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'The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly"
VOL. XVIII, No. 17
NationsBank
agrees to $1.1
million deal
with NAACP
NationsBank Corporation and the NAACP are
teaming up to establish five Community Development
Resource Centers in a first-of-its-kind pilot program to
promote community development lending.
NationsBank Corp. is the company to be formed
by the pending merger of NCNB Corp. and
C&S/Sovran Corp. The merger is to be completed
December 31.
NationsBank is committing $1.1 million to fund
the Resource Centers for three years. The facilities,
located in five key NationsBank cities, will be staffed
by the NAACP.
Bennett Brown, who will be chairman of Nations
Bank; Hugh McColl, who will be chief executive offi
cer of NationsBank; and (Dr.) Benjamin Hooks, execu
tive director of the NAACP, made the announcement
Wednesday at a news conference in Atlanta.
Also participating were (Dr.) W.F. Gibson, Nation
al Board chairman; Earl Shinhoster, regional director of
the NAACP.
"Last summer we unveiled a $10 billion, 10-year
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\ \ There, is some&Siig aboul^tf|^droe of the p
1 year that brings the best piit of most of $f &n^X
the very harden can escape being toothed by theTg
. specialness of the Christmas season. It's as if we ?
all act like we are standing In an auport waving :
goodbye to our loved ones. You know the feel
ing.
It's the rime of the year when most of us
"~t?arai llfepertiaps in far greater tcnns diaywe
do ordinarily. It's the time when even the grouch
lest of folk might even toy to be on their best
behavior to say a kind word or do a kind
deed. Yes, even the hellions will try to be goad
for this one day.
People whohave fought for eons ?- the
J^ws and 'Arabs, Catholics and Protest a n t s,
Hindu and Sikhs ~~ will lay down their arms on
. this one day of the year. Even "Hagar the Honi*
ble" refuses to knock down a door with a Christ*
mas wreath on it!
Most of us will be hoping for the chance to
spread just a little bit of love to somebody ? to
try to make the world good for at least one day
?: ? In the year. ??',:
All of this makes you wonder doesn't it?
Why is it that we have such a hard time being i
good to one another throughout the rest of the
year? Why is it so damn hard to drive friendly
the day after Christmas? Why do we insist on
being first in line instead of yielding to our
neighbors ? throughout the rest of the year?
Why do so ftarty of us find it so difficult to
smile and say good morning, good evening or
exchange a simple helio?
cv But come Christmas day, we look at each
r' other as if to say through our eyes, "Thank God
lb* this time of the ycar,n This is fecial!
And why do we make the sacrifice of time,
money, and effort for this one day during this
special season? Sure* the cynic would say it's
bemuse we derive greater profits than at any
other time of the year. And yes. I know that's
true. But I don't think that's the real reason.
I think it's because there is something way
down deep within ourselves, deep within our
hearts, our souls and our minds that really
believes there is more to life than that which
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Lowrance Middle School recently hold a competition In which the students
decorated their cltosroom doors for Christmas. The classroom of teacher
Carta Covington and Instructional assistant Robbie Allen won first place In
the comp*tltti>n, and rscslved a blue rfbbon. The theme of the winning door
was Pictured are: Robbie Allen (back, left), Carla
Covington (back, right),,-atid students Denarle Hatchett, Thaddeus Williams,
/iptCaudin, Bethany Cockerftaiti and Erlck Gonzales.
Hamlin receives
local recognition
Group honors NCBRC efforts
By YVETTE N. FREEMAN
Community News Editor
The Awakening Giants organization recently hon
ored Larry Leon Hamlin and the North Carolina Black
Repertory Company for their efforts to expand Febru
ary's black history month theme into a year-round pro
motion of African-American history and culture. .
Rasheed Bey, founder and director of The Awaken
ing Giants, presented Hamlin, founder and artistic
director of the North Carolina Black Repertory Compa
ny, with a certificate of appreciation and proclamation
from Mayor Martha Wood Tuesday. The proclamation
declared that black history be recognized 365 days of
the year.
"What we're doing as a cultural organization," said
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Race relations
seminars continue
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Dr. King's mission goes on
By SHERIDAN HILL
Chronicle Staff Writer
For 27 years, Dr. Charles King devoted his life to consciousness-rais
ing between blacks and whites and men and women. Those in Winston
Salem who were greatly saddened to hear of his passing in September will
be glad to learn that he trained successors who are continuing his work.
He founded the Urban
Crisis Center in Atlanta,
and through seminars
across the country, con
fronted racism and sexism
head-on. with no excuses
or apologies. He is credited
with opening hearts and
minds in the Central Intel
ligence Agency, the U.S.
Navy, and national corpo
rations.
Now, Dr. King's tech
niques are used in seminars
conducted by Matthew
Thornton, III, who trained
under Dr. King for five
years and was certified by
him. Thornton says his
J&Jtypany. Thornton &
Associates, conducted scm
COMMENTARY
By SHERIDAN HILL
Oppressor faces
the oppressed
I've never seen so many white guys
squirm so much. In fact, I've rarely seen
white guys squirm at all. But then, they had
good reason to feel uncomfortable. Fourteen
white men, many of them vice presidents of
a local corporation, squared off Monday
morning in a room with five black men, six
black women, and seven white women with
the instructions to talk about black people
and white people, men and women - and the
number one rule was to be honest
None of us Were honest to begin with,
inars for Dr. King for sev- bul l^c facilitator, Matthew Thornton, quick
eral years before his death. ^ took care of that within the first sixty min
Thornton's ss^oci^tcs arc utes. Thornton lanccd our boils, pierccd the
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years, and Bea Edwards
who also worked with him. As managing director of operations for Federal
Express, Thornton trained over 300 of its employees in the seminar.
Thornton says the spirit and essence of Dr. King's sensitivity training
is still very much in tact, but he has made some changes to update the"
course, such as spending more time exploring sexism.
There are firm rules that participants must bind themselves to, but if
they forget, Thornton uses a variety of techniques to keep them "on focus."
(Those who have been in the course know what it means to stay on focus.)
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Larry Leon Hamlin, founder and artistic director o! the North Carolina Black Repertory Company,
receives a certificate of appreciation and a proclamation from Mayor Martha Wood, from Rasheed
Bey, founder/director of the Awakening Giants and Hafirahbennerson, an organization member.
NAFEO urges mass response to save 45,000 students
By LARRY A STILL
Capital News Service
Washington, D.C. ? Presidents of
the nation's 107 Historically Black Col
leges and Universities (HBCUs) and key
African-American educational leaders
were urged this week to respond to the
latest efforts by the Bush administration
to limit affirmative action, financial aid
and scholarship programs for black dis
advantaged students.
Almost a year from the December,
1991 date when Assistant Secretary of
Education Michacl L. Williams issued
his controversial guidelines declaring
"race-specific" educational programs
ineligible for government support, new
Department of Education Secretary
Lamar Alexander released a new set of
proposed principles for "non-discrimina
tion in federally assisted programs." An
estimated 45,000 minority scholarships
may be affcctcd.
The National Association for Equal
Opportunity in Higher Education called
upon top HBCU officials to participate
in a Minority Scholarship Task fcorce to
help mobilize support for minority based
scholarships at the American Council on
Education's (ACE) annual meeting, Jan
uary 22-25, 1992 and the National Sum
mit for Independent Higher Education,
February 5 and 6 in the nation's capital.
NAFEO will hold its annual conference
March 18-22.
Dr. Samuel L. Myers, N AFEO pres
ident, also urged higher education offi
cials to seek meetings with Cabinet Sec
retary Alexander, new Assistant Secre
tary Dr. Carolyn Reid-Wallace and
Williams, who participated in the release
of the new rules. NAFEO leaders are
also requesting meetings with Sen. Paul
Simon (D-IL) and Rep. Craig Washing
ton (D-TX) who have considered specif
ic congressional legislation to strengthen
race-specific programs.
The Department of Education is
conducting its latest policy review
because Congress has given the
department two assignments which,
when race-exclusive scholarships are
involved, sometimes seem to compete,
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