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NEWS/ The Charlotte Post
January 18,1996
Community Notes
Smith receives large Duke grant
• Johnson C. Smith
University has received a
major gift from the Duke
Endowment.
The university was awarded
$756,224 in grants, which vidll
be used for library construc
tion, study abroad programs,
scholarships, maintenance
and faculty salaries.
“The grant is a continuation
of the foundation’s long and
valued support,” JCSU
President Dorothy Cowser
Yancy said. “The contribution
allows the university to
remain financially stable as
we continue to provide a qual
ity education for our stu
dents.”
The relationship between
Smith and the Duke
Endowment dates back to
1924. The endowment has
awarded the school nearly
$41.5 million over the years.
• Metrolina Food Bank
will officially open its expand
ed building Jan. 29 at 500-B
Spratt St.
The Food Bank will be re
dedicated during ceremonies,
which will include contribu
tors to its building campaign.
Ceremonies will start at 10
• Focus on Leadership
Inc. is seeking nominations
for its annual Unsung Heroes
Awards.
The awards are given to
African 'Americans in
Charlotte-Mecklenburg who
have shown dedication and
commitment in: arts; busi
ness/entrepreneur; community
service; education; human ser
vice; media; personal achieve
ment; politics; religion and
youth. The deadline for nomi
nations is March 3.
For more information, call
Cynthia Sifford at 561-3043.
• Charlotte Coliseum man
ager Adonis “Sporty”
Jeralds has been nominated
for a national award.
Jeralds, Coliseum manager
for six years, was nominated
for the Facility Manager of the
Year award as part of a read
ers’ poll conducted by
Performance magazine, a
tourism industry periodical.
“It does not surprise me that
Sporty is recognized in our
industry as one of the most
capable building managers in
the country,” said Auditorium-
Coliseum-Convention Center
Authority Managing Director
Steve Camp. “From the very
beginning, he has distin
guished himself as an
extremely knowledgeable
building manager aware of
the many unique aspects of
our industry.”
•The Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Urban
League will host its semi
annual JOBS Opportunity
Week Jan. 23-25.
The job fair will take place
from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at the
Urban League’s office at 500
North Tryon St. The event is
open to current Urban League
clients and students who have
pre-registered. For more infor
mation, call 379-7734.
• Portraits of Color will
offer a 16-week cultural arts
and development program this
month.
The program, which starts
Jan. 23 will explore African
American art forms in dance,
music and theatre through
classes, workshops and per
forming opportunities.
Curriculum will take place at
Hawthorne Recreation and
Community Center, 345
Hawthorne Lane. Youth ages
5-18 can enroll in dance and
music; youth ages 7-18 can
enroll in each discipline,
although it is suggested par
ticipants enroll in no more
than two at a time.
Enrollment fee is $85 per
student for one discipline;
$160 for enrollment in two.
For more information, call
Bridget Phifer at 535-3633 or
537-9787.
• The Black Political
Caucus will hold its monthly
meeting Sunday at First
Baptist Church-West. For
more information, call
Johnnie Collins at 393-1200 or
Anna Hood at 333-4685.
• Nominations are being
sought for the annual Police
Community Relations
Awards. The awards recog
nize officers and work teams
from Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Police who have contributed to
the improvement of police-
community relations.
Nominations may be made
by citizens in the patrol area,
Charlotte-Mecklenburg School
personnel groups, fellow offi
cers or their superiors. To
nominate an officer, write the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Community Relations
Committee, 600 East Trade
St. Charlotte, N.C. or call the
committee at 336-2424.
Deadline for nominations is
April 1.
Slave ship won’t come here
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to tell about our history since
the Civil War.”
Like Discovery Place offi
cials, Zimmem said she hopes
the exhibit will come to
Charlotte, in some other facili
ty. The Afro-American
Cultural Center is too small.
“I hope a venue can be
found,” she said. “It is some
thing worthwhile to bring.”
The Henrietta Marie exhibit
drew 5,000 people to Detroit’s
Museum of African American
History Monday. That’s 2,000
more than would normally
attend the museum during its
Martin Luther King festival,
according to museum staffer
Kevin Davidson.
“The response has been very
positive, in terms of media
response and corporate
response,” Davidson said.
“What makes the exhibit most
appealing is there is a slave
ship section you can actually
walk through and feel like you
are in this confined space.
“What makes this unique is
the wealth of artifacts. They
have shackles in various sizes,
smaller ones for children.
“This is the first physical
evidence of a slave ship in the
western hemisphere,”
Davidson said. “That is why it
has gotten so much attention.”
The exhibit, in a six-month
showing, drew 85,000 visitors
to its home site, the Mel
Fisher Maritime Heritage
Society in Key West, Fla.,
near where the ship sank in
about 1700.
Detroit is a first stop on a
tour that will take it to
Chicago, Los Angeles,
Memphis, Tenn., and Atlemta,
where it will open in the fall of
1998.
Memphis and Atlanta may
be the closest sites for
Charlotteans to see the exhib
it.
A science center in Boston is
also negotiating for the spring
1998 slot left open by
Discovery Place’s decision not
to exhibit it here, during a
larger exhibit on deep sea
exploration.
It will also be exhibited
October 1997 through
January 1998 at the Fort
Worth (Tex.) Museum of
Science and History.
“We are a history and sci
ence museum, so it fits very
well into our mission,” said
Karen Turner, the museum’s
director of special programs.
“We deal with history and cul
tural issues, as well as sci
ence. We will probably add to
the exhibit. It is not large
enough. We have a local
African American artist who
does sculpture on the slave
trade and the lives of Afncans
who came here. We will proba
bly add an exhibit of his work.
Turner acknowledged that
her museum’s broader mission
is different than Discovery
Place.
“We are in a different situa
tion than some of the science
museums,” Turner said.
In Detroit, Davidson said
two corporate sponsors.
General Motors and the
Hudson Department stores,
sponsored a series of lectures
by African American history
experts from around the coun
try.
One lecture was titled “The
Africans boarded the
Henrietta Marie: Where they
came from and where they
went.” Others were “The Ibo
People and Culture: A
Contemporary Perspective”
and “The Middle Passage: A
Scholar’s Perspective.”
Michael H. Cottman, a
Pulitzer Prize winning jour
nalist and member of the
National Association of Black
Scuba Divers, delivered a lec
ture entitled “A Memorial to
those who boarded the
Henrietta Marie.”
Cottman was among the 10
black scuba divers who com
memorated those Africans
aboard the slave ship by plac
ing a one-ton monument at
the bottom of the ocean where
the wrecked ship sat for 290
years.
He has traced the origin of
the ship and its route from
London, to AfHca and through
the Carribbean. He’s writing a
book about the ship.
Turner, at the Ft. Worth
museum, said the exhibit was
very sensitive and could be
appreciated by blacks and
whites.
“People say history doesn’t
change, but how we perceive it
changes all the time. You can
liken it to the holocaust. Jews
have embraced that as a S3an-
bol of the strength of their cul
ture.”
Kevin Davidson said, “I
think we have to go beyond
what our initial feeling might
be about slavery and all that
entails and how it affects us
and focus more on how critical
it is for us to keep this in our
minds and keep it on the
minds of the larger society.
“Just as we are constantly,
on a reguar basis, reminded of
the Jewish holocaust, we had
a holocaust of our own that
was at least 10 times the size
of that.
“We have to mindful of the
fact that slavery, once it
ended, in effect still continued
because our political, social
and economic systems, passed
laws and embedded attitudes
that said you are less than a
second-class citizen and every
apsect of this society is going
to treat you this way.
“That started during slavery
and still affects us today. The
OJ Simpson verdict gave indi
cation of how deeply embed
ded these racial attitudes are
in our society.”
B
lack newspaper ads produce more empathy and
motivation to purchase goods and services among
African-American consumers!
• The Charlotte Alumni
Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma
fraternity will host its annued
graduate chapter basketball
game at Cochrane Middle
School Feb. 2-3. The school is
located at 6200 Starhaven
Drive.
Games will tip-off at 7 p.m.
each day with teams repre
senting Alpha Phi Alpha,
Omega Psi Phi and Kappa
Alpha Psi in addition to the
host fraternity.
Representatives from Big
Brothers and Big Sisters of
Charlotte will be on hand to
provide information on the
Big Brothers Challenge.
Donations will fund scholar
ships for Sigma Beta Club
members and other deserving
high school students. For
more information, call Darryl
Tyson at 554-0375.
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