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The Campus Echo
Number 8
January 28, 1985
Congressman Mervyn M. Dymally
In Memory of King
NYC History Major
recreates speeches
By Tammy Capehart
“I don’t believe in Black History Month. Everyday is black
history,” an NCCU student told 250 people Sunday, Jan. 13, at
the Elliot University Center, UNC, Greensboro.
Kishandia Shabazz (Kenneth Hines), a 20-year-old senior
history major from New York, was the guest speaker for the
fifth annual celebration observing the birthday of Martin Luther
King, Jr. The event was sponsored by UNC-G’s Neo-Black
Society.
Shabazz, after recreating King’s “I Have A Dream” speech,
declared that he believed in King and the dream, but reminded
the audience that the two should not only be acknowledged in
February, but should be celebrated everyday.
“Not only should we praise King,” he said, but “the
honorable Marcus Garvey, the noble Drew Ali, Harriet Tub-
man, and a host of others deserve praise for their outstanding
leadership before King’s time.”
Shabazz, who recreates King’s speeches “out of love,” has
performed at several churches and engagements honoring the
slain civil rights leader.
Shabazz someday hopes to receive his Ph.D. in African-
Egyptian history from the University of Cairo in Egypt. He is
presently a member of the Student Government Association in
which he holds the position of director of Community Relations.
He is also president of the Research Evolving Alternative Direc
tion (READ) Organization and a four-year member of NCCU’s
Touring Choir.
Keynote Address
Dymally looks toward
the future of America
By Anthony Chiles
Those of us who were in B.N. Duke Auditorium last Monday to observe the birthday of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., did more than just pay homage to perhaps the greatest american of the
twentieth century; those of us in that audience were made aware that as far as Dr. Kings’ dream
was concerned this so called great nation of ours is fast asleep.
Clearly this was not just another program designated to look bfck and marvel at the past ac
complishments of Dr. King. As SGA Vice-President, Michael Mattocks, voiced the reason for
us being in that auditorium there was presented a serious underlying message which stated that
the assemblely was an event to remind and inspire all present that the stuggle for true equality
had just begun, and the dream far from being relized.
In his keynote address. Congressman Mervyn M. Dymally described the current political,
social, and economical attiudes in this country as “the mood of meaness.” Dymally made it
clear that these trends weren’t only to be found on our shores, but around the world, that racial
injustice has become almost fashionable amongst world powers.
“Young blacks need to drop their anti-political attiudes, and become involved in party
politics,” said Dymally, as he sited that the leaders of todays’ strong rigth-wing conservative
movement were now using the church to promote their ideas in much of the same manner the
black community utilized the church to progress the civil rights movement.
Dymally made it clear that technology was would act as the saving grace, or the crushing
blow to the liberal ideology. That “if we believe in helping the poor, if we believe in giving poor
childern a free lunch in our nation’s public schools, we can hold on that belief,” and start liv
ing the dream which may be dying.
American Liberties Discussed
Greensboro Civil Rights
Fund to hold forum
Flashback: On November 3, 1979, five communist union ieaders and community
organizers were gunned down by Ku Klux Kiansmen and American Nazis in a biack
neighborhood in Greensboro. The attack on the anti-Klan demonstrators took place in
broad dayiight, in front of TV cameras. A year iater ail the murderers were set free.
Today, leagal battles over the role of local police and federal agents in the shooting are in the
forefront of a massive, $48 million Greensboro Civil Rights siut against the Greensboro police,
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
(BATF), in conection with the killings which took place in 1979.
On Wednesday, January 30, at 7 p.m., there will be a forum held to disscuss the attack on
american civil liberties in the Moot Court Room in the NCCU Law School.
The panelists will include Daniel Sheehan, who is know nationally for his initiation and suc
cess in the Karen Silkwood civil rights suit; and Lewis Pitts, the now acting Project Director of
the Greensboro Civil Rights Fund and is chief counsel for the fund’s civil rights suit.
The Forum is being sponsored by the Black American Law Student Association (NCCU
Chapter), the NCCU Student Government Association, and the/Sreensboro Civil Rights Fund.