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a km* Shreveport police chief solicits support from only white statehouse members (AP( - Black statehouse delegates from Caddo Parish (Louisiana) were outraged to learn that the Shreveport police chief contacted only white lawmakers when he lobbied against the cre ation of a city review board that would scrutinize police actions. "Insult is not the word. I'm at a loss to understand." said state Rep. Cedric Glover. D-Shreveport, a black legislator who spon sored the bill to create the so-called citizens review board. Glover's proposal was a response to anger in Shreveport's black community that has been simmering since March, when officers gunned down an unarmed black man. Before the House of Representatives passed Glover's measure by a 58-40 vote last Thursday. Police Chief Jim Roberts circulated his letter opposing the bill. Roberts said his intent was to contact only law makers he felt "had not made their minds up." All black Caddo Parish law makers supported the bill. State Rep. Lydia Jackson, D-Shreve port, said she was "shocked and appalled" Roberts would exclude black delegates in sending out his letter, of which she later was shown a copy. "I'm here struggling to communicate to Glover our colleagues how polarized our community is because of histo ry and this recent incident, but didn't expectfto have this glaring example of the racial polarization that emanates from the leader ship of the police department sitting on my desk." Jackson said. "To think that we have leadership that felt they could not commu nicate w ith the entirety of the elected leadership of the state is sim ply shocking to me." 'Blacula' actor dies at 78 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actor William Marshall, who ?|ayed a variety of roles, from Shakespeare's "Othello" on stage, to "Blacula" in the camp movie classic, has died. He was 78. Marshall, who suffered in recent years from Alzheimer's dis ease. died last week in a Los Angeles rest home. The actor appeared in several dozen films and in popular tele vision series such as "Star Trek" in the 1960s and "The Jeffer sons" in the 1980s. But he was in love with theater and taught act ing workshops on college campuses and at the Mufandi Institute in Watts. He was director of the institute in the 1960s. He also brought a number of prominent African-American fig ures to the stage, including Paul Robeson and Frederick.Douglass. Marshall played a different kind of character in the 1972 movie, "Blacula" and its sequel, "Scream, Blacula, Scream!", but he brought the same dignity to the title role of the African prince. Bush to visit Africa in July WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN)?President George Bush will visit Senegal, Nigeria and South Africa in early July, said White House officials. The visit, which has not yet been formally announced, will be the latest in a series of recent moves by the Bush administration to emphasize its Africa policy. Last month. Bush signed a bill pledg ing $15 billion to fight AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean; and during the recent G8 summit in France, Bush urged other nations to join the U.S. effort. In December 2002, the White House announced that Bush would visit Africa early in 2003. But the next day the trip was postponed because of "a combination of domestic and international considerations." Although the White House has not yet announced the purpose of Bush's African visit, it may be used in part to gamer sup port for stationing U.S. troops in Africa. Bush The United States is in the process of a major reshuffle of its troops stationed overseas: it has moved per sonnel out of bases in Germany and Saudi Arabia, and some ana lysts suggest that the country may be looking to relocate some of them to Africa. New manager, training on tap for bar that banned dreadlocks ST. LOUIS. Mo. (AP) - Complaints from dreadlocked cus tomers who were refused entry to a bar because of their hairstyle have led to an apology and a change of management. Officials of the company that operates the Cheshire Inn said they would not ban patrons because of dreadlocks and'would require their 40 employees to take sensitivity training to prevent similar racially charged incidents in the future. Activists had threatened to picket on Sunday - Father's Day - outside the Cheshire Inn. a popular bar and restaurant that shares ownership withfJtfc neighboring Cheshire laidge but is leased and managed by a separate family-run corporation. Jack Lueders has resigned as president and general manager of the company. L&S Propertic s... 1 arorHW ?frglifchy hu? dauuJtu^j^jtw". Giint4^dfe?i><?^^s.iflnt?r fathei-in-laitf tvno , IbmJtfWltmeirfieiJtoTht'company"m any capacity. The elder Lueders also issued a statement apologizing to two black men. Brian Williams and Shelby Carter, who were turned away by a doorman when they arrived on a May evening to join friends after a wedding and reception. Carter said he did not want to comment on the apology while he and Williams considered their response to the incident. Jack Lueders had previously told a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter that the inn had a policy of excluding people with dread locks if their hair was determined to be "dirty and stinky." "You can't wash that hair, and it stinks, and we're a crowded bar. and we don't want stinky people in the bar." he said. The Chronicle (USPS 067-910) was established by Ernest H. Pitt and Ndubisi Egemonye in 1974 and is published every Thursday by Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101. Peri odicals postage paid at Winston-Salem, N.C. Annual sub scription price is $30.72. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Chronicle, P.O. Box 1636 Winston-Salem, NC 27102-1636 Another man convicted of taking girl Seven-year-old Erica Pratt chewed through duct tape to free herself BY MARYCLAIRE DALE nil ASSOCIATEDPftESS PHILADELPHIA - A second man was convicted, late last week in the kidnap ping of a 7-year-old girl who chewed through duct tape to escape a squalid basement last sum mer. The jury, which deliber ated for four hours over two days, found James Burns, 30, of Philadelphia, guilty on all six counts in Erica Pratt's abduc tion. Burns was at the wheel of a getaway car when Edward Johnson, 24, snatched Erica from the sidewalk outside her grandmother's Southwest Philadelphia home, prosecu tors said. Burns faces 35 to 71 years in prison. Johnson, who plead ed guilty to five counts days before the trial but did not tes tify against Burns, faces 32 to 64 years in prison. Both men will remain in custody until Pratt KRT pholo by David Swanson Philadelphia police officers carry James Burns last July after he was injured after he led offi cers on a chase. Burns was convicted of kidnapping a 7-year-old. their July 29 sentencing hear ings. Erica, now 8, has been cel ebrated for her daring escape from the empty house about 10 miles from her home, where she spent nearly 24 hours bound and blindfolded. During the trial, though, her courage waned, and she testified that she did not rec ognize Burns - whom she had previously picked out of a lineup and identified in open court. "It was very clear that she knew exactly who he was and that she recognized him, based on her demeanor and her turn ing away from him in court," Assistant District Attorney Leslie Gomez said Friday. "You can't put that weight on a 7-year-old, to point a fin ger and say, 'You did this to me.' That was my job," Gomez said. Prosecutors relied on other evidence to make their case. In Burns' pocket, investiga tors found the key to the house where Pratt was held. They also tied his girlfriend's cell phone records to ransom calls that were made. The kidnappers called Pratt's grandmother several times, demanding $150,000. See Pratt on A5 Moseley-Braun hopes to beat all Dems, not just A1 Sharpton BY. HAZEL TRICE EDNEY NNPA CORRESPONDENT ' WASHINGTON - Carol Moseley-Braun denies that she entered the presidential cam paign to take away votes from Al Sharpton. the only other African-American presidential candidate running on the Democratic ticket. "I did not get in this to take on one candidate, and you can print that too, by the way, because that has been a rumor," Moseley-Braun told attendees last week at the annual convention of the National Newspaper Publish ers Association (NNPA) in Baltimore. "As far as I'm con cerned, I hope I take votes from all of them." The former U.S. senator from Illinois and ambassador to New Zealand, now a law professor at DePaul University in Chicago, said African Americans are at a critical point. "We are moving in the direction of taking our civil rights efforts to the next phase, to the next step, to show that African-Americans have not only played a role in the past, but in moving forward to demonstrate and play a role...not just in keeping up, but in providing leadership to this country," she said. "That leadership grows out of a passionate patriotism that believes that this really is and must remain the greatest coun try in the world, that this coun try has an absolute responsibil ity to keep faith with the sacri fice of our ancestors, to keep faith with the promise of liber turn over to this-r urfj^nrnera ? (ton no lesSi* what we inherited from the last." she. said. Moseley-Braun said she faces a doubte-whammy: being black and a woman. "I think it is important to make the point that talent knows no color, knows no gen der. knows no ethnicity, and that is up to the people of this country to broaden their per spective sufficient to under stand that if the package that leads this country comes in a package that's 5-foot-4, brown skin and female, then that's OK, too." Despite her enthusiasm, Moseley-Braun, who lost her Senate re-election bid in 1998, has not formally announced her candidacy and is struggling in fund-raising and the polls. In an interview, she said she is still listening to her explorato ry committee and will soon formally announce her deci sion, a step Sharpton has already taken. In the latest Associated Press poll, Sharpton leads Moseley-Braun 5 percent to 4 percent. Four months ago, a Time CNN poll showed Sharpton with twice as much support among African-Americans as See Moseley-Braun on AS KRT photo by Chuck Kennedy Democratic presidential hopeful Carol Moseley-Braun addresses the Democratic National Committee during the party's winter meeting in February 21. (index OPINION. JL6 SPORTS SI RELIGION. 85 CLASSIFIEDS. 69 HEALTH. C3 ENTERTAINMENT....C7 CALENDAR C9 I V/ ^ A'J M ? i'M PI U ? 1 i k'M ?1' I'M Bring Your Own Bottles... and newspaper, tans, magazines, and tardboard, too! Party down with the Recycle Guys at any of three recycling drop-off centers in Forsyth County. Make sure you're recycling all of these items: ? Aluminum cans O Steel cans, ? Glass bottles & jars O Plastic bottles (#1 & #2 only) ? Newspapers & inserts ? Magazines ? Telephone books O Junk mail & office paper ? 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