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LIFESTYLES / The Charlotte Post
AUGUST 15, 1996
Around Charlotte
• The Humane Society will
hold a dog wash/dip on
Sunday at Talley's Green
Grocery, 1408 East Blvd, from
11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Proceeds will
benefit the society's orphaned
pets. For more information,
call 377-0536.
• Carolinas Association of
Black Women Entrpreneurs
will meet on Tuesday, Aug.
20, at 4:30 p.m. at the
Renaissance Place restaurant,
631 North Tryon St. The guest
speaker will be Paulette
Norvel-Lewis, U.S. Small
Business Administration
regional advocate. Please
RSVP, 391-7446.
• The Alpha Lambda Omega
Chapter of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority is accepting
nominations for outstanding
community educators for the
1996 Pearl Award. Deadline
for submissions is Friday. For
more information, call Eddyce
Hobson, 846-4671.
•T. Michael
Todd recently
received the
Golden
Heritage
Plaque for his
$1000 contri
bution to the
NAACP, dur
ing the orga-
ni z a ti 0 n ’ s
national con-
Charlotte last
Davis
Todd
vention ii
month.
• The Cultural Ensemble, a
local African and contempo
rary ethnic dance group, is
holding auditions for experi
enced dancers and drummers.
For more information, contact
332-3491.
• Wesley
Alternative
High School
graduate
Mekita Davis
spent the
past summer
serving as a
page for the
N. C.
Legislature.
Davis plans
to attend Clinton Junior
College in Rock Hill, in the
fall.
• The Charlotte Writers
Club announces its annual
article contest, open to resi
dents of North Carolina, and
York and Lancaster counties
in S.C. Nonfiction works of
750-2000 words should be sub
mitted by Sept. 16. For more
information, contact Donna
Emmary at 332-1889.
• The Kelly M. Alexander,
Sr. Leadership Institute
announces the 1996 recipients
of the Kelly M. Alexander. Sr.
Scholarships. Recipients are:
Pamela Nicole Dawkins of
Shelby, Delisia Raychelle
Jones Matthews, of Garner,
Alicia Lenis Monroe of
Clinton, Benjamin Louis
Tomezak of Raleigh, and
Delmar Travis Withers of
Reidsville. Recipients will
receive $1,000 scholarships.
•The Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Black Political Caucus will
meet on Sunday at First
Baptist Church-West at 7:30
p.m. For more information,
contact Johnnie Collins at
393-1200.
• The Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Safe Kids
Coalition and the Charlotte
Housing Authority are hosting
a "Bike Rodeo and get Back to
School Safely" event Sunday
from 2-5 p.m. in the Education
Center parking lot on Second
Street. For information, call
336-5262.
• Jessie
Mae Heath
celebrated
her 70th
birthday
Sunday Aug.
11 at the
Renaissance
Place restau
rant with 50
family mem
bers and
friends. The
dinner was sponsored by
Heath's six children: James
M. Heath, Gwendolyn D.
Heath, Deborah Watkins,
William O. Heath, Valerie
Newkirk, and Eric E. Heath.
Heath
• The Alzheimer's Family
Support Group will meet at 7
p.m. Aug. 20 at the Adult
Care and Share Center, 6709
Idlewild Road.
• High school students are
invited to audition for City at
Peace, a theatrical group
focusing on social issues.
Auditions will be held on
Wednesday, Aug. 28 from 6:30
- 8 p.m. For more information,
contact Amy Hawn at 542-
2467.
• The National Kidney
Foundation is asking people
to donate unwanted vehicles
to the Kidney Cars program.
The donated vehicles will fund
organ donation awareness.
For more information, call 1-
888-282-CARS.
• The City of Charlotte is
seeking applications from
neighborhood organizations
for grants to improve commu
nities. The deadline for appli
cations is September 16. For
more information, contact
Shirley Stevenson at 336-
2349.
•The Mecklenburg County
Park and Recreation
Department is hosting a
series of community work
shops throughout August to
discuss plans for the redesign
of local parks. For more infor
mation, call 336-8460.
"Black Romance Novelists Visit Charlotte"
EBONY ESOTERICS
- presents -
Black romance novelists,
Brenda Jackson
and
EboniSnoe
appearing at the
HERITAGE HOUSE
901 South Kings Drive
(Kings Court Shopping Center)
Saturday, August 24th
2:00p.m. - 5:00p.m.
Jackson has a new release, Book II of the Madaris Series, enti
tled,BTiispered Promises. Book I was the smashing hit, Tonight and
Forever. Snoe has authored, A Sheik's Spell, Beguiled and A Pas
sion Ruby, which is a part of her precious gems series.
For more information, contact the Heritage House
344-9695 or, Annette Parks-Taylor - 841-8695
New South museum ‘cooF place
By Jeri Young
THE CHARLOTTE POST
There is always something
cool going on at the Museum
of the New South.
A current exhibit "The South
from A to Z," features one of
the first air conditioners,
which has a Carolina connec
tion. The term air conditioner
was coined by a North
Carolinian.
Also among the items fea
tured now are pictures of the
West Charlotte All-Stars of
1950, a group of
African
American
women, who
under the lead
ership of Alma
Blake, wife of
West
Charlotte’s first
principal, C.L.
Blake, formed a
competitive bas
ketball team.
Spokesman
Johanna Simms
says the muse
um board recog
nizes the chal
lenge to present
people of color's
role in the New
South.
“We look to make sure that
we are representative of the
population,” she said. “We
have several upcoming
exhibits that feature African
Americans.”
Running concurrently with
the Henrietta Marie exhibit,
will be “Amazing Grace,” an
exhibit that will provide a look
at the role of the African
American church from slavery
to the present.
“We are going to develop the
insides of a church in conjunc
tion with the Henrietta
Marie,” said Simms.
“Professor C.G. Newsome,
dean of the divinity school at
Howard will talk about the
role of the black church.”
Dr. Newsome, a noted schol
ar and president of the Society
for the Study of Black Religion
and a contributor to the
Encyclopedia of Religion in
the South, will speak on
December 8.
Also on the tap for the fall
and winter are lectures by Dr.
“Hoop and Goals” exhibit at Museum of New South features
women's basketball team from west Charlotte area.
burgeoning black middle
class.
Occasionally the museum
calls for artifacts from the
public.
“We'll be doing a special
exhibit on Billy Graham in
September,” said Simms. “We
are looking for local people
who have experiences with
Billy Graham.”
The museum, located at the
corner of 7th and College
streets, is the highlight of any
trip uptown. Built to house
exhibits detailing the history
of the metroli-
na area, the
museum is on a
mission.
“Our mission
is to present
the history of
Charlotte and
13 surrounding
counties from
post
Reconstruction
to the present,”
Simms, media
relations direc
tor for the
museum, said.
Simms said
the museum,
— which relocated
to College
Street in
wanting to donate artifacts,”
said Simms. “We moved
because the board recognized
the need to collect artifacts.”
The Museum collection has
grown to boast an eclectic
group of items, from several
baskets of cotton, employees
grew last year for the current
“The South From A to Z”
exhibit, to Spalding basket
balls for the Hoop and Goals
Exhibit, which presents a pic-
tural history of local women in
basketball.
If you have artifacts you
would like to present to the
museum, give them a call at
333-1887.
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Wanda Hendricks, of Arizona
State University. Hendricks
will discuss the black experi
ence in Charlotte on October
9.
The museum is also excited
about a February exhibit on
the life of photographer
Richard Samuel Roberts, pre
mier chronicler of Columbia's
1920s African American com
munity. Roberts, who died in
1936, left a cache of over 3000
photographs that depict a
January, has been around for
about five years.
“We were previously known
as the Museum Without
Walls,” says Simms. “We held
exhibitions in various venues
and relied on space from cor
porate donors. We had a space
in Overstreet Mall courtesy of
Nationsbank.”
The move to a single location
came as a result of the muse
um's increasing popularity.
“We got calls from people
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to the Post family.
Editor-in-chief Herb White,
wife Andrea Spool White and
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