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Fashioning An Education
This original Willie Smith design will be one
of the highlights at this year's Ebony Fashion
Fair. The local fashion show, hosted by the
Winston-Salem Urban League Guild, will be
held Friday, Nov. 2 at 8 p.m. in the M.C. Benton
Convention Center. The proceeds from
the show will benefit the Urban League's
Scholarship and Building funds. Each year,
Ask Yolonda
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By YOLONDA GAYLES
Syndicated Columnist
Dear Yolonda: Some years ago I made a really
began engaging in sex before I was physically
prepared for it. I,.became ...pregnant .by.-the .first..11
- dated-. U*as aftakhafcthe time, and Fcouldn't-brmg
my problems with my parents, ; ' _
so I got a quick abortion. I was s
Now I feel sick about having
an abortion. I would have been
the mother of a child that I .
could love and be proud of. In- -4
stead, I made a hasty decision
and it's ruining my life. The "4
child would have been born in
September, so every SeptembeK
I become melancholy. I wonder s -4
if I would have been the mother ^? J
of a boy or girl. ? :??S\ A-^' |
Today, I'm 32 years old with \
no kids. I've never been mar- \
ried, but now I don't think being a single mother
It seems like God is punishing me for the miifctak<
past. I'm being burned twice - once for the abortio
time because it seems as though I'll never get am
motherhood. I think I'm going insane.
Any advice? S
Dear Brenda: Yes. Don't look at your childless
ment from God. Since you're still unmarried, part <
might be the lack of a consistent, caring mate who
toward parenthood.
I suggest that you bring this problem up with yo
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high school juniors and seniors compete for
the title of Mr./Ms. Ebony Fashion Fair, with
the winner receiving a scholarship. The
model above wears the ultimate in the
layered, relaxed look in a yellow and olive
green houndstooth wool, cropped jacket
worn over a small-patterned, houndstooth
wool tunic and mid-calf skirt.
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By JOEY SASSO
Syndicated Columnist
Observations in covering the
Night Beat:
Superstar Mkhael Jackson
and the Hollywood Chamber
of Commerce are negotiating
over a star for the singer on
Hollywood's legendary Walk
of Fame. Jackson has offered
to make a huge donation to
any charity of the Chamber's
choice, according to a source
close to the talks. The catch is,
Jackson wants the star located
on the sidewalk outside the
equally-legendary Mann's
Chinese Theater in
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celebrity cement hand and
footprints.
There are only a few spots
left for a star in the area, and
the ultimate decision will be up
to Ted Mann, owner of the
theater- chain?The- source?
declined to specify the amount
Jackson is willing to donate in
return for a star, explaining,
."It would blow the whole
deal."
The California Angels' Reggie
Jackson, after hitting his
493rd home run to tie Lou
Gehrig: "It boosted my ego,
although mine probably
doesn't need it."... .
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Mr. " T, the rough-looking
star of NBC's 4lThe
A-Team," is experiencing
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legal wrinkle is all in the family.
Mr. T's brother, Gustave
Tero, has filed a breach of
contract suit against Mr. T,
alleging that his brother fired
him from his job as a
bodyguard. Tero, a police officer,
filed suit in Chicago this
week, seeking $72,000 in back
pay and damages.
Tero's attorney, Lewis
his success on drugs.
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Shapiro, says, "My client was s.
. never given an explanation as
to why he was terminated. Gus
attempted to ask but he
couldn't get a response." Tero
took a leave of absence from
his police job to work for his
brother at a weekly salary of
$1,600....
James Earl Jones, who starred
on Broadway and in the
film version of "The Great
White Hope" and also the TV
series, "Paris," is generally
considered one of the most
precise and articulate speakers
Spotlight
His passw
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Special To The Chronicle
Peabo Bryson is a gentle man.
tic^ fantasies as the night-bloc
heritage, Bryson oozes with sensi
and. tuuUy
sings, it is indeed, as the title of
<Elektra suggest, "Straight From
"Women still want romance,'
sexual is really romantic. It's not
bronze Adonis or the ultimate rr
like a brick, you'll lose every tin
sitivity and they're willing to exp
"You can be a bronze Ado
if you talk with a tongu
every time."
perceived a lot differently nov>
tribute. Remember, the meek sh
starting to win."
His subject is love, his med
elements of his own life, Brysor
the greatest emotion in his song
"I can't write or sing about a
says. "I couldn't do P-funk, foi
It doesn't move me. If you>int<
can't fake it. It works only if it r
you orfly me, not an image I h<
me."
Born April 13, 1951, Bryson v
Spending his summers with a gn
S.C., and his winters in Greenvi
parents, he quickly grew accusti
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a movie on his life just
, in ;show business. But, for
eight years - from the age of eight
to 15 - he did not utter
one single word, he told an audience
while visiting the Union
Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas for a
holiday.
"I had the most terrible
stutter in the world," Jones
says. "I was ashamed to open
my moutn, so, tor tnosc eignt
years I never spoke and never
communicated with anyone.
My parents took me to
psychiatrists by the dozen and
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ord, plain
e, is romance
With a voice as filled with roman>ming
jasmine of his Southern
lality. It's little wonder, then, that
s- with oohs and aahs. When he?
his eighth solo album and first on
The Heart."
* says Bryson. "What they see as
: the gorgeous body. You can be a
tale, but if you talk with a tongue
ne. Women want feeling and senress
their wants today. Strength is
nis or the ultimate male, but
e like a brick, you'll lose
-Peabo Bryson
Sensitivity is a tremendous atall
inherit the earth. Nice guys are
ium is music. Taking the potent
i expresses the joy and the pain of
s.
nything not a part of my life," he
r example. That's not my lifestyle,
end to show people sincerity, you
eflects your true personality. I give
ave to live up to. I just live up to
vas the eldest boy of four children,
indfather on a farm near Maudlin,
lie with his mother and her grandamed
to hard work.
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