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SATURDAY, JANUARY 22,1994~THE CAROLINA TIMES-5 CommiiRitu Scene Clubs & Socials Alston Heights rhe Alston Heights Community Organization will meet Thursday, naury 27, 7 p.m., at the home of Mrs. Ruth Flowers, 2219 Emerson ace. Officers for 1994 will be installed. The meeting will begin omptly at 7. ' Lyon Park Lyon Park Rose Garden Club met January 8 at the home of Gardener ibertha Buie. The Garden Gate was opened by Gardener Willie Sneed, irdener Mae Webb, president, presided. She thanked the committee for well planned Christmas party. Six poinsettia were given to the sick and active members. Gardener Sadie Chambers gave some interesting lints on insect control. Gardener Buie was recipient of three blue rib- ms Dec. 5 at the J.J. Henderson Flower Show — two different door reaths, one French horn with live flowers. Lyon Park received first ize for the largest attendance. A trip is planned for June. Happy irthday was sung to Gardener Annie B. Green and Chantia Gibson, thers attending were Gardeners Dorothy Blakeley, Fannie Harris, Daisy itchell, Mary Coward, Lois Cozart, Margie Dawson, Willie McCullers, lella King, Willie B. Umstead, Louise Jones, Maggie McCulloguh, arie Bradley, and Fannie Reed. Ms. Patricia Buie was a guest. The next meeting if scheduled for February 12 at the home of Gardener leed. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Wife Learned Activism At Antioch College DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Friends at Antioch College knew Coretta Scott scause of her music. And it was music that led Mrs. Scott into a life of activism and 'entually to Martin Luther King Jr. Mrs. Scott left her Heiberger, Ala., home in the 1940s to attend the lib- al southwestern Ohio college. She was one of few black students on the Yellow Springs campus and id never lived with white students. "I felt very comfortable with the students," she said. "But it was a range experience for a Southern black girl." Mrs. Scott’s love of music id desire to develop her talent took her to Boston, where she met the larismatic King. But it was at Antioch where Mrs. Scott matured and honed the traits at readied her to step from King’s shadow when he was slain in 1968. "I learned to adjust myself to whatever situation I found myself in, and my life since, every day I can’t say what’s going to happen because s always unpredictable." Mrs. Scott and her sister Edythe Scott came to ntioch at a time when the university was struggling with its identity. Robert Jordan, who started at Antioch in 1939 and later became a lend to Edythe Scott, said Antioch was known for its open admissions )licy, but there were no black students at that time. Soon after, Edythe Scott received one of the university’s first interra- al scholarships. Coretta Scott followed her sister to the school in 1945 id gained a reputation on campus for her passion for music. Coretta Scott was Antioch’s first black student to major in elementary lucation, which required her to teach one year in an Ohio public school. She taught music her first year at the university’s private elementary hool. But she was not allowed to student teach in Yellow Springs pub- : schools, although the students were integrated. School officials instead offered to send Mrs. Scott to a segregated hool in nearby Xenia' She refused, and ended up staying at the private hool another year. T was very disappointed. Antioch was not prepared to fight that situa- )n. I was. I went all the way to the president. Tt probably made me stronger and helped prepare me for what I was to :perience later in life," she said. Mrs. Scott left the university in 1952 and went on to the New England onservatory in Boston. It was there that she met King, then known as .L., through a mutual friend. He was getting his doctorate at Boston Diversity. Today, she is president and chief executive officer for the Martin ither King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, where the mily makes its home. Lani Guinier Says Silent Voices Must Be Heard By Jacqueline Soteropoulos CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Lani Guinier, whose nomination to head Justice Department’s civil rights division was withdrawn because of writings on voting rights, called her experience "a metaphor for what ; happened to many women of color." Speaking at a conference of ck women academics, Guinier defended her writing and said that the iference was one of the first public opportunities she’s had to do so. he also said she believed that if America had a chance to listen to her as of democracy, she would have been better understood, tesident Clinton withdrew Guinier’s nomination in June in the face of unting conservative opposition. He said he could not defend some of inier’s writings about enforcing the Voting Rights Act, including ing minorities a weighted vote in areas with a history of discrimina- 1. luinier, a University of Pennsylvania law professor, compared her si ce following admonitions not to defend herself or her writings, to the jer silence sdl black women experience in academia. What happened to me is not about me," Guinier said Thursday. It was a metaphor for what has happened to many women of color." 5 called black women academics "the minority within a minority, ose existence had been swallowed with neutral terms used in educa- I gentlemen. Silence was the price of our presence." Organizers of the iference estimated that about one out of every three black women in idemia traveled to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the ee-day event that began last Thursday. lany of the 2,000 conferees said they were the only black woman fac- y member at their colleges and universities across the nation, said ftlynn Hammonds, an organizer and assistant professor of science his- y at MIT. "The reason that African-American women scholars could relate (to inier) is because they’re not the only ones who’ve had these experi- 'es - often when they speak up and speak forcefully, they’re reotyped and silenced," Hammonds said. New Census Data Offers Insight On Single-Parent Households, Race PASADENA, CALIF. — Whitney Houston accepts the entertainer of the Year Award at the 26th Annual NAACP Image awards. Ms. Houston also won awards for Outstanding Female Artist, Outstand ing Soundtrack Album and Outstanding Album (the Bodyguard") as well as Outstanding Music Video (I’m Every woman.") The awards show, which took place on Wednesday, January 4, at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, airs on Saturday, January 22, at 11:30 p.m. on NBC-TV. Letters to DEBORAH WHITE Dear Debbie; I’m a 26-year-old woman. My boyfriend is 21. We have two beautiful girls, 4 and 5 years old, who live with his parents. Sometimes I don’t even get to see my kids be cause of their rudeness. My boyfriend works, pays the rent and puts food on the table for both of us. But he lies and he’s cheating on MINNEAPOLIS (AP> - A Uni versity of Minnesota study that compares census data over the past 130 years is providing new insights into the debate over the swelling of single-parent households, particu larly among blacks. From 1880 to 1960, the propor tion of black children living with a single parent held steady around 30 percent, according to the new re search. During the same time, the proportion of white children living with one parent stayed at about 10 percent. But in recent years, those figures have climbed - to 63 percent for black children and 19 percent for white. The new study by Steven Rug- gles, a history professor, is part of a university project that, for the first time, allows scholars to compare census data back to the 1860s. "The key categories of black household structure - single parent and extended - were remarkably stable, at least tl^ough 1960," the study said. "This supports recent studies which have argued that the distinctive features of the African- American family have deep histori cal roots." Still, black children his torically were still two to three times as likely to live with just one parent as were white children, said Ruggles. And in all census years, white households were less frag mentary or extended than black households, he said. Theories on why have been the subject of much debate, and include the ravages of slavery on black families and other economic or cultural factors. "The analysis confirms the find ings of recent studies that the high incidence of single parenthood and children residing without parents among blacks is not a recent phenomena," Ruggles concludes. The issue of race and single parent families has been the subject of enormous controversy. A dis proportionate number of black chil dren have been raised by single parents, a trend that can lead ta family instability and poverty. : : Ruggles’ study does not address whether that is because of culture, values, racism or the legacy of segregation. Instead, he is more concerned with illustrating the dif- ferences in black and white households in the past century.' ■ • - - The study showed that: ^ L- ’ ’ -Starting around 1940, black cWI- dren were increasingly likely to live in a home without a father. -In white households, 8 percent of the children between 10 and 14 lived with their mothers only in 1940, compared with 15 percent* in 1990. -The extended black family, often considered a source of strength and stability, has declined steadily since 1940, as has the white extended family. :: The issue of race and family hit the spotlight in 1965, when then Assistant Labor Secretary Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a report that blamed the deteriorating quali ty of life in inner-city black com-, munities to a "tangle of pathology": in the black family. ; The report attributed the "pathol ogy" to a legacy of slavery, humiliation and unemployment that led to most lower-income' black families being headed by women. The report sparked a heated nation al debate that continues today. I’m ready to leave him and get on with my life. But I love him too much. So my plans are. leave him, get a job so I can pay my own rent and get my kids back. I’m hurt he cheats on me and I still take him back. I feel so empty inside. I feel like I lost my kids and him. — Alone and Hurt Dear Alone and Hurt: You better have plans. This man has both feet out the door. His parents have custody of your children now and are likely to get legal custody. So you won’t get child support. You:’re not married, so you won’t get alimony. You didn’t say why his family is raising ypur kids or why you haven’t been working. Is it because you have a drug or alcohol problem? If you do, get straight. If you don’t, get moving. Find a counselor who specializes in helping women rebuild their lives. You’ll need someone who believes in you and v/ho knows the legal system to help you get your kids back. Take that first step to help yourself. I promise you it will give you back what you need most, self-respect. Dear Debbie: I ’ m worried because I think I might be ugly. Every girl has a boyfriend, but I don’t. I consider myself nice, a little pretty, reasonable sometimes and full of life. I want a boyfriend who will like me for who I am, who will adore me and whom I can trust. Good-looking, of course, and won’tdodrugsorsmoke. Plus, who would take me places. I think I may have to wail for this boyfriend. But I’ve already been wait ing two and one-half years. I will be 17 soon. Give me some advice. —' Boyfriendless Dear Boyfriendless: I love your list. Here’s mine: 1. Scope out a guy you’re attracted to. Be as aggressive as you’re com fortable being. If he’s not interested, don’t take it personally. You’re just not his type. Try again. 2. Be yourself, but be interested in others. Most people love talking about themselves. Learn how to really lis ten. 3. Lighten up. Guys like girls who know how to enjoy life and have fun.
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