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26A salute toMartin Luther King ot:E'M T VOICEEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA'S MINORITY VOICE - SINCE 1987WEEK ENDING JANUARY 14, 1994"Greenville Man Creates Drugo"By Lynnette RiddickEditorA fun and exciting board gamecalled, Drugo is helping to equipour area youth with knowledgethat can shape how they deal withthe society in which they live.Drugo is the name of an innova-tive board game that is quicklygaining popularity in the Pittcounty area. It is unique in that isinformative as well as fun.Drugo, created by health educa-tor Wade Johnson, Jr. is playedmuch like Bingo. It helps playersto learn the facts about drugs andtheir harmful effects.Wade Johnson, Jr., alcohol anddrug coordinator for Pitt CountySchools, developed this game afteracquiring the position as drug edu-cation consultant in 1979. Thecre-ation of this game was done toprovide a fun and effective meansfor his students from grades 6-8 tolearn about drugs.Johnson later formed, W.Johnson Enterprises, Inc., themanufacturer of Drugo. The com-pany consists of Johnson and hiswife who work out of the home. Asof yet, 4,000 games have alreadybeen sold. Johnson Ts goal, how-ever, is extends far beyond that.He hopes to sell as much as 100,000games. oAlways create something tomake difference in others lives andmarket it. My goal is to be anexample " you can use your ownmink to benefit others. The benefitis not in making money but tomake a difference. There Ts a mis-sion greater than money. ?Many times parents have a hardtime identifying with or even un-derstanding their children.Johnson discovered that Drugocancut down the barriers betweenparents and children. This in turnhelps the children to open up totheir parents.Johnson added that after play-ing Drugo once, participants gaina 20% - 30% increase in knowledgebase. As an additional benefit tohis students, Johnson awards withcomicbooks, pens, buttons, bumperstickers, posters, etc. oLearningshould be fun, ? said Johnson.Johnson said we are to encour-age our youth to work for them-selves, they have capability to de-velop and market a product. Andthey must doit through education.This is the number 1 ticket for us.And, Whatever you do you mustput God first.Johnson asks all businesses pur-chase several Drugo games anddonate them to area families.to accomplish as much as WadeJohnson Jr., requires lots of deter-mination, persistence, patienceand just plain hard work. For thoseof you who have a vision or a goalto reach that would positively ef-fect your world I encourage you to oNever go back...even ifit Ts gradual, ? said Johnson.Those who run in a race can Tt lookback or else they will get offcourse.So, keep your eyes on the finishline!1993 in review: A year in Black and WhiteBy Vinette K. PryceSpecial to the AM NewsThis time last year the nationlooked to Washington where a re-gime headed by a Democrat read-ied in transition for a more opti-mistic tenure.New Yorkers who helped electPresident Bill Clinton focused onthe inauguration rather than theSomali war which is still claimingvictims.With a new mayor enteringGracie Mansion, Black New York-ers are not quite as happy or opti-misticabout the Republican prom-ising to carry a big stick somebelieve aimed directly at the Blackcommunity.But while 1994 rapidly advances,1993 looms large as the year whichbegan when Christopher Wilson,a Brooklyn-based Jamican immi-grant, was kidnapped from his car,taken to a remote area in Tampa,Fla., and doused with gasoline andfire, The story made national news.For that same Brooklyn commu-nity, Nick Perry was installed as amember of the New York StateAssembly.By March, Rev. Alfred Sharptonwas jailed. Along with CharlesBarron, the pair was hauled off toRikers Island but had to be movedto Brooklyn where authoritiesclaimed it would be ideal for less~ interaction with other inmates. For- days, protesters honked car horns- demanding release of the activist.Prof. Leonard Jeffries took the:hotseat in April, But it was the- incompetence of city Universityadministrators, and politicians,including former Mayor Ed Koch,which glared brightly inside theManhattan courtroom New York-ers will remember .The Essence Awards laudedwomen in April. During a paidtribute at the Paramount Theater,the women Ts sh a hosted atelevised program which is becom-ing ahighlight foreach succeedingyear. iaOn May 11, Jeffries heard the' verdict. A vie ihe estivist,: SE ewes comebundle.It was June when Rev. CalvinButts decided to crush obscene rapmusic, Like Min. Louis Farrakhanin December, Rev. Butts wantedto know what happened to nameslike the Supremes. They've beenreplaced by Bitches With Prob-lems, Ho Ts With Attitudes andNiggas With Attitudes.Ike and Tina Turner exposedthemselves during this weddingpopular month. Tina Ts movie wonher new respect by asking oWhatsLove Got To Do With It? ? Ike calleda press conference tosay heslappedhis former wife and partner a fewtimes but nothing like sheprotrayed in her movie.The Crown Heights report beatthe August anniversary when moreBlacks were arrested for walkingthrough their own neighborhoodsthat at any other time.The Cirgenti report started adeclinein popularity for there city Tsfirst Black mayor.August was hotter than July forbasketball hero Michael Jordan.The NBA conducted two probes onthe star Ts gambling practices andwas beginning to release informa-tion which tarnished his name. Abrutal murder of his father andcontinued pressure from the me- ,dia resulted in an early retire-ment. Jordan seems content thathe quit at the top.September showed David N.Dinkins was truly the Democraticcandidate of choice. This was alsothe month Wilson say his racistattackers face to face. The 32 year-old stockbroker from Brooklyn waswell enough to relish the fact thattwo of the men received life sen-tences for there heinous crime.History will record the monthwhen Yitzhak Rabin and YassirArafat shook hands in front of theworld during a peace agreementwitnessed by President BillClinton.Whoopi Goldberg madeHalloween of Black arts. She alsostruck and uglier blow for Blackwomen when she helped scriptrin ok monologue for herPhe ToniMorrison certainly did Blackwomen proud when she becamethe first Black woman to receivethe Novel Prize of Literature.White Catholics decided a Blackmayor should serve one term hadthem move out and while reportsare that crime is down and the citywas on an upswing, Mayor DavidDinkins was told to leave by twopercent of New Yorkers. It was asad night at the Sheraton Hotelbut a proud one because MayorDinkins took his licks with grace.Can Tt recall that happening in along, long time.At a time when Blacks andWhites give thanks for blessing,the world Ts biggest star who says ojt doesn Tt matter if you're Black orWhite ? found out it does.After four months on the readwith his oDangerous ? tour, her wasforced off. Michael Jackson saidher was addicted to pain killers.But her was also being tried andconvicted by the American mediawhich has been flooding newspa-pers with accounts of liaisons hereportedly hosted with youngsters.While they still have not foundnay criminal facts, the stories con-tinue.Depression is high in Decemberand a prime case is brutally re-vealed in the person of ColinFerguson, and immigrant fromJamaica. Six people suffered hiswrath. And for his actions heblames Blacks and Whites in thesociety whom he believed failedhim. The Black community lostThurgood Marshall. Jan. 24,Arthur Ashe, Feb. 7, Billy Ecksteinin March, Marian Anderson inApril, and many more to crimerather than natural causes.David Koresh, a religious zealotwho lured many people to Waco,Texas, perished in a fire whichconsumed 86 believers at theBranch Davidian compound. Af-ter 51 days of federal agents tryingto extricate the cult, they weretear-gassed and later overcome byflames.California will not forget thename Stacy Koon, a sergeantfi Basia sed pest sitios, omwhose name is forever associatedwith a motorist named RodneyKing. In Black and White thenames are indelible. Koon was con-victed of violating King Ts civilrights. Laurence Powr , anothercop who beat, cursed and deni-grated the Black man, was alsoconvicted.move forward *Mr. Wade Johnson Jr. is known for teaching our young peopleabout drugs. Mr. Johnson has vow invented a game oDrugo. ?Drugo is to teach our parents and children about drugs. It isnow time to help support Mr. Johnson for what he stands for.Fighting the war of drugs.Local forum to focus onfair housing lawsNorth Carolina law. prohibitsdiscrimination in most housing onthe basis of race, color, religion,sex, national origin, handicap orfamily status. A public forum isplanned in Greenville to educatecitizens about the fair housing lawand to inform them on complaintand processing procedures.The forum, sponsored by theN.C.Human Relations Commission andthe Greenville Human RelationsCommission, is set for Tuesday,January 25, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30p.m. in the West Greenville Recre-ation-Faethity.The N.C. Human Relations Com-mission is responsible for enforc-ing the state fair housing law. Bymandate of the N.C. General As-sembly and with oversight of theU.S. Department of Housing andUrban Development, the commis-sion has the ability to investigate,conciliate and litigate cases andcomplaints about fair housing onbehalf of the citizens of North Caro-lina.The 10-year-old State Fair Hous-ing Act applies to privatehemeowners as well as to real es-tate agents and others in the realestate business, according to Wil-liam J. Barber II, executive direc-tor of the N.C. Human RelationsCommission.The Greenville public forum isone in a series planned through-out the state.For more information, contactEvelyn Cohens at (919) 830-4497or Quessie Peterson with the Hu-man Relations Commission at(919) 733-7996.PCMH campaigns to preventshaken babiesIn response to increasing num-bers of babies diagnosed at PittCounty Memorial Hospital withserious injuries resulting fromtheir beingshaken, PCMH Ts ChildProtection Team has launched acampaign to remind people of thepotential harm that results fromshaking a baby. oUntil a child is about two yearsold, his brain floats in a propor-tionately larger space of cerebralfluid than an adult Ts brain, ? saidJennifer Smith, pediatric socialworker at PCMH. oThis means that| vigorous shaking of the child or; throwing him into the air produces| a whiplash-type to the brain. ?Smith said shaking bangs the| child Ts brain repeatedly against_ their skull, leading to permanent| brain damage or even death. Sev-_ eral small injuries from shakingt over time can cause the same dam-as one violent incident.inform people of these dan-, the PCMH Child Protectionof social workers, doctorsq andcommunity representatives "| supported by the Children TsMiracle Network Telethon "re-cently began distributing bro- chures and rs throughouteastern Carolina to childi aethem calm down in moments whenthey fee] they Tre losing control. ?Smith pointed out that peoplewho succumb to the urge to shakea child are usually not the samepeople involved in typical childabuse cases. Instead, they are of-ten frustrated parents or caretak-ers who are trying to stop aninfant Ts incessant crying. Victimsare usually under one year of ageand often under six months old. oThis syndrome occurs through-out all social and educational lev-els, ? said Smith. oRed flags for usare young parents with stressfuljobs and no extended familynearby, especially around the holi-days when people are under morestress anyway. ?In 1993 at PCMH, six childrenwere categorized as non-acciden-tal shaken baby/head traumacases; in 1992 there were nine.One-third of these children died asa result of their injuries. oThe thing we want to stressthrough this campaign is that ifthe victims of Shaken Baby Syn-drome survive, ? said Smith, otheywill bementally retarded,deafor have speech or motorskill impairments, hydrocephalusor cerebral palsy. oShaken Sydrome is one ofthe most forms of childabuse, ? Smith continued. oBut it TsSerietile in Sin fenen Soak eeepaign. The team also hopes to havea Spanish translation of their bro-chure available in the near future.Formore information on ShakenBaby Syndrome and how to pre-ventit, call the N.C. Chapter of theNational Committee for Preven-tion of Child Abuse at 1-800-354-KIDS.Pure foodcampaignConsumers across the countryare protesting the approval of ge-netically engineered BovineGrowth Hormone (rBGH) for usein dairy cows. Demonstrations,press conferances, and symbolicmilk dumpings have occurred inpd ee sngramtagp toe wy dh eae 29004 8protests are part of the Pure ore FoodCampaign's (PFC) unprecedentednational boycott of milk, dairy andmeat products derived from cowdinjected with rBGH.Over 18,000 activists in 900.com-cae eeea ly ri eet me te

8 Life?Some people call it pride. Some people call it: , determination. Some feel it is a sense of loyalty. It issimply the way we ~eel about our families. It is thedesire we all have tomake life as good asit can possibly befor each and every, family member.Now, more thanever, this is possible.Interest rates arethe lowest they'vebeen in years. And at NationsBank you can takeadvantage of these low rates with loans that arespecifically designed to meet your needs. We haveloans for a new home and loans to improve thehome you have now. We have loans for new cars«) 1992 NationsBugk Corporation, NationsHank sabvadary banks are members FDIC and Equal Housing Lenders 2and loane forused cars, Wehave loans that wil maea difference in your family Ts life. Simply come in.Talk to us. Tell us about the goals you have for yourfamily. And we'lltell youabout loans with reasonableay rates and flexibleguidelines that canhelp you meet thosegoals. It Ts the kind of| practical approachto banking that youwould expect from| bank that has\\4 always believed itssuccess will come from yours. Some people simplycall that common sense. We call it the power tomake a difference.NotionsBankThe Power To Make A Difference ?We Salute His Dream...'» Martin Luther King Jr.oe eeeeOpen Weekdays 7:30 to 5:00Saturday 8 to Noonand less protein ye es seIncredibly , the FDA will NOTrequire consumer labeling of milkand other products from rBGH-injected cows. To avoid hormone-tainted milk after February 3rd,consumers must seek out milk anddairy products that are labeled asfree of rBGH.Recently Consumers Union, thenation Ts most respected consumerwatchdog and publisher of Con-sumer Reports magazine, blastedthe FDA Ts approval of rBGH, say-ing it is unsafe for human health.The group also found that the milkfrom rBGH could have higher lev-els of a human growth factor, IGF-1, which is a suspected carcino-gen.The rBGH drug is the first bil-lion-dollar product of food geneticengineering, Monsanton chemicalcompany reduces rBGH under thename of oPosilac ?. When injectedinto cows, rBGH fores them to pro-duce up to 20% more milk. Alongwith its impacts on human healththe genetically engineered hor-moneis also bad for the farmer thetaxpayer and the diary cow. Stud-ies indicate that the over-produc-tion of milk caused by rBGH willforce up to 30 percent of Americandairy farmers out of business by1997. Moreover the use of rBGH tocreate an even greater milk sur-plus will cost the American tax-payers additional billions of dol-lars in price supports.rBGH will also cause massiveanimal suffering. Cows injectedwith rBGH suffer from increasedudder infections (mastitis). Theyalso could experience high rates ofovarian tumors, uterus disorders,diarrhea, food disorders and birthdefects.Consumers and dairy farmersstrongly opposerBGH. Since 1986,surveys by university and indus-try reachers have shown that up to98% percent of consumers wantrBGH milk clearly labeled.REALIZINGTHEDREAMAS A NATION WE'VE COME A LONG WAY INRECOGNIZING THE DIGNITY AND CIVIL RIGHTSOF EACH AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL. WE OWETHAT PROGRESS IN LARGE PART TO DR. MARTINLUTHER KING, JR. HIS WISDOM, VISION ANDFAITH TOUCHED ALL OUR LIVES, AND_ CONTINUES TO DOSO IN COUNTLESS WAYS, BUTey ORAS:Pacman=

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. §-THE oM T-VOICE-WEEK ENDING JANUARY 14, 1994PCMH campaiIn response to increasing num-bers of babies diagnosed at Pitt °. County Memorial Hospital withaserious injuries resulting from. ~their being shaken, PCMH Ts ChilderT ~Protection Team has launched acampaign to remind people of the- potential harm that results fromold, his brain floats in a propor-tionately larger space of cerebralfluid than an adult Ts brain, ? saidJennifer Smith, pediatric socialworker at PCMH. oThis means thatvigorous shaking of the child orthrowing him into the air producesa whiplash-type to the brain. ?child Ts brain repeatedly againsttheir skull, leading to permanentbrain damage or even death. Sev-eral small injuries from shakingover time can cause the same dam-age as one Violent incident.To inform people of these dan-gers, the PCMH Child ProtectionTeam of social workers, doctorsshaking a baby. Smith said shaking bangs the; D. Dawson RealtyA Residential/Land/Commercial * .% Property Management & Sales us4 410 W. 14th St., Suite A "e, | oN ae smn"Se" Ges, 758-0456 oees ~ 355-7257 758-8370on a's s*s a*s*a=CSUR Eb wks ce vedKe oes' SSeae saeee i Pg $6. oesh WRRAVA yrThese famous words ofDr. Martin Luther Kingare remembered today.He was a leader whoallowed his dream toinspire the masses.His dream created anew way of life and achange for our nation.If you have a dreamabout your future,the counselors atPitt Community Collegecan help you exploreyour options and oIT Have A Dream ?August 28, 1963andcommunity representatives "supported by the Children TsMiracle Network Telethon "re-cently began distributing bro-chures and posters throughouteastern North Carolina to childhealth and prenatal clinics, com-munity hospitals, privatepediatrician Ts offices, social ser-vice agencies, health departments,early intervention programs andmilitary bases. oThe literature explains in frank,simple terms the injuries that canresult from shaking a child, ? saidSmith. oI also offers parents andcaretakers reasonable, easy alter-natives to shaking that will helpthem calm down in moments whenthey feel they Tre losing control. ?Smith pointed out that peoplewho succumb to the urge to shakea child are usually not the samepeople involved in typical childabuse cases. Instead, they are of-ten frustrated parents or caretak-ers who are trying to stop aninfant's incessant crying. Victimsare usually under one year of ageand often under six months old. oThis syndrome occurs through-out all social and educational lev-els, ? said Smith. oRed flags for usare young parents with stressfuljobs and no extended familynearby, especially around the holi-days when people are under morestress anyway. ?In 1993 at PCMH, six childrenwere categorized as non-acciden-tal shaken baby/head traumacases; in 1992 there were nine.One-third of these children died asa result of their injuries.ens to prevent shaken babies oThe thing we want to stressthrough this campaign is that ifthe victims of Shaken Baby Syn-drome survive, ? said Smith, otheywill probably be mentally retarded,deaforblind, have speech or motorskill impairments, hydrocephalusor cerebral palsy.The Child Protection Team Tsbrochure will be reprinted for usestatewide by the oPrevent ChildAbuse in North Carolina ? cam-paign. The team also hopes to havea Spanish translation of their bro-chure available in the near future.For more information on ShakenBaby Syndrome and how to pre-ventit, call the N.C. Chapter of theNational Committee for Preven- .tion of Child Abuse at 1-800-354-KIDS.heard,7 IXtvyTRW Steering &Suspension Systems2100 N. Greene StreetGreenville, NC 27834A Salute toMartinLuther King, Jr.We salute the man who made civil rightsa reality. His dedication made a dreanrricome true for mary. King fought for thisdream peacefully and will always beremembered as aman with the courageTo speak out against injustice "and beTo keep Martin Luther King Ts memory alive,we must remember his dream and striveto achieve equal rights for everyone. Hiswork is not finished "it is up fo us tocontinue the struggle.begin p andtraining for a'new career.Lee Pitt Community CollegeHY Greenville, NC.: | :

By Mel TapleyArts & EntertainmentEditorIf Janet Jackson Ts last New Yorkhit appearance was called oRhythm Nation, ? this one shouldbe called oEmpowerment. ?Iyani Vanzant has a new bookthat tells women how to obtainempowerment. I don Tt know ifthesetwo dynamic young women havemet yet, but Janet has gone be-yond words with a movement un-derscored with color and energyand pulsating sound and hypnoticlighting that shout out empower-ment.She may be Michael Ts baby sis-ter, but he can let olittle sis ? leadhim.I thought Michael Ts last show atthe Garden was spectacular butthis appearance of Janet Ts was aspectacular but this appearance ofJanet;s was a swinging superla-tive.Big Apple ChallengeComing to the Big Apple whenthe worms of doubt and carpingcriticism were hungrily gnawingaway at two men she Ts been asso-ciated with: Brother Michael andTupac Shakur, her co-star in oPo-eticJustice, ? was quite a challenge.She didn Tt flinch picking up thegauntlet.Janet dealt with Micheal Ts prob-lem by asking the audience to saya silent prayer for her brother. Itwas a dramatic, moving moment.(Ironically it was after a sequence,I thin, when she performed one ofher recording hits, oNasty Boys. ?Tupac may be accused by awoman of abuse, but Janet subtlyand swiftly turned the tables.Remember the classic FrenchAnticipatetheBacklashDuring the last few days theU.S. has been shocked by a num-ber of violent murders. Occurringsometimes in the most unlikelyseeming places-Idaho, Nebraskathey have involved a number ofotherwise oordinary ? Americans inwhat has long been considered,strictly an inner-city problem.Wecan and shouldexpect aback-lash from the heart of omiddleAmerica ? over these shocking inci-dents.While most of the gun-relatedtragedies in the last few days havetaken among Whites, THE PER-CEPTION STILL REMAINSTHAT BLACKS IN AMERICAARE THE SOURCE OF ALLCRIME, VIOLENT AND SOCIALPROBLEMS...even at oChuck E.Cheese ? Pizza Parlor, or a subur-ban Wal-Mart store.Whites have always been armed,but now are becoming increasinglyangry at what they perceived to bea otoo-liberal ? court system thatseems to coddle violent criminalsand let them out on the streets toosoon to ocommit more crimes. ?Never mind the one brave andcourageous New York judge coun-try who ACTUALLY RESIGNEDFROM THE BENCH, rather thanaccept petty drug cases, becausethe MANDATORY SENTENC-ING GUIDELINES now effect inFederal drug cases would have re-quired him to impose stiff,draconian sentences on petty drugcriminals " the wrong people inhis opinion. Never mind him be-cause most White Americans arenow calling for a crack-down oncriminals.I'm afraid that if the perceptionof lax law enforcement continuesin the mind of the American body-politic, White vigilantes will orga-nize and attempt to take mattersinto their own hands. In fact, I amconvinced they are now poised andwaiting for an incident "a casewhich would provoke national sym-thy for retaliation against youngBlack men "before they launchtheir next all-out attack.Let Ts be clear, White suprema-cist and race haters have alreadystruck the first blow against Blacksin this society-they brought us hereas slaves, and kept us in this con-dition for 310 long years. Had theymeant to treat the slaves "whomade this nation rich, with theirfree labor "as equals, as citizens,a, ? theywines (of¢sytem Pati She SN kay UA pea inact a lal a ee te kl es Mie) Tia. 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