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Recruits of the city's police department are sworn in. AS Shooting Hoops City hosts fast-paced, East-West All-Star basketball tourney. B1 Winston-Salem C L ? t-i w nth mi (/ \ / / //?"?/< . .1 ; i .1 ? ii Months ? Shooting suspect released from prison in March By RICHARD L WILLIAMS Chromic U Manning Bditor A suspect in the shooting of 6-year-old Talonda Lanier was paroled earlier this year after serving only 3-1/2 months of a 20-year sentence, records show. Michael "Shane" Barber, 18, of 3801 S. Main St, was convicted on March 16, 1992, of receiving stolen goods and breaking and entering, both felonies, but was given a sus pended sentence and placed on probation, according to court records. He received a 10 year sentence on both counts. After violating his probation, Barber was sent to the West ern Youth Institution in Morganton in December. Because he was sentenced as a youthful offender ? he was 16 at the time ? Barber was automatically eligible for parole. "Based on the information we had, the parole board decided he would be granted youthful-offender status, making him imme diately eligible for parole, and he was granted it after serving approximately three and a half months," said Samuel Boyd, exec utive director of the state Parole Commis sion. Had Barber not been granted the spe cial status, he would not have been eligible for parole so quickly, Boyd said. "He proba- Tatonda Lanier bly would have Please see page A3 ?' ' ? r* ? 1 ?? 1 ?"?? '* Second Suspect Beaten By RICHARD I. WILLIAMS Ctawiicfo Managing Bditor after Arrest incarcerated, an official Shannon Wayne Huffman, who 6?y<nrH?l{l Talonda * *?'?* in a "senseless" act of .violence last month, was beaten by three Forsyth County Jail inmates a day after he was JEv ? '?Mm: zrr. The official, Ma]. MicMIW^ Schweitzer, the county's Director of Corrections, said Huffman was mtfei ' for his injuries at Forsyth Memorial p Hospital, although his injuries woe not ,h3p w mmtk NEWS WEEK NEWS AT A GLANCE . Smith Files for Alderman Norma T. Smith and Jocelyn Johnson, two politically active African Americans, want fio be alderman of the Bast ward. Smith, a computer coo* sultant at Winston-Salem State University, filed Complete story A3 Crossing 52 Initiative | Panelists at the third forum of People for Racial Rpcnorittatinn. apt of Ifae Oossing 32 MHativa. told mm than 300 people at Mt. Zion Baptist key to ending racism in the classroom. Hie panel, ?only comprised of educators, agreed that racism still exists in the school system, but they disagreed on the prevalence and effects of it. Cmpktt story A3 _ PolyGram Buys Motown LONDON (AP) ? The Dutch recording and entedainasMfioivrayOm aBoimosd that it will buy Motown Records Co., the world's leading black music label, far $301 million. PoIyGram NY, which is majority-owned by Dutch Philips Hecteonics NY, said the purchase agreement will cover Motown's current roster of more than 30 artists, including Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder. Compk* story A14 Crisis Control Ministries Velma Tyrance joined Crisis Control Ministries to make a difference. Pbr years, she had been nwihfed in socfcl work p New Yak City, bus she now enjoys the slower pace. She recently joined Cri sis Control as the director oif services. Complete story A6 Color Barrier In 1954, while black Americans celebrated the If## ***** v Board of Education decision, area blacks had an additional history-maker to cele brate. Seven years ate Jackie Robinsda broke the | color barrier in major league baseball, a Wbot-5, modest ftst baseman from Greensboro became the firstbiack to play far the St. Louis GMdfaals. CompUu story A4 .xv'-' i'JL - WHERE TO FIND IT Classirsds B9 Community News A4 Editorials A12 Entertainment CI Ohtuaiubs C7 Religion C8 Spam s?.?istBl ' Tftts W mm* Iff Blacx Hrsromr On Anguel I, J 940, Benjamin E. Mo ye, "the groate* echoobmeter of hie generation," woe named president efMorehome College. ? District Court Judge Lorettt Biggs, ?wed by the pretence of tome of the world's most treasured celebri ties at the opening-night gala of ti W< , National Black Theatre Festival, slpod by id entnmce of the (hf ban** quet Hail ^ the Benton Convention Center-after the event with a closer ID the door who car a pen and pad. "And she's get-1 BHK|0|fQpii.n And so it went for at least I No doubt the may others - the im!- *?? ? ?iilinnili>il 1 1 Df\ mami Hi WOl wBnUW II I^W WUw i>me ways affected, changed, by Black Repetiory Co., was notables. Most of them laiew each other and had woifcetf with and had] bfen inspired by each other, Lloyd Richards, the theatrical director, perhaps best known for ffeectiag all of August Wilson's Trains Running") /received flie festi val's director award. Wilson. Lonnie Elder QI. Ron Milner and Ntozaka Shangc were some of the writers who receiiw awards and/or spoke. Singer and actress Delia Reese, who saves as the festival's eo-chair with Harry BeSafoate, talked aboat how (Heads returning from the last feuival in tSU.Uum) JllJUitii BySABRINA JONBS Chronicle Staff Writer Downtown Winstoo-SaJcm is considerably live eruus wooKi . - Thanks to the National Black Theatre Festival, ?lutes ami ont-of- to wn crs from across the nation i$on the usually calm city turned a mature nouywood* "We're full," said Lam Tale, a front-desk clcrk at to Adam'sMark Hotel, formerly the Stouffer's, the official headquarters for the festival. "It keeps us ii?? It is fatimaiffd that well over wiB attend this year's event . "I didn't expect to see so man voeooie/said an m&mKn Caiter oftUchmond, Vlu TWsis the firet time that the music composer for the pby "The Black*" las been to the HaM lh arid that while he was waiting from the hotel, be qMtted Delta fUSse. .^ ' ' I8OB0IIH?! DPQplO 8(9 ftOiflft to DC IJCfCf ; Educators Dismayed over Expulsion Rates ^ Minorities account for 72% of suspensions f HIQH SCHOOL SUSPENSIONS By MARK R. MOSS CkronicU Staff Writer Nearly three-fourths of the students recommended for expulsion from the city/county school system the pest scool year were African American, and over half fif thoae were young men, year-end figures show. The overall figure of 646 expulsion recommenda tions represents an 18 percent increase over the 1991 92 figure of 549, according to information released by the school system's Department of Administration. A breakdown by school shows that the highest number of students - 68 - recommended for expulsion was at North Forsyth High School. The middle school that recommended the most for expulsion - 30 - was Paisley Middle School. The highest number for a high school was actually Independence High - an optional facility for the student expelled from mainstream classes. But once recommended for expulsion from Please tee page A3 E TO SUBSCRIBE CALL 919-722-8624
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