alternative care options for school-age children. She chaired the
Hargett Street Committee on Administration, which is the governing
committee for the branch, and the World Mutual Service Committee.
Best was also instrumental in acquiring certification for the YWCA's
participation in the North Carolina Child Nutrition Program
In IMS, Ms. Freeman began a long association with the YWCA. She
served on the board of directors, the committee on administration,
the adult education committee and chaired the Back To Our Roots
steering committee. She contributed much to the development of
children’s services, including a summer in the 1960s, when she
worked as a camp counselor She was a staunch supporter of the
organization’s efforts to involve all women in their programs, not
exclusively women of means.
Ms. Macon began "firing significant contributions to the
organization in 1966. She served on the committee on administration
and the world mutual service committee. Macon possessed a strong
interest in the world mutual service committee, whkdh she also
chaired. The committee conducted foreign missionary work for
developing countries, through projects that raised funds for
necessary program services. Macon was instrumental in
establishing an World Mutual Service fund raiser, children’s
extravaganza, featuring performances by local children.
Ms. Young has lent her support to the YWCA since 1980. She served
on the committee on administration and chaired the building and
grounds committee. As her primary project, her involvement with
buildings and grounds resulted in a fresh coat of paint for the facility.
She also acquired the first draperies far the branch. Young was
instrumental in securing furnishings for the office and lounge areas.
Back To Our Roots guests enjoyed dinner, the solo performances
of Tiwanda Shepard and recitations delivered by Lillie Caster. Janet
M. Howard of WSHA at Shaw University was the mistress of
ceremony, with Live Wire as co-producer and narrator.
The YWCA of Wake County is a non-profit organization dedicated
to providing quality services for women and their families. Branch
locations are at 554 E. Hargett St. and 1012 Oberlin Rd.
JAPANESE
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assure the appropriate handling of
minority issues in elementary and
higher education in Japan.
• In recognition of the importance
of providing education and research
opportunities in the history and
culture of African-Americans, the
government will encourage colleges
and universities to promote education
and research opportunities in the
history and culture of African
Americans, and due regards will be
given to meet budget requests for
new chairs in this subject area.
•The government will request the
Japan Textbook Association to
prepare readers and other materials
which reflect a correct perception of
minority issues for schools in Japan.
NAACP Position: There should be
two-way cultural exchanges between
Japan and the African-American
community, to better acquaint key
groups in Japan and Japanese in the
United States with African
Americans’ interest and sensitivities
and to acquaint African-Americans
with the Japanese culture and mores.
•Hie government of Japan will
assume a leadership position in
Japan for deepening the understan
ding of the Japanese people and im
parting a correct perception of
minority issues.
• Pursuit of more active personnel
exchanges and promotion of dialogue
and mutual understanding.
•There will be an active invita
tional program for minority leaders
and specialists by the government.
• An invitation will be offered to
five members of the Congressional
Black Caucus to visit Japan (this
year) at a mutually convenient time
in order to promote regular meetings
between the Parliamentarians’
Discussion Group on Minority Issues
and the Congressional Black Caucus.
• Th^Liberal Democratic Party is
now studying the possibilities for pro
moting exchanges among congres
sional staff members.
•Promotion of the enlightenment
of the Japanese people through
speeches and seminars mads possi
ble through an active invitational pro
gram to minority representatives.
NAACP Position: Japanese
businesses in the United States should
be encouraged to voluntarily set for
themselves the kinds of affirmative
action goals that are used by many
American firms. There should be an
opportunity for the employment and
promotion of numbers of African
Americans.
•The government is msintalning
close contact with the relevant
ministries and agendas and is pro
ceeding with specific policies. It will
also continue a dose liaison with
various civil rights and minority
groups through its embassy and con
sulates in the United States.
•Japan’s economic sector,
specifically the Kddanren (Japan
Federation of Economic Organize
tions) and the Japan Chamber of
Commerce and Industry, will address
this matter in their own areas of in
fluence. The Keidanren will continue
its liaison with the Council for Better
Corporate Citizenship and other
organizations in its various activities
to address this matter.
INSIDE AFRICA
(Continued (Tom page 1)
Foundation (the EOF), an indepen
dent fund dedicated to aiding the vic
tims of apartheid and building a post
apartheid society. This foundation is
supported by an initial investment of
$10 million, and it constitutes the
largest education and development
foundation controlled by blacks in all
of Africa.
Ethnic diversity, of course, is an
issue not only in South Africa. Too
many Americans still fail to unders
tand that intelligence, creativity, and
great possibilities are not monopoliz
ed by any single ethnic group,
regardless of its own mythology.
Here at home, the Coca-Cola Co. ac
tively encourages economic em
powerment through minority
business ownership, as evidenced by
the Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling
Co., the third-Iargest African
American-owned firm in the entire
United States.
We were the first soft drink com
pany—the pacesetter, if you will—to
empower Macks with a bottling fran
chise. This franchise includes produc
tion and distribution—not just
distribution, as is the norm for other
soft-drink companies.
Nor do we intend to stop with this
first effort, which has been called one
of the most successful minority
launched businesses in our nation’s
history. And, in still another example
of economic empowerment, during
this past year alone, Coca-Cola
Enterprises maintained at least IS
percent of its pension plan assets with
minority-owned investment manage
ment firms.
Ensuring fair employment and pro
motion opportunities is fundamental
to black economic empowerment.
Our operating policies require
managers at every level in the com
pany to be involved in creating an
ethnically diverse workforce. As a
result of this internal policy, the
percentage of African-Americans in
our workforce is twice that of the
general population. Of the 10 percent
of our employees who are Mack,
some 18 percent are professionals
fiwt managers.
The Coca-Cola Co. hopes that even
more major firms will recognize and
respond to the economic value of cor
porate social responsibility efforts,
including activities that help to em
power blacks and other people of col
or. Knowing that philosophical com
mitment can generate true power on
ly through good deeds, we remain
firmly committed to action.
NCCU GIFT
(Contimied from page l)
The donation, to be presented ove
three years, will establish a Glax
Distinguished Professorship ii
Biomedical Science, and create ai
endowed Glaxo Scholarship Pun
that will ultimately provide financia
support to 40 undergraduate Glax<
Scholars —vear.
In addition, the gift will providi
$126,000 for the renovation am
modernisation of NCCU’s Care®
Planning and Placement Center.
The Glaxo gift provides a total o
$334,000 to endow the chair of tin
Glaxo Distinguished Professor o
Biomedical Science. That amoun
will be combined with $106,000 fron
the Distinguished Professors Endow
ment Trust Fund established by tlx
North Carolina General Assembly foi
the constituent institutions of tlx
University of North Carolina
Chancellor Richmond said, “The
Glaxo chair will become North
Carolina Central University’s firs!
endowed chair. It will provide conti
nuing evidence of North Carolina
Central University’s commitment to
leadership in biomedical education
iuc uliucigiauuaic s„,cu» wiiu
will become Glaxo Scholars will be
selected on the basis of Scholastic Ap
titude Test scores, rank in high school
class, secondary school grades, and
recommendations.
Like students who participate in
NCCU’s federally-funded Minority
Access to Research Careers pro
gram, the Glaxo Scholars will be in
volved in scientific research projects
as undergraduates, with faculty men
tors.
A primary goal of the Glaxo
Scholarship Program, Chancellor
Richmond said, is to expand the
number of NCCTJ students, par
ticularly minority students, who go
on to graduate studies in the
biomedical sciences.
Dr. Richmond noted that NCCU has
a history of more than 40 years of
undergraduate involvement in
biomedical research. Dr. Ezra L. Tot
ton, who became chairman of the
NCCU Department of Chemistry in
1949, incorporated training in basic
research as a part of the
department’s undergraduate pro
grams. Many of Dr. Totton’s students
at NCCU went on to earn higher
degrees, including 22 of his former
students who now bold their doc
torates, as well as others with
medical and other advanced degrees.
In 1972, NCCU biology professor
Dr. Walter H. Pattillo won federal
funding for a Minority Biomedical
Research Support program from the
National Institutes of Health, and in
1990 Dr. John Ruffin, then chair of the
Biology Department, established the
federally funded Minority Access to
Research Careers program at NCCU.
Since die two federally funded pro
grams were established, nearly 50 of
the student participants have earned
their Ph.D. degrees, more than 120
their M.D. degrees, and more than 60
their DDS degrees. The two pro
grams have enjoyed a 90 percent suc
cess rate in encouraging participants
to pursue further education, and have
helped NCCU to rank among the top
five colleges and universities in the
nation in terms of the number of
black graduates who go on to earn the
PhD. degree.
The Glaxo grant of $126,000 for the
modernization of the Career Planning
and Placement Center will enable the
center to provide improved services
to the Glaxo scholars, as well as to
other undergraduate and graduate
students at NCCU. In recognition of
the support, the Career Planning and
Placement Center’s library will be
named the Glaxo Career Planning
and Placement Library.
REPUBLICANS
(Continued from page 1)
I
Republican gubernatorial candidate
Jim Edgar received public
endorsements from several Chicago
black leaders, largely due to the fact
that his Democratic opponent bad
opposed the late mayor Harold
Washington in his 1987 re-election
campaign. About one-fifth of the
black vote went to Edgar statewide,
which provided the Republican with
an unexpected margin of victory.
Black Americans understand that
the Republican party is clearly
hostile to our interests. But politics
makes strange bedfellows, and the
refusal of white Democrats to take
seriously the message of the Jesse
Jackson challenge fragments the
degree of partisanship and loyalty
blacks have toward their party.
Unless white Democrats really begin
to champion blacks' interests, blacks
in growing numbers will collaborate
with Republicans at state and
national levels.
POLICE REPORTS
(Continued from page 1)
Careful analysis of the full report,
and several interviews with sources
within the Raleigh Police
Department find that while Chief
Heineman’s review directs attention
toward how Tony Farrell was
mistakenly identified as a suspect
and, In the conclusion, Justifibly shot,
the report falls to address when and
how Officer Glover got involved with
the investigation prior to creating the
roadblock on Ashe Avenue, where the
shooting occurred. A review of both
the Raleigh Police transmission tape
of the incident, as well as the
transcript of that tape, fail to identify
Officer Glover ever once
communicating with the four other
* police units that were directly
i following behind Farrell’s car.
i Nor is there any reference to
> Detective Glover, either by code, unit
I number or name, during the course of
I the radio transmission. This creates
> the question, "Who ordered Glover to
the Ashe Avenue roadblock, while
i four police cares are already on the
I scene, to apprehend a robbery sus
' pect. In short, there is no record of
Detective Glover during this incident
f until another detective, who is
> following directly behind Farrell’s
' car, says over the police radio to the
other units “Glover just fired a shot.
I’m right behind him...’’, indicating
that Glover by that point had already
stopped his car, left it with his gun
drawn, approached not one, but two
cars, and opened fire when the second
car tried to speed away.
Chief Heineman’s report does not
address these questions.
The report does not explain why
Detective Glover, who told Police
Internal Affairs investigators that he
had been monitoring his police radio
(which is how he knew that a black
male suspect in a silver compact car
AKA’s Celebrate Black History Mo.
On Sunday, February IS, 1W1, the
Alpha Theta Omega Chapter of Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority, Raleigh,
North Carolina, presented the
Gamma XI Chapter from Saint
Augustine’s College in “While The
Drum Speaks”, a dramatisation
commemorating Black History
Month. The dramatization, a
combination of dialogue and song,
was written by Ms. J. Ann Craig. This
inspirational and informative
theatrical mirrored the human spirit
as Africa n-Americans sought to
assert themselves and cast off the
shackles of slavery, oppression, and
the .denial of our inalienable rights.
The assertions were founded on truth
and anchored by experience. With the
symbolic beating of the dreum, the
participants interwove the history of
the past with the hopes of the present
and the future. The African
American past has been arked by
was behind him on Ashe Avenue),
stopped his car and drew his weapon
on the first vehicle behind his, which
was not the silver compact, but an
entirely different car with a white
motorist. According to the report, the
motorist raised his hands as Glover
ordered him not to move, but failed to
identify himself as a police officer.
After seeing that the motorist was
white, Glover moves towards
Farrell’s car with his gun drawn. The
report indicates that Detective
Glover at this point, did not have the
blue police light in his car on, nor did
he show his badge during this
sequence. The report does not say if
investigators even asked Detective
Glover why he failed to give any
indication that he was a police
officer.
Chief Heineman's justification for
the shooting of Farrell by Detective
Glover rests heavily on the testimony
of Detective Joe Blaylock, who
trailed directly behind Farrell’s car
from the moment Farrell turned onto
Western Boulevard from the WRAL
TV parking lot to the shooting site on
Ashe Avenue just past Flint Place.
According to the report, Blaylock,
who is actually closer to the suspect’s
car than Glover, witnesses when
Farrell tried to drive around the
detective. “...When Glover said
“police” or whatever he was
saying...”, says Blaylock to
. investigators in the
report,’’...(Farrell’s car started
inching up and then he would ac
celerate and that was towards
Glover, and if Glover hadn’t jumped
on the sidewalk, he would have run
over Glover.” Detective Blaylock
says that Farrell’s car came within
“less than a foot” of hitting Officer
Glover.
But the report does not address why
Detective Blaylock, who is close
enough to see his brother officer
approach two cars with his gun
drawn, and saying something in the
process, remains in his car during the
whole incident. Via police tapes and
transcript it seems clear that
whatever procedure Detective
Glover was employing to apprehend a
suspect, it was not procedure that
allowed other police units on the
scene to work cooperatively.
Chief Heineman’s report does not
address these issues
Sources have also confirmed that
Dempsey Benton is either currently
considering, or has already
certain kinds of experiences quite
unique in the history of America.
These experiences reflected -
themselves through the history and
the religion. Interspered with the
history and the religion were the
spirituals which hauntingly
punctuated the words. Such spirituals
as “Were You There?", “Go Down,
Moses”, “Steal Away”. “My Lord
What a Morning", and “This Little
Light of Mine” accented the history
of a people determined to change
their predisposed destiny. A
crowning moment came with Julie
Ward Howe’s “The Battle Hymn of
the Republic" and James and
Rosmond Johnson’s “Lift Every
Voice and Sing". The accompanist
for the occasion was M. Lloydine '
Perry.
Presideing was Ms. Myra Smith,
2nd Vice President of the chapter.
Participants in the dramatization
from the Gamma Xi Chapter were
Kimberly Coleman (drummer),
Shanai Harris, Annunciate Hopkins,
Delida McNeil, Patricia Parker, and
Marcia Turner.
Die program was planned by the
chapter’s Youth Committee and
geared to the 1990 Debutantes.
Committee members present were
Myra Smith, Chairman, Mary
Aldrich, Thomaaine Hardy, Loraine
Hinton, Clementine Holden, Lucy
Powell, Paula Sawyer, Joan Silvey,
and Rosilyn H. Taylor. Other
members of the sorority in
attendance were Muriel Allison,
Barbara Flood, President, Docenia
Hammond, and M. Lloydine Perry.
Others attending were Ms.
LeShawndra Price, Ms. Marva
Price,nd Ms. Ruby Mims. The Alpha
Theta Omega Chapter is extremely
proud of the dynamic performance
given by the members of Gamma Xi
and thank them for their creativity
and service.
WlLLlAMSTON
Whistlings
BY JOYCE GRAY
WILLIAMSTON—Happy birthday
greetings to Ms. Lillian Peel, Ms.
Eleanor Hyman, Ms. Winnie C. Teel,
Joseph Bell, Ms. Rosa G. Wooden,
Bis. Della Moore, Herman Rease, Bis.
Leda Duggins, Bis. Fannie L. Slade,
and George Roberta.
We congratulate Bis. Biilmer J.
Williams, Oak City resident who was
elected “Retiree of the Month”
recently by the Martin County Unit of
North Carolina Retired School Per
sonnel at the group's monthly
meeting.
Bis. Williams serves as president of
the unit and in addition, also serves
as president of the North Carolina
Retired School Personnel District IS.
suspended Detective James Glover
from the police department for five
days. Such a suspension would
automatically demote Glover from
Ivestigator Grade 2 to Investigator
Grade l, with a substantial loss in
pay. With twenty-four years on the
force, Glover would be too close to
retirement to be considered for any
senior post in the department.
Sources also confirm that with the
demotion, Glover would be removed
from active street duty for an
indetermined amount of time. The
detective has reportedly secured
legal counsel to fight this decision.
Benton, who has told a local
newspaper that he has not issued a
final report on the Farrell shooting,
even though he formally presented
Chief Heineman’s report to the Police
Affairs Committee in a written memo
as a “full review of the incident”,
says he will provide his own report to
the City Council when they meet
Tuesday, February 19th. He is
expected to publically announce the
suspension of Officer Glover then.
Benton will be greeted by several
hundred members of Raleigh's
African-American community who
plan a demonstration in front of the
Municipal Building on Tuesday
starting at 12:30 p.m. to protest the
city administration’s handling of the
Farrell shooting investigation.
A member of St. Mark's Baptist
Church in Oak City, singing in that
church choir, being on the board of
deacons, secretary and a member of
the Eastern Carolina Vocational
Board does not prevent a member
ship in four local singing groups nor a
county Crimes toppers membership.
She is a worthy matron with Venus
Chapter No. Ml, Order of the Eastern
Star.
Ms. Williams Is the first chairman
of the newly-formed Martin County
Human Relations Commission.
Elected a town commissioner in the
Oak City area, she is the newly
elected president of the Martin Coun
ty Unit of Church Women United, plus
she is a notary public. Still, amidst ail
of the above, Ms. Williams takes
piahd lessons. Her hobby is reeding
magazines and daily newspapers.
Cut-off date far hotel reservations
for the 39th annual Southeast
Regional NAACP Leadership
Development Training Institute is
March l.
The Macon Hilton Hotel Downtown,
108 First St., Macon, Ga., is the place
to be on March 14-10 to take part In
such seminars and workshops cover
ing topics such as “Establishing an
NAACP Resource and Service
Center,” “Orientation for New Of
ficers and Newly Chartered Units,”
“The NAACP Program—Whet To Do
and How to Do It,” “Building Effec
tive Prison Ministries,” “Health Caro
in the African-American
Community,” “Handling Complaints
of Fair Employment and Fair Hous
ing Discrimination-Using Teeters,”
“Lobby Mobilization: The lOnd Con
gress, State and Local
Governments,” “The 1991 Raappar
tionment Process,” “Teaching
African-American History in the
Public Schools,” “Educatton/Lsgal
Project Seminar,” “Africa—Land of
Challenge and Opportunity” and
“Back to School/Job Readiness Pro
grkm.”
The 1991 theme, “NAACP—Back to
Basics: Heritage, Excellence and Ad
vancement,” chosen by the regional
(See WHISTLINGS, P. 10)