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Pastors say $11 million HBCU drive is about support, self empowerment BY COURTNEY GAILLARD THE CHRONICLE North Carolina's black churches announced last week their plan to raise $11 million for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the state over (he next five years. The group. North Carolina Black Churches for North Car olina Black Colleges & Univer sities, said the goal of this statewide fund-raiser is to ensure that black schools of h i o h ^ r ?" 6 " v ? education remain academi c a I I y competi t i -v e beyond the 21 st century. "This is an exercise Mendez in African-American institution al self-empowerment," said Rev, Carlton Eversley, pastor of Dellabrook Presbyterian Church. -Eversley will be the executive director of the NCBC/NCBCU. "This is the moment. This is the time - God's time, not mere mortals but God's time to do what must be done to save our nation's soul." North Carolina Black Churches for North Carolina Black Colleges & Universities is a nonprofit organization that will allow churches to deter mine their contribution goals. Churches can raise money through traditional fund-raising - bake sales, car washes - or through Vnpcifip .. r ~ - . . . - budgeting based on members' pledges. More than 3 5,000 students attend North CaroI i - n a ' s HBCUs - Barber-Scotia Col lege, Bennett College. Elizabeth City State University, Fayet teville State University, Johnson C. Smith University. Living stone College. N.C. A&T State University. N.C. Central Uni versity. Saint Augustine's Col lege. Shaw University and Win ston-Salem State University. The church fund would gift each school with $1 million to be used toward scholarships, endowment programs and oper ations costs. "Many of us graduated from African-American schools....That's a long way from the cotton fields of Dixie....It's time for us to give back to the black schools that took us when nobody else would take us," said Rev. John Mendez. pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, where the news conference took place. Several heads of local HBCUs. such as WSSU Chan cellor Harold Martin Sr.. Ben nett College President Johnnetta B. Cole, and Barber-Scotia President Sammie Potts, agreed that many of the black schools owe their existence and meager beginnings to the black church. Martin called the multimil Eversley Phoi hy Courtney Gaillard The Rev. Williams Fails (from left) and Father George Clements listen as Al Wellington of the MATAH Network speaks to reporters at last week's news conference. lion church fund-raiser a "prom ise which they will keep" to black college students of today and tomorrow. Cole vowed that each school, including her own. will "find ways for you to know that our cup so runneth over with gratitude that we find our selves drinking out of the saucer. These institutions exist because black people believe in education." The brainchild behind this black college fund is Rev. William S. Fails, pastor of Greater First United Baptist Church in High Point. He hopes that black churches across the country will follow suit and contribute to other HBCUs in need. Fails will serve as assis tant executive director of NCBC/NCBCU, and Ben Ruf fin, former chair of the UNC Board of Governors, will be the honorary chairman for the cam paign. Father George Clements said a program like this one being initiated by black church es is proof that the Lord helps those who help themselves. Clements founded the One Church. One Child program, which secures the adoption of black children, and he was the first Catholic priest to adopt a child. "The black church is why we're here. The black church, gave birth to these historically black colleges, and the black church will nurture them," Clements said. The MATAH Network, which is a wholesale distributor of hundreds of products manu factured by African-Americans, has developed an economic model, similar to Clements', for churches to use to raise black dollars for black schools. Through the One Church. One Channel, church congregants can spend their moneys on household products distributed by MATAH in order to generate a profit for their churches and for the black college fund. "These people are here because they recognize the moment in history this repre sents when the church commu nity comes forth and makes a declaration that it will use self empowerment strategies to fund its own schools and institu tions," said A1 Wellington, co founder and president of MATAH Network. For more information, call Rev. Carlton Everslex at 788 7846 or 725-4.274. Man called 'Hispanic Tom Brokaw' coming to town Saturday CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Winston-Salem is gearing up for one of its biggest book sign ings ever. Saturday, Jorge Ramos, an anchorman for a popular news program on Uni vision, will be at the store, 1925 Hampton Inn Court, to sign copies of his book. "No Bor ders. A Journalist's Search for Home." Univision is one of the nation's most popular Spanish language networks. The event is being spon sored by the Hispanic League of the Piedmont Triad in conjunc tion with Barnes & Noble. The event also coincides with His panic Heritage Month. Born in Mexico. Ramos, who has been called "the Span ish equivalent to Tom Brokaw," overcame many odds to make it in journalism. The book details many of those struggles, includ ing his decision to leave Mexico for America and the battles he fought with English-language establishments. Ramos has been on Univi sion for 16 years, and his work has earned him seven Emmys. 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