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Hundreds Crowded Diggs Gallery frontpage a? Front of the Other" to deliver the message to adults that "what you do ^ speaks louder than what you say." Gus Hummings performed an original rap selection for the occa sion. Hariyah dan-Foli delivered a tribute to Kwanzaa. The Rev. Carlton A.G. Eversley led the sharing of the unity cup. jA Karamu an African-Ameri can attire fashion show followed the festivities, ' Dr. William Turner, a sociology professor at the university, said his family attended the celebration for a sense of togetherness. "We try our best to emphasize the spiritual aspects of t^ season," Turner said, "and to reflect on our lives and our blessings ? the great est of which is our family love and our relationships with people. Kwanzaa brings us together with the community of which we are a part."^ Turner said he was happy to see so many teenagers in attendance. "It is encouraging, as a teacher,, to see young African- American peo-, pie here and people from other com munities who are not African-Amer icans, who are here out of a sense of diversity," Turner said. Marcus Hummings, who is a young African-American himself, said he came to learn about his own culture. "All we get is one month out of the year," Hummings said, "and this is just another time to learn about ourselves and what we mean. It's not a religious type of holiday ? it's cultural, where we get to learn about ourselves." Martin Hummings added what Kwanzaa means to him. j "Kwanzaa is a great time to for ?f?T about all the separations that African-Americans have created among ourselves," he. said. "So w* can come together as a group and, hopefully, work things out, so we can become a better r^e." Joe Mclver, a Winston-Salem State University student, said he had heard of Kwanzaa, but he didn't know much about it. He said he came to learn more and get a better understanding of what Kwanzaa is, "I appreciate it (the opportunity to learn about Kwanzaa), more than anything else, because it seems to be something for us ? for black peo ple." Mclver said. "We don't have a lot that was created for, us that cele brates us and who we are as people. I think this is a beautiful thing." Emily Stuart and Jessica Stine are not African- Americans, but they are also came to learn more about Kwanzaa. Stuart and Stine said they first learned about Kwanzaa through their church, the Unitarian Univer salis! Fellowship of Winston- Salem. They said they also are members of the church's race relations task force and wanted to understand more about Kwanzaa. "We talked about Kwanzaa in services the past week, and a bunch of us came tonight to see what it's all about," Stuart said. Stine said she first learned about Kwanzaa through one of her classes at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. "I carhe to get a feel for the environment," Stine said. "When you're sitting in your school and there's only one or- two black people there, it's different. Here, we're able to participate in a culture, instead of just hearing about it second-hand." Racist Violence Increased Last Year - $y SHERIDAN HILL Chronicle Assistant Editor As racist violence in the state increases* the state's_only_monitor-. ing agency may be forced to close _ its doors. \ ~ Christina Davis-McCoy, direc tor of North Carolinians Against Racist and Relig^us Violence, said cross burnings dbubled last year, ? and more Ku Klux Klan telephone lines were established, the brutal ization of black men increased, including a possible lynching and a castration. * NCARftV's staf^ was cut from four to two, and they may be forced to shut down altogether. "We're struggling to keep our doors open,^ McCoy Said. ''In an econoniic^limaie where people are hurting, they're looking for peome to blame, and the level of insensiuV ity increases, as does the propensity to act it out. It's hard to imaging what North Carolina would 4oo^ like if NCARRV weren't around," McCoy said. The agency, which operates an 800 telephone line and provides anti-racism training to community groups, has an annual budget of aboijt $200,000. McCoy would not say just how much of a shortfall exists" for * 1993, but she and Williams agreed that times are tight. "We came very close to closing down in December," Williams said. "It's been very hairy." In 1991, NCARRV docu mented six cross burnings. McCoy says thatJiumber doubled in 1992. The number of documented Klan message telephone lines increased from two to five, operat ing in Concord, Fayetteville, Wen-, dell, Lillington, and Kelford. - Williams said thosewhodial a Klan phone number hear messages promoting racism, anti-semitism and violence. "Their messages are more of a call to arms than ever before;" she said. According to Wflliams, recent Klan phone messa^s and flyers have spoken out against sending NC troops to Somalia, and the formation of a black cultural center at UNC CH. One flyer explained that the Holocaust never happened. "We've seen more religious intolerance, churches and syna gogues vandalized, and anti-semitic literature on the increase," McCoy said. "We need a concentrated i^enouncement of this kind of think ing. But without the financial sup* port behind these initiatives, it wot^t ? turn it around. " NCARRV was founded i'nJ 1983 in Dufham as a volunteer organization. McCoy, was one of the founders, and was hired as direc tor in 1985, when the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation granted funds. The Maryrkeynolds Babcock Foun dation yas an early contributor but hasn't funded the organisation for three years, according to Williams. NCARRV is the only agency in the state that monitors Klan activity and religious and racist violence. "It will be a sad day in North Carolina if we have to close our doors," Williams lamented. s Black Men Get Brunt Of Racism from page A 1 - ^ his body. According to Assistant District Attorney Vincent Rabil, Doby entered a plea of second degree murder and has agreed to testify against the other three. His case will be tried after theirs. A spokesperson for District Attorney Tom Keith said the sus pects are being kept "in safekeeping with the Department of Correc-^ tions." In July, a Sanford, N.C. man was found hanging outside his home. Police would not confirm if thirty-three year-old William Lav erne Brooks Jr. was found hanging from a lifter used to take motors out of cars, or from a tree, as one woman reported to NCARRV. Brooks' death' was investigated and ruled as a suicide*. But the woman who called NCARRV sus pected murder /because Brooks, a black 4j]an, was involved in an inter racial relationship and lived in an area populated with Klansmen. "The Sanford sheriffs depart ment gave us the run-around when we tried to get more information," said Williams. - "The 'womtorjvho called us tb report it has been harrassed by peo ple performing parmilitary exercises in her yard. Even the NAACP there has been reluctant to come forth." Sanford District Attorney ,Bill Huggjns said he had not seen a polide report on the case, since no criminal charges were filed. "I doubt if they had the slight * Blues Singer Dies At 34 ? * ? \ Chicago blues sjnger Valerie Wellington, wno portrayed Yer idols Bessie Smith and Ma Rain^y on stage, died Saturday of to aneurysm. She w^s 34. " f . hint o/ foul play, since they didn't bring it over here to us for prosecu tion, " Huggins said. ? 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