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Report: Douglass' home in bad shape
WASHINGTON - The home of famous 19th-century African
American abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass is threatened
by nearly $2 million of unmet preservation needs, according to a
new report by the National Parks Conservation Association
(NPCA).
According to NPCAs new State of the
Parks report, the historic 1850s home in
Washington. D.C., is in need of immediate
repair. The National Park Service lacks
critical funding and staff to meet day-to
day needs and to protect Douglass person
al belongings and the integrity of the prop
erty.
For example, light has damaged sever
al 19th-century photographs and Douglass
treasured library collection has been
removed from the home to prevent addi
tional threats from ongoing moisture prob
lems. Now the shelves in the study sit empty and brown water
stains color the ceilings and walls because funding is not immedi
ately available for restoration.
Funding for the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site has
essentially remained flat for several years - $429,000 in fiscal year
2002. In 2001. NPCA named the park site to its annual list of
America's 10 Most Endangered National Parks because of dire
funding needs.
Douglass lived in his Washington. D.C.. home from 1877 until
his death in 1895. Born into slavery in Maryland. Douglass
became a leading voice in the anti-slavery movement as well as a
famous writer, publisher, orator, statesman, and an advocate for
women's rights. The National Park Service has cared for the Dou
glass home since 1962.
Douglass
Teacher fired for sending e-mail with
comments about black achievement
EVARTS, Ky. (AP) - A Harlan County teacher has been fired
after he sent an e-mail containing remarks about the black popula
tion.
Ralph Crow. 48. a Spanish teacher at Evarts High School,
received a dismissal letter on Friday from school district Superin
tendent Timothy Saylor. Saylor said Crow's e-mail was insensitive
and demonstrated conduct of an "immoral character."
Crow sent the two-page e-mail on Feb. 21 to about 40 staff
members at the school. It said that achievements of whites are
ignored so "non-achieving minorities can have the spotlight." It
also said that African-Americans are responsible for "about 90%"
of violent crimes and the main achievement of Martin Luther King
Jr. was the "introduction and promotion of communism."
Crow said his e-mail was meant as sarcasm and that he is a vic
tim of political correctness and an overzealous superintendent.
"He's using his personal political views to silence me," Crow
said. "He's basically set out to destroy my teaching career."
Crow said his right to free speech was violated and that he
'plans to appeal his firing. Crow has 10 days to inform Saylor and
the Kentucky Department of Education of his intent to challenge
his dismissal, said Lisa Gross, a spokeswoman for the department.
A three-member tribunal from outside Harlan County would then
conduct a hearing on the matter.
Saylor told the teacher that he had violated state board of edu
cation and county school district policies with his use of the school
district's e-mail system. Crow also violated county school regula
tions on harassment and discrimination. Saylor wrote.
As grounds for the dismissal, Saylor wrote in the letter that
Crow's conduct could cause "great disruption" to the school sys
tem.
Raoul Cunningham, former director of the NAACP voter
empowerment program, said he was disgusted by the e-mail.
"There is no question that it's racist." Cunningham said. "It's
just so unfortunate that he chose the profession of teaching."
Crow said he wrote the e-mail in opposition to a recent nation
al study concluding that Kentucky schools suspend a dispropor
tionately high number of black students. a
Study: Rap may be bad for black girls
(Special to the NNPA) - Rap music has long been the subject
of controversy but a recent study suggests that rap videos may
make teenage girls behave badly.
I African-American teenage girls are more likely to get in trou
ble with the law, take drugs and contract sexually transmitted dis
eases. according to a study conducted by researchers at Emory
University in Atlanta and the University of Alabama at Birming
ham.
"We can see there is some link, some
association." said researcher Gina Win
good. an associate professor of behavioral
sciences and health education at Emory.
"Maybe they see what's on the rap music
videos and think that's how teenagers act,
and that's how I should act."
Wingood and her colleagues went to
health clinics in Birmingham. Ala., and
studied 522 black girls from 1996 to 1999.
All were sexually active and between the
ages of 14 and 18, Girls who watched the
most rap videos (more than the average of
Wingood
14 hours a week), were three times as likely as the other girk*to
have hit a teacher (7.1 percent versus 2.4 percent). They were also
2.5 times more likely to have been arrested (17.3 percent versus
7.2 percent), and nearly two times more likely to have had sex
with multiple partners (19.3 percent versus 11 percent).
The researchers then followed the girls for a year. Forty-one
percent of those who watched the most rap music videos devel
oped a sexually transmitted disease, compared with 33 percent
who didn't watch as many videos
"Young people are listening and observing." said Michael D.
Resnick. director of the National Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Research Center at the University of Minnesota. "When that envi
ronment is one that desensitizes us to violence and to treating each
other with caring and respect, we see predictable results in young
people and in ourselves."
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'Barbershop' shut out at awards
Civil rights legend Rosa
Parks boycotts weekend
NAACP Image Awards
ceremony in Los Angeles
BY ANTHONY BREZN1CAN
THE ASSOCIATE D PRESS
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LOS ANGELES - A televi
sion movie about civil rights
pioneer Rosa Parks won two
awards from the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People Image Awards,
although Parks shunned the
event over its nominations for
the film "Barbershop."
"The Rosa Parks Story" won
both its nominations Saturday:
best TV movie and best TV
movie actress for Angela Bas
sett, who starred as Parks.
"Barbershop." about friend
ships forged at a hair salon in a
black neighborhood of Chicago,
features a character making '
unflattering jokes about Parks
and other black leaders.
Parks, now 90. made history
in December 1955 when she
was arrested for refusing to give
up her seat to a white man on a
bus in Montgomery, Ala. Her
arrest triggered a 381 -day boy
cott of the bus system by blacks
and led to court rulings that
desegregated public transporta
tion throughout the United
States.
"(Parks) wants to thank the
NAACP for lifting her up. She
wants to thank all of you for lov
ing her," executive producer
Willis Edwards, a friend of
Parks, said onstage on her
behalf.
t
"She was not happy with
what was said about her. and she
?has a right to do that. She has the
right not to come," he said back
stage.
Meanwhile, "Barbershop"
lost all five nominations, includ
ing a supporting actor bid for
Cedric the Entertainer, who
hosted the Image Awards and
played the character whose
remarks started the uproar. Its
other nominations included best
picture and best lead actor for
star Ice Cube.
Cedric's character in "Bar
bershop" is a cranky old-timer
trying to prove that no conversa
tion is off-limits in the barber
shop. He sayjjolher blacks also
had refused to give up their
seats, but Parks got the credit
because she was connected to
the NAACP.
He also directs an expletive
at civil rights activist the Rev.
Jesse Jackson and jokes about
the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr.'s alleged promiscuity.
The scene sparked com
plaints from Jackson and civil
rights activist the Rev. A1 Sharp
ton but became a $75 million
hit.
The film's producers, direc
tor and screenwriter apologized,
saying they didn't intend to
offend anyone but defended
their right to poke fun.
With the awards, the
NAACP honors people and
companies that support positive
change for blacks in arts and
entertainment. Show business
professionals and NAACP offi
cials from across the country
choose the winners.
Halle Berry won the film
supporting actress award for the
James Bond film "Die Another
Day," defeating a group that
included rapper-turned-actress
Eve for "Barbershop. Other win
ners included "Antwone Fisher"
for best picture, while Denzel
Washington won supporting
actor for that film and lead actor
for "John Q." Bassett afso won
best movie actress for the drama
"Sunshine State."
KRT Image
Halle Berry holds her Image Award for Best Supporting
Actress for the movie "Die Another Day."
L.A., nation mourn the Rev. E.V. Hill
BY GENE C. JOHNSON JR
WAVE NEWSPAPERS
LOS ANGELES (NNPA)
- A funeral was held Saturday
for the Rev. E.V. Hill, a one
time confidant of Martin
Luther King Jr. and pastor of
Mount Zion Missionary Bap
tist Church.
Hill died Feb. 24 at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
with what an aide said was an
aggressive form of pneumo
nia complicated by other
medical conditions. He was
69.
Bishop Charles E. Blake
officiated. Rev. Jesse Jackson
was among the high-profile
African-American religious
leaders from around the coun
try expected to attend the
services.
Hill Was pastor at Mount
Zion for 35 years and had
been a preacher for 46 years.
Time magazine once hailed
him as "one of the most out
standing preachers in the
United States."
Blake called Hill "one of
the most significant personal
ities in the clergy over the
past 30 to 40 years. He was a
great preacher, a tremendous
preacher and a common's man
theologian."
On one occasion, evangel
ist Billy Graham showed up
unannounced so he could hear
Hill preach. It was Hill's
church that President George
Bush visited in the days
immediately after the 1992
Los Angeles riots.
In the last eight months.
Hill was forced to preach sit
ting down because of a condi
tion that weakened his legs.
He also suffered from dia
betes. said his son. the Rev.
E.V. Hill II, pastor of Calvary
Temple Pentecostal Holiness
Church in North Hollywood.
Under Hill's leadership,
his congregation became a
center of political and social
activism in Los Angeles, and
he became an influential fig
ure ^ i b the fclational Baptist
Convention, the nation's
largest association of black
churches.
Edward Victor Hill, who
was born in Texas on Nov. 11,
1933, grew up in poverty. He
attended Prairie View A&M
University on a four-year
scholarship.
"I think during the four
years that he was on campus,
I don't think he spent proba
bly more than four weekends
there," said his wife. La Dean.
"He was always preaching.
His grades were good, so no
one objected."
At 21, Hill became pastor
of Mt. Corinth Missionary
Baptist Church in Houston.
While there, he was one of
seven bla^k pastors who
joined Martin Luther King in
forming the Southern Christ
ian Leadership Conference,
the organization that led the
Civil Rights Movement in the
1960s.
Hill changed his residence
and his political affiliation in
1961, when he came to Los
Angeles to become pastor of
Mt. Zion and he became a
member of the Republican
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