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This year, . heart disease ' and stroke wElkSI another; .200,000 Americans before age 65. American Heart 5 : Association WE PE F'GMTtNG fO VOUR LIFE Words Of Wisdom FAITH IN THE FUTURE Lei the Ggnt of the utw day dissolve the darkness f doubt. Breathe in a breath of God'e power a ad love. With God' energy to fortify as aad faith to inspire as, this is our day of accomplishment. VOLUME 59 - NUMBER 4 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1981 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 30 CENTS V I i i 4 "A. WINSTON-SALEM ALDERMAN LARRY LITTLE (right) addresses morning press conference. (L-R) Co-convener Barbara Arnwine, Ben Chavis and Andrew L. White look on. 6 "1 . . m r -3 V- 4 'V'-', PARTICIPANTS AT NBIPP LUNCHEON ADDRESS . MS. SIMMONS NBIPP Luncheon Speaker Ml WW c 0) 2) ACCX POifiTD C A Mil National Dlack Indopondont Political Party Organizing Conference By Trellle L. Jef ferS WINSTON-SALEM Ms. Zoharah Simmons i av National Black Indepen dent Political Party (NBIPP) organizer from Philadelphia, Pa., told several hundred, at the NBIPP luncheon Satur day, Jan. J7, that the long history of struggle for civil rights has brought blacks to the point of establishing their own political party. "This is not a reaction to President Reagan and the Moral White Majori ty, but a continuation of the attempts to address human rights," said Ms. Simmons. She cited the National Equal Rights League of 1864, the Negro Labor Union of 1869 the Na tional Afro-American League of 1890, and many other organizations leading up to the Civil Rights Movement, 1955-72, that have been organized among blacks to launch a struggle for human rights. Ms. Simmons said that the Civil Rights Move ment was one of the most important historical movements among blacks and it has nut been ade quately written about. "We have to reflect and record the impact we (blacks) had on this coun try (Vhs the Civil Rights Movement). We began to stand tall and exercise self determination. This was a tremendous psychological , awakening period,' -said, Ms. Simmons. Ms. Simmons said that the NBIPP would revive 4 the period of the: I960", i but that the structure would be different.' "Fifty per cent of all of the leadership .'will be . women. Each . state's organizing committee has two organizers: a rnale. and a ; female. We are aware of the woirk( that black men and women have to do together: We', want to remind ' white; America (hat it can no longer distract us with the! devices 'used to divide' black men and women,"; said Ms. Simmons. J ' Ms. Simmons said that NBIPP is Uart of a world wide movement : toward 4 ,self-dr"i,.',''T 1 that NBIPP will use a col lective, broad-based leadership which, will be against elitism but will not be anti-intellectual. ''' "We will use collective leadership so that if one person is shot down, there will be ten others to take that place," said Ms. Sim mons. Rev. Ben Chavis, a member of the Wilm ington 10, gave a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the luncheon meeting. Rev. Chavis told the crowd that if Dr. King were alive, he would also be building a black political party, but Dr. King's dream is still alive as indicated by the 100,000 people who mar ched in Washington on his birthday anniversary. Rev. Chavis said that blacks are taken advan tage of because they are not organized. "Dr. King's dream is still ap plicable to what we have to ' do and that is to organize our com- munities," said Rev. Chavis. CAUSES OUTLINED A strategy meeting for a North Carolina regional chapter of the NBIPP was also held. About two hun dred people, including committee chairmen, representatives from the national office in Washington, D.C., en thusiasts and reporters at tended the meeting held at the Golden Metropolitan Church on Patterson St. Ms. Barbara Arnwine, a N.C. organizer and spokesman for the group, held a press conference to brief about a dozen newspaper and television reporters on the agenda for the -meeting and the purpose of a national black independent political party. At Ms. Arnwine's side were An drew White, a represen tative from Virginia; Ms. Tommy Jean Hagoor, representative from South Carolina; Rev. Ben Chavis, representative from the national chapter, Washington, D.C., and Larry Little, a member of the Board of Aldermen of Forsyth County, all of i Groves Takes Chapel Hill Chair Dean Harry E. Groves of North Carolina Cen- traf University's School of Law will take the Bran ; dis Professorship in the University of North Carolina School of Law, at -the end of this academic year, The Carolina 7m has learned. Dean Groves resigned, the NCCU de'anship in October. The resignation is effective in May. Groves, began his career as a legal educator at North Carolina Central University, then North . Carolina College, as associate professor of law from 1949 to 1951. From 1956 to 1960, he was dean of the School of Law at Texas Southern University, From I960 " to 1964, he was visiting professor, head of the department of law, and dean of the faculty of law at the University of Singapore. , He is the author of three books, one on com parative constitutional law and two on the Malay sian Constitution. He has also contributed chapters to four other books on Asian affairs. He holds the bachelor of arts . degree", cum laude, from the University of Colorado, the Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago, and the , Master of Laws degree from Harvard 'University. , '" " . Groves is a member, of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi. tfhom spoke briefly to einforce Ms. Arnwine's outline of seven major causes for a black in dependent party. They are: The neo-conservative movement in politics which places money above human needs by its thrust to slash the national budget for social pro grams; The lack of a black con sensus to define and to seek to accomplish objec tives relevant for black people; The quality of life of black people, i.e., unemployment, pushouts and dropouts from high school and no increase in the. number of blacks in various professions during 'he last decade; The lack of viable black institutions that seek to develop blacks for self determination; The underrepresentation of blacks in both the state and federal legislative bodies; ; The continued reluc tance of the two political ' , (Continued on Page 3). Studont HAACP Obscrvos MLK Birthday ByTrellieL. Jeffers The North Carolina Central University Chapter of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People held several ac tivities Thursday, January 15," to commemorate the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 'The activities included a march down Fayettcville St., a memorial service in McDougald Gym, and a film in B.N. Duke Auditorium entitled "From Montgomery to Memphis." 7;ir . The main address for the memorial service was delivered by'1'; Phillip Rosser, president of the campus chapter of the NAACP, who told the "crowd of about one thou sand, mostly students, that the student NAACP had witnessed the victory (Continued on Page 3) 1 t 1 ' v V " . Half of Leadership To De Women By Kelvin A. Bell More than 200 persons attended North Carolina's first state-wide organizing meeting of the National Black Independent Political Party (NBIPP) .Saturday in , Winston- Salem.... :. ' " NTw,ve w-f''jv'- MS. HARRISON Researcher Slates Study At B'through By Kelvin A. Bell The Department of Speech, Hearing and Language Pathology at North Carolina Central University is conducting research cona rning the effects of ma.ernal in teraction on the progress of language-delayed children those children ' who are slower or later than expected starting language development. The research, which is part of the graduate work . of Ms. Oveta L. Harrison Wat NCCU, is an effort to - find the causes and solu tions to language-delay problems of children. . Ms. Harrison is plann ing to use a population from the Head Start Pro gram at. Operation Breakthrough for her study. The children she would like to use in the study are those enrolled in the speech and hearing class at Breakthrough. Although Ms. Harrison says she has received in itial approval from of ficials at the agency, she says she must have the ap proval and cooperation of the parents of those children involved. She has had questionnaires distributed to them, but says that few of these have been returned.. Because of the Privacy Act, - the agency is not allowed to give out the names of the participants without permission of those involved, says Ms. Harrison, so the study is at a brief standstill until the. parents, return these forms. j; Suspecting that there may have been a oroblem (Continued On Page 8) social change and self determination, the party is an outgrowth of last year's National Black Political Convention in New Orleans. Ms. Barbara Arnwine, a Raleigh attorney and co co venor of this organizing conference,' deemed the meeting a "success" and said that eight North Carolina chapters have been, or are now being, established as a result of that meeting. The party will be con cerned with Community Organizing, Institution Building, and .Electoral Politics- to address and correct the particular pro blems of society of which blacks bear an unfair burden, said Ms. Arn wine. Ms. Arnwine extended congratulations to the new officers . of the North Carolina Black , Caucus ;s wW were sworn In Satur- ilajr a tRakigk arid- ex pressed regret that they were unable to provide desired input to the meeting in Winston Salem. Because many of the objectives of the CaUcus and the Party are along the same lines, Ms. Arnwine expressed hope that both groups can work together in the future. "There's not just one answer," said Ms. Arn wine. "Look at the history of the Humphrey Hawkins bill and tell me that elected officials are the only answer. Look at the history of our attempts at community organizing and tell me that's the only answer. Look at the history of our attempts at institution building and teil me that's the only answer. No! You've got to do more." She went on to point out that the National Black. Independennt :poUtica Party "intends to L3&&4 the to&sk, consensus in this state and in this na tion. We intend to be an umbrella organization; we intend to have the authori ty, the power, the mechanisms, the activism to represent a significant segment of black people. And we intend to be so tied to the interests of the black community that the people who oppose what we uphold will realize that they are alienating most of their 'base'!" Additional information about the Party may be obtained by writing to: NBIPP-NC, P.O. Box 26402, Raleigh, N.C. 27611, or by calling (919) 782-4172. Si five toes Alkoyed Sy '.Cooiicil ByTrellie L. Jeffers The Durham City Council voted 10-2 Mon day night, January 19, at its regular meeting to drop the clause in the St. Theresa development plan that stipulated use of com munity development funds to acquire property on Roxboro Street for the widening of that street to four or five lanes. In the same motion, the council approved a plan to straighten RoxboroStreet at the Umstead Street cor ner, widening it to 38 feet. Durham, citizens, most ly black, crowded the council chambers and at least seven persons spoke prior to the council's vote against the proposed plan to use community development funds in what many called "a destruction m a neighborhood rat .a than, hs redevelopment." Mrs. Joan Burton, director of the Edgemont Community Center, one - of the speakers against the proposed plan, said that she had studied the St. Theresa plan and four some discrepancies u. what the citizens of St. Theresa requested in ;,78. and what was being proposed. Mrs. Burton said that the St. Theresa residents lad requested adequate nousing and she called upon the council to focus its attention on this mat ter. Clem Baines', another citizen speaking against the proposed plan, echoed Mrs. Burton's charge that the city planners were ig noring the priority of St. Theresa residents. Mrs. Carolyn I. Thorn ton, one of the speakers from the Durham Com mittee on the Affairs of Black People, cited six ob jectives of the St. Theresa development plan, which she said were inconsistent with a five-lane highway in the area. The discrepancies pointed out then promp ted Dr. E. Lavonia Allison, to inquire of t possible source where citizens could Hie their complaints against the St. Theresa Plan and she was told that the regional office of HUD in Greensboro would be the correct place, but that complaints would have to be made between April 15 and July 1, 1981, the period in which the application would be under scrutiny. Councilman Ralph Hunt pointed out could go Greensboro at any time that citizens to the HUD office to complain about what they may con sider to be a violation in the use of community development funds. Some of the citizens re mained undecided about the outcome of the motion offered by Councilman Paul Vkk to delete the clause regarding the five lane highway from the St. Theresa plan. Said one observer, "I think that the ' best thing to do is to leave Roxboro Street alone." JOIIJ Till tJAACP TODAY. YOU'LL CE GLAD YOU DID I
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