White
Johnson
The Post
wins two
awards
Continued from page 1A
place honors for best news
story for coverage of the
Million Man March. The
piece, written by Editor-In-
Chief Herbert White,
appeared in
the Oct. 19
issue.
“It is a
great honor
to receiver
awards from
N N P A
because these
are our
peers,” Post
General
Manager Bob
Johnson said.
“It makes all our hard work
and long hours worthwhile.”
Other
Carolinas
papers to
receive hon
ors were The
Winston-
Salem
Chronicle,
which took
first place in
the outstand
ing sports
coverage cat
egory, and
The Charleston Chronicle,
which placed third in best col-
unm writing.
The John Russwurm Award,
named for the editor of the
nation’s first African
American newspaper.
Freedom's Journal, went to
the St. Louis American for
best overall newspaper. The
award goes to the member
newspaper winning recogni
tion in the most categories.
The Baltimore Afro-
American won the general
excellence award.
The Chicago Hyde Park
Citizen and The Denver
Weekly won the A. Philip
Randolph Award for civil
rights and education. Both
papers will receive a $10,000
prize from Miller Brewing Co.,
which sponsors the award.
MMM
66,000 in
the red
Continued from page 1A
lected but, with less than 300
collectors, it was impossible to
sufiBciently cover the 20 or more
city blocks that contained the
march.” Large cardboard boxes
were used to gather the dona
tions that were passed overhead
through the enormous crowd of
peaceful protesters.
A promise of 10 percent of the
collection being designated for
the host cily, Washington, D C.,
has not been forthcoming
because of the pending debt the
organizers face.
Leonard Farrakhan
Muhammad, chief of staff of the
NOI and chairman of Million
Man March Inc., called, that,
promise a “ftiendly*" agreement,
which organizers intend to
• makegood.
Mere th^ $1,438,168 was
spent staging the demonstration .
itse.lf for items such as six
jumbo' video screens and 3,000
portable toilets on' the Mall.
Another $581,431 was spent for
administrative expenses such as
salaries, supplies, telephone
bids, travel and hotel rooms.
According to the audit,
$106,170 was collected in vend
ing fees and $61,970 was collect
ed from the sale of official
march buttons and T-shirts. It
was also reported that dona
tions were made by motorists at
intersections, as well as the $11
donations through a 900 tele
phone number.
The audit, which was ordered
by Nation of Islam leader.
Minister Farrakhan, includes
examining evidence supporting
the amounts and disclosures in
the financial statements. It also
includes assessing the manage
ment, as weU as evaluating the
overall financial statement pre
sentation, according to the
Bolling & Hill, LLP
Independent Auditor’s Report.
NAACP national convention draws near
Continued from page 1A
Economically, the convention
will mean $4 million to the city,
more when related multipliers
are added.
CCVB President and CEO
Melvin Tennant said the con
vention gives Charlotte an
opportunity to impress other
groups and organizations that
could eventually bring their con
ventions to Charlotte.
For example, the National
Baptist Convention could hold
an annual event here in the
year 2000.
“It’s a showcase for our city
and we’re doing an even better
job of rolUng out the red carpet
because of the potential sales
opportunities,” Tennant said.
'The NAACP Convention has
attracted financial support from
such businesses as
NationsBank, which con
tributed $100,000, and Food
Lion, TrEmsamerica Life, First
Union, Duke Power and PhUlip
Morris.
Among attractions for the con
vention are appearances by the
major presidential candidates.
President Bill Clinton, the
belcEiguered candidate for a sec
ond term, will speak. As will
Bob Dole, the Republican ched-
lenger who needs to look presi
dential and unthreatening to
blacks.
But what’s going to make this
convention great may be as sim
ple as the noted African
Americans from the worlds of
business, politics and entertain
ment who wiU come to town.
Speaking of entertainment,
Ramsey Lewis and the
Whispers will perform at the
Blumenthal Performing Arts
Center on Wednesday night,
June 10.
About the same time Kirk
Franklin and the Family will be
performing back at the
Convention Center for the
Youth Freedom Fund Dinner.
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
will speak at the fund raising
dinner, a youthful match for the
adult Freedom Fund Dinner the
following evening.
Ben E. King will perform for
the senior group.
Howard said the convention,
the NAACFs 87th, wiU be the
biggest attraction for African
Americans because it is being
held in the largest NAACP
region, Region V, which covers
the southeast. The North
Carolina chapter is one of the
organization’s largest, if not the
largest, Howard said.
“Black America comes out to
the convention,” Howard said.
'The location of the West Fest
festival in uptown on the open
ing weekend of the convention is
also going to be a big attraction
and should help make the con
vention’s visit to Charlotte out
standing, Howard said.
“West Fest is going to interact
wonderfully with the conven
tion,” he said.
As many as 2,000 young peo
ple will participate in the ACT-
SO competition, with its 22 cat
egories in such areas as music,
arts, science.
Howard said the local chapter
is stUl looking for members for a
mass choir that will perform
Saturday night July 6 under the
direction of Christopher Gray.
Gray is director of the N.C.
Mass Choir, which also per
formed during the gospel
extravaganza, along with
Commissioned, and recording
artist Marvin Sapp.
'The event is open to the pubhc
and tickets are $15.
‘We want the mass choir to be
big,” said Howard.
The choir has already attract
ed more than 100 voices, he
said.
2000 Baptist convention
is target of Charlotte
organizing committee
Continued from page 1A
“The most important thing is
the coordination and input of
local chapters,” said George.
The local steering committee
has won the backing of the
State General Baptist
Convention.
We have committed our sup
port, both verbally and in writ
ing,” said the Rev. Clifford
Jones, president of the General
Baptist State Convention and
pastor of Friendship Missionary
Baptist Church.
“Charlotte is a progressive city
with lots of media,” said Jones.
We can offer
the convention
a great deal.”
Jones feels
that past prob
lems have
been eradicat
ed and that
Charlotte is
clear to host
the conven
tion. Jones
.The. most ■ . .
pressing issue of bringing a con
vention this size to Charlotte, is
the allotment of space for class-
,es. At, least 100 different classes
are offered for convention dele
gates as well as lectures and
worship services.
“We would like to have the
classes as centrally located as
possible for the delegates,” said
George. “We don't want to
spread them out too much.”
The convention, which was
held last week in St. Louis,
drew an estimated 50,000 dele
gates to the city for the week
long training sessions, which
focused on training teachers for
Sunday school, vacation Bible
school and other church educa
tional and ministerial programs.
Based on figures provided by
the International Association of
Convention and Visitors
Bureaus, a convention the size
of the Congress of Christian
Education can mean a $10 mil
lion boost to the local economy.
The Rev. Ricky Woods, pastor
of First Baptist Church West
and Assistant General
Secretary of the National
Baptist Convention, said that
convention sites were decided by
NBC President Henry Lyons
and the Planning and Meeting
Committee.
A delegation from NBC’s
headquarters in Nashville
Tenn., headed by Brenda
Harris, executive director of
Planning and Meeting will be in
Charlotte in the fall to view
fainlities and' mfeet with local
leaders.
Officials from tl^e Convention
, and Visitors !^ureau attend
at Ifeast'two National Baptist
Conventions to get a feel for
what will need to be done to
ensure that Charlotte is ready
in 2000.
We have demonstrated that
we can accommodate this con
vention,” said Jones. ‘We are
working hard toward our goal.”
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