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Ne\a?tot a VjHce Blair Underwood will appear on HBO's 'Sex and the City' LOS ANGELES (API - Blair Underwood is joining "Sex and (he City" for four episodes, but producers and his publicist won't say which of the characters he'll romance. Underwood, 38. will make his first appear ance around the ninth of 13 episodes airing this summer. Daily Variety reported Tuesday. Another eight episodes of the HBO comedy, now in its final season, are set to air early next year. "Sex and the City," starring Sarah Jessica Parker, tracks the romances of four New York City women. Chris Noth, John Corbett. Ron Livingston and Kyle MacLxtchlan are among the actors who've appeared on the show as Irxv>> inlpn>efi; Underwood co-starred last summer in the Steven Soderbergh film "Full Frontal" and in the 1980s TV series "L A. Law." Underwood Rastas to meet in Jamaica KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Rastafarians from around the globe will gather next week to discuss issues central to their faith, including the use of marijuana and repatriation to Africa, organizers said Friday. Hundreds of followers from the United States, the Caribbean, England and Africa will attend the July 16-24 conference at the Uni versity of the West Indies in the capital of Kingston, organizer Mitzie Williams said. Rastafarianism emerged in Jamaica and spread throughout the Caribbean in the 1930s. The movement was largely fueled by descen dants of slaves and the anger they felt over the colonial oppression of blacks. The movement's message of social justice and African unity was popularized in the 1970s by reggae artists Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. On the agenda at this year's conference is how to unify the faith's many sects and repatriation to Africa, a tenet of Rastafarianism. Fol lowers also will talk about the religion's most enduring debate - the right to use marijuana for religious purposes. Though illegal throughout the Caribbean, marijuana, is openly used by many Rastas. who believe smoking the herb brings them closer to God. Rastas. who wear their hair in matted strands called dreadlocks, also will discuss ways to overcome discrimination in conservative Caribbean societies, where they have been blamed for crime and shunned for their use of marijuana, also called ganja in the Caribbean. Los Angeles City Council's 'slavery' disclosure passes another hurdle LOS ANGELES (L.A. Sentinel/NNPA) - Making it clear that no business will be held responsible for what it did years ago. Coun cilman Nate Holden recently received tentative approval of his pro posal requiring companies that do business with Los Angeles to reveal if they ever profited from slavery. The ordinance was expected to be brought back before the coun cil for a "second reading." where it will need eignt votes to go into etlecl. "What we're doing is (the companies) a check of their records and acknowledging the fact that these problems did occur and (that) they did. in fact, benefit from free labor, slave labor then," said Holden. who proposed the motion. In 2000. California required insurance companies doing business with the state to list any policies they issued to slaveholders. Since then, municipalities across the nation have taken up the issue. Last fall. Chicago passed an ordinance similar to the one under consid eration by the Los Angeles City Council. New York. Detroit and Cleveland are considering similar ordinances. "We've had a history of acknowledging a variety of terrible inci dents. whether it's the Holocaust. Armenian genocide....For some rea son what has been in our history as it relates to slavery often goes unnoticed, or many people believe that things have changed to where we no longer need to think about it," said Councilman Bernard Parks. The measure received an 11-0 vote for the proposal, with three council members absent. Holden aide Steve Ongele said the dealings in the motion could include insuring slaveholders, investing in slavery or otherwise prof iting from it. The proposal, he said, is expected to have little practical effect on companies that do busmess with the city. But Holden said the city would be understandings/! companies that lack records dat ing back to the time of slavery. Holden Sharpton facing tax audit WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Al Shaipton is the subject of a federal tax audit, a new financial disclo sure report shows. The report, filed with the Federal Election Commission last Thursday by Sharpton attorney Michael Hardy, said Sharpton is fac ing a civil audit. The Internal Revenue Service audit covers several years in the 1990s, Hardy said. "We don't know what the result will be. They could owe me," Sharpton. a New York-based civil rights activist, said Friday in a tele phone interview. Hardy said he didn't know what prompted the audit. Sharpton's report to the FEC also shows that he earned at least $381,900 last year through various enterprises, including $120,000 from Rev. Al Productions for speeches and sermons: $78,000 from the National Action Network, his nonprofit social justice organiza tion: $75,000 from Kensington Publishing for his book. "Al on Amer ica"; and $25,000 from PepsiCo, for his work as a member of the company's black advisory board. Presidential candidates are required to file reports with the FEC detailing their finances. Sharpton also earned $25,000 each from a New York-based mar keting company he listed as Global Hue Inc. and the Detroit-based Hawkins Food Group for consulting work: $30,000 from SPN Broad casting in suburban Detroit: and at least $3,900 from Inner City Broadcasting in New York. The Chronicle (USPS 067-910) was established by Ernest H. Pitt and Ndubisi Egemonye in 1974 and is published every Thursday by Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101 Peri odicals postage paid at Winston-Salem, N.C. Annual sub scription price is $30.72. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Chronicle, P.O. Box 1636 Winston-Salem, NC 27102-1636 Blacks between rock and hard place as prison will mean economic boon BY JEFFREY COLLINS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALTERS, S.C. - In Williamsburg County, where almost one in six adults is unemployed, the shiny, 10-foot tall fence going up at the new federal prison might be the gleaming answer to the coun ty's economic troubles. The prison, scheduled to open at the end of the year, will bring more than 380 jobs, most paying more than double the county's average personal income of $12,794. "And we're just not talking new jobs from the prison. It will also create spinoff jobs," Coun ty Supervisor Richard Treme said before driving by a con venience store that recently opened just a few miles from the facility. A hotel will be built nearby, and a developer has constructed a restaurant and small strip mall that are set to open at the same time as the prison. But some aren't so sure the $110 million medium-security prison, set to house about 1,150 inmates, is the best answer for Williamsburg County, which sits 60 miles inland from the Grand Strand tourist beaches. Along with traditional fears about escaping inmates, some black leaders wonder whether a county that's more than 66 per cent black should tie its future to a system that incarcerates so many members of their own race. Civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson made a series of speeches across his home state of South Carolina earlier this year to address several prob lems he saw in black communi ties - including building prisons in rural, impoverished areas and calling it economic progress. It's "all about locking up poor kids for profit." Jackson said at the time. "They are pay ing $17,000 a year to incarcer ate our youth but just $3,000 a year to educate them." But blacks that live and work in Williamsburg County are more ambivalent. Harry Pringle and Hezekiah Pressley recently reopened the Station House restaurant in an old railroad depot in Kingstree about 10 miles away. The eatery sits just blocks from the county courthouse, where monuments to civil rights leaders Thurgood Marshall and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sit near a memorial to Confederate sol diers. "I think sending more blacks to prison is not a solu tion," said Pressley, who has lived in Kingstree since he was born in 1957. "But jobs are jobs, and economic growth is economic growth. It's got to go somewhere." Treme said opposition to the See Prison on A9 AP Pholo/Willis Glassgow Hezekiah Pressley, right, and Harry Pringle, loft, owners of the Station House Restaurant in downtown Kingstee, S.C., talk about the new federal prison. Mfume opens NAACP's 94th annual convention BY CORALIE CARLSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - The NAACPwill press the Unit ed States to adopt more equi table and fair foreign policies toward African and Caribbean nations. President Kweisi Mfume said Saturday at the opening of the organization's 94th annual convention. The seven-day convention, which comes as President Bush is wrapping up a tour of Africa, will include a Caribbean summit to be attended by officials from Barbados, the Bahamas. Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Haiti and the Caribbean Com munity, a regional organization and trade bloc. Mtume criticized U.5>. for eign policy toward African nations, saying America has neglected the continent as it suf fered from wars, famine and dis ease. "Our policy with respect to the continent of Africa at best has been a policy that is incon sistent and incoherent," Mfume said. "We've looked away in many instances because Africa * was not politically correct or politically cute." He said the United States should be motivated by its his torical ties to Africa: "Their resources are not the only things that attract us, but the history born out of the evil institution of slavery that binds us." Mfume also criticized the president, who returns to the United States on Saturday, for turning down an invitation to attend the convention for a third year. "I think its a little ironic that the president will go to Africa to meet with black leaders, but he won't meet with black leaders here in the United States," Mfume said, adding that his requests for meetings with Bush were refused so many times that he stopped trying to see the pres ident more than a year ago. White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said the president receives many invitations from throughout the country, but "unfortunately his busy schedule does not allow him to accept all of them." The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been expanding its focus to international concerns. It was recently recognized as a non-governmental organization by the United Nations. Last year, it monitored Zimbabwe's elec tions and Mfume and others met with Cuban President Fidel Cas tro - along with other Cuban officials and dissidents - to pro See NAACP on A9 Mfume vV i i/ Homes 1 year and older need to be checked for termites "A flea circus is a good act but it takes termites to bring a home down." Cafl Triad Pest Control 1535 S. Martin Luther King Drive Winston-Salem, NC INDEX OPINION. JL6 SPORTS Bl RELIGION. B5 CLASSIFIEDS B9 HEALTH. C3 ENTERTAINMENT....C7 , CALENDAR. C9 The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. ? Frank Lloyd Wright For this extraordinary architect, age brought wisdom and an ability to see life in new and exciting ways. 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