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Bennett announces commencement speaker Ruby Dee Ruby Dec, a versatile and gift ed actress, will address the 118th annual Bennett College Com mencement on Sunday, May 10, at 11 a.m. The ceremony will take place on the campus quadrangle. Dr. Gloria R. Scott, president, will bestow approximately 82 degrees to graduating seniors. Dee, the product of Harlem's American Negro Theater, studied acting with Paul Mann, Morris Carnovsky, and Lloyd Richards. She is perhaps best remembered on stage as Lutibelle in Purlie Victorious ; as Lena in Athol Fugards's Boseman and Lena for which she won an Obie, and as Julia in her Drama Desk Award winning performance of Alice Childress' Wedding Band. Addi tional state productions include The Glass Managerie, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Taming of the Shrew. She was inducted into the The atre Hall of Fame in 1988 and the NAACP Image Award Hall of Fame in 1989 with her husband, Ossie Davis. Dee recently appeared on American Playhouse as the author and Star of Zora is My Name ? an adaptation based on the - works of Zora Neale Hurston and on Broadway in Ron Milner's Checkmates. For Dee, television has provid ed some of the most fulfilling chal lenges of her career as an actress. Ruby Not only did she receive the 1983 ACE Award for her performance as Mary Tyrone in Eugne O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, but she also produced programs through Emmalyn II Productions Co., Inc., and Enterprise founded by her and Davis. Together they pre sented a PBS special, Martin Luther King: The Dream and The Drum and conceived the critically acclaimed PBS series With Ofsie . and Ruby, which they co-hosted and co-produced with Kcra/Dallas and WHMM/Washington, DC. Other production credits include two hour-long segments of A Walk Through the Twentieth Century with Bill Moyers, and Today Is Ours for CBS. Among her other television credits are the Hallmark Hall of Fame's Decoration Day, for British broadcasters seek access to evidence in King's assassination MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ? British broadcasters considering a mock TV trial for the confessed killer of Martin Luther King Jr. want court permission to run lab tests on the rifle found at the mur der scene. In a Criminal Court petition, Thames Television PLC of London is requesting access to evidence gathered in Memphis during the King investigation. The evidence, including the rifle identified as the murder weapon, is stored in a Criminal Court property room. King was slain at The Lorraine Motel in 1968 while helping orga nize a strike by Memphis sanitation workers. James Earl Ray, a Missouri prison escapee when King died, is serving a 99-year prison sentence on his guilty plea to killing the civil rights leader. Ray has tried often over the years to take back that plea. His requests for a trial have been denied. Jack Saltman, a producer for Thames Television, said a docu mentary on the King murder might take the form of a mock trial or some other judicial proceeding. "I feel that's a very interesting method of looking at a story," Salt man told The Commercial Appeal, the city's morning newspaper. Thames produced such a pro gram a few years ago looking into allegations that Austrian leader Kurt Waldheim had Nazi ties during World War II. The King documentary, if it comes about, would be broadcast next year. The Thames petition, filed by Memphis lawyer Wayne Emmons, is scheduled for a hearing Friday before Criminal Court Judge John P. Colton Jr. "We're basing this effort on the quickly changing feeling about releasing information, especially in light of the JFK film on the Kennedy assassination," Emmons said. "This information should be made available for the public good" A Circuit Court judge last year rejected requests by two Memphis men both claiming to own the King rifle. They said the legal rights to the Remington 10.06 had been obtained from Ray. Prosecutors said the rifle, as a murder weapon, belonged to the state. The main investigative files on King's death are in Washington where they are under seal until the year 2029. They were gathered by the House Select Committee on Assassinations. King's death has led to specula tion he was the victim of a conspir acy, and there have been calls for the House to open the committer records. "There's nothing in those files that would change the course of American history," Rep. Louis Stokes, an Ohio Democrat who chaired the com mittee, told The Associated Press early this year. The Thames petition includes an affidavit from William F. Pepper, identified as a British lawyer who has represented Ray during his imprisonment Pepper says Ray has no objec tion to the broadcasters' request A telephone message left for Ray at Riverbend Maximum Secu rity Institution in Nashville was not returned. Teens talk about statistics common amona black men CHARLOTTE (AP) ? About 250 black teenagers spent Saturday talking with 150 adult mentors about changing the statistics that are common among many black men. The setting was the first con ference of Save The Seed, a Chris tian-oriented mentor program trying to better the chances that more* black teens will become responsible! black men. They talked about resisting peer pressure, careers, problem solving skills and personal growth. These kids came because they knew they could learn something," said Chris Lilley, 15. Save The Seed, founded 18 months ago by former Charlotte City Council member Ron Leeper, tries to reach teens through schools and churches. "We're not modeled on another program/ Leeper said. "We're developing it as we go along." It's not easy work, he said. Ear lier this week, two Charlotte boys were shot to death. NeShawn Americk Burton. 16. was arguing with friends when police say another youth shot him twice in the chest with a .3 57 -cal iber pistol. On another street, George Forte, 10, died when he was shot by stray bullets, police said. Michael Gilliam, 13, read about those killings. At Save The Seed, Michael found people who understood. "If every black child did this with Save The Seed, maybe we wouldn't have the crime problem we do," he said. MacLeod hired by county to coordinate OFF initiative Ann Scott MacLeod has been hired by Forsyth County to coordi nate the Opportunities For Families (OFF) initiative. The OFF initiative, which is supported by a multi-year grant of $1 million from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, is tar geted to assist pregnant and parent ing teenagers and their families move from welfare dependency to self-sufficiency. MacLeod was selected from 34 applicants for the position by a team which involved consumers, county and non-profit representa tives. She graduated from Long wood College in 1973, received her Master of Social Work degree in 1975 from Virginia Commonwealth University, and worked in Florida as Clinical Social Worker and Man ager of Vocational Programs. She has been employed for 12 years at the Winston-Salem Urban League as a member of the manage ment team, moving from director of programs to vice president for pro gram development and public rela tions. She has worked with the OFF initiative since June 1990, serving on the planning task force, process com mittee and serving as a resource/facil itator in the racism group. She was instrumental in start ing The Black Family Focus and Teen Mothers Program and* has served on the Child Care Task Force, and chaired the United Way Work/Family Task Force. which she won an Emmy as Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special; The Golden Girls, The Court Martial of Jackie Robinson, Lincoln, Windmills of the Gods, ? The Atlanta Child Murders, All God's Children, and Roots: The Next Generation, Dee's film career has included such roles as Ruth in Buck and the Preacher and Rachel in The Jackie Robinson Story. She was Leah in Countdown at Kusine produced for the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She and Davis appeared in Spike Lee's movies Do The Right Thing and Jungle Fever. As an author, Ruby Dee has adapted two African folktales for children ? Two Ways to Count to Ten, which won the Literary Guild Award for 1989, and Tower to Heaven, released in the Spring of 1991. My One Good Nerve is a col lection of her short stories, poetry and humor. She and Davis recently narrat ed the King James Version of The New Testament available on audio cassette, produced by CC1. In the Spring of 1991 they released their first home video cassette. Hands Upon The Heart, a collection of some of their best television per formances. Ruby graduated from Hunter College, and after 42 years of mar riage, she and Ossie Davis have three children and seven grand children. The power to overcome. House Majority Leader since 1989 State Representative FOR 12 YEARS Vote Dennis Wicker for Lt. Governor Priorities: Better Schools Affordable Health Care Growth for Minority ? Businesses Supported by: General Baptist State Convention Endorsed by: Forsyth County Voters Coalition Greensboro Citizens Association * Winston-Salem Journal PAID FOR BY THE FRIENDS FOR DENNIS WICKER COMMITTEE Help Elect QTP1/F JIL ? Xj i ' jiu iim ,JU? i I'J.H '<??('. f'.'jCii / Vi2 llijqqUl -290011 X* ^*>boi *? 'u/*' BERNHOLZ Democrat N.C. Court of Appeals Judge Tuesday, May 5, 1992 Endorsed By The Following Professional and Grassroots Organizations * The North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers PAC * The Raleigh Wake Citizens Association * The Durham Voter's Alliance * The Durham People's Alliance Paid for by Steve Bernholz for Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals Joe Cheshire V, Chair, Raleigh N.C. - Robert S. Kadis , Goldsboro, N.C., Treasurer P.O. Box 1082 , Raleigh , N.C. 27602 v'
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