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Woolworth Honors Gospel Choir
The F.W. Woolworth Company's 1980 Award for Gospel Choir Excellence honors the Nor
thwestern Community Ensemble of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. The choir was
selected recently in Atlanta at the annual workshop for black college gospel choirs in which 34
college and university singing groups participated. Shown above (center) receiving a $1,000
check on behalf of the winning institution is Charles Talbert, choir president; presenting the
check is Inman Burford, of B&C Associates, Inc., of High Point, North Carolina, representing
F.W. Woolworth Co. Looking on are Clarence Robinson (left), vice president of Creative
Gospel, Inc., sponsor of the workshop, Walter Owens, director of the Northwestern choir, and
Marcia Thornton, president of Creative Gospel, Inc.
Reports have been wide-.
ly circulated this week that
the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation has begun an
investigation into charges
by a Livingstone College
faculty member that
federal funds were misus
ed at the Salisbury college.
Reports are that Dr.
Shankar Munavalli, grant
director, had refused to
sign the final audit re
quired by the" National
Science Foundation which
had awarded Livingstone
a $215,000 grant in 1973
for an environmental
science program and
faculty improvement.
Munavalli charged that
numerous payments were
unaccounted for and that
figures were often chang
ed and money spent
without his knowledge.
Munavalli also said that
a laboratory-equipped
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WASHINGTON, D.C.
AN The cabinet-making
process th?' has
dominated ,v news
in this towis the day
, after the election is accom
panied by a less-noticed
but no less intense shuffle
for lower-level jobs in the
new administration. Some
recent developments:
Dr. Chester Crocker,
from the Center for
Strategic and Interna
tional Studies at
Georgetown University,
legrhf tobe' the leadijTg
contender for 'assistant
secretary of state for
African affairs.' Although
'counted a moderate
among Reagan advisors,
Crocker apparently faces
no challenge for the post
from any of the more con
servative elements jockey
ing for various influential
positions.
One conservative who ,
has also been mentioned '
(in a Washington Post
profile by John Goshko)
as a candidate for the post
is John Carbaugh, a
foreign policy aide to
'Senator Jesse Helms
(R-NC). Carbaugh work
ed in vigorous opposition
to the Carter administra
tion's southern African
policies, particularly those
affecting Zimbabwe. And
he was an effective
behind-the-scenes sup
porter of Ian Smith and
Bishop Abel Muzorewa.
An energetic operator,
Carbaugh, like Crocker, is
a member of the fifteen
member State Department
transition team, and he
volunteered to help with
the team's studies of
Africa, Latin America,
Asia, and human rights
policy. But if he get a
State Department ap
pointment, he is more in
terested in becoming assis
tant secretary for Latin
America or congressional
relations. r ;
Carbaugh's chances for
any position may ' have
been damaged by charges
that he was the source of
leaks to the New York"
Tithes of classified cables
from the U.S. ambassador
in Moscow reporting on
the recent visit there by
Senator Charles Percy. f
Carbaugh has angrily
denied the charge and has
said he would like to lake
a polygraph lest to prove
his innocence. Helms has
labeled the Washington
Star report of the accusa
tion "irresponsible and
unfair" and asked the
Justice Department to in
vestigate. The Africa policy report
of the transition team was
another of several leaks to
the Times.
The report, authored by
Crocker and not greasy
dissimilar to his 'Mrica
Policy in the 1980s,"
which appeared in
: WashingtotyQuarterly this
summerJft sharply critical.
of the Bureau of African
Affairs. Saying it is
hampered by "a severe
case of regionalitis," the
report charges the bureau
is "ill-equipped as
presently organized to
play a leading role in shap
ing executive branch
policy."
The report also ad
dresses the issue of in-
response presenting the
'just -inaugurated president
with,a;tricky Africa policy
decision.
Another transition team
member at State is Marion
Smoak, whose law firm
represents the South
African-recognized in
teriirl government in
Namibia. Smoak and his
partner Carl Shipley have
stitute a conflict of in
terest: "They're all
volunteers over there; no
one is being paid. And his
experience as a former
chief of protocol and
former ambassador is in
valuable on administrative
and organization ques
tions." , But some officials in
volved in the Namibian
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field van for the program
had been parked on the
campus, unused, since
1976. He also said
thathecdi n't always get
reports on how money was
spent and couldn't explain
why certain funds were ex
hausted when he had not
spent them.
It has been suggested to
The Carolina Times from
reliable, though unof
ficial, sources that these
charges and other negative
reports may very well stem
from attempts by union
organizers to unionize the
Livingstone faculty. A
chapter of the American
Federation of Teachers
was chartered there in Oc
tober of this year, and
Munavalli reportedly has
been very active in
organizing activities. The
AFT is the teachers' arm
of the AFL-CIO. The
Salisbury chapter is said to
have about ten or twelve
members out of some 52
total full-time faculty
members.
Also questionable is
why Munavalli, a ten year
faculty member, waited so
long to bring up such
charges, when the alleged
situation he cited took
place between 1973 and
1976.
Livingstone business
manager, Bobby Aldrich,
said Livingstone's record
on federal funds is as good
as anyone's and whatever
allegations have been
made about federal funds
misuse are untrue.
According to Dr. F.
George Shipman, presi
dent of Livingstone, the
laboratory van, referred
to by Dr. Munavalli, was
purchased with NSF
funds. It became the pro
perty of the college and
"has been used by other
members of the science
division, though not as
frequently," Dr. Shipman
said. Some aspects of the
environmental science
program, which officially
ended in 1976, are conti
nuing as environmental
studies courses.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Blacks and the Reagan
Program
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Ghana Invites Investors
Into Gold Industry
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Confab on Black South Literature, Art Held at Emory U
dependence for Namibia, been lobbying against the
saying the new adminjstra- ' UN effort,'- which they
tion should give the charge is heavily biased in
United Nations effort, in- favor, of SWAPO,. the
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"Art is essentially University Center'. It was
triumphartt'-said former the first time that all the,
U.N.. Ambassador An- literary , .veterans of the
drew Young ; jto the tp! Rights , movement
keynote ? session of ; aa'r st& "from earlier
while."
Playwright Ossie Davis, ' '
speaking to the large
crowd, said, "Eacbv artist
here recognizes that ie or
cd Margaret Walker in her
address. "We write
because we are compelled
to write of our humanity.
But our strength, is in our
mies and our navies.'"
The days of the con
ference were filled with,
workshops on all the
hterary forms, as well as
rtett tor early Janary,-toGVemni "'that" W'KLah b..;, h,rfaJ forth st the so, the spirit. We learned to sing a classes and reaxfrng by a
chance to work. Bjitit
adds: "We may need to
signal to the current ad
ministration our opposir
tion to UN mandatory
sanctions" against South
Africa.
If- the January con
ference fails to result in an
, agreement to proceed with
UN-supervised elections in
Namibia, African govern
ments are almost certain
to demand a strong UN
wide international
recognition.
Initially assigned to
work on Africa policy
matters, among others,
Smoak says he has
isolated himself from any
discussions affecting his
client a claim supported
by other transition team
members.
Shipley sharply rebuffs
the argument that
Smoak's activities con-
South Literature and Art.
"In whatever way you ex
press if, you work- your
way out of negativity into
joy."
Some 1,500 persons at
tended the many sessions
Renaissance, had gathered
in one plate to see where
the art of the black South
had come and where it
may go.
' Art is frequently a pro
duct -of adversity, said
of this conference, held ; Young. Predicting the
November 20-22 at Emory! political and social climate
University, with some ofi of the next four years, he
inc aiiiviucs
Neighborhood
at
the
Arts
Center near downtown
Atlanta and at the -Atlanta
said: "This is a good
period for us artists,
because I don't think we'll
be very successful for a
forth into the 8(J s the
work of consolidation
must be done. We know
black is beautiful now
what are we gonna do
about it?" Referring to
the struggles of the sixties,
be said, "We must
. v-member the rage. We're
still on the outside looking
in."
"Black people have
always been an en
dangered species," warn-
sprrit. we learned to sing i
song in a new land." The
movers and shakers of the
rights movement, she
reminded, were persecuted
becasue they wrote books;
words have great power.
Other keynote speakers
included Albert Murray,
Patricia Funderburk andi
Toni Cade Bambara, who
intoned a litany of warn-'
ing for the troubled times
ahead: "Where are our ar-
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host of major authors, in
cluding James Alan
McPherson, Etheridge
Knight, Sonia Sanchez, .
Ishmael Reed and Toni
,Cade Bamoara. Each ses
sion was attended by at
least ten persons. There
was an all-night open
reading at a local
restaurant, and evening
entertainment at a' hotel
included dance exhibitions
and a tribute to Hoyt
Fuller, editor of First
World pioneering editor
of Black World, first
black intellectual journal.
All during the conference,
exhibits of prints, draw
ings and folklore objects
were showing in various
places on the Emory Cam
pus, and there was a con
tinuous book fair.
An important con-
ference within the con-T
ference brought together
many editors of the small
black press in discussions
sponsored by the Commit
tee on Black South
Literature and Arts.
Folklore's influence was
highlighted by visitors
from the Perm Conference
Center at Frogmore, S.C.,
the John Henry Memorial
Foundation of West
Virginia, and Miles Col
lege. Oscar Brown Jr., an
entertainer who uses
folklore and art as
. material and is star of the
PBS series "Jump
Street," spoke at the con
ference, f
Popular discussion
groups included a look at
the "Upsouth Perspec
tive," which is the
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Urban Art Makes An Impact
These huge works are a part of an ambitious olan bv artist Franco Gaskins face" of Its large 125th Street'store with these murals, deplctino from toft to right the
(foreground) to eventually paint New York ; cSTl I25W Street from "rilS t . river" Black Heritage, Unity Among the Races and an Idyllic landscape. So tor, to has
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the security gates merchants draw down over Lh - storefronts at closing. The F.W. . other merchants to join the artist s urban beautitlcation campaign tor narwm.
Woolworth Company, for example, commission Gaskins to transform the "nighttime
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