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Notes of Interest |
Letters on this week's editorial page
range from reactions to "Sister,
Sister" to reactions to the Chronicle's
forthcoming sports magazine to opposition
to the proposed four-year |
terms for state legislators.
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Vol. VIII No. 44 U.S.P.S. No.
^ Black Coaliti
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By LaTanya A. Isley
~~" ~ Staff Writer
leaders has endorsed a slate of candidates for Tuesday's
primary election.
Last Saturday afternoon the Black Leadership Roundtable
met at the Patterson Avenue YMCA to discuss the
candidates and their stances on issues pertinent to the
"To support Lancaster would be tantamountto
rewarding someone for bad conduct. "
? Larry Little
black community.
According to Alderman Larry Little, the group, which
was composed of Little, NAACP President Patrick
Hairston, Clifton Graves, the Rev. Jerry Drayton, the
Rev. Howard Wiley, Naomi Jones of the Black Political
Awareness League, Norma Smith of the East Winston
Crime Task Force and many pther black community
Absence OtBlac
By LaTanya A. Isley
Staff Writer
The screening process for a new school superintendent
has met with strong criticism from a number of black
leaders recently. 7
Last Wednesday, Alderman Tafry^Little accused the Winston-Salem/Forsyth
County Board of Educators of
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Black Professionals
Gather In Winston
For Historic Meeting
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By Althea Bradford
Staff Writer
On June 18-20, the Old North State Medical Society,
Old North State Dental Society and North Carolina
Association of Black Lawyers"assembled in rhe Hyatt
Hotel and Benton Convention Center to bring together,
for the first time, the members of these three traditionally
separate groups of black professionals. The focus, as
printed on the program for the "Conjoint '82" banquet,
was on ways of "improving the quality of life for all
citizens, particularly those who are poor and black,
through the delivery of health care, legal services and tl?e
legislative process.
Georgia State Sen. Julian Bond was the keynote
speaker at the convention's Saturday evening banquet.
and he spoke on the theme "Progress Through Unity: An
Improved Thrust for Black Professionals."
The activities for the Old North State Medical Society
included a future physicians forum and seminars on
hypertension and sexually transmitted diseases, amonv>
other sessions.
The future physicians forum was conducted by a group
of medical doctors who spoke on subjects as diverse as
pubhc health and academic medicine. The update on
hypertehsion was led by Dr. John Arradondo, chairman
of the Department of Family Medicine at McHarry
Medical College. Arradondo said that patients can be
educated by their doctors to take their own blood
pressure and can usually avoid hypertension by decreasing
their salt intake, exercising and visiting their physicians
on a regular basis,
The session on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
was directed by Dr. Sam Pegram of the Division of Infectious
Diseases at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine.
Pegram said there are at leas* 25 STDs in the United
States and during the 1980s, "you're gonna have a
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leaders, will endorse candidates who have addressed
-ihme issues most effegttv<4y
For sheriff, it will endorse Robert Woods instead of incumbent
Manly Lancaster, mainly because of Lancaster's
record on affirmative action.
"Lancaster has disregarded the hiring and promotion of
minorities during his years as sheriff," Little said. "After
12 years, he doesn't merit being re-elected. To support
Lancaster would be tantamount to rewarding someone
for bad conduct."
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i? 11iic adiu mai uuiiuugfi me group is not endorsing
Woods on his performance, it is endorsing him because
-of the issues he addresses that regard minorities and
women, such as assuring equal opportunity for qualified
personnel in promotions.
-According^tQ=-LiuleT-_there was no support for Bob
Carter among the participants in the discussion.
The group decided "unanimously" to endorse Mickey
Andrews for district attorney over incumbent Donald
Tisdale. Little said that Tisdale had been unfair to blacks
by excluding them from juries and ttiat since he had
become district attorney in 1974,he has hired only one.
black to serve as assislanrrlistrict attorney when-there
were 11 positions. Little also said that Tisdale is unfit to
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being racially insensitive to blacks by not appointing a
black person to the screening committee that is looking
at applications fin .i stir-rr?ggnr tn outgoing ^np^rinten
dent Dr. James A. Adams.
Little said the screening process is a very important step
in the selection of a new superintendent and that the
black community shquld have a part in the selection.
?^he-black community of JWinston-Salem needs to be
involved in every step of the process," he said.
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By Ruthell Howard
Staff Writer
This article is the first in a two-part series.
If you leave a pail of water for spirits to drink at
night, they will let you rest.
Sprinkling salt and pepper around your bedroom
or pasting newspapers on the walls are ways of keeping
spirits out at night. They have to read every'word
on the newspapers before they can enter the room
and by that time, it will be daylight.
Superstitions, like these and many more, folk
remedies, spiritualists and root doctors serve as
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Georgia State Sen. Julian Bond sits attentively i
tion of the Old North State Medical Society, Olc
Association of Black Lawyers held last weekend
at the Conjoint '82 Banquet on Reaganomics an
batting racism. A story on the convention appei
ling committee
Members of the school board have said that Dr. Willia
F. Sheppard, a member of the committee, will serve
the interest of the black community since he is actii
director of development affairs at Winston-Salem Sta
University and has ties to the black community.
But Little disagrees. "Sheppard is a nice person but h
ain't black and he ain't no spokesman for the black con
munity. Some people seem to forget that," Little said.
Sheppard responded to Little's remarks by saying the
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Corpening
Says Race
By Ruthell Howard
Staff Writer
Providing residents in Winston-Salem the opportunit
o have a "good quality of life" through job oppoi
unities and housing ? that's what the city's mayoi
Vayne Corpening, stressed in a recent Chronicle intci
iew.
Corpening says he reels he has a good relationship wit
he black community. "I work with the black communit
ust like 1 work with all the other communities," he said
'It's iust cooneration That'* hnu. vr?.i rhinnc 1
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Corpening cited housing as one example of city-wide im
irovements for both blacks and whites. "I think we'v
lone more for subsidized housing than any other city
now of," he said. "I don't think you can have a good ci
y unless people have good homes, so we're really goin
II out for housing and I think the proof of the pudding i
List going out and seeing what we've done for low am
noderate-income homes as well as seeing that you can af
ord a house."
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safeguards against the uncertainties and mysteries of
life and as a means of dealing with unhappy love
lives, getting revenge, mending a broken marriage or
even combatting illnesses.
Folk remedies, which are derived from the Voodoo
religion of Africa, are recommended for all types of
concerns, ranging from anemia to abortions. A
blood pie, consisting of blood from a hog or cow
taken immediate after slaughter, is prescribed for
anemia. For a goiter, raw fish is a suggested cure and
breathing into a paper sack is the cure for hyperventilation
(extremely rapid breathing that can cause dizziness
or fainting) in "Black Folk Medicine," an arti{
Roots
?s'closer, No, not the kind Alex Haley wrote
of black about, but the kind that involve noniejr
en_ traditional remedies and voodoo, are
political examined by Reporters LaTanya Isley
con. and Ruthell Howard.
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at the Joint legislative workshop during the convenI
North State Dental Society and the North Carolina
in the Winston-Salem Hyatt Hotel. Bond later spoke
d the need for unity in the black community In corners
below (photo by Santana).
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m "it is a matter of fact that I'm not black, but the law
in specifically charges the school board with screening thfe
ig applicants. Unfortunately, all incumbents are white but
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Sheppard also said that the selection of the new
ie superintendent is the responsibility of the school board
i- and no one else.
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Corpening said the city has also 44finally gotten a good
fair housing ordinance, which allows the city or individuals
to sue in Superior Court in instances of
discrimination. "I think we have a fair housing ory
dinance passed which is fair and, after all, that's what
everybody wants," he said.
"As far as I'm concerned, I hope I do (have a
h zood relationship with blacks). I've talked to
y several this morning. Some of my best friends, I
l. consider, are blacks. "
i- The East Winston Shopping Center, now under cone
struction in that area, and the proposed Raddison Hotel
1 for downtown Winston-Salem, will help provide jobs and
!- services to the black community, Corpening said. "When
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s best to keep Winston-Salem one of the most outstanding
d cities in North Carolina," he said, *'and some things you
have to do to make it happen. One of the main things is
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cle in a student health publication at Duke University
in Durham called "The rorum."
For many black Americans, folk medicine or home
remedies are alternative forms of medicine and the
root doctor is often consulted rather than a licensed
physician to "cure ills."
While the word "roots," for many, connotes
dangerous dealings with evil spirits, supernatural
forces and hexes, one medical doctor points out that
much of modern medicine has its roots in "roots."
"ONE HAS to go back into history to show
throughout the time man has been on earth, 'folk
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