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Volume 43, Number 26
-WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
-THURSDAY, March 2, 2017
local HAACP backs H.G. boycott
BY CASH MICHAELS
FOR THE CHRONICLE
Controversy abounds in the aftermath of a dramatic
announcement last week that the national and state
NAACP are calling for an “international” economic boy
cott of North Carolina because, they say, of “repressive”
policies marshaled by the Republican-led state legislature.
“True democracy remains a distant ideal that the racist
actions of members of the N.C. state legislature continue
to disgracefully push further and further out of the reach
of the African-American community,” said NAACP
President Cornell William Brooks.
“The NAACP refuses to accept this attack on democ
racy or the commoditization of bias against people due to
racial or gender identity here in North Carolina or any
where else around the nation. This we will fight against
with all of our resources until we win.”
But despite important questions about how the boycott
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would work, at least one local NAACP leader says lever
aging dollars spent in the state is the most effective way
to force meaningful change.
“Sometimes the only route to meaningful change is
economic boycott,” Rev. Alvin Carlisle, president of the
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County NAACP, told The
Chronicle this week. “King stated that ‘Riot is the lan
guage of the unheard. In America, the dollar is a language
everyone understands.”’
It was last December that N.C. NAACP President Rev.
Dr. William Barber II announced that the state conference
would formally ask the national NAACP Board of
Directors for permission to call for an economic boycott,
in response to various policies and actions emanating
from the GOP-led N.C. General Assembly.
Three weeks ago, right before the 11th Annual HK on
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Board “announced a resolution calling for an international
economic boycott of the state of North Carolina in
response to actions of an all-white legislative caucus,
which unconstitutionally designed racially-discriminatory
gerrymandered districts, enacted a monster voter suppres
sion law; passed Senate Bill 4 stripping the incoming
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Photo by Tevin Stinson
Adolfo Briceno with the Hispanic League makes a presention during a community action forum held by the
Family Violence Prevention Initiative, a partnership between 10 local organizations.
Local organizations unite
to fight domestic violence
Family Services rallies nine groups to
launch the Family Violence Prevention
Initiative
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BY TEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE __
Family Services isn’t pulling any punches in the fight
against domestic violence here in Forsyth County.
Holding fast to their mission to help families and chil
dren reach their full potential through community partner
ships, last October, Family Services rallied nine local
organizations from every sector of the community from
faith-based organizations, to the local colleges and univer
sities, and law enforcement to launch the Family Violence
Prevention Initiative.
“We believe that the ideas and commitments from
these local action groups will start to create a community
in which family violence is brought out from the shadows
and addressed so that all children and families can thrive,”
said Family Services President and CEO Bob Feikema,
who convened the Family Violence Prevention Initiative.
Following weeks of deliberation, and studying among
See Violence on A8
Community
mourns stalwart
Walter Marshall
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE_
Forsyth County is mourning longtime Forsyth County
Commissioner Walter Marshall, 74, who passed away on
Wednesday, Feb. 22.
The sudden death of Marshall to natural causes came
as a shock to his family and colleagues. The week before
he died, he’d participated in a daylong work session with
county staff and commissioners. He was getting ready to
attend a conference in Washington, D.C. with other com
missioners when he died.
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Walter Marshall stands with a picture of him and
his fellow county commissioners at the Forsyth
County Government Center last month.
The shock was still felt this week at his funeral on
Tuesday at Emmanuel Baptist Church, where Marshall
was a member and regular attendee.
“We’re all shook,” the Rev. Carlton Eversley, pastor
of Dellabrook Presbyterian Church, told attendees.
Before he retired and became a commissioner,
Marshall was a teacher and activist. Eversley described
him as a “warrior teacher” who was part of a generation
of leaders that helped shape the city. Eversley said he
learned many things from Marshall, who he said was
always fighting for the underdog.
Marshall became an advocate with the local NAACP
chapter. He worked on the local Catherine Scott case
school segregation case. He led several lawsuits as
NAACP president in the 1980s, including two that result
ed in district elections for county commissioners and
school board, which let both boards have greater African
American representation. Marshall would go on to serve
on both of them.
Marshall’s son, Malcolm, said that work wasn’t
always easy.
“My dad was a community man, he always took me
out in the community,” he said. “I saw the good, the bad
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Center announces Mazie Woodruff Scholarship
BY DONNA ROGERS
THE CHRONICLE__
For five years, TerCraig Edwards, director of
the Mazie S. Woodruff Center, and others kicked
around the idea of a scholarship named for Mazie
Woodruff. On Thursday, Feb. 23, it was
announced.
At the Mazie S. Woodruff Center’s Black
History Month program, Edwards presented
Woodruff’s family with a certificate that
announced the Mazie S. Woodruff Scholarship
Fund before a large crowd.
“We decided to launch this scholarship
because there are literacy gaps in Forsyth County
and our hope and our aim is to close those gaps,”
Edwards said.
He cited statistics from Forsyth Futures for
the 2015-2016 school year that showed most or
many kindergarten students, eighth-grade stu
dents and 11th grade students had problems
reaching benchmarks in math, English, reading
and writing.
The scholarship is designed to give one
Forsyth Technical Community College student a
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