— WASHINGTON — - a By Emmanuel N. Jackson, Community © leaders from across the country are commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act — one of Politics are about makin Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), Chairman of the CBC the most significant pieces of legislation passed in this country’s history. It established federal precedence over racially charged state laws, targeting illegal hiring _ practices, ‘unlawful voter registration tactics and discrimination in public places.Advertisement "The Civil Rights Act of 1964 just didn’t pass. Jt just didn’t happen," said Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.). “It took many years and ‘many months of struggle on the part of a disciplined and organized movement that created a _climate—created an environment for action on the part of the president... .and the Congress.” Lewis, former chairman of the ~ Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was punched, kicked and spat upon during street protests rooted in righting the wrongs of America's officially legislated hostility toward Blacks in the South during the 1960s. A commemoration of the bill’s passage involved members of the Congressional Black ‘Caucus who gathered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Friday to both hail passage of the bill and to pay homage to Martin Luther King, Jr. It was there that King delivered his classic "I Have a Dream" speech during the historic 1963 March on Washington — a gathering of nearly a million people that heavily. influenced members of Congress into passing the bill the following year. Wii alelsi aa Orelaalaalelellaist— “Today, we have come to this hollowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now,” said Rep. Elijah Cummi (D-Md.), Chairman of the CBC. “This is no time to engage in luxury of cooling off or taking the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. ~ _ Now is the time to rise fron the dark and desolate valley of segregation to sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open doors of opportunity to all of God’s children." Cummings was followed by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C,) who told BET.com that "African Americans have been the leader in E the development of the Civil Rights Act of 1964." She said "the celebration of the Act must be joined - with a determination to seek a renewal of the national commitment | to civil rights enforcement." Norton, who, like Lewis, marched and protested, said: "I was in the streets trying to get our country to pass the [legislation]." Norton was appointed § chairwoman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. The agency was — created under Title VII of the ’64 Civil Rights Act. The other areas g policy ...and these are the issues 1988 Since Complimentary Issue iPlease Take One (Retail Value: $0 Cents) Vol. 17+ Issue 9 July 4-15, 2004 targeted by the bill include: _ TITLE VI - Nondiscrimination in TITLE I - Voting Rights Federally Assisted Programs TITLE I -- Injunctive Relief TITLE VII -- Equal Employment Against Discrimination in Places of Opportunity Public Accommodation With the country celebrating this TITLE III -- Desegregation of breakthrough legislation that changed Public Facilities America, do you think African TITLE IV - Desegregation of Americans are taking full advantage of Public Education the Civil Rights Act? Have people TITLE V - Commission on Civil become complacent about civil - Rights liberties? Have you benefited? Greenville, NC was the host city for the National Freewn Dapust was. held recently at the new convention center. Pictured left and ‘right of Congressional Candidate, G. K. Butterfield is’ Host Bishop A. H. Hartfield, and National President, Bishop J. E. Reddick. See pictorial on page 6 Photo: Jim Rouse African Americans in NC still face Stark disparities RALEIGH - In a report unprecedented in scope, the N.C. Center for Public Policy Research examines racial disparities actoss a broad range of indicators and finds North Carolina minorities trail whites in education, economic well- being, housing, voter icipati tion, Internet access, health, and criminal justice. The study released in June offers a series of eight recommendations, to dd ineluding, a program, a fe fr eee ee Hickman -fuition: assistance GREENVILLE - Mr. Clifton B. Hickman has announced his candidacy for the Commissioners (District A) in the July Election. Election year ' 04' will be crucial for all Citizens of Pitt County. We are now experiencing the highest crime and unemployment rates in the history of our county. We have lost many good jobs to the ~-Nerth Carolina Pitt County Board of health ents, and a Govemor's Summit to address. these broad ranging disparities in the public policy outcomes for some of the state's population. "Minorities in North Carolina face stark disparities in health care they receive, their educational opportunities, and even the likelihood that they will be attested or executed for a ctime," says Mike McLaughlin, editor of North Carolina. Insight, the joumal of the the gap and move from disparity toward ~ Research. "As a state, we need to bridge parity if we hope to move forward." According to the US. Census, North Carolina's population grew 21 percent from 6.6 million in 1990 to more than 8 million in 2000. The state's population is now 72.1 percent white, 21.6 percent African American, 4.7 percent Hispanic 1.4 percent Asian, and 1.2 percent Native American. The census indicates that all minorities combined African Americans, Americans together now account for neatly one-third (28.9 percent) of the Hispanics,“ ASiatis. ated <\--Native es state's population. Between 1990 and 2000, the Asian population in the state grew by 128 percent. However, the Hispanic population grew by 394 percent, the largest percentage growth of any state in the country. The Center's study is thought to be the first effort to bring so many measures of racial and ethnic disparities in public policy outcomes into focus in one report. The Center timed the release of its. nésearch to ‘come Ste month the 50th Anniversary of the US. Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, that desegregated the nation's public schools. Center director Ran Coble says, "We thought it was time to take stock of where we are in North Carolina - not just in education, but. also in economic well-being, housing, health, voting participation, Internet access,, and criminal justice. "And what we found are gaps by race and ethnicity in all these areas that we must bridge if we are truly to become One North Carolina.” Education Outcomes... The first area where the Center found disparities is education. On North Carolina's end-of-grade tests, neatly nine out of 10 white students (89 percent) scote at or above grade level in both reading and math for grades three through eight. That compates to 72 percent of Native Americans, 70 percent of Hispanic students and 67 percent of African American students. Asian students’ performance tanks second highest behind whites at 87 percent. ~ Conitinies on Page. makes run for Pitt County Commissioner's seat telocation/closing of our major industries, only to have them. replaced by industries with lesser opportunities for our Citizens. Many quality of life factors are being adversely affected by the ‘drastic cuts in budget-appropritions, for example, education, social services, recreations, emergency services, mental health, services for the senior citizens, . etc. It becomes quite obvious that we need individuals on the Pitt County Board of Commissioners who can effectively create change and provide positive leadership in addressing the needs of Pitt County Citizens, With over 14 years of experience as a member of the Greenville «Human Relations Council and the Greenville Utilities Commission Board of Directors and having over 22 years of professional experience as a manager in County Government responsible for four major program areas that include some 99 staff with a 94 million dollar budget, Mr. Hickman is well qualified to be a member of the Pitt County Board of Commissioners. Mr. Hickman received an Associate in Arts Degree from Craven Community College, a Bachelor's and a Master's Degree of Social Work from East Carolina University, and he has completed 70 hours towards an Cnristine Fitch GREENVILLE - Christine L. Fitch, a candidate for the 1st Congressional District from Wilson is stumping the 23 counties of the district making _ differnt Associate Degree in Business Administration at Pitt Community College. Mr. Hickman is currently employed with the Edgecombe County the residents aware of her platform. Fitch is an eighteen year employee at East Carolina University in the College of Education. She is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education. Fitch has served the citizens of Wilson.County for the last 14 '% years on the Wilson County Board .of Education, helping to set policies that have moved the school system forward. Fitch indicates that the issues she espouses are not to much from the issues. she espoused two years ago when she ran for the congressional seat. She states . that Quality Education, Economic Development and Jobs, Affordable Healthcare, Affordable Housing, Senior Care, and Veteran’s Rights & Issues are the things that have relevance to the Statewide Father of the Year Award goes to Greenville resident Douglas C. Fields: Father of the Year by Mildred A. Council GREENVILLE, NC - Mr. Douglas C. Fields was chosen as father of the year representing the NC Sickle-Cell ‘Syndrome Program at the Annual - Father's Summit on June 17-18,2004. Mr. Fields is foremost a gentle, Christian giant who is married to a wonderful woman and they are the proud parents of seven children, four of whom were born with Sickle-Cell Disease. They lost their eldest son to Sickle-Cell Disease in 1991. Today, three children are adults; one, a ‘daughter with Sickle-Cell Anemia is a junior at ECU. They also have a fifteen-year-old son who is a freshman in high school and a twelve-year old set of triplet girls, two of which have Sickle-Cell Anemia. This father is committed to ensuring that his family receives no less than the best in terms of meeting their needs as the sole breadwinner. Twenty-eight years ago, I met Mr. Douglas Fields when he was working in security positions for McKenzie and Guardmart Security while attending Pitt Community College and earning his associated degree. He later received his bachelor's degree from East Carolina University at night. He graduated from college in December 1984. His educational career began in the Pitt County Schools, where he worked five years as a teacher's assistant in the exceptional children's program at E.B. Aycock Middle School. He then served as Art Teacher at Falkland Elementary. For one year, he had to work in Fayetteville City Schools because there were no_ positions open in Pitt County Schools, which meant leaving his family three hours away at home in Greenville while he commuted home on weekends to ensyre a better life for them. The following year he was able to return to Pitt County Schools as part-time art teacher-fn two schools-].H. Rose High School and Pactolus Elementary School. After going through the runaround he received a full-time Arts Teaching position and he is doing some remarkable work with his students as their work has won in various arts competition during his tenure. Outside of ‘family and school, he is active in his church. Bethel Community Christian Center. He is in charge of church operations and he teaches adult Sunday school. In the community he enriches the lives of his children by making sure that they are active. He finds time to support Pitt County youth in numerous endeavors. He was a pioneer leader of the Pitt County 4-H All-Stars Club and for six years he has served as a volunteer leader for the club. The Pitt 4-H County Council has also recognized him as a dedicated leader. His four youngest children currently participate arid they all have been successful in county, district and state competitions in numerous categories including project books, presentations, and talent shows thanks in part to the work of Mr. and Mrs. Fields. Within the club, he is noted for leading youth in creating superb 4-H exhibits for the fair. He has been thsole adult leader for the 4-H All-Stars as they participated in the City of Greenville Spring Cleanup service project for the past three years. In 2003, Mr. Fields has played a major role in the first and third phases of our sweet potato project, which was the ff Pitt 4-H County Countil’s project of the year. His sickle-cell activities have been too numerous to mention over a twenty-eight year period but a summary includes: always being a visible father figure in his children's life, being a wonderful supporter of all program activities including ECU Sickle-Cell Camps, research projects, family picnic/outings, support groups, teleconferences, and workshops at the local, regional, and state levels. He has partnered with his wife, Mrs. Gloria Fields to ensure that the family utilizes all of the comprehensive services they needed. In summation, Mr. Fields has been a father of the year for | twenty-eight years. I have known him f to be a positive role model for all especially for children who he dearly loves. He is well respected by his family, the church, school, 4-H, and Sickle Cell communities. _ Mildred A. Council, MSW Sickle Cell Educator and Counselor has also been a member of the Greenville City Council for 17 years \ Department of Social Services as Assistant Director. Mr. Hickman is married to the former Sandra Allen; they have two children (Corey-age 23 people of the district. “ The issues are interrelated and should not be looked at in isolation. When we do that we get piecemeal solutions. We must work for _ total solutions...”said Fitch . We get the same results when we keep doing the same thing over and over. Quality education —_—impacts economic development & jobs which in turn impfcts affordable healthcare and housing and the care given to our seniors. Economic development cannot rely on bringing large industry to an area when the infrastructure is not in place. Therefore, we must look at building small businesses and taking advantage of the natural resources of the area and providing diversity to our farmers. Though the area is and Comesha-age 17). Mr. Hickman is pleased to offer his services to the Citizens of Pitt County. Candidate Stumps the Congressional District for Votes resource that often are overlooked. “Tt have met wonderful people as I have moved throughout the district and want to work untiringly to improve the quality of their lives”. Fitch urges all registered voters to go to the polls on July 20 and cast their vote for her to make your voice heard and your vote count. The voters have expressed confusion regarding this election because of the special election that has been scheduled on the same day as the primary. Contrary to the mistaken information that the decision for the congressional seat has been made, it is the voters who will decide on July 20th. Nothing has been decided yet and I concede nothing. I will continue to get my message out to the people until the last. vote is cast. rural and poor, the people are a Running for the House o Represenitives » NC District & Mary Lawrence Williams Address: 200 Barington Road Occupation: Retired Librarian fa | Family: Mother and Grandmother. fm | Political Experience: Former member Pitt County School Board s/| Professional Experience: Master Degree in Library & Information Services - ECU, BS, North Cartolina Central University, Masters: University of South Carolina Campaigne Issues: Safe Neighborhoods. Affordable Healthcare, Educational Opportunities Running for the County Commissioner Seat - District A Ralph Love Age: 54 Address: 200 Barington Road Occupation: Clergyman . Family: Wite, Patricia, children, Raloh, Jr. Sherman, Anthony and Shauntye. Political Experience: Member of the Pitt County Board of Elections Professional Experience: Pastor of the Holy Trinity United Holy Church for 24 years, leadership roles in several related associations Melvin McLawhorn Age: 56 Address: 100 Allendale Drive Occupation: Training coorinator for Eastem N. C. Probation/Parole Family: Wife, Sandra McLawhom, children; Maelvin McLawhom and Sharon Mclawhorn Political Experience: Past poll chairman; member of county ABC board and — board of adjustment . Professional Experience: National career development facilitator, N.C. Probation/Parole Association member, N.C. State Criminal Justice instructor, National Association for Black in Criminal Justice. i} Get out and VOTE in the Primaries Tuesday July 2 otic eediieaeatiinnn se diiee ae aa Z heard leaders who are usually long on oe ax to grind with either. ~~» Ralph ‘Love apd 4 -* thetoric and % Ps A ? ¢ Sa v .« aA eo . “4. < ae tg Sasa an * rae eseos.: o very short on substance did I decide to speak out, I should begin by saying that both Bishop Cliff Hickman are good friends ‘and great. Candidates. ph, and I have shared neighboring ‘27 Churches for several years. Chiff and I - were both products. of New Bern, North Carolina. I have absolutely no I announced the day I became your representative that I would seek office for four years only. I did not want to become a career Politician. The one person who has consistently shown interest in the position and has kept me abreast of the concerns of the voters was Melvin McLawhorn. While I consider that a. noble gesture, this alone was not justification enough to support Melvin. I believe character, loyalty, leadership, and ethics should also be important factors. For those of you who ask The Neocon Hothouse that William Simon built right-wing policy think tank. In 1964, it supplied the brainpower that drove the ptesidential campaign of traditional conservative Senator Barry Goldwater. A young AEI scholar, Karl Hess, served as principal speech writer, and created the notoriously well remembered words of Goldwater's convention acceptance speech which became the stamp of a new, aggressive brand of movement conservatism: "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." Funding the Movement Against Liberalism Goldwater's defeat was in fact a beginning. The Johnson landslide of 1964 did not blunt the momentum of the newly motivated radical right. In the aftermath of the rebellious 1960s, a political manifesto by a Richmond attorney and future Supreme Court justice, Lewis Powell, urged conservative activists and experts to roll back perceived threats to capitalism by gaining control of power centers on campuses, in the courts, in the media, in politics, and in the iwidely:..;by. the U.S. Chamber of Contanerc : Powell's action): memo | attracted wide attention, and it ehetgi businessmen to’ retutn to the politic _arena from which the Depression. had driven them, and to use ‘their deep pockets to fund a power apparatus that could shift public opinion rightward and carry the day in electoral politics. Money from corporate and inherited wealth was married to right-wing ideas. In 1972, Joseph Cocrs, the beer magnate, was persuaded by Powell's memo to seed the Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tanks, with $250,000. Other hght-wing industrialists and scions of inherited wealth such as Lynde and Harry Bradley, Richard Mellon Scaife, John M. Olin, and Randolph Richardson established private . foundations and dedicated millions to fund the burgeoning activist front of ass Incarceration: Wave of The Future? Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political Science, and the Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University. This essay appeared August 2000 in his column "Along the Color Line,” available on the Internet at There are today over two million Americans incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails throughout the United States. More than one-half, or one million, are black men and women. The devastating human costs of the mass incarceration of one out of every 35 individuals within black America are beyond imagination. While civil rights organizations like the NAACP and black institutions such as churches and mosques have begun to address this widespread crisis of black mass imprisonment, they have frankly not given it the centrality and importance it deserves. . Black leadership throughout this country should place this issue at the forefront of their agendas. And we also need to understand how and why American society reached this oint of constructing a vast prison industrial complex, in order to find strategies to dismantle it. For a variety of reasons, rates of violent crime, including murder, rape, and robbery, increased dramatically in the 1960s and 1970s. Much of this increase occurred in urban areas. By the late 1970s, nearly one half of all Americans were afraid to walk within a mile of their homes at night, and 90% responded in surveys that the US criminal justice system was not dealing harshly enough =— with - so-called General Motors of ‘the construction of new what has Melvin done. I am grateful that you asked that question. Melvin was born and reared in: the Cherry View Community of Greenville for those. of you who remember the geographic, social, economic and cultural landscape of ommunity. You know that. elvin came from a community of hard working, church going, proud and progressive citizens growing up around black owned businesses, schools, and churches. This gave the McLawhorn children the ability to dream and achieve. These early experiences supported Melvin with a strong ifitellect to reason and achieve great things. To ~ become | County Commissioner one must possess a strong entrepreneurial spirit, Melvin was not satisfied with just a job. He and his lovely wife of many years, Sandra, have created two Child Care Centers. Not only does this create entrepreneurial ship and income, but ‘it also separates his from the field, as one of a few African Americans CEOs who employs over 20 employees. That es him one of Pitt County's largest minority owned and operated businesses employing advocacy organizations that were to be the muscle of movement conservatism. Patience and persistence were the watchwords of new-conservative philanthropic —grant-making. © The patrons viewed it as long-term investment, and focused giving on advancing a narrow set of principles: less government "interference," sharply reduced taxes, unrestricted private enterprise, personal responsibility, economic freedom, rabid anti-communism, and the export of free-market gospel to the nation and the world. The agenda was elastic enough to gather disparate interests under the big tent -- old and new conservatives, libertarians, social and religious conservatives - united against the common enemy, liberalism. The movement began to attract and train fresh recruits through programs that brought young and ambitious political talent into the fold. With the defeat of Hubert Humphrey — by Richard Nixon in 1968, a group of disillusioned right-wing Democrats, former ‘liberals’ and ex-communists ing power hard right. The neoconservatives, and they lent fresh energy, ideology, and organizing skills to the movement. These new radical right shock troops transmitted the ideas of the far right through targeted and popular media, and went to work for candidates who could make those ideas happen. They were, according to Sidney Blumenthal, "a political elite aspiring to become a governing elite." William Simon and t the Counter-Intelligentsia No one _ exemplified emergent ight-wi wer more than the hte Vitae © ‘Simon. Simon projected a charismatic personality that drove change. He used exuberant salesmanship, ringing prose, and high polemical style to move a movement. He bridged the gulf between business risons, criminals. Politicians like Richard _M. Nixon, George Wallace, and Ronald Reagan began to campaign successfully on the theme of "Lay and Order." The death penalty, which was briefly outlawed by the Supreme Court, was reinstated. Local, state, and federal expenditures for law enforcement rose sharply. . Behind much of anti-crime rhetoric was a not-too-subtle racial dimension, the projection of crude stereotypes about the link between criminality and black people. Rarely did these politicians observe that minority and poor people, not the white middle class, were statistically much more likely to experience violent crimes of all kinds: The argument was made that law enforcement officers should be given much greater latitude in suppressing crime, that sentences should be lengthened and made nfifidatory, and that prisons should be designed not for the purpose of rehabilitation, but for punishment. Consequently, there was a rapid expansion in the.personnel of the criminal justice system, as well as risons. What occurred in New York State, for example, was typical of what happened nationally. From 1817 to 1981, New York had opened 33 state prisons. From 1982 to 1999, another 38 state prisons were constructed, The state's prison population at the time of the Attica prison revolt in September 1971 was about 12,500. By 1999, there were over 71,000 prisoners in New York State correctional facilities. In 1974, the number of Why I Am Supporting Melvin McLawhorn For Pitt County African Americans, Can you imagine ’ how much this helps us in this depressed economy? Expect to hear about, child-care number three soon. To become County Commissioner one needs some ted perspective on the face of poverty. On a whole, poor kids perform worse in school, more poor kids die early, babies from poor families weigh, less than their counter part, and poor people have more difficulty accessing systems open to others. As Chairman of the Martin, Pitt, Beaufort Community Action program, Melvin is programmatically responsible for eliminating poverty in these areas, Melvin is responsible for the following head _ starts; St.Gabriel Head Start Centers, Everetts Head Start in Everetts, and Martin County Community Action, Inc. Head Start Program. Over 400 poor children are prepared for public school. In addition, 130 homes this year has either been repaired or weatherized. This requires Melvin to oversee a 3 million dollar annual budget. Melvin demands that each client from 1-100 be treated with respect and compassion. and right-wing politics. He was a full partner of a major investment house on Wall Street, Salomon Brothers. In 1973, under Nixon, Simon was made federal "energy czar," despite his espoused dislike of government. It was government, Simon maintained, that had caused the energy debacle. "All governments know how to do," he declared, "is to compound the problem that government created in the first place.” He nonetheless remained part of the new right-wing governing elite when Watergate forced Nixon to resign. Simon agreed to serve as Secretary of the Treasury under Nixon's successor Gerald Ford. Under Reagan, in the early 1980s, Simon helped funnel private right-wing funds to Oliver North's secret government within the government that smuggled illicit arms to the contras against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. His popularity and fund-raising abilities made Simon a power. He cast a vast otganizational presence within the radical right. In Blumenthal's phrase, he "controlled the wellsprings of fundirig [to] make the movement green." In 1977, Simon won an_ tanks influential position that carried prestige and vast funding potential. He became the President of the John M. Olin Foundation, and made it one of the major sources of millions . in contributions to radical right causes. He was also on the boards of the Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Insttuton, and the Manhattan Institute - all major generating centers of nght-wing thought and action. He wrote two influential books, Time for Truth (1979) and A Time for Action (1980) detailing his case against "stupid, despotic" liberalism, whose championing of equal rights was “a morbid assault on both ability and justice." Liberal leaders, he wrote, constituted "as stubborn and ruthless a tuling elite as any in history and worse and Americans incarcerated in all state ptisons stood at 187,500. By 1991, the number had reached 711,700. Nearly two-thirds of all state prisoners in 1991 had less than a high school education. One third of all prisoners were unemployed at the time of their arrests. Incarceration rates by the end of the 1980s had soared to unprecedented rates, especially for black Americans. As of December 1989, the total US rison population, including _ federal Institutions, exceeded one million for the first time in history, an incarceration rate of the general population of one out of every 250 citizens. For African Americans, the rate was over 700 per 100,000, or about seven times more than for whites. About one half of all ptisoners were black. Twenty-three percent of all black males in their twenties were either in jail or prison, on parole, probation, of awaiting trial. The rate of incarceration of black Americans in 1989 had even surpassed that experienced by blacks who still lived under the apartheid regime of South Africa. By the early 1990s, rates for all types of violent crime began to plummet. But the laws which sent offenders to prison were made even more severe. Children were increasingly viewed in courts as adults, and subjected to harsher penalties. Laws like California's ‘three strikes and you're out" eliminated the possibility of parole for repeat offenders The vast majority of these new prisoners x To become a Commissioner tepresenting our community, one tmust be keenly sensitive to the specific needs we hold dear. It *is inconceivable that one could serve without having had an_ integral relationship with the local civil rights, organizations, Case-in-point: Melvin championed our cause when he single-handedly went before the Greenville City Council to petition extending Martin Luther King Drive west of Fifth Street to the beltway (by-pass) and East of Tenth Street. As the Chairman of the state Southern Christian —_ Leadership Conference, an officer of the local board and a citizen practicing the principles of Martin Luther King, Melvin was compelled to speak truth to power. Whether marching for an end to crime in our community, . better relationship between law enforcement and the community, or economic justice for those caught in the web of poverty, Melvin was locked hand-in-hand with local leadership. This gauges for us what his posture will be behind smoked filled doors far beyond the ears of our community. To be Commissioner, one must July 1-15, 2004 The M-Voice Newspaper Page 3 M(vieVOICE OP/EDs Fiza command respect from ones family, community, peers, church, and organizations. I am not aware of one person in this city who has a negative thing to say about Melvin. Just ask anyone (except those long on rhetoric and very short on facts. - Melvin is a model citizen who is well respected in the Red Oak Community. Ask any of the 800 members of the Mt. Calvary Church where he serves on the deacon board. Ask his classmates from the immortal Epps School. They all will tell you Melvin has providentially . prepared himself for this position. Finally, the person who replaces the current Commissioner will do— more than meet two times monthly. There will be many budget meetings, closed sessions, county association meetings in-and-out of state, ribbon cuttings, mutual interest meetings with Board of Education, City of Greenville and Legislative meetings, hearings, and called sessions. This Position requires one who can think on one's feet and make difficult decisions. This person will have to help develop a 200 million-dollar budget, and monitor it. Besides this, someone wilt have to replace me on the following boards'. University Health Systems Board of Trustee (Pitt. Memorial Hospital and seven other hospitals, Surgicenter plus budget over 500 million annually; Pitt County Mental Health, budget, over 4 million dollars annually; Health Access Board of Directors, Home Health Services, ViQuest, budget 10 million annually; Martin County Community Action budget 3 million annually; and 27 other appointed or volunteered boards and committees. The next person will need to attend these meetings. I have missed one Board of Commissioner's meeting .in 4 years (mother's death). Melvin C. McLawhorn: is my personal choice to serve in this capacity. He' possesses the intellect, talent, and critical time necessary to represent our people. I urge you not to listen to those who have -easy access to the airwaves but who have not paid their dues in our community. We do not need divisive or questionable leadership, we need a conscientious builder who will listen to the citizens and who can take us to the next level. Respectfully Submitted, Randy B. Royal Commissioner District A. than many because it is possessed of delusions of moral grandeur." The Republican Party was "stupid," as well, and had to be shoved from the accomodationist center into the tabernacle of belligerent, far-right conservatism. Simon's creed, put simply, was to be vigorous in belief, wise in strategic planning, and united in collective action. He picked up where Powell had left off. His goal was to defeat the “Liberal Establishment,” and to replace it by planting right-wing cadres as the dominant force in politics, media, academia, and the courts. They would constitute an alternative power that he labeled the "counter-intelligentsia,"” a vast network of new conservative thought that would challenge and overwhelm seemingly omnipotent liberalism. Under Simon, Olin funded ptograms in law and economics, political science, ‘business, and major fellowships and endowed chairs at major American universities including Harvard and Yale. With neoconservative _theoretician Kristol, he created the Institute for Educational Affairs, which would chur out young activists from universities and right-wing leadership programs to staff the institutes, think » and journals of the counter-intelligentsia that moved ublic opinion rightward. imon-izing a Network - Though he died in 2000, the influence of the organizations that Simon's leadership and money helped to build has been pervasive. Among other things, according to People for the American Way, they "stirred up" activism from the national to the local level, funded "scholars to push the _ intellectual boundaries of the issues, graduate students to form the next wave of scholarship and movement leadership, and college newspapers to shape the milieu in which American's next generation...comes to its political awakening.” The impetus toward industrial deregulation that took root within the ] were non-violent offenders, and many of these were convicted of drug offenses that carried long prison terms. In New York, a state in which African Americans and Latinos comprise 25% of the total population, by 1999 they represented 83% of all state tisoners, and 94% of all individuals convicted on drug offenses. The pattern of racial bias in these statistics is confirmed by the research of the US Commission on Civil Rights, which found that while African Americans today constitute only 14%. of all drug users nationally, they are 35% of all drug arrests, 55% of all drug convictions, and 75% of all prison admissions for drug offenses. Currently, the racial proportions of those under some type of correctional supervision, including parole and probation, are one-in-fifteen ’ for young white males, one-in-ten for young Latino males, and one-in-three for young African-American males.. Statistically today, more than eight out of every ten African-American males will be arrested at some point in their lifetime. Guard tower © Michael Jackson-Hardy, from Behind the Razor Wire, New York University Press The latest innovation — in American corrections is termed "special housing units" (SHU), but which prisoners also generally refer to as The Box. SHUs are uniquely designed solitary confinement cells, in which prisoners are locked down for 23 hours a day for months or Democratic administration of Jimmy Carter was generated by academic-style "scholars" of the American Enterprise Institute, a major recipient of Simon's largesse from Olin. The campaign to rivatize Medicare, under the rubric of 'reform," has been pushed with diligence by the Heritage Foundation since the 1980s. Heritage "scholars" drew up the programs and policies of the Reagan Administration in a volume called Mandate for Leadership. Many were carried out. Hundreds of young cadres in policy-making and government contributed to the volume. More than 30 of them were hired by the Reagan Administration, including the controversial William Bennett as Secretary of Education, and James Watt as Secretary of the Interior. The movement's network has offered promising career paths to young activists ever since. Campaigns for public school privatization through school voucher programs have been spurred through the efforts and funding of the Bradley Foundation. The Smith Richardson Foundation was the incubator of so-called “supply-side” economics, the perverse school of "voodoo economics" (according to George H.W. Bush) that holds that the benefits of tax-cuts for the wealthy will somehow trickle down from the privileged to those lower on the totem pole. Most recently employed by George W. Bush and the tax-cutting Republican majority in Congress, supply-side policy has resulted in economic class warfare, and a vast and ever-widening gap between those who earn more than $200,000 per year and the rest of us. Carried to its logical extreme, the ideological platform pursued by William Simon has morphed into the policy excesses of today over which the Bush Administration presides. Fault Lines on the Right From out of the political wilderness to dominion in Washington, the once-derided "crazies" of the radical right have, in the words of John Mickelthwaite and Adrian Wooldridge even years at a time. SHU cellblocks are electronically monitored, pre- fabricated structures of concrete and steel, about 14 feet long and 8 feet wide, amounting to 120 square feet of space. The two inmates who are confined in each cell, however, actually have only about 60 square feet of usable space, or 30 square feet per person. . All meals are served to prisoners through a thin slot cut into the steel' door. The toilet unit, sink and shower are all located in the cell. Prisoners are permitted one hour "exercise time" each day in a small concrete balcony, surrounded by heavy security wire, directly connected with their SHU cells. Educational and rehabilitation programs for SHU prisoners are prohibited. As of 1998, New York State had confined 5700 state prisoners in SHUs, about 8% of its total inmate population. Currently under construction in Upstate New York is a new 750 cell maximum security SHU facility, which will cost state taxpayers $180 million. Although Amnesty International and human rights groups in the US have widely condemned SHUs, claiming that such forms of imprisonment constitute the definition @f-torture under international law, other states have followed New York's example. As of 1998, California had constructed 2942 SHU beds, followed by Mississippi (1756), Arizona (1728), Virginia (1267), Texas (1229), Louisiana (1048) and Florida (1000). © Solitary confinement, which historically had been defined even by corrections of The Economist, "out-organized, out-fought, and out-thought liberal America the past 40 years. And the left still shows no real sign of knowing how to fight back" [emphasis added]. However, the signs of ideological wear and tear are becoming evi as the right-radical policies of the Bush regime come into direct conflict with the injunctions of classical conservatism. To cite examples: Though shalt not indulge in fiscal ity. Bush's tax cuts have ted to record depths — a deficit in the current budget year of between $400-500 billion ~ causing consternation among Republican ranks in the Congress. Though shalt not engage in foreign adventuring. The botched: war in’ Iraq has undermined America's standing in the world, cost taxpayers $5 billion a month, and claimed many thousands of human lives. The price of impert adventuring is stéep indeed. As y Pat Buchanan comervates increase , point out, if you play at being an empire, you're in of losing the republic. And members of the ideological nght at the state and local levels ate restively . watching their own budgets wither as a result of both Iraq and those tax cuts. From the cefiter to the left, funders and activists must study the means and methods of the radical right in order to reverse the damage. Communicating effectively outreach to disillusioned and alienated voters is a key. So are efforts to mobilize and activate the young. Uniting on common objectives is another. To become a. viable alternative for a majority of Americans, "it all has to manufactured from a center of conviction and enetgy," with infinite patience for the long haul. [Among other works, the author is indebted to Sidney Blumenthal's eloquent history of the emergence of the new conservatism, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment (Times Books, 1981), now sadly out of print, for its lucidity and political acumen] the F uture of Black America officials as an extreme disciplinary measure, is becoming increasingly the norm. The introduction of SHUs reflects a general mood in the country that the growing penal population is_essentially beyond redemption. If convicted felons cease to be viewed as human beings, why should they be treated with any humanity? This question should be elevated and discussed in every African-American and _Latino neighborhood, community center, religious institution, and union hall across this country. Because the overwhelming human casualties of this racist leviathan are our own children, afents, sisters, and brothers. Those whom this brutal system defines as being “beyond redemption" are ourselves. Costs of the system What are the economic costs for American society of the vast expansion of our prison-industrial complex? According to criminal justice researcher David Barlow at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, between 1980 and 2000, the combined expenditures of federal, state, and local governments on police have increased about 400%. Corrections expenditures for building new prisons, upgrading existing facilities, hiring more guards, and related ~—s costs, _—_—increased approximately one thousand percent. Although it currently costs about $70,000 to construct a typical prison cell, and about $25,000 annually to supervise and maintain each prisoner, See Racisim Page 4 hi eae ; ater +P Ny, Hise mat iia. riba i | J Hn ta ial pear i dt tf i i f 3 | F { in Iraq, President Civil agiia “ite i: Hy ee yRe if} i it if h : 5 ! sBé a : i F : i ¢ Gs if 4 8 2 ) A il of risons, and the Future of Black America ‘the criminal » & “short-tempered"--greatly influence racialized os 5 that candidate cannot be setious about nying to get federal resources for the ie issues because it won't happen. ohn Lewis Spe who participated in the movement, issued is statement to commemorate the signing of that The Civil Rights Act of 1964 just didn't pass. It just didn't happen. It took many years and many months of le on the part of a disciplined and organized movement that created a climate created an environment for action on the part of the President of the United States and the C. SS. One must understand that in the American South during, the 1950s and '60s, there were signs that said "White "Men," "Colored Men," "White Waiting,” "Colored Waiting.” Segregation and racial ‘ean anon pot the order of fi . Asac ing up in the American South, and as a participant in the Civil Rights Movement, | saw those signs. piss aparttien water ins in nt stores—a shining water fountain marked “white” and a spigot marked tl to get water to drink. Black people could go into a store, buy a pair of shoes, sometimes they were not allowed to try on those shoes. They R The fesponses to the Council's - written questionnaire, interviews, candidate's 4 Elite Properties 218 E. Arlington Bivd., Ste. 100 Greenville, North Carolina 27858 Business (252) 215-0015 Home (252) 355-5359 Cell (252) 916-6403 Pager (252) 757-4344 E-Mail edwilliams21@yahoo.com Canidate says Na, RR 8 Cau, African-American and Latino young people. In April 2000, utilizing national and state data compiled by the FBI, the Justice t and six leading foundations issued a comprehensive study documented vast racial disparities at every level of the juvenile ‘justice process, African Americans undet age 18 comprise 15% of their national , yet they currently requcses oe 2% of all those who are arrested. : Prison © Michael Jackson-Hardy, from Behind the Razor Wire, New York University America Resources are dwindlin scared or uninformed the First District. Go to the web site below for a about Weapons of Mass Destruction. The Whole Truth About The Iraq War: A must — watch . An impressive roster of experts is could go into a store, but they were not even allowed to try on a suit or dress. They were welcome to go into drug store to get a prescription filled, but they were not allowed to sit down at the lunch counter and have a soda or something to eat. They had to take their snack out on the street and stand up to drink or eat There were separate waiting rooms in bus stations or train stations. White people and black people couldn't stay in the same hotel; they couldn't ride in the same taxicab. When I look back on it, on the drama of the Movement the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, and the marches were all the actions of ordinary people _ using the Philosophy the discipline of nonviolence. People had been beaten; people had been arrested and jailed. Some had been shot or killed Medgar Evers was shot and killed in May jas Sheriff Bull Connor used | and fire hoses. on non-violent protestors. 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In practical terms, this means that for young African Americans who are arrested and ing assembled to provide a generally withering commentary on the quality of evidence and possible motivations of Neoconservatives who’ provi the momentum and muscle behind America's venture into tive war. The fig leaf of the possibility of an honest mistake on the matter of WMDs is stripped away; what is left is the stark and disturbing anatomy of deliberate deceit. Watch it here. Windows Media. http://www .informationclearinghouse.in fo) artie6423 hm ks Out On Civil Right Act South, there was a sense of righteous indignation. All across America, by the hundreds and thousands, people started demanding that the Federal Government act. People sent letters to members of Congress and to the White House. And President __ Kennedy responded on June Ilth in a nationally televised address to the nation, and he urged the Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act. The Congress debated that act Jor many days and long nights, and it was finally passed. On July 2. 1964, 40: years ago, President Johnson signed that act into law: So, I think it is fitting and appropriate for us to pause to celebrate the distance we've come and the progress we have made. Because of the actions of hundreds of our citizens, and because of the response of the U.S. Congress, President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon Johnson, we have witnessed what I like to call a nonviolent revolution, . @ revolution of values, a revolution... vyiegs of ideas. And I say today, we are better nation, and we are a better people. charged with a crime, that they are more than six times more likely to be assi .to prison that: white pouth elender. - ple. who For those young people have never been to prison before, more likely than whites to be sentenced to. juvenile prisons. For youths charged with drug offenses, blacks are 48 times more likely than whites to be sentenced to juvenile prison. White youths charged with violent offenses are incarcerated on average for 193 days after trial; by contrast, African-American youths are held 254 days, and Latino youths are incarcerated 305 days. What seems clear is that a new leviathan of racial inequality has been constructed across our country. It lacks the brutal simplicity of the old Jim Crow system, with its omnipresent "white" and "colored" signs. Yet it is in many respects potentially far more devastating, ‘because it presents itself to the world as a system that is truly color-blind. The black freedom struggle of the 1960s was successful largely. because it convinced a majority of white middle class Americans that Jim Crow was economically inefficient, and that politically it could not be a large yellow sign over the door at — Prison. the public entrance to the The sign reads: doors pass some of corrections world.” I asked . Reverend Bill Webber, the director of the prison's educational p: and several prisoners what they thought about the sign. "demonic." One of the students, a 35-year-old Latino named ese , finest professionals in the — Bill answered bluntly, | M.A. - Tony, agreed with Bill's assessment, © but added, “let us face the demon head on." There are now over two million Americans who are incarcerated. It is time to face the | demon head on. BRC-NEWS: Black sustained or justified. 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Halliburton subsidiary, contract may even’ be worth as much ae y eventually be worth as much as , ° : . . July 1-15, 2004 The M-Voice News aper burton Whistleblowers Say Millions Wasted in I In testimony submitted to members of Congress, one truck driver explained in detail how taxpayers were billed for empty trucks driven up and ‘down Iraq and how $85,000 vehicles were abandoned for lack of spare 7 tires. A labor foreman said dozens of Workers were told to "look busy" while doing virwally no work for salaries of $80,000 a year. An auditor related how the company was ing an av of $100 for every ange bag of lene oot $10,000 a month for company employees to stay in five-star hotels. "We saw very little concem for cost considerations," David Walker, head of the Geneml Account Office, the investigative atm of the told members of the Congress who attended a hearing at the Government Reform Committee saa House of Representatives. ' ate serious problems, they still exist, and they are exacerbated in a wartime climate." William Reed, director of the Pentagon's Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), also released a to members of Congress that stated: "In our Opinion, the contractor's billing system is cevboyoae in pat We soo fed sree deficiencies resulting in material invoicing misstatements that are not prevented, detected, and/or comected in a timely " " Cnnics say that the Halliburton's contract with the military has been especially problematic because the company has what ts called a’ "cost-phis" ~ Contract, which means the company is repaid for all expenditures, plus a percentage fee and possible bonus on top of that. "While the Bush administration failed to adequately plan for the safety of our troops—as proven by its failure to provide suffiaent body armor-it made certain that Halliburton would make a killing long before the war began,” said Jim Donahue, coordinator for Halliburton Watch, a nonprofit organization based in Washington. But Republicans say the charges are simply an attempt to muddy the image of Vice President Dick Cheney, who was previously the chief executive officer of Halliburton. Open an «So Non « io SAAD Call Steve Johnson RENTA Le]... 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One statement came from David Wilson, a Halliburton er loyee charged with delivering supplies by from Camp Cedar TI in southem Iraq to ‘Camp Anaconda just north of Baghdad between November 2003 and March 2004. He explained that his supervisors didn't care what was being transported, so long as the trucks drove as many times as possible from one end of the country to the other. "The paperwork I curried had no details about the contents of our cargo - basically all they were looking for was the number of trucks with freight on them (but) a related problem was that KBR would run trucks empty quite often," Wilson said. "Sometimes they would have five empty trucks, sometimes they would have a dozen. One time we ran 28 trucks and only one had anything on it. There were several times when we had empty trucks both on the way to Anaconda and then on the way back to Cedar II. I don't understand why KBR would have placed our lives in danger that way for no reason.” He also described what appeared to be a complete lack of cost controls and systems to maintain equipment properly. "When I arrived at Arifjan in Kuwait last November, I noticed 50 to 100 brand new trucks sitting there unused," Wilson remembered. "Five months later, when I came home. A large number of trucks were still there, not being used. These are $85,000 (or more) Mercedes and Volvo trucks. "As every other trucker working on those convoys will tell you, KBR had virtually no facilities in phce to do maintenance on these trucks. There were absolutely no oil filters or fuel filters for months on end. I begged for filters but never got any. I was told that oil were Out of the question. KBR removed all the spare tires in Kuwait. So when one of Our trucks got a flat tire on the highway, we just had to leave it there for the Imqis to loot, which is just crazy. | remember saying to myself when it happened, 'You just lost yourself an $85,000 truck because of a spare tire. We lost a truck because we didn't have $25 hydraulic line to assist the chitch." Another former —_ Halliburton employee, Mike West, said that ptior to Halliburton, he had working as an area Enerpy with a yearly salary of $70,000. "When heard about 4 chance to eam more with Halliburton, | called them up," he said. "After just a few minutes, the woman said I was hired as a labor foreman at a salary of $130,000. I didn't even have to send in a resume.” When he amived, West exphined he was paid despite the fact that he had no work. "I only worked one day out of six in Kuwait," he explained. "That day, a supetvisor told me to operate a forklift. I exphined that I didn't have a license to operate a forklift or any experience The response was: 'It's easy and no one will know." ee i 3 an <: oe Won. Geowatan, ong When West got to Camp Anaconda in southem Iraq, he says that he didn't have any work to do. Nor did most of the other 35 workers. The supervisors told them to walk around and look busy. Then they went to a camp in Al Asad, where they had only one day of work out of five days. They were told to bill for 12 hours of labor every day. From there, his group was. sent Falluyah for six weeks, where once again he had almost no work to do except help with secunty and follow Iragi workers around to make sure they cleaned the toilets properly. "One day, I was ordering some equipment. | asked the if it was OK to order a dil,” West said. "He said to order four. I responded that we didn't need four. He said: Don't worry about it. It's a cost-plus contract’ I asked him, ‘So basically, this is a blank check? The camp manager laughed and said, 'Yeah' He repeated this over and over again to the employees." | As a Haliburton employee, I was disappointed by all of the company's lies and disorganization. As a taxpayer, I'm disgusted by all of the money spent by Halliburton to pay employees to do nothing." A third person who submitted testimony to Waxman's office was Marie de Young, who had previously worked for the military for 10 years, rising to the level of "captain. De Young, who had also authored two books about women in. the military, worked for Halliburton in Kosovo and was hired in December to help oversee Operation Iraqi Freedom contracts in Kuwait. "I soon discovered that there was not a complete up-to-date list of all of the sub-contracts.. also, the document control department had provided incorrect lists to all of the task order managers from an maccurate database," she said. In January and February 2004, a series of articles in the media, especially inthe Wall Street Journal, chronicled — the overcharging’ arid fraud in Halliburton's operations. In response Halliburtott hired ' what it dubbed the "Tiger Team" to audit and correct problems. De Young worked Closely with the team and discovered not only that it did not correct anything, but that the team contin “questionable auditing and administration practices." "When the ‘liger Team examined a subcontract, they just checked to make sure that all the forms were in the file," she said. "They didn't assess the reasonableness of the price or consult with site managers. The team's sole purpose was to close as many N Page 5 re a 2 a rm, f * > 2 a eR subcontracts as possible, under the mistaken assumption that everything that was closed ptior to the arrival of ‘the goverment aucht team would be exempt from further scrutiny. For three months, this Tiger Team occupied waterfront villas at the Hilton hotel and shuffled papers, but did nothing to effectiveh: clean up old subcontracts. "We were instructed to Pay invoices ‘without verifying whether services were delivered. I personally told a KBR Tiger Team member not to pay an invoice that I knew was a double billing (but) the long term KBR employee told me I didn't know what I was doing.” De Young says that Halkburton paid the Kuwaiti subcontractor la Nouvelle S100 pet bag for lundty services—four times more than they were paying elsewhere. That added up to‘more than $1 million per month. Another time, the company ordered 37,200 cases of soda at $1.50 a case, but was delivered only 37,200 cans, resulting in charges that were five times the normal wholesale cost for the drinks: Halkiburton housed ‘the ‘liver ‘Team at the five-star Kempinski Hotel for $10,000 per employee per month. At the same time, soldiers were required to live in tents at a cost of $1.39 a day. The military requested that Halliburton employees move into the tents, but they refused, De Young said. : "The Halliburton corporate culture is’ one of intimidation and fear," De Young: ’ said. "I had been advised by subcontract * administrators who quit the company that employees get moved around when they get _ too close to the truth. I personally observed’ and experienced this as a routine compafy practice. Ironically, other Previous managers who tolerated bad practices were promoted to better paying jobs in Iraq or Houston or ° Jordan." In an email, Haliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall told reporters: "We take any charges of improper conduct seriously... We -will:look into ‘these ‘assertions. If igsees ** arisd, we art odftirhitred ‘to addtessing them! fe thiivt thy aridl bbs iN" eee OF eet ads "Hallibuttein beleves ies tins in Iraq are designed to deliver the best quality products and services con the best “terfis - available as called for th our conmaet;We will: .7 work with the committee to assist thena ‘in fulfilling their important Oversight functions.” Meanwhile, top — executves of Halliburton have been asked to testify next month before another — cx megressional committee investigating potental favontism and waste in Trag reconstruction contracts. ame as it VOTE FOR CLIFTON B, HICKMAN TT COUNT Distictan® appears on the ballot} HE'S INVOLVED... P co E'S ACCOMPLISHED ...: Education & Experience > Masters Degree in Social Work from ECU Accomplishments >» Co-Founder/Vice President/Fundraising This is the proportion of Senators to the people of makes the significance of knowing your Senator a Your decision about your Senator affects your life. 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If left unchecked, flooding the country, legally "the end of the America we Huntington believes, and illegally, in a wave with have known for more than next. That optimistic dream, for immigrants from south of the no end; when they arrive, they three centuries. . and the willingness to pursue it, : border will split America in live in insulated Hispanic Other contrarians feel that is what binds us together as Pitt Count ‘| two. One commentator communities, speak Spanish, Huntington is wrong. They Americans—not the words y remarked that racists would watch Spanish-language TV, say evidence shows that "Anglo" or "Protestant". 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"For example, by Mrs. Jomes in place of rigs ist Bill Cosby across the country. “ we have a male responsibility program that we run in Chicago. . _ T said to the director, 'How many people do you serve in a year? 'He said, 300.’ I said, ‘How many could you’ serve? ‘He said, "Awe man, I could serve 5,000 if I had the resources." More than 100 Urban League chapters around the country, most surviving on corporate donations, foundation grants or government contracts, reach as many people as possible with after school tutorial, job training, leadership development and responsible decision making programs. And they would be doing more — if they "had the resources." "On an overall basis, one of our core competences, one of the most important things we do is reach out - arid serve youth in America's urban communities," says Morial, former mayor of New Orleans. "But one thing | have noticed is that even with Our most successful programs, we're, not touching the ones we need to touch because of money." The Urban is among thousand of organizations that seek to address many of the age-old problems cited Cosby. Speaking in Washington, D.C. at an observance of the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, Cosby complained, "the lower economic le are not holding up their end of tise” He said, "These people are not parenting. They are buying things for their kids — $500 sneakers for what? And won't spend $200 for 'Hooked ' on Phonics.’ They're on the comer and they can't speak English." Psychologist Julia Hare, Ralph Love, St. is the best choice for County Aside from his role on the county's board of education, he has demonstrated his leadership qualities and abilities at home, in the community and within his church affiliation. Bishop Love is dedicated to this community and to its future. He has a vision that is geared toward making, sure there are sufficient jobs available and jobs with wages high enough to raise children and Pees families face. He understands the need to seek and find alternative methods of ing the First Lady Fashion Show Planned There will be a First Lady Fashion Show held at the Phillipi Church, 1610 Farmville Blvd. in Greenville, July 24th, at 4:00 P.M. Any First Lady of a church affiliation who would like to Patticipate, please call Sandra at 258-2008 i the church at 752-7205. This is going to be just a time of good fellowship and more!!! eee | Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. —Henry Van Dyke eee County employees will appreciate the leadership Bishop Love brings to the board of Commissioners. He recognizes them as the most valued asset of the County, as he has employed people. The business community will find in him a person who is thoroughly familiar with the responsibilities that come with operating a business. Understanding business is a tremendous asset for a county commissioner. His Past experiences with education will serve the most important of individuals best: ou children Finally, Reflections, Expressions @ Reviews co-founder of the San Francisco based Black Think Tank, says .Cosby’s comments would have been more helpful had he suggested ways to address the problems. "He should have said, ‘Following this meeting and this feel good session of Brown v. Board of Education, I am going to personally gather together the Jack and Jills, the Links, all of the | Greek letter organizations, the coalition of this, the coalition of that, like 100 Black Women, 100 Black Men and the Black church says Hare. "You (Cosby) throw out all. of these ciiticisms and you don't have any kind of solutions, I've got to look at you and. I just wonder if you're just floor showing." The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA), the oldest of the Black Greek letter sororities, has operated its Ivy Reading Academy for grades K-3 has for nearly two years with $1.5 million from the U. S. Department of Education. Linda White, AKA's national president, eagerly explains why her Organization chose to focus. on the «| early years of a child's life. "Children who have not developed the basic reading skills in the very early years find it extremely difficult to become competent readers in the later grades," she says. "And when they are unable to read effectively, then they don't perform well in the other subjects and other higher-level educational tasks and they don't finish school, they can’ t. function in society." She adds, "Most of us would not be where we are today if someone had not reached back and helped us, whether it was the neighbor next door Commissioner Seat A. Bishop Love will work well with other community and elected leaders in addressing the needs of a growing county like Pitt and his work will County remain the "hub" of the East and the center of healthcare and commerce and an ideal community for raisi families. For the sake of our county's future, I urge voters to vote for Ralph who encouraged you or the teacher in your school. Most of us did not come from _—_ well-educated ~—_—_well-to-do backgrounds." What matters is the person who shows some caring and love and provide encouragement for that child." Julia Hare says children too often get the blame for circumstances over which they have no control. '_. "They're not responsible for the ebonies," Hare states. "They're not responsible for the situation that causes, them to stand on Street corners. If you look at the figures, you have a society that will not efnploy their mothers, will not employ their fathers. In fact, you have a society that sent most of their fathers to prison." DeLacy Davis, a sergeant in the East Orange, NJ. police department and executive director of the department's TRY . (Together Redirecting Youth) program, is using the police department to help rather than lock up troubled youth." "They come every day and they go straight to the police department. We give them access to the Internet. They do their homework at the police station. My staff comes from behind the desk and the children take over. . We teach them office skills. We show them value and love,” Davis says. "We call'it giving an overdose of support services for that child. In other words, while the parents may be drug addicted, it doesn't mean that child can't make it. They may say, I go to the gang because it's protection. I go to the gang because they feed me. | go to the gang because it's my family. What we're going to have to do is make sure that child is eating every day, that we remove all of the factors that our children have tofd us as reasons for them going to gang activity. We take those arguments off the table." And the program is working, says Davis, who is also president and founder of Black Cops Against Police Brutality. "Two children last year who failed every subject, they were 15 and 16, they were held back in the 9th grade and now are on honor roll.” Such support and encouragement is crucial says Mary Lee Alien, director of Child Welfare and Mental Health Division at the Washington, D.C. based Children's Defense Fund, a non-profit organization that researches and advocates on behalf of children." G "We try to ensure that there are comprehensive services and s available to the children and the families because you can't separat® child from the family and community in which they're living and in which th being raised," she says. "There are in terms of being able to reach the needs, but there are. some things that W@ know work. But what we've got to do i try to make those things work for many, many more children." : Start program 18 The federal Head a terrific example of a comprehensive program that provides an early childhood education to children’ 3 to year old. Alien says, But Head Start serves only 60 percent of eligible. children, more than a third of th Black. Alien says Head Start should be expanded to serve children from birth to age 3 as well as assisting their paremt¢ Moral, the head of the National Urban League, says everyone has an é ¢ obligation to help the needy. "Anybody who's _halfwat’ enlightened understands the '- interdependence in Society," ‘tie explains. "You can't build a wif around yourself and pretend to ‘be successful if there's pain and sufferirig all around." / wd Call the... 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And that takes age, experience, and time. In other words, you grow into becoming a woman. One event (losing your virginity ot having a baby) does not.make you a woman. REAL WOMEN ate intelligent because they are smart and wise to know that brains and intellect are from God and are to be used under His direction. They dress modestly and in good taste because there is no reason to advertise or flaunt any part of their bodies. REAL WOMEN know that ‘Paper dolls are cheap, disposable, and replaceable! This is your body so honor it, respect it, and learn how to take care of it Read God's Word and begin to understand the reason why God intended sex to be practiced within mattiage. Learn now what it means for from the Desk of Mrs. Beatrice Maye your body to be the temple of the living God. Let it be the site where God can spread out his comfort, peace, and joy. Let it be the place where God calls home. You do that and you will become not just a woman but a REAL WOMAN of God. American F. Let's consider some little foxes that spoil the family: 1. Say over and over enough again, "My family, my home is the-most important institution in the world”. 2. See that the true values in life, and especially, in the home, are not material but spiritual. 3. Recover family feeling, | that sense of unity that gives strength when all else would — destroy. 4. There must be some moral standards in the home by which the family lives. 5. Home ought to be as attractive as possible. Home ought to be so attractive that daddy can't wait to get there at night, and children never hesitate to invite: their friends home within them. 6. Keep good celebrating ali lives that have been lived, and believe that success is providing : ea transition to acceptance. 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They are committed to honoring and genuine care and concern for the individual tbefamily and the community. ‘Their goal is to help the grief stricken survivors of a loved one get through the nore Commissioner of Agriculture “Tom Gilmore would do an outstanding job for the people of North Carolina as Commissioner of Agriculture.” - Jim Hunt \ tae" four-term Governor of North Carolina opportunity and fair play. We must elect Tom aps my. yor sslindepabr da “Tom Gilmore's foresight and vision paved the way for many bring good government back to the Department of Agriculture.” - Eric literanare handy, and especially the Bible. A Bible ought to be readily available for every person to readjust before sleep. 7. Finally, we must recover teligi religion. Religion ought to be a vital part of every famuly Church attendance of a family unit tt to be as normal as breathing, "clin Should we eg A our children going to Sunday school and church? Yes, and we should insist on going with then ‘bens Make religion practical and vital in the family. Talk of Jesus and God and prayer and salvation as as bread and soap and the car. Set aside ten or ~fifteen minutes daily for devotion - Bible America: . Touched By Evil . By Faith May For those who are wotried about terrorist attacks, warfare and the horrible things that are happening in reading, prayer and the reading of classics. Use The Upper spiritual Room or the Daily Bread or whatever devotional help a ees ee provides. Five Commandments for Modem . Parents 1. You shall remember that time 2. You shall remember that a good example is better than many words. 3. You shall give your child encouragement. 4. You shall give your child freedom with love.’ Discipline is necessary. 5. You shall introduce your child to God. Our best crop as patents is to "grow" Iraq, can have some peace of mind with a personal relationship with God. Most Christians know that God is not responsible for these horrible events. However, many still sttuggle with the question of “If we serve a God who cares, why would He allow such a horrible thing to occur?” The honest answer and the reason terrible things happen or may happen to America is the same reason tragedy happened to the old Patriach Job. His _ hedge was down. Likewise, America’s hedge is down...and has been for far too long! The reason it is down is because of a long and progressive slide away from the ‘values and principles that made this nation great. America’s greatness is not a result of a superior group of people. America is great because it was founded and based upon the Word of God. It is a fact that over 60% of the source material Anytime... Anywhere! 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As a result, the concept of secular humanism has taken root to the extent that our children are denied the right to pray in school! __ ___We also-can look to the Word of God and see very simply that these horrible acts of evil are a result of the time we live in. We are the generation that will usher in the Second Coming of the Lord. Jesus warned us in the gospels that in the last days we would witness a time of stress on the earth never experi before. Yet, in the midst of all this trouble Jesus said, “See that you are not troubled; for all these ings must come to pass.” There are demonic ptincipalities in the heavenlies that are the source behind terrorism. The bible says we are to stand against them. Just _ as God works through man, so does Satan. This demonic warfare must be fought on two planes—spiritual as well as physical. First of all, all Christians must ptay. Pray against these powers of darkness that seek to annihila te the people and nations that tepresent the Judeo-Christian ethic of freeto m. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. If you would like a closer relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, now is the time. ; ues article was based on a news. from the Ministry of Livi ing Word Christian Center. iv YOU ARE CORDIALLY | INVITED TOTHE ~° _ ANNIVERSARY OF ‘MOUNT CALVARY'S SENIOR USHER MINISTRY SUNDAY, _ JULY 18, 2004 TIME: 4:00 P M PLEASE COME AND HELP US LIFT UP THE NAME OR THE LORD IN SONGS WITH OUR ‘SPECIAL GUEST BIG JAMES BARRETT AND THE GOLDEN JUBILEES Mount Calvary FWB Church 411 Watauga Avenue Greenville, North Carolina Sis. Johnnie Dawson, Chairperson Bishop Henry Browa, Sr., | Pastor | Pitt County Commissioner Seat \/ Combine Distriety 1&2 The most Qualified and Experienced Candidate * Pastor of Holy Trinity United Holy Church ~ 24 vrs * Member of the Pitt County Board of Education ~ 12 vrs * Past President of the Pitt County Black Ministries Conference | VCITVGHE OF Me Deane WHEE WEEE OF pert HCE a (rack record in public office in Pit County Government. Put "Love On Board" July 20, 2004 * Presiding Bishop of the Southern District of the United Holy Church ~ over 200 churches * Past Chairman of the Greenville Public Transportation Commission Paid for by the Committe to elect Ralph "Bishop" Lov County Commissioner rows , ‘ (ik é8 Oe nn nw ww aw we i we wee eee ee ete eee eeeee POPP eee EL ES: O80 SO OELGAE LL SISISTEEGSEDES PG ASTER SESE TESA, OOOO ed ee OO ya PPE OE Sor SS a ew oe See seca = ss = S N bm ro i a < e 10 M-Voice Newspaper Black Chil WASHINGTON, D.c— Many black children develop a sense of 'less-than-ness" after years of school lessons and reading text books that mention very little about African-American contributions. In addition, most lessons about black history are taught during ebruary and feature the same five br six black people every year. hen combined with the negative tereotypes of black TV thousands bf black children feel inferior and tite themselves off before they pegin. Unemployment crisis looms f dren Need psychologists, African-American children need to be taught the value of their heritage. Knowing the significant contributions made ‘by Africans and African-Americans throughout history can reverse the effects of Negative media images and Stereotypes that cause low self-esteem and poor self-image. 21st Century Educational Services, a nonprofit organization, to help inspire and motivate thousands of disadvantaged black African-American youth. worked wonders in several schools high school dropouts and 16.8% for reports that an increase in the federal To Be Taught The Va BC. Educational The series has been so Services is adopting schools, one successful in schools that, CBS school, at a time, so that every News interviewed the author and child in that school gets a set of one of the teachers using the Just the Just Like Me Series. Using the Like Me Series in her classes. series in a classroom setting has ptoven to improve self-esteem, sponsor150 schools with at-risk destroy African-American students in the at-risk following cities: Dallas, Houston, The goal for 2004 is to Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, July 1-15, 2004 The M-Voice Newspaper Page 11 more job loss as a result of a wage hike. New York, Baltimore, Detroit, Charlotte, and Washington, D.C. Our children need your help! The group is offering sponsorships of 10 students for $150, all of which is tax deductible. Small businesses and corporations can sponsor 10 students, an entire school for just $7,500 or 10 schools for $75,000, all of which is tax deductible. : POWER ILLUSTRATED ° minimum will cripple employment GatewayJobs.com, a website launched . ~ further. According to their research, when caisis in entry-level emp and details H sis continace § _ , . the minimum wage is increased, low- how the push by Senators Kerry and . Owever, a crisis continues or many job The U.S. Senate is expected to take teenagers. Black teens, in particular, en j level workers lose job opportunities Kennedy j to increase the minimum wage to rs paera Wage Proposal may be s ets i the entry-level workforce that the debate on increasing the minimurs received the worst news with an to higher skied workers thes ae $7.00 an hour will further hurt those already struggling entry-level job could be exacerbated by a Proposal from — wage on (Tuesday.) - unemployment rate of 32.6% — the third to the new wage. Research by economists individuals already struggling to find jobs. WASHINGTON _ 7 Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, The Department of Labor revealed straight month of ~ increased at Comell University concludes that high The site is regularly updated with statistics = ~ The June 2004 both Democrats from Massachusetts, to significantly high unemployment rates for unemployment. . school dropouts and African-American detailing the employment market for good news for (age a! a fawase the minimum wage to $7.00 per traditional entry-level employees: 8.8% for The Employment Policies Institute young adults would suffer four times entry-level employees, and provides vital Nation 0/0. Our. 8 information about a host of government lue Of Their Heritage Eighty-five percent of all donations go toward books and services for the students. Information on donations is available at WWW justgiive.org of www. just likemebooks.com/whatisnew.ht m For more information on 21st Century Educational Services, goto . www.guidestat.org. many children across the c —=Scientific contributions made by . According to leading clinical developed the Adopt-A’School _ black people dating back to 6000 "POWER ILLUSTRATED INC." needs be that offences come: but woe to : THE MISSING INGREDIENTS" that man by whom the offence cometh. "FORGIVENESS; From a camal perspective dealing with RECONCILIATIONS, AND LOVE" offences is not easy. However, from a It's impossible to live on planet earth without —_Believer's perspective, God gives us: being confronted with various forms of knowledge in how to handle the offending offence. Matthew- 18: 7 tells us "Woe unto party. | ae ae OY the world because of offences: for it must If we follow Gods approach step by step Ped dradrus Pen . we can, through the anointing of God, win 1900 South Pitt You are] se py hata et s n Ss 5 Greenville, NC 27834 to shall we? | hacigeweae Listen In the heat of a nasty debate, two believers 252-321 -6991 are arpuing over God's word. Neither wish the first move, then you do, because you are . “ to to resolve their differences: How can we portraying Christ. Shop CC's for Your Fresh The solve this? Step - 1. Proverbs - 15:1"A soft Note Herbews - 12: 3 "For consider him Cakes & Breads Bev answer tumneth away wrath: but grievous that endured such contradiction of sinners Smith Words stir up anger. If you know that you against himself lest ye be wearied, and faint at her are night in what you ate saying, then why i your minds". Christ endured conflicts, are you so angry? Why can't you silence why can't we? New Time from yourself for the sake of Christ? Is being "R. And to conclude our session, Step - 3."L.0. 7PM to 10PM L G. H. T." in your own Eyes wotth V. E." was the missing Ingredient. Note nisking your salvation? Since you see the Luke- 7: 47 "but to whom litle is forgiven, wy cat yea eee eee named ee Ee Is your bre y cant you e or het? measured your amount of AM 1340 woow Remember, the you really ate, is the un-Foggjreness? personality you interject”, Note To The Readers. Step -2. Reconciliation: Each of you are Elder Chavis serve as Sunday School chiming to be believers. But, if we truly are Teacher at the New Beginning Church Of trying to personify Chriss nature, then Deliverance, under the jurisdiction of Bishop ptide cannot be a ruling factor. If the Jack Richardson individual offended don't wont to make i Bites pe WILLIFORD | > 7 if rt oe Vi . 4. a ‘health Care. ror you. North Carolina District #1 ee ae Us House of Representatives For Your Family and His - A Representative with Values AIRE REI aera ttter tates: ee . a (hh, ea " saat The progress of our public schools, the continued excellence of our university system and community colleges, the protection of our environment, the creation of jobs, the % well-being and safety of our citizens — all of these are my objectives. I truly believe %* Charles that together we can come up with creative ways to address all these issues and more, vw Restoration of Family Values through proper management of our state’s assets. vw Utilization of North Carolina's Natural Resources vw Increased Long-Term Job Growth w Reformation of Social Security /Disability vw Equitable Tobacco Buyout KHKKAIK KE Paid for by the Jerry Williford for US House Committee Paid for by Jerry for U.S. House Committee wille Clutomotive 5307 Reedy Branch Rd, Winterville, NC 28500 om Lodatarcreyal Ginna ACs SENATE, * DISTRICT 3 You deserve representation in the State Senate by someone who understands our people and our way of life. On July 20th I ask for your vote to send me back to the North Carolina General Assembly as your Senator from District 3. 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One of the largest reports to look Gain for Blacks Unclear at this, an analysis of Ametican Cancer iety data on more than 1 million U.S. adults, found s ties between weight and longevity fer whites bar much less solid evidence for blacks. For instance, the study found only about a 20 percent increased risk of death among ov women, and even then only when their body-mass index exceeded 35, which is well into the obese tange. The risk for black men began to tise when they reached the overweigh t category, but thé increase was small. Study is the first to focus on black Americans Eyedrops delays by Kathleen Fackelmann (USA) ' urgen case for on of Sa early for warning signs of glaucoma, says Paul Sieving, director of the National Eye Institute, part: of the National Black marriages need chu By Yolanda young This is the peak wedding season, but for many African-Americans, who marry at a rate lower than any other ethnic group, in the place of wishful anticipation is a sense of hopelessness. This is especially true for black women, only 31% of whom have husbands with 54% for whites; 50% will not be married by age 40. This is largely because of the Institutes of Health, which paid for the study. -angle glaucoma affects pore’ than” 2 million Americans and is the leading cause of blindness among African-Americans, he says. Researcher Michael Kass of Washington University-St. Louis and his colleagues had shown in a Previous study that prescription eye drops that lower pressure in the eye high number of black males who are incarcerated, jobless or in interracial relationships. Even more sobering are studies that project 70% of black marriages will end in divorce. Reports suggest that married people live longer and are less likely to commit suicide, suffer from alcoholism, depression or acute and chronic illnesses. They earn more, save more, are promoted faster and have better sex lives. Conversely, could ward off glaucoma in white Americans. The new study, published in this month's Archives of Ophthalmology, is the first to focus on blacks. The people in the study didn't have glaucoma but did have elevated pressure in at least one eye, a major warning sign of the disease. Glaucoma develops when the fluid in the eye drains too slowly, studies show children _— of single-parent households have a higher tate of infant mortality and behavioral problems and are twice as likely to drop out of school. ' Even so, these factors are not Proving to be enough of an incentive to keep black couples together. Family _ therapist Audrey Chapman says black couples face more obstacles than whites. erweight black | than if their BMIs were in the overweight but not obese category. glucoma in blacks leading to high pressure and eye damage. In eae stages of the disease, people typically don't notice anything. By the time symptoms become ap t, the disease is advanced. People with glaucoma gtadually lose peripheral vision and can become legally blind. Kass and his colleagues gave half the African-Ameticans with high eye pressure the daily drops, ch's help Education and finance affect all matriages, she says, but because of higher rates of unemployment and underemployment, black couples are affected more. Also, because many blacks have been taised in single-parent or dysfunctional two-parent families, they do not have a template of a successful matriage. Couples, activists and the government are realizing that there Brazil Sets Example for Taming AIDS RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - A decade ago, health experts predicted an AIDS explosion in Latin ‘America, striking hardest at Brazil, with its teeming population and sexual permissiveness. But the explosion Never came, and experts say Brazil's handling of the problem may keep it from ever happening. ' “If you look over the map of HIV/AIDS in Latin Ametica it looks like the African map from 15 years ago,” said Paulo Lyra, a consultant on Latin America for the Pan American Health Organization. “But what's different with Latin America is that it is by far the developing region with the most Black Sheriff Tells a Poi Book Release of "Great Courage: The First Black Sheriff Elected in the South Since Reconstruction", an Autobiography by Lucius D. Amerson with A.E. Amerson Fort Washington, MD - With the access to antiretroviral treatment." Antiretroviral drugs reduce the HIV in the bloodstream, making HIV infection a chronic disease rather than a terminal one. In Latin America and the Caribbean, about 400,000 le are believed to need AIDS drugs and about 55 percent are getting them. In Africa, an estimated 4.4 million people need drugs but only 2 percent ate getting them. The biggest success stoty is Brazil, thanks to a program of crisis management that has been praised by AIDS : With a population of nearly 180 million, Brazil has by far the largest release this week of the co-authored autobi y, "Great Courage", the late Sheriff Lucius D. Amerson, with son A.E. Amerson document the true-life encounters and fast- action associated with the late number = of __ patients. By manufacturing _—_chea eric versions of the otherwise expensive AIDS drug cocktail and offering them free to all who need them, the country has put itself at the forefront of Latin America's war on AIDS. Brazil's drug industry faced a threat when the country entered the World Trade Organization, which mandates compliance with trademark rules. But it was able to negotiate deep discounts with pharmaceutical makers simply by tening to break the rules if treatments became too costly. Brazil was a global pioneer in the manufacture of cheap generic Amersons initial term in office as Sheriff of Macon County in Tusk Alabama (1967). Sheriff Amerson served five four-year terms until retirement in 1987. The book is being marketed as AIDS drugs and still manufactures those patented before it signed its intellectual property law. It distributes these to patients who have not yet developed resistance and need more advanced drugs. Brazil spends about 1.5 percent of its health or $175 million a year, on anti-AIDS drugs. - The giveaway cut the death rate in half in just four years, saving an estimated 100,000 lives. Since then, the death toll has crept back up, but only gradually In 2002, the last year for which numbers are available, 11,047 Brazilians died from the disease, o; slightly more than the 11,024 who one of the forgotten civil rights story of the 20th centuty. Amenowe historic election over an incumbent white shenff gained national media attention in 1966. The election marked the first time an African-American was elected 4 When you tape Gntahed typing your vete in mtmeseat | Setect shia sumdidates of your choice 2. Press ae CES to the of andy Aneel = bhediay 2 Uling he atptabatica Keybosrd below he Ramee the person of your Prean the cater bey an he keyboard, and Scmte question the signi ot the racial comparison. say that the studies might underestimate the health effects of weight or fail to account for weight loss that results "I don't think a direct comparison of the relative r i risk in ‘blacks and whites is woinit Shi Kumanyika, an epidemiologist at th University of Pe ia. "You would have to know _ the circumstances that influence death actoss the BMI distribution in the black population." Stil, if blacks truly suffer fewer consequences of modest weight gain, she and others speculate that differences in body fat distribution might partly explain why. Fat is thought to be most _ dangerous if it is packed around the internal organs. This kind of fat is most biologically active, throwing off cholesterol levels and forcing up insulin levels, ight blacks tend to have lower levels of harmful triglycerides and higher amounts of protective HDL than do similar-size whites, and this might be due to where their fat is deposited. Blacks tend to carry a larger proportion of their fat in a layer under the skin rather than deep in the belly. _ Daniel Q. Haney is a Medical and half received the standard care -- frequent checks for any sign of disease but no eye drops. _ Daily eye drops reduced the number of people who developed the disease by about half: The team found that 84% of the African-Americans who received eye drops developed the disease, compared with 16.1% of those in the standard-care group. The study confirmed other reports suggesting that black Americans are at higher risk of the disease than white Americans, says Mildred Olivier, a spokeswoman for Prevent Blindness America of Schaumburg, Ill. Scientists suspect that the disease is more aggressive in blacks, leading to greater damage at an earlier age. The researchers suggest that black Americans get an eye exam once. every two years starting at age 40. Evetyone else should get eye exams, too, but they can start at age 60, says researcher Eve Higginbotham of the University of . Maryland. Not everyone with high eye pressure will go on to develop _ glaucoma, so people should ask theit may be no better place to turn for a message of hope on marriage than the black church. A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that couples for whom religion was important divorced at a lower rate than other couples. This month, the Brookings Institution conducted a panel discussion called "The Marriage Movement and the Black Church". And House Republicans have introduced a measure that would provide funding to religious institutions to promote healthy marri Though Rep. Elijah Cummings, died in 1997. In 1990, the World Bank estimated Brazil would have 1.2 million people infected with HIV by 2000. Today, authorities estimate the total is about half that many. Proportional to population, Brazil has had far less than its share of the 100,000 people who died of AIDS across Latin America and the Caribbean last year. Its neighbors have taken heart from Brazil's example. Experts who argued that treatment was too expensive and complicated in the impoverished region now hold up Brazil's program as a model. The Brazilian government funds five pilot programs in Latin America, providing free anti-AIDS drugs and expertise. gnant Story Of The Real South During as sheriff in the Deep South since the Reconstruction period. Amenton attributed his election to the recently passed Voters Right Act of 1965 along with support from student activists at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee D-Md., chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, does not believe that can be legislated, he says African-Americans should seek out institutions, such. as the church, that provide a nurturing environment. Chapman, too, concedes that her clients with religious influences fare better. It seems for African-Americans to make theit marriages work, they've got to have faith. Yolanda Young is author of On Our Way to Beautiful: A Family Memoir. Most of these programs only treat about 100 patients, except in Bolivia and Paraguay, where the total number of patients is only about 500. Brazil treats nearly everyone. Also contributing to Brazil's success is its frank, often graphic AIDS propaganda, and the distribution of millions of free condoms at festivals such as the Mardi Gras carnival. 7 Still, some 80 percent of Brazilians are Roman Catholic, and although their church has not come out strongly against the condom ptogram, distribution. : is _less widespread outside the cities. ‘There are. no guarantees that Brazil has been spared for good, warns Mauro Teixeira, an adviser with the Brazil Ant-AIDS program. He points to the tiny southern The Sixties University) and rural residents of the county. Sheriff Amos as he was called by residents of the county was a Ko S$ afrest of enforcement officers for and several near death experiences ; his twenty-year tenure iff. | aune ty-year as sheriff t documents the little known history of the office of sheriff as well as a profile of other African-American sheriffs across the United States. 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