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By CHERYL WILLIAMS
Chronica Staff Writ#r
Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Alice Walker will come to
Winston-Salem State University
next week via a live satellite
hook-up.
"A Private Conversation with
Alice Walker" will be broadcast
on Nov. 5 from San Francisco to
WSSU and 92 other colleges.
The video conference will be
held from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. in
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exposure jor our community
Room 228 of the the HallPatterson
Communications
Building and will feature questions
from the various audiences
across the country.
"This is the first video conference
the university has sponsored,"
said Dr. Lucy Hayden,
chairwoman of WSSU's English
and communication arts department.
"It really sounds very exciting.
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By JOHN HINTON
Chronicle Staff Writer
Virginia Sen. Beqjunin J.
Lambert will speak at a banquet
for the Black Political Awareness
League Saturday at 6 p.m. at the
Benton Convention Center.
Lambert represents the 9th
Senatorial District in Richmond,
Va. Political candidates and
elected officials throughout
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attend this event.
The purpose of the banquet is
to focus attention on the local
candidates in the general election.
The 21st Century Political Action
Committee of North
Carolina has endorsed W. Terry
Sherrlll of Charlotte for resident
superior court judge.
Sherrill, a district court judge,
is the only black statewide candidate
in the Nov. 4 elections.
'Terry's candidacy is terribly important
for North Carolina,''
said Faiger Blackwell of Caswell
County.
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their problem," she said.
Mrs. Woodruff said she waited
until a week before the election to
announce her candidacy because
she wanted to make sure she had
widespread community support.
"Many people told me that I
; should wait," she said. "The
time is right now, and we can do
it."
. Singletary said that the campaign
has recruited ward captains
to help get out the vote. He also
said he has asked for help from
the 150-member Baptist Ministers
Conference and Associates.
"This campaign is totally
dependent upon how black people
come out and vote,"
Singletary said. "They have to
make the decision if they seriously
want Mazie Woodruff as a
county commissioner;
The Rev. Carlton A.G.
Eversley, a member of the conference,
said the ministers met .
Tuesday morning before Mrs.
Woodruff's announcement.
"We discussed her possible
campaign, but we didn't know
whether she was going to run or
not," Eversley said. "1 can't
speak for the other members, but
I am supporting Mrs.
Woodruff's write-in campaign."
Other supporters of Mrs.
Woodruff's candidacy include
Southeast Ward Alderman Larry
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and East Ward Alderman
Virginia K. Newell.
Singletary said Mrs. Woodruff
would need at least 15,000 votes
to win. However, Mrs. Woodruff
said she needs 22,000 to 30,000
votes to win.
Turnout at the polls next week
is expected to be good, especially
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"I think to hear her talk About
life in the South, why she became
a writer and new themes and
directions in her writing will be
interesting, particularly because
so many people are aware of her
because of her book, The Color
Purple.' "
Dr. Hayden said she hopes
there is a large turnout for the
program.
44We certainly will encourage
students in our classes to
attend," she said. "We're plann'
mission to provide literary
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Dr. Lucy Hayden, WSSU
ing to get letters out to some
churches, high schools and colleges
and universities to let them
know about the program."
The two-hour program will
feature an interview with Ms.
Walker conducted by Dr. Barbara
Christian, professor of
Afro-American studies at the
University of California at
Berkeley.
The program also will feature
:e senator to
Sherrill received an endorsement
of $400 from the organization,
which was founded in 1985
to widen political participation.
"Many contributors outside of
Charlotte were not aware of
Terry's campaign/* said Vernon
L. Robinson, chairman of the
PAC. "By contributing to the
PAC, these individuals were able
to support a crucial effort though
they are unable to follow the race
closely."
A native of Huntsville, Sherrill
attended the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill as an
undergraduate and a law school
student. A recipient of a
Morehead Scholarship, Sherrill
served as an assistant public
defender in Charlotte.
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if the weather is pleasant, Mrs.
Cooper said Tuesday.
"We expect the voter turnout
-to be similar to other off-year
elections,'* she said.
In the 1978 elections, 41 percent
of the 113,389 registered
voters in the county cast ballots.
In 1982, 48 percent of the
registered voters went to the
polls.
The latest Board of Elections
statistics show 134,49S registered
county voters, 29,317 of them
black.
There were 29,031 registered
black voters before the May
primary.
The black vote may determine
the race between Democrat W.
Warren Sparrow and Republican
Joseph J. Gatto.
"Both candidates are qualified
attorneys," said Southeast Ward
Alderman Womble. "Both could
do a good job as district
attorney."
Sparrow attended a . recent
meeting of the Baptist Ministers
Conference and Associates while
Gatto spoke at a breakfast two
weeks ago at Reynolds Cafeteria.
Meanwhile, congressional
hopeful Stuart W. Epperson, a
Republican, has continued to
court black votes in his efforts to
unseat 5th District incumbent
Stephen L. Neal, a Democrat
who narrowly beat him in 1984.
Has Epperson's drug abuse
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support in the black community
to take NeaTs scat?
"I am more concerned about
getting drugs out of this community
than I am getting votes
out of this community," Epperson
said two weeks ago in Happy
Hill Gardens, where he par*
via satellite
poetry reading by Ms. Walker
and a film clip from "The Color
Purple."
Dr. Hay den said that there will
be two question-and-answer
periods.
Questions will be phoned in to
the station in San Francisco and
will then be flashed onto the
screen, she said.
Hosting the program is a unique
opportunity for WSSU, Dr.
Hay den said.
WSSU became aware of the
program, she said, when fliers arrived
in August from its sponsor,
the Massachusetts-based
American Program Bureau.
Because WSSU belongs to the
Black College Satellite Network,
the university was able to get the
program at a reduced cost, she
said.
Dr. Hayden said it was up to
each college to decide whether to
charge for the program. WSSU
chose to offer it free.
"I feel that it is part of our
mission to provide literary exposure
for our community," she
_ said.
keynote ann
James G. Exum received the
endorsements of two of North
Carolina's legal organizations in
his race for chief justice of the
state's Supreme Court.
The North Carolina Bar
Association and the N.C.
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Academy of Trial Lawyers endorsed
Exum last week in
Raleigh.
"This is the most impressive
endorsement ever made by the
state's legal community for
anyone running for office," said
Burley Mitchell. _ an associate
justice for the state Supreme
Court. "Nothing rivaling such an
endorsement has ever occurred
during a judicial race."
"I am honored, pleased and
overwhelmed," said Exum, who
is facing Republican Rhoda Billings
for the chief justice post.
Two black Democratic candidates
in next week's election are
guaranteed victory because they
face no Republican opposition.
State Rep. Annie Brown Kennedy
will continue to represent
the 66th House District, a
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Neal said he has earned the
black vote with his civil rights
record during his 12 years ih Congress.
Rep.' Charles Rangel,
D-N.Y., endorsed him via
telephone last week.
Observers expect another close
election between Neal and Epperson,
even without Ronald
Reagan's name on the ballot.
Such also is the case with
Republican Sen. James T.
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"Even though I don't face any
Republican opposition, I am still
committed to serving the needs of
blacks and women while 1 am in
Raleigh," Mrs. Kennedy said at a
recent forum.
District Court Judge Roland
H. Hayes will serve a two-year
term on the bench. "I feel real
good about that."
He says he will seek re-election
in 1988 to a four-year term as a
district court judge.
The campaign between former ?
Gov. Terry San ford and Sen.
James T. Broyhlll has hit the
local airwaves.
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