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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2016
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1 year after church shooting,
much is the same in Charleston
By Jeffrey Collins and
Jonathan Drew
removed the Confederate flag
from the Statehouse grounds in
renamed “Mother Emanuel
Way Memorial District,” but
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP)
- The names of Confederate
generals still adorn street signs
in Charleston’s public housing
projects, and a heroic waterfront
statue dedicated to the Confeder
ate Defenders of Charleston still
faces Fort Sumter, where the first
shots of the Civil War were fired.
Just down from the Emanuel
AME church - where nine black
parishioners studying their Bi
bles were gunned down one year
ago - a statue of Vice President
John C. Calhoun, a staunch de
fender of slavery, towers above
a park.
After the June 17, 2015, mas
sacre, South Carolina lawmakers
did what many people thought
was impossible to achieve and
Columbia. Across the country,
as far away as Alaska, officials
moved to strip streets, college
dormitories and even lakes ofthe
names of Confederates, seces
sionists and public figures who
championed segregation.
But a year later, little has
changed in Charleston, the city
where tens of thousands of en
slaved Africans first set foot in
North America. It was here that
the work of plantation slaves
made the city one of the wealthi
est in the nation before the Civil
War. It was here where the bom
bardment of Fort Sumter threw
the nation into that war in 1861.
A section of a street in front of
the white stucco Emanuel AME
church may have been
all of Charleston’s Confederate
commemorations remain intact
- and longstanding racial issues
endure.
“I think a lot of things hap
pened out of the immediate
emotions of how horrific the
killings were. That’s the human
side of folks and the politeness,
particularly of Charleston, that
we just had to do something.
But then when reality checks
us - the question is what is
that going to cost us in terms
of changing the way we think
and do things?” said Dot Scott,
president of the Charleston
branch of the NAACP.
A white man who police
said hated blacks and posted
photos
(Continued On Page 11)
Actress Bern Nadette Stanis who played Thelm on the hit television show “Good
Times” was at a book signing at Bimbe. See photos from the festival on page 8.
A Swearing-In ceremony was held at the Carolina Theatre June 10 for Cerelyn
“C.J.” Davis. The public was invited for the first African American woman to serve
as Durham Pol;ice Chief. At left is her husband, Sgt. Terry Davis, Fulton County
(Georgia) Sheriff’s Department.
Ole Miss adding slavery info to
plaque by Confederate statue
Back in Washington, Clinton,
Trump work toward party unity
By Lisa Lerer and Jill Colvin
WASHINGTON (AP) - The presidential race shifted to the nation’s capital June 10,
with Democrats executing a carefully orchestrated plan to unify their party around pre
sumptive nominee Hillary Clinton.
Her likely general election rival, Donald Trump, continued his months-long effort to
win over the Republican base, with.events wooing top donors and evangelical voters.
With the primary contests all but over, a series of top Democrats formally announced
their support for Clinton, headlined by the glowing endorsement of President Barack
Obama on June 10.
Within hours, Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren
joined that effort, both backing Clinton and signaling to many of'Sanders’ supporters
that it’s time to unite around the party’s presumptive nominee. Clinton and Warren met
privately for about an hour Friday (June 10) morning at Clinton’s home in Washington,
intensifying speculation that the progressive stalwart may be tapped for the vice presi
dency.
“If you really want to electrify the base you’ve got to get somebody who’s been
speaking to the base and is going to turn the base out,” said Rep. Keith Ellison, D-
Minn., one of Sanders’ top supporters in Congress. He said he and other progressives
would be thrilled if Clinton tapped Warren for her ticket.
Democrats in Washington are eager to unite their party against Trump and avoid a
lingering intraparty spat. Primary rival Bernie Sanders, who’s vowed to take his politi
cal revolution to their national Democratic convention in July, has been stressing his
determination to defeat Trump, perhaps signaling that he may exit the race or at least
shift his focus away from Clinton after the final primary election next June 14 in Wash
ington, D.C.
On June 10, he retreated to his home in Burlington, Vermont, to plot his next steps.
Clinton, meanwhile, delivered her first speech since becoming the presumptive nomi
nee, addressing advocates at Planned Parenthood, the women’s health organization and
abortion provider. The nonprofit was a strong champion of Clinton in the primaries,
giving her its first endorsement in their 100-year history.
Describing Trump as someone who “doesn’t hold women in high regard,” Clinton
launched into an unabashedly feminist attack on her GOP rival, arguing he would take
the country back to “when abortion was illegal, women had far fewer options and life
for too many women and girls was limited.”
“When Donald Trump says, Tet’s make America great again,’ that is code for 'let’s
take America backward,’” she told the cheering audience.
Trump, who has also faced resistance from corners of his party, addressed a gathering
of conservative evangelical voters at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Major
ity” conference not long after Clinton spoke. (Continued On Page 12)
By Emily Wagster Pettus
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The
University of Mississippi will
revise a plaque beside a Confed
erate monument on its Oxford
campus to add more information
about the Civil War and slavery,
Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter said
June 10.
In a letter to students, faculty
and alumni, Vitter also said that
even as the university continues
efforts to improve racial diversi
ty, it will retain its nickname Ole
Miss and its mascot, the Rebels.
Critics see the name and mas
cot as divisive reminders of the
Old South, while supporters see
them as affectionate symbols of
school spirit.
His predecessor as chancellor,
Dan Jones, announced in 2014
that Ole Miss would provide his
torical context for some symbols
and buildings on a campus that’s
home to a Confederate cemetery.
The university was founded
in 1848, and the Confederate sol
dier statue has stood for genera
tions in a parklike area near the
main administrative building. A
plaque to add historical context
was put by the statue earlier this
year, but the campus NAACP
said it failed to mention slavery
as the central cause of the Civil
War. Vitter acknowledged revi
sions are being made in response
to criticism.
The first plaque said the
statue was dedicated by local
citizens in 1906 and was one of
many monuments built across
the South as aging Civil War vet
erans were dying. It also men
tioned the violence that erupted
in 1962 by white people oppos
ing the court-ordered admission
of James Meredith as the first
black student at Ole Miss.
“It was also at this statue that
a local minister implored the
mob to disperse and allow James
Meredith to exercise his rights as
an American citizen,” the plaque
said.
(Continued On Page 11)
Philadelphia to honor activist
with statue at City Hall
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia’s City Hall is re
ceiving a sculpture installation to honor a black activist
and writer who fought to desegregate the city’s horse-
drawn streetcars and for equal voting rights regardless
of race or previous status of servitude.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the memorial design
for Octavius Catto was to be presented to the public on
June 10.
Plans call for a 12-foot bronze statue of Catto with five
granite pillars behind him that would be fashioned like
overturned streetcars. Catto would face a ballot box
upon a table.
Excerpts of his writings would be incised on the granite.
Organizers say the $1.5 million monument, A Quest for
Parity, should be installed by late 2016.
Catto was shot three times in 1871 during a racially-
charged election cycle. He died at 32.
Medical building first in Dallas
government named for Latino
DALLAS (AP) - Anew $39 million jail medical facil
ity is the first Dallas County government building in
the county’s 170-year history to carry the name of a
Latino.
The Jesse Everett Gill and Dr. Onesimo Hernandez
Medical Facility, named for two Dallas minority lead
ers, was dedicated June 13.
The 139,000-square-foot Gill-Dr. Hernandez Medi
cal Facility includes medical clinic space, a pharmacy
and medical staff offices to serve Dallas County Jail
patients.
Hernandez, who died in 1994 at age 69, was the first
Latino to attend Southwestern Medical School.
Gill was the first African-American to be a Dal
las County deputy sheriff, joining the department in
1954. He left in 1962 to become a teacher and taught
in Dallas public schools until his retirement in 2000.