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Volume 19, No. 28
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 25,1993
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News And Notes From Charlotte
And The Rest Of The World.
Diggs To Be Honored
At Morehouse Today
Harold S.
Diggs Sr.,
pastor of
Mayfield
Memorial
Baptist
Church will
be Inducted
Into the
Martin Lu
ther King Jr.
Board of
Preachers at
Morehouse
college In Atlanta today.
Diggs, among 18 other peo
ple to receive the honor, has
been pastor of the Sugar
Creek Road church for 24
years.
JCSU's 100 Women,
Mayor Host UNCF
Mayor
and Mrs.
Richard
Vlnroot,
along with
the Com
mittee of
100 Women
will host a
reception
for the
Johnson C.
Smith Uni
versity United Negro College
Fund campaign 7 p.m. to 9
p.m. March 6 at the mayor's
home.
Reception attendants are
asked to contribute $25. For
more Information, call the
JCSU office of development
at 378-1018, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
weekdays.
We’re Looking For
A Few Good Rooks
The Charlotte Post Is look
ing for chess players of all
skill levels to join the mem
bers of the "Rooks" for some
competitive fun and cama
raderie. For more informa
tion. call Bob Johnson at
376-0496.
Play's Producer, Cast
To Appear At Civic
League Reception
Cedric "Combread" Maxwell,
former member of the Bos
ton Celtics and producer of
"The Meeting," a fictitious
encounter between Martin
Luther King Jr. and Malcolm
X, wUl be special guest of the
Charlotte Civic League's
membership reception 6 p.m.
tonight, Afro-American Cul
tural Center, 401 N. Myers
St. Cast members wUl also be
present. "The Meeting" opens
at Ovens Friday and runs
through Sunday.
Call Them Up And
Find Out What's Up!
A new 24-hour "Uptown Hot
line" Is available to let you
know what's happening In
the city. The number, 336-
8888, Is sponsored by the
Charlotte Chamber of Com
merce and The main branch
of the Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Public Library.
A Curfew For Teens: Is It Charlotte's Turn?
By Winfred B. Cross
THE CHARLOTTE POST
Would a curfew keeping
juveniles off Charlotte
streets after hours help curb
the crime rate?
Maybe not. But one group
feels a curfew could help pro
tect juveniles from becoming
victims.
Recent events — the stab
bing of 14-year-old Natasha
Moore by another 14-year-
old girl after a party at
Boulevard Homes, and the
murder of a 17-year-old Ga-
rlnger High School student
Travis Runyan by a 15 year
old — has raised the curfew
question again.
Charlotte City Council
member Hoyle Martin serves
as vice chairman of the
council's public safety com
mittee. He said the commit
tee Isn't currently consider
ing a curfew, and It doesn't
have plans to do so.
"I originally supported the
Idea several months ago, but
I've got growing reservations
about the idea," Martin said.
"Unless you get a lot of pa
rental support. It's going to
be very difficult to eiiforce. If
more and more parents take
a greater responsibility
about knowing where their
children are, who they asso
ciated with, what places they
go after school -- things
would be better. The bottom
line is there Is a lack of com
munication, a lack of con
tact and Interaction between
parents and youth."
Ted Cormier, a Charlotte
police officer and member of
People Responding Openly
To Escalating Crime Today
Against Youth (PROTECT
Youth), thinks a curfew could
promote interaction and
save lives.
"The main idea that
brought this about Is that
youth are becoming victims
of crimes and don't have the
capacity to make well round
ed decisions all the time,"
See CURFEW On Page 2A
A Noisy
Price For
Progress
1-77 Construction Along West
Boulevard Is Disruptive, Some Say
Photo/Calvin Ferguson
West Boulevard resident Frank Coley stands at construction site that's keeping his neighbor
hood awake at night. Workers say the noise is a necessary evil, but should stop soon.
By Cabsandra Wynin,
■-^r- Clhj'Uhi& POST ; 1
Frank Coley wants to
know what else does he and
his neighbors have to sacri
fice for progress for the city.
The residents who live
around West Boulevard and 1-
77 have taken a pounding be
cause of construction to wid
en the Interstate.
"The noise level has been
so high with the construction
that I'm concerned that It's
rough for people with chil
dren, senior citizens and
those who have to go to work
the next day," said Frank Co-
ley, a resident In the area and
a Charlotte police officer.
Until early morning
hours noise as loud as shot
gun blasts, according to resi
dents, has rU.«nij;)Jed sleep.
"This cJ.iiinunlty should'
not evolve Into a dumping
ground," Coley said.
The noise has been so
loud, Coley said, that resi
dents have complained that
they are suffering from a
lack of sleep. "Children have
to rest to be attentive In
school. The city needs to
worry about the poor person
on the Westslde. Someone
needs to start a study to see
the effects of the noise. A rat
walking on cotton would add
to the decibel level."
"It Is real Irritating," said
Hcizle Floyd, whose house on
See NOISE On Page 3A
Report Refutes AIDS Minority Label
SPECIAL TO THE POST
WASHINGTON, DC- A new
report by the highly prestig
ious National Research
Council has Indirectly con
tradicted recent attempts to
portray AIDS as becoming
Increasingly a disease of
blacks and other racial mi
norities.
While not directly address
ing that Issue, the 300-page
report concluded: "The AIDS
epidemic will have little Im
pact on the lives of most
Americans.": The Council
added that while AIDS "has
devastated" the communities
of homosexual males and In
travenous drug users "the ep
idemic has had little effect
on American society as a
whole."
The report noted that the
greater Incidence of HfV in
fection among blacks has oc
curred almost exclusively
among black gay men and IV
. Black History Month Special.
drug users. Blacks not in
those two groups have been
little affected. Further, the
report concludes that people
who are not In those two
high risk categories
"probably will never be af
fected."
The National Research
Council is part of the Nation
al Academy of Sciences and
has been chartered by Con
gress to provide scientific ad
vice to the government.
Charlotte Bishop Helped Blacks Advance
By Janel Clinkscales
SPECIAL TO THE POST
Charlotte's prosperous and
progressive black citizens
"will show themselves enti
tled to the same just and Im
partial treatment and fa
vorable consideration
accorded other good citi
zens," AME Zion Bishop
George Wylie Clinton wrote
In a booklet Issued In 1915 to
celebrate the achievements
of Charlotte blacks In the 50
years since emancipation.
Clinton and others had
much to be proud of. Char
lotte blacks owned 144 busi
nesses, including 31 restau
rants, 24 grocery stores,
three insurance companies
and three hotels. Most were
located in Brooklyn, just
south of uptown and the ma
jor area of black residence
until it was displaced by ur
ban renewal In the 1960s.
The black community had
27 churches, five schools, a
hospital, a library with
9,000 volumes, two lawyers
and 12 doctors. The most
prominent physician was
Dr. J.T. Williams, who had
black and white patients and
had recently served as U.S.
consul to Sierra Leone.
Clinton may have assisted
in gaining Williams' ap
pointment for he was a close
associate of Booker T. Wash
ington, who controlled feder
al appointments of blacks
under Republican presidents
from the 1890s until his
death In 1915. On at least one
occasion, Clinton himself
See BISHOP On Page 2A
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Charlotte Muslims marched for U.S. policy changes toward
people who practice the Islamic faith.
Muslims: Change American Policy
By Herbert L. White
THE CHARLOTTE POST
Charlotte Muslims took to
the streets last week for jus
tice and the educatlorw of
non-Muslims to the relig
ion's plight around the
world.
The Islamic Council of Me
tro Charlotte, which repre
sents seven Muslim commu
nities around the city,
marched during a Day of Sol-
See MUSLIMS On Page 4A
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