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Welcome, Oprah Winfrey BY MICHAEL KEATON Staff Writer The nation’s number one television talk show comes to North Carolina’s number one city for what promises to be an unforgettable event. Oprah Winfrey, star of T.V.’s top rated “The Oprah Winfrey Show” (seen locally on WRVD Channel 11) will broadcast her popular program from the Raleigh Civic and Conven tion Center Tuesday, May 24th at 10 a m. (the show will air locally at 4 p.m. that afternoon). Ms. Winfrey, famous for tackling subject matter ranging from Satan worshippers to Satin sheets, may have out done herself this time. Over 6,000 people from Raleigh and Durham are expected to be Oprah’s guests, to talk about how they lost weight in a “Battle of the Bulge” in ter city competition. The contest started April 23rd, when Ms. Winfrey asked residents of both Raleigh and Durham to weigh in, go on month long diets, then weigh-out this past weekend. The city that lost the most pounds wins the competition, to be announced Tuesday morning on Oprah’s Show. According to Debra DiMaio, ex ecutive producer of “The Oprah Win frey Show, one side of the Civic Center will seat Raleigh, the other side Durham with Oprah in the mid die. Several area high school bands and celebrities are expected to be in attendance. Though Ms. Winfrey was not available for comment by press time, Ms. Dimaio told The CAROLINIAN that the idea for the intercity weight loss rivalry evolved from Oprah’s own personal battles with the bulge. “We (“The Oprah Winfrey Show” of fice staff) decided that if we all joined (See OPRAH WINFREY, P. 2) RALEIGH, N.C.. THURS.-SUN. MAY 23, 1988 NCf$ Sbmi'Witkly vol.47,no.49 JFOICATFD TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST single copy O C M RALEIGH fcOC ELSEWHERE 30c Equal Protection Questioned ■HftJtf Justice Betrays Faith K.W.C.A. Endorses School Bond The education committee of the Raleigh - Wake Citizens Association nas been very active in attending school board meetings concerning the building plans of the Wake County Public School System. RWCA members met privately with Superintendent Robert Bridges and School Board member Dr. Holland, and have had numerous conversations with commissioner Vernon Malone. Education committee members have studied the written documents relating to the Wake County system’s Long Range Building plan and have attended other community meetings where the building plan was discussed The education committee recommended to the RWCA membership endorsement of the 1125 million bond referendum and encouraged active support to aid in its passage. If the general membership supports the education committee’s recommendation, “we pledge to monitor each step of the distribution of funds and keep the membership informed when changes in plans, due to inflation, higher-than-anticipated project bids, and other factors which could affect structures that serve African-American children occur,’’ the committee stated. "We also pledge to continue to advocate for structures currently not a part of the Long-Range (See RWCA, P. 2) Meeting The Need Rights Groups Dismayed BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR. NNPA News Editor WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Depart ment of Justice has a massive “case closeout project’ under way in which it is asking the courts to drop desegre gation injunctions against a number of school districts, notably in the South. And the point man for this effort is a black man, Nathaniel (Nat) Douglas, a 15-year career official who is chief of the Justice Department’s Education Section. A soft-spoken, graying, bewhiskered man, Douglas’ argument is gently persuasive in the turbulent atmosphere of slightly veil ed racism and ebullient ideology of the Edwin Meese-W. Bradford Reynolds Department of Justice—a department that has seen top-level executives recently abandon it like rats from a sinking ship where angry staffers have painted the walls out side Meese's office with ridiculing graffiti. “We look for two things: (1) no (See RIGHTS, P. 2) COMMUNITY AWARD—Ms. Blanche Jones from Raleigh accepts the Community Service Award from WHNe Hunt, vice president for Marketing, Harris Wholesale Distributing Co., during the 6th annual “Bring Out Your Best”’ awards ceremony held at Shaw University. Focus On Southeast Raleigh BrownBrings Vision To Board nuu Staff Writer James H. Brown, Jr., when describing his recent appointment to the Raleigh Planning Commission, phrased it this way: “I’m brand-new.’’ But when talking with the 31-year old real estate broker and civic leader, one gets the impression of mountains of knowledge and years of s Brown’s appointment to the com mission brings the numbers of blacks to three, with Ed Worth and Mary Smith, out of a total of 11 members. During the nine years that he has been a real estate broker in the area, Brown said he has been involved in many facets of community life in Southeast Raleigh and throughout the (See JAMES BROWN, P. 2) Prison Kejorm: Change t he System BY JANICE M. MAtHINA NNPA National Correspondent The Department of Justice recently reported that, of the record high number of 586,609 federal and state prisoners incarcerated in the United States, 246,833 are black men and women. Black correctional officials across the country are expressing grave concern over the prison popula tion which is 40 percent black while the total community represents only 12 percent of the general population. “One of the things that frightens me about black America right now, is that I don't see that zeal to win or to survive as hard as I used to see it. N lat scares me. I see people becoming so addicted to materialism. They tend to forget that there is something that has made us survive all these years. It’s called moral fiber,” according to Samuel F. Sax ton, president of the American Jail Association and director of correc tions for Prince Georges County, Md. Saxton explains that most people get into iroume Decause tney are followers and not leaders. “They get socialized into trouble. There is a tendency to see people come to jail in twos and fours and for years, nobody understood that.” mates is that the system is not focus ed on some of the critical areas that need to be served. “We are putting our assets in the wrong place. The battle in corrections has been that 60 percent (incarcerated! right in the “The great majority of the women in carcerated are caught up in the drug scene somehow. And the kids are going to get caught up in that too...” —Samuel F. Saxton Those in corrections, he says, have watched other disciplines begin to analyze their issues, but have not followed suit. “We have sat on the sidelines and haven’t picked up on some of the lessons they have learn ed. Corrections and law enforcement does not operate in a vacuum. We are part of a whole out there somewhere,” he stated. Saxton suggests that one of the key reasons for the growing number of in PARTY BUSINESS—Democrat* H.M. "Mickey” Michaux and U. now. Bob Jordan met at the Hate Democratic Convention to discuss party business and pick delegates for the 1988 Oemecratic National Convention. (Staff photo by TaKb SahirCalioway) middle who cause most of the trouble. The system has tended to look at everybody as exactly the same, and they have ignored that group in the middle.” According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, female prisoner growth outpaced male inmates in 1987 by 2.4 percent or 28,839 women jailed. Ex perts in the field attribute the rise in drug trafficking in the United States as one of the major reasons for the in crease. “The great majority of the women incarcerated are caught up in the drug scene somehow. And the kids are going to get caught up in that, too, unless we can find a way to divert that,” stated Saxton. With the rise of the women’s libera tion movement, he says, came women's lib in the jail system. “You see some women getting into trouble independent of men, but it is still the rule that the average woman that gets into trouble did so in conjunction with a male.” The women, he says, are more dif ficult to deal with because of the “strong attachment” to their children. “We’ve got to have pro grams that talk about Iww to raise youngsters here In the jail. Most of them [mothers jailed] have not been educated enouah to work with the (See PRISON REFORM, P. 2) JAMES H. BROWN, JR. Shaw Recruits Disadvantaged Minorities The Division of Science and Technology at Shaw University is continuing targeted recruitment ef forts to increase the number of minority/disadvantaged students be ing trained in the fields of pre medicine and allied health through its Health Careers Opportunity Pro gram. The program at Shaw, recently ap proved for a second three-year cycle of funding by the Division of Disad vantaged Assistance of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides academic enrich ment activities to interested high school senior level graduates during the summer and to all levels of health science majors matriculating at Shaw during the academic year, with the objective of facilitating their en try into health professions schools. Eugene N. Baskerville, Ph.D., director of the HCOP program at Shaw, explained, “The underrepre sentation of health professional black, Hispanic, and other federally recognized disadvantaged persons is a problem of increasing concern. It is particularly disturbing to note that while the rate of growth of black and Hispanic populations is rapidly in creasing, their college participation j rate is currently declining. In the geographic area of North Carolina alone, approximately 24 percent of ( the total state population is composed , of blacks and native Americans, yet, | in 1985, only 3.8 percent of the physi (See SHAW RECRUITS, P. 2) OPRAH WINFREY Task Force Seeks Strategies To Cease Shortage Of Black Teachers in North Carolina n ouuc idaiv 1U1LC dUUIC&&CU IIIC growing shortage of black teachers in North Carolina at a meeting of Southern education officials in Little Rock, Ark. on May 19. The North Carolina task force is part of the Regional Task Force on :he Supply of Minority Teachers, jstablished last year by the National jovernors’ Association and the \tlanta-based Southern Education Foundation to develop policies to in crease the number of minority ;eachers in five Southern states. Dr. Lee Monroe, senior education idvisor to Gov. Martin, presents the ask force’s proposal. According to Dr. Nathaniel Jackson, program of icer for the Southern Education Foundation, the task force will sub nit its proposal to Gov. Martin and seek legislative support for funding ts recommendations. Among the initiatives the task force .vill call for are programs to: • Develop and distribute to all grade levels materials to increase jwareness of the teaching profes sion; • Identify competent minority students as prospective teachers; • Involve the media, civic and com nunity organizations, business and ndustry in recruiting minorities for he teaching profession; • Establish a multi-ethnic advisory ■ommittee at the state and local evels to assist in recruiting ninorities; • Establish loan forgiveness pro DR. LEE MONROE grams and teacher scholarships; • Initiate cooperative data gather ing linking the North Carolina Educa tion Association, the North Carolina Public School Forum, Department of Public Instruction, public and private colleges and universities, state agen cies, the North Carolina Financial Assistance/Education Authority and others to determine what each entity is doing to recruit minorities into teaching. While similar efforts have been im plemented in Southern states through Ms. King Petitions Iraelis Release Arab Prisoner ATLANTA, Ga.—Coretta Scott King has appealed to Israeli leaders to release from prison and retract an order to depart from Jerusalem, Mubarak Awad, a leading Arab spokesman for nonviolent conflict resolution in the Middle East. A Jerusalem-born social worker and youth counselor, Awad has been training Palestinians in the non violent philosophy and strategies of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abdul Gaffer Khan, a Moslem disciple of Gandhi who died last year. He has also provided the first Arabic translations of major works of nonviolence and circulated them via mobile libraries in the oc cupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Awad has vigorously opposed violent retaliation against Israeli citizens and soldiers. Awad was arrested on May 6 and is being held in solitary confinement. Reportedly, he has been denied a mattress, pillows and blankets after beginning a hunger strike. He was also arrested last December, but was -eleased after a groundswell of reac tion from Arab and Jewish sup porters. An earlier deportation order had been suspended until his recent arrest. Ms. King, president of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Non violent Social Change, cited Awad’s "strong personal comrr.itment to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s principles of nonviolence as a way of resolving conflicts." She said that Awad, who is the founder of the Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonviolence, has "worked tirelessly to advance values and literature of nonviolence for Arabic-speaking people” and has been "dedicated to fulfilling the dream of Jewish-Arab reconciliation and brotherhood.” Ms. King, who met with Awad last summer, urged Prime Minister Yat zhak Shamir and Foreign Minister (See MS. KING, P. 2) RECEIVING RECOGNITION—Sherwood H. Smith, contor, chairman and lent of Carolina Powor & Light Co., recoim the honorary doctor ol cM-Uwt legree from Dr. Joseph J. Sansom, Jr., St. Augustine's Colaio Board of TimZm eft, and St. Augustine’s College President Dr. Prezel Robinson, right SmMlwte recognized for his exemplary service in support at education during tho i 121st commencement exercises.
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