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Volume 19, No. 50
THURSDAY JULY 29,1993
50 Cents
News And Notes Prom Charlotte
And The Rest Of The World.
NAACP Offices
Are Firebombed
The NAACP Is under attack
on the West Coast.
Last week, the civil rights
organization's Tacoma,
Wash, branch was fire-
bombed. Tuesday, the §acra-,
mento,,Cal. branch was also
hit. Police have no suspects,
but the NAACP isn’t fazed.
"This has not worked be
fore and it will not work
now," said Don Rojas, the
NAACP’s director of commu
nications. 'We have instruct
ed our offices nationwide to
Increase their security while
at the same time continuing
their Important work with
out let-up,"
Hair Care
Magnate Dies
The founder of one of the
largest black-owned busi
nesses in the U.S. died Mon
day.
Nathaniel H. Bronner Sr.
of Atlanta, founder and pres
ident of Bronner Brothers
hair-care products, died of u
heart attack at Southwest
Hospital and Medical Center
in Atlanta. He was 79.
Mr. Bronner had been a pa
tient at the facility since suf
fering an earlier heart at
tack in May, a family
member said.
Bronner Brothers, founded
by Mr. Bronner in 1947, had
sales of $19.5 million in
1992, ranking it 72nd on
Black Enterprise magazine's
list of top 100 black-owned
businesses.
Bronner Borthers also
created programs to provide
clothing and shoes for poor
children and scholarships
for underprivileged students
who wanted to enter the cos
metics industry.
Hidden Valley's
Annual Festival
The Hidden Valley commu
nity will celebrate its second
annual festival in Septem
ber.
And you're invited to par
ticipate.
The festival will be held
Sept. 4 at Sugar Creek Recre
ation Center at 943 West Sug
ar Creek Rd.
Vendors interested in par
ticipating should call 598-
3988 before Aug. 15.
Fraternity Jam
For Scholarship
A Charlotte fraternity is
hosting a party to help young
people get an education.
Phi Beta Sigma is sponsor
ing a party Friday from 10
p.m.-3 a.m. at the Emerald
on West Boulevard. Enter
tainment will be provided by
DJ A,D. III.
Donations are $5 and pro
ceeds from the event will
benefit the Sigma Beta Club
Mentorship Program and
scholarship fund. The Sigma
Beta Club consists of 35
young men between 12 and
18 years old.
Donations can be made to
Sigma Beta Club Scholar
ship Fund. P.O. iBox 221612
Charlotte, N.C. 28222.
ace To Succeed Scarborough Seems Set At 2
By John Minter
POST CORRESPONDENT
A youthful newcomer is
competing against a two-
time loser for Charlotte City
Council's District 3 seat.
The newcomer. Democrat
Patrick Cannon, is a 26-
year-old finance company
employee making his first
A
h
Gardner
run for polit
ical office.
Cannon first
registered to
vote Sept. 21,
1992, but
says he be
came active
in his com
munity after
returning to
Charlotte
two years
Cannon
ago.
Roosevelt
Gardner, 40,
a restaurant
manager, is
trying for the
third time to
win the seat.
He lost to in
cumbent Ella
Scarborough
in 1987 and
1991.
Real-World Experience
t
,v
raOTCVCALVCN FERGUSON
Elizabeth Burton (standing) conducts a computer class at Project LIFT as Tyvonne Moore,
Tara Baxter and Kelsha Hooper (left to right) participate.
Work To
Learn,
Learn To
By Robin B. Redfem
THE CHARLOTTE POST
Work
Mecklenburg Program Gives
Students Both Sides Of Equation
"I am somebody!"
This is the affirmation that starts off the
day for students of Project LIFT (Linking
Instruction with Fundamental Training).
LIFT is a summer program offering
"Learning and understanding effectively
through developing verbal, written, and
communicative skills with a combination
of Job-seeking techniques," says Elizabeth
Burton, a site coordinator with LIFT. She
feels that is "Important to know that (they)
are Independent of 'textbook knowledge’;
they instruct with innovative techniques."
See LEFT On Page 2A
Project's Aim: To Ensure
Loan Applicants Get A
Fair Chance At Approval
By Robin B. Redfern
TOE CHARLOTTE POST
NationsBank Corp. has de
cided to take a look over its
shoulder to make sure loan
applicants aren't turned
down because of discrimina
tion.
Hugh McColl, chairman,
president and chief executive
officer of the Charlotte-
based bank, says "a second
look is always healthy, both
for the increasing the bank's
ability to generate loans and
for enhancing the consu
mer's ability to obtain cred
it."
NationsBank and the Na
tional Urban League an
nounced Tuesday a union
they feel will create a unique
loan review process that ena
bles bank customers to re
ceive "a second look" at their
loan applications.
The Urban League's Com
prehensive Credit Counsel
ing Service will team with
review boards in each of the
18 cities designated to help
loan applicants understand
the borrowing process and
strengthen their credit posi
tion.
Applicants who may have
been turned down in one of
I
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See PARTNERSHIP On Page 2A
Scarborough is vacating
the seat to run at-large. The
filing deadline is Aug. 6.
In the 1987 race, Gardner
ran as a Republican, but
changed his registration in
1989 back to the Democratic
Party.
Gardner said he thinks his
opponent will make his for
mer Republican registration
an issue in the campaign, "It
doesn't remain on the voters'
minds.., but my opponents,
that's what they are building
their campaigns around, and ■
not the issues," he said. "I
hope people will look at my
record."
"When 1 Joined the Republi-
c'an Party, I thought I could
make a difference in services
African Americans received,
Gardner said. "I found out I
See RACE On Page 2A
Saying No To
Integration
In The U.S.
African Americans Are Finding
Comfort Zone With Institutions
By Sharon Cohen
ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS - Michele
Davis h s endured racial
slurs and snide remarks
about quotas. But there’s a
place, she knows, where she
can bask in pride and escape
prejudice.
Inside her church, the pas
tor. the music, the congrega
tion and the worship style
are black. Inside, she doesn't
have to keep her guard up. In
side. she can study black his
tory and speak candidly
about the indignities she fac
es simply because she is
black.
"I can be myself," she says.
"Sometimes when I have
problems, the pastor tells me
how to deal with these things
without even knowing me. ...
You gain confidence. You're
not going to be tom down and
you can deal with the racism
you have to face."
Separate by choice. Not
anti-white. Just pro-black.
Three decades after the
bloody civil rights battles for
equality and against Jim
Crow, the legal barriers may
be down, but psychological
ones remain and many
blacks in America have con
cluded integration is not the
answer.
"Black people knocked on
the doors of the churc^e^, of
the private clubs, ofSehools
where they told they were not-
wanted," said Emesl New
born, interim pastor at Faith
United Christian Church,
Davis' parish. "By the time
the doors were opened, many
of them lost Interest in going
through."
"I don't think lots of blacks
are interested in integration
Just for the sake of integra
tion," he added. "They're in
terested in opportunity -
equal opportunity."
Faith United has an unusu
al arrangement: It shares a
building and staff with Uni
versity Park Christian
Church, a white congrega
tion. Two ministers - one
black, one white - perform
separate Sunday services.
"It's a sign of the world in
vading the church with its
agenda," said the Rev. Leon
Riley of University Park,
who notes that both congre
gations worship together on
special occasions and have
Joint activities.
Ironically, Newborn and
his family belong to an all-
white church. But, the pastor
said, blacks "want to have
something of their own.
See INTEGRATION On 3A
Kudos For
Louise Sellers
Mecklenburg county com
missioner chairman Parks
Helms embraces community
activist Louise Sellers last
week during a roast for Sell
ers in Charlotte. A few hun
dred of Sellers' closest
friends and supporters at
tended the roast uptown.
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