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NAACP honors volunteers and
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Winston-Salem Chronicle
75 cents "The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly" VOL. XVIII, No. 43
A people's victory
A The mayor broke a tie and sided with the f6lir black aldermen,
making Winston-Salem the second city in the state with a citi
zen's police review board
By SAMANTHA McKENZIE *
Cbronich Staff Writer
Mayor Martha Wood's tie-breaking voce for a citi
zen's police review board made history in Winston
Salem Monday night and brought a room full of citi
zens to their feet with cheers and applause.
The Winston-Salem Board of Aldermen voted 5 to
- 4 to establish a citizen's police review board. The vote
? was split, with the four black aldermen, Vivian Burke,
Nelson Malloy, Virginia Newell, and Larry Worn We in
favor and the four white aldermen, Robert North ington,
Hugh Wright, Linda Harpe, and Nancy Pleasants voting
against it The citizen's police. review board is the sec
ond in the state.
Mayor Wood said after 11 years of looking closely
at having a citizen's police review board, the concerns
made by the community proved that it was finally
needed.
"1 have tried to do everything I could to help the
current process, but it was clear to me that it was not
working," she said. Wood along with Aldermen Newell
kept the crowd in suspense as to how they they would
vote iBitil the time came.
Wood discredited claims that although she sided
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NNPA charges
discrimination
against P&G
By STEVE SAKSON
Associated Press Business Writer
BALTIMORE (AP) ? Procter A Gamble Co.
has agreed to meet with an organiatkM of 209 black
newspaper publishers to discuss their claim that the
consumer product giant has shut them out of advertising
dollars.
The Washington-based National Newspaper Pub
lishers Association made the accusation Friday during
its annual convention in Baltimore, saying it sought a
meeting with the company.
"They've communicated with us indicating a strong
willingness to sit down and discuss the issues, as well
as their concerns that they include all media which can
be effective when conveying their advertising mes
sage," said publishers association President Robert WT
Bogle. No date has been set for the meeting.
P&G, based in Cincinnati, makes such familiar
products as Charmin bathroom tissue, Tide detergent
and Crest toothpaste. It denied discriminating against
the newspapers.
Company spokeswoman Jennifer Bailey said P&G
does very little newspaper advertising in general, but
agreed to a meeting as part of a dialogue that has been
going on for two years.
"We've had meetings on and off, have exchanged
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The games peqple play
Wc think of peer pressure as being a young
people's thang ? * ml of lite of pamge tfti^
whiefrftH -children in list pass before becoming
full-fledged adults.
It is a young people's game, the object of
which is to learn how to wield power ml iaftflh
ence over the betavtar of others, wfcfte also torn**..
ing to withstand thoae same fipwres when
applied to one's OW^pl^;
to pb$l
while growing up, many of today's black youth ?
m so-called Hip-Hop Generation" are tint p|i
themselves bound by sutfi peer group pmimm
that many are willing to risk total death and
.iL
destruction.
A recent
FoundatiCai concludes tto "Mlinstream society
has virtually no credibility with tbese young peo*
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Several witnesses say Carl Potter was
surrounded and beaten by nine white
policemen last week, but police
accounts differ.
Police brutality
A tale of one city,
two different stories
By SAMANTHA McKENZIE
Chronicle Staff Writer
As the interal affairs division of the Winston-Salem
Police Department continues, its investigation into the use of
force on a black male last week and the memory of black
motorist Rodney King's beating is fresh in the minds of
many, the focus on police brutality continues.
In Winston-Salem the use of excessive force or harass
ment by police officers, who are sworn to protect the citi
zens, has become a topic of discussion of manyt mostly
blacks, who see themselves as targeted victims.
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Greater Wlnaton-Salam Chambar of ComntMC* and Winston-Satan State University.
Profile of a proud father.
The challenge of fatherhood
By SAMANTHA McKENZIE
Chronicle Staff Writer
Whether he's cracking down on his
children's grades at school or coaching
them for an upcoming sporting events,
one thing a local father can testify to is
that fatherhood is a full-time job.
Nobody said it would be easy,
according to Jasper Brown, 46, but par
enting three children, Leslie, 16, Dou
glas, 13 and Jasper, 11, has been a grow
ing experience.
Brown is an attorney with the
National Labor Relations Board and
coves federal cases in North and South
Carolina and Virginia ? a job which
often takes him away from home for
days.
But between preparing for cases and
short trips, Brown said he tries extreme
ly hard to make time for his children.
"I care about what they're doing. I'm
concerned. Even when I have to be diffi
cult with them, they know I love them,"
Brown said.
"It's so important now, with drugs
and crime so prevalent, to stay involved
Jasper Brown attended track practice with his youngest son, Jasper, 11.
Brown says h* tries to encourage his children In all of their endeavors.
with your children," said Brown. "Back didn't get out of line," said Brown, who
in the days even if the father wasnot in didn't grow up his fatherTBut had a sup
the home, we had strong extended fami- portive extended family.
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