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yiCB- ■ 08/20/7= UiLSON LIBRANY C COLLtCTION [JNC''CH (;hapel hill NC Z7bl4 dwCan inte© /OCUME 74 - NUMBER 10 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1996 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE:30 CENTS NCCU Gets Ready for Spring Sports See Page 9 Business Leadership Confab to Convene Here April 4-5 A'Business Leadership Confer- nee is scheduled for Durham April .5, It is planned as the first of an nnual event recognizing Amer- a’slbest and brightest profes- innals and entrepreneurs, ponsored by TQ Business Corn ier and Between the Lines Kom- innications, its goals are to • ^engthem the black com- ninity by strengthening black usinesses; • provide an environment for the iscussion, debate, and analyses of e s to economic and academ- srity; t create networking opportunities fc se industries; mote and celebrate the ac- rthments of America’s best IShtest business leaders. I j|b/Trade Fair is planned Lp Aide to Newark’s Mayor is idicted on Bribe Charges {federal grand jury Judge has charged Newark (N.J.) Mayor I James’ closest aide with accepting bribes in exchange for city lacts. He is the highest-ranking official to be indicted in the two- r investigation into corruption in Newark. Federal prosecutors said (ie R. Mattison, Mayor James’ chief of staff, conspired with a Iburn, N.J. insurance broker to steer city contracts to two insur- e companies. Prosecutors say the broker, who was also charged in indictment, paid Mattison more than $17,000 between 1990 and 94. Last November, federal agents raided Mattison’s residence and (und $150,000 in cash hidden under the floorboards. The house 1 to Mattison’s girlfriend, who was cited in the indictment but lot charged. Agents also searched Mattison’s office at City Hall, which is steps away from the mayor’s office. Love Between the Covers Agrowing list of publishers are putting out books on how African- American men and women respond to each other. New "relationship books" such as: ""How to Marry a Black Man," How to Love a Black Man," and "Getting Good Loving: How Black Men and Women Can Make Love Work" are selling well. "I don’t know when there’s been [ such a crop of relationship books targeted to African Americans," says Ronn Elmore, a Los Angeles psychotherapist and author of j "How to Love a Black Man." He believes blacks are trying to get I beyond political and sociological self-examination. "We are allowing ’ourselves to look at ourselves on a personal level. I think we’re going to see the whole gamut. We’re going to see titles that touch every part of our interpersonal relationships." Sources in publishing trace this ,I recent spate of interest to the Million Man March. Elmore says, "One (million black men marched on Washington. But untold millions more i black men and women are also heeding the call to heal the wounds I within our communities and families and lay claim to that inner power that can enrich our personal lives:" Two Louisiana Nightclubs Agree to Open Doors to Blacks A Louisiana nightclub that was sued for refusing to admit an African-American prosecutor and a bar that denied service to an African-American teacher each have agreed to end their racial dis criminatory practices. In two agreements reached with the Justice De partment, the owners of La Poussiere in Beaux Bride and the C’est Ma Vie Lounge in Broussard admitted to unlawfully refusing to serve African Americans. U.S. Justice Department investigators had sent teams of whites and blacks to the clubs and witnessed the admittance of the white testers and the turning away of the African Americans. "While most bars and nightclubs in this area serve people regardless of their skin color, unfortunately some do not," said Michael D. Skin ner, U.S. Attorney in Lafayette. 100,000 Signatures for Nigeria The new Coalition For Fairness in African Policy has launched a c^paign to secure 100,000 signatures on a petition to President Clinton opposing the use of economic sanctions against Nigeria. Rev. Maurice Dawkins, coalition chairman, announced the formation of a ^up of black publishers and clergy at the Iixlemational Center of the University Club in Washington, D.C. According ip Dawkins, the is headed by Dorothy Leavell, president of the National News paper Publishers Association (NNPA) and Archbishop George Stall- organizer of the National Clergy Task Force on Afnca. The seeks to complete the campaign by Black Press Week, which wgins the week of March 11. Ethiopian Jews Stage Protests in Israel Over Blood Donations «rael Prime Minister Shimon Peres has promised an investigation pmore than 10,000 Ethiopian Jews gathered outside his office in to protest a health poliev discarding their blood donations. Black College Sports Page See Page 12 Patti LaBelle To Receive Soul Train Award See ^Insights’ Front featuring top African American professionals and executives. Cor porations and industry leaders will showcase their products and ser vices at the Trade Fair Exhibition. The vending area will allow registrants an opportunity to sample the products of small businesses from across the nation. Over twenty nationally known business leaders are expected at the conference, including Attorney Willie Gary, owner of a multi million dollar law firm, Stuart, Florida; Byron Lewis, CEO of Uni World Group, Inc., New York, an advertising agency with billings in excess of $100 million in 1995; former Congressman Parren J. Mitchell of Washington, D.C., founder of the 8(a) set-aside; Ben jamin Ruffin, RJR Nabisco, KMart Boycott Spreads Through State; Pay Discrimination Charged BYRON LEWIS CEO, Vniword Group, Inc. Winston-Salem; Joshua Smith, the Maxima Corporation, Lanham, Md.; and F.V. "Pete" Allison, Mutual Community Savings Bank, Durham. The speakers and presenters at the confer ence manage or have generated combined annual revenues of approximately $1 billion. "We must do something to addrc-,>s massive displacement of the black profes sional" said conference convener Ronnie Sturdivant, owner of the TQ Business Com plex in downtown Durham. "Although the shifting sands of the economy have us off- balance, these times provide us with a great opportunity to support entrepreneurship. We must seize the time." For more information, call (919) 956- 21 GREENSBORO — African American workers and ministers have joined forces in Greensboro to fight discrimination by Kmart Corporation, one of America’s largest retailers. The campaign is rapidly garnering support from the national civil rights community and a consumer boycott begun in Greensboro’s African American community is reported spreading throughout the state and around the country'. Announced last November, the boycott initiated by Kmart workers and local ministers has rapidly become a focal point of protest in the city’s Afri can American community. Since then, a 2,000 person demonstration has occured at a Greens boro Super Kmart Center and over 130 workers, ministers and community leaders have been ar rested during protest activities. The boycott was started in the wake of charges by local employees that Kmart’s pay practices at it Greensboro distribution center are racially dis criminatory. The Greensboro facility has the greatest percentage of African American workers of any Kmart hardline distribution center and it is the only facility which has a majority non-white workforce. The pay in Greensboro is reported on average $4.60 per hour lower than what employ ees are paid for doing the same work at other Kmart hardline facilities throughout the United States. "All we’re asking for is to be treated the same as other Kmart employees who do the same jobs we do," said Kmart worker Deborah Compton Holt. "We can’t let a company like Kmart, that makes millions of dollars from our community, turn back the clock on discrimination." Jn February, Ms. Holt and four other employees filed suit against Kmart on race discrimination charges. The Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!) has filed charges against Kmart on their behalf with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis sion in Detroit. UNITE! has represented approximately 550 workers in Greensboro since they voted over whelmingly in favor of unionization in Septem ber, 1993. UNITE! and Kmart have yet to reach a collective bargaining agreement. National Labor Relations Board has issued a bad faith bargaining complaint against the company. In May, 1994, the Kmart workers halted play by prolesting'dn na tional television at the Greater Greensboro Open, a golf tournament sponsored by Kmatt^ and 64 protesters were arrested. Register to Vote ^^35a3S!SasS3SS!SS3553!353S355SS3SS®S?5!S?3S3®3S3S3SS?SSS3«SS®SSSSSS3333!3SS®35SS3SS3«3SSSS!3S^ Demining Stepped Up In Mozambique MAPUTO, Mozambique (PANA) At least 40 people die and dozens lose limbs each month in Mozam bique from mine explosions despite the end of the civil war, the coun try’s National Demining Commis sion says. This figure could be higher. Com mission Executive-Director Osorio Mateus Severiano told the Mozam bican News Agency AIM that his bureau was unable to reach the entire country to provide a more accurate estimate. Already, he said, 10,000 mines had been removed and another 11,000 different explosive devices had been disactivated. But this still leaves the two mil lion land mines planted during decades of war — against Portuguese colonialists and South African backed Mozambican rebels — still active in Mozambique, ac cording to the United Nations. School Board Agenda: Topic Of NAACP Monthly Meeting The February meeting of the Dur ham Branch NAACP was held at Covenant Presbyterian Church to honor Dr. Howard M. Fitts, Jr. While a hospital patient, Dr. Fitts spent much of that time registering new NAACP members from his hospital bed. Branch President Curtis Gatewood appealed for innovative and assertive people to get involved in innovative and assertive pro grams of the branch. Attorney Irving Joyner, professor at the NCCU School of Law, spoke about the recent Board of Educa tion redistricing plans. A suit has been brought by three Democrats — Howard Cannon, Norman Phil lips, and Dan Sizemore — to over turn the present plan which gives a 4 to 3 white majority. The claim by the plantiffs is that black people DURHAM CITY COUNCILMAN PAUL MILLER receives NAACP Life Membership Plaque from Mrs. Louise Simms and Rev. Gatewood. (Photo by Ray Trent) could elect too many blacks to the board. They want more than the present 4 to 3 white majority. They claim that whites have been more than fair to blacks. The Durham County Commis sion, which consists of 3 to 2 Dem ocrat majority, voted along racial lines 4 to 1 to scrap present plans and go to an at-large plan that could lead to an all-white County Board. Attorney Joyner said that in cases like this, intervention by groups md private individuals joining the :ase makes the court look at the case from two sides. Joyner asked the NAACP, as an association, and individuals to join the case as inter veners. He said that if we can’t win the School Board vote, at least we can lodge vigorous protest. The case went to court on March I. It was such a mess, wrong court, and questions about what com missioners can do about state laws and other concerns. A lot of Afri can Americans showed up. The court had to look at facts and put the case oI¥. A lifetime membership plaque and medal were presented to Dur ham City Councilman Paul Miller. The Mother of the Year will be .>wned on May 18. Ms. Alice Anderson is chairman of the Mother of the Year committee. Dr. Fitts and Covenant Pres byterian Church presented over a thousand dollars in membership fees.
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