The Chronicle
Volume43,Number45 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C THURSDAY, July 21, 2016
Clinton to NAACP: Hard work ahead
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BY USA LERER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CINCINNATI - Hillary Clinton on
Monday, July 18, called for an end to the
"madness" after the death of three law
enforcement officers in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, condemning a series of recent
snooungs involving police
and vowing to hold those
who kill police officers
legally accountable.
"They represent the rule
of law itself. If you take aim
at that and at them you take
aim at all of us," Clinton told
civil rights activists at the
annual convention of the NAACP. "There
can be no justification, no looking the
other way."
The Democratic presidential candidate
condemned the killing of three Louisiana
law enforcement officers, the latest in a
recent string of shootings involving black
men in Louisiana and Minnesota and
police officers in Dallas. She said anyone
who kills a police officer or acts as an
accomplice must be held accountable.
"We have difficult, painful, essential
work ahead of us to repair the bonds
between our police and our communities
and between and among each other," she
said.
A former Marine ambushed police in
Baton Rouge on Sunday, killing three law
enforcement officers in the attack. Three
other officers were wound
1 ed, one critically. The shoot
ing, the fourth high-profile
deadly encounter involving
I police over the past two
weeks, added to the tensions
i across the country between
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Clinton also acknowledged that the
violence has gone both ways, pointing out
the socio-economic disparities thai have
plagued the African-American community
to the nearly uniformly black afaience.
"Another hard truth at the heart of this
complex matter is that many African
Americans fear the police," she said. "I
can hear you."
Clinton has proposed a series of
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the 107th National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People annual convention at the
Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinatti, Monday, July 18.
Photos by Todd Luck
Resident Carolyn Williams talks about how con- N.C. Senator Paul Lowe also advocated for a
venient the WSSU Anderson Center was to her and WSSV early voting site,
other voters.
BOE denies WSSU as
early voting site again
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
In a heated Friday meeting, the Forsyth County Board
of Elections voted 2-1 for an early voting plan that once
again didn't include a site at Winston-Salem State
University.
rieming m-Amin, tne
sole Democrat on the BOE,
was the single "no" vote dur
ing the July 15 meeting. He
will submit a challenge to
state board to once again
make the Anderson Center
on the campus of WSSU an
early voting site.
"The public has made an outcry to us," said Fleming.
"I think it's almost callous to ignore that."
IJefore the vote, the public comment session was once
again filled with residents asking for the site. Among them
were professors and students from Wake Forest
University. WFU student David Ajamy n, who's spoken
at several BOE meetings for the site, said he found the
lack of consideration for it "disheartening" and felt his
voice wasn't being heard.
"It's very obvious there's suppression of .votes," he
said. "It's very obvious and I'm disgusted at the fact that
Anderson is not a voting center."
WSSU Student Jemma Johnson also expressed frus
tration, saying she felt the site was "vital" for voter acces
sibility.
"If black people and young people are an inconven
ience for you, maybe you shouldn't be on the board, and
we shouldn't have elections at all if you're going to
choose your own voters," she said.
Resident Carolyn Williams said that Anderson Center
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Interviews and Photos by Tevin Stinson
Do you feel you are being hunted by
the police as an African- American?
Jaleen Mack
"That's a tough question because I'm a security guard
and I work with police officers almost every day. But,
outside of work there have been times I have been fol
lowed for no apparent reason. So to an extent I do feel we
are looked at different."
Darnell Ford
"I do feel like I am
being hunted. I feel like the
color of my skin should not
justify whether you take
my life or harass me. A lot
of police officers look at an
African-American and
automatically think he's a
bad person, and that just
isn't right."
Malik Smith
"I definitely feel like I
am being targeted by the
police. Police look at black
people and think that we
are all the same when that
is not the case. Most cops
are already scared when
they are dealing with black
males, which leads to them
using their guns, out of
fear."
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Business 40 construction will begin next year
Closure of the highway for
construction isn't slated until 2018
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
The new future name for Business 40 will be
announced later this year in anticipation of con
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struction beginning on the busy highway in 2017.
Business 40 construction is tentatively
planned to start mid-2017 and is expected to last
four years. A 1.2-mile section of the Business 40
corridor between West Fourth and Church streets
will close for up to two years so that improve
ments to bridges, ramps and pavement can be
made. However, motorists probably won't be see
ing the highway close until 2018, according to
N.C. Department of Transportation Engineer Pat
Ivey.
"We have specified certain things that have to
be done, parts of the project that have to be done,
prior to closure," said Ivey. "The biggest part is
the completion of the new Peter's Creek Parte way
interchange."
Peter's Creek will become the major access
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