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Stockholders concerned about project's inaction
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The weather-beaten sign for the Eastside Cafeteria has been up for two years now. But
signs of progress around the sign have been non-existent.
Officials have spent
hundreds of thousands,
but land for building
has not been purchased
BY SHERIDAN HILL
THE CHRONICLE
Shareholders who invested from $10 to $3,000 to
help build a family-style cafeteria in East Winston are
asking for a detailed explanation of how the sponsor
ing organization has spent $364,000. When the East
Winston Community Development Corp. board of
directors met Tuesday night. CDC President James
Grace agreed to call a stockholder meeting in July to
address concerns.
At least 700 people, many of whom who live in
East Winston, invested a total of $169,100 in David
Capital, a for-profit corporation established in 1998
by the East Winston CDC to spearhead the cafeteria
project. When two years went by without any con
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Book
confirms
blacks'
suspicions
BY MELDE RUTLEDGE
I HE < HRONICLE
The economic clout of African
Americans
continues to
rise in the con
sumer market.
In 2000 alone,
$650 billion
was spent by
African
American
buyers and
$1.3 trillion is
projected for
2001, accord
fl
Williams
ing to black
network.com.
Yet. investigators are finding that
African-American consumers feel
that they are still being treated differ
ently than white buyers.
According to Jerome D.
Williams, an associate professor of
marketing at Penn Stujp University
and co-author of "Marketing and
Consumer Identity in Multicultural
America." consumer discrimination
in the marketplace is very much alive.
He dubs it "consumer racial profil
ing."
Greater scrutiny of African Amer
icans in department stores by security
guards, requiring more forms of iden
tification than usual to cash checks at
banks or having to prepay at gas sta
tions before pumping can all be
examples of consumer racial profil
ing.
Williams took part in a survey of
1.000 households across the country
to leam about discrimination in the
marketplace and found that 86 per
cent of the African Americans ques
tioned disagreed that all customers
are treated the same in retail stores
without regard to their race. Only 34
percent of whites disagreed.
In the book. Williams recalled his
children being subject to consumer
racial profiling when his two daugh
ters were stopped in the mall by secu
rity. who claimed that the girls were
wearing stolen shirts which were
actually purchased by Williams' wife
just days before.
"The assumption is that more of
the theft and more of the shoplifting
may be by African Americans and
Hispanics. If the white shoppers
aren't being stopped at the same rate,
you're not even catching those white
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loo Tempting
Photo by Bruce Chapman
Greensboro resident Kurtis Brandenburg could not resist an invitation from Temptation member
Ron Tyson to sing a few bars of the group's classic "My Girl." The Temptations were in Winston
Salem last week for a concert date with The Whispers. Brandenburg was among the thousands
of Triad folks who came to the Joel Coliseum for the concert.
Former soap star making
NBTF debut in 'hot' play
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONIC l
Mariann Aalda's big break came
more than two
decades ago when
she was east in a
New York play
beside Ruby Dee
and Ossie Davis,
two of her idols.
Today. Aalda keenly remembers
the play, not because it was the begin
ning of a steady flow of stage, televi
sion and film work for her. but because
of what she learned from the two
show-biz veterans.
"The play was called 'Take it From
the Top."... Ruby and Ossie created the
play." Aalda said last week by phone
from her Southern California home.
"They shovded me that if a job is not
being offered to you. you have to go
out there and create something for
yourself."
It s advice that Aalda has taken to
heart and has never forgotten. When
she's been told that she's too this or too
that by casting agents. Aalda has relied
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utive juices to keep
her husy in
between sitcom
and movie gigs.
She's worked
as an acting coach,
written and pitched ideas for television
series and has just wrapped a motiva
tional book that she plans to publish
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Pluses & Minuses
Revenues
dept. of Health and Human Services Grant $250,000.
Stockholders Investment $169,100*;
Interest $ 15,20Q:
Total Income $434,300;
Expenses :
v,
Project Consultant $144,300;
Marketing, Advertising, Promotion $ 35.30GC
Public Relations and Printing $ 23,80ff
Professional Services $147,600;
Administrative Services $ 13,600
Total Expenses $364,600
Revenue/Expenses Balance $ 69,700
* Figures given to stockholders in March 2001
Photo by Kevin Walker
Assistant Police Chief Pat McCoy, far left, and Capt. Teresa Hicks talk
to Southside residents after the nev/s conference.
Alderman tired of
area being unfairly
judged by outsiders
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
lilt CHRPN1CU
Organizers knew that a profes
sion of hearses and caskets on curb
sides would draw quick and imme
diate attention. That was the main
motivation behind the Funeral
Directors and Morticians Associa
tion of North Carolina's eery
motorcade in the city two weeks
ago.
Following jn the footsteps of a
similar events staged in other North
Carolina cities, organizers wanted
to shoW locals - up close and per
sonal - the tragic consequences of
violence.
But a week after the event,
some in the city's Southside
stepped forward to say that they
believe the motorcade may have
done more
harm than f
good, espe- I]
cially as it fj
relates to |
their commu- I
nity's fledg- p
ling image.
" M y I
problem with I
the motor- I
cade is that
instead of
Terry
focusing on
crime, it should have tried to show
young people a better way," said
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Photo courtesy of Mariann Aalda
Mariann Aalda, right, with Delia Reese, her "Royal Family" co-star,
at a recent birthday celebration for Reese.
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