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Vol. XXXIV No. 43
THURSDAY, July 10, 2008
Former
player
taking on
new role
-See Page B1
Sweet
treats
sent off
to troops
- See Page A3
Chines*
quake
victims
helped
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Disabled housing in the works
Photo by LayU Farmer
T w a n a
W e 1 1 m a n
( clockwise
from left)
with Tim
West, Diane
Evans,
Andrea Kurtz
and Jane
Milner at the
site of the
proposed
Hunters Hill
complex.
Several agencies working to make
Hunters Hill Apartments
a reality by 2010
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
Less than a year ago, five agencies part
nered in an unprecedented collaboration
with a goal of providing adequate housing
for low income and disabled local residents.
CenterPoint Human Services,
Experiment in Self Reliance (ESR), the
Commission for the Ten Year Plan to End
Homelessness, the North Carolina Housing
Foundation and Partners for Homeownership
joined forces last fall to create the Hunters
Hill project. The 12-unit complex is
designed to provide permanent, supportive
housing to mentally and/or physically dis
abled city residents whose income is at or
below 30 percent of the local median
income, which amounts to just over $12,000
a year for an individual.
Each partner agency brings a unique per
See Housing on A4
The time for
action is now,
says the next
NAACP CEO
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
the Chronicle
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Historically, journalists have always
had a cozy relationship with the NAACP. Former executive
director Roy Wilkins began his professional career as a news
man; Ida B. Wells used her column to deliver stinging indict
ments of racial
violence; and tor
years W.E.B. Du
Bois served as the
editor of the
NAACP maga
zine, The Crisis.
B e n j am i n
Jealous is hoping
to revive the civil
rights organiza
tion's one-time
love affair with
journalists. More
than a decade
ago, Jealous was
exposing corrup
tion and inflam
ing tempers as the
editor of
Mississippi's old
est black newspa
per, The Jackson
Advocate. Less
nnpa Photo than three months
Benjamin Jealous speaks to NNPA mem- ago, the 35-year
bers late last month. old was selected
to be the next
president and CEO of the National NAACP.
"The NAACP is a house, a big house," Jealous said. "It is
built from at least four pillars: the black church, the black
press, black businesses and black membership."
He gave those remarks June 27 at the Hyatt Regency in
[ downtown Louisville, Ky.. during a convention of the National
Newspaper Publishers Association, an organization of more
I than 200 black-owned community newspapers that Jealous
I headed in the late 1990s. He thanked the NNPA for giving him
I the opportunity to serve as the organization's executive direc
I tor when he was barely out of college.
"You guys put faith in me," said Jealous, an Ivy League
? educated Rhodes Scholar who will formally become the 17th
fclAACP leader in September.
Jealous is not waiting until his title becomes official before
Starting construction on- the critical bridges he'll need if he
^opes to breath new life into the NAACP, which will mark its
See Jealous on All
The Color Purple
Pholo by Todd Luck
Rick White of Raleigh stands next to his purple 1955 Oldsmobile Super 88, which he cus
tom built himself. His Olds was one of the many classic rides cruising through downtown
Saturday for a car show held as part of Heavy Rebel Weekender, a three-day event filled
with rock music and hot cars.
Photo by Todd Luck
Roy Cooper speaks at the
city's Police Department.
Meth
gets
mighty
enemy
New initiative asks
cops, others to
spread word about
drug's dangers
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Meth is already the number
one crime problem in many
communities across the country
and a new initiate is looking to
make sure it doesn't become one
here,
The Partnership for a Drug
Free NC announced the launch
of Meth360 Tuesday at the
Winston-Salem Police
Department. The program aims
to educate the community on the
dangers of meth, a powerful
synthetic drug. The program
will utilize law enforcement
and substance abuse profession
als to give comprehensive edu
cational sessions to the commu
nity.
State Attorney General Roy
Cooper was on hand for the
announcement. He talked about
the dangers of meth, which is
highly addictive and can be
lethal. The labs used to create
meth can be created in kitchens,
garages and even inside of cars.
Meth labs themselves have
become a separate danger, often
? See Meth on A12
Teacher finds beauty, kindness
in the Land of the Rising Sun
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
Tiffany Holland held the letter in her hand,
frozen. It took her a moment, she says, to compre
hend what she had read. She had been selected from
a pool of nearly 2, 000 (teachers nationwide to make
an unforgettable trek to Japan.
"I didn't think I was going to get it ... I called
my mom and screamed in her ear," related Holland,
a seventh grade social studies and language arts
teacher at Wiley Middle. "It was a great honor."
The Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund (JFMF)
Teacher Program selected an elite group of 160 edu
cators to participate in the three-week program,
which is sponsored by the Japanese Government
and designed to foster greater cultural understand
ing between the United States and Japan.
An African- American, Holland admits she was a
little apprehensive about descending into a culture
that is sometimes described as xenophobic, but says
she was met with nothing but pure hospitality.
See HolUnd on A9
Minmitted nwto
Tiffany Holland learns from a master calligrapher in Japan.
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