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THIS WEEK
The South, on the eve of the
Civil War 1860, had a white
population of eight million
fewer than
100
ly one
white
even owned a
slave before secession.
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RALEIGH, N.C.
VOL. 49, NO. 87
TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER 25, 1990
N.C.'s Semi-Weekly
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Two New Members Appointed
Council Removes Human Relations Chair
BY CASH MICHAELS
Contributing Writer
The Raleigh City Council, in a con
troversial move during its Sept. 18
session voted to remove the chairman
Of the Human Resources and Human
Relatios Advisory Commission and
Homeless Group
Makes Plans For
New Activities
Efforts are still underway to bring
all sectors of the community together
to draw attention to the need for safe,
decent and affordable housing. The
number of homeless grows daily and
families with children represent the
fastest-growing segment of the
homeless.
On Oct. 7, Home Street Home will
“Tear Down the Wall of Shame” in
conjunction with Housing Now’s
weeklong series of activities happen
ing throughout local communities
across the land.
A year has gone by since the
historic Homeless March to
Washington, D.C., last Oct. 7. In
memory of its leader, Mitch Snyder,
and the homeless who have died,
Home Street Home is calling people
of all incomes, races, and beliefs to
come together and help build the
Homeless Wall of Shame on Friday
and Saturday, Oct. 5-8, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
The wall will be built with discarded
cardboard boxes at the corner of
Wilmington and Lane (sleepout site).
The purpose of Hometown is to
move the Mickey Leland bill up the
ladder in Congress. This spring Con
gress Anally responded by introduc
ing the Mickey Leland Peace Divi
dend Housing Assistance Act of 1990
(H.R. 4621). In order for the bill to
pass, Congress has got to see that the
American homeless are concerned
about the nation’s housing crisis and
the growing number of homeless per
sons and families.
Sunday, Oct. 7, the group will
observe Hometown with a candlelight
vigil to commemorate those who
have died homeless. They will then
tear down the Wall of Shame which
they built.
A few facts:
• Nearly three-quarters of low
income renters receive no housing
subsidies.
•Sixteen million households pay
more than 35 percent of their income
for rent today. Eight million families
pay more than 60 percent of their in
come for rent.
•In 1985, nearly 10 percent of all
renter households (three million) an
nually spent more than 70 percent of
their living income for housing.
(See HOMELESS, P. 2)
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voted to appoint two new members to
the commission.
Dr. Alan Cooper, chairman of the
Human Resources and Human Rela
tions Advisory Commission, has serv
ed on the commission for four years
and had been it’s chairman for six
months. The two new members ap
pointed to the commission were
James Fuller and Ms. Lena Brooker.
The removal of Dr. Cooper, a
poltical science professor at Saint
Augustine’s College has been ques
tioned by many for several reasons,
the least of which was he had just
been elected to be the chairman of the
commission.
Cooper had just appointed a steer
ing committee of the commission to
tackle the charges of racism surroun
ding Crabtree Valley Mall. These
charges stem from members of the
African-American community who
picketed and boycotted the area’s
largest shopping mall last year
because of alleged racial bias.
Cooper had also been a staunch
critic of the council for dragging its
feet in adopting anti-apartheid
measures and not doing business with
firms that support the racist South
African regime, recognizing the
rights of homosexuals to be protected
against discrimination and violence
and budgeting more funds for human
resources agencies and community
based organizations.
Tensions between the commission
and the council were apparent last
November when a commission spon
sored public hearing on the Crabtree
controbersy was abruptly cancelled.
Dr. Cooper alleges that members of
the city council moved to stop the
hearing, possibly at the request of
Crabtree officials who were concern
ed about bad publicity during the
Christmas shopping season.
FEMALE ESCAPEES CAPTURED
urugs,
Robbery,
Larceny
Cathy Mills, 24, of Lexington, and
Traci Lookado, 22, of High Point
escaped by climbing a fence. Both
were supposed to be at a substance
abuse program at the time.
The two females escaped the state
women’s prison in Raleigh last week.
They were captured 4% hours later. A
Pqpj^tmentofCoirectionBpofceaman
said Thursday that a prison officer
had spotted them coming out of the
woods on Branch Street. That officer
and several Raleigh police officers
took the tyointb Custody at 12:15 a.m.
' Ms. Mills-was sawing four years
for attempted common-law robbery,
failure to appear, and sale of drugs,
and was serving her sentence in the
minimum-security section of the
prison. Ms. Lookado was serving six
years on drug and larceny charges in
the medium-custody section.
The two were treated in the prison
infirmary for cuts and breuises, and
were placed in single-cel confine
ment.
In other news: Junius Carlton
Mills, 51, who was struck by a hit-and
run motorist as he drove his moped
on Lake Wheeler Road on July 24,
died recently at Wake Medical
Center.
A medical center spokesman said
Mr. Mills died of respiratory failure.
Mr. Mills suffered mutiple broker
bones, including a broken neck anc
spine, in the accident.
The car left almost 100 feet of skit
marks before impact, and dragget
the moped 190 feet after impact. Th<
car was thought to be running mon
than ioo miles an hour when it hit th<
moped.
Mills, had left his mother’s home ii
Raleigh and was on his way homi
when he was struck from behind b;
the car.
No arrest has been made in thii
case.
PITCM6 HORSESHOES—Is this «M sport of pitching
horseshoss saeing a sight revival, ar Is tt Just a few old
tbnars taking a nostalgic trip Into tha past? In photo:
(eantai) M. C. Wider, 1057 graduate Jahn W. Ligen High
Schaal In Raleigh; (L - r.) LesRo WIMams. 1953 graduate
pad member ef J. W. Ligen State championship football
team; Ralph Debnam, 1974 graduate of Whitley High
School, WondeN; Sam Hunt, 1957 Llgon graduate and
captain and shortstop of the baseball team; and Denrek
Wilder, 1989 graduate of Sanderson High, Raleigh. Oh, you
can stM catch a game of marbles at Lode Hunter School
when the shootti^ls good. (Photo by James Giles, Sr.)
General Baptist Tp Elect New
Officers During Annual Session
CAROLINIAN STAFF REPORTS
The strongest African-American
convention in North Carolina will
elect new officers and set an agenda
during its annual convention here.
The tenure of Dr. J. B. Humphrey,
president of the General Baptist State
i Convention comes to an end in Oc
i tober with the Rev. W.B. Lewis,
: pastor of First Cosmopolitan Baptist
Church making a strong bid for the
i seat.
i Dr. Wyatt Tee
Walker, senior pastor,
of the Canaan Baptist
Church of Christ, who
has been called
“Harlem Renaissance
Man,” by Jesse
Jackson, will be the
guest preacher.
Humphrey said “as my tenure a
president comes to an end I want ti
thank the many General Baptist am
Mends of our convention for the sup
port you have given me, God ha:
blessed us all in many ways. I givn
my praise to our Almighty Savior fa
giving me strength to lead the con
vention.
Dr. J. C. Harris, pastor of Firs
Baptist Church in Statesville has alw
announced his candidacy for prasi
involve more moderators, pastors
and laypersons in the leadership o
the convention.
Lewis, vice president at-large fa
the convention says he continues fa
carry out his campaign in a postivi
manner and that the conventioi
needs the “leadership of a man who it
dent of the convention and pledged fa
not only sure of his convictions, but
one who also has a burning zeal for
ministering to others. The convention
needs the leadership of a man who
knows where he is going, one who has
the gift of working with, and recogniz
ing people.”
Also in the running for lofty seatss
on the convention include Dr. G. A.
Jones, Sr., recording secretary of the
convention for 3rd vice president;.
Charles R. Tyner, Sr., who has been
(See BAPTISTS. P. 2)
Minorities Present Concern Over
Shaping Future For Institutions
The difficult challenge facing
America’s teachers is how to
stimulate interest in minority
students to prepare for a world of
work that has typically ignored their
forefathers. Only in the past few
decades have minorities made
strides in areas such as engineering,
accounting, corporat law, medicine,
manufacturing, etc. In areas that will
offer the greatest career oppor
tunities of the ’90s and beyond, there
are few community role models for
minority students, particularly those
who live in urban centers.
WorkForce 2000, a U.S. Depart
ment of Labor report, predicts that
more than 2l million new jobs will be
established by the 21st century. As
the American economy changes from
manufacturing employment to
service-oriented jobs, workers will be
required to have more skills in order
for companies to compete in the
global market. Sweeping changes in
the way American enterprise does
business will create millions of new
jobs in the new high-productivity,
high-technology economy.
The crisis of high-school dropout
among minority students is well
documented. Although there are a
number of diverse groups and
organisations within the black com
munity addressing this issue,
generally speaking, their efforts have
been fragmented.
Also during the next decade, the
ethnic and racial composition of the
labor force will change dramatically.
Women and minorities will be
recruited in large numbers depen
ding on the skills they have
developed. But the most abundant
jobs will go to highly educated
(See FUTURE, P. 2)
The council just recently has also
considered a recommendation from
the Law and Finance committee to
(See REMOVES, P. 2)
INSIDE
AFRICA
The National Congolese
Movement/Lumumba, founded in
1958 by the first and only freely
elected prime minister of the Congo
(Zaire), Patrice Lumumba, will hold
its first convention in Zaire in 25
years this December.
The party has been underground
since its military defeat by the
U.S.-backed forces of the current dic
tator Mobutu Sese Seko, in 1965.
Lambert Mende, national coor
dinator of the MNC/L, as well as the
chief spokesman for a coalition of op
position forces, has been in
Washington and New York this month
on a Rainbow Lobby-sponsored tour
to seek congressional and grassroots
support for the fragile process of
democratization unfolding in Zaire.
Following his April 24 announce
ment that he would allow certain
democratic reforms, Mobutu
unleashed a campaign of terror and
dirty tricks against activists in the
democracy movement who rushed in
to the opening created by Mobutu’s
“liberalization” of political life. The
most barbarous of those attacks took
place on May 11, when a commando
unit from Mobutu’s elite Presidential
Guard attacked .the .University of
Lumbumbashi, killing- between 50
and 200 students in ttieir dorm rooms
in retaliation for student strikes and
demonstrations.
In spite of the grave risks involved,
Mende and other MNC/L leadership
in exile will return to Zaire this fall to
organize the national convention of
the MCN/L, as a first step in
rebuilding the party which, though it
has become disorganized by decades
of repression, remains the “cor
nerstone” of the Lumumbist move
ment.
“We consider it our responsibility
to return to Zaire and share the risks
undertaken by our courageous young
people, who are laying down their
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 2)