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75 cents WINSTON-SALEM GREENSBORO HlCH POINT Vol. XXVIII No. 26
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Veteran writer
says greatness
can be achieved
In his more than 25 years as a sports
journalist, Bryan Burwell has covered 19
Super Bowls and has worked for USA Today,
the New York Times and HBO's 'Real Sports'
BY COURTNEY GA1LLARD
THE CHRONICLE
Aspiring journalists who
were not in the Thompson
Center on the campus of Win
ston-Salem State University
Wednesday morning. Feb. 20,
missed out. At least that is
what Bryan Burwell, a award
winning sports journalist for
HBO Sports, said to those in
attendance. Burwell was the
final speaker in a series of
Black History Month lectures
at WSSU.
Speaking for close to two
hours, Burwell captivated his
audience by filling the minds,
and accelerating the dreams,
of the young studenjs, espe
cially those studying in the
mass communications depart
ment at WSSU, with endless
possibilities, only if they work
hard.
"Anytime you get an
opportunity to learn some
thing from somebody who has
already been where you're
going and you don't take
advantage of it, you're a
fool." Burwell said about the
students who did not take time
out to attend his lecture and
pick his brain about the jour
nalism and sports industries.
With 26 years of experi
ence in journ'alism behind
him, Burwell is a veteran
Byran Burwell
writer, having worked for
some of the largest national
news organizations, such as
USA Today and The New
York Daily News, and he has
appeared on CNN and Black
Entertainment Television.
Having covered 19 Super
Bowls, four Olympic Games
and various NBA finals. Bur
well has interviewed and
rubbed elbows with some of
the sports industry's greatest
athletes around the world.
Burwell said he was given the
chance to cover sports on an
international level because
someone felt he was talented
enough to do the job and also
?because he believed in him
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Photos by Kevin Walker
Rita Lee holds Max as he plays with Qolden Nugget a horse related to Roy Roger's famous sidekick. Trigger.
Brown wants
to extend run
on School Board
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Geneva Brown filed for re
election Monday, hoping to
extend her 10-year run on the
city-county School Board just a
bit longer.
Brown had considered 1 not
running this time around. She
said Tues
day. atter
signing
paper
work at
t h e
Forsyth
County
Board of
Elections,
that she
was
moved to
run aeain
after attending the first-^ver Mar
tin Luther King Prayer Breakfast
last month, an event sponsored
by The Chronicle.
Brown said she was dis
mayed that she and the only other
African American on the School
Board, Victor Johnson, who filed
last week, were the only mem
bers of the Board of Education
whp attended the event, which
focused on ways to heal racial
wounds and to build bridges
between the races. Schools
Superintendent Don Martin was
one of the speakers at the break
fast. Letters of invitation were
sent to each member of the
School Board and all other elect
ed officials in the county.
"It kind of made me ask
myself, 'Do they really care
about tolerance and about us get
ting along with one another?'"
Brown said of her colleagues on
the board.
Brown has often marched to
the beat of a different drummer
on the board. She is a staunch
opponent of the system's redis
tricting plan, which did away
with busing and substituted it
with a school choice plan. Brown
is not happy that the plan has
done away with integration in the
system and has made some inner
city schools near ghost towns.
"I hope that we can do some
thing about these half-empty
schools," Brown said when
asked her priorities if she is re
elected. She also said that she
wanted to see through the com
pletion of items in last year's
bond package, especially the
construction of the new East
Winston high school.
Brown knows that there is a
slim chance that her collegues.
who had no hesitation passing
the redistricting plan six years
ago, will strike down redistrict
ing. but she said she will contin
ue to speak out against it and
advocate a plan, instead, that will
give young people exposure to
people of different races and
backgrounds.
Brown
A Little Horseplay
Local special needs
children are guests
of honor at rodeo
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Dozens of special needs
children experienced last
week the magic of the rodeo
up close and personal.
The Longhorn Rodeo,
which was in town over the
weekend for its annual series
of shows, hosted young peo
ple from the Special Chil
dren's School and the Chil
dren's Center last Thursday
at the Dixie Classic Fair
grounds. The children, many
of whom are confined to
wheelchairs or afflicted by
other physical or mental
challenges, got a sneak peek
at the rodeo, which has been
making stops in Winston
Salem for more than 30
years.
"We really don't know
what the kids are getting out
of this experience, but we
hope this type of thing that
will leave a lasting impres
sion," said Rita Lee, a
teacher's assistant at the
Children's Center.
The children who were
able, got to mount horses
and ride them around a short
makeshift track. As each
child got his or her turn on
horseback, the child was
cheered on and applauded by
teachers and peers.
Karen Adams, a teacher
at the Special Children's
School, has brought many
groups of young people to
the special rodeo program
over the years. Adams says
that bechuse many of them
have never had experiences
with animals before, espe
cially with ones as regal and
powerful as horses, the trip
to the rodeo is always one
that her students look for
ward to each year.
"It's a new experience
for a lot of them, so this is
something that they always
enjoy." she said.
The responsibility of
dazzling the young crowd
fell on the slender shoulders
of Lenore Rowe. a rodeo
veteran who has become one
of the show's biggest attrac
tions.
Rowe had the young peo
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Lenore Rowe prompts her horse, Golden Nugget to smile
at the children.
City's sit-ins recalled
during rededication
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Winston-Salem was slow to
acknowledge its historic success in
the sit-in movement of the 1960s.
Decades went by with not so much
as a whisper about the fact that the
first successful sit-in in the state,
and one of the first in the nation,
took place along Fourth and Liber
ty streets during a time when pop
ular five-and-dime stores were
king in downtown.
But times have changed.
With Greensboro not only
acknowledging its great civil rights
past but planning to profit from it
through a soon-to-be-opened
museum, many in this city are
working to ensure that Winston
Salem's claim to civil rights fame
is not forgotten.
An 8-foot-tall marker detailing
the history that was made in the
city was rededicated last Friday in
front of the newly constructed One
Fourth Street building. The marker
was originally unveiled in 2000,
the 40th anniversary of the city's
sit-in movement, but it was uproot
ed and stored away while the sleek'
new office building was being
built. The marker is strategically
placed near the spot where Kress
and Woolworth stotes used to
operate. The lunch counters at both
facilities were the site of sit-in
protests.
Unlike the more famous sit-in
that was staged by the four N.C.
A&T State University freshmen,
an interracial group of students
from Winston-Salem State Univer
sity and Wake Forest University
took part in the sit-ins in Winston
Salem. perhaps also giving the city
the distinction of having the first
integrated sit-in movement in the
South.
The chancellor of WSSU,
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Photo by Ke\in Walker
Carl Matthews signs an autograph for a boy.
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