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□ 0/2D/'^'= uiBRARY ''* . rH SSu HIBU 11- jsiC €1w Cari fOLUME 74 - NUMBER 15 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1996 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE:30 CENTS ^CCU Student is Top Scorer In Brain Power Tourney See Page 13 Black College Sports Page See Page 12 Mel Watt: Congress Grade on NAACP Urges ‘Peace In the Streets^ See Page 11 Deserves A Failing Education -i. ^ «■ ^ ,, NCCU Chancellor Julius Chambers is pictured here in a television interview prior to the unveiling iremony of the Motor Vessel Ocracoke - "The N.C. Central University Ferry Boat" Saturday, April 6. be institution’s official emblem was covered at (he time this picture was made. Its permanent placement »here what appears in this photograph to be a black rectangle centered in a black line. (NCCU Photo [Robert Lawson) [Ramona Africa Gets ‘Day in Court’ Kamona Africa’s civil lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia is now in federal court. Ms. Africa is the sole adult survivor of the 1985 (^-bombing of the MOVE organization which resulted in 11 deaths the burning of 60 homes and the worst residential fire in Philadelphia rliistory. The lawsuit contends the city violated Africa’s rights when feladelphia police dropped a bomb on her and her family and al- flowed the ensuing fire to burn. Africa says, "I filed a civil lawsuit lagainst officials in 1987 when none of them were ever held legally ^ouniable for their vicious crimes." Her attorney says, "We are con- tot that a fair and impartial jury will let the city, the nation and [everyone else listening know that it will not condone the use of a bomb and fire for tactical purposes." Both former Police Com- Ussioner Gregore Sambor and former Fire Commissioner William Richmond will stand trial. The city has hired a private attorney at a cost of $250,000 to handle the suit. 1 Ford Increases Purchasing From Minority Vendors On the heels of lengthy strike at General Motors over "outsourc ing,” Ford Motor Company announced at a recent Michigan Minority Bjisiness Council lunch that it has established a target to source at 1( isi five percent of its annual U.S. purchases from minority sup- I ers, by the year 2000. Successful achievement of this goal would i crease Ford’s sourcing to minority suppliers from $1.8 billion in 195 to about $2.5 billion. The U.S. Big Three purchase approxi- 1 itely$4 billion in parts and service from minority suppliers annual ly and Ford represents about 45 percent of these buys. "Although we re proud of the fact that today we make the greatest dollar buy f^m minority suppliers of any automotive or other U.S. organization, we’re not satisfied," said Ford Purchasing Vice President Carlos Maz- ^rin. "We want to be a greater force in the future," Mazzorin said, as he outlined some of the activities Ford will continue to pursue to insure that viable minority component manufacturers remain a part of the auto company’s supply base. "We are exploring how we can help Pppliers grow at a robust rate in order to support Ford," Mazzorin id. He also explained to the minority business group that future iwth opportunities in the automotive industry will likely come im emerging markets in Asia and South America and to compete in market minority suppliers must respond quickly to customer bands with high quality, low cost innovative products and solu- 2nd Annual Parren J. Mitchell Awards Scheduled for Washington, D.C. jllie Minority business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education 'und, Inc., (MBELDEF) will hold its 2nd Annual Parren J. Mitchell Awards Gala/Dinner April 18, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Capitol lill. The Gaia, "Capital Formation in the new Millennium," will onor individuals from business, in general, and the financial world, pecifically, who have had an impact upon capital formation within le areas of municipal finance, philanthropy, insurance, commercial Hbg and investment clubs. Retired Atlanta Life Insurance CEO gseHill, Jr. and U.S. Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.) are Co-Chairmen Kdie event, named in honor of the first black U.S. Representative the state of Maryland who also founded MBELDEF in 1980. long the honorees are: Maynard Jackson of Jackson Securities, At- '12. Ga.; Maceo Sloan, Sloan Financial, Durham; Patricia Garrison- fbin, National Association of Security Professionals, Philadelphia, '2ndJoAnn Price, Fairview Capital of Farmington, Conn. liabetes Epidemic in Black Community Hie Toledo Journal is reporting that the American Diabetes Assoei- on has launched an aggressive public education campaign to in case awareness of the near epidemic rate of diabetes among African ^ericans, a group nearly twice as likely to have the disease as the inieral population. Osha Gray Davidson to Autograph Book Friday at Hayti Heritage Center Osha Gray Davidson, author of The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemptionin the New South, will be in Durham Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. On Friday, April 12, he will autograph his book at Hayti Heritage Center from 5:30 to 7 p.m. A formal program will begin at 7 o’clock. By Ray Trent The majority in the U.S. Congress is being led by a group of freshmen who believe that the government should have no role in education and are targeting ed ucation for large, crippling cuts. When President Clinton refused to accept those cuts, the majority in Congress decided to fund government week-to-week at sharply reduced levels. Since October 1, 1995, the beginning of this federal fiscal year, Congress has approved funding for edu cation through a series of short-term "Continuing Resolutions" (CRs). CRs approved funding for seven to ten days at a time while negotiations continued about the education budget for the balance of the fis cal year. The twelfth CR was passed on March 29, 1996. This CR will expire on April 24. The CRs au thorize funding at approximately 75% of the 1995 funding level. CRs are temporary and make it impossible for North Carolina school districts to plan, budget and contract with teachers for the 1996-97 school year. At some point, the delays will result in massive in efficiencies at the local school level. The present method of funding will result in cuts in Noi tu Cui'oliiia. Guai 2000 Education Reform cut 25% ($1.9 million), Title I programs cut 17% ($1.3 million). Safe and Drug Free Schools and Com munities cut 25% ($2.3 million), Eisenhower Profes sional Development State Grant cut 25% ($1.3 mil lion, Title VI cut 25% (between $2 and $3.5 million), Basic grants for Vocational Education cut 18% ($4.9 million). Ai-med with this information, Congressman Mel Walt, the week before Easter, made a run through the North Carolina 12th District which he represents, talking to school board members and other education- centered civic groups about the seriousness of this matter and the critical situation North Carolina school districts are in. On Thursday, he came to the new Hillside High School in Durham for a town hall meeting, sporting the beard he began growing on November 20th with a vow not to shave until we had a full year federal gov ernment budget. Although all members of the Dur ham school board were invited, only School Board Chair Kathryn Meyers showed up along with the as sistant school superintendent, McArthur Jackson. There were members of the Political Action Com mittee of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, the NAACP Education Committee chair and members of black retired school teachers organization. Congressman Watt endeavored foremost to get the word out to the citizens that on April 24th Congress, the President, and Senate will be making crucial deci sions about the federal commitment the nation will make to education. The choices on that day will be to pass another CR or pass a budget for the rest of this fiscal year and allow school districts to plan, budget, hire stiff and doe their jobs. There also will be a choiGtrof funding education based on 1995 fun.4iP2 levels or look ahead to the realistic needs of children in 1996, 1997 and beyond. Congressman Watt further said that "Elected offi cials work for you. You can influence our choices. You must let us know before April 24 that you want a budget, not a CR; that you want funding which looks to the future of children, not to last year; and that you want education to be a national priority again. You should tell every federal elected official that reducing our federal commitment to education is not accept able. It is not loo late yet, but it will be soon." DAVIDSON The Best of Enemies is a saga about happenings in Durham dur ing the 1960s and what led up to that lime and events. The famous writer Studs Terkel of Chicago said, "For eighty years we’ve wailed for a reply to Birth of a Nation. At last Osha Gray David son has done the job. The story of C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan of Durham, North Carolina, and of Ann Atwater, a black civil rights advocate, his enemy for so many years, is one of the most moving love stories I’ve ever come across. More than that, in a time of bleakness, it sounds a note of hope....a glorious work." Described by Kirkus Review as an "eloquent blend of history and ad vocacy journalism,"... Osha Gray Davidson chronicles the ex traordinary and unlikely friendship between a black civil rights activist, Ann Atwater, and a former Ku Klux Klansman, Claiborne Paul "C.P." Ellis. With lush detail, Davidson examines the difficult is sues of race and class during the (Continued On Page 2) Congressman Mel Watt (D-NC) and retired black school teachers at an April d meeting at Hillside High School. From left, School'Board Chairman Kathryn Meyen and Congrtamian Md Watt listen to McArthur Jackson, assistant school superintendent (Photos by Ray Treat)
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