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- Second Grand Reunion I
For JCSU Commences I
Friday, August 8 1
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This week's beauty is 16-year-old
Breoda Williams, s rising Junior at
Harding High School. . ;
During the school year, Breoda is
one of the high-stepping flag girls at
her school. She recently returned
from a four day c*mpt for young
ladies involved in this activity, held
at Winthrbp College "We were
taught routines and how to march,"
describes Brands about the con
ference. "Also there was a leader
enjoyable but now that she’s back
horns, this young lady had decided
it’s time to look for work until school
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i m looking xowara 10 going back
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wnen sne nas a cnance.
x Part of her regular routine is to
attend Bible Study every Monday
and Wednesday nights at her
church, Solid Rock Ministry, on
Tuckaseesee Road.
“Sort of shy,” is the way Brenda
generally describes herself. Yet an
the other band she also says she’s
very friendly. “Around my friends
I’U talk a little bit,’’ she smiles. .
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Brands comes from a fairly large
family. She has two brothers and
four sisters and she is next to the
youngest. “I like having a Mg
‘ family,” she comments. “1 never
get bored and there’s always some
one around to talk to.’’
Her mother, Ella Williams, is the
person Brenda most admires. It
appears that Brenda’s mother has a
success story that her daughter’s'
proud of. After graduating from
high school my mother didn’t go to
college, she had two children,”
Brenda tells. “Then, even with her
children, she decided to go back to
college. She graduated and now
works as a paralegal.”
These days Brenda thinks about
her own future success alot. She’s
planning on doing well in a medicine
career.
Her ultimate desires are, she
reveals, "To be as happy as I can be
and for my family to be happy also.”
A teenager who’s concerned about
some of the things she sees going on
among her peers, Brenda has a little
advice for other girls her age. "I see
a lot of girls getting pregnant,” she
points out. “I advise that young
women not let boys interfere with
their future. They should think
first before getting involved.”
Smith Observes Commencement
Johnson C. Smith University will
observe its ll»th Summer Com
mencement on Saturday, July 96,
at 10 a.m. in the University Church.
The Summer Commencement
address will be delivered by Dr.
Bertha L. Maxwell, director of
Afro-American and African Studies,
atUNCC.
Dr. Maxwell graduated cum
lauded from Johnson C. Smith in
1904. She received her Masters of
Education from the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro in 1*07
and her Doctors of Philosophy from
the Union Graduate School in 1974.
Very active in the community, Dr.
Red Croat, Board of Directors; Big
Brothers, Inc., charter member and
Board of Directors; Charlotte Arts
and Science Council. Board of
Directors; WBT Black Advisory
Board; and several other advisory,
community and organizational
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Born in Seneca, SC, Dr. Maxwell
resides in Charlotte. She has two
children, Tawanna Annette Maxwell
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Or. Bertha Maxwell t '
.UNCC pnfMMir
and Shirley P. Harris. [
Johnson C. Smith University is
a four-year, historically black, pri
vate Institution founded In lm.
Carolina Utilities
approved a pilot
by the Federal
Commission that
a |2 discount on monthly
bills to Meckledburf
recipients of Supplemen
tal Security Income (SSI) or Aid to
Families with Dependent Children
(Airno
Southern Bell will administer the
one-year pilot program In Meck
lenburg County. The trial Is also in
effect in Halifax County, through
Carolina Telephone and Telegraph
Co., and in McDowell County
through Continental Telephone and
Telegraph Co. a
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“Money Equals Power,
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Power Equals Freedom” j
By Jalyne Strong
Post Staff Writer
As Martin Luther King Jr. is
universally remembered as the
leader of the Civil Rights Move
ment in America, his speeches on
this subject have been immortal
ized. We all remember segments, at
least, of his “I Have A Dream”
address. For example. King
affirmed, “...I have a dream that
one day little black children and
little white children will walk hand
in hand...”
But the point is, though state
ments such as that have resounded
long after this civil rights leader’s
death, for some reason other quotes
of King’s have not been picked up
on, or generally repeated, nor
stressed. Certain things he felt
strongly about have been ob
scured. For one, he once lamented,
“What good is it to be allowed to eat
in a restaurant if you can’t afford a
j^PkjiFbegan*to speak in this
he was felled by an assassin’s
bullet. However, fortunately,
another black man has picked up the
gauntlet of this concern and is
feverishly, though eloquently,
spreading the message to blacks
across America.
When Tony Brown, newspaper
columnist, talk show host and lec
turer, addressed the approximately
300 attendants at last Saturday’s
North Carolina Black Leadership
Caucus Conference held in
Charlotte, he primarily spoke of
black economic empowerment. The
content of his speech, in summa
tion, answered King’s question:
What good is it? According to
Brown, No Good!
* “The color of freedom is green,”
Brown exhorted. "Wealth equals
power and power equals freedom
“I hope the old black America is
dying and dead and a new black
America is rising in its place,”
Brown stressed to the expressed
agreement of a very vocal audi
ence comprised of many of Char
lotte’s black elected officials, com
At the NCBLC Conference held in Charlotte, Tony Brown (1)
conversed with Conference participant Robert Nicholas before Brown j
delivered the keynote address on black economic empowerment.
m unity leaders, businesspersons,
and citizens.
Brown’s speech began with a few
statements about the economic
situation of blacks in America which
were uncomfortably true. “Koreans
and Vietnamese don’t speak one
word of English,” he pointed out,
“and they own everything in your
neighborhoods ”
Apparently Brown was forcing
this 99 percent black audience to
question why such a situation
exists. As the momentum of his
speech increased he offered plenty
of reasons
For one, these groups have pride
in their culture, Brown insisted.
“They love what they are,” he
pointed out. Self-love has resulted in
these races’ political, economic and
social progress in America.
Blacks, on the other hand, Brown
contends, resist helping people of
their group. The history of blacks in
America has produced a “slave
master, dependent relationship ”
Worst yet, Brown condemned, "In
the black community, poverty has
been raised to a state of art. All we
do is discuss being poor-being down
-having nothing.”
Attributing much of the economic
backwardness of the black com
munity to a warped mentality,
Brown was not lenient in his
attack on the problem Yet his
intentions were not to bog the
audience down. An impressive
speaker, Brown was not advocating
self-pity. He has solutions.
i iic luuuuei in a campaign cauea
“Buy Freedom,” to promote econo
mic development and unity among
blacks. Brown took the opportunity
at the NCBLC Conference (the
theme of which was “Economic and
Political Self Help”) to present his
case.
First, he presented the facts:
American blacks earn S200 billion
See Brown On Page 15A
Over 2,000 Baptists Expected To
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Attend Upcoming Convention
By Joe Brown
Post Staff Writer
Over 2,000 Baptiste from across
the State are expected to come
together at the 102nd Annual Ses
sion of the Women’s Baptist Home
and Foreign Missionary Convention
of North Carolina, auxiliary to the
General Baptist State Conven
tion., July 2S-31, meeting in the Civic
Center in Charlotte. The four-day
session will be concentrated around
the convention’s theme for this year,
“His Word: Our Way, Our Stra^th,
Our Defense.” Psalms lit: 11.
St. Paul Baptist Church, 1401 N.
Allen Street, under the guidesNp of
Pastor Paul W Drummond, will
host what hopes to be one of the
largest Baptist assemblies Organ
bars of the Women’s Baptist
Convention have prepared a Mgh
spirtted program for the 2,(00
delegates from across the state and
local Mrs. Lueila D. Bdwank is the
president and Dr. Priscilla A.
Brodle is the Executive Secretary
Treasurer The Radiseon Hotel
win be the headquarters for tbs
On Monday, July », at t a m . the
convention (eta under way with
registration at the a vie Center and
an Executive Board and General
Board meeting in the Cotonel
Tryon Room at the Radiaeon At 6
p m., win oe a Pre-Conven
tion Banquet with guest ■*»—
Mre. Cynthia P. Ray of Brooklyn,
NY. vies president of the«S
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Convention USA, Inc. and dean of
etkication of the International Amo
dation of Ministers’ Wives and
Ministers' Widows. She is the widow
of Dr. Sandy p. Ray. Tickets are
required mdtautkn aretiv
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