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Briefs Chamber's West Area Council will present 'Networking' The Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce West Area Council will present "Networking," by Dr. Sherry Sherrill. leadership/communication trainer at Forsyth Technical Community College, on Jan. 15. Registration, networking and coffee will begin at 7:15 a.m., and the breakfast and program will be from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. The session will be held at Village Inn Golf & Conference Center. Clemmons (1-40 exit 184). Admission is free to chamber mem bers, but reservations are required by Jan. 13 (777 3787 extension 1922). RBC Centura Bank is the sponsor. For information on additional chamber events, visit www.winstonsalem.com. Durham paying consultant to help commemorate 'Black Wall Street' DURHAM (AP) - The city of Durham has hired a consultant to help commemorate a downtown area once known as "Bladk-Wall Street" because it was home to several successful black-owned financial institutions. The city will pay $80,000 to an Asheville con sultant and design team for suggestions on how to commemorate the two main blocks of Parrish Street, located between Roxboro and Corcoran streets. Booker T. Washington used the moniker "Black Wall Street" to describe the businesses that bankrolled the city's black middle class during the segregation era. Preliminary proposals include developing a museum or institute to teach economic diversity. Work could also include sprucing up awnings, planters and streetlights to reflect the area's historic character. The city has planned to revitalize the street since it adopted a downtown master plan in 2000. City and tourism officials want to promote the area's history to attract the same well-heeled tourists who frequent such places as Charleston, S.C., or Colonial Williamsburg, Va. George Owens, former president of Tougaloo College, dies at age 84 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - George Owens, the first black president at Tougaloo College, died recently. He was 84. Owens had been battling Parkinson's disease, said Beverly Hogan, Tougaloo's current president. Owens, a Bolton native, became acting president in 1964 and was appointed president in 1965, serving until 1984. He was the ninth president of the private, historically black college and is credited with increas ing funding to the school during difficult financial times. He was the first alumnus to head the small college established by the American Missionary Association and the United Christian Missionary Society. Tougaloo was a target of the Mississippi Sover eignty Commission, a state watchdog agency that fought integration in the 1 960s. -Tougaloo's racially mixed faculty was the commission's proof the school near Jackson was bucking Mississippi's established policy of racial segregation. Owens also established the college as a "safe haven." The state chapter of the American Civil Liber ties Union began at Tougaloo while he was president. In 1998, the campus's health and wellness center was named after Owens and his wife. Ruth. Black leader critical of Bank of America Kwanzaa gift card CHARLOTTE (AP) - The leader of a black cul tural center is encouraging blacks to protest a Bank of America Visa gift card decorated with symbols of Kwanzaa. saying the card misuses the holiday. Gerry Chisolm, executive director of the Nubian I Rootz Cultural Center of Charlotte, said the card pro- j motes overspending by blacks. "They are attempting to commercialize our spiritu al holiday of Kwanzaa," Chisolm told a crowd of about 50 people who had gathered Sunday - the third day of Kwanzaa - at the main branch of the local library for a presentation on black burial grounds. "We feel it is urgent enough to bring to your intelligent attention." Chisolm said Bank of America officials have declined to discontinue the prepaid card. The card is sold like store gift cards: The giver pre pays a balance and the recipient can then use' it any ^l^wtiere ViiaJcards ?re accepted. Bank of America has several ?ich cards, including cards decorated for | Christrftas and Hanukkah. The card is also a prominent part of a new cam paign targeting black consumers and designed by an advertising agency that specializes in marketing to blacks. ESR makes programmatic changes To better serve all its clients and the community, ESR (Experiment iji Self-Reliance) made these pro grammatic changes effective Jan. I: ? ESR will receive walk-in clients from 9 a.m. to | 3 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays. Wednesdays, Fridays. ? ESR will be open Thursdays for staff meetings and training, computer and paper work (client appointments only). ? ESR will no longer provide bus passes for non- | client walk-ins (clients only). ESR appreciates your cooperation with these changes, especially regarding referrals. ESR will be | as flexible as possible during the transition. HUD program will train teens, expand housing . SPECIAL TO THfc CHRONICLE WASHINGTON - Thousands of young people who have not complet ed or who are at-risk of dropping out of high school will get a second chance to graduate while beginning a possible career in the construction trades. because of nearly $54 million in grants announced Dec. 23 by Alphonso Jackson, acting secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The grants are part of HUD's Youthbuild Program to provide job training, leadership skills and academ ic schooling to an estimated 3.300 low-income young people. Thes? grants also w ill help build and rehabil itate more than 1 ,7(X) affordable hous ing units for lower income families. ? Two grants were awarded in North Carolina: $593,0(10 to the Uni versity of North Carolina at Greens boro and $400,000 to River City Community Development Coip. in Elizabeth City. "Youthbuild grants help young people get back on the right track by not only providing them the education they need but the training they can use for careers in' home building." said Jackson. "It's a wonderful feeling to know these young people discover the satisfaction of a job well done and local communities get more afford able housing in the process." Young people who participate in these Youthbuild programs experience difficulty finding good jobs because they lack high school diplomas and necessary job skills. The grants announced Dec. 23 will help these young men and women to receive high school equivalency diplomas and provide training in home-building skills that will qualify them for careers in the building industry. HUD's Youthbuild Program pro vides young people between the ages of 16 and 24 with on-the-job training to acquire construction skills by build ing and renovating single-family homes and multifamily apartments. The homes are then sold at affordable prices to low- and very low -income persons as well as homeless individu als and families. In addition, these grants are anticipated to generate mil lions of additional dollars from other public and private sources. Youthbuild grants totaling $437 million have been awarded since 1993. Jackson Wake offers info sessions for those with MBA resolutions 5 SPHCIA1 l() llll t'HRONICl I Wake Forest University's Bab cock Graduate School of Manage ment will hold infcjrmation ses sions ifi January for its evening and fast-track executive MBA pro grams in Winston-Salem and its evening and Satutjlay MBA pro grams in Charlotte. The sessions will be: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 13 at the Morrocroft Centre. 6805 Morrison Blvd., Charlotte; and 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 14 at the Worrell Professional Center, room 1117, on the Wake Forest campus in Winston-Salem. Anyone interested in learning more about the programs is invited to attend. The Wake Forest Evening MBA Program - Winston-Salem and the Wake Forest Evening MBA Pro gram - Charlotte are designed for professionals, managers and entre preneurs with strong job perform ance and potential for advance ment. Classes in Winston-Salem meet two evenings a week at the Worrell Center. Classes in Char lotte meet two evenings a week at the school's campus in the South Park area. The two-year programs admit new classes each August. The Wake Forest Fast-Track Executive MBA Program - Win ston-Salem is completed in 17 months and is designed for upper middle and senior-level executives with general management responsi bilities or those preparing for high er management positions. Classes be^in each August and meet on Fri days and Satijfdays every other weekend at the Worrell Center. Weekend lodging and a two-week international management study tour are included in tuition. The Wake Forest Saturday MBA Program - Charlotte is designed to provide in-depth edu cation for young working profes sionals with a classroom invest ment of just one day a week. The program meets 42 Saturdays a year for two years. The school also offers a two year full-time MBA program in Winston-Salem. Information on all Babcock programs .will be avail able at the sessions. For information on the Win ston-Salem evening or fast-track executive MBA programs, call 758-4584 or (866) WAKE-MBA. For information on the full-time MBA\ program, call (800) 722 1622. \ United They Sign PRNewsFoto Ernst A Young COO Dennis Purdum (left) joins Bert Mitchell, chairman and CEO of Mitchell A Titus (right), for the signing of an alliance agree ment between the fwo firms. Mitchell A Titus is the largest minority owned firm in the country. Purdum and Mitchell are joined by John Ferraro, vice chair of Ernst A Young , and Laurence Charhoy of Ernst A Young's Metropolitan New York Area management team (front row left to right) and other senior leaders of both firms (back raw). Nigel Alston Annie Hairston Motivational speaker inspires members of city's black chamber SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE The Winston-Salem Black Chamber of Commerce met Dec. 16 at the Goler Commu nity Building. Nigel Alston - motivational speaker, talk show host, meeting facilitator, and newspaper columnist - was the speaker. Alston is the director of employee/community rela tions for GMAC Insurance. He received an honorary doc torate from Livingstone Col lege in February 2002. Alston shared thoughts with "those in attendance on the topic "You Have What You Are." He reminded the members and guests that we judge ourselves by our inten tions, but others judge us by our actions. He emphasized that what a person does on a daily basis is what a person believes, which leads to what a person has. Alston encour aged the members and guests to "do" for the community individually and collectively. Alston can be reached on his Web site at www.motiva tionalmoments.com. The "Business Spotlight" featured was Annie Hairston of Pan African Imagery, a family-owned business that began Jan. 12, 1993. Hairston told the significance of fnany of the artifacts on display from six African countries. As a former educator she sees Pan African Imagery as a venue to continue pursuing and promoting her first love, education. She can be reached on her Web site at www.panafricanimagery.com. The Winston-Salem Black Chamber of Commerce's next monthly meeting is scheduled for Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. at Goler Community Center, on the corner of Sixth and Chestnut streets. The meeting is open to the public. For more information con tact Miriam McCarter, presi dent, at 724-0334. Flagstar Bank settles discrimination case against white clients BY DEANNA WRENN ? THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS Flagstar Bank will pay $1.2 million in a class-action settle ment, after a judge ruled the lender charged white cus tomers higher fees than minorities. Flagstar. a mortgage com pany based in Troy, Mich., charged minority customers up to 3 percent in loan officer commission fees while charg ing whites a maximum of 4 percent. "I've never seen anything like it," said Amy Ficklin DeBrota, an Indianapolis attorney who sued Flagstar on behalf of 970 consumers who claimed they were over charged. Flagstar spokeswoman Susan Cherry said the compa ny does not comment on law suits. Tim Baker, a U.S. District Court magistrate judge, signed the settlement agreement in Indianapolis last week. Flagstar has agreed to reimburse lawsuit participants the amount they were over charged. ranging from $63 to more than $2,000 each and totaling $704,000 plus inter est. The company also will pay each person $193 in noneco nomic damages, about $160,000 total. In addition, the company will pay $300,000 in legal fees. Most of the lawsuit partici pants live in Indiana and Michigan, and should get checks from Flagstar sobn.r DeBrota said recently. U.S. District Court Judge John Tinder ruled in August that Flagstar's policy discrimi nated against nonminorities. The decision allowed the class-action case to continue. Flagstar implemented the policy in May 2001 and dis continued it in January 2002. according to court documents. DeBrota said the bank started the policy because internal investigators thought minorities might have been, charged more than whites, and the bank wanted to ensure that wasn't the case. DeBrota said thejiank used U.S. Housing adnd Urban Development form* intended for statistical purposes only to deterrnine a loan applicant's race.
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