISRAELITES, who have
gathered in Times Square for
years preaching that Blacks are
the lost tribes of Israel and that
Whites are devils, have won a
$59,000 out-of-court settlement
from GIULIANI administration

The Minority Voice: June 17 - July 7, 1999

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after the Police Department
revoked their permit and began
harassing the group. . . .
BROADWAY ACTRESS
BRENDA BRAXTON letting it
be known that she has more
talent than is displayed in her
starting role in oSmokey Joe Ts
Cafe, ? as she is working on a
number of real estate deals in
Harlem, including an artists
colony residence and/or full
service hotel in the community. .

HARLEM BUSINESS
ALLIANCE prexy Walter
EDWARDS has his Full
Spectrum Inc. Revising its plans
for a major tourist attraction 17-
story, 430-room hotel. With an
array of entertainment options,
including a boat docking facility
at 131st Street and the Hudson
River, with a major hotel
operator involved. The project is
still before Community Board 9
waiting approval... .

WHEN THE BLACK
PUBLISHERS met at the
Sheraton New York last week,
publisher of the year honors went
to Dr. Wilbert A. TATUM,
chairman of the board, CEO and
popular Publisher Emeritus of
the New York Amsterdam News. .

RICHARD PARSONS, TIME
WARNER PREXY, who is also
chair of the Upper Manhattan
Empowerment Zone is re-elected
to a second term as chair of the
New York City Partnership and
Chamber of Commerce... .

IT MAY BE A _ SELF-
SERVING MOVE, but Saikou
DIALLO, estranged father of
slain Amadou Diallo, claims he
has oput down ? the Rev. Al
SHARPTON as his political
advisor and oreplaced ? attorneys
Johnnie COCHRAN and the
Dream Team with Islamic legal
and Public Relations advisors.
However, Saikou Diallo, who.is
divorced from Amadou Dkallo Ts
mother Kadiaou never had Rev.
Sharpton as his political advisor
or Johnnie Cochran as his legal
agent. Both were brought into the

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represent the estate of Amadou
Diallo. .

HOWARD REID, THE
HEMPSTEAD, Long Island taxi
driver may be close to cashing in
his $7.4 million Lotto ticket
prize, although he says he
accidentally threw- out the
winning ticket. The state
legislature has passed a bill
which would give him the
money, however, Gov. PATAKI
has not indicated where he will
sign it.

LATE TICKER

CLAIMING THAT SINGER
BOBBY BROWN, husband of
superstar Whitney Houston, has
violated his probation on his
1998 drunken-driver conviction,
Florida officials in Broward
County have issued a warrant for
his arrest if he returns to the
Sunshine State... .

FUNERAL SERVICES HELD
earlier this month for the
glamorous movie star Francine
Everett, a singer, dancer and
actress in the all-Black films of
the 30s and 40s who refused
stereotype roles in oWhite ?
movies, was a wife of actor Rexd
INGRAM, who didn Tt. Born in
the early years of this century,
she died in a Bronx nursing
home....

NOTED RAP PERFORMER
SNOOP DOGGY DOG, whose
real name is Calvin Broadus, has
announced plans to build a theme
park in his hometown of
Magnolia, Miss... .

THE AMERICAN FILM
INSTITUTE has created a list of
the 50 greatest American screen
legends, 25 men and 25 women,
with Humphry BOGAR§ and
Katherine HEPBURN, st#¥s of
the 1951 movie, oThe African
Queen ? topping the list. The
only other time oAfrican ? is
mentioned is in reference to
Oscar winner Sidney Potier who
ranks on the near bottom of his
male list at number 22. That's
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It is the first day of camp. A day
filled with excitement for both the
children and the adults. Bright faces
of the children quickly fill the room
as parents begin filling out forms
and asking those important ques-
tions. A sign outside of the room
welcomes the campers to "Summer
Days. The bubble letters are colored
in bright greens, pinks and yellows.
A huge calendar hung on the door
displays a list of 7-week activities,
like swimming, bowling, skating,
story and snack time. This is a day
camp, a camp similar to many
others across Pitt County with only
one difference. Sure the children
still bring their favorite pillow, and
all the other goodies that get stuffed
inside those Disney, Star Wars, and
Michael Jordan back packs, but
many of the children also bring
things like: medication, walkers,
wheel chairs and personal care
providers. This is a camp for
children, regular everyday children,
with one exception; these children
have developmental disabilities.
Started by the Arc of Pitt County

-¢ight years ago, the camp is
designed for children ages 5-21 with
significant medical, physical, behav-
ioral and cognitive impairments
associated with their developmental
disability.

This year the camp, or "Summer
Days" as it is called has 16 campers,
a staff of three and many volunteers
who lend a helping hand. On any
given day it is not unusual to

see campers engaged in gross motor
play, or what camp counselor, Annie
Suffon, calls our exercise, "It's
basically vigorous activity, to stimu-
late their brains and bodies. We
have fun doing things like relays,
jumping and counting cadence,
Annie says, "just like the military. ?
This camp is not all work however;
the campers and the staff alike get
involved in all of the activities the

children participate in. "From skat-
ing to bowling, ? Annie says, "we do
it all. That way a child who uses a
wheel chair still gets to do the same
things as any other child would do.
It's not important how they do it
just so long as they do it." And these
campers are doing it all. Tonia
Drake, mother of 6-year-old
Eunique Drake who has attended
the camp for the past two years,
loves the atmosphere and the staff.
"It lets Eunique interact with kids
who are just like she is, handi-
capped, and not only that she gets
to do things that I may not be able
to do with her all the time." A good
atmosphere for children to learn and
play is what Sybil Keesbury; also a
camp counselor calls the camp.
"You've never seen children more
excited than these kids, couldn't
imagine doing anything else with
my time. Sybil, who works at Ayden
Elementary in the preschool disabil-
ity program, is very familiar with
special needs children but admits
that there is a stigma to "special
education." "There's a lot of fear,
and fear breeds ignorance. People
just aren't educated on dealing with
these children," Sybil says. Which
explains why a camp like this type
is necessary, and answers the
question of why these kids aren't in
other camps across Pitt, County
.Brook Owens, an ECU stundent
majoring in Occupational Therapy
and a counselor assistant at the
camp believes that working with
children is just basically, "common
sense"
"It's not something you can learn
from a book, but by interacting with
kids. You can't study a kid from a
book." Regardless of the individual
need of the child or the extent of the
disability, all of the kids like the
sign out front of South Greenville
Elementary School says, are great
kids.

round The

Debut of Local Recording
Company Hits New York.

By: Michael Adams

Many thanks to Divine Destiny
Recording Company who gave me
the opportunity to join them in the
debut of their up and coming CD
releases. This company encom-
passes three youthful groups,
(ALFREDA HYMAN AND
RENEWED PRAISE; CP/TYME;
TAFFYE BENSON CLAYTON
WITH THE D&D DANCE
TEAM).

Reuben Clayton/ President brings
eight years of management produc-
tion and publishing experience to
this new found company. "/ found
new opportunities in the Gospel
industry." His personal commit-
ment to the Lord Jesus Christ then
gave way to an inspiration of
developing a recording company.

Thomas Payton/ Vice-President
comes with ten years of experience
in the secular music field. "/
managed and promoted several
secular groups over the years and
now | am very excited being called
to Gospel Music."

Taffye Benson Clayton, who is also
the wife of Reuben Clayton/
President, is a founding partner of
Divine Destiny. She was at one
time an R&B urban ballad writer,
with a working experience of over
ten years, traveling from Florida,

Alfreda Hyman/ Founding Partner
and Director of Divine Destiny.
Alfreda has been in this business for
a while and she's been in several
groups and she has finally found her
niche. Her personality and drive
make her special! When asked her
purpose in starting a recording
company, she said, "/ wanted a
non-traditional company _ that
would keep the artist's endeavors in
mind." This comes from her
personal experiences, after seeing
former artists confused and crushed
by the demanding workings of the
music industry.

Sandra Barret/ Vocalist
Extraordinaire. Sandra's first pro-
fessional experience was at twelve
years old, singing at a graduation
ceremony, during the time when the
only participants in such a cere-
mony were adults and professionals,
of said age group. During her
pre-teen years, she performed with
her high school choir. Her part
expeiences includes, (3) Previous
live recordings, a Touring of
Europe (twice), her vocal talents
were featured in a number of plays,
she is an actress, cosmotologist and
salon owner. She had the opportu-
nity of being featured on a national
syndicated Gospel program,
"Inspiration Across America." It is
now a privilege to hear the freedom
in her singing.

This now brings me to the event
itself. Divine Destiny oShow Love ?
CD Debut Tour. On Saturday, June

i

Making it against the odds Divine Destiny '99 "Show Love" Tour.

By Myra Wooten

19th, the first of two parts of the gospel music, in the form of radio : 1

tour took place at Holy Unity
Cathedral, Jamaica, Queens. This
fine cathedral, is pastored by,
Bishop Richard D. Moore.

Accompanying me was Ms. Brenda
Rouse, representing WTOW Joy
1320AM of Washington, NC.
When we entered the church, we
then walked into the sanctuary, took
our seats and waited, along with
others, for the beginning of the
show. The M.C. (Rev. Milton
Sutton) took his place. Two of the
industries more experienced per-
sonnel in bringing new artists and
bringing product to the gospel
music circuit attended. They were
Mr. Gentry McCary of Las Vegas,
Nevada, a nationally known gospel
industry consultant and Mr. Skip
Barrett, Jr, Director of A&R at
Myrrh Records, who was instru-
mental in signing the likes of, The
Thompson Community Singers,
Marvin Sapp, Greg O'Quin, and
Shirley Ceasar. Antoine and Dion,
The D&D Dance Team, performed

and concert, this new team of
vibrant, energetic, well rehearsed
artists, even left me speechless. On
@ personal note, if the show wasn't
up to parr, it's doubtful that I would
have ventured to the following
evening's showing at Holy Unity
Fountain of Praise, where the
Sheperd is, Pastor Dorothy Hyman
(Alfreda's mother), a woman with a
very warm spirit. The greeting we
received at the 11 am service made
me comfortable enough to return at
5 pm to view the evening show.
This group of artists possess vocal
talents that would make each
individual a solo artist in their own
right. In my estimation, Divine
Destiny is well on its T way to
becoming one of the Top Gospel
Headliners in the Nation!

Brandon Lovett/ Road Manager and
William Chadwick, his assistant,
engineered the movement of the
entourage of Divine Destiny, as if
they were long-term professionals.

to the Hip Hop, Urban Music of Again | want to take this opportu-
"CP/Tyme". "CP/Tyme" consists of nity to say, "Many Thanks to Divine

Cheryl, Bridgette, Tresbien and
Antonio. "Renewed Praise" con-
sists of Alfreda, Taffye, Sandra,
Donte, Mark, Jerry and Tanya. In
my estimation, the talent of each
individual group could have been

easily showcased on the likes of a .

Stella Awards or Bobby Jones Show
and then a show stopper.

After my many years of presenting

Destiny Recording Company", for
giving Brenda Rouse and myself
(Representatives of Minority Voice,
Inc.) the opportunity to share in
"History Being Made".

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The Joy Soup Kitchen has been operated from the fellowship hall of York Memorial AME Zion church since its inception in 1995. Their Expanding ministries need the space.
Joy, Inc.. is is in the planning fundraising phase of construction of a building to house the Joy Soup kitchen and Day Shelter- a center of hope. In Addition to the services currently offered through the Joy

Soup Kitchen, the Day Shelter will allow individuals to attend to personal hygiene needs, launder their clothing, receive communications from perceptive employers, train for existing jobs and receive refer-

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Sealed proposals for Single Prime Bids will be received until
3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 7, 1999, at the office of John
Chaffee, Director, Pitt County Development Commission, 111
South Washington Street, Greenville, NC 27858, for the interior
upfit of the Tenant Area A space in the Eastern Carolina
Technology Incubator (Greene Street, Greenville, NC). at which
time and place bids will be opened and read. A Pre-bid confer-
ence will be held at the site 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 30,
1999,

Complete plans and specifications for this project can be ob-
tained from EDA-Greenville, 201 West 1st Street, Suite 202,
Greenville, North Carolina 27858, (252) 758-3138 @, 758-
0553 Fax, during normal office hours after June 22, 1999, or
are available for examination at Construction Market Data Plan
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27607, Associated General Contractors Plan Room, satellite of-
fice, c/o McGee Reprographics, 801 Dickinson Avenue,
Greenville, North Carolina 27834, or the ECCC Plan Room, 415
North Queen Street, Kinston, NC

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a citizens board and manages a $14 million program, including
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The Well Chapel GOGIC is currently having its annual summer tutorial program which is called $.W.A.V. (pronounced
suave) Students with a vision. It is a free program for children of all ages. The program is for all who want to attend, for
example, if there is someone in the Hispanic community who wants to come, they can because we have an on sight
bilingual coordinator who has experience working with the Spanish speaking community. We are concentrating in 3 areas:
Math, Reading, and Language. The workers are volunteer university students and others who have taken out time
during their vacation to help our youth. If anyone has any questions, comments, or concerns then please contact Shontel
Parker at the Wells Chapel Church number: 752-7155. The program runs Mon. - Thurs. from 12noon until 3:00pm.

The tentative ending date is the 3rd week in July.

Joy Soup Kitchen & Day Shelter..the Ground Breaking
Ceremonies took place at the old location of York Memorial
AME Church on Albermarle Ave. Shown above is the
Coordinator of the Soup Kitchen Sister Barbra Taft & Greenville
City Mayor Nancy Jenkins. Sister Taft & Her sister Dawson
esbstablish the soup Kitchen Years Ago at York Memorial to feed
the hungry. (PHOTO: Jim Rouse)

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on Father's Day. He is shown attending morning worship services at Cornerstone Baptist
Church. Joining him are: (L-R) his son, Ryan, Rev. Dorothy Josey-Associate Minister at

Cornerstone, and his beloved wife, Rhumel. It's really true, you know, the family that prays {

together, stays together.

(PHOTO: Jim Rouse) (This Too Will Pass) The 'M" Voice newspaper camera caught up with cast members of this
too will pass, the off Broadway play on tour throughout Eastern North Carolina. pictured are
cast members & producer Samantha Mc Swain, Tameka Green, Mary Patterson, Dennis White.

oBe sure not to miss it !!!
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Happy Father Day. Brother Bobby Thompson is shown with his oldest son Bershawn
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