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Volume40,Number52 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, September 4, 2014
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Photos by Todd Luck
Ebony Mitchell, Rev. Yvonne Hines, Clarissa Mitchell and Moriah Paige prepare to walk.
'Marching for Teace
Church encourages
residents
to take stand
against violence
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Dozens of residents
took to the streets of East
Winston Friday evening
to take a very public
stance against violence.
Mt. Sinai Full Gospel
Deliverance Center
organized the "Take Back
the Night" walk, which
began at Bowen Park.
Participants walked a
three-mile route through a
neighborhood they say
has seen more than its
share of crime.
"We're making an
effort to pull the residents
together to demonstrate
their dedication to mak
ing things better and to
raise awareness in the
community and in the
city," said Mt. Sinai
Pastor Yvonne Hines.
As they walked, they
belted out gospel tunes; a
police escort helped them
navigate through traffic.
They walked along
Machine Street, where in
2006, 13 year-old Isaiah
Dejohn Brooks was found
shot to death; his homi
cide remains unsolved.
They trekked by Mt.
Sinai on Manchester, the
street where the city's
first homicide of the year
took place on Jan. 3.
Delroy East, 44, was
found in the trunk of a
parked car at his home.
His murder has not been
solved either. Marchers
looped down North
Cleveland Avenue, a
street where 23-year-old
Christopher Jones was
found shot to death in
March.
There have been 11
homicides in Winston
Salem so far this year, a
stark increase from the
five at this time last year.
Walkers stopped at
various intersections to
pray for an end to vio
lence. Along the way,
stragglers joined them,
doubling their numbers to
See March on A8
Barber decries laws passed in the name of God
WFlJ Photo
Dr. Barber greets those who listened to his sermon.
BY CHANEL DAVIS
nil CHRONIC! I
"The Necessity of Moral
Dissent in Times Like These" -
the theme of Rev. Dr. William J.
Barber's message to Wake
Forest University School of
Divinity students - was apropos.
The Moral Monday move
ment Barber, the president of the
N.C. NAACP, started has led to
1960s-style protests, complete
with arrests and phalanxes of
police, at the General Assembly
in Raleigh and across the state.
As he delivered the Divinity
School's convocation message
Tuesday in Wait Chapel, he told
students to emulate Jesus by
calling for change and battling
the inequities of injustice and
poverty.
ine true representation or
the kind of deep love that Jesus calls us to make our burden, our calling, is to be mindful of the poor, weak and
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Ephesus won't
boot students
after demise of
vouchers
Allison
BY CHANEL DAVIS
I HE CHRONK I 1
Parents who have put
their children in private
school through a state
voucher program find
themselves at a cross
roads after Superior
Court Judge Robert H.
Hobgood ruled that the
voucher program violated
the state's constitution.
The Republican-led
General
Assembly
pushed through
the voucher
program, ear
marking $10
million of the
2013-2014
budget.
Qualified fami
lies received
$4,200 to off
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private school education.
Hodgood cited many
issues with the program
in his ruling. Among
them is that it "appropri
ates education funds in a
manner that does not
accomplish a public pur
pose" and "allows fund
ing of non-public schools
that discriminate on
account of religion."
Earlier this year, offi
cials at Winston-Salem
based Ephesus Seventh
Day Adventists's
Ephesus Junior Academy
were confident that the
voucher program would
increase its enrollment.
Tuition at the academy,
home to 20 students in
grades first through eight,
is only between $3,500 to
$3,800. so the state
voucher more than cov
ered it.
Principal Joy
Campbell said the ruling
is disappointing.
"We do believe that
parents should have a
choice," she said. "We
are hoping that the deci
sion will be reversed."
Campbell said the stu
dents who did enroll with
the vouchers won't be
booted now that their
source of tuition is in
limbo.
"We don't want to
penalize the parents for
everything they did prop
erlv and timelv
The children
are here and we
are not going to
dismiss them,"
she said. "We
will work with
what we have
and hope the
government
and judges do
what they are
supposed 10
do"
State Sen. Earline
Parmon blames lawmak
ers for placing parents in
an uncertain situation.
She says the vouchers
should have been halted
until the judge's ruling.
"I think it is the
responsibility of the state
leadership to let parents
know at the point of
applying that there was a
possibility that they
would not get the vouch
ers because of the pend
ing court decision." she
said. "This shows irre
sponsibility and careless
ness in dealing with the
citizens who live in this
state."
Darrell Allison, presi
dent of Parents for
Educational Freedom in
North Carolina, said an
appeal is in the works. He
said proponents of
See Vouchers cm A 7
Circles takes new approach to fighting poverty
THE CHRONICLE
BY TODD LUCK
Snider
Circles Winston-Salem held its first "Big View" meeting last
Thursday at Green Street United Methodist Church.
Circles is new to the city, but the nationwide program - which
works to elevate those in poverty by teaming them with middle
class "allies" who support their efforts to obtain economic parity
- begun in 1992. Both "Circle Leaders," the term used for the per
son living in poverty, and allies take part in training before they
enter into a partnership that lasts at least 18 months. Annette Snider,
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