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THURSDAY, January 31, 2008
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heading
to Naval
Academy
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Graham
honored
for success
in business
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WSPA
revives
students,
parents
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WSSUPholo
Ephren Taylor II speaks at
WSSV last week.
M&F to
students:
Money
matters
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
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Mechanics and Farmers
(M&F) Bank was founded a
century ago by a small group
of men who had a vision of
empowering their fellow
African Americans by creating
a financial institution that was
accessible to them. Today, the
bank continues to reach out to
members of the black commu
nity, through efforts such as
the financial literacy tour,
which was kicked off at
Winston-Salem State
University Jan'. 23.
The daylong event featured
breakout sessions with local
business people and M&F rep
resentatives. Actor
Christopher "Play" Martin,
formerly of the famed rap duo
Kid 'n Play and the current
host of BrandNewz.com,
shared some of the pearls of
wisdom he gained from his
experience of becoming finan
cially well off at a young age.
The event was attended by
more than 200 WSSU stu
dents. v
"We added the college
tour because we recognized
that, more and more, our col
leges and universities struggle
with student populations who
... are on the threshold of
beginning their careers (but)
they don't have a handle on
the fundamentals that they
need to be successful in their
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School marks 10th year of success
Photos by Layla Farmer
Students perform at the anniversary ceremony.
Carter G. Woodson shows that charter schools can work
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
The beat of African drums pulsated in
the mornine air Moddav as the
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procession moved slowly
towards the newest building on
the Carter G. Woodson School
of Challenge campus.
The students waved their pom
poms excitedly as they
marched behind the elders, just
as they would have hundreds
of years ago in the Motherland.
"We must reflect on what
got us here; that's why we did
the ceremony like we did it; we
wanted to ... honor our ancestors who are
looking down on us from on high even as
we speak today," explained Hazel Mack
Hilliard, who helped found the charter
school a decade ago. "There were people
who had no opportunity in their own lives,
who knew that they would come on this
Hopkins
earth, labor and die, but they had hopes
and desires for us, those of us who stand
here today."
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institution and the opening of its
newly-constructed high school
facility, which includes a state
of-the-art computer lab and a
gymnasium and has been more
than two years in the making.
"Everything happens in
God's time ... and now is the
time for the school; aren't you
glad about it?" Lee Faye Mack,
the mother of Mack-Hilliard and
School Director Ruth Hopkins
and a longtime supporter of the school,
said, to a chorus of "yeah!" and enthusias
tic applause.
The program included performances
by the school's concert band and elemen
See Woodson on A6
From the Pages of Local History
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Gwen Bailey Coleman, who integrated Reynolds High School and the local school sys
tem in 1957, gives the keynote address Jan. 18 during the North Carolina Association
of Educators' . Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration and Awards Banquet in
Raleigh. Coleman, who now lives in Maryland, was a teacher for 40 years and is an
ordained minister. Since 1 990, she has operated her own private counseling practice.
Less downtown jazz planned for the summer
The scene at a 2005 4th Street Jazz A Blues concert.
DWSP says it's reducing acts to
concentrate on higher quality
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
The popular "Music in the Streets" program will
continue this spring and summer, but there will be less
music - and not much of it will be played on the streets.
After spending much of last year re-evaluating the
popular conceit" series that it stages, the Downtown
Winston-Salem Partnership has made several changes
that will be implemented when the series kicks-off in
May.
The major changes affect 4th Street Jazz & Blues,
the flagship event of the series, which actually has not
been staged on 4th Street - downtown's main drag -
since the summer of 2006. The concert series will no
lbrtger be held every week, but every other week,
instead, and in Corpening Plaza, a different venue from
last and previous years.
See Music on A13
Photos by Todd Luck
Jill Tackabery addresses the audience.
New committee
seeks input from
school outsiders
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
The new Community Advisory Committee of the Winston
Salem/Forsyth County School Board allows people to learn about
the school system and give feed
back to those in charge ot it.
The committee held its first
meeting last week. The meeting
is open to the public and
designed for people who don't
currently work for or have chil
dren within the school system.
School Board Member Jill
Tackabery, who facilitates the
meetings, said 70 percent of
people in the county fall into
that category. The goal, she said,
is to establish communication
between that segment .of the
population and the school board.
There are already school
board advisory committees for
students, teachers and parents.
Tackabery said the School
Board values the feedback the
committees orovide.
Bendetta Goldsboro iistens
during last week's meeting.
"I think their purpose is to give us some input about what's
important, whether it be teachers or parents or the community,"
she said. "I think the two way communication is probably the
point of the gathering no matter what it is."
More than 30 people attended last week's initial meeting of
the Community Advisory Committee. Roughly one fourth of the
crowd was African- American . Among them was Barbara O'Neal,
who felt it was important to bring issues from the African
American community to the school board's attention. One of her
concerns is the high amount of black students being suspended
See Committee on A13
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Florrie S. Russell and
Carl H.Russell, Sr.
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