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Pre-MLK Day event pushes peace
?gY T KEVIN WALKER
| JHE CHRONICLE
In 1962. Marjorie Gregory was a stu
dent at N.C. Central University, and like
many of her classmates, the Massachu
setts native was often engaged in acts of
civil aisooeai- _
ence aimed at I
changing the I
segregationist I
times.
During one I
demonstration in I
Durham. Grego
iy ? U|J>Cl vy
Ugly words that were being hurled at her
and other demonstrators - broke down in
tears. A man she did not immediately
recognize grabbed her by the shoulders
and told her something she has never
forgotten.
"He said, 'Young lady, put your head
up, your shoulders back and let all the
ugly things people say about you roll
down your back," Gregory recalled last
Friday at an anti-violence forum held in
the heart of the Happy Hill community.
Gregory says she has taken those
words to heart and put them to practice
many times over the last four decades.
The man who
gave her that
treasured advice
was the Rev. Mar
tin Luther King Jr.
With the
national holiday to
honor King near.
organizers or the
anti-violence forum relied heavily on
King's words and vision at the event,
which was staged at the Sims Recreation
Center for a crowd of about 100, many
of whom were not even born when the
King holiday became reality in the
Branden Thomas looks over the program for last's anti-violence
See Forum on A5 forum held at the Sims Recreation Center.
Report
creates
undue
smoke,
some say
Black lawmakers
question why they
failed group's
financial litmus test
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Several African-American
state legislators say a cam
paign finance report card
recently released by a non
profit watchdog organization
puts them in the worst possi
ble light, creating smoke
where they say there is no
fire.
Democracy North Caroli
na - a 6-year-old nonprofit
group, which, according to
its mission statement, strives
to right
society's
social
and eco
nomic
i n j u s -
tices by
focusing
on the.
issue of
finances
in poii
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regularly releases report
cards, grading legislators on
various aspects of their cam
paign financial reports.
According to the most
recent report cards handed
out by the group - which
were released on Dec. 30 and
looked at legislators' third
quarter disclosure reports -
many African-Americans in
the General Assembly need
extra tutoring on how to file
their reports. All seven of the
black legislators initially
graded received failing
grades, ^eluding Rep. Larry
Womble.
"It gives the impression
that the organization is sin
gling out African-Ameri
cans," said Wortihle. who got
an F. "I don't know whether
that is true or not. But if it is
not true, they need to explain
that."
WOmoiC iCLCivcu a inning
grade, according to the
report, because his report was
"weeks late." Black legisla
tors Rep. Thomas Wright (D
Wilmington) and Rep. Larry
Shaw (D-Fayetteville) also
See Lawmakers "n A4
Womble
Photos h> Kevin Walker
Jay Carlton stands
in front of a mural
he helped to cre
ate at the Down
town Elementary
School. The wall
he is standing in
front of was once
barren and dull.
Carlton, a lifelong
artist, volunteered
his time to paint
a series of insects
on the wall.
In Color
Local budding artist
finds peace of mind
through painting
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Jay Carlton is a tall,
quiet, unassuming man
who practices modesty as if
it were a sport. ?'
Carlton is one the city's
budding artists.
You won't find his col
orful paintings in swank
galleries, at least not yet.
Carlton is slowly making a
name for himself through
murals he has painted.
His ability to transform
dull, lifeless walls into life
like works of art is a 2L
that he has honed for most
q/his life. That talent is on
/display each Sunday for
parishioners at Mount Nebo
Holiness Church. Carlton,
who is a devout member of
First Waughtown Baptist
Church, painted an Afro- ?
centric version of the Last
Supper on the wall of Mt.
Nebo's basement. His
attention to detail is evident
in the faces of those around
the table, especially in the
face of Judas.
"I made his eyes so that
wherever you stand in the
room, he is looking straight
at you." Carlton said, as he
moved his hands like a
paintbrush around the fig
ure of Judas.
Much of Carlton's" work
centers around biblical
themes. He is working on a
pictorial series based on the
story of Noah's ark.
Recently. Carlton, a
1980 graduate of Winston
Salem State University, and
fellow local artist Deborah
See Carlton on A10
Carlton points to the image of Judas in this wall paint
ing he did of The Last Supper.
Another eatery hoping for
success on New Walkertown
BY COURTNEY GAILLARD
I HI CHRONICU
A section of Winston
Salem that once dreamed of
a K&W-style cafeteria will
be home to thetjjty's latest
Church's chicken franchise.
A Church's restaurant is set
to open next month on New
Walkertown Road and is
promising to give customers
the best deal in town for
chicken.
While two Church's
Chicken restaurants are
located on Patterson Avenue
and Waughtown Street, this
brand new restaurant is
owned and operated by
Manna Foods, a newly
formed Christian-based
company out of Greensboro
that owns fast food restau
rants like Church's Chicken
and Steak n Shake. Manna
Foods also runs several
other Church's Chicken
restaurants around the Triad
in High Point and Greens
boro.
Church's Chicken,
known for its Southern-style
chicken and specialty sides
menu, began in San Anto
nio, Texas, back in 1952.
"We have a great prod
uct. Our chicken is really
second to none. We give it at
a great value price, and it's
great food for less money at
Church's Chicken," said
Robert Vaughn, vice presi
dent of operations for
Manna Foods. "That's the
biggest ..distinction: People
who haven't tried Church's
Chicken lately don't realize ,
See Restaurant on A9 i
Johnson
Photo by Courtney Gaillard
This New Walkertown Road building has housed several eateries over
the years. It will be the new home for a Church's Chicken franchise.
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Efforts to
reach black
donors will
increase
African-Americans are often
in need of organs, but rarely
do they sign up as donors
BY COURTNEY GAILLARD
THE CHRONICLE __
Only 25 percent of all organ donors are
minorities, and that doesn't match up with
the nearly half of minorities who are on the
national waitina list for orean transDlants.
While race is not a barrier nor a criterion for
organ placement, it does increase the
chances of a patient receiving a transplant if
the organ comes from a donor of the same
race.
Carolina Donor
Services (CDS) has
created an African
American Outreach
Task Force to reach
people of color with
life-saving informa
tion about organ and
tissue donation.
Through a grassroots
campaign led by
Richard L. Williams.
who has been appointed chair of the task
force, the group aims to educate the black
community about the critical need for
organs and tissues.
Williams is a former newspaper reporter
who now heads his own public relations and
advertising firm,
CDS, a federally-designated organ and
tissue agency for 79 counties of North Car
olina. seeks to save 'and improve lives
through organ and tissue donation.
Williams has learned firsthand just how
important organ donation is to saving a life.
i.,.? in
years, two members
of his family have
passed away while
awaiting organ trans
plants.
"It's been very
educational for
me., when I learned
about the rate of
African-Americans
who are on the trans
plant waiting list and
al&n the far! fhat vprv
cans or minorities are even on (he donor list.
I started thinking back to the personal expe
riences I had related to organ and tissue
donations." said Williams, who has organ
ized a group of people to serve on the
African-American Outreach Task Force
from around the state, including Rep. Larry
Womble and Carmen Carruth. a local
woman whose young son recently received
a kidney transplant.
The United Network for Organ Sharing y-y
(UNOS) reported that out of the 56,006
patients on the waiting list for organ trans
plants in the year 2002, 1,799 were patients
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