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f Apostle Prayer Tower as Christian Movement. Pag* 6 1 F f Let’s Read Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Alice Walker to give public reading during visit. Page 7 r ThisWeek Vibraphonist and band leader Lionel Hampton was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1913. In 1936, he broke the “color barrier” in jazz when he was invited to join the Benny Goodman (See THIS WEEK. P.10) a a ul o n a) <T> o p C-J O I <3 a a < a ROLINIAN RALEIGH, N.C VOL. SO, NO. 39 TUESDAY APRIL 9.1991 N.C.'s Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST i'j SINGLE COPY «| IN RALEIGH ELSEWHERE 300 MALCOLM X Malcolm X Day Celebration, Rally Planned Plans for the 20th annual Malcolm X Day observance were announced in Washington, D.C. at the National Press Club by Betty Shabasz, widow of the slain Muslim leader and Washington Informer newspaper publisher Calvin Rotark, founder and presi dent of the United Black Fuad. This year’s celebration will be combined with the campaign for statehood in the District of Col ombia and the South African Sup port Project for African Libera tion, said organisers MaHk Ed wards and Charles 8tephenson. The month-long observance will begin April IS with a Malcolm X Award Dinner tribute “to' our shining black prince," followed by a series of events climaxed by a statehood rally at the historic home of Frederick Douglass in Southeast Washington to begin the final drive for “freedom for D.C. cltlseas by any means necessary," Edwards emphasiz ed. Malcolm X’s birthday is May 1». Shabats said she was schedul ed to speak in several other cities including New York, Chicago, Dea Moines, and Madison, Wis. She urged followers of Malcolm to broaden their thinking to sup port human rights everywhere and emphasized that her husband (See MALCOLM X,P. 10) Preventions And Risks MinorityWomen Need AIDS Counsels ATLANTA, Ga. (AP)—Women at high riak for contracting AIDS often don’t acknowledge that danger and must be counseled to alter their behavior, a federal study showed. “The point we’re trying to make here is that there are some women who do not know what their risk is,” said Carl Campbell, a public health advisor for the federal centers for Disease Control. “Women need to be worked with more closely in helping to identify what their risk to the infection is.’’ The Atlanta-based CDC collected data from public clinics nationwide that counsel and test women for sex ually transmitted diseases, drug treatment and family planning, as well as clinics that test solely for the HIV virus that causes AIDS. Campbell, who ahalyxed AIDS tests conducted on 407,556 women in 1969 and 1990, concluded that there is a particular need for public health agencies to make minority women aware of AIDS preventions and risks. Although only 17 percent of all women In the United States are black or Hispanic, they account for 73 per cent of the 15,493 AIDS cases reported among women through 1990, CDC figures show. The study found that about 80 per cent of the women—61 percent of blacks, 76 percent of Hispanics and 69 percent of white—said they weren’t at risk for AIDS and therefore don’t avoid such risks as drug use. But 3.4 percent of blacks, 3.2 per cent of Hispanics and almost one per cent of whites—a total of 8,838 of all the women tested—did test HIV positive. And the CDC found that women who consented to be tested for HIV while at drug-treatment centers had even higher incidence of the disease than women who sought HIV testing at iSee AIDS, P. 2) SENATE HEANNG—Kay participants la a U.S. Saaata heartng aa tha pd|lit and ciWa facing young Mack aulas la Aauriea wan 8av. L. Daa|las Wider, aI Vlrgiala, Sanatar OoaaM W. Mafia (D. Mich), Dr. Darathy Haight, pnsMsat. Natiaaal Caundl al Nafra Woman, and Sanatar Tarry Sanford (D.N.C.). Tte tearing was conducted by the Sonato Banking, Hanatng and Urban Attain Committee, eteirod by San. Magia. A national conference on Mack malaa is planned tar WasMngton, D.C. on May 22-24. Changing The Rules PolicemanTells Rights Act Impact Montgomery. Ala. is a city whose name figures prominently in the history of the civil rights movement. It was there, on Dec. 1, 1955, that a seamstress and the treasure of the local NAACP branch, Rosa Parks, decided that she was not going to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man. Ms. Parks’ arrest touched off the now famous Montgomery bus boycott. Now, 36 years later, another person from Montgomery, Police Maj. Sidney Williams, an African American, is playing a key role in yet another civil rights struggle... secur ing passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 is now being considered by Con gress. Maj. Williams was in Washington recently to support the bill and re count his personal exDerience with discrimination in the Montgomery Police Department that led to his fil ing a successful civil rights suit. He made the point that were he to Hie that same suit today, he could not win. The reasons lie in a decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1988 changing the rules on how an in dividual goes about proving job discrimination has occurred. Prior to that ruling, in the Ward’s Cove vs. Antonio case, if it could be proven an employer used a selection test or procedure that adversely im pacted minority workers, the employer had to prove, by a preponderance of evidence, that the use of that selection procedure fur thered a legitimate business interest. Maj. Williams did this in 1979—after failing the test for' sergeant three times. He oersuaded a federal judge that the examination and other promotional procedures us ed by the Montgomery Police Depart ment had not been proven to be job related. They were ordered abolish ed. “After I won my case and new and fairer selection procedures were put (See CIVIL RIGHTS, P. 2) Curriculum Targets Drugs Prevention Program In Education In some elementary classrooms across North Carolina, students are getting instruction in more than the basic subjects these days. Their lessons in mathematics, health, science, social studies, language arts and other subjects may be teaching them the dangers of alcohol and other drugs. North Carolina’s new alcohol and drug education resource guide in cludes learning activities that in tegrate information on alcohol and other drugs with the regular cur riculum. This integrated approach to instruction is designed to give teachers more flexibility in incor porating alcohol and drug education into what is already taught and to strengthen drug prevention efforts in schools. The “Alcohol and Other Drugs Interdisciplinary Curriculum’’ for grades kindergarten through five was developed by the Alcohol and Drug Defense Section, Division of Student Srvices of the Department of Public Instruction. State Superintendent Bob Etheridge hailed the release of the (See CRIME, P. 2) A JOB WELL DONE-Shown hen Is Dr. Prezeil R. Robinson, president of St. Augustine’s College, Mrs. Margaret Rose Murray of WLLE and Dr. Talbert 0. Shaw, president of Shaw University. They were congratulating Mrs. Murray after another successful radiothon held on WLLE-AM tor the Unltod Negro College Fund. This year’s radiothon was so successful that the time was extended hr two hours. I'.S. Senate Focuses On Problems, Crisis Facing Young Black Males WASHINGTON, D.C.-With thousands of black soldiers returning from war in the Persian Gulf, a U.S. Senate comm.ttee shifted national focus to the “tragic plight and alarm ing crisis” facing young black males in American urban cities. The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee invited a number of black policymakers to par ticipate in a unique hearing to con sider new policy initiatives and ap proaches for solving the complex pro blems affecting young black males in this country. Committee Chairman Sen. Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D-Mich.) said, in con vening the roundtable hearing, “Young black men today face pro blems that stack the odds against them. We cannot stand by while so many Americans fall behind. Our (See BLACK MALES, P. 2) Inside Africa Creative Farmer Finding Success BY MARGARET bAf'O In the past two years, Rebecca Laryea has won an award for being the best cowpea farmer in her sub district of Katamanso, about 36 kilometers from Ghana’s capital, Ac era, and has been chosen to take part in a two-week, Swiss-sponsored workshop in agro-forestry. The 49-year-old fanner sees these as a reward for years of hard work “I never joke about my farming because that is what my 10-member family and I live on. I plant at the right time and weed my crops regularly,” says Ms. Laryea. Although this untiring woman may not joke about farming, she is always experimenting with it, trying new methods and inputs to enhance her yields. Last year an experiment with intercropping paid off, giving “excep tionally high” yields of casava, cocoyam and maize. For several years, Ms. Laryea has used chemical fertilizer, but since cash is increasingly hard to come by she is cutting back on this. ‘‘Then are a lot of cattle ranches here so 1 use free cow-dung.” She is now anxious to try alley cropping, one of the techniques she learned at the agro-forestry workshop. ‘‘They taught me that if 1 plant trees like Leu-caena in a row, 1 can plant crops in between,” says Ms Laryea. “After a year I cut the bran ches and allow them to rot. Later, when I plough the rot under, it wil! mix with the soil and I won’t have to buy any fertilizer. That means a sav ings of about 40,000 cedis ($120' each season.” Such a savings represent two-thirds of what she spents on in (See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 2) Eva Clayton Saluted As “Woman Of Vision” People from across the state will pay tribute to Warren County Com missioner Eva M. Clayton during an event that Is being touted as a “Salute to African-American Women of Vi sion.” The program will highlight the leadership role Ms. Clayton has played in the areas of education, local and state government, religion, civic organisations and family support and development. The event was organized by a com mittee of friends and co-workers, all of whom have seen the positive im pact Ms. Clayton continues to have on those around her. Special guests for the tribute banquet include former Senate hopeful Harvey Gantt, former House member Rev. Sidney Locks and Sen. Frank Ballance of Warren ton. Keynote speaker for the occasion is the Hon. Josephine Clement, retired member of the Durham Coun ty Commissioners. Eva Clayton has served citizens in the Tar Heel State for more than three decades. As fouiuiei and pt cm dent of Technical Resources Interna tional, Ltd., she has headed up a (See EVA CLAYTON, P. 2) MS. EVA CLAYTON I ’.i. '•> -i i
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