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open spot on
county board
Incumbent Walter Marshall says some
are using his stance on Atkins two years
ago to hurt his re-election chances
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Election years always bring
uncertainty. But this election sea
son, the county commissioners'
race in District A has one of the
few sure things: there will be at
least one brand new commission
er elected from the district in
November.
Voters
will be
allowed to
vote for
up to two
candidates
in a con
test that is
now a
three-man
race after
i n c u m -
bent Ear
line Par
mon dropped out to run tor an
open scat in the N.C. General
Assembly.
Incumbent Walter Marshall,
who w ith Parmon. is one of two
blacks and one of two Democrats
on the Board of County Commis
sioners. is running for his second
full term on the hoard. He first
became a commissioner after
replacing the late Mazie
Woodruff in ? the mid-1990s.
Beaufort Bailey, who. like Mar
shall, has served on the city
county School Board, hopes to
get back into politics with a win
in the race. He is a Democrat.
John Davenport, a 33-year
old city native and engineer, is
running in his second election in
four
m o n t h s.
He lost to
Northeast
Alder-,
woman
Vivian
Burke in
Novem
ber.
"I was
very
encour
aged .by
that last race. I got a lot of support
and I have even more this time
around." said Davenport, who
garnered almost 35 percent of the
vote to Burke's 65 percent.
Daverfport. a Republican,
says he is running again so soon
because he is committed to lead
ership. He says the Board of
County Commissioners, with its
many varied responsibilities, is
more in line with the kinds of
issues he is concerned about.
Davenport wants to shape the
county's economic landscape by
promoting issues such as busi
ness and job development. Dav
enport said he also wants to
ensure that the school system
keeps its vow ta county residents.
"I want to make sure school
bonds are spent exactly how they
are supposed to be," he said!
Bailey says he has always
been an advocate for those who
have the least. He will not drop
that title if he is elected a county
commissioner, he said.
"I have always fought for the
underdog....I want to work for
schoolteachers, custodians and
other employees in the county,"
he said.
Bailey said he also wants to
help bring more businesses to the
county. After several years out of
the political spotlight. Bailey said
friends encouraged him to run for
commissioner. But Bailey said
the desire to run was always
fhprt*
"I just
needed a
little
encour
agement
because I
always
wanted to
run," he
said.
Mat
shall said
he wants
to tinisti what he has already
begun, including working with
city officials to ensure that the
county and city are not duplicat
ing services that can he consoli
dated in some way. Marshall said
he is also concerned about health
care issues that have dogged the
county for years.
"There are still real health
issues in Forsyth County. We
have had a high infant mortality
rate for a long time. I want to
make sure that things improve,"
he said.
Marshall serves on several
boards with county commission
ers from across the state and
nation. He is co-chair of the
state's Association of County
Commissioners Human Resource
Steering Committee, a position
he says he'll use to prevent the
General Assembly from adopting
programs that will keep needy
citizens from resources. Marshall
is also an environmental advocate
who has served on the National
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Marshall
Bailey
Davenport
Two for the History Books
AFP Photo
Halle Berry and Denzel Washington share a laugh backstage Sunday after they were
named Best Actress and Best Actor at the Academy Awards. Berry is the first black woman
in the 74-year history of the Oscars to win for Best Actress. Washington is only the second
black man to win a Best Actor trophy. The first was Sidney Poitier, who won for 1963's
"Lilies of the Field." Berry won for her role in the film "Monster's Ball." Washington won
for his role in "Training Day."
West to
speak
at Wake
BY COURTNEY GAILLARD
THE CHRONICLE
Wake Forest University is
buzzing with excitement about
an appearance by famed profes
sor and intellectual Cornell West
next month.
West will be the keynote
speaker at the Multicultural
Male Caucus Summit at Wake
roresl
April 12 -
and 13.
The
Office of
Multicul
t u r a 1
Affairs I
and the I
Multicul- I
t u r a 1 I
Male'
Caucus
will host
the summit to formally launch
their leadership development
program summit, the first of its
kind to take place at WFU.
The summit will conclude
with a keynote public address by
West titled after the theme of the
summit - "Accountability: Am I
My Brother's Keeper?" West is
a renowned international speak
er and professor of Afro-Ameri
can Studies at Harvard Universi
ty
Summit speakers and work
shop presenters will include
Emmy Award-winning journal
ist Sandra Guzman, former edi
tor of Latina Magazine: Dr. Illya
Wilkerson. WFU alumnus and
resident at Moses Cone Memor
ial Hospital in Greensboro;
Duane Davis, founder of Coali
tion of Black Investors; Jeff
Yang, founder of A. Magazine;
and Eric Watts, Ph.D. Watts is an
assistant professor of communi
Sec West on A4
West
Abortion debate has a new twist
Some say Planned
Parenthood founder
was driven by
racism, not concern
for women's rights
BY COURTNEY GAILI.ARD
THE CHRONICLE
March is Women's History
Month and undoubtedly the name
Margaret Sanger has been brought
up in classrooms all over the
nation. Sanger - the highly
respected and world renowned
leader of the birth control move
ment and founder of Planned Par
enthood - has been praised and
held up as a champion for women.
But there is a growing debate
about Sanger being triggered by
those who believe that her much
celebrated fight to give women
control of their own bodies was
secretly a plot to control the black
population in the 1930s.
After Sanger founded the
(American Birth Control League
in 1921, later renamed Planned
Parenthood in 1942. she. along
with her fellow white birth control
reformers, developed the Negro
Project in 1939. It was one of the
first massive projects of the organ
ization after its conception.
(The First Planned Parent
hood clinic in the United States
opened in Brooklyn. N.Y.. in
1916. In 1937. North Carolina
became the first state to incorpo
rate birth control services into a~
statewide public health program,
followed by six other Southern
states.)
Although Sanger consulted
various leaders from the black
community - such as W.E.B. Du
Bois (a member of the advisory
board for the project), Mary
McLeod Bethune and Adam
Clayton Powell Jr. - still many
questioned Sanger's sincerity
behind her concern for educating
black women and other minorities
on their reproductive rights.
Rather, dialogue began to surface
concerning her ties to the Hitler
ian philosophy of eugenics - a
means of improving a race genet
ically - and its relation to her
birth control movement.
Juluette Bartlett Pack, founder
See Sanger on A9
KRT Photo
Gloria Feldt, the current
president of Planned Parent
hoodspeaks to the media.
Collector finds pieces
of history at every turn
BY T KKVIN WALKER
THE C'H RONICLE
Philip^ Merrill's fascina
tion with history was nur
tured by his great-grandmoth
er. a wise, knowledgeable
woman whom he affection
ately called Nanny Jack.
"I stayed up. under her
and she taught me about the
old days ...When she passed.
I kept w ith it." said Merrill, a
nationOly known collector of
African-American historical
items and a regular appraiser
on the hit PBS show
"Antiques Roadshow."
Merrill was in town over
the weekend, lecturing at a
program sponsored by Win
ston-Salem State Unreality's
O'Kelly Friends of the
Library. Merrill also did what
he does best - examine items
for local folks - and told
them whether they had treas
ures or trash.
Merrill's specialty is col
lecting. searching for and
examining items related to
the rich history of blacks in
this country. He has parlayed
his love of history into his
own business. Nanny Jack &
Company Inc.. which is
named for his great-grand
mother.
Through the company,
Merrill does consulting wotk
for museums. gives
appraisals and serves as a
broker between those who
have valuable historical items
See Merrill .All
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Photo by Kevin Walker
Mae Rodney; center, the
director of O'Kelly
Libraryand a library
visitor look with interest
as Philip Merrill shows
them vintage photo
graphs from a recently
released book.
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