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Lia Epperson Jealous speaks.
NAACP's
First Lady
discusses
challenges
BY TODD LICK
I HI ( HROMCL1
The first lad> of the National NAACP told
attendees at the Women of Excellence Conference
that the fight against segregated schools and racial
profiling isn't over.
Lia Epperson Jealous, the wife of National
NAACP President Benjamin Jealous, spoke at the
Conference, held Saturday b\ the N.C NAACP at
Barbrr
Union Baptist Church.
During the morning. sympo
siums addressed the resegre
gation of public schools and
health care reform. Jealous
spoke during the
Conference's 55th Annual
Mother of the Year
Coronation that afternoon.
The Conference was attend
ed by presidents, officials
and members from more
than 40 NAACP branches
across the state
Jealous, a Harvard alumni, met her husband
while doing a fellowship at the NAACP in 1993.
She would later serve five years as a litigator for the
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Currently, she teaches constitutional law .
"I'm a lawyer ... I'm an educator; I'm an advo
cate; I'm a mother; and a wife in the movement."
she said.
Recently, she attend the funerals of three
deceased civil rights figures: past NAACP
President Rev. Dr. Benjamin Hooks; entertainer
Lena Home: and civil rights advocate Dorothy
Height. Jealous said Height, a longtime president of
the National Council of Negro Wtlhien. didn't stop
fighting for civil rights until she died. Jealous said
it w as women like Height that inspired her to join
the "movement."
"It's women like this who have all understood
the struggle is a never-ending process." said
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lives Once
Interrupted
Are Back
on Track
Adults earn GEDs, diplomas
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Last Thursday evening. 293 students took a step towards a
better future.
All of those who graduated from Forsyth Technical
Community College s GED and
Adult High School programs
have high hopes now that they
have finally attained a goal that,
in most cases, had long eluded
them.
FTCC's GED (General
Educational Development) test
ing program offers a high school
equivalency diploma for those
who pass all five parts of the
GED test The college's AHS
offers on-site and distance learn
ing classes to students w ho w ant
an actual high school diploma.
The ceremony took place at
Wait Chapel on the campus of
Wake Forest University.
Mayor Allen Joines ga\e the
keynote address, telling gradu
ates that the economy is transi
tioning to one based on knowledge, making education even more
\ital for those looking to compete in this new workforce.
Set (iraAs on \2
Ptmabft by Ti^ki 1 Uk. it
James Pulliam and his wife . Andrea, and Antonio Brown . pictured to the
left, got their (iEDs together last Thursday.
YWCA leader works to break family stroke cycle
eliminating racism
empowering women
ywca
-v Photo by Uryla
Florence Corpening lost both her mother and younger
sister to stroke.
by lay i v Farmer
TOECHRQNICtE
For the last 15 years. YWCA of
Winston-Salem CEO Florence
Corpening has led countless women to
better health through a variet) of fit
ne*.-. ana wellness pro
grams. initiatives and
incentives. Yet. n took a
personal tragedy to shift
Corpenings focus to her
own health
Corpening. 62. a native
of Lenoir, lost her youngest
sister. Sharon "Jo Jo"
Chapman, to stroke in
January Chapman, direc
tor of the Living Center
Concepts Group Home and
Guardian-en-Lieu in
Hickory. was onl> 53 at the time of her
death Corpening. one of six children,
was rocked by the tragedy. She and
her Mblings had buried their mother.
Clara Rutherford, also a victim of
stroke, nine \ears earlier, but says that
Chapman's death came a>> a shock to
the family because vhe was relatively
Daniels
\ oung
"When my mother had the stroke . 1
didn't think about it 1 never thought
about it in relation to me She was
older she was 75 so we didn't look
at it as being part of our family ihisto
rv she admitted " (We wondered*
'How do we hold rt together
when our source in tone'
We never thought about our
health "
Looking hack.
Corpening realized
Chapman had se\eral of the
known risk factors for
stroke, and so did many o!
the other family members
For Corpening. that realiza
tion changed everything.
"Everything in life has a
trigger, something that makes it real
personal to you." she explained.
"... After we got oxer the shock of her
death and how do we adjust to it and
all that, that was my trigger for me to
look at myself "
Corpening began working exercise
st-o ( orprninK on
W**> In fern lUh
Ron Jones and iMrry Tish perform as "Mabel and Esther" in "The
Black Jew Dialogues."
Unity through Hilarity
New resident to the citx works to break down hurries through the arts
BY LAYLA FARMKR
I Hi CHKONK1 1
"Slavery, the KKK and chicken liver?,
are the tip of the iceberg u hen it comes to
the commonalities between African
Americans and Jewish Americans, accord
ing to Actor Ron Jones, who has recently
settled in Winston-Salem
The City of the Arts is the first place
Jones, an accomplished improvisation
actor, has been able to call home in some
time The Washington. D.C.-native gave
up his apartment two years ago to travel
across the U S and to the I'nited Kingdom
to stage "The Black Jew Dialogues" with
his friend and co-crcator. L.arr\ Ja\ Tish
"This place jusi sort of jumped me."
quipped Jones, who first \isited Winston
Salem last fall for a conference 'It jumped
me with its cuteness and its attractiveness.
It mugged me with its quaintness 1 just tell
in love."
Jones and Tish use improvisation*,
sketches and other creative tools to under
score the idioc\ of racism and preiudice
and highlight the need for social justice.
The show premiered at the Fdinburgh
(Scotland) Fringe Festival the largest arts
festival in the world in 2(H)6.
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