Black males to speak out at teen forum
By YVETTE N. FREEMAN
Communfty Newt Editor
Approximately 75 young
African-American males between
the ages of 13 and 19 will have a
firsthand opportunity this weekend
to become involved in finding solu
tions to the problems that they see
as most threatening to their future.
On Saturday, March 7, a Teen
Male Forum will be held in the
Ballroom of the Marque hoteL The
day's event will be divided into two
main sessions. During the morning
session, which will last from 9:30
a.m. to 2 p.m., the participants will
divide up into small groups to dis
cuss their ideas, feelings and opin
ions on the topics of violence,
racism, drugs, education, AIDS and
sexuality. During the afternoon
session, from 2-3:30 p.m., repre
sentatives from each group will
then speak out about their percep
tions to community leaders and the
public.
According to Martha Tenney of
the Forsyth County Health Depart
ment, the forum is not only "to
empower the yeung black men," but
also, "to come up with their per
spective on the best way to address
these issues."
Since community leaders and
the public are invited to attend the
afternoon session to hear the results
uf the suiall giuup discussions,
ney added that hopefully, after
wards, the community will not only
be motivated to act on some of the
concerns facing young African-^
American men, but will also have
an insight on exactly what is needed
to solve the problems.
"What we're hoping is that
there will be people in the audience
who represent churches, organiza
tions, and employment agencies,
that can take these messages back to
where they work, and incorporate
them in what they're already doing," "
said Tenney.
One-hundred-thirty invitations
to young black males were sent out
in hopes that at that least 75 will
participate in the forum, and so far,
the responses from the public nave
been very positive. Ifcnney stated
that "We didn't have anybody who
said they didn't want to attend."
Each of the six topics discussed
at the forum will have a facilitator
on hand. The facilitators will
include Nigel Alston, Khalid Grig
gs, Thomas Allen, Msuricc Hsrdy,
Lynn Aikens, and Alan Frazier.
There will also be resource persons
on hand for each topic. They will
include Ray Shore, the Rev. John
John Wabb of ALS Communications In Charlotte lad a training
aasalon for tha facilitators of tha upcoming Taan Mala Forum,
Tuasday, March 3, to halp prapara tham for tha avant.
Mendez, Robert Woolen, Adolphus
Coplin, DeAngelo Bell, and Larry
Worthy.
The Teen Male Forum is spon
sored by the Adolescent Pregnancy
Prevention Council of Forsyth
County, the Forsyth County Health
Department, the Winston-Salem
Urban League, and the Winston
Salem Chronicle , and is ftmded by
the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
For more information, contact
Martha Tenney at the Forsyth Coun
ty Health Department at 727-8172.
Head Start in crisis! Continued from page A1
am mend to the county commission
ers that the bidding process be
abandoned. If that happens, the
county commissioners must unani
mously approve offering the proper
ty to Family Services in a private
sale.
Since 1984, the school system
has leased Diggs Elementary
School to Family Services for Head
Start's child care and early child
hood education programs. Each
year. Head Start graduates about
150 children from their early child
hood education program into public
school.
During the past six years, the
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County
school administration and board
ha^often considered other uses for
tlie building, and each time Head
S^pft prepared itself to act.
"Each time we jumped," says
Pharr. About a year ago, Head Start
had mustered enough confm unity
support and corporate backing to
offer to buy Diggs in a private sale,
but did not receive the required
unanimous support from the county,
commissioners. "
Now the program is in a bid
ding war, this time competing to
buy the Skyland Elementary
school, which has been vacant for
nearly two decades, extensively
damaged by fire and vandalized.
Their most recent bid of $7500 has
been upset by a $10,000 bid from
Michael Coe, who has an interest in
a local electrical supply business.
"That's one of
the strange twists
this story has
taken/ laments
Pharr, who leaves
his work at Petree
Stockton & Robin
son to volunteer
time with Family
Services. "Subcon
tractors, such as Mr.
Coe, have no inter
est in the building.
They just want to
fix it up and sell it
? to us.
"We are
appealing to the
other bidders and to
the community to
defer to our press
ing need to have a
place for these chil
dren," said Pharr.
"We can't let someone put their
profit on this."
As of Wednesday, more bids
were coming in, and higher bids
expected before the close of the bid
ding period today.
Asked about the fairness of the
bidding process, school attorney
Doug Punger commented: "The
General Assembly makes the rules.
We just abide by them. The Board
of Education has on more than one
occasion expressed interest in sell
ing surplus school property to Fam
ily Services, but the board doesn't
have the authority to sell it privately
Head Start studMtt Parryl Blackmon, Tarrion Thompson, Torranci Martin, and
Jennie Wade apand a portion of thalr day putting together puzzlaa.
to anyone without the unanimous
approval of the county commission
ers."
Austin notes that Experiment in
Self-Reliance saw the need for
Head Start and asked Family Ser
vices to operate the program 27
years ago.
Eighty percent of Head Start's
budget is federally funded, but
twenty percent must come from the
community, which in Forsyth Coun
ty and other communities comes in
the form of reduced rent, United
Way funds, and volunteer labor.
Although Head Start initially
operated in church basements, fed
eral and state regulations require a
cafeteria, a school-like atmo
sphere, and limitations on the type
of building in which it can be
housed.
"If we have to close this pro
gram, we will be turning 400 chil
dren out on the street," said Austin.
"Sixty-five employees will be out of
work, and some of them have been
working for Head Start since 1965,
all of them at very low wages, pro
viding a real service to the commu
nity. I hope that people will call
their school board members and
county commissioners and let them i
know how they feel."
Thomas
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must address all ills in our society."
Clark, who represents the inter
national anti-torture group Human
Rights Watch, called Thomas' opin
ion Surprising and disappointing"
for its narrow view of the Constitu
tion's ban on cruel and unusual pun
ishment
More ftigh court decisions were
expected today, but as of Tuesday,
Thomas had participated in seven
unanimous and six split rulings.
In the six split votes, Thomas
sided with Scalia in each and with
the conservative Chief Justice
William H. Rehnquist and Justice
Anthony M. Kennedy in five.
In each of those six cases,
Thomas has been on the opposite
side of the court's two most liberal
members, Justices Harry A. Black
mun and John Paul Stevens.
Thomas, who succeeded the
retired Thurgood Marshall to
become only the second black jus
tice in the court's history, joined a
6-3 majority last month in saying
the Voting Rights Act of 1965 does
not apply when elected black offi
cials are stripped of their official
duties.
Before President Bush nomi
nated him to the Supreme Court,
Thomas served for 19 months as a
judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals for the District of
Columbia.
Although he began his new job
Oct 23, Thomas had some appeals
court decision-writing to complete -
and an opinion he released last week
offers greater insight into Thomas'
views on affirmative action.
Writing for a 2-1 majority of an
appeals court panel, Thomas told
the federal government it must stop
giving special preference to women
in awarding broadcast licenses.
Although a longtime, outspo
ken critic of broad affirmative
action programs, Thomas testified
at his turbulent Senate confirmation
hearings he had no reason to dis
agree with a 1990 Supreme Court
ruling that upheld giving special
preferences to minorities in award
ing broadcast licenses.
Thomas' appeals court opinion
said Congress failed to justify giv
ing preferences to women.
"Justice Marshall must be
extremely saddened and dismayed
by what his replacement seems to
be all about," Theodore Howard, a
Washington lawyer for the Prison
ers' Legal Services Project, said
after reading Tuesday's decision.
Of the high-court decisions in
which Thomas has participated,
most resolved relatively obscure
cases. But this year he will partici
pate in a very important religion
case, deciding whether the constitu
tionally required separation of
church and state is violated by
prayers ? invocations and benedic
lions ? said at public school gradu
ations.
Many experts believe the con
servative court is going to abandon
the way it's been judging such cases
for the past 20 years.
The court also will decide by
July the validity of a Pennsylvania
abortion law that requires doctors to
tell women about possible compli
cations and childbearing alterna
tives and then requires those
women to wait 24 hours before hav
ing an abortion.
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