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Reactions To Ashe's Death > ' ? Tennis star Arthur Ashe, shown in this 1992,filc"j>hoto at a news conference in New York as Mayor David Dinkins looks on, has died a& 49. Ashe, a champion tennis player who opened the door for black ath letes and fought off the court for human rights and against AIDS announced, in April that h^ was sufferingfrom the AIDS virus. N*a*t*i*o*n*a ? I Billions Wanted For Inner Cities ) . . ? . . WASHINGTON, DC ? The National Urban League has called upon President Clinton to back up his clihipaign promises to black Americans by allocating up to $50 billion a year for the next ten years to rebuild tnner-city America. The civil rights organization also called upon African-Americans to dp more to rebuild their own communities. Urban League President John Jacob made his call at an annual Washington news conference (taring which he released the group's 18th annual State of Black America report Citing last spring's Los Angeles riots. Jacob warned that the circumstances in inner-city black America were "dcsper lie.'* The report pointed to a 14 percent black unemployment rate which climbed to nearly ^5 percent, once part-time and discouraged womb were added, and the fact that 50 percent of black children are currently growing up in poverty. According to Jacob, Clinton "cannotmovelhtH country forward without addressing tfcese concerns." Inaugural Poem Published if< ? / . " ' NEW YORK ? Maya Angelou's inaugural poem, "On the Pulse of the Morning," will be published by Random House in a commemorative paperback edition. The book cost ?5 and will be shipped to stores around the country on Feb. 10. Random House has published 1 1 previous bestsellers by Angelou, including her classic, "I Know Why The Caged Birds Sings" and her col lection of pcfetry ' 'XStoll Not Be, Moved." ..._ . J K/ f" wiwfolH 616? t fTO<fcilliW h r.bffVlhlV* BlaJSfeilfeve Less Ovarian C&H&r _ LOS ANGELES , CA ? Running counter to the general trend in which blacks tend to suffer more from most ailments than whites, a new study has found that African-American women are significantly less likely than white womenjo develop ovarian cancer. However, - Researchers led by a team at Stanford University say they do not know why. OvaVian cancer strikes nine in every 100.000 b&ck women com pared to 14 in every 100,000 whfte women. The study~Which was reported in the current issue of the Journal of the National Cancer lnsti ? tute speculates that black women may be protected by some genetic fac tor or a social factor such as diet and exercise. Sara Lee Salutes FrankjCarr ATLANTA, GA ? Sara Lee Corporation, an ongoing supporter of the King Center, Joined in the salute to honorees Frank C. Carr, founder of Inroads Inc., and John Portman Jr., chairman and CEO of the Portman Companies, during the King Center's 1993 Salute to Greatness Awards Dinner. Elynor Williams (l)r vice president of public responsibility and Eva Chess (r), Manager of public responsibility, Sara Lee Corporation, share time with Coretta Scott Xing at the recent awards celebration in Atlanta. Group Advocate "Balanced Life" / WASHINGTON, DC ? "We shorten our lives primarily because our lives are unbalanced," says James Nathan, president of the black anti aging group known as the Better Life Club. Nathan, along with a grow ing number of aging experts, believes that hum^rtife expectancy can be pushed to 120 years, if people would make certain simple adjustments to their lifestyles. "The keys to combating the negative effects of aging/' | says Nathan, "are moderate exercise, reduced calorie-intake and reduc ing stresses on the heart. "Nathan's group has compiled a guide entitled "How to live to be 120 Years Old". It is available from the Better Life Club, P.O. Box 2S422. Black Abortion Rate l^High , ;.vr : "? ; ?? ? . / - c , ? WASHINGTON, DC? A new sujvey entitled Who Get Abortions in America revealed that black women get abortions at over twice the rate of white women. The Washington Ppst/ABC News survey found that the abortion !?S6 for black women was 57 per 1 ,000 tive biflhl This com parer to a rate for white women of 21 per 1,000 live births. The most common age range for abortions is 20 to 24, followed by 25 to 29. On a religious basis, Protestant women get the"greater number of abortions, followed ' ?* ? Parent Teens Find Hope And Help At Independence B) SHERIDAN HILL Chronicle Assistant Editor Being a pregnant teenager cm ? nes its own set of challenges: high schools are not set up to deal' with the special needs of a pregnant woman, from health problems to social situations and transportation needs. National statistics show that more than half of students who In an effort to turn that number back. Independence High School opened a day care center for chil dren of students last week. It is the first of its kind in the county. Northwest Child Development Center is contracted to run the facil ity, located on the Independence campus. Within two weeks of open ing, 17 children were signed up, and there is a waiting list for the remain ing seven slots. Only children under two years old are eligible. Most of the parents qualify for Aid to Families With Dependent Children, which pays for the day care. Wachovia Bank and Trust donated $15,000 to furnish the cen ter, which has brand new maple cribs and rocking chairs. Many of the parenting teens at Independence sign up for a class called Child Care I, which consists - of hands-on parenting experience in the day care center, taught by staff from Northwest Child Development Center. "The child care class is good experience," said Erica Hughley, a senior with two children who are in day care at another center. I'm picking up some good ideas." believes the day eare center will ? make a big difference in the lives of his students. "These are goocycids," he said. "They just got dealt a bad hand." Carver Principal Robert Clem mer, who has worked extensively with at-risk students, reiterated the need to help students with special needs succeed at every level. "With a pregnant teen, once the baby is born, if a grandmother or other family member can't k?ep the -child, chances are good that the stu dent will drop out," he said. "Preg nant girls are definately high-risk girls who, if we don't really pay attention to their needs, will drop out." Pregnant students who are enrolled in regular school may not find their teachers as accepting and Tlexibl^as those at Independence. If they are lucky, teachers will help them keep up with classwork while they are sick, and while they are recovering from delivery. Once the baby is born, finding and afford ing child care presents another prob lem. "It's a growing problem, j Clemmer said. "I would love to have a day care center on campus here. It's a pretty tough situation." If a girl at a regular high school becomes pregnant and prefers to enroll at Independence, transporta tion can be a disappointment. She Erica Hughley, p senior and the mother of two, holds the five-month-old son of senior Audi Craft. Pregnant and parenting students learn parenting skills in the day care center as part of a child care class. can take a bus from her home to her regular school, catch another bus to v the Career Center, and load a differ ent bus to Independence. The das care center at Indepen dence has a waiting list of students from Independence and from other schools w ho want to enroll them selves in school and their children in da> care there. Piggott in thrilled with the pro gram. Students slay in school, learn It would be too easy to suggest -that-vucli moral ambtgmty is the ? result of main of our pastors having become too active in partisan poli tics. i lui n giving approval of the church to the platform and policies*5 espoused b\ the extremists within such groups About the only thing many of our churches seem to be able to agree on toda\ is. that drugs are a r^enace. killing is bad. and White *4 t J J ' l I ' * I ? ? parenting skills they might not oth erwise be exposed to, and poten tially at-risk children receive proper care. But Clemmer poses a long-term question. "It's a first-class program. But are we taking care of the need in the system? We need to focus our atten tion on setting up that program in a regular school, too. One on this side of town.'* from page A 1 folks is still the devil. If we its a community cannot "*? turn to our churches for moral lead ership, to whom will we turn? To the government0 To White folks? If the leadership of our churches abdi cates on the fundamental issues of what is right and what is wrong, the church will find itself permanently anchored in lukewarm water, fit to be spewed out in the desert of irrele vance and shame. ( . . t Oil The Avant Garde marriages. taste? Coffee, tea, or milk? and waiting to be helped to under stand the morality of these modern day cultural issues. What about Sodom and Gomor rah? They ask, and wonder when these issues stopped being issues of morality. When did they become simply a matter of cultural differ ences, mayors of diversity and People are genuinely concerned with the whole issue of sex educa tion in our public schools. They are disturbed that schools want to dis tribute condoms but not Bibles. But the church has opted for the comfort of the middle ground, avoiding the prickly pears of chapc$, lest tjiey offend anyone. ~ Leaders Protest Firing Of Exec Roberts, former manager of Corporate Public Programs at Phillip Morris, has filed -a $5 mil lion suit against the company in Bronx Supreme Court charging dis crimination and a campaign of harassment after she had sought promotion to the company's Wash ington office she was fired Nov. 30. Expressing grave concern over the actions of Philip Morris was New York State Assemblyman Albert Vann, chairman of the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators Inc., "Allene Roberts is trusted by me and many other New York State legislators of both political par ties, fthe said. Philip Morris has been the beneficiary of the goodwill which she lias engendered." During her career with Philip , Morris. Roberts has developed and i directed constituency programs on - the national, state and local levels in support of the company's public policy and public affairs activities. Roberts has received,, several from page A 1 hundred awards for her work during her career at Philip Morris from many of the black politicafand business organizations. At the con ference of Black legislators, despite the knowledge of members that she had been dismissed by the com pany, Roberts was presented three awards and received a standing ova tion when she was introduced. from page A 1 drop out," Piggott said. "If we could get a group and lock into them, we could do a better job. Students Get One Last Chance student was so volatile that Piggott agreed to take him only if an aide were assigned to walk him from class to class. Some students live in home situations that are not con ducive to growth. "In a regular school, these kids would-be -tn the back of the class, not getting the attention they need," said Dan Piggott. "But here, they get personalized instruction. And that makes their behavior improve, because they're not as frustrated." Student enrollment fluctuates according to who drops out and who stays with the program, but cur rently 455 students are enrolled at Independence. At a school where attendance is the biggest problem, the goal is 70 percent. Last year, about 62 percent of students attended regularly. "They comc to us with very low self-esteem," said Leslie Britt, chairman of the English Depart ment. "The warmth and support of the teachers is critical." Piggott explains that discipline is a big part of the routine at Inde pendence. Students all wear an identification card, hanging from a cotton string around their necks. They sign in and out of class, and are allowed a "specific amount of time to travel from one class to another. "We keep a tight rope on them," Piggott said. "We are very conscientious about discipline, and we expect them to be responsible." Visitors are often surprised to find well-behaved students quietly on their own at IndepfiP dcnce. They arrive on time for class, sign in. and take their classroom work from a personalized education plan the teacher has prepared and left out for them. Eath student works at his or hCTOwn pace, based on reading level. "If the public really knew what we do, they'd be extremely pleased," Piggott sard; He is absolutely exuberant about this school. "People think students are throwing bricks out here. No way! It's much cfclmer here than in regu lar school." Most students suffer from poor reading skills. "We have many students who read on a sixth grade level, "Britt said. "But those who attend regu larly may go up three grade levels in one year." (Quotes from student who graduated and is now a junior at Wake Forest.) The average dropout rate in Forsyth County is about 7 percent. The dropout rate for Independence in 1989 was 27 percent. But that comparison may not be fair, given the at-risk student body at Indepen dence. One national' study showed that 53 percent of learning disabled students drop out. Piggott is quick to point out that the graduation rate at Indepen dence can't be computed accurate*} anyway, since students work at their own pace. Not all seniors are ready to graduate at the end of the school year. Juniors who complete course requirements in mid-year automah MMMkgttCt aren't North Carolina law allows stu dents to drop out when they turn 1 6, and main are inclined to do so. "Sometimes we get them turned on. Sometimes they just go ahead and * * * ^Valentine's Music f ? o ? r t ? h ? e 9~(eart & SouC featuring (Pa Jazz from Winston-Salem State University performing a Valentine Concert Under the Stars' in the starry dome of The SciWorks Planetarium Sunday, February 14, 1993 5:30 p.m. Tickets on sale now! ^ $5 - SciWorks members, $6 - non-members j w Call 767-6730 to reserve tickets . c 4(H) Hancs Mill Road ? Winsion-Salcm, NC 271 (>4 r
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