finerits _October Issue 2009 Images of 56 murdered youth spark calls to end senseless violence By NAYABA ARINDE Amsterdam News Editor This, week’s AmNews front page is meant to be jarring. And heart-wrenching. Does it make you catch your breath? It is supposed to. “Ninety-nine percent of those people on the poster are from South Jamaica Queens. The only ones who aren't are Biggie from Bed- Stuy and Tupac {claimed somewhat by Brooklyn], and I knew all of them,’’ said activist Erica Ford, CEO and founder of Life Camp: Inc. “Most of these children were victims of _ gun violence, and the age range is 3 to 25.” These children were the victims of drive-bys, targeted hits and stray bullets. “All of itis senseless violence,” said Ford. “These people are the reason why I am doing what I am doing now. Their deaths moved me. This youth violence has made me dedicate my life to building 4 better future for the children. That was why I formed Life Camp, which is a community-based nonprofit organization that wants to provide young people with the means, resources, tools, hope and. vision to make the right choices and develop social skills to navigate problems and. obstacles that they may face. “Unless and until we address. the undiagnosed depression in.our community, we will continue to see acts of yiolence,” said Terrie Williams, founder of the Stay Strong Foundation and author of “Black Pain—It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting.” “The answer is clear,” continued the Healing Starts With Us: mental health advocate, “but no one is understanding the reason for the violence, Every time I hear of these horrors, I also hear people asking, ‘What's wrong with Greenville’s Hair Show these kids?’ They are a reflection of us. We as adults are. separate from our own pain and are not getting help, and we pass it on directly to our children. “All of us, through learned silence, learn to absorb. shock and never speak of it. And so we self- medicate through violence, through drugs,.alcohol, work, anything to not sit with the pain. We act out, we lash out. We' want to blame the “kids, but the answer is us: We all need help.” An unnamed _ high-ranking source in the police department spoke with the AmNews about the shooting. of yet another young Black male on Tuesday .in Harlem by Marcus Garvey Park. As the youth is expected to survive © law his. injuries, the enforcement official opined, “My heart bleeds as I make.a plea for you to remain safe and alert through this gun Continued page 2... Marvin Arrington. posing for the Mvoice Camera at the Greenville Hair Show, held at the Greenville convention center Marvin is debuting his newest clothing line and we at the M Voice Newspaper would like to wish him much sucess with his lastest venture and are sure it will do well. Photo by Mike Adams. } Editor | The Daily Southerner By: W. Terry Smith * Reduction in cemetery lot fees _ will have to wait at least anothe month after a motion to return to the original $500 fee failed to get enough votes: Monday night during the Tarboro Town Council meeting. Councilman Jim Alford and Dr. Steve Hoard were absent. Mayor Donald - Morris said Alford was under a doctor’s care for back pain and Hoard was out of town. Councilman Roy Gray’s motion to go back to the original $ 500 fee for town residents received five votes, but six were needed, Town Attorney Mike Blough bine said. Reoncilmas Melvia Muhammad voted nay and later’ : nade a'Tnotion to reduce the fee to $ 250 in honor of the town’s upcoming 250 birthday ‘next year. His motion died for lack of a second. Muhammad made lenghty remarks why the $750 fee drastically. Several times the mayor slammed his gavel down, but Muhammad said, “Tl calm down, but I will be heard!” All of this was after council voted unanimously in June to raise the plot-fees to $ 750 for town residents, and $ 1500 for out of town residents. After being ‘called upon for the invocation, Gray suggested > going straight to the review of the cemetery Jot fees later on should ‘be. reduced : VEBLZ at TtAuaary oN NOT WnorHN “utrroszeg fees, After Gray’s vote failed— - it will be on the Nov. 9 agenda - when a-simple majority will be needed to pass — two residents stood up during the citizen comments period and suggested council rescind the increase and return to the $ 500 level. “I applaud the hard work the town’s employees do to keep | Eastlawn Cemetery do to keep Eastlawn Cemetery in pristine condition, said Taro Knight of 1118 Edmondson. Ave. “What I can’t applaud is the 50% increase (from $500 to $750). Greenville Mayor Race Heats Up! | Pichined Sve} is incumbent Maser Patt Dunn and Minne Johnson nies both hihing to seal _the 2009 Greenville Mayor election. Although both women hold gréateapabilty to carry out their duties as Mayor efficiently and with the best interest of Greenville citizens at heart, if elected Minnie Johnson Anderson will be the Ist African American Female to have ever occupied the office. 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He saidhe | always.asks if.a couple is interracial and, if they are, refers, |, them to another justice of the . peace. Bardwell said noone had | complained in the past. The number of interracial marriages has skyrocketed nationwide, ,, nearly quadrupling between | 1970 and 2005, the most recent year for which there is U.S. Census data. As of 2005, nearly 8.5 million Americans are living, in “mixed © marriages,” according to CNN. According to the AP, a spokeswoman for’ the Louisiana Judiciary Commission, said investigations of the incident are confidential for now. However, if the. commission recommends action to the Louisiana Supreme ° Court, that information would become public. Mie eo *- 6 Paid For By Citizens To Elect Bobby E. Trober Sa aS ee eS Shoe CBC Takes A Look At Our _ Nations Proverty CBC Confab Opens With Eyes on-America’s Poverty by Pharoh Martin NNPA National Correspondent Originally posted 9/29/2009 WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Besides health care, the economy is at the forefront of the national discussion and with more and more families falling behind financially, the Congressional Black Caucus’ 39th Annual Legislative Conference kicked off with a summit addressing poverty. NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous said there are connections between’ poverty and incarceration. He said the biggest issue outside of jobs is to address the nation’s ridiculous incarceration rates because of the devastating affect it has on families and on the surrounding community. “It makes no sense that the United States has 5 percent of the world’s. population but holds 25 percent of its prison panel addressed issues that lead to underclass communities that have a high concentration of unemployable felons and impoverished families. Issues such as unfair drug sentencing laws, employment barriers for formally incarcerated people and poverty in rural areas’ of the country dominated the panel conversation. ‘’ Opportunities for All-Pathways Out of Poverty” opened with the entire Democratic congressional leadership welcoming conference attendees. Speaker - of the House Nancy Pelosi (D- Ca.), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), House of Representatives Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), - Rep. Barbara Leée and Congressional Black Caucus Foundation chairman Rep. Kendrick Meek (D- Fla.), chair of the CBC Foundation, were on stage as the welcoming. committee for ALC. The summit, held at the congressional auditorium in the Capitol Visitors Center, was the first official event scheduled during the ALC. The more than In The News Faith ’s Ulphostery - Refinishing and Upholstery Shop -252.3271694 ede. 153.5892" Replace old material with new Owner Faith May 2959 NC HWY. 121 Farmville, NC 27828 Certified Carpenter can’t afford new funiture let me redo the funiture you already own! Also paint repair and refinish all wooden furniture. Can MH O < fLeke | Page 6 October 2-16, 2009 King Family Laws By ERRIN HAINES, Associated Press Writer Errin Haines, Associated Press Writer - Tue Oct 13, 6:36 am ET ATLANTA - After more than 14 hours of discussion, the heirs of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. reached a settlement late Monday that will keep the family from a public jury trial. Martin Luther King III, Bernice King and Dexter King had aired their grievances in open court for more than a year. The siblings began negotiations Monday morning as the threat loomed of a civil trial that was expected to reveal personal and financial details about King Inc. Dexter King’s brother and sister sued him in July 2008, accusing him of acting improperly as head of the their father’s estate, which the three of them control as a. private corporation. In the lawsuit, they claimed he shut them out of decisions involving King Inc. and refased to hold a shareholders meeting since 2004. The three have been largely estranged for months as Martin Luther King II and Bernice King said their brother continued to make decisions on behalf of King Inc. without their input or knowledge. Monday’s agreement signals the end of a legal feud among the siblings and could clear the way for private relations to thaw. Accordin g - to the settlement agreement, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural D. Glanville has declared the siblings “deadlocked” as shareholders and will appoint a temporary custodian who ulation,” Jealous said. He four hour summit hosted three nae : { | . _ mnical ome ok oan Ndinitatee ite - Paid for by the committee to elect Zeke add credibility to the troubled estate and allow the siblings a up ' compared to’ the cost of aimed at aggressively tackling 7 _. ws on healing their personal relationships. AR thee educating a person, which has poverty to attacking other . pat siblings said they looked forward to mending the rifts of recent proven to be acrime deterrent. factors that lead to poverty. Reelect Pat Dunn Mayor months and that significant progress had been made with “In California, for instance, ‘’We had a tough decade;” said | meer ae Monday s resolution. It was a tiring day, but I would say a families fight to try to get the Morial. “We need to refocus on very triumphant day, : Dexter King said after the hearing. “This state to pay more than $8,000 public policy.” Morial pointed allows us to begin the healing process. J th looking forward to dollars toward their child’s Out that poverty rates have risen the future. The most important thing is that we can advance public education and then you as high as 25 percent for Blacks the legacy of our parents.” Dexter King, who Is recovering have to turn around and fight and Latinos while Whites have from a car accident that left his leg badly injured, walked on to get the state to pay less than fared better at 11 percent. Hilda crutches during the day and left the courthouse ina wheelchair $250,000 per child to keep a Solis, the first Latina Labor without his siblings. Still, Martin Luther King I and Bernice child in a California-Youthy Secretary, had expounded on King called the settlement a positive one. “We have always Authority that leads to prison,” that point on an earlier panel, loved one another,” said the elder King brother. “After all, we he said. ‘’We are in the best She had sat ‘on a panel with are all we have.” Bernice King said reconciliation with Dexter - place than We have ever been secretaries of other federal King would be a process. “Love compels you to take a higher in the last 40 years to try and agencies including the road,” she said. “We love our brother and the legacy of our decrease incarceration rates.” Department of Commerce, the parents. At the end of the day, we re still a family.” Both parties due to progressive coattails Department of Education, the must submit three names of proposed custodians within 14 around the country.” Jealous Department of Transportation days of the settlement. Under the terms of the agreement, the sat on a panel that also included and the Department of Housing candidates ‘ must be qualified to manage a business but must National Urban League CEO ‘and Urban Development in also be sensitive to the nature of the legacy to be managed.” ‘7 Mare Morial, Dr. Ronald ofder to discuss anti-poverty The court must interview at least one choice from both sides, : | Walters of the African Programs that the federal and will name the custodian within 30 days of receiving the ( Leadership Center and Malaak government is initiating. ‘As proposed list of candidates; Once approved, the custodian will ; Compton-Rock, wife of: people of color, we are bearing An Experienced public servant rere, .2 the court on King Inc's progress ‘ comedian Chris Rock, among the brunt of this recession,” Solis | Two years Mayor, six years At-Large Council Member * i 4% "ne : others. 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But critics in the U.S. expressed astonishment that the Nobel committee had bestowed *" 2 ‘honour ona president who has not yet been on the job nine monthis, and whose foreign policy _ tecord — on the Middle East peace, Iran, North Korea and two foreign wars — is still being | written. U.S. Republicans, who in the 2008 presidential campaign ran ads touting Obama as the world’s biggest celebrity, said that Obama was honoured more for his inspirational oratory than | for any substantial accomplishments. “The real question Americans are asking is, ‘What has y of | President Obama actually.accomplished”” “ said Republican National Committee chairman Michael a a |, Steele. “It is unfortunate that the president’s star power has outshined tireless advocates who @y have made real achievements working towards peace and human rights.” Other conservatives said the Nobel committee had proven its left-wing bias, noting that nominations for this year’s award closed on Feb. 1, 2009, 12 days after Obama was sworn into office. Arizona Senator John McCain, Obama’s 2008 presidential opponent, said he believed part of the Nobel committee’s “decision-making was (based on) expectations” that Obamia’s foreign policy efforts would yield results, Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel committee, acknowledged as much. “We are hoping this may contribute a little bit for what he is trying to do,” he said. “Some people say, and I understand it, “Isn’t it premature? Too early?’ Well, I'd say then that it could be too late bis at eee ‘© ‘spond three years from now.” Since taking office last January, Obama has sought to tevive {fk C AL ISE QO i; od Se G8 Se peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, recently arranging a face-to-face meeting between | — cota Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Mahmoud Abbas. He has spearheaded efforts WASHINGTON — U:S. President Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on ‘© Pass climate-change measures in the U.S., although a anti-global-warming bill is stalled in the Friday for his “extraordinary: efforts” to revive international diplomacy, an honour that sparked Senate. Last month, he chaired a special session of the United Nations Security Council on nuclear immediate controversy and one the recipient himself appeared shocked to receive. Crediting Obama "0®-proliferation, He also appr oved the first direct U.S. negotiations with Iran in three decades, for creating a “new climate in international politics,” the five-member Norwegian Nobel committee and delivered a speech to the Muslim world in Cairo. Obama said he would “accept this shies - said the first-year president had restored America’s global leadership by taking a leading role in acall to action — a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century.” As _ advancing issues ranging from climate change to nuclear disarmament. “Only very rarely has a Prestigious as the Nobel Peace Prize remains, it may bring domestic political complications for a’ - person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a President who is facing near-record unemployment while also weighing a dramatic escalation of _ better future,” the Oslo-based committee said in its citation. Obama was awakened by aides shortly the war in Afghanistan. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of before 6 a.m. and told of the Nobel committee’s decision. At a Rose Garden news conference, Virginia, said Americans may view the award as “the equivalent of someone receiving a gold Obama said he was “deeply humbled” by the award and felt undeserving of the honour, “Let me be Watch in his first months on the job" rather than at the end of a distinguished career. “Even to clear, I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of Obama supporters, the award seems ridiculously premature,” said Sabato. “We've come to think American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations,” Obama said. “To be the Nobel Peace Prize as SCATCET Capper, “ areward for significant, tangible accomplishments honest, I do not feel I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who “ther than simple promise of what might be. Obama § victory Was so unexpected that the White. have been honoured by this prize.” The White House said Obama would travel:to Oslo for the Dec, House said it had not known the president was nominated. Journalists attending the shaper icat 10 award ceremony and planned to donate the $1.4-million U.S. in prize money to.charity. He ceremony in Oslo gasped when the President's name was announced. “I know that fhroughout becomes the fourth U.S. president to win the peace prize, following Jimmy Carter, Theodore Roosevelt history, the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honour specific achievement; it’s also and Woodrow Wilson. Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore won the award in 2007 for his work to been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes,” Obama said in his remarks. “These: raise awareness of global warming. Just 48 years old, Obama now stands alongside some of the °hallenges can’t be met by any one leader or any ON PRROB Foe world’s most distinguished statesmen and humanitarians — including Mother Teresa, former Canadian TEXT OF THE NOBEL COMMITTEE’S PEACE PRIZE CITATION: prime minister Lester Pearson, Burmese human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi, Mikhail Gorbachev, __ : Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama and Martin Luther King Jt. — as a fellow Nobel winner. Another “The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009'is to be past winner, Polish labour leader Lech Walesa, was taken aback of word of Obama’s award. “Who, awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international Obama? So fast? Too fast. He hasn’t had the time to do anything yet,” Walesa said. In Ottawa, Prime diplomacy and co-operation between peoples. The committee has attached special importance to Minister Stephen Harper said he was “very happy” for Obama and believes “such a prize. augments Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons. , . Obama has, as president, created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for -Tesolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free frori nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama’s "Initiative, the U.S.A. is now playirig a moré constructive role ini meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be stren ee eS - Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and "” given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who ... fe to lead the. world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population. os For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world’s leading spokesman. 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Minority Voice proudly salutes these dynamic men for their never ending effort to for empowering Peet ae bie Strive Ga A Benefit Dinner & Gala in celebration of N.C. STRIVE's 9th Anniversary was held on _ Thursday, September 17, 2009, 6:30 P.M., at the Cornesstone Missionary Baptist Church Family Life Center. Guest Speaker was the Honorable: Regina R. Parker, North Carolina District Court Judge, 2™ Judicial District. North Carolina is one of the fortunate states to have a STRIVE affiliate within its boundaries. The N.C. STRIVE, headquartered in Greenville, North Carolina, has successfully been operating for nine (9) years in several Eastern North Carolina counties. STRIVE has a proven track record in training and job placement of the - traditionally hard-to-employ populations. Nationally, STRIVE has placed more than 25,000 hard-to-employ individuals in jobs, compiling a 75% success rate in placing STRIVE : graduates, with over 70% of graduates remaining employed after two years. Locally, the N. _ _ Page 8 October 2-16, 2009 Nation Faces A Lack Of Black Teachers eee By KATHY MATHESON (AP) _CHEYNEY, Pa. se Lenny | Macklin made it to 10th grade | before having a teacher who looked like him — an African- |. American male. Gregory Georges graduated from high | school without ever being taught by a black man.Only about 2 percent of teachers | nationwide are African- _American men. But experts say » that needs to, change if educators expect to reduce =} minority achievement gaps and ~ dropout rates, Macklin, now an 18-year-old college student, said he understands the circle that keeps many of his peers out of the classroom professionally. “A lot of males, they don’t like ' being in school because they can’t relate to their teacher,” ~ Said Macklin, of Pittsburgh. “So. why would you want to work there?” American teachers are overwhelmingly white (87 percent) and female (77 percent), despite minority student populations of about 44 |." percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It’s “a job men generally avoid because of gender stereotypes, fear of abuse accusations and _ low pay, said Bryan Nelson, founder of the Minneapolis- based nonprofit organization MenTeach. The average U.S. where it began in 2000 after teacher salary was about researchers found that fewer $51,000 in 2006-07. Yet than 1 percent of the state’s increasing the number of elementary school teachers minority teachers is important were black men; the overall K- because of “the role model 12 student population at the factor,” said Greg Jolinson, a time was 42 percent black. policy analyst for the National Nearly six years after the first Education Association. “These MISTER cohoft graduated in students need to see successful 2004, there has been some: adults of color in front of them,” progress, though Jones . Johnson said. Macklin and concedes iiot nearly enough. Georges, both sophomores at About 50 program graduates historically black Cheynéy are teaching in South Carolina University near Philadelphia, schools, representing a 25 are trying to fulfill that need percent increase in the number through the Call Me MISTER of black male instructors - teaching program. MISTER is statewide, Jones said. Another both an acronym — Mentors 250 future teachers are inthe Instructing Students Toward MISTER pipeline, scattered Effective Role Models — and across 28 colleges in seven areference to the 1967 film “In states. To improve the national the Heat of the Night,” in which percentage of black male Sidney. Poitier’s character teachers to even 3 percent, demands respect with the line, another 45,000 would need to “They call me MISTER Tibbs!” enroll. One hurdle may be that Designed to put more minority the program is found mostly at men at the head of the historically black colleges and classroom, the initiative offers yniversities, which have lower scholarships in exchange for graduation rates than colleges teaching in public schools. “If overall, according to an we can recruit linebackers, Associated Press analysis. Men point guards and track stars, we at those schools have a paltry can recruit third-grade 29 percent graduation rate teachers,” said Roy. Jones, the within six years, in part due to program’s national executive Jack of money and poor director. “It is a matter of academic preparation, the AP priority.” Jones directs the found program from Clemson University in South Carolina, C. STRIVE has trained more than 1,000 participants and placed more than 750 participants. in gainfulemployment. The program was founded in East Harlem in 1985 to help people who face significant barriers to employment achieve economic independence through work. It combines training the “soft” skills needed to achieve success in the workplace (attitude, — cooperation, and personal responsibility) and the “hard” skills required to find and keep a job, including job search techniques and long-term planning. STRIVE has expanded to include 19 affiliates across the country, each locally grounded and responsive to the unique needs of its local populations. The N. C. STRIVE office is located at 1710 West 6" Street, Greenville, NC 27834. 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