By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews After he touched the. casket and mounted the platform to the pulpit last week during Alberta Spruill's funeral at Convent Avenue Baptist Church, Mayor Michael Bloomberg began his remarks by recalling how she played multiple roles in the lives of so many. He then took the blame for her death. Spruill's death, according to the medical examiner's report released on Tuesday, was a homicide, "sudden death fol- lowing a police raid," said a spokesperson for Charles S. Hirsch, the chief medical exam- iner. "I failed to protect someone," said Bloomberg, his voice soft and solemn. "Our actions failed her. ... We must not trample on the rights of law-abiding citizens." Spruill, 57, died of an appar- ent heart attack on the morning of May 16 after a dozen or so police officers - on a tip sup- plied by an informant - mistak- enly battered down her apartment door looking for drugs and weapons. The offi- cers tossed a enade into , the apartment, hoping it would distract anyone inside. Spruill ' was handcuffed and then re- __ [eased when. the police. discov- éted they eu in _ wrong apartment, The police a learned that S ul had a heart condition, but, according to them, she refused at first to be taken to the hospital. Suddenly Spruill experienced cardiac ar- "rest, and they rused her to Harlem Hospital. She died less than two hours later. Bloomberg recalled hew she used to tell her co-workers that if they messed with her, "I'll get the mayor down here." "Well, Alberta, you did get the mayor here," he concluded. A bus route she took to work for nearly 30 years at a city agency will be named in her honor, the mayor said. A few hours after the funeral service, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly met with an auditorium full of concerned citizens at police Area 5, lo- cated on 147th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, not too far from Spruill's apart- ment, to discuss the details of the raid and her subsequent death. Although the commissioner ‘was repeatedly praised for hold- ing the session, which many viewed as remarkably different from the way the former mayor and commissioner would have handled the situation, there were many in attendence who wer not satisfied with the ex- plaination for the wrongful death. Commissioner Kelly tisted eight mistakes the police made leading up to and during the raid, including failure of com- munication between command- ers of the 25th and 32nd. © precincts, no indication in re- ports that the dope dealer tar- geted in the raid had already arrested, improper pro- cudures following the issuance of a no-knock search warrant and lack of further surveillance of the site to verify the sale of drugs. "A lot of mistakes were made, and further investiga- tions of the incident are under- way," the commissioner assured listeners during a rather heated question-and-answer discussion. While the medical examiner's ruling indicates that Sruill did not blame the police for her death, which means the police avoid civil liability. "But if the police hadn't raided her apart- ment, she would still. be alive today," said would still be alive today," said the Rev. Al Sharpton, who seemed pertured that the police were not blamed for her death. As Sharpton noted, what remains is to estab- lish whether the action by the police was criminal, and if so, who will be prosecuted. Meanwhile, Johnnie Cochran, representing Spruill's two sis- ters, has filed a $500 million lawsuit, charging the police with wrongful death. Commissioner Kelly said he was not sure where the "confi- dential informant" was who gave them the information that set the deadly scenario in mo- tion. Several people who live in the same apartment building where Spruill lived asked him why a buy-and-bust process was not administered es were made, and we're doing all we can to make sure such a tragedy doesn't happen continued page fore the raid, . | can. only relate to you what... emmys he replied. “Some mi a State NAACP exec claims ay loans can help; ay National NAACP says no Yates have been allegedly the two NAACP officials, "sneaking for over a year," "Where are the ethics?" EXCLUSIVE told The Wilmington Alston, speaking on behaff of Journal "[{Skip's] slowly stick: himself and Yates, denies the ing a knife in his heart." charges. Ay ast MICHAELS Raleigh community activist But so obvious were their ac- JOURNAL close to the issues rhetorically tions, critics allege, that no less Have the president and an asked of the allegations against Executive Committee member of the state NAACP Conference of Branches lobbied the General Assembly to ‘pass a payday lending bill that many critics say would, if it becomes law, _ "allow lenders to charge exorbi- tant rates which ... trap vulner- able consumers in a cycle of debt?" Sources in the _ state Legislature, the NAACP and activists against payday lending practices say yes, and wonder why the national NAACP Board hasn't come down on state President Melvin "Skip" Alston, a board member, and his third -vicé president, Winfall Mayor Fred Yates, for allegedly going against their civil rights organization's reso- lution denouncing what some call a short-term version of predatory lending. One NAACP chapter officer, who asked not to be named but confirmed that Alston and Everlasting Memories Paying tribute to two very distinguished individuals. J.H, Rose’s 2003’ prom king and queen (William Taylor and Candace Taylor). William and Candace Are both graduating seniors at J.H. Rose High School, William will be furthering his education at North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC, whilé Candace will be furthering hers at UNC in Chapel Hill. Keep up the good # work and we’re all proud of you. Piano Recital Held ....... . Piano students of Gloria Hines were presented in a piano recital recently, d Save ge, The students included Kaylah Brown, Destinie Corbeft, Emily Dixon, Tawanna Franklin, Dedra Garner, Aniya Gaynor, Jasmine Johnson, ShaVonte' Mills, R.J. Smith Achievement were presented to each stud and Catherine Wills. Certificates of ent and’a reception followed with family and friends. First Row [L-R] Destinie Corbeft, Kaylah Brown, Dedra Garner, R.J. Smith, Aniya Gaynor and Tawanna Franklin. Second Row (L-R] Emily Dixon, Jasmine Joh er. Hines, Teach nson, Catherine Wills, ShaVonte Mills and Gloria Photo by Jim Rouse JOY1S404M - Black leaders launch independant de By Stanley B. Chambers Jr., The Daily Reflector Local black leaders said Friday they have met with national NAACP officials and launched their own investigation into the March 7 death of a man in po- lice custody. . During a news conference at the Pitt County NAACP office in. Greenville, Calvin Henderson, president of the lo- cal branch, said the group still is waiting for a favorable re- sponse from elected city offi- cials regarding a set 0 demands the group issued last month related to the death of Eugene Allen Boseman, 41. The Greenville man died "as a result of agitated delirium caused by cocaine use, psycho- sis and stopping antipsychotic medications," according to an autopsy report. Boseman, who the autopsy report said suffered from HIV infection, nearly bit off part of one officer's hand in the struggle, police said. His fiancee said she watched as Officers beat him to death, but a medical et ee ty autopsy report said that bruises found on his head, back and re not contribute to his eath. Boseman was behaving erratic- ally and walking in his under- wear in the travel lanes of Memorial Drive when Greenville police officers tried to subdue him in the early morning of March 7.Henderson and other local black leaders on May 18 issued a set of specific demands aimed at reforming criminal pane procedures in Greenville. The group requested that:, The mayor and City Council immediately place the police, fire and rescue depart- ments under a public safety commission appointed by the m voliee City oor ce personnel be re- quired to nrg gi’ bo lete & course in how to ¢ ive deal with people with menta disabilities, Greenville, Pitt County and the state immediately pursue the in- dependent review of all police killings of citizens by federal authorities assigned outside the area where the killing took place. No district attorney be allowed to review and decide the fate of a local police agency involved in the killing of a citizen within the reviewing DA's ju- risdiction. The NAACP, Concerned Citizens for Justice, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Greenville and Pitt County, originally set a June 10 cad for elected city officials to "respond favora- bly" to the demands, or the group would proceed with pro- test demonstrations and boy- cotts. A letter addressed to Mayor Don Parrott, containing the de- mands announced on May 18 and signed by leaders of each group, was distributed at Friday's news conference. "While we realize that you may not be able to accomplish all the things we have re- uested within 20 days from the date of this report,” the let- ter states, "we ask you to at least inform us of your com- pleted efforts and full intent within this time frame so that we may decide our next course of action." In addition to the original de- mands, the letter asked the mayor to respond to questions about his knowledge of any events like the Boseman case in the city's history and his role in oe ae filed against the police department. Parrott said he had not been in- formed of Friday's news con fer- ence. "I will get input from the (City) Council and input from my staff, and | will respond to the letter in due time," he said. "I don't know what date that will be, but it will be fairly soon." Henderson said members of ath probe the local NAACP chapter met Thursday with state executive director Jim Wiggins to discuss the Boseman case. The group plans to share information it gathers related to the case with national NAACP officials. "The Boseman case is of great national interest, and the state, regional, and national officials will be visiting Greenville nu- merous times during this pend- ing investigation,” Henderson sai The NAACP plans to hold its annual state convention in Greenville this October, Henderson said. The NAACP and other local groups are using the Boseman case to address other concerns in the black community, includ- ing proposed tax increases, the quality of recreational facilities, alleged discrimination and dis- parities in the hiring and pro- moting of black city and Greenville Utilities employees and alleged mismanagement of funds for low income and dis- advantaged residents. Sitting next to Henderson dur- ing the news conference was councilwoman Rose Glover, who said she su the ef- forts of the NAACP and be- lieves that public officials should answer to community concerns. ' "I'm not here to say that we're a perfect city government, but the government is for the peo- ple so we need to do what is necessary to see that e are being treated fairly," Glover said. Henderson said he has received some resistance from the public but is not moved by negative comments. "We will not stop till justice is done," he said. Others who attended th® news conference were SCLC state happens Bennie Roundtree, itt County NAACP head of le- Places Ed Carter, and an's two sisters, Cynthia Baylock and Regina Love. ee oo wReRRON 1b A. Rockefeller, the “get-tough” ‘ laws Were supposed to solve the ‘ burgeoning drug and crime problem by locking up significant participants in the drug trade and thus deterring others from involvement. . But it hasn't worked out that way. \ “To be sure, the sentences are harsh. For example, a single ten- dollar sale of cocaine brings a minimum sentence of one to three years in prison—and four and a half to nine years if the offender has a prior conviction. A first-time offender convicted of - participating in the sale of two ounces. of cocaine will draw a minimum sentence of fifteen years—and, possibly, a life-term sentence, However, contrary to the original justifications that they would target the major traffickers and violent individuals, the laws have largely been ineffective in thwarting the drug trafficking and violent -* According to Ernest Drucker, fessor of Epidemiology and Professor of Psychiatry at M ntefiore Medical Center sich CAEL In memory of the peacemakers took on new meaning to Tie Memorial Day holiday the 160 American families who lost loved ones in the war - E this was more than a holit barbecues and baseball. appropriate that our nation honors those who have died in war for our freedom. But why do. we only honor those who fought in wars for freedom, why don’t we also honor those who make peace for our freedom? Of course, there is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the day we have set aside to honor him. But what about those others who died for their commitment to non- violence and civil rights for all Americans? Many of these heroes and sheroes were young in age or young at heart. le who saw the goodness in human beings and who believed that they could change the world for the better. People like the thousands . of young men and women who left college in the 1960’s to join the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee's Freedom Summers in Mississippi and Alabama. People like ‘Michael Schwerner, Andrew and James Chaney who went to Neshoba County, Mississippi in 1964 and who were killed for their voter registration work in the black community there. People like the Michigan housewife Viola Liuzzo who was killed in Lowndes County, Alabama for her civil rights work in 1965. Or Jonathon Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian who was STATE NAACP Continued from page 1 the national NAACP Board of Directors, wrote a stinging letter to members of the North Carolina General Assembly, making clear what the organization's official position on payday lending is in case they were confused. “Iam writing to urge you to stop the predatory practice of by prevent ouse Bill 1213 from becoming law,” Bond wrote, adding that the “anti-consumer bill perpetuates the very practices its supporters claim they want to regulate.” "The NAACP, whose board | chair, has long opposed predatory lending in all its forms, and last ‘ year passed a national resolution specifically opposing payday lending," Bond continued. "On May 3, 2003, the NAACP Board felonies, which involve very small amounts of drugs. And less than a quarter of these inmates had any prior violent felony convictions for any crime. Nearly a third had no prior felony convictions at all. an Since May 1973, more than 150,000 people have © been sentenced to New York’s prisons for nonviolent drug offenses— helping to fuel the state's astounding boom in_ both inmates, from 14,400 then to more than 70,000 today, and in prison expenditures. But the misery hasn't been confined only to New York. . _ James Lanier, senior resident Scholar for Community Justice Programs at the National. Urban League’s Institute of Opportunity and Equality, points out that “more than any other single legislative act, New York’s adoption of the Rockefeller Drug Laws [symbolized] the beginning of the massive surge in incarceration” in states across the country. Lanier and Drucker are writing separate essays on the nation’s disastrous addiction to “mass incarceration” as a policy x: BERNICE \- POWELL JACKSON ‘It's ‘Killed in that same Alabama county in that same year. Daniels, a New Hampshire native, was shot dead trying to protect a young African American woman and friend after both had just been released prison. Where are the national sllent thankegtving for all thoce silent or who died, who were incarcerated repeatedly, who were harassed and beaten because of their non- violent work on behalf of the oppressed and disenfranchised in our own nation? Or do we pause to remember the contributions of Jean Donovan, a Catholic laywoman and Dorothy Kazel, an Ursuline nun and Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, both Maryknoll missionaries, all of whom were working with the poor in El Salvador and were killed in 1980 by para-militaries financed by the US.? Extraordinary women committed to peace for the poor in that war-torn land. When do we honor them? Then there are the peacemakers like Amy Beale who made the ultimate sacrifice for her beliefs. Amy Beale was a Stanford University graduate, whose Fulbright scholarship took aimed at minorities." Bond's _— passage _ _— about’ "prohibiting our (chapters) from accepting contributions’ from payday lenders” has particular importance. Published reports confirm that one of the major payday lending companies in the country Advance America, Inc. of Spartanburg, S.C. has cosponsored voter registration drives’ with NAACP chapters across the South, alarming some observers that the alleged motive ls to gain influence in the African-American community, where many payday, loan companies target low-income consumers with high interests loans, Advance America is of particular interest here.in North Carolina. Its president and CEO, Billy Webster, confirms he's had discussions with Alston, Yates, and other black leaders here about the battle over payday lending in the state, though he that none are lobbying for aw WS ¢ What You Read Is What You he Rockefeller Drug Laws | age of law enforcement for the Urban "League's forthcoming scholarly journal, The State of Black America 2003. Both. assert that © because police drug enforcement - in concentrated on the street- level trade in black and Hispanic - Communities, the effect of the Rockefeller drug Jaws and ‘the drug laws it inspired across the country has been to exacerbate to an astonishing degree the racial character of who gets arrested, convicted and imprisoned for drugs in America. Nationally, African Americans “account. for 13 percent of the nation’s drug users, their proportion. of the general population. But they make up 35 percent of drug arrests and 53 percent of drug convictions. Moreover, such massive incarceration has been fiscally foolish. It’s a highly expensive but ineffective deterrent in the important war against drugs and violent crime in America. A better approach, now supported by experts across a wide philosophical spectrum, is to focus on drug education, prevention, and intensive treatment. There’s no doubt that the Rockefeller drug laws are unjust: and there is widespread, nonpartisan agreement that they should be substantially changed. Such government officials as Governor George E. Pataki, a Republican, and Sheldon Silver, the Democratic Speaker of the = Jim Rowse Publisher Know Michael Adams Editor ee ee oN eM fe eee e Y other politicos have publicly | supported revising them. — | _ Yet, the laws remain as they have been. - Oe _ ‘Thus, it’s welcome to see Russell Simmons, co-owner and_. founder of Def Jam Records, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, and others involved in the hip-hop music industry at the head of a campaign that uses the appeal of hip-hop to mobilize ordinary citizens, particularly adolescents and young adults, to press for reform of the laws. . This is a vitally important effort for several reasons. One is that the two latter groups are most “at risk” of, on the one hand, succumbing to the trade, and. thee wee eit drug | "This deal gives Fredy the ability financially to go through school rade, and thus, ming @ | and not have to sell his Playing ability (to a team) to get from point A Statistic of the Rockefeller drug | t point B in his career." Tarzy told a reporter. "This acts as his laws; or, in the neighborhoods in | insurance. There's not the same kind of money being offered around which many of them _ live, | to soccer players like there is for basketball, and it is difficult to get the becoming an innocent-bystander | kind of insurance that could set Freddy up for life if something icti happened. There aren't LeBron James deals being offered in soccer." victim of the variety of crimes ehh ata associated with the drug trade. Because of his age, Adu's contract calls for a specific number of Equally importa t, however is | 2PPearances over the duration of the contract, rather than on a year- analy important, however, is | +5 vear basis. More details and an announcement about both signings the fact that, regardless of their in expected soon. . musical tastes, these young] scouts have been tracking Adu for years, because of his people, and society as a whole, extraordinary skills. He has been featured on television and in can reap enormous benefits from | newspapers in Japan, Brazil and England. . ; when he was 11, Adu continues to train and practice with the US. and motivated, benefits that can ‘ . under-17 national team in preparation for the August world go well beyond the immediate, championships in Finland just campaign of righting what : has been a terrible wrong. Somali Bantu Refugees Arrive in Denver, Phoenix 14-Year-Old Soccer Player Signs $1 Million Deal with Nike (Special to the NNPA)Freddy Adu, 14, has signed a $1 millions contract with Nike choosing to be represented by sports agents. Richard Motzkin and Dan Segal at California-based SportsNet, LLC. . Arnold Tarzy, an Adu family advisor, helped the youth search for ant agent. Adu is unlikely to sign a professional playing contract for: @Cecreeceeertececeee FS ee es Reports indicate that Adu, of Potomac, Md.,.had no intention of playing NCAA soccer and has renounced his amateur status by signing the contracts. He is using the Nike deal as insurance should an injury end his career. . her to South Africa, where she was studying and working with those trying to put back together a nation torn asunder by decades , Of apartheid. While driving in “Capetown, her car was . Surrounded and she was beaten _ and stabbed by a group of outsiders who did not know her or what she had done on behalf of that community. The story of this amazing beacon of hope named Amy did not end with her cath, however. Her equally amazing parents, Peter and Linda Beale, visited Capetown to see the community where their daughter had been killed and saw the conditions she was trying to change. instead of being filled with anger and hate, they chose to be filled with love and hope and started the Amy Beale Foundation which continues to work in that community, including running Amy’s Bread, which provides jobs and food for the very community where she was killed. When do we honor Amy Beale for her contribution to freedom in the world? And this year, when do we: honor Rachel Corrie, the 23-year- old young American killed by an Israeli Defense Force bulldozer driver as she stood non-violently in front of the home of a Palestinian family? Even those who might not agree with her position, must acknowledge that she was a young woman committed to peace in one of the most violent places of a war-torn world. As she stood there in an orange fluorescent vest, she NEW YORK (IRIN)—The first group of Somali Bantus who were living in Kenyan refugee camps for the past decade have arrived in the American cities of Denver and Phoenix. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said this was the beginning of one of the biggest resettlement operations to take place from Africa; in which some 11,800 Somali Bantus will be resettled in the United States. After weeks of cultural orientation classes, the first batch of 74 Somalis left Kenya late last month. Another 150 are expected to travel practiced what all non-violent | before mid-June, the statement said. The Church World Service, along protestors have been taught - to | With eight other voluntary agencies, will oversee the resettlement try to look at your attacker in the | Program in the United States. eye with love and find that} The refugees originally were scheduled to start arriving last year, person's humanity. When. do we | but tightened security measures after'the Sept"11 orist.¢ honor Rachel Corrie and others, | Pushed back the date. . a Beep OS eee like the Christian Peacemaker | |The Somali Bantus—a minority group whose physical, fgitugaland and stand between Palestinians | because they faced difficult circumstances in their country where they and Israelis on behalf of peace? | Were treated as second-class citizens, partly because they are Earlier this year, the World | descended from slaves, statement decrying the war in | Bantus fled to refugee camps in Kenya, where discrimination against Iraq. In it, Dr. Konrad Raiser, the | them by major Somali clans continued. - World Council’s general secretary, said, “Wars cannot be} . Cameroon’s ‘Freedom’ Radio Station Forced Off Air won, only peace can.” Last December, on receiving the Nobel | DOUALA, Cameroon (IRIN)—The government of Cameroon forced Peace Prize, former President | 4 new radio station to shut down last week, the day before it was due Jimmy Carter said, “war may be to go on air, Reporters without Borders (RSF) said. a necessary evil, but it is evil.” It is the third government-ordered closure of a media group in Yet we honor only war. recent weeks. There is the Civil Rights] According to the Paris-based press freedom group, police Institute in Birmingham, | surrounded the offices of Freedom FM in the port city of Douala and Alabama which tells the story of | Closed the radio station on the orders of Communications Minister not only the civil rights | Jacques Fame Ndongo. The minister said Freedom FM did not have movement but also of human | government permission to broadcast. rights activists. There is the Civil| | RSF described the move as “a serious attack on press freedom,” Rights Museum in Memphis, | designed to silence media criticism of President Paul Biya and his Tennessee located at the old | government in the run-up to next year’s presidential elections, Lorraine Motel where Dr. King| “This uncalled for measure is a severe blow to news diversity in was killed. But as our nation | Cameroon,” Robert Menard, the secretary general of RSF, said in a discusses whether more war | letter to the communications minister, | memorials should be built on the Independent radio and television Stations are officially allowed to Mall in Washington, D.C., | exist in Cameroon, but that in practice, says the RSF they are forced to perhaps someone should raise the | Operate illegally since the authorities do not respond to requests for licenses. It urged the government to allow Freedom FM to go on air. question of where is the monument to those who work for | _ Pius Njawe, the head of the Messager media group which owns Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, who failed in his 2002 North Carolina bid for the U.S. Senate. The two are close friends today, with Webster's: company contributing $10,000 two years ago to Bowles’ fundraiser for diabetes research. It is widely known that both Alston and Yates were allegedly quiet supporters of Bowles’ Senate bid. Bowles even thanked. - Yates publicly for his support the night he won the Democratic primary. That proved somewhat embarrassing, because Yates, beyond being state NAACP third vice president, is also chairman of the nonpartisan organization's Political Action Committee, which is supposed to vet the candidates fairly without bias. So what does this have to do with payday lending? Sources tell The Carolinian that Bowles has been calling state lawmakers on behalf of his friend Webster, pushing for passage of the HB-1213 payday- lending bill. - ‘The full court press of Alston, Yates and Bowles, among others, helped to. split the N.C. Legislative Black Caucus on the h peace. Freedom FM, said the government had initially responded positively to the station's request for a broadcasting license. “We completed all the formalities,” RSF quoted Njawe as saying. ee “The ministry even sent technicians to inspect our equipment.” issue, and garner passage in the . N.C. House, sources allege.. The: bill is now pending in the state Senate; and could be-voted on:as - early as this afternoon. Advance America CEO Billy Webster, in a phone interview from Spartanburg Tuesday, again denied having Alston and Yates to lobby for him. "I know [Alston and Yates) have had some involvement, but I didn't know they were at the Militants Suspected in Latest Nigeria Pipeline Blast LAGOS, Nigeria (IRIN)—The main pipeline supplying natural gas to Nigeria’s biggest power station has ‘v@en ruptured by explosives planted by suspected ethnic [jaw militants, the navy said. | The pipeline, which exploded last Saturday at the Village of Ajama, near. the oil town of Warri in the oil-rich Niger Delta, supplies gas from transnational ChevronTexaco’s Escravos gas plant to the Egbin months in the volatile oil region targeting a key pipel “We et the Ijaw youths did it,” Shinebi Hungiapuko, navy Bello Oboko, a leader of the militant Federated Niger Delta Ijaw _ |Communities, denied responsibility for the blast. He accused the military of carrying out some military raids in the area where the Legislature," Webster told Th: Carolinian, stating emphaticall: that “we have no relationship." I think they're advocates fo; payday lending reform.”:, He also denied that he askex Bowles to intercede for him, anc claimed no knowledge of hi: : doing so, "Erskine remains a clos friend, as .is his wife Crandall...and he's been involvec ‘in a lot of issues," Webster said. But some in the Legislature Say different. during the weekend, su ti have ruptured it unwittingly, ee IIE In April, a major pipeline supplying crude oil from Escravos to refineries in Warri and the northern city of Kaduna were similarly blasted with explosives. The Previous month, armed jaw militants gun | t of ignoring their plight and denying them governmen ‘| access to the oil wealth produced on their land. pg3 Tackling Racism - An Article Published in The Daily Reflector edited for length by * Micheal Adams The Minority Voice Newspaper When it comes to tackling doesn't want to feel ostracized by her peers for being friends with someone who is white, especially a white male. And she ine what life is like for another person. "You have to put yourself in someone else's shoes," she said. "It's the only way to know how cause we're all comfort- able. Black people are comfortable with black people. No one wants to change," she said. The key racism in school and the doesn't want to feel like her community, the students of a teachers are favoring STIR hope to shake things up certain kids over other kids next fall. when it comes to discipline. But figuring out how to do It is situations like this that that can be daunting when all sets off Christiana and what the black students still sit on makes her want to do one side of the cafeteria, something about what she STIR members say, and all sees happening in school the white students still sit on with STIR, she said. the other side. "We hope to stop all the Or when a so-called. "friend" nonsense - bring it to a will only talk to someone in complete halt," Christiana the hallway because his said. "There are different “A friends laugh at him for people in America, not just a i Bo ead talking to an Arab in the the people of your own race ‘Christiana Freeman, South of Central High School with fellow STIR member Sarrin It takes ; uts to chan of yourreligion. == Gna w . ee : : ge Fallon Speaker, a junior at Smith. There are different people in America not just the people of your own race For ex Ue ple, South Central Ayden-Grifton, "believes or your religion Iith-grader _ Christiana people's attitudes would Freeman, who is __ black, change if they could imag- they feel.” While students are con- cerned about the way they treat each other, their con- cerns extend to how stu- dents feel they are treated by teachers as well. These issues can range from a reprimand for speaking in a non-English language or watching a teacher smile vaguely when a top student makes a racist remark, rather than reprimanding that student. 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He offers to help us make good choices if we ask ‘Him for wisdom and readily of- fers to help us do anything He _ Wants done that we cannot do —on-our own. Central to the whole relation- ship with His children is the matter of choice. If His children go bad, it is thier choice to do so. When they suffer the conse- quences, it is because they Roowingly chose to go sls Put this in a parenting rela- tionship. This is the opposite of trying to make all of our ‘chil- ried $ decisions for pape en trying to jump in and pro- tect them when they have made bad choices. The best we can do is to show them clearly what we expect, and withia what of time Tell them what will : they ‘obey. Tell them will has Say ae we do this we can stop. yelling, threatening, an repeat- ing ourselves. It — we a “stop complaining and to pick up the pile ota their room. It means we — lower our voice and be civilized about our expectations. It is to say, “From now on, children, you choose how it will be with you. 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You're too important to lose. tf Stroke: * a Jun 3 - 14, 2003 ; a oes Net astern Si * i Py - Jun 3 - 14, 2003 EPEEhd OGHEEE aes Jun 3 - 14, 2003 Father's Day June'5 From The Desk Of are a father who is respected by his children is to ask yoursself , "Do I want my son to be what | am, to do what I do, to go where | go?" . Fathers, remember that never before in all history have your children needed the undivded interest and attention of loving parents as in these days of a polluter moral and spiritual at- mosphere. Boys need fathers to learn 2008 - Wel in knowing that other people miss them too. We want to hear your stories and special memories. 5. Don't assume the role of’ stand-in parent for our children. It hurts to see someone trying to fill in. For us, there is no substitute. 7 6. Don't tilt your head and look at us with puppy dog eyes. We don't want pity. 7.@Don't ask about our finan- s We ‘ou can have a non-rushed eakfast. (If you need an alarm clock to wake you up in the morning, you aren't going to bed on time, say sleep experts). 3. Walk whenever possible (take the stairs instead of the elevator, hand- deliver work, papers, etc). 4. Plan grocery shopping, banking, and post office visits. So you hit the non-chaotic times ( €.g. don't grocery shop on Mrs Beatries Maye how to be men. Men have un- cial situation. It's none of your Saturday afternoon, and don't derestimated their own impor- ~ business. try to mail a package on tance in raising healthy and 8. Don't harp ‘on how strong Monday morning). The edito competent sons and daughters. we are. We're not trying to be 5. Go to the bathroom before e r Sunday, June 15 is Father's Day 2003. "Good fathers not only tell how to live - they show us." You don't have to meet a man face to face to know what kind of a father he is. Just listen to the way his children refer to him. The respect that children have for their parents can be a good indicator of how much respect they deserve. One of the Ten Commandments is to honor our father and mother (Exodus 20:12). But how many parents 3. Don't take it personally if breakfast items and lay out eve- thing to look forward to after a ' . : a. Bi in a way that is worthy of we don't return your phone rything you'll need for work or True Connections Day Spa and Salon located in the onor? Would your. child point out in a crowd and say proudly, "That's my dad!" Through his action and words, a father can have an immeasur- able impact on the life of his or her child, "A Christ like example is a fa- ther's greatest gift to his chil- dren." Beatrice Maye 10 Suggestions to Help Loved Ones Who Are Mourning 1. Don't try to fix us. There is no magic pill 2. Don't tell us to snap out of it, we can't. We know you are uncomfortable seeing us in pain, but we will recover at our own pace, not yours. calls. We are just trying to get through each day intact. If you care about us, keep trying. 4. Don't be afraid to talk about ‘ role models. You may see us as strong, but chances are we fall apart when you're not around. 9. Don't be put off our moodi- ness. Some day we want to be social, other days we don't. 10. Don't abandon us. we need you as just as much a year later as we did a month later. And when things are better, we will remember how you were there for us. : 18 MORE "TRIED 'TRUE" | WAYS TO BEAT STRESS 1. Before going to bed, set out school - clothes, ( in perfect re- pair), lunches, homework, etc. - so you can simply pick-up - ' n- go in the morning. leaving home or work ( simple, but amazing stress reducer). 6. Look for the humor in every situation. Humor allows you to Jump out of the picture so you can get a grip on things. 7. Tell people (including chil- dren) you'll "get back" to them with your decisions, rather than always making your decisions on the spot. 8. Get an answering machine SO you can accept phone calls on your schedule, not other peo- ple's. 9. Always be in the middle of a spellbinding book; it's some- y. ae _ 10. Use traffic jam time to plan your weekends or vacations. onor Our Fathers Who Paved The Wa Hi ¢ : ‘i i i a City Hotel on Grecnvillie Blvd yInEducation 4 7 has an array of beautifing services. Stop in to see Ms Lola Thompson today. She is pictured here with a lovely array of children. God bless you A good test of whether you our loved one. We find comfort 2. Get up 20 minutes earlier so Ms Thompson. 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Cl th great grandchildren, a host of nieces nephews, cousins and friends. v0” Off All Mattresses FREE DELIVERY DAY OR NIGHT a ae —_ ze a ee ne IE RAE ER RC ce ie coe a nes on En ee fle SR Ae a NA Apostle George Hawkins The Ultimate Standard Greetings: In these times which we live in people are trying to find the ab- solute truth, but if you look for truth from any other source other than God then you are looking in the wrong place. Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life. You cannot find truth from no one else but Jesus. You can believe anything you want. "We each have to deter- mine what is right for our- ' selves." That may be true for you; | have my own truth.” Finding truth can be a tricky thing because of our own intel- lect we find ourselves making a mockery out of the very thing that we are trying to defend. eens The Bible teaches that wisdom _ is the principle thing, therefore get purged nd Z. getting get an un Let me explain my views on the subject of truth. The frightening thing about these modern view- points is that those who believe them become the definers of’ ‘truth and reality. They leave no room for objective truth or ab- solutes. Yet if there are no ab- solutes determined by a Source _ that is higher than and above us as human beings, then we are all gods; or else no truth exists, and we have nothing to bind us together or define how we should treat each other. ‘God did not leave His people Israel in such a philosophical mess. He clearly spelled out moral and spiritual absolutes, and warned His people to seek ultimate truth from Him, not from other sources (Lev. 20:6-8). We who live today do well to pay attention to God's unchang- ing Word. Apart from Him, how can we coexist? By what standards will we define issues such as community, honesty, ethics, truth, morality, crime, and justice? Apart from His help, we are on a destructive path in a world where everyone is always right and no one is ituol Reflections ever wrong. In today's age of acceptance and tolerance, it is not easy or popular to disagree with others. It seems that the one truth eve- ryone must bow to is that eve- rybody has the right to their own beliefs, and. what's true for one may not be true for an- other. To suggest that someone else could be wrong or worse, to claim that there is such a thing as ultimate, absolute truth, is highly offensive in our culture, But how can everything be true? -That seems to be a con- tradiction in logic, if we agree with Webster that truth can be defined as ‘fact, the state of something being the case," or as ‘actuality, the body of real things, events, or facts.” Jesus claimed to be the truth, not just a truth (John 14;6). He regu- larly spoke of telling the truth to his listeners _, (for example, Maft. 5:18, 26; Mark 10:15, 29; Luke 21:3, 32; John 3:31; 16:7-23). So what God communicated through Christ is extraordinar- ily important and must not be compromised. But as Jude demonstrates, not all who begin to follow God's truth finish well R Jun 3 - 14, 2003 Rovions alism for the sake of the thrill. But the objective thrust of the united praise and worship of Him who alone is worthy often results in a inundation of the Holy Spirit's presence --- which is nothing short of heavenly, for it echoes the praises of the ce- lestial throng around the teenes i is the scriptural pro gram of massive praise which is responsible for the burgeoning growth of this movement. of the baptism with the Holy Ghost. Many outside and some within the movement have their reser- vations upon this point. But whatever on'sposition may be, it cannot be denied that the Pentecostal groups have redis- covered, for this day and age, the importance and power of praise. To the order of public worship, including periods of congregational singing, public prayer, and a gospel message, they have added another ‘coe- qual with these: a period of united worship and vocal Suejette Jones The Power of Praise Regardless of one's position on the subject of tongues, theere is nothing to hinder any group from adopting the scriptural practice of massive praise. The It is generally recognized that one of the fastest growing seg- ments of the Christian com- munion is that group of churches and congregations which are of the pentecostal persuasion. It is customary for Pentecostals to attribute their rapid expansion to their doc- trinal distinctives and specifi- cally to their emphasis upon glossolalia, or the speaking in tongues, as the initial evidence praise. Almost universally, at some point in the service ( usu- ally preceding the spoken Word) time is given specifically for the purpose of worshiping and praising the Lord. At a given signal, usually by the pas- tor, the entire group raises hands to heaven and, with up- lifted faces, enters into adora- tion and praise. This is not a subjective thing, an attempt to “work up" an ecstatic emotion- Church at large should sin- cerely repent of its failure to understand the overwhelming content of the Word on praise, and render due thanks God for those instrumental in its redis- covery. Excerpted from: "Destined for the Throne" Eppes Alumni Parade: -_---_ And The Band Played On!!!! Sa oF e 2 ee he 4 r a be ™ North Carolina Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention Task Force Wwoow COREE Ve NCH JOY 13 40 AM RE See emt ne — ee ota ames ew \ ae ¥ ‘ Just put one foot in front of the other Itk as easy as taking a short walk. Choosing the stairs over the elevator Parking a little Jarther away. There are many small changes you can make in your life that can have a big impact on your health. 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Mars 3 Mic ane Pea ey A different perspective, Special to the AmNews Only hours before Ousmane Zongo was gunned down at the Chelsea Mini-Storage ware- house last Thursday, he was the recipient of a bonus payment _ from one of his customers. - ' “She wanted him to have moré money than he requested for the work he had done repairing her piece of art,” said Zoumana Trarore, a native of - the Ivory Coast and a close friend of Zongo’s. “He was very good at what he did.” _ Zongo, 35, an immigrant from Burkina Faso, was a mas- ter craftsman, a quiet man who never bothered anyone, accord- ing to Trarore. “Anybody here can tell you that he wouldn't harm a flea,” Trarore said in a recent interview at the ware- house near several stalls over- flowing with African artifacts. “It makes no sense at all that he was trying to take the police- man’s gun. He was probably running away since the officer was in plain clothes and he did- n’t know who he was.” According to the police report, the unarmed Zongo was killed by Officer Bryan Conroy, who said the man attempted to take his 9-millimeter service pistol. The officer was there as part of a raid on a CD-counter- feiting operation at the ware- house, 615 W. 27th St. Conroy was left to guard a cache of CDs when he encountered Zongo near the elevator on the third floor. The warehouse is a block- long building that stretches. from 11th to 12th avenues, 27th to 28th streets. Zongo, the police said, was .ealled for an inde- | Kelly had just con- cluded a long expla- nation of events sur- rounding the death of Alberta Spruill to community resi- dents... The Rev. Al Sharp- ton, after meeting with friends and rel- atives of Zongo, pendent _investiga-. tion of the incident. He said he had wit- |. nesses who were pre- pared to tatk to an “objective investiga- ter”. Kelly told Sharp- es ton that ifhe has wit- nesses they should be available to speak to the police. Kelly said he was confident | Police. Bullet holes mark where art restorer Ousmane Zongo was gunned down by that the NYPD’s Internal . Affairs Department would do a thorough job of conducting the investigation, and as in the ongoing Spruill homicide, he promised to keep the communi- ty abreast of the developments. He said the police had not interviewed Officer Conroy. Activity at the warehouse was returning to normal, which meant the presence of several African merchants and vendors gathering their statues, instru- ments and other artifacts for storage or to be transported to vans to sell. “We are not sure \ t i Ne ey — .D. ‘. v what will happen next, so we are being very cautious,” said Trarore. — Zongo’s death, within a week of Spruill’s homicide, was remi- niscent of the police shooting of Amadou Diallo in Febryary 1999 in the vestibule of his home in the Bronx. 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