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Photographs chronicle decades of Greensboro images
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Through the lens of his cam
era, Otis Hairston has seen his
homttown in all of its glory.
Now others are getting the
opportunity to see some of the
sights that Hairston has collected
on film over the last four decades.
"Greensboro. North Carolina." a
book featuring pictures taken by
Hairston. is available now. Sun
day, the Greensboro Historical
Museum will open an exhibit of
Hairston's works. More than 50
pictures from his book will be on
display.
Exhibit photographs run the
gamut from Greensboro commu
nity life, youth activities and
social gatherings. There are also
pictures of well-known Greens
boro athletes and civil rights
protests. Images Hairston took of
famous visitors to the city are also
included. These images include
pictures of Coretta Scott King.
?Alex Haley, Nelson and Wipjiie
Mandela. Maya Angelou, and
Harvey Gantt.
Hairston is arguably the best
known picture taker in Greens
boro. In addition to his respected
studio work, he worked for many
years as the university photogra
pher for N.C. A&T State Univer
sity.
Hairston first began to think
about chronicling his work after
his father, Otis L. Hairston, Sr.,
passed away. The elder Hairston
was the much-loved pastor of
Shiloh Baptist Church.
"With photography being my
chosen profession," Hairston
said, "what better way for me to
honor his memory than to pro
duce through photographic
images a book to capture the
essence of the African-American
community that he loved so dear
ly"
Hairston will be at the
Greensboro Historical Museum
Sunday from 2-4 p.m. to sign
copies of his book , which is avail
able for $19.99. The museum is
located downtown at 130 Summit
Ave. Operating hours are Tues
days through Saturdays from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 2
to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
Cole honored by Anti-Defamation League
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICL1
The Anti-Defamation
League (ADL) presented Dr.
Johnnetta B. Cole, president of
Bennett College, with its distin
guished Joseph Prize for
Human Rights at ADL's
National Executive Committee
Meeting in Palm Beach.
The league honored Cole
for her lifetime of dedication to
advocating on behalf of- civil
and human rights. The ADL
Joseph Prize for Human Rights
recognizes leaders for their
achievements in advancing
freedom, democracy and
human rights.
"It is exquisitely fitting that.
on (his
5 0th
anniver
s a r y
year of
t h e
Brown
v. Board
of Edu
cation
d e c i -
Joseph
Prize for Human Rights to
someone who has spent her life
fighting for human rights and
human dignity," said Barbara B.
Balser. ADL national chair.
Cole is the 14th president of
Bennett College. She is presi
dent emerita of Spelman Col
lege. where she was the first
African-American woman to
serve as president, and profes
sor emerita of Emory Universi
ty.
The Joseph Prize was estab
lished to honor distinguished
individuals who have worked
on behalf of human rights and
helped to achieve and maintain
democratic ideals for all. Past
award recipients include Presi
dent George H.W. Bush. King
Hussein of Jordan. South
African President F.W. deKlerk
and IsraeJi Prime Ministers
Menachem Begin and Golda
Meir.
Juveniles
from page A2
1989, the court declined to extend
the same rule to 16- and 17-year
olds. leaving that decision up to
states.
The United States is a minori
ty because it continues to execute
juveniles. Several anti-juvenile
death penalty treaties, including
the United Nations Convention on
the Rights of the Child, have been
signed by U. S. presidents, but not
ratified by the U. S. Senate. The
U.N. resolution, signed in 1999 by
President Clinton, prohibited the
use of the death penalty for juve
nile offenders.
Every nation in the world rati
fied the treaty, except the United
States and Somalia. Only four
other countries - Iraq, Iran,
Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia -
allow the execution of juveniles.
Over the past 10 years. Pak
istan, China, Yemen, and Zimbab
we have abolished the death
penalty for juveniles. Many other
countries have severely curtailed
juvenile executions, including
Saudi Arabia and Nigeria.
Amnesty International began
a global campaign last month to
abolish the death penalty for juve
nile offenders, calling it a
"heinous" practice:
Anti-death penalty activists
hope that if enough states abolish
the juvenile death penalty before
the court's decision, that might
create the same level of opposi
tion that the court observed two
years ago when it banned execu
tions of mentally retarded people.
The court said then that growing
public sentiment against the exe
cution of the mentally retarded
indicated changing standards of
decency.
At this time. 17 states have no
death penalty for juveniles, 15
states have it but have not used it
since 1976 when the death penal
ty moratorium was lifted.
A Supreme Court decision
resulted in a national moratorium
in 1972 because the court ruled
that laws governing the death
penalty in some states were arbi
trary and capricious, therefore
constituted cruel and unusual pun
ishment. The Bureau of Justice
Statistics reported that 54 percent
of the nearly 4,000 death row
inmates between the 1930s and
1960s were black.
After death penalty laws were
tightened at the state level, the
Supreme Court upheld the consti
tutionality of the death penalty in
1976. Legal executions resumed
the following year.
Speaking at a hearing last
week during the Virginia General
Assembly National Coalition to
Abolish the Death Penalty. Exec
utive Director Brian Roberts
pleaded: "We realize that minors
are not as capable as adults in
making responsible decisions. So,
we place restrictions on
them... Yet. there is one area
where we fall woefully short in
the protection and nurturance of
our children. That is the criminal
justice system."
Since 1976, 22 juvenile
offenders have been executed in
seven states: Texas, Virginia.
Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri,
Oklahoma, and South Carolina.
Texas alone carried out 1 3 execu
tions. almost two-thirds of the
total.
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Salem to host Black Poets Festival
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Salem College's Center for
Women Writers will host the
Black Poets Festival Feb. 19 and
20.
The center provides an
opportunity for women writers
to express their creativity in con
versation, in workshops, in com
munity and college courses and
through readings, lectures and
other special programs. c
Scheduled to take part in the
festival are poets Lyrae Van Clief
Stefanon and Evie Shockley,
who will read their works on
Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. in Hanes Audi
torium of the Salem Fine Arts
Center. New York hip-hop and
sound poet Tracie Morris will
present "Performance Poetry:
Soundscapes" on Feb. 20 at 7
p.m. in Hanes Auditorium.
Stefanon's poetry collection,
"Black Swan." was chosen by
Marilyn Nelson to win the 2001
Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her
work has appeared in such jour
nals and anthologies as "African
American Review," "Callaloo."
"Crab Orchard Review" and
"Shenandoah." CurrentlyQhe is
at work on a second collection,
"Buffet Dream," and a novel,
"Six Ways From Sunday."
Shockley is assistant profes
sor of African-American and
Victorian literature at Wake For
est University. Her chapbook of
poems. "The Gorgon Goddess,"
was published in 2(X)1. Shock
ley's poems have appeared in a
variety of journals, including
"Asheville Poetry Review."
"The Crab Orchard Review,"
"Blink," and "Callaloo." Shock
ley is a member of the Carolina
African American Writers Col
lective and holds a Ph.D. in Eng
lish literature from Duke Univer
sity.
Morris is the author of two
poetry collections, "Intermis
sion" and "Chap-T-her Won,"
and a hip-hop performer. Her
work integrates poetry with
other art forms - theater, dance,
Poet Trade Morris
music, visual art. digital art and
film - bringing to bear her keen
observations on race, gender,
interpersonal relationships and
the political landscape. With her
band. Sonic Synthesis, she
blends rock. jazz, hip-hop and
funk with experimental digital
loops and special effects to cre
ate soundscapes.
All events are free and open
to" the public. Receptions and
book signings will follow the
performances both nights.
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