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2A NEWSAI^t Ctarbine $o«t Thursday, June 30, 2005 Jackson pushes for black-Latino solidarity Continued from page 1A Capitol Hill. Jackson said he is willing to work with Fox and other Latino leaders to help craft a sensible imniigi'a- tion policy that isn’t as hai'sh to undocunientsd workers, "The challenge is to build a legal way for people to migrate, so people can come back and forth,” de Icaza said at a news conference at the 34th annual Rainbow/PUSH conference, de Icaza said he PEOPLE OF NOTE wiU work with Jackson and a black-Latino coalition to solve many issues that the nation’s two largest minorities have in common. T am here to show respect and appreciation to African Americans and Operation PUSH, There is no reason Iwe) cannot be friends and brothers. (Blacks) have a great history in the United States, with(civil rights),” he said. He emphasized the impor tance of the ‘’human dimen sion" in a relationship with African Americans. One area that the two groups can work on in the short-term is trade. ‘’We have with the United States, the biggest trade agreement on earth. We buy American goods more than Japan and the United Kingdom combined,” de Icaza said. ‘’We have trade to pro tect.” Rev James T. Meeks, a state senator and vice president of PUSH, brought humor and insight to the somewhat strained relationship African- Americans and Latinos have shared over the past few weeks. He compared it to the rela tionship between former Los Angeles Lakers teammates Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant. ‘’Without cooperation, we will be at home like Shaq and Kobe— sitting at home watch ing others play,” he said to a lau^iing audience at the busi ness luncheon. Jadcson also said a strong black-Latino alliance can play a role in the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act in 2007. ‘’TRe result of the Voting Rights Act created a historic rise in African —American and Latino elected officials around the nation,” Jackson said He said the alliance is time ly because combined, African- Americans and Latinos make up more than a majority of the populations in the country’s laigest 75 cities. ‘’He said. When we work together we can finish the imfinished business of our movement the constitutional li^t to vote, the constitution al r^ts to health care and education and the right to organize and breathe fi:ee. West Charlotte High graduate to try for world basketball team UNC CTiarlotte basketball standout Curtis Withers has accepted an invitation to attend the July 21-23 USA Basketball Men’s under-21 National Ifeam Trials in Dallas, Tbxas. Trials will be used to select the final 12- niember U.S. under-2 1 squad that will look to defend the USA’s gold medal at the 2005 FIBA U21 World Championship in Mai* de Plata, Ai^ntina, Aug. 5-14. Withers, a graduate of West Charlotte High School, start ed for the 2004 USA U21 World Championship Qualifying Tfeam, that won a gold medal by going imbeaten at the qualifying tournament Wi Withers in Halifax, Canada, and earned the U.S. its berth to this year’s U21 Worlds. • Ayana Washington wiU be one of 360 academically tal ented students taking part in the National "^img Scholars Program July 10-22 at James Madison University in Ayana Harrisonburg, Va. NYSP inspires fouith- and fifth-grade students to explore, invent, learn and think creatively The 13-day program will engage partici pants in challenging course- work with the knowledge gained culminating in stu dent-created projects. Ayana is a fifth-grader at Dilworth Elementaiy School. • Ashley and Kanuyn Sisters Kamryn (left) and Ashley McCorkle of Mint Hill qualified for the AAU state track and field championships. The honor stu dents will run in the Region 3A championships July 7-10 in Charlotte. Obama McCorkle competed in the AAU state track and field championships held on June 25-26 at Myers Park High School. The two sisters are members of the Charlotte Heat track club. Ashley, 11, an Honor Roll student at Mint Hill Middle School, has competed in the national AAU Junior Olympic Games for the last three years. Ashley is the reigning State Chanq>ion of tiie 400 meter dash, 800 run and 200 meter regional qualifier. Kamryn, 9, an honor roll student at Crown Point Elementsiry, was the 2004 state bronze medalist in the loi^ jump and silver medalist in the 400 meters, 800 iTm and 2004 regional bronze medalist in the 800. Kamryn earned AH-Ameiican honors in the 1500 run at the 2005 AAU Southern Indoor Championships held in Knoxville, Tfenn. in FebiTiary Kamryn is the reigning state champion of the 800 and 1500 and long jump bronze medal list. Ashley and Kamryn will represent Matthews at the 2005 AAU Junior Olympic Games to be held in New Orleans at Tad Gormley Stadimn July 30-Ai^. 6. The Region 3A champi onships will be held at E.E. Waddell High School in Charlotte July 7-10. Obama sees parallels with Abraham Lincoln THE ASSOCLMTID PRESS CHICAGO - Sen. Barack Obama sees parallels between for mer President Abraham Lincoln’s life and his own, but he says the 16th U.S. president credited with fi'eeing U.S. slaves might not have envisioned a black man occupying the seat he now holds. Obama, who occupies the U.S. Senate seat fium Illinois that Lincoln lost to Stephen Douglas in 1858, wrote about how Lincoln shaped his life in an upcoming special issue of Time magazine. “In Lincoln’s rise fium poverty, his ultimate masteiy of language and law, his capacity to over come pei*sonal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat — in all this, he I'eminded me not just of my own struggles. He also remind ed me of a laiger, fundaniental element of American life - the enduring belief that we can constantly remake ourselves to fit our larger dreams,” Obama wrote. The issue is on newsstands Mctnday Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and American mother who is just the fifth black senator in U.S. history also raised ques tions about Lincolns role in ending slavery ‘T cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator,” Obama said. “As a law professor and dvil rights lawyer and as an African-American, I am fuUy aware of his lim ited views on race. Anyone who actually reads the Emancipation Proclamation knows it was more a military document than a clarion call for justice.” Lack of subscribers leads to C-SET demise Continued from page 1A content for viewei’s in Noith and South Carolina.” The network was available to digital cable subscribers and serv’ed as the home to 60 Bobcats games during the 2004-05 sea son as well as WNBA CTiarlotte Sting telecasts, original pro- granmiing, Carolinas college football, basketball and baseball games and minor league baseball. Those offerings weren’t enou^ to lure subscribers to Time Warner’s digital tier, which costs $15 more monthly than stan dard cable in Charlotte. Time Warner digital reaches about 600,000 subscribers in both states. are now focused on ensuring that future Bobcats and Sting games are telecast on basic cable to reach as many fans as possible” The Bobcats are piusuing basic cable options for game tele casts on Time W’afnei* Cable and other systems and wiU air a minimum of 15 games on WJZY-TV (Channd 46) in Chariotte. 2005-06 SEASON TICKEIS AT THE NEW CHARLOTTE ARENA-ON SALE NOW 704-BOBCATS or BobcatsBasketball.com CtAKlSTIt
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