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Winston-Salem Chronicle B^R18, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1993 "Power concedes nothing without </ struggle." ? Frederick Douglass VOL. XX, No. 12 Police Search Procedure Comes Under Scrutiny A . A Officer was killed after he kicked door in By RICHARD L. WILLIAMS Chronicle Executive Editor A week after Paul Eugene Lyons was convicted in a Forsyth County courtroom of killing Officer Bobby Beane, police methods of apprehending African-Ameri can suspects have come undo1 scrutiny. "I contend that what promoted the violence was going to that house and kicking that door in, which ? in my estimation ? has been a pattern in the African American community," said Virginia K. Newell, a 16 year alderman whose fourth Consecutive term expired this week. "I don't know whether it's police using unwise judgement or the administration issuing bad advice on how to apprehend criminals." Lyons, 39, is black.. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday after a jury was deadlocked 8-4 favoring the death penalty. He shot and killed Beane after police knocked down his door during an April 23 drug raid. Lyons, whose apartment at 540-C Kennerly St., had been broken into before, maintained that he thought he Please see page A8 Coping With Violence] With Violence All Around, Many Children are Living in Fear ^ 2 more killed over weekend By DAVID L. DfLLARD Chronicle Staff Writer Latasha McCall thinks about death all the time. She doesn't live in constant fear of dying, but admits that her lifestyle makes the possibility of death more prevalent. "I think about it lots of times," said McCall, a' 16-year-old student at Parkland High School. "M6st of the people I hang around are violent peo ple. They like to be around drugs and guns." McCall said her friends don't intend to hurt anyone, they simply enjoy the thrill of living on the edge. Last week, the Chronicle went to two of the teen-agers' and pre -ten - agers' favorite hangouts ? recreation centers and the mall ? and talked Please see page A3 Sean Sprinkle (left) and Ron Braham play basketball to avoid violence. ? More weapons found in schools By DAVID L. DILLARD Chronicle Staff Writer Schools in the city /county system have reported an increase in the number of weapons found on campus since January 1993 than in the previ ous year. According to Sgt. Jimmy Burton, the school liason officer with the Forsyth County Sheriffs Department, deputies from the various schools have reported a total of 64 weapons found since January 1993. Burton doubts that more weapons art being brought to school. He said the reason for more weapons being found is due to the officers being more alert and that students are beginning to report to them. "The students are letting the officers know that somebody has a Please see page A3 ' <9 Chavis Urges Non- Violence in Visit to Gity NEWS WEEK NEWS AT A GLANCE I By MARK R. MOSS . Chronicle Staff Writer The schedule of the NAACFs executive director when he visited Winston-Salem last week said a lot about the direction he would like to see the country take. The Rev. Benjamin S. Chavis, the cele brated civil rights leader who became head of the nation's oldest civil rights organization in April, first held a tete-a-tete with executives of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. when he vis ited the city last week. He then spent a better part of the rest of his day visiting at the Chronicle and the Winston-Salem Housing Authority. Chavis capped off his day by visiting the Happy Hill Mart convenience store and the Sims Center, where he shook hands with the 20 or so African-American children from the Happy Hill Gardens community. When he addressed the crowd that had gathered in the recreational center s gymna sium, he applauded the grass-roots efforts of the officials of the recreational centeT and the convenience store. But he also called on cor porate America to do it's share in helping to right "economic inequality." "Peace is not the absence of violence; peace is the presence of justice ? economic justice," Chavis said. There must be a "stronger alliance" between such companies as Reynolds and the community, he said. There won't be any racial justice until there is economic justice, he added. "(Chavis) was real impressed with what he saw," said Winston-Salem NAACP presi dent Bill Tatum, who accompanied Chavis on his travels through the city Nov. 10. Chavis' visit with Reynolds executives Please see page A3 iUHWBH WHERE TO FIND IT Business B8 Classifieds B1 1 Community News A4 Editorials A12 Arts/Entertainment B6 Obttu ARIES BIO Religion B9 Sports B1 Tuts Week In Black Hnrrony On Nov., 14. 1915, Booker T Washington, educator and writer, dies. The Rev. Ben Chavis (center)fyith Bill Tatum (I) and CUfton Graves. With Black Jesus, Play Looks at Racism in Church A " Color Blind ' opens this Saturday at Knollwood Baptist Church By DAVID L. DILLARD Chronicle Staff Writer Are you dreaming of a white Christ mas or are visions of a black baby Jesus (lancing through your head? A play entitled "Color Blind", per formed by a racially mixed cast of actors from the Pilot Mountain Baptist Church Association and New Bethel Baptist Church in East Winston, challenges the perception of Jesus' color and the atti tudes of some churches. Knollwood Baptist Church, a local white congregation, is presenting the play where a fictional white church is waiting for its new design of a stain-glass window. They hired a black artist who, unbeknownst to the church, paints a black Madonna and black baby Jesus. Louise W. Noffsinger, author of the play, said it was written to spark discus sion about racial divisiveness in society. "We felt that not much is being done," she said. "Schools are worse than they were when integration first started. We need to have more informal dia logues because society is going down hill/' The play "Color Blind" is based on "The Legend of the Black Madonna," a Christmas story written by Margaret T. Applegarth. Noffsinger was so impressed that she decided to re-write the story as a play and has performed it at churches three times since 1986. Boyce Wilson, who plays Steve Burton, the chairman of the church com mittee that hired the artist, describes the church as an "uppity, white congrega tion," and "when the painting was unveiled at the church their bitterness comes out." Please see page A3 TO SUBSCRIBE CALL 919-722-8624
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