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RALPH CAMPBELL
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Jackson Takes
On Self-Made
Civil Missions
i&ont In Global
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)-Jease
Jackson, who mot last week with Ira
qi President Saddam Hussein on the
Persian Gulf crisis, has traveled the
world as a self-appointed diplomat to
> a host of missions of his own
civil rights activist
presidential can
didate has visited dozens of countries
and conferred with more than eo
heads of state.
Ons of Jackson’s biggest coups
-cases in 19M, when he went to Syria to
■sours the releaes of Navy Lt. Robert
a Goodman, Jr., whose Jet bomber
was shot down during a raid over
Syrian antlaicraft positions in
Lebanon’s central mountains.
Jackson, who at the time was runn
Mg lor the Democratic presidential
nomination. br««ht GooM homo
to the United States a month after the
pitot was shot down. Jackson called
Oh President Reagan to meet per
sonally with Syrian President Hafez
Assad to try to reduce tensions bet
ween the two countries.
Aland’s assistance to Jackson was
aeon as a clever move to influence
American public opinion to change
Reagan’s foreign policy in the region.
Over the years, Jackson’s efforts in
international diplomacy have taken
Mm around the globe and provoked
r on more than one occa
He has hugged Yasser Arafat in
Lmnnon, accepted a cigar from Fidel
Castro in Cuba, conferred with Pope
John Paul II in Rome and advocated
anti-apartheid civil disobedience in
South Africa.
A photograph of Jackson embrac
ing Aratet, the loader of the Palestine
(80S JBSSE JACKSON. P. 2)
Black Businesses
BY LANITA LOWERY
Contrikatlag Writer
Black-owned newspapers like The
CAROLINIAN and Fayetteville’s The
Challenge are soon to be receiving a
financial boost from the City of
Raleigh.
Thanks to the Business Assistance
Program, the city will be advertising
construction projects open for bids
for minority and female-owned con
tracting firms.
In the past, the City of Raleigh had
only used The CAROLINIAN and
papers like it to run public service an
nouncements and personnel an
nouncements. That is a thing of the
past, according to Raleigh City Coun
cilmember Ralph Campbell, Jr.
“The Business Assistance Program
in the City of Raleigh is set up to
assist and to improve„the working
with minority and women-owned con
tractors and suppliers of goods and
services to the City of Raleigh. That
program currently involves construc
tion contracts. We have a goal of 10
percent minority participation in all
of our construction projects,” ex
plained Campbell.
The CAROLINIAN will be used in
at. construction bids
from All bids of $250,000 or
more be posted in regional,
black-owned newspapers. By law
these bids have to be advertised. In
the past, they have been run in the
white-owned dailies, but not in The
CAROLINIAN. As of Aug. 30, when
the program was adopted, the bids
will appear in smaller, minority
owned newspapers.
“We are expanding our program to
use The CAROLINIAN and minority
owned newspapers for some other
functions to include construction
bids,” Campbell explained.
Campbell has been a strong sup
porter of the Business Assistance
Program. Because “set-asides” are
no longer allowed without historical
documentation of discrimination
(Richmond vs. Croson, January
1989), programs like the Business
Assistance Progr'.m are very impor
tant to minority and female-owned
businesses. The City of Raleigh never
had a “set-aside” program.
The Business Assistance Program
is beneficial to the minority com
munity in many ways, Campbell
Held Without Bond _ . .
Man Charged In Beating Death
By-Passer
Summons
Police
Raleigh police arrested Rufus
Wade Brogden, 44, of Route 4, Oxford,
Tuesday afternoon and charged him
with murder. He is being held without
bond in the Wake County Jail.
The alleged victim, a man in his
early 40s, was not identified im
mediately, police said. He was found
dead behind an abandoned house on
South Saunders Street Tuesday after
having apparently been beaten to
death.
Lt. J.A. Privette of the Raleigh
Police Department said a passerby
spotted the man lying in the backyard
of a condemned house at 290* S.
Saunders St. about 11:30 a.m. Hie
passerby, who told police he was a
friend of the victim’s, wait to a con
venience store nearby and called 911*
to summon the police.
Lt. Privette said Hie dead man had
several cuts and abrasions on his face
and head. “It appeared he received
more than one blow,” Privette said.
In other news:
The Raleigh Parks and Recreation
Department has been selected to
receive training in a special program
that uses recreation to prevent
alcohol and drug abuse.
Raleigh is one of 20 communities
a cross-the nation tapped for the train
ing through a $83,000 grant from the
UaDepartment of Education’s Drug
Free Schools and Communities Pro
gram. This training program is spon
sored by the National Recreation and
Park Association as part of the
(See BEATING, P. 2)
HAVING FUN—Labor Day tradWanaly la asssdatod with
eutdoor cookouts and goad load, and Is boing snjoyod by
(tram laft) 6 won Hoidon, Latasha Holden, Tanya W*ama,
Lavono WMams and Tommy Mastonburg. (Photo by TaNb
Sabir-CaNoway)
Wentz Looks At Drastic Budget
Cuts Affecting Basic Education
BY LANITA LOWERY
Contributing Writer
The superintendent of Wake County
Public Schools this week held the first
of five scheduled meetings with the
press and aimed attention at the
whopping $2.68 million in budget cuts
slated for the school system.
Dr. Bob Wentz, prefacing an ex
planation of the budget cuts, said,
“What we tried to do was reduce the
budget where It would have the least
direct impact on kids.”
The legislators approved $44
million for Wake County’s Basic
Education Program. They also ap
proved a negative reserve and in
dicated that it has to be made up at
the beginning of the year. That is the
$1.6$ million, explained Dr. Wentz.
A Special Significance
Homecoming In African Motherland
Tmm CAKOUNIAN sun lUfarta
anther and bar daughter recent
gurnod (ran a visit 'to their
iand, Africa, for the first time in
daughter, Nancy, visited their
parents, relatives and friends in Ac
cra. fhe capital of Ghana, during July
“I urea happy to go home after nine
years," she said. “Things have
rhanpil a lot, like the curroocy. A
dollar equals about 390 cedis,
fvefythiag is plentiful, but expen
stve.lhsrs are more cars and a lot of
Many African-Americans across
the country and from Raleigh are
««m»g more visits to the African
motftsrlsmi and returning with a
seale of wonder at aU they have seen.
speak of ^ inspired by
the strength of the bonds of unity that
erist and are beginning to evolve bat
/ ».
Ghana Is the ancestral home of
many blacks In the Americas and the
Caribbean. Many of the travelers and
hundreds of thousands of other blacks
are the deecendants of Africans sold
into slavery in the European slave
trade for more than three centuries.
Ghana is a lush tropical paradise,
replete with pineapple, palm and
coconut trees caressing the coast of
the eastern Atlantic. Ms. Laryea
says, “Ghana is filled with people
whose warmth, sincerity and kind
ness match the country’s physical
beauty."
In a video Dr. Laryea retraces the
TRADITIONAL ATTNE—MM Wfl .
ft»y at R** b NM I* MM atm «t * rnm to Accra during a totf fey
footsteps of ancestors with a visit to
the old slave castles at Cape Coast
and Elmlna with the 400-year-old
stanch of death and human offal and
the pain of unknown kin crying out for
justice.
(See AFRICA, P. 2)
Perhaps the most drastic cut comes
in the lessened number of new
teachers hired. The BEP allotted 54.5
new teaching positions. Only 14 of
those positions will be filled. This cut
will save the county $1.4 million. “We
have a net increase for BEP of 14
teachers for 84 schools,” Dr. Wentz
said.
There will be fewer certified sup
port personnel hired. These are peo
ple such as guidance counselors,
school psychologists, and social
workers. The county was allotted 36
certified support positions by BEP,
but only four are going to be filled.
Two new schools just opened and
each will be receiving a counselor
and a media specialist. This cut will
result in a savings of $806,960 for the
county.
“In each one of these cases it’s not
(See DR. WENTZ, P. 2)
noted. Not only are black and women
owned contractors being informed of
bid openings, but also black-owned
newspapers are reaping financial
benefits through expanded advertis
ing.
Luther Williams, coordinator for
the Business Assistance Program,
called the lack of city advertising for
bids in The CAROLINIAN an over
sight on the part of the city. The city,
however, is now trying to make
amends, he said.
NCSU Aiding
In Minority
Education
BY MARIE FAUBERT
Contributing Writer
“Talking: Success on the Street
and in School” is the hope of all high
school students and the subject of a
conference, “The Education of
African-American Children II: Com
munication Skills,” which will be held
at the McKimmon Center, North
Carolina State University, on the cor
ner of Western Boulevard and Gor
man Stret, on Sept. 28 from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m.
This conference is the culmination
of the one-year project, ‘‘Talking:
Success on the Street and in School,”
developed at Broughton High School
in 1969-90. The project involved 25
African-American seniors for support
in communication skills and develop
ment.
The purpose of the conference is to
raise the awareness of the par
ticipants about the issues surroun
ding communication skills and
counseling for African-American
high school students and to afford
participants an opportunity to fnl|e
with experts, colleagues, and parents
who are interested in these issues.
The keynote speaker will be Dr.
John Baugh, professor of linguistics,
education and anthropology at Stan
ford University and noted author of
the popular book “Black Street
Speech.”
Other presenters at the conference
will include Dr. Paul Bitting, assis
tant professor of educational leader
ship at NCSU; Dr. Dan DeJoy,
associate professor of speech com
munication at NCSU; Dr. Gail
(See EDUCATION, P. 2)
Churches Help
Annual Crop
Walk Program
The annual Raleigh Area CROP
Walk will be held on Sunday, Oct. 7.
CROP is a hindraising activity in
itiated by Church World Services to
support the effort to feed the hungry,
both at home and abroad. Initially,
CROP meant Church Rural Overseas
Program. It has since come to mean
Communities Reaching Out to Peo
ple.
Twenty-five percent of the funds
raised by the walk support local agen
cies such as the Food Bank, the
Shepherd’s Table, Wake County
(See CROP WALK, P.2)
Rev. Lewis Seeking Presidency
With Positive Campaign Issues
The pa*tor of one of the leading
churches in the area continues to
campaign for the presidency of the
General Baptist State Convention of
North Carolina, Inc., with the theme,
“A continuation of unity, strength
and profreaa.”
The Rev. W.B. Lewis, pastor of
First Cosmopolitan Baptist Church,
says his campaign is positive and
Christian-oriented. .“The convention
needs all of the unity and harmony we
can .give it 1 want to continue the
healing process, to help bring back
brotherly and sisterly love," Lewis
said.
The convention will be held Oct.
>»-Nov.^at fos Raleigh Cl vtcCwi ter
poctod to attract approximately 3,000
people. Rev.J.C.Harrts of Statesville
Ual seat. lEtrrts'S also very*well
known and the race is expected to be
In a raieaoe to The CAROLINIAN,
Rev- Lewis made the following state*
tn“Mycampaign will becWTtad cut
Christian oriented in every respect. 1
want to recognize all of us as God’s
children.
“The General Baptist State Con
vention needs the leadership of a naan
who is committed to meeting the
needs of the convention as a whole,
and dedicated to serving the needs of
people. These are the trademarks of
W.B. Lewis.
“The General Baptist State Con
vention needs the leadership of a man
who is not only sure of his convic
tions, but also who has a burning seal
for ministering to others. The conven
tion needs the leadership of a man
who knows where he is going, one who
has the gift of working with and
recognizing people. The General Bap
tist Convention needs a man with the
necessary experience and expertise
to boldly take the helm and guide the
convention forward in God’s service.
W.B. Lewis is that man. ‘I heard the
voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall
I send? and who wUl go for us? and I
said, Here am I, send me.’ I am ready
to be president of our General Baptist
State Convention of North Carolina,
Inc. *
KEV.W.B.LEWIS
“I call upon the people of the
General Baptist State Convention of
North Carolina, Inc., to give me your
prayers, your support, and your vote
to help continue unity, strength.
(See REV. LEWIS, P.l)