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Citizens cjemand review board Continued from Page A1 ityWa Currently, citizens are requiai to file complaints with the Winst^ Salem Police Department Internal Affairs Division, where an investi gation is conducted. If they are not satisfied at that level, they can then also file their complaint with the city manager's office and the public safety comitiittee. Eversley said, "The fact of the matter is that (Northington) is elect ed to serve all the people. Whether or not he has heard it ?efore, he should have sat, listened and learned and not wallow in igno rance." Many citizens who spoke said the Rodney King verdict and the recent secrecy on the details of the Carlos S toner murder has left a dis trust between the department art the community. ^ " Rasheed Bey, president Awakening Giants^ said there - distrust between the community the police department. "You need to consider the fact that there is a basic distrust by the community for the police ... for the sake of harmony and peace in this community," Bey said. The crowd blasted Chief* George Sweat and aldermen Nancy Pleasants, after they both said they were not in favor of a citizen's police review board. "Your attitude reflects the prob lem that we have (stated). You have not listened to a word we've said, but you have already made up your mind," said the Rev. John Mendez. . Pleasants said, "We are the duly elected body of citizens who are authorized and appointed to repre sent you," adding that the three steps to filing complaints were suf ficient. Eversley then asked, "How can you say that when 25 percent of your committee walked out of here?" Sweat listened attentively to ? ? ? ? i ? ? LJ? ? More than 40 people packed the committee room Monday to ask the Public Safety Committee to make a recommendation for a citizen's police review board. citizen's concerns, but said he was still not in favor of a citizen's police review board. "I still think the pro cess that we have is working fine," he commented. Following the three-hour meet ing, Alderman Vivian Burke, com mittee chairman and Alderman Nel son Malloy, who have been long time advocates of a review board, voted to send it to the Board of Aldermen. Alderman Nancy Pleas ants voted against it. The full board will vote on the citizen's police review board Monday. The Human Relations Commis sion released a summary of its 1991 complaints against the police department. A total of 37 com plaints were made: Thirteen were found to be false, nine allegations were supported by evidence; seven allegations were disproven and seven were exonerated. There is still one complaint pending. Message to the aldermen Concerned Citizens and Citi zens United for Justice ? two grassroots organizations ? met Tuesday night to make an appeal to the aldermen and Mayor Martha Wood, who have not openly sup ported the citizen's police review board. Dr. Waymon McLaughlin, representing both groups, said the groups are in support of a review board at the entry level of the com plaint process. Eversley said the review board would be "more objective and less intimidating" to the citizens. "It will enable a democratic process of people having something to say about their government," he said, following the meeting. So far, aldermen Nelson Mal loy, Vivian Burke and Larry Womble have openly stated their support of the review board. Aldermen Virginia Newell said she does not know how she will vote on the issue. "I don't see a need for it anyway. What can a review board do? It won't have any power," she said Tuesday night Newell said she was looking into an alternative solution to the complaint process, which could possible require a pro fessional group to conduct a study. Mayor Wood could not be reached for comment ^ A ' * * t * f ?< $ 1? raster Single Copy 75# Mall Subscription Rates (payable arth orOac) In County 2 years ..$40.95 1 year 30.72 6 moi 20.48 3 mo? .10.24 Out of County /Stats 2 years $45.95 1 year. 35.72 8 mos .25.48 3 mos 15.24 Q Yes, please send me the Chronicle. Name Address City - St. Zip. Check enclosed for ? 2 yaar* ? 1 year ? 6 month* ? 3 month* Mall to: Winston-SaJem Chronicle P.O. Box 1636 Winston-Salem, NC 27102 The WJnMton-Ssbm Chronic/ ? is published every Thursday by the Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty St. Mailing address: P.O. 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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker told alumnae of Radcliffe College that the state of black women is not much better now than when she last addressed the school two decades ago. "I wish I could tell you tdH things have truly improved for most young women of color on the planet," said Walker, who received the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association medal for her literary contri butions. "However, many things I have learned about the lives of women and girls since that day of public grief 20 years ago have taken me beyond tears." Radcliffe is an all-women's college whose students are enrolled jointly at Harvard University. Walker also read passages from her new book, "Possessing the Secret of Joy," about a woman who has suffered genital mutilation The author of 18 books in all, Walker won the 1983 American Book Award for "The Color Purple," later made into a film. Arthur Ashe rebukes Harvard grads BOSTON (AP) ? Tennis star Arthur Ashe, who has the AIDS virus, rallied and rebuked Harvard Medical School graduates Thursday as he warned of the enormity of their impending battles with the dis ease. "Some of you graduating today wouldn't treat me if I came to you," Ashe said. "By what moral principle would you refuse treatment to an AIDS patient?" Ashe asked. "Many of you might answer with nature's first law of self-preservation. "TTiis^AIDS thing, as I refer to it, will test your resolve, your ingenuity and, creativity, and your patience." Ashe, the first black man towin one of tennis' Grand Slam tourna ments, announced in April that he had contracted HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, from a blood transfusion during heart bypass surgery in 1983. Skinheads, anti-racism group to march BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ? Birmingham officials will permit a June 13 march by a group of neo-Nazi skinheads and an anti-racism group, but not at the same hour. The city issued parade permits for both the Aryan National Front and the Coalition Against Hate Crimes for marches to end at Linn Park. The skinheads plan to lay a wreath at the park's Confederate Memorial at 1 p.m. The coalition will march at 4 p.m. to protest the April stabbing death of Benny Rembert, 36, a homeless black man. Three Aryan National Front members and a teen-age girl have been charged in con nection with Rembert's death. Skinhead organizer Bill Riccio, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, said police feared a violent confrontation and asked the group not to march. He said the skinheads refused the offer. "We're not backing down," Riccio said. "We plan to march irre gardless of whatever dangers face us." Rodney Max, a spokesman for the coalition, said some members of his group had wanted to rally in the park when the skinheads were there. "It was agreed that we would avoid that as a group," Max said. "So as a group it is not our intention and we will not be there. 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