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2A 0#0 NEWS/QHie Qarbitte $o£2 Thursday, December 21, 2006 Protesters ‘shopping for justice’ in NYC Continued from page 1A his mother. Others at the head of the march were NAACP President Bruce Gordon, the activist and singer Harry Belafonte, U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, the Rev. W. Franklyn Richardson and Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Tteachers. ‘We’re not coming to buy toys. We’re not coming to buy trinkets. We’re coming to shop for justice,” Sharpton said at a pre-march rally that under scored the message “Shopping for Justice” - a title he bestowed upon the protest. “Unless Santa Claus is going to bring justice, we don’t want Santa Claus coming down the chimney this year.” On Nov. 25, Bell, Benefield and Joseph Guzman, 31, were confronted by police as they left a bachelor party at about 4 a.m. Believing there was a gun among the three, five officers fired 50 rounds on Bell’s car, that struck an undercover officer and an unmarked police van.,. All three men were unarmed. The shooting is under investigation by Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, who will present evi dence to a grand jury. Belafonte, the renowned Calypso singer and interna tional civil rights activist, spoke to applause and cheers about the history of and present forms of Sharpton racism in the United States. “It is indeed a sad state ment that we have to, after 300 years, still be gathering to query, look for and demand justice,” Belafonte said. “Racism is the root of most of the evils that ruin this coun- tiy.” “I have nephews, brothers and grandsons,” said retired health care worker Ada Leamon, “If this continues to happen, nobody is safe in the streets with the mentality (police) have.” House panel to urge joint venture Continued from page 1A areas are not being able to retain students until the 12th grade,” she said. Dropouts impact North Carolina’s economy, educa tors and business leaders agree, a student who leaves school without a diploma has less than a 50 percent chance of landing a job. For Afncan Americans, the likelihood plummets to 25 percent. Jobs taken by dropouts also earn Second Ward grant Continued from page 1A some aid to continue this mission, in the form of a $15,000.00 check from the Drakeford Company. “This is an early Christmas present from a member of a younger generation who values preservation and quality of life in his home town.” said Vermelle Diamond Ely, museum execu tive director and archivist, who knew of the holiday surprise ahead of time. Bobby Drakeford, ovmer of the Drakeford Company, is a native Charlottean who knows some of the history of Second Ward, which inspired him to lend his support; “My mother was a graduate of Carver College,” said the Developer. “I have a natural interest in Second Ward.” Outside of personal interest, Drakeford also had professional interest in aiding the groups’ preservation efforts. “I was involved with a development in First Ward that led to the demolition of four homes (that) some asserted were historic,” he said. Drakeford added when the information was first brought to him; he pledged his support to try to save the homes. “I offered to give them to a non-profit group...to move them and preserve them. There were no takers,” explained Drakeford. “If no one could move them, I would support an organization whose efforts were to preserve history in Center City.” Though the houses were demolished, Drakeford kept his word with his donation. ‘Virtually all of my development projects are within historic neighborhoods where I do work very hard to preserve the his toric integrity of the community,” said Drakeford, “Bobby has an intuitive knowledge of the lingering effects of the wide path cut by urban renewal and he brings an under standing of the deep, emotional value that homes have - both to individuals and to the larger community,” said Ely. “He strives to honor the past as he goes about his successful work and understands that knowing our history can help us all build a better community.” The foundation has worked to build an archive of black histo ry images for their on-site archive, the Robinson-Spangler Room of the Riblic Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, and “An African American Album: The Black Experience in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County” as well as “An African American Album: Vol. 2.” 'Fhe foundation provided 16 mm film footage from their archive which became the visual backdrop of a documentary “A Colored School” first broadcast on UNC-W. The foundation also published “Charlotte, North Carolina” as part of The Black America Series through Arcadia Press. The organization has supported research for local and national groups including the Behind the Veil Project of the Duke Center for Documentary Studies. The funds from this grant will help support two foundation projects this v^inter and spring: • lb continue work on a digital initiative on the Brooklyn neighborhood; a nearly ten year effort to preserve and tell the story of the lost neighborhood of Second Ward through original, materials, media and digital techniques. • Tb support the filming of the three remaining desegregation pioneers of Charlotte school integration. The footage will be part of a new documentary and will include the stoiy of Charlotte photographers who covered those events. In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of school desegregation in America, the alum ni group plans to have materials available on the web by September 2007. 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