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More Roundball
Despite the fact that the NCAA decided
its champions weeks ago, basketball
fever is still alive in the National Basket- ?
ball Association and here, in the Big
Four basketball tournament.
Sports, Page 15.
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VOL. VIII NO. 34 U S P S. No."067910
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By Ruthcll Howard
Staff Wrltar
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In a City Hall meeting closed to the press, black leaders,
minority contractors, Mayor Wayne E. Corpening and
representatives of the developers and general enntr?rtr*r
John S. Clark Co. Inc. met last Wednesday to air problems
concerning minority participation in the conOnce
the smoke had cleared, minority builders had
"We put our cards on the table here.
The wounds are healed and now we .
just want to get it done. "
?Mayor Wayne Corpening
agreed to handle 32 percent of the subcontracts in the
SI.2 million project which, once completed, is expected
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us w uiawR-uwnea ana operated.
No contracts were signed last week, said Joe Dean of
contractors confirming their agreement to participate in
the project. Dean added that minorities will make up 40
percent of the center's construction work force.
: TlilMilin meeting. East Ward Alderman
Virginia Neweli^who caHecLaad moderated the session,
passed around a letter to be sent to tenants of the
shopping center and asked all those present who agreed
with its contents to sign. The letter, which said, in part,
"the black community has waited for twenty years for a
--?Quality shopping cenlei and are pleased -yotr-wtH-be-a
? tenant in the~shopplng center,1' assured the tenants-that ? -=
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By Ruthell Howard week. studying
~7 Staff Writer? -It would he far amiss if a^t t<
Winston-Salem State Uni- determii
versity attempted to close Gadsor
The Winston-Salem State a center that is as vital to may re
University Early Childhood the school, teachers and order tc
Center, which Chancellor students as the Early tions of
Douglas Covington once Childhood Center,'* said wouldn'
considered closing, will Melvin Gadson, head of the the cent<
probably remain open, a WSSU Education Division. "We'i
WSSU official said last ,4We only said we were everythii
Robeson Tribute S
Sponsored Here [
By Claire D. Carter
' Staff Writer
"Each artist, each individual must elect to fight for ija
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irecuum ur ior slavery. 1 maae-my cnoice. I had no alternative,"
said the late Paul Robeson, a human rights
activist who forsake many achievements and privileges to | j
fight racism and segregation in America and other parts j |H
"In my opinion and the opinion of many others, | j|ra|
Robeson was one of the greatest Americans who ever liv- |
ed," said Clifton Graves, a coordinator of the Ad-Hoc | |
Committee for Haitian Relief.
The committee will sponsor a birthday tribute to
Robeson Saturday at 6 p.m. at the Reynolds Health Care
Cafeteria.
Robeson was an All-American football player, a Phi
Beta Kappa scholar at Rutgers University, lawyer,
concert singer, Shakespearean actor and a linguist.
However, he sacrificed his personal goals to take a stand
against injustices throughout the world.
During the red scare, government officials suspected WASHIf
Robeson of being a communist because he favored in a sj
unions. Although Robeson publicly denied the accusa- meeting,
tion, the government forbade him to travel to other parts Reagan i
of the world and invalidated his visa. But it never proved some 45
that he advocated communism. < ? and jouri
Robeson's father was a slave in Martin County, N.C.; ing roon
(in the eastern part of the state) who escaped to New ecutive B
was in tl
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allocate funds in "We're still d
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the university, but of the center. "
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SJGTON (NNPA)-- for the annual Mid-Winte
pecially arranged Workshop of the Nationa
President Ronald Newspaper Publisher'
recently addressed Association.
black publishers in a prepared speech, th
nalists irv the brief- president denied that his ad
i of the Old Ex- ministration is anti-black
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uiiuing. i ne group "I intend to protect the civ
ie nation's capital rights of every American ii
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Blacks struggled together g
I in this country to achieve c
equality and annihilate in7 A
justice. Blacks joined to- b
gether in non-violent 1<
marches to protest segre- c
gated eating facilities.
Blacks even joined together V
to form organizations c
responsible for the promo- tl
kdministra
r this country," he said. 4
il "This administration is not h
s trvinc to turn hack the f
hands of time. We under- a
e stand that the 'good old f
[- days,' as some would say, n
were not the good old days g
il for all Americans." /
n Reagan further noted that, r
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iniversity will not make a fac
inal decision until it can get its
,uch input. "We want to feci
iiscuss everything thor- per
)ughly with all the in
)arents/' he said. chil
Chancellor Covington sent cen
i fetter to the University of jn
^orth Carolina General op
Administration in Novem- yh<
>er requesting that the |ett
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ion of equality not only for 7,3*
hemselves - but for other mitl
aces as well. In sum- out
tiary, blacks worked to- agg
ether. However, this cen
Toup effort and unity that and
haracterized black thre
Americans in the 460s is* asss
^ginning to dwindle in the,*. all
)80 s as black-on-black and
ritnes continue to occur. the
During 1981 in the city of In
Vinston-Salem, 12,443 Wai
rimes were committed by higl
ie total adult population, emf
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4 the federal government Anc
lad a definite role to play in time
he lives of loyal citizens poir
nd local citizens. It is the essa
ederal government's unde- R
liable responsibility to 8ree
uarantee the rights of all l'c's
Americans wherever these v'ev
ights are^^being denied. assa
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Our Aldermen
Part Two of a five-part series on
Winston-Salem's black aldermen
features Vivian Burke, who discusses
the prospects for a hlark mavnr
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relations with the black community
and her fellow aldermen.
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ility be phased out and met with university officials
funding reallocated for requesting that the center be
ruiiment and counseling?kept?open.?hi?addition,
sonnel. John Jessup, president of
response, parents of the center's PTA, said
Idren enrolled in the earlier in rhp vpar
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ter have offered to assist PTA has no problem with |]
keeping the center increasing tuition to keep
rrating, Gadson said, the center operating as long
: parents initiated a as the increase is gradual,
er-writing campaign and See Page 2
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M of which were com- house breaking for every *
:ed by blacks. Blacks ten homes. Black educators
- distanced whites in and leaders in Winstonravated
assault, lar- Salem attribute the growy,
burglary, robbery ing problem of black-on- '
other assaults. Eighty- black crimes to frustration
e (83) percent of all and anger being fostered in
lults and 70 percent of ^the black community by
single offender rapes ^ poverty, racism and unemrobberies
occur within * ployfnent.
same race. "Blacks commit crimes
Winston-Salem's East against other blacks herd,
where there is the cause of the double stan
test percentage of un- dard of justice that has
>loyment, there is one See Page 26
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1 as I've said many affirmative action, and its .
?s, to guarantee them at m ve to dismantle the ot
it of bayonet if ncc- fice of EEOC and other
ry '' agencies cr ated to main- M
eagan's statements were lain the gains 9\ blacks an
!ted with quiet skep- minorities by tne federal
rn by the publishers m government.
f of the administration's Nevertheless, the president
ult against busing and See Page II ,
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