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'"niiy 'Of i/VKTir1! T? x^iii\UIN IC I <r< Vol. XXXII No. 21 THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2006 Mom coaches son and others in league - See Page til Angela Davis speaks at UNCG See Page 15 Holy Jr Spirit tilflfy King breakfast See Page B14 ?j&.MARmimHERKWmY utH)$TERS conference. VVINSTON - SAL?M .MM om - MMM/JKi/fj Photo by Jaeson Pitt Hundreds march their way up MLK Jr. Drive to the Benton Convention Center Jor the Noon Hour service. Daring to Still Dream King 's daughter tells Wake Forest crowd that God is unhappy with low standards ; BY T KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE . The youngest child of the?late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said she believes the deadly tsunami that devastated parts of Asia more than a year ago was God's way of telling the world that He is unhappy with war, poverty and a cul ture where money is worshipped more than He is. "He was trying to tell us (that) you are living below what I created you to be," the Rev. Bernice King said in her fiery preaching voice from the stately wooden pulpit in Wake Forest University's Wait Chapel. She stood in the same place her father stood in 1962 when ha spoke on a heavily-guarded Wake Forest campus. More than 1,000 people came out to hear Bernice King speak Monday, the clay me nation ceicuraieu the holiday honoring her legendary father Her nearly hourlong address was more of a sermon' than a speech Applause, amens and similar affir mations came often from the crowd, a racially eclectic mix of students and f?lks old enough to remember when King's father led the Civil Rights Movement King - who called her dad a "prophet," not just a mere "dreamer" - laid the foundation for her ' message by using words her father spoke more than 35 yeairs ago when the civil rights icon lamented that as people become richer materially, they become poorer spiri ? 11.. Bernice King said that JS truer today than ever The Rt, Bernice King delivers a passionate message from the before pulpit of Wait Chapel. "There is a moral void... a spiritual bankruptcy that exists in our nation," she said. King said the only way out of the moral doldrums and to eliminate the evils of poverty, racism and military strife is through embracing the Word and Spirit of God. Education, she said, can't do it, nor can money or the latest high-tech gi/.mo. King told the students in the audience that their schooling would be mean ingless if they do not challenge the status quo. She praised the 1960 Winston Salem sit-ins,' which were staged by students from historically white Wake Forest and historically black Winston-Salem State University Wake Forest and WSSU began having joint MLK observance programs five years ago as a way to pay homage to those sit-ins - believed to be some of (he first in the nation that involved blacks and whites. This year, the schools' MLK events included a basketball tournament, step show and a concert by gospel star Kim Burrell. Just hours before King's address, four people (a student and faculty member from each of the universi ties) received the first-ever MLK Awards for their work to bridge the racial divide See King on A 12 Noon Hour service speakers say nation has miles to go in race relations BY SANDRA ISLBY THE CHROWICLE "I stand on a summit today, from which I can view an America that has all of the potential to eradicate every artifi cial barrier which separates, divides and diminishes us citizens and erect a strong boundary that can unify, enhance and rnnclnirt a rnmmnnwfialth in which there will really be a nation, and one nation only, tinder God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all," That was. part of the keynote speech given by Dr. J. Donald Ballard, pastor emeritus of United Metropolitan Baptist Church, as he addressed a crowded room of observers at the Benton Convention Center Monday during a program celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr "A Dream Conceived: A Dream to Be Fulfilled.'.' was the theme of the 26th Annual Noon Hour Commemoration, which was presented by MUtter Evans, the Winston-Salem Branch of the NAACP, and the city's Human Relations Department. The program began in 1981- before there was an actual national holiday honoring King It is the city's longest, continuous event Ballard honoring the late civil rights leader. Had King not been assassinated in 1968, he would have celebrated his 77th birthday this past Sunday Ballard revisited the message in King's historical "I Have a Dream" speech, telling the crowd that all these years since King's death, the dream remained unfulfilled. nation still is not colorblind when a black defendant enters a courtroom, when a black fam ily moves into a neighborhood and whites begin to moVe out, and when new schools are being built in racially segregat ed suburbs, instead of revitaliz ing inner-city schools that would be more integrated. His last statement was a stab at the local school svstem. which has been criticized for implementing a neighborhood schools plan that has left many schools racially segregated and some inner-city schools nearly empty. "When this happens within the com munities that we call home, we are made clearly to see that we still live in an America that has not yet made good on that proverbial check written by our Founding Fathers, on which Dr. King said, 'Our nation has defaulted.' more than 48 years ago," Ballard said. Ballard offered a remedy to the Sec King service on A13 Attendees sing "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the beginning of the service. Hartsfield prepares for '06 election She is the only black judge on the local bench BY T KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE Time flics, District Court Judge Denise Hartsfield said Monday. Harts field 1 I seems like only yesterday that she won her seat on on the o 2 1st Judicial District bench, but this year Hartsfield will have to win it again. Hartsfield and three of her colleagues will be on the ballot this election year. Opponents are likely to come out of the wood work -once tiling opens next month. There was never a doubt that Hartsfield would seek a second term. As the only black judge in a judicial district where African American defendants are over represented, she feels a duty not only to serve but to ensure, that the local bench maintains the See Hartsfield on AI3 Noms: Winston operates differently Greensboro police have been under scrutiny for its tactics BY TODD LUCK THE CHRONICLE Police Chief Pat Noms said the system the department uses to probe com plaints against officers is effective and^Joes n ' t involve any sort of ultra secret police force, Norris The Greensboro Police Department has been rocked recently by allegations that for mer Chief David Wray used his department's Special Intelligence Division, dubbed the secret police, to spy on black officers. The existence of the "secret police" was discovered after a black lieutenant discov ered a tracking device on his patrol vehicle that was reported ly placed tlier^ by members of the secret police who were said to be investigating the officer's alleged crime ties, which have turned out to be unfounded In Grateful Memory of Our Founders , Florrie S. Russell and Carl H: Russell, Sr. "Growing and Still Dedicated u Serve You Better' IRnsseU If imeral ffijgmc Wishes to Thank Everyone For Their Support - jt (at Martin leather Winston-Salem, N' <336> 722-3 Fax (336) 631 rusfhomc? bcU? >
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