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PARITY GOAL (Continued from page 1) “The State of Black America 198! presents nine papers prepared by e: perts in the fields of housing, educ tion, politics, religion, economics ar social welfare. In one of those papers, “Critic Issues for Black Families By tl Year 2000,” research consultant D Robert B- Hill said,“After making ui precedented strides during the 1960 black families experienced shai social and economic setbacks durir the 1970s and 1980s. "Not only was the poverty rate ft black families higher in 1987 ( 30 pei cent) than the rate (28 percent) i 1969, but also there were 700,000 mor poor black fB:..ilies, Similarly, not oi ly was the unemployment rate fo blacks twice as high in 1988 (12 pei cent) than it was in 1969 (si percent), but also three times mor blacks were unemployed in 1988 (1. million) than in 1969 (570,000). “Such severe economic instabilit led to family instability. While blac unemployment soared from six pei cent to 20 percent between 1969 an 1983 due to four back-to-back reces sions, the proportion of female headed black families jumped fron 28 percent to 42 percent. Each percer tage point rise in black unemplo.v ment was correlated with a com parable increase in one-parent blacl families. BiacK ramuies continue to b disproportionately disadvantaged ii other aspects as well. Although out of-wedlock birthrates declined steadi ly among black teens during the 1970! and 1980s, while rising among whit< teens, black adolescents are foui times more likely than whit< adolescents to have babies out o wedlock. Over half of all black births today are out-of-wedlock, comparec to 13 percent of all white births. “Unprecedented levels of crime and gang violence have alsc destabilized many black families With drug trafficking rampant ir most inner-city areas, drug-related homicides among blanks have reach ed record levels. The dispropor tionate surge in deaths among blacks has resulted in the first declines in black life expectancy since 1962. While life expectancy from birth rose among whites from 75.3 to 75.4 bet ween 1984 and 1986 (the latest year available), life expectancy among blacks declined from 69.7 in 1984 to 69.5 and 69.4 in 1985 and 1986, respec tively. “Black families have also been disproportionately devastated by the declining stock of affordable housing due to abandonment, urban renewal, commercial development, gentrifica tion and condominium conversions. About half a million low-income units have been disappearing each year. Thus, the number of homeless in dividuals and families has soared to about two to three million. In addi tion, there are hundreds of thousands of ‘hidden homeless’ who ‘double up’ with relatives and friends for varying t>criuus ih ume. oiacKs are over represented among the thousands of unities and children living in welfare hotels and shelters for the homeless. “Not only has there been a shrink ing in the size of the black middle class since 1978, but poverty rates among black two-parent families have risen more rapidly than among black single-parent families. “In order to make significant strides toward parity between blacks and whites by the year 2000, it is im portant to address the following ques tions: (1) What will be the demographic characteristics (i.e., size, age composition, family struc ture and labor force patterns) of the black population by the year 2000? (2) What are the critical issues that will be confronting black families during the 1990s? and (3) What strategies must be adopted by the public and private sectors for black families to achieve equity with white families by the 21st century?” NEWS BRIEFS (Continued from page 1) ■nation call Dr. Janice Dargan, project coordinator. Department of Music, at St. Augustine’s Col lege, 828-4451, Ext. 313, or 1-544-5838. SAVE OUR SOUNDS In a rare public appearance, former CBS newsman Walter Cronkite will visit Raleigh March 11 to help promote WRAL-TV 5’s “Save Opr Sounds” project, and the WRAL-TV Carolina Coastal TV celebration April 8 and 8. LIBRARY TRANSITION The Garner Public Library cloeed its doors on Jan. 24 to prepare for the transition of the Southeast Regional Library. The ' 5,000-square-foot facility which ' has served the Town of Garner in its present location for approx , imately 15 years will become the third regional library in the Wake . County Public Library System ef ■ fective Feb. 20. p BUREAU GIVES BOOKS g Seventeen public libraries in Raleigh and Wake County recent r ly received copies of a new book. "Destination Marketing for Con n ventlon and Visitors Bureau,” e from the Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau. The book pro r vides a comprehensive look at'the process of selling a city as a con ic ventlon site or a visitor destina e tion and explains the role of con 7 ventlon and visitors' bureaus. The growing influence of 1 meetings and travelers in the ( Raleigh area prompted distribu tion of the book to local libraries, i MURDER (Continued from page 1) Also on Sept. 17, a woman going t< her apartment on Avent Ferry Roac was attacked by a man in a parking lot. Raleigh police said the man grab , bed at her, pulling at her blouse, bul , she fought him off before he stole hei cuiu UCU. On Dec. 16, Wake County sheriff’ . investigators reported a woman wa ■ raped in the Creedmoor Road area, i ■ similar rape was reported to Raleigl Police Jan. 2 in the Avent Ferry Roai area. Police and sheriff’s investigator believe that all these crimes ma; have been committed by one person a white male with a small build in hii 20s or 30s, possibly with a mustache In related events: Donna M Deaver, who was engaged to Mathev McClure (the convenience stori worker who was killed Sept. 9, 1987 testified that she had seen the mai now charged with the murder of Me Clure, James F. “Jimmie” Pope, III, shortly before the shooting. Ms. Deaver testified that she hac seen two customers in the store wher she left about 15 minutes before the shooting and that she had told police about them during interviews. FOUNDER'S DAY (Continued from page 1) committees for various agencies o the federal government, includini Health and Human Services an< Housing and Urban Development. Dolph W. von Arx, chairman, presi dent and chief executive officer oi Planters Lifesavers Co., an affiliate of RJR Nabisco, Inc., will be the keynote speaker for the 122nd Founders' Day banquet. Von Arx began his business career in 1959 in sales and marketing at the iormer Armour Grocery Products Division following four years as a Navy pilot. He became an account ex ecutive with Compton Advertising in New York, working on the Proctor and Gamble account in 1962. He held senior marketing positions in Ralston Purina Co. and Gillette Co. prior to joining Lipton. Von Arx is also a member of the board of directors of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. and the board of trustees of the Carolina Medicorp, Inc. He is also chairman of the Tobac co Institute Board of Directors. The final addition to the recently completed Fine Arts Center will be used to house Saint Augustine’s Col lege academic communications pro gram, faculty offices, a radio/televi sion laboratory, still photographic and productions laboratory, a technical center and the facilities of th college’s commercial radio station (WAUG) and the low-powered televi sion station (WB68TV).* This facility, once completed, will ensure that those students majoring in communications are properly prepared to enter their chosen field. The college will expand and enhance its Communications Department in hopes that the program will provide both practical hands-on experience and instruction in sound communica tions theory. Cost of completing the new wing is expected to be $1.5 million. The school received a $500,000 matching grant from theLilly Foundation. The remainder of those funds will be rais ed through a three-year, $17 milling Renaissance Fund Campaign that will be officially launched soon. Tuttle Hall renovation was com pleted in November, allowing the ROTC Falcon Battalion to move back adequate space ana equipment. Tuttle Hall is om of the older struc tures on the 110-acre campus. The building once served as the senior women’s dormitory. The facility is headquarters for the 270-member ROTC program. The Falcon Battalion is made up of students from St. Augustine’s, Shaw University and Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount. Renovation of the Penick Hall of Science is also nearing completion This work was made possible largely through a 1775,000 matching grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Once completed (in March or April), students majoring in the natural sciences and mathematics will be able to pursue their majors in one of the most modern, fully equipped facilities of any institution the size of the St. Augustine’s in the country. ROOTS (Continued frc", page l) Lusaka, Zambia, Jackson asserted,“Ther is no cultural integri ty in skin color.” He said the African roots of American culture are substantial “if we are going to teach history, Western civilization, we must tell the truth. “In our history books, there is a tremendous denial of the tragic truth ! of the slave trade. People tend not to | know, to wipe it off. We are living ' descendants of this massive disloca tion of people. There is a grand dele tion in our history as Americans, a gaping hole in our culture. Others came to drop their chains; we were issued chains on arrival. “There is much despair in our children, so much dope, crime, self destruction, aimlessness. They feel unimportant to themselves. We must attempt to lift our children by power of their culture.” ; aware of this need during the past 1 election campaign when he con ducted a strong drive for the Democratic presidential nomination. ’ TV profiles of the candidates traced 1 them back to the villages of their forebears—Ronald Reagan’s in Ireland, George Bush’s to England, Michael Dukakis’ in Greece. Said Jackson, ironically, “With me, it was just to South Carolina, as though we started there.” Politically, he also sees the link to Africa as key to America’s relations with the Third World, which is com prised of ‘ ‘seven eighths of the human race.” If blacks had this strong cultural identity with Africa, they would have exerted a much stronger influence on America’s foreign policy I in which, for example, more than <700 [ per citixen is given each year to I Israel in foreign aid, and by contrast, about $2 per year for every African in . the Mother Country. Also, President George Bush would never have made his first foreign policy move by declaring continued U.S. support to Jonas Savimbi, the black knife terrorist South Africa continues to hold to the jugular of Angola despite the so-called Cuban/South African/Angolan agree ment that ostensibly ends the war in Angola, removes Cuban troops and sets Namibia free. ^ “When Reagan and Gorbachev meet, they represent only one-eighth of humanity,” Jackson says. He 1 pointed out that it was Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the NAACP, who helped give vision to the founding 70 . years ago of the African National Congress. “It is the main moral dilemma of our society’s existence, . the number one threat—this inability , of ours to come to grips with the ques tion of race,” Jackson says. Jackson might have added that in I eariy years (slave ana neyona to the * Reconstruction era), Macks called < many of their institutions “African:” < African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1 African Methodist Church, and had African-American societies for 1 almost every social, religious and 1 cultural endeavor. < Many African leaders heartily agree with Jackson. A poll in Chicago shows more than half the blacks favor calling themselves African- 1 Americans. i Luc-Adolphus Tiao, of Burkino 1 Paso, formerly Southwest Africa, 1 who is the editor of that country's on- 1 ly newspaper, Sidwaya, was in this * country visiting on Capitol Hill 1 recently. Although he speaks six 1 languages—five African dialects and 1 French—he speaks no English. Through an interpreter, however, he < told NNPA, “I think it is good that black Americans now call themselves ifrlnan Imariran ” HEALTH BEHERT BALA—Dr. Mam M. Harris, uf Glassboro, New Jersey, pmldont af the Heieeal Association e» Catered Women's Clubs, Inc. which cavers 37 slates la the natien Indadtag North CaroHna; and Mrs. Johnnye Cade Hawaii af tpartanharg, SC, protldont af the Seutheastem Association ol Colored woman's dabs, lac., which cavers I southeastern states Including North Corsica, ta attend thoir afIMato Clubs, The North Carolina Federation of Negro WauMCs Clubs, lac., atatawlda Health and Education "Benefit Bala" at the Mbdoa Vdey Expo Cantor, 2110 Avent Ferry Road, Raleigh, North Carolina, on 'Satarday Jan. 28th at MB p.m. Alsa attending the “Bala” Is Mrs. Bettye Baldwla af CHcaga, M. The chairman of the executive council of the National AsaodaHon af Mated Wameas Clubs, Inc. — This Week In History— THURSDAY 26 JANUARY Playwright Victor Sejour was born in New Orleans in 1817. Bet ween 1844 and 1870, he wrote 21 plays which were staged at the Paris Theater, where Sejour had a loyal and enthusiastic following. FRIDAY 27 JANUARY Although Charles White won the 1977 Helsman Trophy, he never fully realised his promise in the NFL. In 1984 he rushed for only 64 yards. But in 1987, White put his emotional problems behind him and rushed for 1,398 yards with the Los Angeles Rams, winning the NFL’s rushing title. SATURDAY 28 JANUARY On this morning in 1986, Ronald E. McNair, the black astronaut, died on the space shuttle Challenger with his fellow crewmembers. SUNDAY 29 JANUARY Alonso F. Herndon, born a slave in 1862, founded the Atlanta Life Insurance Co., the nation's largest black-owned stock company. In 1896 he opened a barbershop at 66 Peachtree St. His fancy new business, which became famous, had 23 chairs, mahogany doo^s, bath facilities, white marble walls, and bronxe electric chandeliers. MONDAY 30 JANUARY In 1934, opera great Madame Evanti performed for Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House. Fluent in five languages, she was the first African-American ever to sing at Milan’s La Scala Opera House. She died in 1967. TUESDAY 31 JANUARY Singer Josephine Baker first appeared in Paris in 1925 with the show, “Le Revue Negre.” But she did not appear at Harlem’s Apollo Theatei1, until 1951. At age 45, she came with a wardrobe that filled three dressing rooms, and during her one-hour show the flamboyant singer changed costumes after every number. WEDNESDAY 1 FEBRUARY John Hope Franklin, professor emeritus of history at Duke University, received the Black History Makers Award from the Associatled Black Charities at Carnegie Hall in 1988. He is the author of the landmark study, “From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans," which since its appearance 40 years ago has gone through six printings. FAA Testing Personnel Using Unique Concept The Federal Aviation Admini tration and the Office of Personnel lanagement will test a new employ ment concept to qualify and process pplicants for employment as air raffle control specialists in Raleigh eb. 11. leton entered his plea Monday in sderal court in Wilmington to one ount of knowingly receiving and ausing to be received in the mails a tdeocasaette tape labeled “7 Lolita fovies." The U.S. attorney’s office aid in a statement that three other imilar charges were dropped as part f a plea agreement. APPEALING SUSPENSION Reginald Frazier, a New Bern swyer whom the N.C. State Bar association suspended for two years, i still practicing law and is appealing he suspension. Frazier said the uspension order became effective an. 6, but had not been certified and * ia atilt ahlat tn nrwIiM law •> toe. 21, IMS hearing, Frazier was uspended for tampering with a 'itness, according to a deputy ounsel for the N.C. State Bar. lottery tickets a bill allowing the poaaessicn of ut-ef-state lottery tickets won a state Mute committee’s endorsement lieaday despite claims that it was a ack-door attempt to bring a lottery » North Carolina. Supporters said the bill would aid iw enforcement officers who are too usy to enforce the current law bann ig the poaseasion of out-of-state lot iry tickets. But Sen. Daniel R. Simp on, E-Burke, said the bill might often opposition to the lottery in lorth Cantina. The Judiciary I Committee amend d the biO to aaakelt dear that tickets ought elsewhere could not be sold ir profit fat North Carolina. PRISON CONSTRUCTION In an attempt to alleviate prison vsrcrowdtng in the state, an liltton over the not two years on risen construction and alternative y The new personnel employment process, called MATES, will greatly reduce the time it takes applicants to receive their notice of results on the examination from its current six to eight weeks to less than three hours. Under this concept, applicants compete on the air traffic control specialist examination in the morn ing and receive their results after lunch. Those applicants receiving scores equal to or higher than the scores on the certificate from which applicants are currently being hired will enter the pre-employment pro cess immediately, i.e., interview, medical examination, psychological testing, and security. The FAA’s goal is to reduce the pro cess to less than 45 days from the date of the test until the applicant is hired and an academy class date is assign ed. According to an FAA program specialist on the regional recruiting staff in Atlanta, the present time of six to 12 months to pre-employment process applicants for hire will be a thing of the past. Tkn enonifif* eitp fnr th» air traffic control specialist examination will be the Army Reserve Center, 2017 W. Garner Road, at 0 a.m. Applicants wishing to compete for air traffic con trol specialist positions should not have reached their 31st birthday, be U.S. citizens with three years of general work, experience or four years of college, or any combination of education and experience equaling three years. General experience is any responsible, progressive work experience in a full-time capacity. The examination will be open to regularly scheduled applicants by the Office of Personnel Management and walk-in candidates meeting the criteria specified above. For further information, call Ms. Martha Buck at the Office of Personnel Management at 79MB17. • Most women «|iiiin)n» meno pause between the ages of 46 and 55. Each year, three million Amer ican women enter menopause. The n**rly 40 million women now past menopause make up one-sixth of the population. Prestige Club Hears Special Meeting Guest The Prestige Club met Thursday, Jan. 19, at l p.m. at the home of Ms. Ruth Woodson, 901 Glascock St The meeting opened with welcom ing remarks by President Margaret Capehart. Ms. Minnie Howard lad the devotional period with an inspira tional message on how God directed and led Moses and Joshua and that He will lead us through this new year if we believe and trust in Him. She closed with a prayer. Hostess Woodson then Invited everyone into the dining area whore, the table was laden with delicacies, including turnip greens,, souffle potatoes, vegetable-bean salad, smothered chicken, ham, croissants, apple and potato pie, ice cream and The minutes of the last masting in November were read and approved. Committee reports were given and received. The president thanked the Social Committee, chaired by Ms. Dorothy Goodson, for their coopsra tion and planning for the Christmas party, which was held at the Hargett Street YWCA. They were asked to serve for another torn. After the business session conclud ed, the hostess asked Ms. Dorothy Goodson to take charge of the recrea tion session. The game played was Bare Your Pocket book. Each person was asked to take from her puna and piavc in ii uih vi uvi mw *vuvwni| items: a comb, an aspirin, a canceled check, a coupon, rubber band. Mir ror, bank statement, postage staap, lipstick, powder puff, picture of bar husband, major bank credit card, an envelope, a Bible and several other things. After counting 21 and SO ar ticles, Ms. Mary G. Carter and lb. Minetta G. Eaton were declared first and second-place winners, respec tively. At this point, the special guest, lb. Lulu Robinson, was introduced. She gave an inclusive travelogue of her experiences recently in Gireeee; Cairo, Egypt; to Aswan. She stressed the black heritage and contributions from early Egyptian times showing many educational artifacts. Ms. Capehart thanked Ms. Robin son for taking time out and sharing this information. The preaident also thanked Ms. Woodson, the hostess, for an enjoyable afternoon. Members present were Ms. **■«■<«» Bailey, Ms. Rosia Butler, Ms. Margaret Capehart, Ms. Mary G. Carter, Ms. Dorothy Goodoon, lb. Nellie Harris, Ms. Minnie Howard, Ms. fyfildred James, Ms. Hope Jonas, Ms. Nora Lockhart, Ms, Frances Massenburg, Ms. Ruby S. McKinney, Ms. J. Ross Mebane, Ids. Katie Poole, Ms. Ernestine Saunders, Ms. Nettie Thompson, Ms. Ruth Woodson and Ms. Erdena Young. Ms. Mamie Bailey will host the February meeting. Health Cited For Pope's Resignation North Carolina Commerce Secretory Claude E. Pope will resign his position effective Feb. 10, Gov. Jim Martin announced this week. The governor former U.S. Sen. James T. Broyhill as Secretory Pope’s suc cessor. “I deeply regret Secretary Pope's decision to leave the Department of Commerce just at the pinnacle of the department’s success,” Gov. Martin said. “He has done a masterful task directing the Commerce Department and turning it into the best in the na tion.” Secretary Pope cited- health reasons for leaving the Department of Commerce. “For reasons of my poriimsl health, I foresee future iHfflwOhf continuing the rigorous duties and op portunities of this great office, it is therefore with deep regret that! amt resign as secretary of commerce,” Pope said. “I will greatly the challenge of this office and the pnfes jiwu«i ouui ui uic ueparunem. “The staff of the department is by far the best and most dedicated poop of men and women in the country."
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