CALENDAR of events
support GROUP
The Brain Tumor Support Group will meet at Raleigh Community
Hospital, 3400 Wake Forest Road, on Tuesday, Aug. 23, from 7:30-9 p.m. Pa
tients and families welcome. For more information call 876-1856.
WOODCARVING CLASS
The Golden Years Association of the Raleigh Parks and Recreation
Department is offering a woodcarving class for seniors. Class begins Sept. 1
and runs for eight weeks. Contact Steve White, 755-6640.
WINNIE-THE-POOH RETURNS
“Winnie-the-Pooh,and the Golden Rocket” has returned to the Morehead
Planetarium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The
children’s program is playing Thursdays and Fridays at 11 a.m. in the
planetarium’s Star Theater through Sept. 2. The show focuses on Pooh and his
woodland friends building a rocket and blasting off to Mars. During their
adventure they learn about planets, constellations and even weightlessness
when Pooh goes in search of a honey snack. Admission is $2 for children aged
11 and under, $2.50 for students and senior citizens, and $3 for other adults.
For show times and other admission rates, call 1-962-1248. For more informa
tion, contact Casey Wells at 1-962-1236.
NCSU FALL WORKSHOPS
Always wanted to learn to sail through the air in a beautiful swan dive?
Or pick out a tune on the guitar? Perhaps you need help in communicating
with your spouse or overcoming math anxiety. North Carolina State Universi
ty’s Division for Lifelong Education has something for you and for many
others with diverse interests in its fall General Interest Courses.
Most courses are held in the evenings at NCSU’s McKimmon Center.
Courses begin in September, and participants must register at least one week
prior to the first class day.
Registration and information booklets can be obtained by calling the
NCSU Division for Lifelong Education, 737-2265.
HISTORY SERIES
The Golden Years Association of Raleigh Parks and Recreation Depart
ment is sponsoring a free North Carolina history series Sept. 8-29. Registra
tion deadline is Sept. 5.
Contact Steve White, 755-6640.
SMOKING CESSATION CLASS
The YMCA of Raleigh will be conducting a smoking cessation class (A
Fresh Start) Sept. 6-22. The class will meet Tuesday and Thursday nights
from 7:30-8:30 p.m. For more information contact the Adult Program Office
at 832-9386. Cost is $15 (payment and registration due at least one week prior
to class date).
SAVE YOUR VISION
More than two million Americans have glaucoma, and one million don’t
even know it. Don’t be in the dark... call a friend and sign up for a free
glaucoma and cataract community eye screening to be held in Louisburg on
Friday, Sept. 9, at the National Guard Armory, and in Raleigh on Saturday,
Sept. 10, at the new Carolina Eye Center.
To register, call SightLine at 1-800-227-5189.
ANCIENT EVOCATIONS
The re-creation of ancient ideas in new and meaningful ways is the sub
ject of a coming exhibition, “Ancient Evocations,” at Green Hill Center for
North Carolina Art. The exhibition will open Sept. 10 and remain on view
through Oct. 29.
Ten North Carolina artists whose work reflects a kinship with artists,
ideas, or forms of the past were chosen for “Ancient Evocations” by Green
Hill Center’s Curator of Exhibitions, Lynda Moss. “The theme of this show is
the recovery of ancient or archetypal images and symbols in contemporary
art works,” says Moss. "This relationship with the past is not always directly
identifiable; there may be meanings which are sensed, if not seen.”
An opening reception to meet the artists is planned for Friday, Sept. 9,
from 7-9 p.m. Regular gallery hours are Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.,
Saturday 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Sundays. Green Hill Center’s interim loca
tion is at Greensborough Court, 327 S. Elm St., downtown Greensboro.
For more information, call 1-373-0478.
FIRST AID COURSE
The YWCA of Raleigh will be conducting a standard first aid course.
American Red Cross certification is available upon successful completion.
Beginning Sept. 12 and ending Sept. 21 on Monday and Wednesday evenings
from 8-10 p.m. For more information contact the Adult Program Office at
832-9386. Cost is $20, due with registration at least one week prior to class
date.
HUD Secretary Telle Of
Desegregation Options
Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development-Samuel R. Pierce, Jr.,
announced a package of special
voluntary options that public housing
authorities may use to assist in the
desegregation of their projects.
Developed between HUD’s Office of
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
and the Civil Rights Division of the
Department of Justice, these options
allow PHAs to take positive action on
their own to improve living patterns
in their projects without the use of
race-preferential tenant selection
and assignment plans or the use of
racial maintenance quotas. The op
tions offer guidance to tenant selec
tion, tenant assignment, tenant
transfers, tenant support systems
and desegregation.
Previously, PHAs that were aware
of past practices of segregation had
no guidance from the federal govern
ment on ways that they could modify
these practices unless they officially
had been notified that they were in
violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964. This act prohibits
discrimination—based on race, color,
or national origin—in all programs or
activities that receive federal finan
cial assistance.
While any of the options is per
missible on a voluntary basis, the ap
propriateness of a given action will
always depend on the particular
situation at a PHA. Therefore, every
PHA is being urged to begin an
assessment of its policies with the
view toward identifying any situa
tions where voluntary actions to
eliminate racial segregation are war
ranted.
Shortly, the option packages will be
distributed to PHA constituent
organizations with which HUD of
ficials will meet and request their
assistance and support in distributing
the packages to PHAs and explaining
how they can best be used to address
segregation.
In FY 1989, HUD will begin im
plementation of a Public Housing Af
firmative Compliance Agreement
program which will provide technical
assistance to PHAs on how to use
measures such as these. This
assistance will be provided through
contracts with outside groups who
will work directly with the PHAs.
Also, HUD will develop voluntary
assessment instruments for the use of
all PHAs and will provide technical
assistance on how to perform such
assessments. Together with a new ex
panded compliance program, HUD
believes it will substantially improve
efforts to eradicate discrimination in
public housing.
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Chicago, Deborah Jackson from New
York and African-American media
specialists Linda Kay Brown, Phil
Jones, Lamont Gonzalez, and Annette
Lawrence.
The central objectives of the
18-day trip are to engage in a fact
finding mission; to learn firsthand
the reality of the situation in Angola
today, particularly the effect of South
Africa’s continued invasion of
Angolan territory; to investigate
some of the atrocities committed
against the people of Angola by South
Africa’s surrogate, UNITA, led by
Jonas Savimbi; to strengthen the
relationship between the churches of
Angola and African-American chur
ches in the United States; to conduct
a mission of good will and to help im
prove the relationship between the
people of Angola and the people of the
United States-, and to observe the pro
gress and development of the
Angolan economy, culture and socie
ty.
It is our intention, when we return
to the United States, to share our ex
periences and our learnings with as
many people as possible. We are
thankful to the government of Angola
for providing the opportunity for this
trip. Yet, it is our responsibility to
make sure that more of the truth of
Angola’s reality gets back to our com
munities. The best weapon against
oppression is to expose it with the
truth.
To Insure One Black Candidate I
THE CAROLINIAN—MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1988—PAGE 7
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Black Only” Convention Suggested
CHICAGO, 111. (AP)—To ensure
that only one black candidate runs for
mayor next spring, some black
leaders are trying to organize a pair
of local political conventions open on
ly to blacks to choose their favorite
candidate.
“White people remain true to their
people first," said Lu Palmer, chair
man of the Black Independent
Political Organization and a driving
force behind the plan. “We, as black
people, should think of black people
first.”
Palmer said that race should be the
overriding issue for black voters in
next spring’s mayoral election to
choose a sucessor to Harold
Washington, the city’s first black
mayor, who died of a heart attack in
November 1987.
The winner of that election will fill
the remaining two years in
Washington’s term, but several black
leaders, including acting Mayor
Eugene Sawyer, are planning to run
for the post.
If that happens. Palmer said he
fears a single white candidate would
win easily.
“Politically, economically, social
ly... nothing in the city or the country
matters as much as race,” he said at
a news conference to announceplans
for the conventions.
The first blacks-only political con
vention would be held Aug. 27 and
allow representatives of black chur
ches and other organizations to hear
from all “serious” black candidates,
he said.
Later, the delegates would poll
their organizations and vote at the se
cond convention in late September to
choose a nominee from the black
community. Palmer said each black
candidate would be asked to sign a
pledge that he would abide by the
results.
But Sawyer, who was elected by the
City Council with white support last
December to serve until next year’s
special election, said he has not
decided whether to attend the conven
tions. And he questioned the concept
of an all-black selection process.
“Due to the fact that we’re making
an effort to make this one [united]
Chicago, I’m not sure that it’s a good
idea,’’ he said.
Alderman Timothy Evans, con
sidered Sawyer’s chief rival in the
mayoral contest, also is trying to
keep his distance from Palmer’s
plan.
Supporters of Evans said the con
ventions could be rigged for yet
another potential black candidate,
Alderman Danny Davis.
Davis said he would participate in
the conventions, although he said he
would prefer the conventions would
be open to “the entire progressive
community.’’
“We know that race and ethnicity
have long undergirded politics in
Chicago,’’ Davis said. “But I hope
and desire to try and help Chicago
move beyond the politics of race.”
Gov. Martin Tells Of Monies
To Combat NC Poverty
Gov. Jim Martin has announced
that 43 Community Action and
Limited Purpose agencies across the
state will share almost $1 million for
programs to combat poverty.
Gov. Martin has approved alloca
tion of $953,805 in state funds to sup
port the Community Action Partner
ship Program. The grants, ranging
from $4,063 to $70,396, will enable
local anti-poverty agencies to assist
low-income persons with employ
ment, housing, education, emergency
assistance, debt management,
energy conservation, nutrition and
transportation.
The Community Action Partner
ship Program complements the
federal Community Services Block
Grant Program, whose major pur
pose is to provide servies and ac
tivities to deal with poverty in local
communities.
The funds will be dispensed through
the Division of Economic Opportunity
in the North Carolina Department of
Natural Resources and Community
Development.
Wake County Opportunities receiv
ed $33,319.
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minutes to an hour before using.
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