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THURSDAY, JULY 13, 2
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- Bill Tatum
President,
Vinston-Salem
NAACP
Rams will play in
S.C. despite boycott
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
In any other season the Win
ston-Salem State University
Rams landing a season opener
with a regional powerhouse like
S.C. State University would be
considered a major coup.
But in a year when the
nation’s oldest and most influen
tial civil rights organization has
declared war on a state that has
flown the Confederate flag atop
its Statehouke for 38 years, the
Rams/Bulldogs match-up, sched
uled for Sept. 2 in Orangeburg,
S.C., is drawning some critics.
“It’s important that we all stay
on the same page,” Winston-
Salem NAACP Chapter Presi
dent Bill Tatum said. “The flag
has not been removed from an
area of public view. We still have
a boycott in place.”
The Confederate flag’s much
anticipated descent from atop
South Carolina’s Statehouse and
See Rams on A4
“This was not a
political decision...
Athletics and politics
we try to keep
separate.”
-Lee Hampton, Vice
Chancellor,
Winston-Salem
State University
LE. meeting
focus on
hing out to
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; African Methodist Episcopal Zion
Is its quadrennial meeting in Greens-
mbers of the church plan to do more
n the church’s future,
g to the Rev. Dr. Darryl Starnes,
le Bureau of Evangelism of the AME
, the church plans to reach out to the
community.
“It was in my heart (to
reach out to the community),”
Starnes said. “We have meet
ings in a city and nobody in
the area is touched. We felt
strongly pressed that spending
10 days in the city of Greens
boro that those people have a
strong witness of Christ.”
Trinity AME Zion Church
and the Rev. Dr. Michael
Frencher are playing host to
the hundreds of delegates who
his year’s conference,
ral conference will begin July 26, but
members of the church are in town
cally to embrace the community,
vents are planned by the AME Zion
nbrace the Triad.
25, members will minister to various
The Potter’s House Community
e Guilford Correctional Center, the
imily Shelter and the Weaver House
Shelter.
iference is primarily a business meet-
four years the AME Zion Church
her to administrate the work of the
Ihurch,” Starnes said. But this year is
added.
r, in addition to the work that we do
teraton Hotel, we wanted to do some
siness outside of the Sheraton Hotel,”
the church plans to do that “Kingdom
by having a block party and tent ser-
y, July 29.
See Church on A4
Photo by Paul Collins
Kenneth Fox Muhammad, mayor of East Spencer, speaks at a "Town Hall meeting" about the
Million Family March. Also shown are the co-conveners of the meeting, Larry Lean Hamlih, left,
and Minister Mikal Muhammad, center. The meeting was at the Anderson Center at WSSU.
Calling all citizens
Million Family March plans get jumpstart at town hall meeting
BY PAUL COLLINS
THE CHRONICLE
Several dozen people attend
ed a “Town Hall meeting” last
Thursday night to discuss the
Million Family March, which is
planned for Oct. 16 in Washing
ton, D.C., and to discuss an
agenda for the march. Applica
tions were distributed to those
attending to find out if they plan
to attend the Million Family
March or if they would like to
serve on a committee.
Co-convener Minister Mikal
Muhammad, a Winston-Salem
representative for Nation of
Islam leader Louis Farrakhan,
said, “The national agenda has
been placed and put together by
the Nation of Islam, the
NAACP, the National Urban
League, the Black Caucus, the
Hispanic Caucus and other great,
brilliant minds among our com
munity. As we start this new mil
lennium, the institution of
Almighty God is the family.
We’ve already had the Million
Man March....which was a great
success, followed by the Million
Woman March and next fol
lowed by the Million Youth
March. Now it all is being sum
marized with the Million Family
March.
“We have a lot of issues that
we will be addressing nationally
and locally. The purpose for us
putting together this national and
local agenda is to make sure we
can dictate whatever our needs
are, and that we may be found, let
me repeat, we may found work
ing at individuals and families
becoming responsible for our
destinations....
“We want to make sure that
we tailor a local agenda for our
local needs. This is taking place
all over America - town-hall
meetings like this, agendas being
put together.”
The other co-convener of the
“Town Hall meeting,” Larry
See Million family on A2
Local universities
on mission to
promote diversity
BY CHERIS HODGES
THE CHRONICLE
Prescott
This summer Wake Forest University, Winston-
Salem State University and Salem College will partic
ipate in an initiative that will change the face of edu
cation.
The three schools are involved in a four-week sum
mer program, which began last week, to promote a
philosophy of education that
embraces diversity and builds
community.
Jeryl Prescott, associate
dean of the college at WFU
and one of the organizers of
the program, said each activity
is designed to “encourage ana
lytical thinking about our
approaches to learning and
teaching as we confront our
own biases and consider the
realities of an increasingly plu
ralistic community.”
Others leading the summer program include Paige
Wilbanks, assistant director of student development
at Wake Forest; Joyce Williams-Green, associate vice
chancellor for academic affairs at WSSU; and Ann
McElaney-Johnson, associate dean of college at
Salem College.
According to Prescott, the idea for the summer
program was born after two years of planning.
“I think on our campus, there has been a sincere
desire to reach out to the Winston-Salem community,
not only the educational institutions but the volun
teer, the nonprofit and a lot of different institutions in
various ways,” she said.
Prescott said a group of WFU faculty got togeth
er and asked the question, “How can education be
improved for all students in the community?”
“What we noticed and what is a stark representa
tion of segregation is that we have the predominantly
white Wake Forest, we have the predominantly black
Winston-Salem State University and we have the all
women Salem College. Of course we have some won
derful things within each institution that the other
institutions can gain from being exposed to,” she
said.
One goal of this program is to make Winston-
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disease that afflicts
people in this coun-
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one would never be
; that she was born
cell, a disease that
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jads to blood vessel
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The Williams clan: Eddie, little Jasmine and Lori.
Photo by Kevin Walker
Crocker chosen
Big Brother of
the Year
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Carol Samuels was at the end
of her rope.
Trying to balance work and the
responsibility of raising two grow
ing boys by herself, Samuels began
to actively search for people who
could serve as role models for
sons. Her search led her to Big
Brothers-Big Sisters of Forsyth
County.
Samuels added the boys’
See Big Brother on A11
Maurice Crocker, from right, talks to "little brother
mother, Carol Samuels; and "little brother" Philip.
Photo by Kevin Walker
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