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Community Your stories, your voices May 2008 ^ 4 Community Calendar 1 Black Rep perforins The NC Black Repertory Company is performing "Ethel Waters, His Eye is on the Sparrow," May 2 - 4 at the Arts Council Theater, 610 Coliseum Dr. Broadway veteran Mabel Robinson will direct and chore ograph the show, which stars Jannie Jones. Call 336-723 2266 to order tickets and for group rates. Musical play Union Baptist Church is pre senting "Temptation" a musical play on May 2 and 3 at the c h u r c h . The opening night performance will begin at 7 p.m. On Saturday, there will be a matinee at 3 p.m. as well as an evening performance at 7 p.m. Ticket prices are $12 for adults and $10 for youth, seniors and college students. For more information, contact the church at 336-724 9305. Jazz festival The Reagan High School Band Boosters will present their second annual City of the Arts Jazz Festival Saturday, May 3 at Reagan High, 3750 Transou Rd. in Pfaftown. Guest artist Ryan Kisor, lead trumpeter with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, will perform with the UNCG Jazz Ensemble at 8 p.m. in the Reagan Auditorium. Tickets are $5 or $10, which includes a BBQ dinner, and may be pur chased at the door. For more information, call Phillip Riggs at 336-703-6783. Kids and Sports WFUBMC's Dr. Daryl Rosenbaum shares ways parents can help children stay safe while playing sports at a session to be held at the Children's Museum on May 5 at 9:30 a.m. Free baby sitting is offered. Call BestHealth to register, 716 2255. Mature Driver Safety Program Drivers, ages 50+ are invited to leam ways to improve driving skills and avoid car crashes in an 8-hour classroom-based course sponsored by AARP and led by WFUBMC nurse Donna Joyner at BestHealth in the Hanes Mall on May 7, 12 - 4 p.m. and on May 8,12-4 p.m. The cost is $10 per person. Call 716-2255 to register. NARFE meeting The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE) will hold its monthly meeting at Big Shotz Tavern, 1480 River Ridge Dr. in Clemmons on May 9 at 11:30 a.m. The meeting is open to all current and retired Federal employees. For more informa tion call 336-721-1783. Dream girls The Music Department of Winston-Salem Preparatory Academy is presenting an adap tation of the musical Dreamgirls on May 15 and 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Kenneth R. Williams Auditorium on the campus of Winston-Salem State University. For more informa tion, call Elliott Lowery at 727 2910. t Photos by Todd Luck Ambassador Andrew Young speaks . The Rev. Linda Beat, right, receives her award from an NAACP member. A Night to Remember Former Ambassador Andrew Young keynoted the local NAACP Banquet BY TODD LUCK , THE CHRONICLE . - Former Ambassador Andrew Young was the keynote speaker for the Annual NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner last week at the Embassy Suites Hotel. The annual event hohors those who have made the community a better place to live. Mayor Allen Joines extend ed greetings to the banquet's 650 attendees. He said the city has the NAACP's support as it implements plan to help reduce poverty and put ex-offenders to work. He said he also appreci ates the NAACP's criticisms, which help keep the city on the right track. "They act as a conscience for our city," said Joines. Young, a native of New Orleans, delivered a speech spanning his career as a civil rights leader and politician. He was a top aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., and was elected to three terms in the U.S. Congress before being appointed to U.S. Ambassador to the United Jtn^na^^ron^efl^ui^iuirewYoung and Mayor Allen Joines. 5 Nations. He then served two terms as the Mayor of Atlanta and helped bring the Olympics to his city. He says he owes it all to the NAACP. "I know I wouldn't be any of the things that I have been if it hadn't been for the NAACP" said Young. "You talk about going to Wake Forest and the University of North Carolina and all these fancy schools, but somebody had to go to court to break down the barriers to help us get in." He recalled seeing Thurgood Marshall argue in court for equal pay for teachers in New Orleans when he was just a child. He said later, during the Civil Rights Movement, even King himself would have never thought progress could 've hap pened so fast. An African American of their generation having the extensive political :areer Young has had was hard to fathom back then. Good judges were instru mental in that, he said. Judges allowed civil rights activists to march and sped up the hearings for their cases in court. And, a good many of those judges w ere Q appointed by Republican President D wight D. Eisenhower who consulted with black leadership on his appoint ments. Times have changed, he said. Affirmative Action is being threatened in court and politicians are being convicted on suspicious grounds like Democratic Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama. He said Republican appointed judges can't be trusted as they once were. "This is a fight for all that we believe in," said Young. "Regardless of who you like or don't like, the important thing is to focus on who is going to be appointing the judges that are going to be running our courts. And remember. Republicans did a good job way back then but, here lately, they haven't been doing so good." Young criticized the Bush Administration's disaster response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. He said many See NAACP on B14 Stephen Hairston present's Glenn's Ahton Jones with a scholarship. West's Jasmine Pitt accepts her scholarship from Stephen Hairston and Marlon Hubbard, far right. Jim Shaw gives Carver's Jamon Carson his scholarship. |l ? | m mastercard, visa and ambru <rmmm mmmmm
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