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The Gift of Freedom
Annual Emancipation
ceremony
*? draws a crowd
BY TODD LUCK ^ f
THE CHRONICLE
> NAACP State President
"Rev. William Barber was the
keynote speaker at the
Emancipation Association's
, annual celebration of the
anniversary of the
Emancipation Proclamation
During his speech, Barber
announced that on February 10
the NAACP, together with
other organizations, will hold
a "Historic Thousands on
Jones Street" march in
Raleigh. Barber said they're
calling on more than 5,000
people to come out and meeLat
the Memorial Auditorium at 1 1
? a m tc>-jiiarch down Jones
Street teThe General Assembly
building. The march asks leg
islators to consider a 14-point
agenda that includes quality
education in diverse schools, a
living wage, universal health
care, public financing of elec
tions, enforcement of civil
rights laws, affordable housing
and putting an end to mandato
Scholarship winners David Wardlow Jr. and Alyssa Canty.
ry sentencing and the death
penalty. ?
Barber also stated a goal of
seeing the enrollment' of the
Winston-Salem NAACP reach
1,000 members this year.
The Emancipation
Proclamation was signed by
President Abraham Lincoln on
January 1, 1863. The procla
mation freed all the slaves in
the rebelling Confederate
states. Later, the 13 th
Amendment would free all
slaves in the United States.
Barber said that Lincoln
wasn't looking to free slaves
with the proclamation because
it would have only freed the
slaves if the Confederate states
kept rebelling. If they had
rejoined the United States the
proclamation w&uld have been
null and void, said Barber.
"We got free because God
did to the South what he did to
the pharaoh, he hardened their
hearts. He forced this nation to
face rts original sin, paid in
blood until the blood was so
deep that it forced a change,"
said Barber.
Barber said that with free
dom comes the responsibility
to question and stand up to the
wrongs in our society. Barber
listed the Iraq War, which he
said the NAACP opposed from
the beginning, as one of them
He said that a conflict the
country shouldn't have gotten
into in the first place has dbst
tax payers over $300 billion
He said that the casualties of
U.S. troops in Iraq is now
greater than the causalities
from the terrorist attacks on
9 11 and that more than
650,000 Iraqis have died. A
study from the John Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public'
Health last year said the Iraq
causality count was most like
ly over 600,000 even though
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A Celebration for All
' . y Photo hy Todd Luck
Attendees at a Kwanzaa celebration last week at the Winston Lake Family YMCA take part in a celebatory dance. Kwanzaa events were held through the -
city, as has been the tradition for the past several years. To read more about Kwanzaa, see page HI 2.
Steakhouse treats kids to pre-holiday feast
Rxrto* by Todd l.nck
Young people enjoy the meal and conversation.
BY TODD LUCK
THi: ( HRONK Li:
More lhan 150 children were
treated to a restaurant quality dinner
from LongHorn Steakhouse recent
ly at the Salvation Army Boys and
Food Bank, which normally sup
plies food for the club's Kids Cafe.
He said what the children ate was
the same entree a customer might be
served at his restaurant. He said
he'd been involved in LongHorn's
collaborations with chari
inrls C lub Kids t ale
Martin Luther King
Drive.
A meal of roasted
chicken, vegetables,
fresh fruit and Teddy
Grahams - from the
restaurant was served to
them by volunteers
from LongHorn
Stcakhousc. The restau
rant donated 60 pounds
of chicken for the meal
tics before, but this was
the first time he served
food at an event like this
and saw the look on the
children's faces
"I believe very strong
ly (about) anything I can
do to help the community,
especially when it comes
to children, especially
those who might not have
the opportvuiities me and
you might have. It's criti
Smith ?
LongHorn managing partner,
Stuart Smith, was in charge of the
spccial meal Smith said he was
looking for a way to help the com
munity and was referred to the Boys
and Girls Clubs by Second Harvest
cal to try to make a difference, espe
cially this time of year," said Smith.
Sylvia Adams, who is the exec
utive director of the local Boys and
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The Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr.
NCSA
to screen
rare film
on, King
BY LAY LA PARMER
THE CHRONICLE
There's no doubt that the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
changed the direction of this
country. He made history when
he became the only African
American in the United States
rb?have a federal holiday named
in his honor. To this day,
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is
one of only four holidays on the
calendar that celebrates an indi
vidual person.
Since his death in 1968,
people have paid tribute to
King's memory in many differ
ent ways. This year, the Nortli
Carolina
School ol
the Arts
has found
a new
way to
mark the
day, with
t h e
screening
of an
extreme
ly rare
? d o c u -
Spencer
mentary entitled, "King, A
Filmed Record: Montgomery to
Memphis." The event will be
held on campus Jan F5
The documentary was orig
inally released, by the Martin
Luther Kihg Jr. f oundation in
*1970, and is the property of
Moving Image Archives
(MIA), of the NCSA
Filmmaking School, which is.
the filth largest nonprofit
motion picture arc his e in the
country.
"We acquired a very large
collection called the National
Film Service Collection quite a
feu years back, and we've been
kind of weeding through those
materials," explained MIA
Curator 'David* Spencer. "We
came across this documentary,
and based on our research, this
has never been released. It was
a.one time event in 1970, where
they basically screened thjs in a
few theater's around the coun
try. The only prints that I'm
aware of arc our print and then
I think there ajc two prints at
the Library of Congress."
Although^tftere' hMc been
other documentaries made
about the life and works of Dr
King. Spcnccf says none of
them can rival "Montgomery to
Memphis." In fact, the film was
nominated for an Oscar in
1970, for Best Documentary
Film, and was added to the
National Film Registry in the
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