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Thursday, September 21, 2006
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PEOPLE OF NOTE
Four earn Torrence-Lytle
alumni scholarship awards
The Tbirence-Lytle Alumni
Association has awarded schol
arships to E’Kira and
E’Shara Kerns, Anarrah
Ross and Meagan Wallace.
E’Kira and E’SHara are
Independence High School
graduates. E’Kira attends N.C.
A&T State Universit)^ E’Shara
UNC Greensboro. Ross, a
Northwest Cabarrus High
graduate, attends-UNC-Chapel
HiU, and Wallace, a West
Charlotte High graduate,
attends N.C. State University
The scholarships are given in
honor of four educators fiom
the former Tbrrence-Lytle High
School: Isaac Graham, Esther
Johnson, Francis Jones and
Leroy Wynn.
• Alexis Avery has been
named compliance cooixiinator
at Johnson C. Smith
University
Avery who will also serve as
assistant volleyball coach, was
administrative assistant at the
Central Intercollegiate Athletic
Association office in Hampton,
Va.
• Morayo Orija has been
named program director of Arts
& Science Council South, a
regional office of cultural devel
opment in Matthews, ^hnt HiU
and PinevUle.
Orija came to ASC fiom
Stageworks Theatre in
Charlotte, where she was a
teaching artist and company
manager.
• Michele Wilcox has joined
Prudential
Carolinas Realty
as a sales assod-
ate.
WUcox worked
in sales for
Limited Brands
in North Carolina
and
Pennsylvania
before joining Prudential. A
Avery
Wilcox
native of HoUywood, Fla., she is
a 1998 graduate of Howard
University in Washington,
D.C., and earned a law degree
from the University of Miami
She works from Prudential’s
SouthPark office.
Orija
MLK’s sister urges activism
rH£ ASSOCIATED PRESS
FLORENCE, S.C.
Christine King Farris, the
eldest sister of the late Rev.
Martin Luther Kir^ Jr., told
churchgoers here that racism
stall exists and encouraged
the audience to continue her
brother’s nonviolent strug^e.
Farris described her broth
er, assassinated in 1968, as
an ordinary boy growing up,
who felt the sting of racism
and vowed to "stand this
world on its head.”
“He wanted to win freedom
without violence, not threats,
but with love, unconditional
love for aU people,” she said
Sxmday at TVinity Baptist
Church during its Women’s
Day Observance. Farris,
author of “My Brother
Martin,” is director of the
Learning Resources Center
at Spelman CoUege, a histor
ically black coUege for women
in Atlanta.
She said peace can’t exist
without justice, and that free
dom-loving people should not
tolerate poverty, racism and
militarism. There wUl be no
world peace until those evUs
are eliminated, Farris said.
“One of the dearest lessons
of history is that peace and
justice ace tied together,” she
said. “And jixstice in its tniest
sonse can never be achieved
through violence.”
Fanis said blacks must
strive to keep thefr right?
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