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Photograph: Standing before a portrait of Bishop James A. Forbes, Senior, the Forbes family presents Bell, Jr. is standing in the rear, center,
a $1 million legacy gift to Dr. Paulette Dillard, president of Shaw University. Board Chairman Dr. Joseph
N. Bell, Jr. is standing in the rear, center.
Forbes Family Makes $1 Million Legacy Gift to Shaw University
Gift is the largest of the Homecoming Week that saw donations totaling $1.7 million
RALEIGH - A highlight of Shaw University’s 2019 Homecoming was the announcement of a $1 million legacy gift from the family of
Bishop James A. Forbes, Sr. and Mrs. Mabel Clemmons Forbes. The Forbes family has been staunchly supportive of Shaw for many years,
and this donation “will have a tremendous impact in the lives of Shaw University’s students,” said President Paulette Dillard. At the Univer
sity’s 2019 EPIC Gala on Friday evening, Dr. James Forbes, Jr. impressed a ballroom filled with Shaw alumni and friends when he expressed
the family’s “ongoing commitment to do everything within our means to support this great university.”
The Forbes-Shaw connection is deep: the late Bishop Forbes and two of the Forbes siblings, Evangeline Forbes Richardson (now de
ceased), and Dr. David C. Forbes, are Shaw alumni. Dr. David Forbes, Jr., along with fellow alumna Ella Baker, co-founded the Student Non-
Violent Coordinating Committee on Shaw’s campus in 1960, and later served as dean of the Shaw University Divinity School and member
of the Board of Trustees. James A. .Forbes, Jr., a nationally renowned theologian and senior minister emeritus of the Riverside Church in
Manhattan, served as a recent guest lecturer for the Divinity School’s “Awakening” lecture series.
Board of Trustee Chairman Dr. Joseph N. Bell, Jr. underscored the Forbes’ long ties with the University at a reception for the family, say
ing “The Forbes name has been part of the Shaw University family tree for a long time, and you can see what your family means to us by
where we are standing today.” The reception was held in the Bishop James A. Forbes, Sr. Conference Room of the Thomas A. Boyd Chapel
on Shaw’s campus.
Speaking for the family, Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., said, “Our family is delighted to make this presentation to Shaw University on behalf of
our parents, Bishop James A. Forbes, Sr. and Mrs. Mabel Clemmons Forbes. They believed in the power of education, and they loved Shaw
University. We grew up and attended church just a few blocks from here, and some of our most wonderful experiences have been in connec
tion with Shaw. Since this is the 400th year since the landing of Africans on these shores, it is a perfect time to celebrate the founding of the
first university in the South for the education of sons and daughters of Mother Africa. I’m sure our parents will find great delight in glory to
see Shaw University continue to provide a quality education for generations to come.”
Members of the Forbes family include: Gerard Richardson, Cy Richardson and the late Mrs. Evangeline Forbes Richardson; Dr. James A.
Forbes, Jr., Mrs. Bettye Franks Forbes and James A. Forbes, III; Congressman (retired) Edolphus Towns, Mrs. Gwendolyn Forbes Towns,
Darryl Towns and Ms. Deidra Towns; Jonathon West, Terrance West and the late Mrs. Effie Forbes West; Dr. David C. Forbes, Sr., Mrs. An
toinette “Toni” Spaulding Forbes, Mrs. Cheryl Forbes Moore, Dr. David C. Forbes, Jr. and Ms. Denise Forbes; Ms. Barbara Forbes, Gregory
Carr and Ms. Kimberly Carr; Mrs. Anna Forbes Towns, Esq., Jason Towns and Jerome Towns; Dr. Ronald Forbes, Sr., Mrs. Giola Greene
Forbes, Ms. Alicia Forbes, Ronald Forbes, Jr., Carlton Forbes and Mrs. Melanie Forbes Goins.
The Forbes family’s legacy gift was the largest in the Homecoming Week that saw several donations to Shaw University by individual
alumni, alumni chapters, corporations and other supporters. The total amount raised to date is $1.7 million, and the gifts have continued to
come in. “We are very appreciative of everything our alumni and friends do for the University and our students. Every donation helps us to
fulfill our mission; every gift brings us nearer to realizing the vision for Shaw’s future,” said Dr. Dillard.
The Shaw Bears added even more excitement to a big Homecoming Week with a win in Saturday’s football game.
Trump outstripping Obama on pace of executive orders
By Kevin Freking
WASHINGTON (AP) - It wasn’t too long ago that Donald Trump derided presidential executive orders as “power grabs” and a “basic
lisaster.”
He’s switched sides in a big way: In each year of his presidency, he has issued more executive orders than did former President Barack
)bama during the same time span. He surpassed Obama’s third-yeat total just recently.
Back in 2012, Trump had tweeted: “Why Is (at)BarackObama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of author-
That criticism continued once he entered the presidential race.
“The country wasn’t based on executive orders,” Trump said at a South Carolina campaign stop in February 2016. “Right now, Obama
:oes around signing executive orders. He can’t even get along with the Democrats, and he goes around signing all these executive orders,
t’s a basic disaster. You can’t do it.”
But Tramp appears to have learned what his predecessors discovered as well: It’s easier and often more satisfying to get things done
hrough administrative action than to get Congress to go along, said Andrew Rudalevige, a professor at Bowdoin College who studies the
listory and effectiveness of presidential executive actions.
"Most candidates don’t realize the utility of executive actions while campaigning,” Rudalevige said. “When they become president, they
[uickly gain an appreciation of how difficult it is to get things done in government.”
The White House declined to comment on Tramp’s use of executive orders. He surpassed Obama’s third-year total when, in the last two
veeks, he issued five executive orders relating to Medicare, government transparency, federal spending and imposing sanctions on Turkish
officials. ' ■
An executive order can have the same effect as a federal law - but its impact can be fleeting. Congress can pass a new law to override an
ixecutive order and future presidents can undo them.
Every president since George Washington has used the executive order power, according to the National Constitution Center, and some
>t those orders played a critical role in American history. President Franklin Roosevelt established internment camps during World War II.
’resident Harry Truman mandated equal treatment of all members of the armed forces through executive orders. And President Dwight Eisen-
tower used an Executive order to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock.
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New Emmett Till marker dedicated to
replace vandalized sign
GLENDORA, Miss. (AP) - A new memorial to
Emmett Till is being dedicated after past historical
markers were vandalized.
The Greenwood Commonwealth reports that the
new historical marker was to be dedicated Saturday
with members of Till’s family in attendance.
The 14-year-old African American teen was beat
en and killed in 1955 hours after he was accused
of whistling at a white woman. An all-white jury
in Mississippi acquitted two white men of murder
charges. The memorial is at the site where Till’s
body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River.
Till’s death helped spark the civil rights move
ment.
This is the fourth historical marker at the site. The
first was thrown in the river. The second and third
signs were shot at and became riddled with bullet
holes.
Queen Latifah to receive Harvard
black culture award
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Music artist and
actress Queen Latifah is among the honorees being
recognized by Harvard University this year for their
contributions to black history and culture.
Harvard is set to award the W.E.B. Du Bois Med
al to Queen Latifah and six other recipients on Oct.
22, according to the Cambridge, Massachusetts,
school’s Hutchins Center for African and African
American Research.
Other honorees include poet and educator Eliza
beth Alexander, Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti
tution Lonnie Bunch III, poet Rita Dove, co-founder
of Black Entertainment Television Sheila Johnson,
artist Kerry James Marshall and Robert Smith,
founder, chairman and chief executive of Vista Eq
uity Partners.
The award is named after Du Bois, a scholar,
writer, editor, and civil rights pioneer who became
the first black student to earn a doctorate from Har
vard in 1895.
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