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seeks
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to honor
Awards to be given
to law enforcement
officials, agencies
6Y COURTNEY GAILLARD
Illl CHRONICLE
The Winston-Salem State
University Center for Com
Jnunity Safety (CCS) will rec
ognize members of the com
munity who have worked to
make neighborhoods safer at
the Community Safety
Awards Celebration next
month.
WXII-12 news anchor
Wanda Starke will be the mis
tress of ceremonies for the
event.
The CCS is a community
based
center
that
helps
shape
the way
1 oca 1
commu
nities
respond
to vio
1 e n c e
impact
ing resi
dents. It partners with law
enforcement, probation offi
cers, clergy and the commu
nity to respond to and prevent
neighborhood violence in
nontraditional methods.
Alvin L. Atkinson, deputy
director of the CCS. says the
awards ceremony will be a
way to highlight the good
deeds of special people in the
community.
"We have a lot of partners
and individuals who have
worked to make our commu
nities safer and better places
to work and live, and we
wanted to have an opportuni
ty to celebrate those individu
als and organizations," said
Atkinson, who hopes the
event will take place biannu
ally.
Honors will be given in
four categories: individual,
organizational, law enforce
ment and family. The Resi
dent Awards will be handed
put to individuals who live in
u Weed and Seed neighbor
hood whose actions have
made the neighborhood a bet
ter place to live. The Advo
, cate Award will be given to
,\ individuals who work or vol
unteer in a Weed and Seed
neighborhood and have
See Awards on A10
Atkinson
Having their say
Library spearheading local effort to catalog the
stories of some of the county's oldest residents
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
llll CHRONIC! !
Anne Phillips does not find history
in the well-worn pages of academic
periodicals. She finds it in the living
rooms and front porches of men and
women whose advanced ages make
them walking, talking sources of
unlimited knowledge.
Phillips has been brought to town
by the Forsyth County Public Library
to record the experiences of some of
the county's oldest and wisest African
Americans. Next month, she will also
lead a workshop to show i:everyday
folks how they too can become histo
rians by preserving their families' sto
ries.
"Oral history comes natural to me
because I grew up hearing stories
around the dinner table," said Phillips,
* a Dalton native, who has taught histo
ry and oral history at several universi
Preserve your stories
The Forsyth County Library will
sponsor two workshops on
April 1 7 and April 12 to help
people learn how to be oral
historians. Anne Phillips, a
noted historian, will lead the
workshops, which will be held
Jat the Bast Winston Heritage
Center from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
For more information on the
workshops, call 727-2202.
ties.
Armed with a tape recorder, a
small digital camera and an ever
growing list of names of African
American elders, Phillips has been
making the rounds, hearing stories that
See History on A4
Photo by Kevin Walke
Anne Phillips interviews Ella Whitworth in Whitworth's living room.
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Trioto by Bruce Chapman
Petite Shalonda Ingram will stand tall when she graduates fratn Parkland this spring at age 15.
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EBay has
change of
heart over
'n' word
Online auction company had
been under fire from blacks
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
After coming under fire from activists
for posting racially offensive items on its
online auction site, eBay, will use a pop
up message to warn sellers about racist
collectibles and using racially insensitive
language to describe items for sale.
The company is the nation's most pop
ular online auction site which allows cus
tomers to purchase items through an
online bidding process.
"Sellers will now see a pop-up win
d o w
appear
when they
attempt to
list an item
that we
deem
offeirsfve,"
said Kevin
Pursglove,
senior
communi
cations
director for
eBay.
A Cali
f o r n i a
activist
group
urged the
Web site to change its policy concerning
offensive materials that contain words
like "nigger." A black visitor discovered
that' if the word "nigger" is typed in as a
search term, a itcnuJau Sale is.
generated, including coin banks, figurines
and pictures.
The propgsed new policy states that
"eBay does permit such listings of histor
ical pieces, but at the request of commu
nity members. eBay will not permit list
ings of racial or ethnically inappropriate
reproductions."
Offensive collectibles found on the
Web site include 19th- and 20th-century
books, comics, toys and ceramic fig
urines, including "mammy" cookie jars
and porcelain statuettes of black children
sitting in outhouses.
eBay had an existing policy, which is
posted on the Web site, that bars so-called
"offensive material" from being auc
tioned. At first. eBay representatives said
that the items that activists were upset
about did not violate the company's poli
cy.
Complaints have been e-mailed and
faxed to eBay from the National Alliance
Set- eBay on A4
Items like this are regular
ly listed on eBay. They are
considered collectibles.
15-year-old senior has defied odds
BY COURTNEY GAIL1-ARD
THE CHRONICLE
Shalonda Irtghim is an
inconspicuous, petite teenag
er who is gearing up for
graduation from Parkland
High School in June. Her
days are filled with classes,
homework and drum prac
tice. Her schedule may seem
normal for a high school sen
ior today, but Ingram is not a
typical high school student.
Ingram is only 15 years
old and, despite a severe
bone disease, she has man
aged to thrive in the class
room and graduate from high
school three years ahead of
schedule.
Ingram has osteogenesis
imperfecta, a bone disease
that she inherited from her
father, Lyndell Ingram Sr.
Osteogenesis imperfecta
(01) is the medical name for
brittle bones disease. "Brittle
bones" refers to a range of
conditions resulting from
abnormalities in the protein
structure of the bones. This
causes the bones to break
more easily than normal.
As a student at Lift Acad
emy. Shalonda Ingram began
taking high school courses
along with her regular mid
dle school classes. By the
time, she began her freshmen
year at Parkland in 2002. she
had accumulated enough
credits to be considered a
junior. Shalonda Ingram has
managed to complete four
years of high school in two
and a half years.
"(Lift Academy) tested
her and one of the teachers
realised that she was just far
Tteyond the average seventh
and eighth-grade student."
said Tracy Ingram. Shalon
da's mother, who is the
daughter of N.C. Rep. Ear
line Parmon, Shalonda
Ingram and her grandmother
are extremely close, and
Shalonda considers Parmon
to be her idol.
"(Parmon) is like my
motivation....She makeP me
want to do better. She just
pushes me to go that extra
mile." Shalonda Ingram said.
Over the course of last
year, while Ingram was
adjusting to high school, she
bruised her tailbone. broke
her foot and broke her hip -
See Ingram on A4 ]
Local last-ditch efforts made for peace
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE .
Sensing that diplomatic fixes may
be all but exhausted, more than 150
local people did the only thing they feel
is left to do to avoid a U.S. confronta
tion with Iraq - pray.
The rain let up long enough late
Sunday evening for a throng of peace
advocates to hold a candlelight vigil
outside St. Anne's Episcopal Church.
The vigil was mostly silent as to
give participants a chance to pray and
reflect on what appears to be .an
inevitable war. Prayers were read by
religious leaders from several denomi
nations. including Judaism, and even a
few songs were sung in unison.
"1 think that prayer is powerful
enough to stop war," said St. Anne's
rector. Father Hal T. Hayek. "I will con
tinue to believe that war does not have
to happen."
Hayek shared the hope that many
vigil participants expressed Sunday,
even though their public display for
peace came only a few hours after a
news conference in which President
Bush and leaders of other nations in
favor of attacking Iraq told news media
that war was imminent,,
Bush made an even stronger state
ment a day later, telling the leader of
Iraq he had only 48 hours to get out of
the country. As of The Chronicle's press
time yesterday afternoon, an attack had
not been launched, but Bush's 48-hour
deadline did not end until last night.
The St. Anne's event w as part of the
Global Candlelight Vigil for Peace, an
event partly organized by Episcopalian
leader Bishop Desmond Tutu. Vigils
were held everywhere Sunday from
New Zealand to Memphis. Tenn.. where
See Vigil on A9
Photo hy Kevin Walker
Anna Marie Morgan lights D.E. Clinard's candle before a peace vigil
Sunday at St. Anne's Episcopal Church.
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