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WILSON LIBRARY s> LHill W C COLLECTION - - P 0 BOX 8890 - CHAPEL HILI C/J15-8090 i Orwla Tinies WjHSB^ VOLUME 99 - NUMBER 1 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, JANUARY 11,2020 TELEPHONE 919-682-2913 PRICE 50 NC will appeal ruling that blocked voter photo ID law By Martha Waggoner RALEIGH (AP) - North Carolina will appeal a fed eral judge’s ruling that blocks the state’s photo identification voting law but not before the March 3 primary, the state Depart ment of Justice said Jan. 2. The office of Attorney General Josh Stein said in a news release that he will appeal the decision is sued Dec. 31 by U.S. Dis trict Court Judge Loretta Biggs. The judge ruled the ID mandate is tainted by bias that would deter black and Latino residents. The Republican leaders of the state House and Senate had asked Stein, a Democrat, to appeal. Stein’s release said his office won’t appeal the law in time for the March 3 primary because it would cause confusion. The re quirement would have been put into motion in less than two weeks for mail-in absentee voters, who also would have had to provide an ID copy. The state DOJ won’t go to court to try to require the use of photo identification for the March 3 primary “to avoid further voter confu sion in the primary election in which absentee voting begins in just 11 days and to ensure that the primary election proceeds on sched ule and is administered in an orderly manner,” the release said. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will re view Biggs’ decision once it’s appealed, “but we an ticipate that photo identifi cation will not be required to vote in the primary,” the release said. On Dec. 31, Biggs blocked the newest ver sion of North Carolina’s photo ID voting law until a lawsuit filed by the state NAACP and others is re solved. Stein will ask the higher court to allow pho to ID until the lawsuit is heard. In 2013, North Caro lina’s Republican-led leg islature passed a photo identification voting re quirement that a federal ap peals court struck down in 2016. Republicans then put a question on the Novem ber 2018 ballot to enshrine voter ID in the state consti tution, which passed with 55% ofthe vote. Lawmakers approved a separate law in December 2018 detailing how to im plement that amendment. The 2016 ruling said photo ID and other voter restrictions were approved with intentional racial dis crimination in mind, and Biggs wrote in her ruling that the newest version of the law was no different in that respect. Legislators received a breakdown of voter behavior by race before passing the first voter iden tification law and used that data to target African American voters, the court wrote in striking down that law. The same key lawmak ers championed both bills, Biggs wrote. “They need not have had racial data in hand to still have it in mind,” the ruling said. Register To Vote Ohio university names student lounges after slain activists OXFORD, Ohio (AP) - Miami University in Ohio hon ored three slain Civil Rights activists by renaming student lounges in residence halls near where they trained during the Freedom Summer in 1964. The activists - James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner - trained with hundreds of other vol unteers in Oxford, Ohio, to register black voters in the Deep South. The men were ambushed and killed by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. The slayings of the three men, dramatized in the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burn ing,” helped spur passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The university has already placed their names on an outdoor classroom memorial and a historical sign, as well as memorial trees and artwork at the site where much of the training occurred, the Hamilton-Middletown Journal reported. Representatives of Miami’s Associated Student Gov ernment suggested renaming the lounge spaces to increase awareness among the student body. The university’s board of trustees unanimously approved the recommen dation on Dec. 13. Beechwoods Hall now has James Chaney Lobby. Hill crest Hall now includes Andrew Goodman Lobby. And Stonebridge Hall has Michael Schwerner Lobby. The new names have already taken effect, but official signage will be designed and ordered soon, according to the university. „ 8 60002 71800 2 WsoNi Nell - NCCU JAZZ ENSEMBLE (NCCU Photo) NCCU Jazz Ensemble to Perform at Lincoln Center in Jack Rudin Competition ByKiaC.Bell NCCU Public Relations The North Carolina Central University (NCCU) Jazz Ensemble will perform at Lincoln Center in New York City during the debut of the Jack Rudin Jazz Championship, a two-day invitational band competition. The event, which takes place on Jan. 18-19, 2020, will feature sets from 10 ensembles chosen from among prominent university jazz programs in the country. NCCU is the only historically black college and university (HBCU) represented. The Jack Rudin competition is expected to become an annual event. This as a great honor and opportunity to participate in Inaugural Rudin Jazz Collegiate Jazz Competition. As educators and musicians, we strive to provide our students with quality education and hands-on experiences while maintaining the integrity ofjazz. Ira Wiggins, Ph.D., director of NCCU Jazz Studies Program Honoring the legacy of Jack Rudin, a longtime supporter of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the competition will pro vide participants with quality musical literature and a forum for celebrating their achievements, while instilling higher education methodology and philosophy to the Jazz at Lincoln Center programs. “This will be the greatest collection of young jazz talent in recent history,” said Todd Stoll, Jazz at Lincoln Centera€™s vice president of education. “These 10 bands represent the highest level of achievement in our music by young people.” The two-day invitational competition will include a combo showcase and a final concert featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in Rose Theater. “It’s not just about winning, but the significance of being recognized among nationally acclaimed Jazz Pro grams,” Wiggins adds. The ensembles will also participate in rehearsals, workshops and competition at Lincoln Center’s Rose The ater. The final competition will feature performances by the top three bands, followed by an awards ceremony and announcement of the winner of top honors. NCCU was the first university in the state to offer the Bachelor of Music degree in jazz studies. The program now includes a comprehensive vocal jazz component and offers a Master of Music in both jazz composition and jazz performance. Alumni from the Jazz Studies Program include professors at the college and university levels, teachers of primary and secondary music education, as well as production and performance artists. To learn more about the competition, visit jazz.org.
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