Film to tell Nelson Mandela's story
(Special to the NNPA) - Hollywood star Morgan Freeman
will star in a new $40 million movie about the life of Nelson Man
dela. who helped lead South Africa out of the bonds of apartheid.
oaseu on iviunucia s auiooiograpny,
"Long Walk to Freedom." the movie will be
produced by South African Anant Singh,
and directed by Indian film-maker Shekar
Kapur.
Initially Kapur turned down the project
but later accepted after visiting South
Africa. "Somebody had to take the respon
sibility, Kapur said.
'He (Mandela) is a
spiritual hero like
Gandhi. He does not
need to fight a
bloody battle to
win.
The movie will span Mandela's highly
eventful life: his childhood and tribal
upbringing, his youth spent working as a
law clerk, his political awakening and role
in the African National Congress (ANC),
his 27 years in prison, his eventual release
and role in ending the oppression of South Africa's blacks (for
which he won the Nobel Peace Prize), his five-year term as presi
dent, his ongoing work as an advocate for peace and freedom.
Producer Anant Singh says that he will be casting South
African as well as international actors for the film, which will start
production later this year, and should be released in late 2004.
Mandela
Freeman
Princeton University to end program for
minority students over fear of a lawsuit
TRENTON, NJ. (AP) - Princeton University will stop offering
a summer enrichment program for minority students because of con
cerns that it could be targeted in an affirmative action lawsuit.
Administrators of the Woodrow Wilson School Junior Summer
Institute made the decision earlier this week after Princeton's lawyers
determined the program's race-based admissions policy could not be
defended in court. The decision was announced last Thursday.
The decision does not mean Princeton is against affirmative
action, and the university has found no problems with its other pro
grams, said Robert Durkee. the university's vice president for com
munications.
The university will go ahead with this year's program because 30
students are already enrolled. School officials then will wait for the
Supreme Court |o rule on the University of Michigan's affirmative
action policy to see whether the program could continue if its admis
sions criteria were changed.
The Ford Foundation and other private groups initially funded the
seven-week program when it was started in 1985, but the foundation
withdrew its support five years ago after becoming concerned about
the program's legal status.
Since then, the university has funded the program, which encour
ages black and Hispanic undergraduates to pursue graduate work in
public policy and international affairs.
University officials said a group that opposes affirmative action
had contacted them w ithin the past year and raised questions about the
program. They would not identify the group, but Roger Clegg of the
Virginia-based Center for Equal Opportunity said his group and the
American Civil Rights Institute had made inquiries.
Virginia picks first black chief justice
(Special to the NNPA) - The Virginia Legislature will
elect Leroy Hassell to become the 24th chief justice of the Vir
ginia Supreme Court, its first black chief justice.
Hassell will become one of only four black chief justices
nationwide. The other jurists serve in Maryland; Washington,
D.C.; and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
A native of Norfolk. Hassell graduated from the Universi
ty of Virginia with honors in 1977 and earned his juris doctor
ate degree from Harvard Law School in 1980. A former part
ner of a prestigious law firm in Richmond, Hassell was
appointed to the Supreme Court of Virginia in December 1989
at age 34.
"The first time I met him he told me he was going to Har
vard Law School." friend and University of Virginia classmate
George Martin told reporters. "He hadn't been to one class yet
his first year of college, and I met him in a dorm and that was
the first thing he said."
Hassell was second-in-line to succeed Harry L. Carrico as
chief justice. However, Virginia replaced the seniority system
with procedures for the justices to elect their top administra
tor. Hassell will serve a term of four years.
National Underground Railroad Freedom
Center gets $6 million in donations
WASHINGTON (AP) - Black Entertainment Television
founder Robert L. Johnson and former Procter &' Gamble chair
man Johji Pepper are donating $3 million
eacn to the National Underground Kail
road Freedom Center in Cincinnati.
These are the largest donations made
so far. bringing the total raised for the
$110 million center to more than $90 mil
lion. officials said.
The center, an affiliate program of the
Smithsonian Institution, is expected to
open by July 2004.
Pepper and former U.N. Ambassador
Andrew Young are chairmen of a fund
raising campaign for the center. Pepper
earlier had donated S8(K),(XX) for lobbying
for the center in Washington.
Two of the center's three pavilions will be named after the
Johnson and Pepper families. Spencer Crew, the center's exec
utive director, said last week.
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Inmates with HIV having unsafe sex
Many former inmates
have unprotected sex
after release, a new
university study finds
MM i I \l l<> IH1 ( kHQNK 1 \
CHAPEL HILL - A new
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill School of Medicine
study finds that inmates infected
with HIV, the virus that causes
AIDS, engaged in unprotected
sex both before imprisonment
and after their release at "exceed
ingly high rates.
Seventy-eight percent of N.C.
men and women prisoners carry
ing the virus who had a main sex
partner reported unprotected sex
with that person in the year before
they were locked up. the study
showed. Twenty-six percent of
them interviewed again soon after
release admitted to already hav
ing sex without condoms with
their main sex partners.
For about half the subjects,
the time between regaining their
freedom and having sex averaged
fewer than nine days and ranged
from one hour to 31 days. Two
thirds of inmates had at least one
other sex partner before imprison
ment, and of those w ith multiple
partners, the average number was
eight, researchers found.
Given their current sexual
behavior. 29 percent of former
inmates felt it was "very" or
"somewhat" likely that they
would infect their HIV-negative
main sex partner. It was not clear
why that did not change their
behavior or why others did not
think they could pass on the dis
ease.
"This clearly should be a
wake up call for public health
experts, physicians, prison offi
cials and others concerned about
reducing the spread of HIV," said
Dr. David A. Wohl, assistant pro
fessor of medicine at UNC and an
infectious disease expert.
In their study, which ran from
May 2001 to the present. UNC
researchers enrolled and inter
viewed inmates from larger facil
ities across North Carolina,
including Central Prison, about
their behaviors before being
locked up. Investigators have so
far reached 75 of them again via
telephone after their release and
asked comparable questions. Two
interviewed earlier already had
died of HIV-related illnesses, and
five were locked up again before
the second interview.
Subjects ranged in age from
18 to 55 and averaged 36 years
old. Fifty-seven percent were
women. 74 percent were black, 4
percent were Native American
and 83 percent described them
selves as heterosexual. Half had
at least a high school education.
About two-thirds of former
inmates with multiple partners
reported having at least one part
ner before going to prison who
did not have the vims yet.
Just over 3 percent of the U.S.
population - 6.5 million people -
were in some fomi of correction
al custody nationwide in 2002.
according to Bureau of Justice
statistics. Of those in prisons and
jails, between 35,000 and 47,000
were HIV-infected, which was
more than 10 times the preva
lence of HIV among those not
incarcerated. The vast majority
were infected outside prison, not
inside. Wohl said.
A recent study led by Dr.
Adaora Adimora, assistant pro
fessor of medicine at UNC, of
244 black men and women with
and without HIV showed that
HIV-positive men were six times
more likely than HIV-negative
men to have had a sex partner
who had been incarcerated in the
previous year. Wohl said. HIV
positive women were four times
more likely than others to have
had a partner who had been
locked up in the past year.
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Inmates leaving prison could be spreading the HIV virus to the general population.
Sanford apologizes for 1968 massacre
BY JIM DAVENPORT
Mil ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Gov.
Mark Sanford formally apolo
gized Saturday for state troopers
gunning down three civil rights
protesters shortly after a memo
rial on the 35th anniversary of
what has become known as the
Orangeburg massacre.
"I think it's appropriate to
tell the African-American com
munity in South Carolina that
we don't just regret what hap
pened in Orangeburg 35 years
ago - we apologize for it." San
ford said
in a state
ment.
S a n -
ford's
apology
caught
civil
rights
leaders
by sur
prise.
"Well, I'm glad that we have
someont that recognizes that
this was a massacre, and it's
long overdue," said James Gall
man, president of the state's
chapter of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People.
t "We seem to have a gover
nor who is ready to step up to
the plate and make amends for
some of the atrocities of our pre
vious leadership." Gallman
said.
"It's good that the governor
shows the kind of courage,
^respect that he has shown for
what has been a very difficult
situation." said Lonnie Ran
dolph, the NAACP's state pro
gram director. "It's now possi
ble healing will take place that
hasn't taken place over the
years." he said.
At a memorial service two
years ago, former Gov. Jim
Hodges said the people of the
state "deeply regret" the inci
dent. but a spokesman stressed
that wasn't an apology.
Sen. Kay Patterson. D
Columbia, said he didn't see
much - difference between
Hodges' expression of regret
and Sanford's apology. "That's
kind of splitting hairs." he said.
Still, it shows an effort "to
try to heal the state and bring the
state together." Patterson said.
The incident started on Feb.
8, 1968. when protesters
marched back to South Carolina
State University's campus from
an Orangeburg bowling alley
where blacks were banned.
The men gathered near a
bonfire when a platoon of white
highway patrolmen opened fire.
The shots killed 20-year-old
Henry Smith and 19-year-old
Samuel Hammond, both stu
dents at the university, and 17
year-old Delano Middleton. a
local high school student.
Twenty-seven other students
from South Carolina State,
neighboring Claflin University
and an area high school were
injured.
Nine patrolmen were indict
ed by a federal grand jury, and
all were acquitted. Many of
them said students fired first
and threw bricks and at least one
Molotov cocktail.
Students and protesters have
denied that they were armed.
About 200 people attended a
ceremony Saturday to honor the
men.
Sanford wasn't at the cere
mony, but said in his statement
that his prayers and thoughts
went out to the friends and fam
ilies of the men killed 35 years
ago.
San ford
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