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s City w orking up plans for R&B museum PHILADELPHIA (API - Kenneth Gamble, a music mogul and Grammy-winning songwriter, has assembled a team to devel op a proposal for a museum devoted to rhythm & blues music. The proposed Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame and museum, which has been bucked by Mayor John F. Street and Gov. Ed Ren dell, would likely be constructed as a mixed-use development serving coin retail and residential needs. A shuttered African American museum purchased by Gamble several years ago would also likely be part of the facility. Though the team has not selected an exact location for the museum. Gamble has identified potential sites just south of the city's downtown area. Gamble? a co-founder of Philadelphia International Records who wrote, recorded and produced numerous R&B hits - said Gamble the museum would preside a history ot the genre and would chronicle the city's important contributions to the music. "Philadelphia has a great music history, and we should be able to exploit it." Gamble said. City Commerce Director James Cuorato also assembled the team, which has visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleve land, and Beale Street and the Stax Museum in Memphis. "There is a lot of work that would have to be done as far as fund-raising, but it is a natural for us. and Kenny (Gamble) is a natural to lead the effort." Cuorato said. NAACP to hold national college prep day RESTON, Va. - To close the widening gap in SAT scores and increase access to college for minority students, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Princeton Review Foundation and the Sallie Mae Fund have partnered to host free college preparation clinics across the coun try. The 25 free clinics are part of the sixth annual NAACP Nation al Day of College Preparation on Oct. 18. An estimated 2,(KK) fam ilies are expected to participate. As part of the half-day clinics, the Princeton Review Founda tion will offer students practice SAT tests and diagnostics, score improvement strategies, and test preparation books donated by Random Flouse. The Sallie Mae Fund will conduct "Paying for College" workshops for parents to explain the various types of financial aid and resources available to help families prepare for the college admissions process. The Sallie Mae Fund will award one $500 scholarship to a parent of a college-bound student in each city. The Kellogg Co. will provide a light breakfast, and Pizza Hut will provide lunch for participants taking part in the college prepa ration clinics. The NAACP National Day of College Preparation is designed to make students and parents aware that a college education is valuable, attainable and affordable. "The gross disparities in educational achievement demonstrate the need for these types of partnerships to help improve access to a quality education for all." said NAACP President Kweisi Mfume. "We commend our partners for supporting this effort to give our children and their parents these important academic and financial skills." England's House of Lords' first black woman appointed leader LONDON (AP) - The first black woman appointed to Britain's House of Lords was appointed as its leader Monday. Valerie Amos, w ho in 1997 became the first black woman to enter the unelected upper house of Parliament, replaces Lord Williams of Mostyn, who died last month. Baroness Amos was appointed international development secretary in May after Clare Short quit over her opposition to the war in Iraq. The leader of the house, who is appointed by the govern ment. organizes the agenda for debates and other business. Vandross will release first live CD PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) - With a video and a hit song. "Dance with My Father." climbing the charts, there is more good news for Luther Vandross. Reports are that the singer, who suffered a stroke last April, is making some improve ment. but "it's still an extremely long road of recovery," his spokeswoman saiu. Lois Najarian said that Vandross. who is being cared for at an undisclosed rehabilitation facility, has been talking and showing signs of increased move ment on his right side. She said that there have been "exciting develop ments" in his progress and "every tlay there's something new." Reports say that Vandross has even heard some of his songs on the radio - and has sometimes been able to sing along. However, while there is progress. . N-njarian did not "want Wi "give the Vandross impression tnat miracles are taking place and he s going to he up and singfing right away." She said that like many stroke victims, he has good and had days. In other developments, the nominees for the 31st annual American Music Awards were announced recently, and Van dross. whose latest album. "Dance with My Father." was released last June, has been nominated for two awards in the categories of Soul/Rhythm & Blues - Favorite Male Artist and Favorite Album. The awards will be presented during a three-hour telecast on ABC on No\. 16 from 8-11 p.m. O Vandross' fans also can anticipate the Oct. 28 release of "Live at Radio City Music Hall 2003." the first-ever live recording of the singer's career. 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 Photo by Stan Honda/AFP A horse-drawn carriage carries coffins containing the remains of free and enslaved blacks through the streets of Manhattan. Colonial-era blacks put to rest again BY CHAKA FERGUSON I III \SSOCI vn I) PRESS NEW YORK - In a ceremo ny both somber and celebratory, the remains of 419 colonial-era blacks were reburied Saturday at a Manhattan site just a short dis tance from a former slave mar ket. "Now we've come to the time when mother earth receives again the remains of our depart ed ancestors," the Rev. James Forbes Jr. said as some in the crowd hugged and wept on the gray, rainy day. Most of the remains were placed into seven oversized wooden crypts, with (lowers piled atop and around each one. A Yoruba priest gave them a final blessing before the crypts were lowered into the ground. Four caskets holding the i c hi a MI > of a boy. girl, woman and man also were buried. Their remains had been separated from the others Undo and were honored at ceremonies in Washington. D.C.; Baltimore: Wilmington. Del.; and Newark. N.J.. before returning to New York on Friday. The remains had been uncovered in 1991 during con struction of a federal office tower in lower Manhattan. Under pressure from the community, the government abandoned the work and began examining what they had found. The site turned out to be a five acre burial ground that had been closed in 1794 and long forgot ten. It was the final resting place for an estimated 20,000 people of African descent. The reinterment ceremony marked the end of a long strug gle to have the African Burial Ground recognized. Drummers pounded a steady beat and dancers performed while the remains were returned to where they were first buried more than 200 years ago. "It's magnificent," said Ayo Harrington, chairwoman of Friends of the African Burial Ground, an informal advocacy group. "It's exhilarating and sat isfying to my soul." Hundreds of people turned out to pay tribute to the slaves and free blacks in the cemetery. The weather was perfect for the event, said the Rev. Herbert Daughtry, a civil-rights activist. ?"It would seem to be incon gruous to come to this occasion in bright and radiant sunshine," Daughtry said. The ceremony, with its mix of singers, dancers and speakers, was in stark contrast to the hard lives led by the blacks buried there. Nearly half of the 419 sets See Blacks on A5 S.C. blacks distrustful of government THK ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBIA, S.C - Fewer black South Carolinians than whites say they trust state government, according to a sur vey conducted for Gov. Mark Sanford. A survey for Sanford's gov ernment accountability task force found that half of the state's white citizens trust their government, compared with just over a quarter of the state's black residents who felt the same way. While four in 10 blacks thought 1 the state was headed in the right direction, almost two of three whites did. The Universi Sanford ty of South Carolina Public Service and Policy Research survey of 516 South Carolini ans has a margin of sampling error of 4.3 percentage points. The research institute con tributed the survey to the Com mission on Management. Accountability and Perfor mance appointed this summer to study how to make govern ment work better. The racial divide was clear throughout the study, with responses from blacks and whites diverging in seven of nine categories. q "It was a pretty striking conclusion, in every case." said Robert Oldendick. the political scientist who led the study. The racial disparity doesn't surprise some. "Most African-Americans don't see the government run ning well, or helping them." said state Rep. Todd Ruther ford. a black Columbia Democ rat. "A number of whites see the only role of government is to cut their taxes and let them be self-sufficient. " Felicia Hopkins, a black woman, said blacks are trying to catch up with whites, who historically have had more money and more power. "We've come a long way. but we still have a long way to go." she said. Hopkins. 32. has seen high paying jobs come and go with the arrival and departure of the big Mack Trucks assembly plant in her hometown of Winnsboro. Government, she said, needs to look at the big picture and be more worried about bringing jobs to the state than it is with cutting programs little by little the way the M A P. Commission recommends. "Don't worry about a million dollars here, a million dollars there," she said. To close the gap between black and white perceptions, Sanford wants to change the See Distrust on A10 [index OPINION. A6 SPORTS. SI RELIGION. 65 CLASSIFIEDS B9 HEALTH. C3 ENTERTAINMENT....C7 CALENDAR C9 The Best Time of Your Life Is... NOW! 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