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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 14. 1993
* Power c onccchw nothing w ithout a struggle." ? Frederick Douglass
VOL XX. No /
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Photo by Mark R. Moss
The children and staff members of the Shilohian/St. Peter's Child Care Center enjoy a balmy Saturday
morning , as they ride a float in Winston-Salem State University's homecoming parade. (Story page A6 )
NEWS WEEK
NEWS AT A GLANCE
^illPjHshing the Arts
'?"^Swwel Morgan, a renowned black classical
music conductor, held two performances with the
Winston-Salem Symphony this week and spent
several hours talking to ftodfcms at area schools. ' - '
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Homecoming Parade '
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Eric Brown, 8, and Mamie Waiters, 88, may
have some generational differences, but that doesn't
mean they cant enjoy a common experience.
Complete story A6
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Pastor, ActivisiMfrfioredi
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A crowd of politicians, businessmen and com
munity activists comprising nearly 350 people met
at the Anderson Center Saturday evening to pay
tribute to the Rev. John Mendez for 10 years of ser
vice at Emmanuel Baptist Church, ' - v
Complete story A4
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Ted Danson's Defense
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NEW YORK (A! Danson's finally
and sexually provocative remarks at a Friars Club
roast of his girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg were
"made in the tone and tenor" of the group's tradi
tional dinners, the club's leader said Monday.
Complete story At4
Nobel Prize Winner
NEW YORK (AP) ~ The greatness of Toni
Morrison can be summed up by a few words she
offered at a reading last year. "I never write about
anything/' she said, "that I've already made up my
mind about** ^ ; %
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WHERE TO FIND IT
Business B9
Classifieds Bll
Community News A4
Editorials A 12
Entertainment BIO
Obituaries B7
Religion B6
Sre*" B1
This Week In Buck History
On October 14, 1964, at age 35, Martin Luther King Jr became the
youngest man ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Brown, Marshall 'Damn
Near Shut Down3 Board
A Black members angrily walk out of board meeting
By RICHARD L. WILLIAMS
and MARK R. MOSS ?
Chronicle Staff Writers
Whatever happened at last
week's city/county school board
meeting that was egregious enough
for the board's two African-Ameri
can members to angrily walk out is
being kept mighty quiet
Walter Marshall and Geneva
Brown got up while the board was
in executive session at its Oct. 7
meeting and abruptly walked out
the door. The board returned to the
main meeting room two members
short and went through the formal
ity of calling for an adjournment of
the meeting.
Because what happened
occurred in executive session --the
part of the meeting that is conducted
behind closed doors ? neither Mar
shall nor Brown would disclose
what upset them. But both said the
issue was race-related and person
nel-related.
"All 1 will say is I felt the
nature of the matter was racist, and I
felt the integrity of the executive
session was violated," Marshall
said. "1 don't know why the issue
Please see page A3
Walter Marshall
AT&T Places Ads In Black Newspapers
A Newspaper executives refuse to be bought off by one AT&T advertisement
By DAVID L. DILLARD
ChromcU Sttff Writer
Black newspapers across the country
will feature a full-page advertisement
from American Telephone and Telegraph
this week. But black newspaper execu
tives say they are not satisfied.
Robert Bogle, president of the
? National Newspaper Publishers Associa
tion, a trade association for more than
200 black newspapers, said he has not
met with AT&T Chairman and CEO
Robert R Allen and that NNPA will not
be bought off with one ad.
"We're not interested in just one ad,"
Bogle said this week in an interview. "I
hope they don't think they can buy one ad
and please us."
Bogle said he has written a letter to
Allen to arrange a meeting.
The ad, far from an apology for a
racist illustration that ran in the compa
ny's magazine last month, is about cre
ativity and shows a black father with his
son. :
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People has
demanded that AT&T apologize to the
black community. According to AT&T
spokesman Burke Stinson, company offi
cials have discussed issuing an apology
through ads to be run in black newspa
pers, but as of yet AT&T has not agreed
to do so.
Stinson said this week's ad is not an
apology, but "a regular corporate ad." He
feels the company will make a public
apology and probably increase advertis
ing with black newspapers.
"Various organizations have urged
AT&T to (apologize) and plans are afoot ?
to do just that," Stinson said "Based on
our record with minorities, and particu
larly African Americans, (advertising in >
black newspapers) seems a smart thing to
do."
According to Amalgamated Publish
:rs Inc, a national advertising agency for
black newspapers, AT&T spent $90 mil
lion on ads in newspapers last year, but
only $24,000 with black newspapers
through API.
Michael A. House, API's president,
said AT&T has done advertising with
black newspapers locally, but on a
national basis the company spent less
year.
"The papers are not looking to be
bought off (on a) one-shot deal," House
said. "We're trying to establish an ongo
Please see page A3
Edelman: America's
Youths Need Our Help
By DAVID L. DILLARD
Chronicle Staff Writer
Coming to the aid of America s chil
dren must not be a "spectator sport,"
Marian Wright Edelman, president of the
Children's Defense Fund, said.
Wright was feature speaker at a wor
ship service commemorating 25 years of
community service by the Downtown
Church Center and 20 years of service by
the Crisis Control Ministry.
During her brief but powerful
address, Edelman challenged the con
sciousness of the thousand in attendance
and urged them to commit to causing
change and not just be interested in it
"Helping children is not a spectator
sport," she said. "We must renew our
commitment to build a strong society."
Known for her work with civil rights
cases in Mississippi, Edelman said the
new movement today is centered around
fighting for the rights of children.
' "There is too much senseless killing
of innocent children, and we are standing
Please see page A3
Photo by David L. Dillard
Marian Wright Edelman (2nd from left ) delivered a speech at Wait Chapel
Number of City's Black Department Heads
Compares Favorably With Other N.C. Cities
By MARK R. MOSS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Winston-Salem compares favorably
to other North Carolina cities when it
comes to the number of African-Ameri
cans heading municipal departments,
records show.
City officials will release a federal
Equal Employment Opportunity Com
mission report next week that will give
overall numbers for city employment
the complete data before the Board of
Aldermen has had a chance to review it
The report, in part, will reveal that
Winston-Salem has done a fair job at
placing African Americans at key man
agement positions. Of the city's 40
administrators, 14, or 35 percent, are
black. The city's total work force is
2,270.
As of July 1, the city's population
stood at approximately 162,000, with 37
percent, or about 60,000, being African
American.
Bruce Farrington, a city personnel
analyst, explained that the city's defini
tion of an administrator lumps together
department managers, assistant city man
agers and section heads.
A1 Beaty, the assistant city manager
and the highest-ranking black in city
government, said that the city is more
interested in comparing us against our
selves" than comparing the city's num
Climbinp thi? Mjmirip.1 j ^fViT
No. of Black
City Dcpts. Dipt Hudi
Winttpn-Silen? 40. 14
Dudum 20 8
Qwenshore i? 3
Raleigh LZ 1
?Winston-Salem"! definition of depHHiem dif
fers from those of the other cities.
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