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T^-^- -w- " 1 0r ^e'erenCe f ^^vwHRu^ ~ ,o ~ ^ JE 66? * s*lf* ^ "^" from this library ? * 75 cents til*31041 WlNSTON-SALEM ? GREENSBORO ? HIGH POINT Vol. XXIX No. 50 = "l!lll",t"IIUIU?"l'l' Mt. Tabor talks about season ? See Page B! Event helps sickle cell group - See Page A3 2003 NBTF is a record breaker -See Par-'" Deltas hold meeting in city -See Page CI NAACP may take control of center Northampton Center was closed by city in order to save money BY COURTNEY GA1LLARD THE CHRON1CI I Although the Northampton Recreation Center is closed, it was open Monday night for residents of the neigh borhood to meet to dis c u s s buying the cen ter from the city. T~Z The Burke city closed Northampton and North Hills recreation centers earlier this summer, to the dismay of res IUVII13, IU save money. The city said that both centers were underuti lized. B u t residents Ho,r,ton sSy the closing of the center has given young people in Northampton few after-school options. "We're willing to maintain the building so that we can use it for our purposes....We want to keep it for our kids and the older people." said Gloria Stinson. president of the Northampton Neighbor hood Association. Employees of the city's Recreation and Parks Depart ment were no-shows at the See Center on All Black caucus holds first convention Organization will work to get blacks to the polls in upcoming elections, primaries BYT. KEVIN WALKER I Ml CHRONIC! E GREENSBORO The seeds of the recently planted African-American Caucus of the N.C. Democratic Party are beginning to blossom. The cau cus held its first statewide con vention Saturday at the Koury Convention Center, attracting members from the more than 20 county African-American caucuses that have already taken form. Stella Adams, who was elected president of the state African-American Caucus at an earlier gathering, has high hopes for the four-month-old caucus. Carle "We really need (the cau cus) desperately to make sure the Democratic Party is hearing the needs of the African-Amer ican community in a coherent. Adams clear fashion." said Adams, the executive director of the Durham-based N.C. Fair Hous ing Council. "Without a caucus, the party can go pick and choose the black leaders it talks to depending on what it wants to hear rather than hearing what we want to say." Unofficially, the caucus has existed since February, but the N.C. Democratic Party did not approve the caucus until its May meeting. The African American Caucus joins a num ber of other caucuses - includ ing ones for college students and women - that fall under the state Democratic Party umbrella. Adams insists that the need for an African-American Cau cus is not indicative of a divi sion between black North Car olinians and the Democratic Party. But Adams concedes that disagreements between the two groups first raised the need for the caucus. A major point of contention concerned voter reg istration and get-out-the-vote efforts. Many black party faith ful thought more dollars and energy should have been put into both in recent elections. The party leadership thought otherwise. "After the 2002 elections, (black Democrats) were extremely frustrated," Adams said. "We made recommenda tions that were not listened to. The strategy used by the party failed. We felt it failed because they did not listen to what we were saying." See Caucus on A4 Putting with a Purpose Black business group plans annual charity golf tourney BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE' Over the last 14 years, the annual golf tournament hosted by the East Area Council of the Greater Winston-Salem Cham ber of Commerce has raised more than a quarter-million dollars. Each year, the council donates a large chunk of the tournament take to some wor thy local group or agency, which uses the funds to do everything from provide edu cational scholarships, to com bat the county's domestic vio lence problem. Officials at the Maya Angelou Institute for the Improvement of Child and Family Education and the Downtown Health Plaza of Baptist Hospital are depending on another successful tourna ment this year. The two organ izations have been chosen to receive a portion of this year's tournament proceeds. The Downtown Health Plaza, which recently had its See Tournament on A4 Photo by Kevin Walker Michael Pitt (from left), an East Area Council member; Donna Benson of Winston-Salem State University; EAC President Mose Belton-Brown; Dr. Robert Jones of the Downtown Health Plaza; and EAC members Richard Williams and Darryl Little pose with the banner for this year's Mayor's Open Golf Tournament. Group decides on youth program New initiative will target children with scrapes with the law BYT KEVIN WALKER in; CHRONICLE Agencies and programs in Forsyth County designed to help young people stay on the straight and narrow receive mote than $3 million a year in public money and other funds. But the effec tiveness of these groups can't be counted and measured like dol lars. A grassroots group that has been meeting for the last couple months to discuss the problem of black youths in the criminal jus tice system has decided to start a program of its own aimed at help ing young offenders. The group says already existing programs are not effective enough and could use some help since the county courthouse still has no shortage of young black male defendants. "(Youth crime rates are) not decreasing enough for me," said Virginia Newell, a former City Council member and college pro fessor who initiated the grass roots group. Pholo h> Kev in Walker Chief court counselor Walter Byrd listens as Virginia Newell makes a paint. Newell has been leading the group's twice-monthlv meetings since late June. The group's focus and goals were loose during its initial meetings. Newell simply wanted a fonim where the prob lem could he discussed and infor mation could be shared. Featured speakers at the meetings have included officials from the county's criminal justice system as well as parents of teens who have had run-ins with the law. Former teen offenders who See Youth on A9 Larry Worn hie is featured in another national magazine Legislator is leading anti-eugenics effort FROM STAFI Rl PORTS Since stale Rep^ tarry Womble has taken the lead role in trying to right wrongs done by the state over a 40 year time span, Womble has shown up in a number of pop ular national magazines. People magazine is the latest publication to feature the veteran legislator. In the Aug. 18 issue of the weekly magazine. Womble is quoted and a picture of him with Elaine Jesse appears. Jesse was one of the nearly 8.000 people sterilized by the state of North Carolina between 1929 and the early '70s. Jesse's story is the main focus of the People article. Womble has been at the forefront of a movement to get the state to recognize the great despair brought about by its eugenics program and to make amends with sterili zation victims through a vari ety of means. Gov._ Tifike Fasley has already apologized to victims, most of whom were African American. The state's eugen ics program focused on peo ?I ? ...I piC WIIU were deemed mentally handi capped or fee b I e - minded. The law that ^?u ???? made Womble steriliza t i o n s legal was on the books until Womble introduced a bill ear lier this year to strike it down. Easley also started a special committee to look into the state's ugly history of steril Stv Womble on A9
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