The Black Ink
The Official Newspaper of the Black Student Movement
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Volume XX, Number 1
The Black Ink Celebrates Twenty Years of Black News
October 27, 1989
Homeeoming Queen For 1989-90 Fills In All The "Blanks"
By Nicole Majette
Staff Writer
“And the 1989
Miss Homecoming is ... Tonya
Blanks..” At this instant, a
young woman’s dreams came
true. She had just won a very
prestigous title and had come
out on top of seven other final
ists.
Tonya Blanks, UNC’s
1989 Homecoming Queen, was
bom and raised in Clarkton, North
Carolina, which is about 40 miles
west of Wilmington, North
Carolina. She attended
Hallsboro High School which
covered grades 7-12, and had a
student body population of 636.
“Carolina was a big adjust
ment, but a welcomed change,”
stated Blanks. “I really enjoy it
here, in fact, these past few
years have been some of the
best years yet. I’ve had the
chance to meet a lot of different
people by being involved in dif
ferent activities.”
Instead of Blanks saying
“different” activities, she should
have said “numerous” activi
ties. She is a very active student
in several outstanding organiza
tions. During her freshman year
she served on the Freshman Class
Committee, which consisted of
freshmen that showed leader
ship. This committee voiced the
opinion of what their fellow
freshman were thinking. As a
freshman, she also served on the
founding committee of the now
Tonya Blanks, escorted by Kenny Perry, smiles after being
crowned homecoming queen
three-year old UNIT AS pro
gram. Other involvement with
UNITAS is that she was also an
intricate part of the program’s
planning during her sophomore
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Students Attend Black Congressional Caucus In Washington
By Sherry Waters
Staff Writer
Thirteen students, represent
ing the Black Cultural Center,
were given the opportunity to
attend the 19th Annual Congres
sional Black Caucus in Wash
ington D.C., September 13th-
17th.
“A Global Crisis: Our Chil
dren at Risk” was the theme
dedicated to Texas Representa
tive George (Mickey) Leland. “I
really liked the caucus, because I
got a chance to meet a lot of
powerful people,” Keith Belton,
a senior from Nashville, Ten
nessee, said.
The legislative program was
primarily concerned with Black
issues and social policies. Tak
ing a critical look at problems
Black members of congress-
including Congressman Kwaisi
Mfume and Congressman Ronald
V. Dellums- addressed the cau
cus.
“We, as a people, now stand
before the world as perhaps the
last expression of the possibility
of man,” Mfume, Chairman of
the Legislative Weekend, ad
dressed at the invocation.
“It was nice to see so many
young leaders, who were in the
spirit of fun, to uplift the Black
race,” Belton said. Shamusideen
A.A. Abiola, Harold Ford, Jr.,
Pamela Gregory, Jesse Jackson,
Jr., and Martin Luther King, III
were some of the legacy
roundtable participants at the
caucus.
The legacy conference:
“Leadership 2000- The Legacy
of The Movement” was taped for
National Broadcast, which will
be a Disney Production Fall
Network Special. Larry Carrol,
Network News Anchor for KJH-
TV 9 in Los Angeles, was the
moderator for the program, which
will be aired in February.
Thurgood Marshall, Jr., Marc
Morial, Susan Robeson, Cheryl
Sulton, and Mpho Tutu also
hosted the legacy conference:
“Leadership 2000- The Legacy
of The Movement” also.
Cheryl Grant, a junior from
Fayetteville, said: “I am hon
ored to have met the children of
people who fought for the civil
rights of Black progress in
America.”
The Caucus consisted of
workshops, luncheons, and dis
cussion sessions dealing with
issues such as: “Youth Saving
and Serving the Black Commu
nity”, “Political and Economic
Empowerment: Ensuring Our
Future”, “The Black Student
Athelete: Prospects for the Fu
ture”, and “Racism and the Col
lege Campus”.
To conclude the program.
The Congressional Black Cau
cus Foundation held their An
nual Awards Dinner at the Wash
ington Hilton Hotel. Bernie
Casey, former NFL All-Pro; and
Madge Sinclair, television and
screen actress, hosted the awards
ceremony. Dr. JohnnettaB.Cole,
the first Black woman to head
Atlanta’s Spelman College, was
another keynote speaker at the
conference.
The students returned on
Sunday, September 17.
Twenty Year Anniversary:
History of The Black Ink
page 2
More Than The BCC
In depth look at Margo
Crawford, page 4.
Profile:
Harold Wallace,
page 5.
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Top Black Singles
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