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RALKIUH. in.u., THURSDAY AUGUST 31,1989 VOL. 48. NO. 78 DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY IN RALEIGH ELSEWHERE 30<f mmrnmmmmmm.. .... iiiiii Making A Big Impact Lott Carey: A Bridge To The Community AWARD RECKNT—The Rev. W.C. Sommervile, executive secretary treeserer ter the Lett Cerey Baptist Foreign Mission Cenventlen, receives a corticate of appreciation tram Shaw University President Dr. Talbert 0. Shew for Me ueeert of Shew Divinity School. (Photo by Taft Sabir-CaHoway) From CAROLINIAN Staff Reports The largest convention ever held in Raleigh brought approximately 4,000 delegates here in what has been described as a “wonderful show of love and fellowship” with 16 states joining in one common bond. Martin Street Baptist Church played host to the mammoth event with its approximately $2.73 million impact on the area over a five-day period. The event is being held through Sept. 1 at the Raleigh Civic and Con vention Center with headquarters at the Radisson Plaza Hotel. According to the Raleigh Convention and Visitors’ Bureau, the convention was assigned to 10 Raleigh hotels with 1,200 rooms. Karen Cook of the Visitors’ Bureau said, “This is the largest convention ever held in Raleigh and 92 percent of the funds collected for the convention go to foreign missions in Africa—Kenya, Liberia and Nigeria, as well as Guyana and India.” a 1932 graduate of Shaw University. Rev. Sommerville on Wednesday received a certificate of appreciation from Dr. Talbert 0. Shaw, president “As For the fellowship it is wonderful, It is wonderful for 16 states to join in a common bond with love and pool their money to help people...It is our duty to feed, clothe and shelter...” a delegate Dr. Wendell C. Sommerville has been the executive secretary of the Lott Carey Convention for the past 49 years. He was formerly executive director of the General Baptist State Conventioryrf North Carolina, and is of Shaw University, for his support of the Shaw Divinity School. Rev. David C. Forbes, Sr., pastor of Martin Street, also expressed his personal appreciation to SommervUle for his support in ministry. NEWS BRIEFS DRUG CHARGES Daryl Bowman, 23, of the j Bronx, N.Y., was charged with 1 drag possession after authorities found small amounts of crack co caine and marijuana aboard the bus he was riding. Investigators searched the bus, which was ■ bound from New York to Orangeburg, S.C. Police found 15 , vials containing a total of two grams of crack cocaine, 25 plastic bags containing five grams of marijuana, and 1350. WOMAN REPORTS RAPE A Florida woman told police of ficers she was raped earlier this week under the Boylan Avenue bridge. Police said the woman was drunk and was raped by five different people. The woman allegedly met a man who said she and her boyfriend could stay with ' him under the bridge where a number of homeless people con gregate. After the boyfriend fell asleep, the woman was raped. The woman was treated and released from Wake Medical Center. Police are searching for witnesses. TWO APPOINTMENTS City of Raleigh Public Works Director W. Lynn Baird has an nounced two appointments in the | sanitation division. Gerald A. Latta was named as the new superintendent and Jimmy N. Johnson was named assistant superintendent, effective Aug. 28. , Baird said he received a large number of qualified applicants for the two openings. The ap pointees will fill openings created by the retirement of superinten dent Max Wlnelnger and the resignation of assistant superintendent Carlos Aqulrre. EMERGENCY RESPONSE An exercise of the emergency response plans for the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant near Raleigh will be held 8ept. 14. Several state agencies will par ticipate in the exercise along with representatives from the four (See NEWS BRIEFS, P. « C^afne-Destruction, Inc. Richest, Deadliest Deals Ever From CAROLINIAN SUIT Report* Parti While national and community leaders along with neighborhood pro jects are telling everyone to “Just Say No,” billions of untaxed dollars are channeled into the cocaine in dustry of depravity, self-destruction and death. The U.S. government, before the clash between Colombia and the drug lords there, offered a half-million dollars, with few questions asked, for anyone to take into custody Luis Ochoa Vasquez. The money was tax free and guaranteed by Congress. It has been estimated that Ochoa, Many drug dealers who reinvest in this deadly trade have abandoned the shadowy corners and streets for fancy vehicles, cellular phones and beepers. The image is more fashionable and the chances of getting caught decreases. the richest criminal in the world ana at one time the most wanted man in America, has injected tons of cocaine into America’s bloodstream. The drug lords in Bogota and Medellin are offering pleas for amnesty and crack-cocaine is in creasing on the streets of the United States and in Raleigh. It has been reported to The CAROLINIAN that many dealers who reinvest in this deadly trade have abandoned the shadowy corners and streets for fancy vehicles, _ (SeeCOCAINE,P.2) RIGHTS LEADERS-Mainstream civil rights leaders appeared to mark* the second Sllont March rocontly when thousands of demonstrators marched on the Supreme court’s rulings on affirmative action and minority setasMe programs. Pictured above, from loft Walter Fauntrey, W.F. Gibson, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Dr. Bonjamln Hooks (Hillk avariithia riiractnrl and Dr. JoSODh LOWOrV. CIVmlilHtlAcnvntsl'rOteet Supreme Court Rulings In Silence BY ALLIE M. PEEBLES Contributing Writer We came from far and near, from the entire length and breadth of the United States, to attend the NAACP’s Silent March on Washington, Satur day, Aug. 26. It was with a sense of pride and a feeling of thanksgiving that we mar ched from the National Mall between 4th and 7th streets and south on First Street past the Supreme Court to East Capitol Street and through the Capitol grounds to the west front of the Capitol Buiding. We carried signs that sent messages out to all branches of government. One message sent was “The NAACP Will Never Turn Bade.” Signs, posters, banners, and even balloons were on display. We thought that we would never leave the National Mall, and we were lined up by states, so we had to stay together. When we finally arrived at City 71 yaaca aga, marchara prataatad *«ff*Ht,on •"* flw lynching af Maaka la the 8auth. W.E.B. DAda and 1 ..77. _ ..._A AAA (Ifftiain Filth janwt WaMan Jahnann M 1.000 pan* dawn Filth Avaaaa la vtlar aianca. (Phala by TaBb SablMJalleway) the Capitol grounds, the program was in progress, and Dr. Benjamin Hooks gave the cause of the delay. He stated that there were more than 125,000 marchers, and that the crowd was larger than they had expected. The invocation was given by Bishop H. Harford Brookins, presiding bishop of the Second Episcopal District of the AME Church. He was followed by Dr. William F. Gibson, chairman of the NAACP’s national board of directors. Greetings were brought by Mayor Marion Barry of Washington, D.C. Others bringing greetings were Dr. Dorothy Height, president of the Black Leadership Forum; the Hon. Walter Fauntroy, congressman; Joseph L. Rauh, co-founder of (See CIVIL RIGHTS. P. 2) A delegate at the convention said, "As for the fellowship, it was wonder ful. It was wonderful for 16 states to come together and pool money to help Africa. It is wonderful for people to come together like this. It is a good time to re-evaluate because the host church is 120 years old and what a beautiful foundation we have. Our (See LOTT CAREY, P. 2) Harold Webb Joining VNC Policy Board Harold H. Webb of Raleigh was for mally sworn in last Friday for a four year term on the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. N.C. Supreme Court Justice Henry E. Frye administered the oath of office at the board’s August meeting.. Webb was among eight members elected to the board in late March by the N.C. General Assembly. The 32-member Board of Governors is the policy-making body of the 16-campus University of North Carolina. Webb grew up in Greensboro and earned both undergraduate and master’s degrees from N.C. A&T State University. A former public school teacher and principal, he has held several positions in the N.C. Department of Public Instruction and from 1977 to 1985 served as North Carolina’s personnel director. He has served on the Shaw University Board of Trustees and on the board of ad visors for the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Health. Webb is executive director of the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Historical Foundation and chairman of the Ralph Campbell, Sr., Scholar ship Fund. Others joining the board include Lois G. Britt of Mount Olive, Ellen S. Newbold of Rose Hill, Maxine H. O’Kelley of Burlington, and Wallace N. Hyde of Raleigh. Incumbent members Walter Davis of Kitty Hawk, Phillip Haire of Sylva and Asa Spaulding, Jr., of Durham were sworn in for second terms. HAROLD WEBB Education Of African-American Children Reflecting Environment BY MARIE FAUBERT Special To The CAROLINIAN Parents want the best for their children. African-American parents have traditionally had to nourish and nurture their children to survive and prevail in an environment replete with suspicion, rejection, ambiguity, and contradiction. For the most part, African-American parents have been very successful in preparing their children for adulthood in a hostile en vironment. African-American children are brought up in a society which is insti tutionally racist. It holds them suspect just because they have African roots. African-American children experience rejection, the consequence of racism which is deliberate and subtle in the very in stitutions which should be supporting them and affirming them. African-American children are raised in a society full of ambiguity and contradiction. On the one hand, their society holds in contempt or ig nores their landbase, their traditions, and their culture. On the other hand, African-Americans enrich the U.S. culture, even set the tone, for music, dress, language, food, and a plethora of other significant aspects of U.S. culture. African-American children knwo that they often set the pace and yet are often not given the credit. In a setting which significantly Ig nores the reality of the African American presence or contribution, the African-American child and adolescent are schooled. In a setting which finds it difficult to recognize the essential role of Africans on the continent and in the diaspora in building world and U.S. culture and traditions, the African-American child and adolescent are struggling to P" ..'"k.1)1 develop into wnoie ana wnoiesome adults. In a setting which has not been able to integrate African or African-American historical reality into the curricula, the African iSee EDUCATION. P 2) ■d Makes D«jri?,33ssr*. thrown his hat into the ring h Fulfon), » Mtffagl Ot EaJMgh Washington, D.C. in Wfc “On Oct, 10, 0>e eittrens Southwest Ratagh wjli make 24.27.31.32,41, «wt city limits th$ ptecmots 0,7 awl*.
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