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VOLUME 93 - NUMBER 17
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014
TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 30
Rev. Ben Chavis Urges African
Americans to Get out and Vote’
Ms. Anthonia Ballard and Jeremy Ingram
Ballard And Ingram
Top NCCU Athletes
North Carolina Central University senior hurdler Anthonia Bal-
rd and senior guard Jeremy Ingram were announced as the LeRoy
. Walker NCCU female and male student-athletes of the year on
pril 28 during The Eddies awards program inside B.N. Duke Audi-
irium on the campus ofNCCU.
Ballard, a native of Philadelphia, Pa., has won four sprint hurdles
vents (two indoor, two outdoor) to date, and has placed in the top-5
(all 10 sprint hurdles events during indoor and outdoor seasons. She
arned a silver medal and All-MEAC honors at 2014 MEAC Indoor
rack & Field Championships in the 60-meter hurdles. So far during
er career, she is a three-time MEAC silver medalist and All-MEAC
onoree, placing second in the 2014 indoor 60m hurdles, the 2013
utdoor 100m hurdles and the 2012 indoor 60m hurdles.
Ingram, a native of Charlotte, was voted as the 2013-14 MEAC
len’s Basketball Player of the Year and MEAC Tournament Most
lutstanding Player. He ended the season 17th in the country in scor-
ng, averaging 20.6 points per game. Ingram wrapped up his Eagle
areer with 1,525 points, which ranks sixth all-time at NCCU. In-
ram also broke the NCCU single-season record of free throws made
nth 216, and is No. 1 all-time at NCCU in ffee-throws made in a
areer with 437.
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St. Augustine’s
ousts president,
reinstates
Special to the Carolina Times
We must declare that our voting rights are sacred and mobilize our
community to get out and vote. That was a key part of the message
that the Rev. Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., former national executive
director and CEO of the NAACP delivered to The Durham Commit
tee on the Affairs of Black People on Sunday, April 27.
Dr. Chavis, a native of Oxford who achieved fame as one of “he
Wilmington Ten””, came to Durham to address the DCABP’s “Get
Out the Vote” mass rally which was held at Covenant Presbyterian
Church on Weaver Street, Rev. Jimmy Hawkins, pastor.
“We were absolutely delighted to have Dr. Chavis come and ad
dress our mass rally,” said Walter Jackson, political committee chair
of the DCABP. “Dr. Chavis has been described as a crusader for
justice,” Jackson continued, “and the message he brought to us was
motivating, inspiring and filled with specific recommendations for
what needs to be done to restore the African-American community
in Durham to the position of prominence it has held historically in
North Carolina politics.”
The plan that Dr. Chavis put forth to the DCABP included the use
of modern tools including social media such as Facebook, Instagram
and Twitter to get the message out and to reach younger voters.
The Durham Committee should create a youth development in
stitute to train young people on the art of politics, Chavis declared.
Young people need to attend meetings of government bodies such
as the city council, county commission and state legislature to help
develop their understanding ofhow politics works, he said.
We need to dust off our history, he said, and have .a living legacy
curriculum in schools that would teach young people about things
such as the history ofThe Durham Committee, he added.
The Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, which is
led by former state senator, Durham City Council member and North
Carolina Utilities Commission member Ralph Hunt, has interviewed
and endorsed candidates for the elections and primaries to be held on
May 6th, which includes races for seats on the Durham School board
and contests for sheriff, district attorney, district court judge seats,
the North Carolina Supreme Court and U.S. Senate.
Sen. Hunt said it is important for every voter to go to the polls
and vote in this election. He noted that although it is too late to reg
ister for the May 6th, election, people who are not already registered
should register now so that they can vote in other elections that will
be held this year, including the very important election for one of
North Carolina’s U. S. senators which will be held in November.
Early voting began at three locations in Durham on April 24th and
continues through 1 p.m. on May 3, and voting will be held at polling
places throughout the county and state on May 6th. More information
can be obtained by calling the Durham County Board of Elections at
919 560-0700.
REV. DR. BENJAMIN CHAVIS
2 executives
RALEIGH (AP) - There has been a shake-up in the
adership of St. Augustine’s University.
Chairman Rodney Gaddy said at a news conference
ipril 7 the Board of Trustees had removed university
resident Dianne Boardley Suber at a board meeting
ipril 4.
Suber, who had led the historically black school for 14
ears, announced April 4 that she planned to retire at the
nd of May, an announcement that came as trustees were
“ a conference call discussing her future. The board vot-
ito fire her during the call but were unable to reach her
Mil April 5, Gaddy said.
The university also has reinstated two employees re-
®tly ousted by Suber. Last week, Suber fired the school’s
ire president of business and finance. Last month, she
teed the provost on leave.
Two other vice presidents left last year. Acting Execu-
ve Director Ronald Brown is helping facilitate decisions
Mil an interim president steps in.
The shift comes amid a review by the Southern Asso-
Mtion of Colleges and Schools because of the school’s
Oancial condition. Full-time equivalent enrollment fell
rein 1,387 in fall 2012 to 1,267 last fall, when an audit
lowed a. $3 million drop in tuition revenue.
Court-ordered tobacco ads
will include black media
By Michael Felberbaum
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation’s tobacco companies and the Justice Department are including media outlets
that target more of the black community in court-ordered advertisements that say the cigarette makers lied about the
dangers of smoking, according to a brief filed in U.S. District Court in Washington on April 23.
The advertisements are part of a case the government brought in 1999 under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled in 2006 that the nation’s largest cigarette makers concealed
the dangers of smoking for decades and ordered them to pay for corrective statements in various advertisements in
newspapers, as well as on TV, websites and cigarette pack inserts.
The companies involved in the case include Richmond, Va.-based Altria Group Inc., owner of the biggest U.S.
tobacco company, Philip Morris USA; No. 2 cigarette maker, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., owned by Winston-Salem,
N.C.-based Reynolds American Inc.; and No. 3 cigarette maker Lorillard Inc., based in Greensboro, N.C.
Wednesday’s briefing revises a January agreement outlining the details of those ads to address concerns raised by
the judge and black media groups, which argued the ads should be disseminated through their outlets because the
black community has been disproportionally targeted by tobacco companies. The court must still approve the agree
ment, which was signed off on by several public health groups that intervened in the case.
The new agreement proposes revising the list of where the ads will run to include newspapers in the 10 cities with
the highest black populations in the U.S., as well as an additional 14 black newspapers. Companies also will also have
the option of airing one-third of the anti-tobacco ads on TV stations other than ABC, CBS and NBC as long as they
reach the same overall number of people and an increased number of black viewers. Those could include Fox Broad-
casting, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox Inc.; Viacom Inc., the company behind MTV,
Comedy Central, VHl and BET; and other networks.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 18 percent of U.S. adults smoked in 2012, the
same percentage as blacks. But 21.5 percent of black adults were smokers in 2005, compared with 20.9 percent of
adults. The federal agency also says the annual incidence of lung cancer was highest among blacks between 1998 and
2006 with a rate of 76.1 per 100,000 people, compared with 69.7 per 100,000 among whites.
Each corrective ad is to be prefaced by a statement that a federal court has concluded that the defendant tobacco
companies “deliberately deceived the American public.” Among the required statements are that smoking kills more
people than murder, AIDS, suicide, drugs, car crashes and alcohol combined, and that “secondhand smoke kills over
38,000 Americans a year.”
Tobacco companies have called the corrective statements “forced public confessions” designed to “shame and
humiliate” them. A federal appeals court rejected efforts by the tobacco companies to overrule Kessler’s ruling requir
ing the corrective statements but they are appealing the actual content of the advertisements. Companies also may be
required to display the statements at stores that sell their products.
Democrat Aiken goes for GOP-heavy House district
By Emery P. Dalesio
RALEIGH (AP) - “American Idol” star Clay Aiken has plenty of name recognition. But that doesn’t mean voters in North Carolina’s
2nd Congressional District will send the singer-songwriter and Democratic hopeful to Washington to represent them in Congress.
Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers has represented the district for two terms and wants to make it three. The tea party favorite has a good
shot at doing so.
North Carolina offers clues as to why Democrats have little chance to retake control of the House in 2014.
An unpopular president in his sixth year in office combined with a divisive health care law are a drag on Democrats and energize core
Republican voters in what are traditionally low-turnout midterm elections. Congressional districts redrawn in 2011 by the GOP-controlled
state legislature also help.