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Vol. 17, No. 11 The Week Of Nov. 7-Nov. 13 1991 THE AWARD-WINNING VOICE OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY
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News And Notes From Charlotte
And The Rest Of The World.
A Candlelight
Prayer Vigil
Charlotte's murder rate Is
rising, and so is a grass
roots effort to curb It.
A cltywlde candlelight
prayer vigil will be held
Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. in the
parking lot of the Char-
lotte-Mecklenburg Educa
tion Center at 701 East Sec
ond St.
Adams Outdoor Advertis
ing will donate signs to the
"Stop The Killing" drive
sponsored by The Crusade
and will unveil the first of
them at 6:15 p.m.
Names of Charlotte's
homicide victims will be
listed on a special memori
al board at the park.
Leadership
Award
Frank Edward Emory Jr.,
a graduate of Leadership
Charlotte, has received the
1991 Distinguished Leader
ship Award from the Na
tional Association for
Community Leadership.
Community Leadership
presents awards annually
to honor graduates of its
member programs who in
the estimation of their lo
cal community leadership
organization, exemplify
the spirit,
goals and
highest
standards
of civic
commltme
nt.
Commun
Ity Leader
ship is
made up of
370 leader
ship devel
opment or
ganizations in 47 states,
Washington, D.C., Great
Britain and Australia.
Colleges Hold
Meetings
A couple of N.C. colleges
will sponsor meetings next
week.
The Johnson C. Smith
University Charlotte
Alumni Chapter will hold
its monthly meeting Nov.
13 at 6:30 p.m. in confer
ence rooms B&C In the Unl-
veslty Union.
The undergraduate admis
sions office of N.C. Central
Univeslty will host a re
cruitment reception the
same night from 7 p.m.-9
p.m. at the Holiday Inn
Center at 230 College St.
Topics to be discussed in
clude student aid. scholar
ships, academic programs
and athletics.
Students and parents are
invited, as are NCCU alum
ni. For more Information,
call Sylvia Casey at 549-
1531.
Muslim
Sisterhood
The Dept, of Women's Af
fairs of the Institute for Is
lamic Involvement will
host its annual women's
conference Nov. 16 from 9
a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Carl
Russell Recreation Center
in Winston-Salem.
The conference's theme is
"The Muslim Sisterhood:
Assessing Our Roles and Re
alizing Our Potential."
The conference fee for
adult women is $20 and $12
for girls. Non-Muslims are
welcome to attend.
For information, call
(919) 748-0756.
Emory
INDEX
By Winfred B. Cross
THE CHARLOTTE POST
This year's election pulled
an average turnout but few
surprises.
Republican Richard Vln-
root became Charlotte's new
mayor by defeating friend
and Democrat A1 Rousso.
Naslf Majeed became the
first councilman from new-
I ly-redrawn
City Council
District 4 by
defeating Re
publican
1 Darryl
I Broome.
About 35
I percent of the
I registered
voters turned
Vinroot
out city-wide.
It was Majeed's third at
tempt at public office. It was
Broome's second attempt at
office.
"We were doing some posi
tive things. We had gotten
our message out there to let
the people know what we
were doing more so than the
last time," Majeed said
shortly after his victory. "We
had some strong supporters
in the new District 4 and we
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Photo/FRANK WILLIAMS
District 4 opponents Naslf Majeed (left) and Darryl Broome
shake hands after Mi^eed was declared the wlimer.
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Link Between
Corporations
And Vendors
PROFILE
BUSINESS
MALCOLM GRAHAM
By Herbert L. White
THE CHARLOTTE POST
M:.-
i/CAUra PEROUBON
Malcolm Graham, executive director of the Carolinas Minority Suppliers Development Cotmcils, remembers
having no staff when he took the job three years ago. 'It was just me and an answering machine." he said.
Three years ago, the Carolinas Minority
Suppliers Development Councils were at a
crossroads.
The organization, made up of corpora
tions and minority vendors in both states,
was in debt and the corporate community
was losing interest. The death knell to some
was the promotion of 25-year-old Malcolm
Graham to executive director after Cecil
Brandon was fired.
They were wrong.
Graham turned CMSDC around, bringing
In new members and erasing the organiza
tion's debt. His efforts haven't gone unno
ticed, with the National Minority Supplier
Development Council citing the local group
as the organization of the year. Now 28.
Graham remembers the doubters circled
Ifke buzzards ready for his tenure to die.
'When I first started. I was the youngest
executive director of all the 47 councils na
tionwide and...the organization had just
fired my predecessor," he said. "So I really
inherited the whole bag of worms, being 25
and head of an organization that wasn’t liv
ing up to its mission statement."
With the challenge firmly In place, Gra
ham set about rebuilding confidence In
CMSDC. The non-profit organization ag
gressively recruited large companies and
encouraged them to contribute money to
programs. Minority vendors were encour
aged to join and additional staff were hired
to implement programs, including the an
nual minority trade expo, one of the largest
hi the U.S.
"At first It was just me and an answering
machine," Graham said.
CMSDC coordinates activities between
515 minority-owned businesses and 151
See(aAHAMCkiFl^2A
Retired Court
Justice Wins
NCCJ Award
^ Vv :
Ambassador
To Visit
Charlotte
Namimbia's
Kalomoh
By Herbert L. White
THE CHARLOTTE POST
FROM STAFF REPORTS
WASHINGTON-The accolades keep rolling In for retired Su
preme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
The 83-year-old Marshall received the Charles Evans
Hughes Gold Medal from the National
Conference of Christians and Jews In
a private ceremony Wednesday at the
Supreme Court.
Ira A. Llpman, chairman of the NCCJ
National Executive Board and Gillian
Martin, president of the Conference,
made the presentation, which Is given
for "courageous leadership In govern
mental, civic and humanitarian af
fairs."
Marshall, appointed to the nation's
highest court In 1967 by former presi
dent Lyndon B. Johnson, was the first
African American to serve on the
body. Another Black, Clarence Thom
as, succeeded him this month. Mar-
Marshall in the
19608
shall is considered the foremost civil rights lawyer in the U.S.
Scenes from Namibia's independence celebration will be
part of an exhibit next week at the Afro American Cultural
Center. The country's ambassador, Tuliamenl Kalomoh,
will be a special guest at the exhibit, the first time an offi
cial from an African nation will visit a Black community in
Charlotte.
It’s a rarity to find ambas
sadors from foreign coun
tries In Charlotte, but one
will be here next week for the
opening of an
art exhibit,
Namibian
Ambassador
Tuliamenl
Kalomoh
will help
open "Faces
Of Change"
Nov, 11 at the
Afro-
American
Cultural Cen
ter. The cen
ter Is located at 401 N. Myers
St.
"Faces Of Change" Is a pho
tographic look at the nation
during Its Independence last
See NAMIBIA On Page 3A
Kalomoh
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