Voodoo Priest Sought
Beliefs Impede Outreach For AIDS
MIAMI, Fla. (AP)—Someday soon,
Dr. Mireille Tribie, a family practi
tioner, hopes to enlist the help of a
voodoo priest.
She tMnks he may help convince
Haitian women infected with AIDS
that the virus might ultimately kill
iny children they bear.
“Thev don’t believe what I tell
them,'* said Tribie, director of the
minority AIDs program for the
Haitian-Amerlcan Community
Association of Dade County.
"They think the disease is
mystical, something evil, that so
meone put a voodoo hex on them.
[They think] it’s impossible for them
to be sick because they don’t feel
sick.”
In Miami’s Little Haiti, where some
of the city's 80,000 Haitians seek out
MS. THJEALETA MONROE
Family Unity
Instills Hope
In The Future
During the second year ot m»
administration, Gov. James G.
Martin proclaimed 1986 as the
“Year of the Family.” Gov. Mar
tin wrote in his proclamation that
the family is the foundation of
society. “It is the mortar of fami
ly love and security that bonds
together the bricks of strength
and builds the walls of family nl
ty,” the governor said. In keeping
with this spirit, state government.
has conducted several programs
au family Hfe.
Thealeta Monroe, a consultant
to Martin on building the
strengths of the family, has
assisted in 40 family-oriented
seminars throughout the state.
These seminars, held mostly in
churches in rural and urban
areas and funded privately, have
inspired people to seek training to
strengthen their own families.
Top date, 775 North Carolinians
have been certified through the
(See FAMILY, P. 2)
Jesse Jackson Vowing
To Press For Changes
• CHARLOTTE (AP)-The Rev.
Jesse Jackson promised a receptive
audience at the AME Zion Church
Conference that he will continue to
press for the changes in society that
caused him to enter the 1988 presiden
tial race.
"Atlanta was not Armageddon. It
was one round in the fight,” Jackson
told nearly 6,000 people who jammed
into Charlotte Convention Center to
hear him speak. Several hundred
others were turned away at the doors
by (ire marshals.
Jackson said even though he was
not included on the Democratic
presidential ticket, he did not leave
Atlanta as a loser.
“Your support made it a good
round. But it’s not over,” he said.
“Tbs question is asked, ‘What did you
win?’ What Is victory? Victory is in
clusion in every level of the cam
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voodoo priests for spiritual advice,
mysticism and medicine clash with
deadly results.
And in minority communities
across the nation, religious and
cultural practices from disapproval
lfcondoms to bisexuality frustrate
tealth officials desperately trying to
rimnge ri*kv behavior
“There are some tremendous
cultural barriers I don’t think we’ll
ever be able to surpass,” said Jeanne
Easton, director of the Dade County
AIDS Program Office in Miami.
"What’s more entrenched in a culture
than sexuality?”
Tribie has contacted an anthropol
ogist to seek a meeting with the
area’s chief voodoo priest, hoping he
can preach to AIDS-infected women
on the dangers of getting pregnant.
Childbirth is so important in the Hai
tian and other cultures that the 50-50
chance of delibering a healthy child is
considered worth the risk.
Haitians were originally identified
as a high-risk group for AIDS until it
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Unarmed Man Murdered
Citizens
Question
Slaying
ROCHESTER, N Y. (AP)-A
predominantly black citizens' com
mission has concluded that Calvin
Green was “murdered” by police and
said it would begin a petition drive to
remove Monroe County District At
torney Howard R. Relin from office.
The commission, which has no of
ficial power, also asked for a special
prosecutor to reconvene the grand
jury that investigated Green’s killing.
Commission members refused to
describe how they conducted their
review. The three-page report
repeated many of the charges com
mission members have been making
and offered no new information about
the shooting of Green by former
Rochester police officer Gary M.
Smith.
The report demands that an elected
citizens’ commission be created to
oversee the police department and
that internal police investigations be
made public. It also holds Mayor
Thomas P. Ryan, Jr. and the city
council responsible for Green’s kill
ing.
Green, 30, who is black, was shot
five times and killed as he hit in an at
■tie eave at his East Main Street
home. He was unarmed.
Smith, 32, who is white, was cleared
by the grand jury. He has since
resigned from the force.
“The commission believes, after
discussion with witnesses at the
scene, and because of the many
unanswered questions... that Mr.
Calvin Green was murdered by Of
iSee UNARMED, F. 2)
paign—state ana national.
Jackson noted in his 40-minute
speech that much progress had been
made in political conventions since
1932, when no black delegates attend
ed the Democratic convention that
nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt. In
1988, Jackson said, some 1,000 minori
ty delegates attended the Democratic
convention.
In his talk, Jackson said his cam
paign had “raised the reasonable ex
pectations of our leaders.” Recent
proposals by probable Republican
nominee George Bush in such areas
as childcare, ethics in government,
and the wan against drugs were a
resposne to his own proposals,
Jackson said.
“There are no more impossible
dreams. I’m taking the ceiling off
dreams everv Hav.” hp said “I mav
(See JESSE JACKSON, P. 2)
ADDRESSING SORORITY MEMBERS—Mrs. Annette L Wolford, Hetlonal
President of Teu Gemma Delta Sorority, Inc. addressed members of the women’s
professional sorority. Soatod next to hor Is Omega Parker, Southern Regional
Director. (Photo by TaNb Sabir-CaHoway)
Habitat For Haaiaaity
To Dedicata Now Hoaaaa
wane county is an important stop
over Aug. 11-14 for about 100 walkers
participating in the national Habitat
for Humanity House-Raising Week
walk. They began June 26 in
Portland, Maine, and will end Oh
Sept. 15 in Atlanta where Habitat In
ternational will convene.
On Thursday, Aug. 11, in Wake
Forest, a recently completed home
will be dedicated and ground broken
for four additional homes to be built
during “House-Raising Week.” The
dedication is scheduled from 5:30 to
6:30 p.m., followed by dinner for local
Habitaters and the walkers at White
Memorial Presbyterian Church in,
Raleigh.
The following day, Friday, there
will be a two-mile walk in Wake
Forest starting at 8 a.m. Then in
Raleigh at noon, there will be a
ground-breaking ceremony at the
new Habitat subdivision on Centen
nial Drive (off Poole Road) where 21
homes are scheduled to be built by
Habitat contributors and volunteer
workers.
At 8 a.m. on the third day, Satur
day, a walk of approximately four
miles will start in Raleigh by Habitat
members and supporters. It will
begin at the First Baptist Church and
end at 10 a.m. at 710 E. Davie St.,
location of a new home just com
pleted by local volunteers. It is being
purchased by Dorothy Gordon for
herself and her ll-year-old son,
Gregory.
House-Raising Week activities in
the Triangle area will cdnclude on
&unaay, Aug. 14, with a picnic. The
joint meeting of Wake, Orange,
Franklin and Durham County
Habitat affiliates will start at 5:30
p.m. in Eno River Park, Durham.
Featured speaker will be the national
organization’s founder, Millard
Fuller of Aiqericus, Ga. For more in
formation about the picnic, call
872-6756.
In Wake County, eight homes will
be completed in 1988 with nine more
on the drawing boards.
Leaders Issue Massive Call For
Rally To Reaffirm Civil Rights
on Saturday, Aug, 27, more than
500,000 supporters of civil rights are
expected to assemble at the Lincoln
Memorial to celebrate the 25th an
niversary of the great 1963 March on
Washington when Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. delivered his historic “I
Have a Dream” message.
Ms. Coretta Scott King and Dr.
Joseph Lowery, co-convenors of the
Aug. 27 march, said, “An urgent call
has been issued to all people of good
will to reaffirm their support for civil
and human rights by participating in
the massive mobilization.’*'
Ms. King, the widow of the late Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., is president
of the MLK, Jr. Center for Nonviolent
Social Change, and Dr. Lowery is
president of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, which was
founded by Dr. King.
A major goal of the rally is to focus
national attention on three issues:
poverty and joblessness, world
peace, and responding to the worsen
ing conditions in South Africa.
The New Coalition of Conscience,
representing more than 700 national
organizations, has joined Ms. King,
Dr. Lowery, Dr. Benjamin Hooks of
the NAACP, Congressman Walter E,
Faun troy, Congressman John Con
yers, Dr. Dorothy Height of the Na
tional Council of Negro Women, Dick
Gregory, Mayor Marion Barry,
Mayor Andrew Young, the Coalition
of Black Trade Unionists, Hospital
and Health Care Employees National
Union, Union Farm Workers of
America, AFL-CIO, Bev. Jesse
Jackson, Ms. Rosa Parks and many
other civil rights organizations in
sponsoring the march.
Ms. King and Dr. Lowery said, “We
urge all American citizens to join us
on Saturday, Aug. 27, on the eve of
what could be one of this country’s
most important presidential elections
and at a time when we can have some
impact upon the future direction of
our country at home and abroad.”
A national mobilization office has
been established in Washington, D.C.,
headed by Stoney Cooks, for years a
close advisor to Atlanta Mayor and
former Rep. Andrew Young. The of
fice is located at 610 Fourth Place,
S.W., Washington, D C. 20004. The
telephone number is (202 ) 484-2660.
Cooks said all organizations in
terested in joining the coalition of
sponsoring organizations should call
the mobilization office. He said local
groups were organizing chartered
bus trips to Washington in numerous
cities.
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was shown that their behavior, not
their nationality, made them suscep
tible. In Florida, which has the third
highest number of AIDS cases behind
New York and California, 33 percent
of blacks with AIDS were born in
Haiti.
Many minorities have yet to learn
that what they do, rather than race,
puts them at risk for the disease.
Much of the complacency and denial
stems from the fact that AIDS was
first identified in white homosexuals.
Hispanic men who have anal sex
with males, however, don’t regard
themselves as homosexuals and
therefore may not recognize the risk
(See AIDS. P. 2)
Wilson Group Uffers
Ambitious Economic
Plan For Developing
When Ms. Mable Parks went before
the Wilson City Council recently to
address the economic development
needs of the city’s black community,
she made the kind of history that
many other communities across the
state and nation may want to copy.
Ms. Parks is one of six directors of
the Eastern North Carolina Center
for Minority Economic Development
(ENCCMED), which is acclaimed by
many as the first black group to step
forward in Wilson with a sound
economic plan.
ENCCMED, with directors Parks,
Ted Hooker, retired radio personali
ty; Charles Hines, a retired federal
government employee; Ellis Brown,
a retired teacher; Lee Bynum,
businessman; and Velma McNeil, is
seeking $100,000 from the City of
Wilson for seed money to operate an
economic development agency
designed to assist minority
businesses.
According to Bill Brewster,
business development specialist for
the U.S. Department of Commerce,'
there is no federal business develop
ment center serving the eastern part
of North Carolina. The federal
government does fund approximately
100 minority business centers in the
100 largest metropolitan areas in the
country, but none in the smaller cities
and rural areas.
Brewster said he was aware of the
state of Tennessee funding two
minority business centers in small
cities, but had no information regar
ding municipalities that fund minori
ty business centers.
Parks sees ENCCMED as the
mechanism by which Wilson’s black
community will be able to become
“partners” in the local economy.
According to Parks, “There are
two things blacks must get involved
in, the political structure and the
economic structure.
“Our people are politically active...
Now we must get them Involved in the
economic structure.”
Just as black political involvement
was a long time coming, she foresees
the same for economic participation.
“We want to help save Wilson,” said
Hines. “Some things are done in our
neighborhoods we don’t like.”
“They (City Council) have been
determining our destiny,” Hooker
said. “If we don’t do something, it’ll
destroy us all.”
The ENCCMED proposal states
that the organization would seek to
encourage revitalization and growth,
assist in the creation of a business
climate conducive to the formation of
new economicallv sound business
(f>ee flain. f. 2)
Julian Bond
Says Enough,
Seeks Divorce
About a week before his 27th
wedding anniversary, former
Georgia state Sen. Julian Bond
filed for a divorce from his wife,
Alice, who last year accused him
of abusing cocaine, but later
recanted the allegation.
Bond, 48, said in the divorce
complaint filed in Fulton County
Superior Court that his marriage
is “irretrievably broken.” The
couple was married July 28, 1961,
and separated in September 1986.
They have five adult children.
In the divorce papers, Bond
listed his 1987 income at $99,000
and said he had approximately
$800 in savings and $1,000 in a
checking account. He asked the
court to divide their property bet
ween him and Ms. Bond. Bond
also asked for possession of
“various books and art works” in
their home. His complaint also
described furs, Jewelry and
clothing and other items held by
Ms. Bond.
The couple’s marital problems
became public last year when
Ms. Bond filed a complaint
against a woman identified as
Carmen Lopez, who she charged
assaulted her. Ms. Bond told
police the woman was Bond's
girlfHend and drug supplier.
Bond, a lecturer and authority
on the civil rights movement,
denied using cocaine, and no
charges were filed against him.
Ms. Bond later recanted her
story, which was given national
attention, but the investigations
continued until the charges were
dropped against Bond and others.
Ms. Bond refused to comment
on the divorce action.