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REV. JAMES A. FORRES. JR.
Famed Church
Needs Funds,
Strong Voice
National Pulpit
The nundenominational River
■lie Church between Manhattan
and the Upper West Side in New
Verb City, famed for its social ac
tivism, la falling on hard timee.
It waa founded nearly M years
age and in the 1939s the famous
pester. Rev. Harry Emerson
Foodick, exhorted millions of
via radio network to
together in unheavenly
to help the poor and
needy. And during the late 1970s
and 1980s, William Sloane Coffin
made the church a center of pro
test against racism, militarism
and nuclear weaponry.
Liberal white Protestants, In
cluding Presbyterians,
Episcopalians, and Methodists,
Rjhh dominated the nation's
mainstream for much of
century, now find
themselves short on members
end struggling for recognition,
voices are all but lest as
Roman Catholics
Mad Protestants have gain
ed in relative strength.
The Rev. James A. Forbes, Jr.,
a Baptist minister from North
and highly regarded in
circles, according to a
report in the Wall Street Journal,
Is surprising some New York
a year after his sp
as pastor of Riverside.
Forbes, M, who was professor
•f preaching at Union
Theological Seminary, is the
brother of the Rev. David C.
Forbes, Jr., former pastor of the
121-yoar-old Martin Street Bap
tist Church In Raleigh.
The Riverside pastor, who has
preached several times at Martin
Street, describes himself in the
Wall Street Journal as a member
el a ^triple minority'’—A black
aad a Southerner with roots in
(See REV. FORBES, P. 8)
From CAROLINIAN Staff Reports
A group of key representatives
from one of the state’s most vocal
organizations is attempting to unite
the South through labor and com
munity organizations as well as the
international trade unions.
The Black Workers for Justice on a
Midwest solidarity tour from Detroit
to Pittsburgh met labor represen
tatives from the United Electrical,
Radio and Machine Workers of
America to the United Steelworkers
of America, represented by interna
tional president Lynn Williams.
“I had always dreamed of a trip
like this—it’s like a dream col
true,” said one North Carolina textL
worker who spoke before a Pitt
sburgh labor reception for black
workers, sponsored by the U.E. Ser
vice workers, steel, mine and hospital
unions also attended.
In Pittsburgh, USWA president
Williams, director of organizing Ber
nard Hostein, assistant to the presi
dent John T. Smith and Civil Rights
Committee representative Mary
Moore met wtyh Black Workers for
Justice inembers Angaza
Laughinghouse, Ashaki Binta and
others who were unnamed for their
protection.
Laughinghouse said the reason to
organize workers at the workplace in
the South, while it begins with the
need to wage an organized struggle
for economic justice, serves to unite
workers as a powerful force of the
political struggle in helping to
challenge policies and institutions
which grant corporations the
freedom to exploit Southern workers
and their communities.
In Detroit, the audience was shock
ed as a worker revealed how after 23
years in a Southern textile plant she
was only paid W per hour.
No Weapon Seen
Hooded Man Robs Restaurant
Suspect
Demands
Money
A black male robbed a Raleigh
restaurant Monday night by slipping
in through the back door while an
employee was outside emptying
trash.
Raleigh police Lt. B.L. Rigs bee
said the suspect approached the
manager and two employees of
Subline, Inc., at 4020-106 Capital
Blvd., about 9:30 p.m. Monday and
demanded money. “He indicated that
he was armed,” Lt. Rigsbee said.
Lt. Rigsbee also said the robber
had a towel over what could have
been a. gun in his hand, and had a
towel with eye holes cut out of it over
his head. The manager gave the rob
ber money from the register, and he
left the scene.
The robber is described as a black
male, about SI years old, 5*9” tall,
weighing about 100 pounds. He was
wearing a baseball cap, black and
gray sneakers, black Jeans, and a
gray fishnet jersey with purple
sleeves,
The alleged robber
bad a towel over what
could have been p gun
in his hand, and a
towel with eye holes
cut out of it over his
head.
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N.C. Museum Of Art Makes History
Hiring Blacks As Summer Interns
The North Carolina Museum of Art
has made history in its recent hiring
of minority interns, for its summer
program. Carol Jones, hired during
the summer of 1988, was the first
African-American female hired for a
noncustodial or security position in
the museum. Darryl Lomick of
Gastonia was the first black male
with that distinction, and he was
hired in May of this year.
Ms. Jones is a very busy person, for
not only does she have a position as
visitor service coordinator which en
tails familiarizing museum visitors
with its art collections and works, but
her degree in studio art/ceramics
with a minor in art history.
The first African-American male and
female hired for a non-custodial or security
position at the North Carolina Museum of Art
are interns and breaking historical barriers
at the museum.
she is also going to school at UNC
Chapel Hill where she is finishing up
Iraqui Invasion Forces U.S. Action
BY BILL PEACE
Am AMdjwli
No quastton about it. George Buah
to oh tough president. Ho to deter
■toed to protect Saudi Ara.to and to
aeo Iraqi atroogman Saddam Huaaein
oat of Kuwait. Let’i bear it for Presi
deot Buah. I certainly support the
pNsUnt’s bold moves to stop Sad
dam, but 1 must confess that I am
■eared. The U.S. rabbit may have
Juat flapped another far, tar away
from home "Tar Baby.”
I am really very angry about Sad
dam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait,
and Bush's no other choice decision
but to once again commit American
troops to fight somebody else’s war.
That’s right, somebody slse’s war.
The war in die Gull isn’t our war. If
the Ruaaiana had invaded Kuwait and
were threatening Saudi Arabia, then
it would moat certainly be our war.
But that'la not the caae. What la hap
pening In the Quit ia between Araba:
a couple of Araba we like, the royal
faminea of Kuwait and Baud! Arabia,
and an Arab dictator, whom we hate.
The point ia that it doean’t really
who we have to buy Arab oil
Jaw,
from, Hussein, the Emir or the
Saudis. Either way, the U.S. robber
barons, who control the price of oil
that the American consumer buys,
are going to rip us off at the gas
pumps, one way or another.
As usual, because the guy is an
Arab and one that they don’t like,
white folks are calling Saddam Hus
sein a whole bunch of bad names. The
press is even calling the guy a new
Hitler. However, nobody in America
is calling the Iraqi leader’s takeover
in Kuwait what in point of fact it real
ly is: the result of total Ineptitude on
the part of American diplomats paid
to advise the president of the United
States on events, likely events, that
may occur within the Persian Gulf.
This is the real fiasco behind this
whole situation that has been months
and months in the offering. -
We should have been able to pre
vent Iraq's invasion in die first place,
rather than having to react to it after
the fact. We buy oil from both Iraq
and Kuwait, do we not? Who better
than a good old, solid customer like
the United Statee to have gone in, in
deed have been invited in, to help set
tle the Iraqi/Kuwait dispute? The
question must be asked, who is to
blame for this situation? Where were
our men in Iraq and Kuwait, our U.S.
ambassadors to those two countries;
out sunning themselves on some golf
course or «ach, lapping it up at too
many diplomatic parties, where?
How could they not have known
that there was real reason to believe
that Iraq was now strong enough and
(See KUWAIT, P. I)
With such a background in art, Ms.
Jones believes there arelareer op
portunities in the museum (or people
of color and she is glad to see others
like Lomick and the two Asian
Am erica ns who are on the staff Join
her there.
Ms. Jones, who wants to use her
degree and her experience to become
an artist, recalled vividly the at
titudes she once encountered, from
black and white alike, as the first one.
She as well as Lomick sees herself as
a pioneer and hopes this stint will
open up opportunities for other people
(See HISTORY, P.2)
“I already gave my life once to this
company—I don’t have another to
give. I’m gonna stay and fight to
change the conditions,” she said.
In Cleveland, Ohio, a broup of tex
tile workers toured the giant,
4,000-worker Joseph and Feis textile
plant by metabers of the
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile
Workers Union.
(See LABOR MOVE, P. 2)
City Seals Deal
On20,000 Seat
Civic Facility
Raleigh’s recreation and leisure ac
tivity agenda will be greatly expand
ed next spring, when the brightest
stars of the entertainment industry
will begin appearing under the stars
at Raleigh’s new amphitheatre.
The 20,000-seat outdoor perfor
mance center, the only one of its kind
in the Carolinas, moved a step closer
to reality Aug. 7 when the Raleigh Ci
ty Council and the PACE Group
entered into final discussions on a
joint venture for the facility’s con
struction and operation. ,
The amphitheatre would be built in
Walnut Creek Park, which is in the
southeastern part of the city, at the
juncture of 1-40 and the Beltline.
The open-air theater will feature a
covered pavilion providing seating
for 7,000, as well as a landscaped em
bankment allowing lawn seating for
an additional 13,000. Along with com
plete staging facilities, the 77.9-acre
complex will include a covered picnic
area, as well as food and beverage
concessions. More than 5,000 parking
spaces are planned.
Ine |12.5 million construction cost
for the facility will be divided, with
the city paying $8 million and the
PACE Group paying the remaining
$4.5 million. The PACE Group,
developers and managers of several
amphitheatres throughout the nation,
will also receive a developer’s fee for
managing the construction of the am
phitheatre.
The City Council this week approv
ed an arrangement whereby the city
will receive revenues for its contribu
tion to the construction of the am
(See AMPHITHEATRE, P. 2)
UNCF to Honor
John Winters
For Leadership
The United Negro College Fund’s
coming banquet to honor John W.
Winters has met with huge response.
“We have had dosens and dozens of
calls,” said Kenneth Wilkins, chair
man of the Wake County UNCF Com
mittee which is sponsoring the event.
“We knew that people would be
eager to participate in this tribute to
Mr. Winters,” Wilkins said. “I have
said, and still hold, that this salute
will be one of the most important in
our state in recent years.”
The Wake Committee of the UNCF
will honor Winters in a reception and
banquet on Friday, at the Raleigh
Marriott, Crabtree Valley. The recep
tion will be heldat 9p.m. In the Junior
7 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom. Tickets
(See JOHN WINTERS, P. 2)
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