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Call For “Resistance” At The
NCNAACP’s Moral March
NCCU Head Coach John McLendon, left and
Charles “Tex” Harrison.
NCCU Retires Three
Basketball Jerseys,
Honor McLendon
The North Carolina Central University Department of Athletics
will be retiring the basketball jerseys of Amba Kongolo, LeVelle
Moton and Charles “Tex” Harrison, and honoring legendary hall
of fame coach John McLendon in separate ceremonies during the
NCCU hoops season, starting Saturday, Feb. 3.
On Saturday, Kongolo had her jersey retired following the
NCCU women’s basketball contest versus Delaware State
University. Moton’s jersey was retired on Monday, Feb. 5, during
halftime of the NCCU men’s basketball game against Hampton
University. Harrison’s jersey retirement and McLendon’s
recognition will take place on March 1 during halftime of
NCCU’s men’s basketball match-up with North Carolina A&T
State University.
Kongolo (1999-2002) is a two-time CIAA Women’s Basketball
Player ofthe Year (2001 and 2002) and 2002 NCAA Division II
All-American, who became the first CIAA student-athlete drafted
by the WNBA after amassing 1,536 points and 833 rebounds as
a Lady Eagle.
Moton (1992-96) is the 1996 CIAA Men’s Basketball Player
ofthe Year, two-time CIAA All-Tournament Team selection, two-
time NCAA Division II All-America Honorable Mention and the
school’s third all-time leading scorer with 1,714 career points.
Harrison (1950-54) scored 1,304 points as an Eagle, was a
member of the 1950 CIAA Tournament Championship team
and became the first player from an HBCU to earn all-America
honors. He went on spend six decades as a player and coach with
the Harlem Globetrotters.
McLendon coached the Eagles from 1940-52, capturing six
tournament or visitation (regular season) championships and
registering 239 victories by winning more than 77 percent of
his games. McLendon has been inducted into numerous halls of
fame, including the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
twice, as both a pioneer and a coach.
Each of these celebrations will be held in McDougald-
McLendon Arena. For tickets, contact the NCCU Ticket Office at
(919) 530-5170 or visit NCCUEaglePride.com.
Ms. Amba Kongolo left and , LeVelle Moton
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By Cash Michaels
CashWorks Media
With the theme, ‘Taking
Resistance to the Ballot Box,”
the 12 th Annual Moral March/
Historic Thousands on Jones
Street People’s Assembly in
Raleigh Feb. 10 th attracted
thousands of demonstrators
from across the state despite
heavy rains. With protest signs
castigating everything from the
Trump Administration, to North
Carolina’s legislative Republican
leadership, the extraordinarily
diverse crowd of young, old,
black, white, Hispanic, straight,
gay and others, marched through
downtown Raleigh from Shaw
University to just outside the
state Capital.
There they heard from a
plethora of speakers, representing
the unique coalitions involved,
all imploring those gathered to
make sure their voices,
Longtime
North
Carolina Rep.
Michaux
won’t seek
re-election
By Gary D. Robertson
RALEIGH (AP) - Democratic
Rep. Mickey Michaux, currently
North Carolina’s longest-serving
state legislator and a fixture at
the General Assembly in the fight
for voting rights and funding
historically black colleges, said
Feb. 8 he won’t seek re-election.
Michaux, a Durham attorney,
first joined the House in 1973 and
has been elected to 20 two-year
terms, with a stint as a federal
prosecutor and unsuccessful
runs for Congress sprinkled in
between.
“I figured it’s just time,” the
87-year-old Michaux said after
he announced his decision on
the House floor. Candidate filing
for this fall’s General Assembly
elections began
Feb. 12.
Michaux, who was born
in Durham, was a civil rights
activist during the 1950s and
1960s and counted the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr. among
his friends.
“I came out ofthe movement,”
he said on the floor. “I was a
rebel.”
Michaux served as the senior
budget chairman and in a host of
other leadership positions while
in the House. He has fought to
preserve voting rights protections
and warned repeatedly against
attempts by Republicans now in
charge of the General Assembly
to change election laws he said
would harm minority voters.
He said he was proud of
efforts at minority economic
development and for drawing
judicial election districts in the
1980s that helped expand the
number of black judges. The
building housing the education
department at North Carolina
Central University, his alma
mater, bears his name.
Michaux left the House
when he became a U.S. attorney
for central North Carolina in
the late 1970s. He later ran
unsuccessfully for Congress,
losing to Tim Valentine in a
Democratic, primary runoff in
1982 and to Mel Watt in a 1992
primary.
Michaux returned to the state
House in 1985 after a nearly
eight-year absence.
and votes, are heard come
November for the midterm
election.
Bishop Dr. William Barber,
the former president of the
NCNAACP, spoke to those
gathered by phone, urging them
to indeed turn out the vote,
regardless of whatever barriers
or restrictions are thrown at
them.
But the highlight of the event
were the pointed remarks of the
NCNAACP’s new president,
Rev. Dr. T. Anthony Spearman,
who used biblical analogies to
illustrate the need for justice,
and invoked inspiration from
civil rights leader Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. to crystallize the
societal evils that the NCNAACP
leader said must be confronted.
“Moral Resistance is the
means we use to dismantle the
engines of destruction that drive
us away from the mainlands
of democracy while steering,
us toward the mountains of
fascism,” Rev. Spearman offered
in a prepared speech.
Spearman said .the three
“...engines of destruction...”
were “R.I.P.” - “racism,
impoverishment and
persecution.”
“The antidote to racism is
representation,” he continued.
“Each human on this earth
represents a spark of divinity.
Representation begins with
recognizing that every person
has an equal spark of God within
them. Representation is the
reconstruction we seek when we
resist racism at the ballot box.”
Addressing
REV. DR. T. ANTHONY SPEARMAN, PRES.,
NCNAACP (Photo courtesy of Phil Fonville)
impoverishment, Dr.
Spearman said the antidote was
“investment.”
“Investment in our justice
system is not only ensuring access
to counsel and reconstructing our
bail system so that it is not a poor
tax. Investment in our justice
system means reconstructing the
administrative process so that
someone who needs a protective
order from an abusive ex-spouse
doesn’t have to take two days
off work to sit in the back of a
courtroom waiting to be heard
for ten minutes.”
“Investment is the
reconstruction we seek when
we resist impoverishment at the
ballot box.”
Lastly, Dr. Spearman warned
about militarism, which he
called “persecution.’
“The antidote to persecution
is peace, he said. “Our people
are gunned down in the streets
in numbers that
exceed the numbers who were
lynched and are imprisoned in
numbers that exceed the numbers
who were enslaved.”
“Peace is the reconstruction
we seek when we resist
persecution at the ballot box.”
Rev.
Spearman called on NAACP
members and coalition partners
to “...take your resistance
to the ballot box...” per the
2018 midterm elections, and
ultimately the 2020 presidential
election.
“In the buildings which line
Jones street, the men who cloak
themselves with smiling faces
by day and in white sheets by
night have returned, and they
are lynching our democracy,”
he charged, adding, “This
unconstitutional General
Assembly on Jones Street is
what the KKK looks like in the
21 st Century.”
“Let’s take our resistance,”
Dr. Spearman concluded, “...to
the ballot box.”
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Thousands of demonstrators from all across north carolina jammed fayetteville street leading
up to the state capital saturday for the moral march/hk on j people’s assembly (Photo courtesy of
the NCNAACP)