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Nemtot Veteran journalist Vernon Jarrett dies t ' CHICAGO (AP) - Veteran journalist and broadcaster Vernon Jarrett. a prominent commentator on race relations and African American history, is dead at age 84. Jarrett. who became the first black syndicated columnist for . _ the Chicago Tribune in 1970, died late Sun Jarrett day at the University ot Chicago Hospitals, where he had been under treatment for sev eral months for cancer of the esophagus, said his son, Thomas, 48, who works at WLS-TV Thomas Jarrett was at his father's bed side when the elder Jarrett died, as was the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "He was a legend of rare vintage," said Jackson,, who spoke of Vernon Jarrett's interviews with such civil rights leaders as W.E.B. DuBois. the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and Roy Wilkins, as well as with the boxers Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson. Jarrett began his journalistic career in the J 940s at the Chica go Defender and later worked for the Associated Negro Press before making the transition to radio in 1948. He then spent three years in partnership with the composer Oscar Brown Jr. as pro ducers of Negro Newsfront, which was believed to have been the nation's first daily radio newscast created by African-Americans. Jarrett was a founder and former president of the 3,000-mem ber National Association of Black Journalists, which had planned to present him with its legacy award at its annual convention in August. Black pastors protest gay marriage ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Black pastors representing thousands of congregants in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are calling for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages. The pastors, who formed the Not On My Watch .Coalition six weeks ago. kicked off efforts Saturday with V rally at Arlington City Hall that drew 1.000 supporters. The group included representatives from Promise Keepers, an interna tional men's ministry. As gay and lefbian couples celebrate in Massachusetts, the first state to make same-sex marriages legal, the coalition denounces parallels drawn between the gay rights movement and the civil rights movement. Members say legalizing same-sex marriages will have" irreparable repercussions on the country. "We've taken the blow of cohabitation. We've taken the blow of divorce. We've taken the blow of absentee fathers," said the Rev. Bryan Carter, pastor of Concord Missionary Baptist Church in Dallas. "Homosexual marriage could be the knockout blow." The group asked attendees to sign a petition asking law makers for a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as being between a man and a woman. ? lennessee State alumni protecting Heiner NASHVILLE (Special to the NNPA) - Local Nashville lawyers who are alumni of Tennessee State University. (TSU) have formed a committee to review past, present and future actions of the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) toward Univer sity President James A. Hefner. The lawyers are examining, in par ticular. whether the TBR is applying fair standards in its governance of Hefner and TSU when compared with other TBR insti tutions. Attorney David Danner. a 1991 alum nus of TSU, said. "We want to make sure that this matter is handled in an environ ment of fairness and that this audit is not a pretext for the removal of Dr.. Hefner." Attorney Terry Clayton said: "The iss"ue surrounding Dr. Hefner's funding of some scholarships does not reflect his ability to run the university. We are confident that Dr Hefner can lead TSU effectively, given fair Hefner ness and time. This 'cloud of doubt' cast over the university is a distraction to the mission that Dr. Hefner holds dear, which is to make sure students get a quality education." The lawyers are also concerned about the TBR's actions toward Hefner and TSU. the state's only historically black univer sity. The 18-member governing body includes only one African American and no Tennessee State University alumnus. In a state that has a considerable percentage of African-Americans, the lawyers believe this inadequate representation on a state govern ing body for public higher education is unacceptable and could negatively affect TSU's future. Group rallying for monument to remember lynching victims BOSTYVICK, (>a. (AP) - A small cast-aluminum plaque remembering the four victims of a 1946 lynching at Moore's Ford Bridge in Walton County currently rparks the site of the notorious slayings, hut a local group is rallying to erect a much larger memo rial. - , About 65 people attended a public forum on Saturday to heir ideas for a permanent memorial Hf honor of the two black couples ' Roger and Dorothy Malcom, and Mae Murray and George Dorsey - who were killed when 12 to 15 white men ambushed them as they crossed the bridge. They were bpund and their bodies riddled with bullets. No one was ever charged in the lynchings. The site needs a bigger monument so that "lynching won't be forgotten." said Roy Durham, who was a longtime member of the Moore's Ford Memorial Committee, which sponsors community events, such as public forums where participants discuss past and present racial problems. ? The committee discussed several possibilities, including a wall inscribed with quotes about the incident leading to four abstract sculptures representing the four victjpis or a memorial garden. C 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 po^age 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 Women rise to top of police ranks BY KAREN TESTA IHI |SSOCIATi 1) PR! ss BOSTON - The new police chiefs at four of the nation's biggest cities - Boston, San Francisco, Mil waukee and Detroit - share some similar credentials. All boast more than two decades of police experience. All have worked their way up the ranks. And all are women. Some say it's just coinci dence that four women within six months have been named to the highest ranking police position in four major cities, a natural evolution two decades after consent decrees and affirmative action cases forced departments to hire more women. But others say a shifting paradigm in policing - from an emphasis on a paramilitary structure to one more reliant on communication and com munity relations - has con tributed to the increasing suc cess of women in the field. "When I first came on the police department, we- were "trained in a more paramili tary^type environment," said Kathleen O'Toole, 50, who was named Boston police commissioner in February. "We were trained as soldiers to go out and fight the war on crime, and it was the police versus the community. "We came to realize in the mid- to late '80s that that model of policing was failing miserably," she said. Detroit Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings, the first female chief of police in the Detroit Police Department's 138-year history ; receives an honorary doctor of public service degree from Central Michigan University President Michael Rao on May 8. O'Toole joins Delroit Chief Ella Bully-Cummings, Milwaukee Chief Nan Hegerty and San Francisco Chief Heather Fong in a unique sorority. Fairfax Coun ty, Va., a community of about I million outside Washington, also has a woman - Suzanne Devlin - as its acting chief. > For most of these women, being named to the top-cop job was not the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. In fact, as girls they did not see these jobs as 6ven a possibility because women simply didn't hold those positions. "Not in my wildest dreams did I think I'd be in this posi tion," O'Toole said. Women still make up an average of only 1 3 percent of police officers, according to the National Center for Women and Policing, a divi sion of the Feminist Majority Foundation in Arlington, Va. Of the 18.000 police depart ments across the nation, approximately 200 have women chiefs - yet only four of those are in 62 cities defined as "major" by the fed Sec Police on A5 Nobel winner Soyinka arrested in protest SPECIAL TO THE NNPA FROM IRIN Police fired tear gas to dis perse an anti-government demonstration in Lagos recently and briefly arrested dozens of protesters, includ ing Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. The protest was organized by a coalition of opposition groups, human rights groups and civic groups under the name of Citizens Forum. It kicked off at Campos Square on Lagos Island. Among the 500 or more protesters were banners and placards demanding the resig nation of President Olusegun Obasanjo and denouncing last year's elections that gave him a second term in office as fraudulent. The demonstration took place against a background of rising religious tension in Nigeria, following the mas sacre of more than 600 Mus lims in the small town of Yelwa in Plateau State on May 2 and reprisal killings a week later of at least 36 Chris tians in Kano, the largest town in predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria. Heavily armed riot police blqcked the route of the pro testers in Lagos and shot tear gas canisters into their midst, forcing them to scatter. The marchers included human rights lawyer Gani Fawehinmi and doctor Beko Ransome-Kuti. a leading human rights activist, as well as Soyinka, who was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. 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