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The Voice of the Black Community
Activists
recall time
of trials,
tribulation
Wilmington 10 was
vaulted to infamy
after 1971 violence
By Sommer Brokaw
WE TRJ.WGLE TRIBUSK
CHAPEL HILL -Thirty-five
years ago, the world discovered the
Wilmington 10,
Nine black men and one white
woman were convicted in
Wilmington in 1972 after three days
of violent uprisings firom Feb. - 6-8,
1971.
Beiyamin Chavis, an experienced
activist fix)m Oxford, N.C., traveled
to Wilmington to organize a student
boycott of the city schools in January
1971. A month later, two downtown
businesses were burned and
Afiican-American activists were
blamed for the incidents.
Several members of the
Wilmington 10 spoke at a panel dis
cussion about the group earlier this
month at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Sorya
Haynes Stone Center.
Members of the Ku Klux Klan and
Ihe Rights of White People b^an to
patrol downtown Wilmington and
were openly hostile to boycotting
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Rallies for Haiti presidential candi
date Rene Preval were held
Saturday In the capital Port-au-
Prince.
Elections
spark
protests
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - U.N.
peacekeepers opened fire Monday
on protesters, killing at least one
and wounding four, witnesses said.
Flaming roadblocks paralyzed the
Haitian capital and protesters
stormed a hotel where election offi
cials have been announcing results
of presidential elections.
Associated Press journalists saw
the body of a man on a street in the
Tabarre neighborhood, his blood-
soaked T-shirt bearing the image of
leading candidate Rene Preval.
Witnesses said Jordanian U.N.
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N.C.’s minimum wage of $5.15 an hour hasn’t
increased in nine years. But can an extra $1
really make a difference for the working poor?
IMAGESOURCE.COM
For a few
dollars more
By Herbert L. White
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and Eric Bozeman
FOR THE CH.ARLOITE POST
The campaign to increase the
state’s minimum wage is pro
ducing maximum debate.
N.C. TVeasure Richard
Moore wants to raise the
state’s miTTimiiTn wage to $6.15
an hour, which he said is need
ed to keep the state’s economy
moving. The state House last
year approved a bill that would
raise the TniniTmim to $6, and
give tax breaks to to small
businesses that offer health
insurance to employees* The
Senate is expected to take up
the debate when it convenes in
May
The federal miniTmiTn is
$5.15, but 17 states and
Making ends meet; Minimum wage
standards across the U.S.
Same as U.S
nwwTHjm
U.S, DEPT OF LABOR
Washington, DC., have
increased standards.
For more than 100,000 N.C.
workers - 3 percent of the
state’s workforce - another dol
lar an hour would represent an
extra $160 a month. Moore,
who said 3 percent of N.C. jobs
pay less than the minimum, is
lobbying business leaders.
Noting that the minimum
wage is worth less now than it
was in 1997, North Carolina
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Rembert
iheyTe
off and
ranning
Experience not an issue
in Mecklenburg county
commissioners race
By Herbert L. White
herb.\vltite%lliecharlonepostcom
There’ll be no shortage of political
muscle running for
political office in
Mecklenburg County
this year.
Last week, seven
Republicans
announced their inten
tions to run for the
board of commission
ers, hi^ilighted by for
mer commissioner Dan
Ramirez and Charlotte-Mecklenburg
school board member Kaye McGarry
This week, at-large
incumbents
Wlhehnenia Rembert,
Jennifer Roberts and
Parks Hehns - all
Democrats — all but
confirmed their inten
tions.
Roberts, Rembert
and Helms swept to
office in 2004 on the strength of a
strong Democratic turnout for presi
dential candidate John Kerry and a
campaign built around boosting
funding for public schools. This time,
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NEWS, NOTES & TRENPS
Documentary
studies 1954
reaction to
Brown
A documentary on how the
Carolinas were impacted by
Brown v. Board of Education
debuts next week
“Brown in Black and White”
airs Feb. 23 at 8
p.m. on WTVI
(channel 42). A
preview will be
shown TViesday at
Levine Museum of
the New South. A
reception kicks off
the evening at 6
p.m., with the
screening at 8 p.m.
McGarry
Crump
Ihe documentary product by
WBTV reporter and regional
Emmy-winning filmmaker Steve
Crump, chronicles Gastonia’s
reaction to Brown on CBS-IVs
“See It Now” anchored by leg
endary journalist Eidward R.
Murrow eight days after the 1954
Supreme Court decision. The
court ruled segregated public
schools unconstitutionai, caning
the doors for a spate of civil rights
changes in the U.S.
Herbert L. White
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