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In 1863, Colonel Robert G.
?, Shaw, a white officer and
I Harvard graduate, led the
I 54th Massachusetts
I (colored) Infantry in a
charge against a
Charleston battery. Forty
I (See THIS WEEK, P. 10)
RALEIGH. N.C.;
VOL.50.NO. 5
TUESDAY.
DECEMBER 11» 1990
Weekly
FHE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST
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IN RALEIGH
ELSEWHERE 300
Prison Inmates Earn Degrees
New Electronic House Arrest Regional Stations Open
As record prison admissions con
tinue to rise, the Division of Adult
Probation and Parole opens new elec
tronic bouse arrest regional base sta
tions while Shaw University extends
degrees to inmates at Central Prison.
Graduation ceremonies will be held
this week in Central Prison for the
largest class of inmates to complete
the two-year degree program offered
through Shaw University. An
associate of arts in business manage
ment will be awarded to *7 men. In
three previous classes, 56 inmates
have received two year degrees at
Central Prison.
These graduates can continue their
education by transferring to
Eastgm Correctional Institution near
Massy or Harnett Correctional In
stitution at Lillington. At these
prisons, inmates can earn a four-year
Women inmates have the oppor
tunity to eorahusiness management
degrees at the North Carolina Correc
tional Institution for Women in
Raleigh.
Former North Carolina State
University Chancellor John T.
Caldwell will speak at the 6:30 p.m.
ceremony.
Transmitters and ankle bracelets
for thousands of new offenders are
ready with the opening of the Division
of Adult Probation and Parole’s new
regional base stations, for electronic
house arrest.
The opening of the base stations in
Raleigh and Winston-Salem mean the
state’s newest alternative punish
ment program will be available in
every county of the state The
legislature approved $4.8 million this
summer to expand house arrest
beyond the 14 counties in which it had
been operating.
Electronic House Arrest was in
itiated in Forsyth County in 1987. At a
cost of $5.02 a day per offender, com
puter technology is used to monitor
criminals who are fitted with an
ankle bracelet that contains a
transmitter linked by telephone lines
to a central computer. The computer
records any break in transmission
and house arrest officers are alerted
to the violation.
In the new regional base stations
(See INMATE GRADS, P. 2)
NCSU Recognizes
Senior Engineer
For Contribution
North Carolina State University
Ctarlatine M. Dante) and sSxoutstan
diag students at its ninth annual
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Planar Dee. 4 at McKimmon Center.
NCSU Chancellor and Mr*. Larry K.
Monteith boated the event
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hoaora an African-American who has
nude aa outstanding contribution to
the nation and the world.
Darden, this year's bonoree, is
widely recognised as an expert in
bOOU
A native of Monroe, Darden ia
leader of the Sonic Boom Grots at
NASA’s Langley Research Center in
Hampton, Va. She Joined the
research staff at Langley in Hgy as a
data analyst and qualified as an
aerospace engineer in 1973. As senior
project engineer in Langley’s Ad
vanced Vehicles Division, Darden
resoarchee and devisee analytical
methods for predicting aerodynamics
and sonic boom for aircraft flying at
"awAteo ^responsible for devising
experimental programs to support or
(See DINNER, P.»
Leadership Summit
Minorities To Combat Racism
Toxic
Waste
Sites
The Commission for Racial Justice,
a major civil rights organization, an
nounced today that it will convene the
first National Minority Environmen
tal Leadership Summit in
Washington, D.C. in October, 1991.
IterSUffimtt wttl probe “environmen
tal racism”: that minorities, despite
being disproportionately affected by
polimion and hazardous wastes, have
long been locked out of the policy
debate.
Several hundred national and
grassroots leaders in the civil rights,
minority, environmental, govern
ment, and corporate communities
win be invited to attend the three-day
summit. Invited keynote speakers
will include U.S. Secratary of the In
terior Manuel Lujan, EPA Ad
ministrator William Reilly, and U.S.
Secretary of Health and Human Ser
vices Louis Sullivan. Summit at
tendees will develop a national agen
da that will help reshape and redirect
the environmental movement in the
United States,
One result of the Leadership Sum
mit might be the creation of a perma
nent, minority-led organization teat
will mobilise communities to deal
with environmental racism locally as
well as nationally.
lbs Commission, founded 27 veers
ago, is the national civil rights agen
cy of the United Church of Christ, a
1.7 million member Protestant
denomination. The Commission,
which has offices in Cleveland, New
(See MINORITIES, P.2)
the causa sf raising manay to help deserving students go
to scheol. Performers wl include Patti LaBeUe. The United
Nagrc College Fend chairman at Wake County is Kenneth
WMdas, Register af Deeds. The Telethon will be aired over
WTVD, Channel 11 in this area.
“Lou Rawls Parade Of Stars” Show
Launching Second Decade For UNCF
The “Lou Rawls Parade of Stars”
telethon, which became one of televi
sion’s most successful fund-raising
programs in the 1900s, will launch its
second decade on Saturday,
December 29, as entertainment
greats and aspiring stars continue
their crucial support for the United
Negro College Fund (UNCF).
The star-studded telethon enters
the 1990s with an Impressive list of
achievements, Including being the
first and only nationally televised
show to benefit education. Last year
the show generated a record $12
million in pledgee, and its 10-year
total reached 177 million in cash and
pledges. AH proceeds from the show
benefit the 41 private, historically
Black colleges and universities
represented by the College Fund,
which has its headquarters in New
York City.
Outstanding performances and per
sonal appeals for contributions from
leading entertainers have become
staples of the “Parade of Stars”
telethon, and viewers across the
country have demonstrated a unique
loyalty to the program, now in its 11th
year.
Money raised by UNCF, through
such special events as the “Lou
(See UNCF, P.2)
Celebrate Kwanzaa
BY RON DANIELS
From Dec. SfrJan. I, many within
i the African-American community
I will celebrate Kwanzaa. Created by
the brilliant theoretician and leader
| Dr. Maulana Karenga in the late ’Ms,
i Kwaniaa, which means first fruits, is
! patterned after the traditional
harvest celebrations in traditional
African society.
Based on Karenga’s theory of
Kawaida, the doctrine of tradition
and reason, each of the seven days of
Kwanzaa is centered around one of
the principles of the Nguzo Saba—the
Seven Principles of the Black Value
System: umoja—unity;
kujlchggulla—self-determination;
ujima—collective work and respon-*
sibility; ujamae—cooperative
economics; nia—purpose; fcuum
ba—creativity; and imani—faith.
Kwanzaa is an authentic African
American inspired and created holi
day. After more than two decades
since its inception, Kwanzaa is
rnlobrstind by t—yt. somewhere,
in virtually every African-American
community in this country. There are
television reports about Kwanzaa and
the most popular African-American
magazines such as Essence, Ebony
and Jot now regularly run feature
stories on Kwanzaa. This is indeed a
positive success story arising out of
the black liberation movement of the
(See KWANZAA, P. I)
Africa’s
Struggle
Continues
Apartheid Still
Firmly In Place
BY DANIEL MAROLEN
An Aulynb
The orgy of police and military
harassment, brutalization and
murder of black South Africans con
tinues without abatement. Despite
President F.W. de Klerk’s release of
Nelson Mandela and other leading
political prisoners; the unbanning of
ANC, PAC and other restricted
liberation movements; and his pro
mise of a new, non-racial and
democratic constitution for his white
minority-ruled country, the vicious
orgy of oppressive racial segregation
continues to irk the black inhabitant:
And, although the long-awaiteo
black-white leaders’ constitutions:
negotiations are only due in a mattei
of w eeks hence, to early 1991, the
ANC, Civic Association of Southern
Transvaal and other black anti
apartheid movements continue to be
perturbed by the continuance of the
workings of black Township Councils
which are .strong structures of the
abhorred system of apartheid.
During the past weekend Presided
de Klerk’s police and military force,
clashed with black anti-apartheid ac
tivists who demonstrated against the
continuance of the Township Council
around Johannesburg and other ur
ban cotters. During the skirmishe.
that ensued a Mack person was killed
and 16 were wounded, six seriously,
from gunshots. In retaliation, th<
angry demonstrators interrupted the
police and military forces and wound
ed one white policeman and damage,:
two police vehicles with petrol
bombs, rocks and empty bottles.
This clash began when a Johan
nesburg politicized magistrate
canceled a previously authorized
demonstration by black activist
after they were permitted to
demonstrate by the Johannesbury Ci
ty Council and the city’s Transporta
tion Department. The demonstrator
demanded the abolition of the blacl
Township Councils as well as tb<
resignation of all their members
On the same weekend, de Klerk',
police and military forces battled
with black demonstrators who trie,
to force the closure of the Township
Councils and the resignation of theii
members. The ANC acHvfats as well
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P.2)
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