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SportsWEEK -l V-*** ^ '' 1 x':> Nl'N All-Count v IV \ V \ i?*/ii^A.1 mNLJ^wHI Black culture teampils \ |MW MS^M) Celebr8.te.d.?eVCnt Harlem team coming manner'hJSored to town for game m See SI See A5 See Cl & t"*5 Chronicle 75 "57h ? 't ? i N s T o N - S a I. K m ? gkekvsboko * Hiiih Point Vol. XXIX No. 26 ^ v<:s5tcn onj Panel picks Diggs and Joines for top honors ?Chronicle's 20th. annual banquet will honor more than 20 community ser\>ants BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE Mayor Allen Joines and Brenda Diggs, a Wachovia executive who has been one of the city's most active vol unteers. will receive the Man and IWoman of the Year awards next month at tht> ?Oth annual Community Ser vice Awards Ban quet. The event is sponsored by The Chronicle and has honored more than 100 Triad residents and organizations over the past two for th^ir Diggs 'contributions to the community. A com mittee made up of past awardees and banquet co-sponsors sifted through dozens of nomination forms last week to determine recipients in several cate gories. Some recipients were nominated by members of the committee them selves. Joines and Diggs were the unani mous choices of the committee. Diggs' reputation as a tireless volun teer was cited by several members of the eight-member committee. Two years ago, Diggs was awarded the Volunteer of the Year award at the Community Service Awards banquet. n. .1 r\: Dy uay, uiggs has worked hard in the banking industry, steadily moving her way up the corporate ladder at Wachovia. She serves as senior vice president at the bank and has been employed there for the last Joines J3 years. Alter wore, uiggs onen nas an even fuller schedule. For several years she served as the chairwoman of the Winston-Salem State University Board of Trustees, helping to guide the univer sity through some of its most turbulent times and toward some of its brightest days. Most recently, Diggs.took on a job of heading the United Way's campaign during some of the worst economic limes in recent memory. She made a success of the campaign, helping to See Awards on A10 Top Cop Highway Patrol's first black commander talks about the past, future BY T. KEVIN WALKER llll CHRONICLE Col. Richard W. Holden Sr. credits his farm-boy roots with giving him the drive and the forti tude to run one of the state's largest law enforcement agencies. Holden, the first black com mander of the N.C. Highway Patrol, was in Winston-Salem last week to keynote the Society for the Study of Afro-American History's annual fund-raiser/banquet. For a crowd of about 300. Holden recol lected his days on his parents "Wendell farm, where he and his eight siblings often had to use their hands to do farm work because they lacked the proper tools. "I'm very proud of the fact that I grew up on a farm," Holden said. "1 learned a lot about work ethic." Holden devoted much of his remarks to his upbringing. His past, he said, has given him the ability and the drive to succeed. "When you understand where you came from, you can look to the future with bright ideas." he said. SSAAH officials said they could not have found a better speaker for the event than Holden, who was one of the original six African-American cadets who broke the color line in 1969 when * they entered the Highway Patrol Basic Patrol School. Holden worked his way steadily up the department's chain of command. Former Gov. Jim Hunt appointed Holden to head the Highway Patrol in 1999. ? Holden heads a force of more than 1.500 uniformed officers and 300 support personnel. Earlier this ' ' r Photo hy Kevin Walker o u u ? a* Cat. Richard Holden shakes hands with a man after the speech. See Holden on A10 r New study: Southern blacks are at greatest risk of death from stroke CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT State health officials vowed to work harder last week after the release of national data showing that North Car olina has the fourth-highest rate of stroke deaths in the nation. According to The Atlas of Stroke Mortality: Racial, Ethnic and Geographic Disparities^ in the United States, 24,314 women and 15.688 men in North Carolina died of strokes between 1991 and 1998. African-Americans were dispropor tionately the victims of strokes in this state and across the country, according to the atlas, which was put together by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and. prevention. West Virginia University and the University of South Florida. "We're really hoping that by show ing the magnitude of the burden, our policy-makers wouio tte aiaeo in making a decision in where to put resources in order to (pre vent! death and disability," said Dr. George Mensah. chief of the CDC's heart disease Devlin aiiu pi in vention program. Among blacks in North Carolina." 210 oul every 100,000 people aged 35 and older died of stroke. Native Ameri cans were second, with 145 out every 100,000 people in the same age range succumbing to strokes. Whites had a rate of 143 people out of 100.(XX). His panics had the lowest stroke rate in the state (26 per 100,000). The atlas looked at stroke deaths in virtually every county in the nation. Forsyth and Guilford counties fell into a mid-level category for counties that had 151-160 stroke deaths per I00.IXX) deaths. "While resources have been devot ed to preventing and reducing the bur den of stroke in North Carolina, the needs of our citizens have clearly not Sec Stroke on A4 Kin of teen charged in death say cops erred Mother, brother of teenager charged in death of local businessman file complaints BYT. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE ? The family of one tof he teenage ty>ys accused last year in the beating death of a gas station owner has filed complaints with the Citizens Police Review Board and the Win ston-Salem Police Department's Professional o. I.. i.. n:. 31UMUUI US L/|\ IMUII The complaints allege that officers that came to the fami ly's home Nov. 19 took items without the proper authoriza tion and that the mother of the teenage boy was dissuaded from accompanying her child to the site where the boy was Jones questioned. "They said it wasn't no need." Geneva Bryant said police officers told her when she requested to go along with her son. "With hint being a juvenile 1 thought that was strange." Geneva Bryant also raises issues of illegal search and seizure in her complaint. Bryant's 15-year-old Xon. whose name The Chronicle is choosing not to use because of his age. was arrested along with four of his friends not longer after the battered body of Nathaniel Jones was found in the yard of Jones' Moravia Street home. Jones, who had owned and operated his own gas station on New Walkertown Road for the past three decades, had just come home from work. DiOi?0 robbery may have been the motive behind the crime. The teen suspects, all of whom were 14 or 15 at the time of the crime, and Jones lived in the same Southeast Winston neighborhood. Police have been riwht-linned about Willie Bryant evidence. The teens are expected to go to trial later this year. Although it is believed that some of the teens have made statements of guilt, Willie Bryant believes that his younger brother is not capable of the crime of which he is accused. "Right now it is a one-sided story," Willie Bryant said. "The public believes that these boys are guilty, and I know they are not." Willie Bryant has become the family's legal eagle, making phone calls to everyone from City Council member Vivian Burke, the... head of the Public Safety Committee, to the local office of the NAACP. "If I have to do this for the rest of my life. See Teen on A4 Thanks, but no thanks Ptxxo by Kevin Walker Brenda Harris offers a flier to a downtown pedestrian last Thurs day. The man politely refused the material. Harris was among a small group of people who protested the government's detention of several lotal Muslims. Read the full story on page A4. Actors bring advice, new film to WSSU Tim and Daphne Reid have starred in some of television history's most watched shows BY (ELECTA P MCMILLAN. PH.D. COMMUNITY CORRESPONDENT "It is hard to find good narratives these days. These present writers are the worst I've seen. The writing is the worst part. Very rarely do I find a decent film." Tim Reid said. "One of the major reasons we are touring to do our symposium is to promote the need for decent narrative. We are touring college campuses for this purpose. Do you see any great stories on the experience of being black in America? In Hollywood. 99 percent of this material is absent of racial content. I am inter ested in racial content." Daphne Reid said: "Nobody bothers to teach our students structure. They don't seem to be able to begin, middle, or end the story. It seems to be all about the money." Sec Actors on A5 PbcXo b\ Felecia McMillan Actors Tim and Daphne Reid greet young fans last week. The Reids were at Winston Salem State University last week to talk to students about the ups and downs of the entertainment industry. The Reids also screened their latest film. HICZI] ???????Bllow for African- and Community V?itw
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