Shaw University S(T million in debt -A RALEIGH tAPi - Shaw L'ni\ers'it> is S20 million ill debt and is ending its relationship with its president of six years. ? - The school \aid. that President Clarence Newsome will take a one-'year. paid sabbatical But *'? v fh?* rh:nrm:tn of RoarH of ? Trustees. Willie Gary, said N'ew some wouldn't return ro the school Neusome^and the school agreed to the split Friday. Gary said, one day before graduation, when about 400 students received their degrees. The school has about 2.700 Undergraduate and graduate students "We wished each other (God's) _ sneed " fiarv -.jid "Even thoueh ue were going in different directions, we Newtome both agreed that no one or anyone is ? bigger than this universitv." Terms of the agreement are confidential, Gary said. He promised that an interim president would be appointed with m 10 days, then the school w ill conduct a nationwide search for Newsome's replacement. ? Meanwhile. Gary said each of Shaw's 40 trustees has pledged to contribute $50,000 to the university, Gary said he also is asking alumni to contribute as the school plans tough cuts, perhaps entire departments. . In December, more than 100 students filled Newsome's office 'to protest poor dorm conditions, including moldy bathrooms and toilets that didn't work Some wore duct tape with the-words "Rats" and "Ants" written on them. Players sue school district SPOKANE, Wash. Kanye west. Chart-topper Beyonce. Key shia Cole and Jamie Foxx. who is set to host the show on June 28* at the Shrine Auditorium. Cross burning shocks Oregon woman ALSEA, Ore. ( AP) - A white woman who moved with her adopted African-American son to the small Coast Range town of town of Alsea in Benton County says she's shocked someone burned a cross on her lawn. Summer MacLean says she found the 5-foot cross on her front lawn last weekend. "I feel terrible, and I feel like I want to leave," she said. "It's so stupid Prejudice is the height of stupidity." Her 13-year-old son, Isaiah Cavanagh, told the Corvallis Gazette -Times it appears somebody wrapped an old sheet around the wood cross and set it afire. "They're just proving they're ignorant,"1 Cavanagh said. "It just means they don't have anything better to do with their lives." A black charcoal line across the green grass marks the spot where the cross burned MacLean says she moved from Corvallis to Alsea about a year ago to provide a nice place and good school for her son . Shockingly, authorities in the town say because there weren't any threats or other evidence of prejudice, the crime is not being classified as a hate crime, he said. Instead, it is classified as reckless burning. The Chronicle (USPS 067-910) was established by Ernest H Pitt and Ndubisi Egemonye jn 1974 and is published every Thursday by Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty Street, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27101. Periodicals 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 Atlanta couple's Buy Black' experiment becomes a movement BY ERRIN HAINES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA - It's been two months since 2-year-old Con pulled the gold stud from her left earlobe. and the piercing is threatening to close as her mother. Maggie Anderson, hunts for a replacement It's not that the earring was all that rare - but finding the right store has become a quest of quixotic proportions. Maggie and John Anderson of Chicago vowed four months ago that for one year, they would try jo patronize only black-owned businesses The "Empowerment Experiment" is the rea son John had to suffer for hours with a stomach ache and Maggie no longer gets that brand-name lather when she washes her hair. A grocery trip is a 14-mile (22 kilometer) odyssey "We kind of enjoy the sacrifice because we get to make the point ... but I am going w ithout stuff and I am frustrated on a daily basis," Maggie Anderson said. "It's like, my people have been here 400 years and we don't even have a Walgreens (drug store) to show for it." So far. the Andersons have spent hun dreds of dollars with black businesses, from grocery stores to dry cleaners. But the couple still hasn't found a mortgage lender, home security system vendor or toy store. Nonetheless, they're hoping to expand the endeavor beyond their Chicago home Plans are underway to track spending among supporters nationwide and build a national database of quality black busi nesses. The first affiliate chapter has been launched in Atlanta, and the couple has established a foundation to raise funds for black businesses and an annual conven tion. "We have the real power to do some thing. to use the money we spend every day to solve our problems." Maggie Anderson said recently at a meet-and greet in Atlanta. "We have to believe that black businesses are just as good as every body else's." Now. the Andersons are following up with 4.000 people who signed up for the experiment on their Web site to gauge their commitment and set up online accounts to track their spending. Hundreds have also joined the experi ment's Facebook page, Maggie Anderson said. Gregory Price, chairman of the eco nomics department at Morehouse College, said black visionaries like Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey made similar calls to action. "The idea is a sound one, given that black Americans are still underrepresent ed in the ranks of the self-employed and that entrepreneurship is a key component to wealth," Price said. There are oge million black business es in the United States, accounting for more than $100 billion in annual sales. . . . - ? ? . APPh.xhri \roi* Maggie Anderson talks to Michael Hill as they prepare for a presentation of "The Empowerment Experiment" at the Vino Libro wine bar in Atlanta. according to the National Black Chamber of Commerce. The latest U.S. Census numbers report that blacks have more than $800 billion in expendable income each year. African-Americans make up about 12 percent of the U.S. population, accord ing to ihe Census. The Andersons track their spending on their Web site, and estimate about 55 per cent of their monthly spending is with black businesses for things like daycare, groceries, car maintenance and home improvements. One of the businesses highlighted by the Empowerment Experiment is Brenda Brown's Atlanta wine boutique, a shop with a growing black clientele. She said the project can help overcome the prob lems many black consumers lament. "When w e were a community of black folks who could not go to the white stores. our community of black stores flour ished." Brown said, referring to America's history of segregation, espe cially in the South. "When we were given the opportunity to go into the white store, it was like nothing else mattered anymore and we wanted to go to the white store, regardless of w hat the black store provid ed. We could have the same, or better products if we supported (black business es) in the same way." Lewis Peeples. 45. lives in a black neighborhood in southwest Atlanta but didn't think to spend his money with black businesses until a friend told him about the project. "So often, we make purchases and decisions and aren't even mindful that there is a need to support our own busi nesses^" >aid Peeples. "Now. I'm reaching See Buy black oil A9 Ayers, Wright meet to talk Mideast peace THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OAK PARK, III. - Two men who created waves for President Barack Obama on the campaign trail have appeared together at a suburban Chicago church to promote Mideast peace. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and 1960s radical William Ayers spoke Sunday at First United Church of Oak Park, during a forum on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The event took place the day before Obama was set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Both Wright and Ayers urged the hundreds in atten dance to rethink the conflict, but both also took the opportu nity to poke fun at the scrutiny they received during Obama's run for the White House. Organizers of the Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine said Wright and Ayers were invited because of their work on the conflict, not their political fame. "We can't be squelching viewpoints because they are unpopular..." said spokes woman Caren Levy Van Slyke Wright, the former head of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, was Obama's pas tor for two decades. 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