Going for Term #4
Joines Campaign Photo
Mayor Allen Joines announced Tuesday his intentions to seek a fourth term.
After the early morning announcement, Joines made a blitz of stops around
the city, including Medicap Pharmacy, where he met with African American
business owners (as seen above). This is an election year for not only Joines,
but the other eight members of the City Council as well.
Women
from page Al
Spanish at Salem College,
first became interested in
the subject after visiting
Mexico in 1998.
"I went to Acapulco,
which is on the coast," she
related, noting that the
descendants of African
slaves are most often
found in coastal areas of
Latin America. "...1 saw
all of these black people. I
had no idea they were
there. 1 was totally
shocked."
Intrigued by the notion
that she and her Spanish
speaking counterparts had
some cultural heritage in
common, Hines-Gaither
began talking to the people
she encountered in hopes
of learning more about
Afro-Mexican history.
"When I started asking
them questions about "their
own history or heritage,
they didn't know either,"
she reported. "They could
look at me and recognize
the similarities but they
had no idea of their histo
ry. It's a history of silence
and denial."
Despite considerable
digging, Hines-Gaither
said little information was
available about Afro
Latino culture. even
though Latin America was
once home to five times as
many slaves as the United
States, according to her
research.
Hines-Gaither, who
has both a master's degree
(from Wake Forest
University) and a bache
lor's degree (from Salem)
in Spanish Education,
began to tackle the topic in
earnest when she enrolled
in the doctoral program. In
2005, she acquired a 10
day work visa to travel to
Cuba to collect data about
Afro-Cubans. The
research she gathered will
help her with her disserta:
tion, which focuses on
black Latina immigrants
in North Carolina.
? Colon, Panama native
Avis Williams-Smith is
among the Afro-Latina
subjects Hines-Gaither has
interviewed , thus far.
Williams-Smith, a mother
of three, said she was
happy to be involved with
the project.
"1 tnink tne project is
awesome to present a dif
ferent view of the
Hispanic woman. It's defi
nitely different for us. It's
much more difficult from
my perspective because 1
kind of feel like I don't fit
into any one mold." said
Williams-Smith, a medical
interpretation student at
GTCC. "I'm a black
woman - that's what
everyone sees - but I can't
change my culture. I'm a
Hispanic woman as well. I
thought it was awesome
that she addressed that. We
were kind of invisible.
Black Hispanic females
are never discussed or
talked about or anything."
Williams-Smith said
she was aware of her
familial heritage, which
can be traced back to
Jamaica, but she never
thought of herself as a
black woman before mov
ing to America to pursue
her master's degree in lin
guistics and literature at
Penn State University.
"I never thought of my
race, I just thought of
myself as a woman." she
said, noting that
A ma Frimpong
Panamanians differentiate
themselves based on
socio-economics, not eth
nicity.
In researching for her
dissertation, Hines
Gaither. who will com
plete her coursework in
cultural studies this spring,
discovered that the black
international presence in
Winston-Salem reaches
far beyond Latin America.
Quebec (Canada)
native Achlai Wallace is
one of six international
subjects Hines-Gaither has
interviewed during her
research process. Wallace,
a InterVarsity Christian
Fellowship campus minis
ter for five area colleges,
hails from a thriving popu
lation of Haitians that
reside in the frigid French
speaking province. Having
done her own research on
black women in her native
Canada, Wallace said
Hines-Gaither's work
piqued her interest right
away. The two became
close friends and even
travel together, presenting
Hines-Gaither's research.
"I also love culture and
I love that Krishauna is
seeing black people in
other places because I
think that's a huge thing to
educate people. I know
firsthand that that's needed
because of my interaction
with students," said
Wallace, who moved to
the U.S. nearly six years
ago to be with her
American husband.
Though varied, Hjpes
Gaither said many of the
international women's
experiences in the United
States dovetail with her
own experiences as an
Achlai Wallace
African American. While
her subjects are proud of
their nationality and want
to be recognized as citi
zens of their birthplace,
they also identify strongly
with the African American
community as well, she
said.
Twenty-three year-old
Ama Frimpong, a native of
Accra, Ghana, can relate
to both.
"I have always consid
ered, and will always con
sider. myself an African
living in America, just
because of the pride and
love that I have for my
country and my continent.
When 1 think of home, 1
think of Ghana,"
Frimpong stated. "...That
being said, I see no dis
tinction when it comes to
fighting for equality or
other social justice issues
that affect us all alike.
Before we are any particu
lar ethnicity or race, we
are first human."
As a Spanish major at
Salem. Frimpong, who is
now a Wake Forest Law
student, was enrolled in
several of Hines-Gaither's
courses and later con
tributed her voice to
Hines-Gaither's growing
repertoire of black interna
tional women's accounts
of life in North Carolina.
Hines-Gaither, whose
first book, a memoir about
her work and studies, is
awaiting publication, said
she intends to continue her
exploration of black inter
national women.
"I would hope that this
is the first of many books,"
she said of her disserta
tion. "I would love to con
tinue documenting the sto
ries of black women of the
diaspora. I think there are
stories that we don't hear
of a lot or we make
assumptions about them. I
would love to hear about
their experiences from
their own voices."
To read more about
Hines-Gaither's research
and travels, go to
www.weboaal.com/travel
ogue2 .htm.
Watt awarded
Human Rights Medal
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U.S. Rep. Melvin L.
"Mel" Watt received the
2013 North Carolina
A&T State University
Human Rights Medal on
Feb. 1 during the school's
53rd Sit-In Anniversary
Breakfast.
Watt, 67, was elected
to the U.S. House of
Representatives in 1992,
six years after serving one
term in the N.C. Senate.
He practiced law for 22
years, specializing in
minority business and
economic development
law in a general practice
firm best known for its
civil rights work.
As one of only two
African Americans elect
ed to Congress from
North Carolina in the
20th Century, Watt has
been a member of the
House Judiciary
Committee, the House
Financial Services
Committee and the
Congressional Black
Caucus, where he served
as chairman in 2005-06.
The Human Rights
Medal is given in recogni
tion of individuals who
have strived to correct
social injustice and have
contributed significantly
to the betterment of the
world. It is awarded to
File Pholo
U.S. Rep Watt has served the 12th District since 1992.
courageous men and
women whose actions
reflect those that were
demonstrated in 1960 by
four A&T freshmen -
Ezell Blair Jr. (Jibreel
Khazan), Franklin
Eugene McCain, Joseph
Alfred McNeil and David
Richmond Jr. The men
led a group of students to
take a stand for justice by
sitting down and refusing
to leave the segregated
whites-only lunch counter
of the F.W. Woolworth
Store in downtown
Greensboro. Their nonvi
olent protest became part
of a nationwide move
ment that led to desegre
gation.
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