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Obama campaign seeks to distance itself from his wife's comments DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The campaign of Democrat Barack Obama moved quickly last Thursday to dampen any expectations raised by Michelle Obama who said this week that her husband has to win Iowa. ? Most polls in Iowa show the Illinois senator in a tight race with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards. During a visit to Davenport, Iowa, Michelle Obama com mented on the importance of a strong showing in the caucuses. "Iowa will make the difference," she said. "If Barack doesn't win Iowa, it is just a dream. If we win Iowa then we can move to the world as it should be. And we need your help in making that happen." TVpically, meeting expectations in Iowa is nearly as important as who actually wins, so candidates are careful about their public comments on the importance they place on a victory. Obama's campaign made it clear that Michelle Obama they were optimistic about their chances in Iowa but didn't con sider it essential that they win. "Every campaign has said it's important to do well in Iowa, and that's our goal," said Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for Obama's Iowa campaign. Vietor said the campaign will continue , regardless of his show ing in Iowa. Spokesmen for Clinton and Edwards also declined to predict how their candidates would do. North Carolina black households lag behind in income, employment RALEIGH (AP) - Black households make 40 percent less money than their white counterparts in North Carolina and have nearly twice the unemployment rate, according to census data released last Thursday. Median household income for blacks was just over $29,000 in 2006, according to the Census Bureau. That's 12 percent l?ss than Hispanic households, 40 percent less than whites and slightly less than American Indians. Unemployment among blacks increased to 7.5 percent com pared to the state average of 4.2 percent. "When you look at the number of businesses owned, who runs our major corporations, who makes most of the hiring decisions, it's still vastly white," said Keith Sutton, president of the Triangle Urban League, an advocacy group for blacks. Others say that illegal immigration and an influx of cheap Hispanic workers is hurting the job prospects for blacks. Economists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found in a 2006 study that a rising number of Hispanic workers had depressed wages and displaced some black workers. But John Kasarda, one of the study's authors, said blacks reported in inter views that they were unwilling to take the jobs Hispanics do - at any wage. Eastwood to direct Mandela biopic (GIN/ NNPA) - "The Human Factor: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed the World, is about to become a movie directed by Oscar-win ner Clint Eastwood. Based on a book by a British journalist, the movie is set after the fall of apartheid, when South Africa was host to the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Mandela was in his first term as South African president, and he used the event as a way to end decades of mistrust and hatred between whites and Blacks. Warner Brothers Studios is in talks to finance the picture. Morgan Freeman will take the role of Mandela, joining a lineup Mandela ot stars including Danny Ulover and Sidney Poitier. who have played the former president in other films. Freeman said: "We know everything there is to know around Nelson Mandela, but we don't know him. You know all the events but you don't know him. What we want to do is make a movie about him." Grambling investigating noose pictures GRAMBLING, La. (AP) - The Grambling State University president is investigating a case in which adults at the university run elementary school on campus put a noose around at least one child's neck and the school newspaper's publication of photo graphs of it. Kindergarten and first-grade students at Alma J. Brown Elementary School were being taught why nooses are a symbol of racism, an article from the historically black university's student newspapef said. The article said the children also were being taught about the "Jena Six" - black high-school students who are accused of beat ing a white schoolmate. The date of the Grambling incident was not clear and the arti cle and the photos had been removed from the site. University President Horace Judson said he ordered photos removed from the Web site as soon as his secretary called him to describe them. At the time, he said, he was driving to Dallas for Saturday's football game against Prairie View. Judson told The News Star of Monroe and the Ruston Daily Leader on Friday that he was starting an investigation immediate ly, and wpuld meet Monday morning with everyone involved. It is at least the second time this year The Gramblinite has tan gled with school administrators. Provost Robert Dixon ordered the newspaper on Jan. 17 to stop publication, a move criticized as censorship by alumni, the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Va. and Gramblinite edi tor Darryl Smith. The Chronicle (USPS 067-910) was established by Ernest H.l Pitt and Ndubisi Egemonye in 1974 and is published every Thursday by Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty Street. Winston-Salem, N.C. 27101. Periodicals postage |>aid at Winston-Salem, N.C. Annual subscription price POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Chronicle, P.O. Box 1636 Winston-Salem. NC 27102-1636 Hardaway now embraced by some gays KRT Phcuo by A1 Diaz Tim Hardaway during his days with the Miami Heat in 2001. BY TIM REYNOLDS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI - The topic was finding ways to keep transgen der children safe, and someone asked for volunteers to share an idea. Tim Hardaway was the first to raise his hand. "He was so genuine," said Martha Fugate, the director of the YES Institute, a children's advocacy group based in South Miami which host ed that discussion. "He gave the per fect answer." Seven months ago, that simply wouldn't have hap pened. Hardaway would have made a joke or said some thing hurtful, like his infamous "I hate gay people" answer when a radio host asked him how he'd respond to having a gay teammate. Hardaway's remarks came days after for mer NBA star John Ekwugha Amaechi revealed that he is gay. Hardaway's remarks led to the former star point guard's banishment from NBA All Star weekend and dealt his reputation an embarrassing blow. Yet there he was, in a class room with about 40 people, mostly strangers and some of them gay, talking about the importance of education and awareness ? pointing to him self as the perfect example of how attitudes can be reshaped with a little bit of knowledge. "I just wanted to go in and get educated, that's all. Get educated on what 1 said and Amaechi why I said those things," Hardaway said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'm working on under standing it now. I'm not really trying to make amends. I've been there trying to get help." Hardaway has declined many interview requests in recent months, saying he did n't want to make his work with advocacy groups seem like a publicity stunt or a quick-fix to an image problem. "I had no idea how much I hurt peo ple," said Hardaway, who spent most of his NBA career with the Golden State Warriors and Miami Heat, and still makes his home in South Florida. "A lot of people." In the weeks that followed his Feb. 14 comments, stories circled that Hardaway's home was in foreclosure (he denies it) and that a car wash he owned was unable to pay its bills (he denies that, too). Neighbors even asked about rumors that his wife and children were leaving him, which never happened. For Hardaway, it was all a See Hardaway on AI2 Internet Access COf*ECOMM~ > ? PilE 24/7 Uvo Technical Support | ? Unlimited Hours, No Contracts! ? 10 E-mail Addr?m? ? FREE Spam Protection P Invoice Billing Available ? RsliabU Acc*t> Sine* 1 994 1-877-267-3266 wwwcore.com Troubled Watts High School is turned over to private firm BY GENE C. JOHNSON JR. THE WAVE LOS ANGELES (NNPA) - In what both sides agreed was a historic moment, the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education recently approved a controversial peti t i o n , effective ly hand ing con trol of Locke High School over to the Green D o t Public School Vladovic charter organization for at least five years. Effective July 1, 2008, the move marks the first time a pub lic school will be ran by a pri vate entity in the LAUSD. Some high schools within the district, such as those in Granada Hills and in the Palisades, have been converted into charters but are run by LAUSD teachers and administrators. In recent years, Locke, located in Watts, has been one of the lowest-performing schools in the school district. "Locke is what it is now and it hurts," said school board member Richard Vladovic, a one-time principal at the trou bled campus who now repre sents the area in which it is located. "It hurts having worked there and worked in that com munity for four years ? when you look at the test scores right now and what those youngsters are getting." acnooi ooara trustees Marguerite Poindexter LaMqtte and Julie Korenstein cast the dissenting votes during the Tuesday board meeting held at school district headquarters. "I am not clear in what the instructional program is," LaMotte said, "If a mass of kids do not want to go to Locke, then the financial encumbrance upon [the school district] is even greater. [And] what do we do about the teachers who do not want to worlr for anyone other than L.A.7' Korenstein adds, "I believe that boards of education, work ing with superintendents and staff, should be able to resolve the problem with the teachers at this school ... I am appalled that a new board ... just said: 'Give the children away.'" Still, the decision drew loud cheers from the sea of bright t green T-shirts in support of the conversion, which was met with red-shirted disdain by members of the United Teachers Los Angeles. The crowd jammed into the school board chambers tallied well past its 155-person capacity. "Please, we are imploring you, do not tell us that we are failures," said UTLA Secondary Vice President Linda Gilchrest. "Because this [conversion] will See Watts High on A6 Richard Gere took Julia Roberts to see it in the movie Pretty Woman and she loved it! Piedmont Opera presents trtXsVifrtC*' October 12, 14, 16 The Stevens Center of the North Carolina School of the Arts Call (336) 724-3202 or www.piedmontopera.org Celebrating 30 years of glorious music nJPkDMONT hn/RA v/ ghrmw mm* (w Piedmont Opera
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