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48 1^0555 **"r' "CAff-RT-LOT NORTH CAROLINA ROOM FORSYTH CTY PUBLIC ilBRARY 660 W 5TH ST WINSTON SALEM NC 27X01-2755 75 cents _ II C022 For Reference No* t o be taken from this library cr.LEB RATI N (? 30 YEARS OF COMMUNITY JOLRNA Vol. XXXI No. 28 m I Ram I opens up ? about CIAA - See Page B1 Family Services recalls its past - See Page All Fathers get help and advice -See I Habitat celebrates building milestone -See Page CI Tenants bemoan sale of building City looking to get rid of Trade Street property BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE . Bonnie Ferrell is counting down the days until the start of the 2005 National Black Theatre Festival. It is not so much that Paige herrell is a theater fan, but the thou sands who attend the bien n i a I event have become fans of I n e Agora, the Trade Street clothing and accessories shop she has operated for the last four years. "It is one of my busiest times," she said Tuesday. But this festival year. Ferrell. has been reluctant to order spring clothes for her shop. The city is her landlord. She and other tenants in the building got word about two years ago that they are operating their busi nesses on borrowed time. The city is selling the building, like ly to The Chapman Co.. which wants to raze it and a construct a new building that will be parts residential, retail and office space. "I am afraid to order stuff. 1 don't know when they are going to ask me to leave," Ferrell said. Derwick Paige, the assistant city manager for community and economic development, said The Chapman Co. is in the process of securing tenants for its proposed building. Paige said the company is expected to come back to the city in May or June to detail its plans. Paige said since the city began looking for buyers for the building in 2003. it has only leased space in the Trade Street building (524-547 North Trade' Street) on a month-to-month basis. Tl^ city has owned the building since the 1980s, when it planned to tear down the building to create more parking See Building on A9 Ministers are not praising bonds File Photo School Board member Vic Johnson has been a strong supporter of bonds in the past. He says he favors the proposed 2005 bond . School system wants $80 million for schools BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE * The Ministers' Conference of Winston aaiem anu vicinity is aireauy giv ing the thumbs-down to a possible school bond referendum. Citing what members called a history of lies and deceit by the school sys tem toward the African-American community, ministers voted unan imously last month to oppose the $80 million bond referendum that school officials want on county ballots in November. "There is a whole history of black people being lieii to or manipulated over bond (referen dums), said the Kev. Carlton bversley, a member of the Ministers' Conference and a longtime critic of the school system. The ministers point to Atkins Middle School as one of the reasons why the school system cannot be trusted on bonds. Atkins was promised a multimillion dollar renova Hon alter voters passed a bond rel erendum in late 1980s. The school did get its facelift, but not until the mid-1990s when voters passed another bond referendum. By most accounts, the African American community got its share of the last school bond referendum in 2001 . The Simon G. Atkins Aca demic and Technology High School was built off of Old Greensboro Road for $22 million. The school will open in the fall. Carver High School also received a $7.3 million renovation that included giving the school a dramatic new front entrance. Parkland is See Bonds on A10 Photos by Kevin Walker Annie Howard and her daughter, ^ K i m b ? r I y, ? b r o w s e P through the book section at Body A Soul on Trade Street. Books are among the things that Howard likes to spend her hard-earned money on. Black wallets pack wallop New report says N.C. blacks spent $325 billion last year BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE Annie Howard works hard for her money. So after she takes care of bills and other expenses, she likes to indulge herself a little. "I love shoes and jewelry," t said Howard, who has worked for US Airways for the last 34 years. "1 also love entertain ment events like plays." It was beauty products and books that caught Howard's eye Friday evening as she ~ T shopped with her daughter, Kimberly. along Trade Street. In Body & Soul - a colorful store specializing in black art and novelties - she bought fra grant soaps. Howard is one of the near ly 1 .85 million black North Carolinians who spent a whop ping $32.5 billion on goods and services last year. The N.C. Institute of Minority Eco nomic Development just released an euensive report detailing the spending habits of blacks and other minorities in the Tar Heel state. It is the second time in eight years that the Durham-b*sed institute, a nonprofit that strives to build wealth in low-income commu nities, has released such a study. Andrea Harris, the presi dent and cofounder of the insti See Spending on A1 1 Local judges say they feel no threat Killing of Chicago judge 's family has raised safety questions BY CPtlKTNEY OAH**RD " (he safety of judges outside of THE CHRONICLE the courts. Courtrooms throughout .the nation are sniffed with law enforce ment officers whose job it is to keep the peace and ensure the safety of all who are present. But the recent murders of a Chicago judge's family members Hayes The mother and husband of U.S. Dis trict Court Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow were mur dered in her Chicago home a few weeks ago. Authorities are investigating whether a white s u p r e m a't i s I , Matthew Hale, whom she previously tried, is responsible for the Set* Judges in A10 Good Vibrations Pholo by Kevin Walker Rick Williams and Janae Davis of the South Carolina based group Mystic Vibra tions perform on Trade Street during last Fri day's Gallery Hop. The reg gae group will perform at Ziggy's on March 20 at 9 p.m. Wickham has lofty plans for institute Noted journalist bringing Ed Gordon and many others to A&Tfor conference BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE DeWayne Wickham did not even have to finger through his Rolodex to find big-name speakers for a journalism con ference he is organizing at N.C. A&T State University. It is the new mil lennium after all. The only thing Wick ham had to do to connect with peo ple like Ed Gor don and Charles Wickham Oglelree was to get a signal. "Most of them I just fount! on my cell phone." said Wick-' ham. a well-known journalist and commentator. " I have been doing this for 32 years, and all these people I know personally." A&T counted it as major coup when it landed Wickham - whose thoughts on everything from politics to pop culture can be read each week in his column in USA Today - in January to head its four-year-old Institute for. Advanced Journalism Stud ies. -Wickham will also +egin teaching journalism classes at the school in the fall. He has spent much of his first couple months at A&T putting together "The Fouah Estate and Blacks, a three-day conference that will explore the role of blacks in the media, from news media to film. The title of the conference comes from the medieval notion that there were only three estates of public life - the nobil ity. the clergy and the common ers - before the advent of the press, which became known as the Fourth Estate. Today. Wick Sec Wickham on A9 In Grateful Memory of Our Founders , Florrie S. Russell and Carl H. 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