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7S cents CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF COMMUNITY JOUH Vol. XXXI No. 3
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2
from this literary
Glenn
takes
down
Parkland
- See Page HI
Car dealer
gives away
prizes for
contest
- See Page All
Keita
shares
drum
skills
- See Page A4
Program
tries
to guide
girls
-See Page A9
Amen Comer
?o
Pholo by Kcv in Walker
The Rev. John Heath ,
playing the part of the
late Rev. James Cleve
land, performs with other
members of the cast of
the musical "Mahalia."
The cast performed selec
tions from the musical
Saturday at The Chroni
cled Celebration in the
Park , which brought hun
dreds of people to Rupert
Bell Park. To read more
about the event and to
see more pictures, check
out pages CI, C2, and
CI 5.
Citywide reading project
begins at Bookmarks Festival
BY FELECIA P SICMII LAN. PH D
THE CHrfONlCLE
Hundreds gathered around the main stage as
Dr. Maya Angelou presented her poem "Still I
Rise" as. a part <>t' the kickoff address lor the
Forsyth County Public Library's annual com
munity-read project. On the Same Page. From
Sept. 1 1 through Nov. 7, various book discus
sion groups will be held around the city cen
tered around Angelo's book "I Know Why the
Caged Bird Sings."
Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamtin. director of the
Forsyth County Public Library, was proud that
the steering committee chose Angelou 's book as
the focus for the third annual community read
celebration.
"We have received a great deal of positive
response by selecting this book. We felt that the
Bookmarks Festival would be the perfect venue
" to kick off On the Same Page this year." Sprin
kle-Hamlin said.
Angelou praised librarians as valuable
resources in the community. Librarians put as
much effort into their studies as brain surgeons
and computer analysts Angelou explained.
Sec Festival on A9
Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin is hoping for lots of par
ticipation with the citywide read.
National Urban
League head
to speak in city
CHKUNIt'Lb SIAF-h KhPURI
The president and CEO of
the National Urban League
will speak in Win
ston-saiem on uct. i
during u luncheon
that will be hosted
by the Winston
Salem Urban
League.
The Urban
League's board of
trustees unanimous
ly selected Marc
Mortal in 2003,
Morial had served as
mayor ot New
Orleans before taking the
post. The people, of New
Orleans twice elected him. He
also is a former president of
Morial
the U.S. Conference of May
ors.
As mayor, Morial made
national headlines. Not only
was he one of the
youngest mayors ot
a major U.S. city,
crime plummeted
in New Orleans and
the economy
surged on his
watch. Many North
Carolinians know
Morial as the man
who convinced the
Charlotte Hornets
to relocate to New
Orleans. Getting
the team to relocate was one
of Morial's last acls as mayor.
As head of the nearly 1 00
Sc. Morial on A10
Lntics
question
cruise
taken by
director
Event sponsored
by the makers of
the controversial
M s
voting machines
BY COURTNEY GA1LLARD
III! ( HRONKTLE
Election watchdog groups
are scrutinizing a recent dinner
cruise held for election officials
in Washington. D.C.. during the
National Election Official Con
ference last month. Kathie
Chastain
L ooper,
director
of the
Forsyth
County
Board of
Elections,
was
among
those
w h o
attended Jurro"
the con
ference and dinner cruise, which
was sponsored by the Election
Center and three voting machine
vendors.
The Election Center is a
nonprofit professional organiza
tion whose members are gov
ernment and election employ
ees.
A dinner cruise sponsored
by companies whom election
officials patronize, says Joyce
McCloy, is an astonishing con
flict of interest. McCloy is the
coordinator of the N.C. Coali
tion for Verifiable Voting, and
she urged the Board of Elections
not to send Cooper to the event.
"It's like an $85 cruise, but it
was partly paid for by voting
machine vendors." said
McCloy. "Most of us consider it
unethical that the voting
machine vendors can wine and
dine our election officials."
See Election on A9
Kushner critical of Bushes during Wake visit
Playwright's latest hit focuses on
black maid in the 1960s
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
In the creative mind of Tony Kushner - a mind that has pro
duced a growing list of Broadway classics - not even the first
lady of the United States is sacred.
Kushner. a Toiiy-winning playwright opened his address
last Thursday at Wake Forest University with a reading of the
first act of his latest work, "Only We Who Guard the Mystery
Shall Be Unhappy." Pan satire, parapolitical commentary and
wholly an indictment of White House policies, the piece is set
in a classroom full of dead Iraqi children and features First
Lady Laura Bush as the main character. Kushner - adopting a
high-pitched, exaggerated Southern accent - took on the part of
Mrs. Bush for the reading.
Early readings qf the work in New York have created both
buzz and controversy. Even Kushner. whose work has always
delved into controversial territory, said that in these days of
homeland security, it crossed his mind that some government
agency might retaliate for his poking fun at Mrs. Bush by
storming his apartment and taking possession of his manu
scripts and notes. Kushner told the crowd that that fear drove
See Kushner on A10
Photo hy Kevin Walker
Playwright Tony
Kushner talks with
students from N.C.
School of the Arts
after after his talk
at Wake Forest
University. Kushn
has won numer
ous awards for his
work , w hijfh
includes "Angels in
America. "
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