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aXjgpce Memorial marker honors King's spfeech (Special to the NNPA) - A plaque honoring the late Dr. Martin Lulher King Jr. has been placed on the steps of the Lin coln Memorial. 40 years after his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. Approximately 4 million visitors each year will see the $8,300 proj ect. The plaque, etched on a landing on the steps of the memorial, is 24 inches wide and 10-inches tall and reads: I HAVE A DREAM MARTIN LUTHER KING. JR. THE MARCH ON WASHING TON FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM AUGUST 28. 1963 Louisville attorney Tom Williams spearheaded the effort for King the memorial when he visited the Lincoln Memorial in Octo ber 1997. After searching for a marker denoting the spot where King stood, he found none. "It just seemed like an obvious omission," Williams told reporters. After contacting his congresswoman. Rep. Anne M. Northup (R-Ky), Williams requested that a marker be placed on the steps. Kenyan wins literary prize NAIROBI, Kenya (IPS/GIN)?This year's Caine Prize for African Writers has been won by Kenyan Yvonne Adhiambo Owour. for her short story. "Weight of Whispers." The story is "narrated by an aristocratic Rwandan refugee in the aftermath of the 1994 massacres." said chairman of the judges at the prize-giving ceremony in Oxford University's Bodlean Library last week. "Its great strength is the subtle and suggestive way it dramatizes the condition of the refugee and also...incorporates so many large issues." Bom in Nairobi. Owour studied at Jomo Kenyatta University, Kenya, and then Reading University in England. She currently works as the executive director of the Zanzibar International Film Festival. The Caine Prize is awarded to Africans for a short story by pub lished in English by a Writer bom in African whose writing reflects that African background. As well as $15,000 prize money, Owour will be offered a trav el grant. Las Vegas assemblyman is criticized for making remark about black gays LAS VEGAS (AP) - Assemblyman Bob Beers, R-Las Vegas, is being criticized for a remark he made about an AIDS awareness program that serves the black community. In an interview with the Las Vegas .Mm, mils msmisseu me Las vegas based Fighting AIDS in our Commu nity Today as a program "dedicated to putting condoms on gay men in the black community." Assemblyman Kelvin Atkinson. D-North Las Vegas, who is black, said the comment reflects Beers' larger perspective. "To me it's a racist remark," Atkinson said. "It's something that shouldn't be tolerated in our district." Beers said his comments were not racist but descriptive of what the organization does. Beers Beers comments came as pan or a discussion about Assembly Bill 8, which included what he called legislative pork and "pet projects." It's not the first time Beers has faced public criticism. In Feb ruary. Beers was criticized for an e-mail sent to a constituent, in which he described casino workers as "prone to dropping out of school, reproducing illegitimate children, often while little more than children themselves, abusing drugs and alcohol more fre quently. and even killing themselves more often than people who do value education." "\ Beers was criticized again in March for his response to an Episcopalian bishop who urged lawmakers to address a V04 mil lion state budget shortage. Beers responded by saying: "There's gotta be more Episco palian bishops besides you. ... Your opinion is pretty far out there and strikes me as an opinion of a woman with no taxpaying parishioners." Marian Anderson's studio being restored DANBURY, Conn. (AP) -The Danbury Museum and His torical Society is restoring Marian Anderson's rehearsal studio, creating a public exhibit celebrating her achievements. Ander son was a longtime Danbury resident who practiced for her con certsln the studio. "She was larger than life and had this voice from God." said Brigid D.urkijj., executive directqixiJUhe Duubury museum. "She ?bfokealT^'oris ot-cotbt BafrrTefs." - -. Durkin predicts the studio will flraw large crowds when it is ready for the public in the spring. A Anderson sang for six decades around the world, and is pop ularly remembered for her 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert in Washington. It was arranged by first lady Eleanor Roosevelt after the Daughters of the American Revolution canceled the singer's engagement at Constitution Hall because she was black. Anderson was the first black singer to perform at the Metro politan Opera House in New York City in 1955. She also sang at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy and in 1991 was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Anderson died in 1993. The Chronicle (USPS 067-910) was established by Ernesl 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 Africans Americans feeling it worst in nation's current turbulent economy BY DIANNE SOUS THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS DALLAS (AP) - The employment picture is bleak. Nationwide, nearly 2.6 million manufacturing jobs have been lost since July 2000. And that statistic has hit black Americans hard. Black unemployment hit 11,8 percent in June, a new high since the recession began in March 2001. Hispanic unemployment "Employers are happier to hire Latino males than black men. Black men are the most negatively perceived group." - Harry Holzer. a Georgtown University professor climbed as well, to 8.4 percent, from 8.2 percent. But while both numbers have historically been higher than that of whites, blacks are being affect ed much more than Hispanics, whose educational rates substan tially trail those of blacks. The reasons may offer insight into globalization and migration. Blacks are more heavily con centrated in manufacturing jobs, which have shed workers quickly during this downturn and may not ramp up to their former size because of global outsourcing. KRT Photo by Diedra Laird Quenette Amadi holds son, Mantrell, as she fills out an unemployment form in Chester, S.C. Hispanics are more concen trated in services and construc tion. two areas that are doing rela tively well in this sour economy. Moreover, a puzzling phe nomenon is happening: Hispanic employment is climbing at the same time that Hispanic unem ployment is creeping up. That reflects the population growth of Hispanics, who are the nation's largest minority group and have a younger median age than blacks and non-Hispanic whites. "What industry you are in is an important indicator of how well you will do." said economist Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. "Construction is big for Hispan ics and that has been helped by the housing boom. ... Another is health care, and there are Hispan ics, females in particular, working in the low-end of the sector." Nationally, the construction industry has received repeated boosts from mortgage rates that are at historic lows. See Economy on A9 'Kitchen of the civil rishts movement' shuts down ? BY HAL LAMAR THE ATLANTA VOICE ATLANTA (NNPA) ? It's a done deal. Paschal's Center at Clark Atlanta Uni versity (CAU). the original civil rights landmark estab lishment, will close its doors for good July 28. About 30 employees of the restaurant have already picked up their last checks The restaurant once referred to as "the kitchen of the Civil Rights Movement" is now being labeled by school administrators as a financial "white elephant." CAU President Walter Broadnax said he recognized the historical significance of the restaurant, and unfortu nately it was a decision that had to be made. "I make this decision with a heavy heart," he said during a news conference at the university. "But I have a compelling and fiduciary responsibility to CAU to make certain it carries out its principle mission of educat ing young minds." Broadnax basically said that CAU just could no longer afford to keep the restaurant open. The former hotel space had been used for student housing. "We have been losing $500,000 a year for the last three years. We have to address that stag gering loss," Broadnax said. He said several alterna tives have been discussed in the past but that the one that suited CAU was closing the restaurant that would pro vide the school with "imme diate debt relief." He indicated that the his toric building will be razed and that student housing would be built in the vacant spatce along MLK Junior Drive at an estimated cost of $40 million. He said while the school cannot afford the demolition or construction costs, arrangements have been made for third-party financing, fte declined to disctrrsc the third party. He also quashed rumors that the school's bonding situation was in such dire straits that the Paschal's building was on the verge of foreclosure. "I know of no outside entity forcing us to take this action," he said. Broadnax said plans are to preserve some portion of the former building's arti- ? facts commemorating what r the restaurant has meant to , the Civil Rights Movement. I "This community is pro- [ fuse with icons of the Civil ' Rights Movement. Paschal's was just one. You also have many areas of the city that serve that same purpose," Broadnax said. Interestingly, though the school got a permit to demolish from the city in See Paschal's on AS [ Photo by Hal Lamar/The Atlanta Voice The original P a s c h a I's restaurant location has r become a financial drain on its owners, Clark Atlanta Uni versity, and must be closed. 11 N D E X OPINION. A6 ! SPORTS B1 RELIGION, 85 CLASSIFIEDS 89 HEALTH.. ...... C 2 ENTERTAINMENT....C5
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