TUESDAY
Community Colleges
James G. Wingate has been named vice
president for programs at the Department of
Community Colleges.
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Madison Square Garden when nint^wnr
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THIS WEEK
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Creole from New Orleans,
b\ patented a sugar refining
ill process in. 1846 which
■ revolutionized the sugar
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NEWS BRIEFS
REDISTRICTING
House Democrats and Republi
cans traded partisan blows last
week as they worked on a response
to the U.S. Justice Departr mt’s
rejection of the
new state House
districts. Rep.
H.M. “Mickey”
Michaux, Jr.,
from Durham,
said that even if
minorities held
26 of the 120
House seats, they
would still have
to depend on oth- MICHAUX
era, either white Democrats or
white Republicans, to accomplish
their political goals.
The fight broke out over a plan by
Rep. J. Arthur Pope, a Republican,
that would set up 10 more black
majority House districts than the
plan approved last summer by the
Democartic-controlled General As
sembly. Both black and white House
Democrats responded angrily to
Pope’s proposal, contending that
Republicans are less interested in
helping blacks gain political influ
ence than in increasing their own
political clout.
*We’d still be in a minority,”
Michaux said., “We’d still have to
deal with 94 other members, and
half of them would be Republicans.
Once Repubilcans get what they
want, they are not going to join with
the 26.’
CONTROVERSIAL
AWARDS
Members of a community watch
program, in a controversial move
that has left some residents
puzzled, presented a plaque of ap
preciation for the second time to the
Raleigh Police Department along
»hth certificates of appreciation to
Police Chief Frederick K. Heine
man, council members Mary Wat
son Nooe and Ralph Campbell, Jr.
Gloria Hol
loway, chairman
of College Park
Community
Watch, pre
sented a plaqued
to Sgt. R.H.
Strickland and
10 other mem
bers of the Com
munity Law En
forcement
Against Narcotics unit at the
Raleigh City Council meeting last
week. The plaque was previously
presented at a rally in the College
Park neighborhood Dec. 7, 1991,
where an unarmed 35-year-old Ivan
Ingram was shot to death by a
Raleigh police officer in November.
The certificates of appreciation
preceded an accreditation review
beginning Jan. 13, by the (Commis
sion on Accreditation for Law En
forcement Agencies, Inc. The
Raleigh Police Department has
applied for accreditation through
the group.
Although a Wake County grand
jury has cleared Raleigh Police Offi
cer Vincent Kerr in the shooting
death of Ingram, some residents are
expressing both anger and concern
that the certificates are sending the
wrong messages to the African
American community.
CATCHING BANK
Edward E. Adams, 35, received a
check for $750 from the N.C. Bank
ers Association, an industry group
that works to prevent bank robber
ies and rewards citizens who help
catch robbers.
HEINEMAN
(See IN THE NEWS, P. 2)
Bitter, Black Objection
NCAA Schools For Toucher Standards
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP)—NCAA
schools, over the bitter objection of
black educators charging discrimi
nation, voted last Wednesday for
the toughest academic standards in
the history of college sports.
Drawn up and championed by the
reform-minded NCAA Presidents
Commission, the new rules will
strengthen both freshman eligibil
ity requirements and the standards
athletes must meet beyond their
freshman year.
They were adopted overwhelm
ingly by Division I schools, the ma
jor athletic powers.
“I think it’s a very historic day,”
said Gerald Turner of Mississippi,
chairman of the Presidents Com
mission. “For the first time, we have
an accurate statement to kids about
what it takes as a minimum founda
tion to have a chance to graduate
from our universities.”
Black educators, joined by a few
white colleagues, charged that the
standardized test scores used to
determine freshman eligibility are
racially and culturally discrimina
tory. It’s a controversy that has
raged since Proposition 48, the
freshman eligibility rule, was first
adopted over the objection of blacks
in 1983
“This proposal disproportionately
affects black students,” said Dr.
Williami DeLauder, president of
predominantly black Delaware
State, who predicted that as many
as 70 percent of black athletes could
be denied access to NCAA schools.
“This is clearly a discriminatory
proposal *
(See SUMMIT, P. 2)
r
1
uuKe Plans Run In N.C.
Ex-Klansman
Eyes Republican
Ticket In State
(AP)—Former Ku Klux Klan
leader David Duke plans to run in
the North Carolina Republican
presidential primary May 5, his
campaign said.
But just saying so won’t secure
him a place on the ballot
By Feb. 4, he must either qualify
for federal matching money, some
thing the Duke campaign insists
will happen in a week or two—or he
mum deliver petitions to Raleigh
bearing the signatures of 10,000
registered state Republican voters.
“We had two initial contacts from
his national people early on,” Alex
Brock, director of thie state Board of
Elections, told the Charlotte Ob
server recently. “We sent them a
copy of the law
A spokeswoman for the Duke
campaign said, during a phone in
terview last Wednesday, that “We
are planning to run in North Caro
lina.”
But she said the campaign does
not yet have a representative or
organization in the state.
Brock said five presidential can- ,
didates have sent letters to the '
North Carolina elections board indi
cating they plan to run in the state’s
primary. They are Arkansas Gov. .
Bill Clinton, U.S. senators Tom 1
Harkin of Iowa and Bob Kerry of (
(See DAVID DUKE, P.2) i
BLACK DISTRICTS-With Democratic legislative leaders
fMt aggraadag a crucial radistrictfng decision, the state's
four RaptMcan congressman last weak called on the
I—oral Assam My to revise Its now congressional map
ratfcar than defend It In court. Black legislators alsa decided
two
House
Is seen hero with Clnton Hants, a
of Fayetteville discussing redistricttng
BNes)
Redistricting Argument Swirls As
Democrats Urge Minority Districts
(AP)—It may be this week that
'forth Carolina officials decide
vhether to pursue a lawsuit over
:ongressional redistricting, but
itate lawmakers appear to be lean
ng against litigation.
“The question of a lawsuit will be
letermined on the chances of being
uccessful,” Sen. Henson Barnes, D
Wayne, president pro tem of the
Senate, said Thursday. “The infor
mation that I have been getting...
has not been optimistic at this point
in time.”
Until a decision is made, the
General Assembly has put on hold a
new congressional redistricting
TTXTn /'‘'I _1_
plan that would create two minority fo
districts instead of the one in the Ai
plan rejected by the U.S. Justice
Department. Pf
“I’m not getting any direction on N.
where to go," Sen. Dennis Winner, M
D-Buncombe, told his Senate Redis- th
(See REDISTRICTING, P. 2)
l •__ i-i* n ____
Inside
Africa
BY RON DANIELS
The Gary Convention was not the
only historic event to occur in 1972.
1992 will also mark the 20th anni
versary of the first African Libera
tion Day in the United States Like
the Gary Convention, African Lib
eration Day (ALD) was an event
bom of the tremendous ideological
and political ferment of the times.
As civil rights and integration in
creasingly came into question as the
solution to the plight of black people
in America, black power as a slogan
and method of thinking exploded
into ascendancy within the black
freedom struggle.
In what could be characterized as
the second cultural and political
“renaissance,” a black conscious
ness movement swept through the
black nation.
The first casualty of the black
oower and black consciousness
novement was the term “Negro”
ind the idea of. what Queen Mother
Vudlev Moore would call Negro
Linking. As radical black thinkers
ind activists searched for a new
dentity and newcultural and pollti
al. moorings for the movement,
ifrica was rediscovered as the foun
lation for what was to be ti ana
armed into a nationalist and Pan
ifricanist movement.
The writings of Garvey, DuBois,
’admore, C.L.R. James and Kwame
Ikrumah and the teachings of
dalcolm X redirected the focus of
he movement to Africa and the
- (See INSIDE AFRICA, P 2)
4
Wake Woman
Cited For
Parks Award
The Ron Harks Tradition
Award will honor a Wake
County woman who has
made a positive and signifi
cant impact on the lives of
Wake County women, par
ticularly those of African
American heritage. The re
cipient of this award will
have reflected in her life
those traits and characteris
tics associated with Rosa
Parks: courage, determina
tion, commitment and dig
nity.
Ms. Dorothy Alien-Free
man, executive director of
Wake County Opportunities
for many years, will be hon
ored as the first recipient of
the award, presented by the
Women's Center.
The Women's Center, lo
cated at 128 E. Hargett St. in
Suite 10 (basement level of
Montague Building), is a non
profit multi-service counsel
ing and resource center that
promotes the growth, pro
ductiveness and well-being
of women in the Wake County
area.
Through the award, the
Women's Center hopes to
commemorate the life, ac
MS. DOROTHY ALLEN
FREEMAN
complishments and dreams
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is planned as an annual
event to be held at the
Women’s Center at noon on
the Thursday preceding the
King holiday.
Ms. Alien-Freeman will be
presented with the award at
a celebration on Jan. 16 from
noon to 1 p.m. The celebra
tion will include music, pres
entation of the award, open
ingofan artexhibtion featur
ing African-American art
ists, refreshments, and so
cializing.
The award presentation is
part of the Women’s Center's
tSeo ROSA PARKS, P. 2'
UlNVy ClUIlg J.J.U1
Observance Of Dr. King Birthday
CHAPEL HILL-The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s 11th
annual celebration of the birthday of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will
include a banquet, guest speakers
and a musical performance to help
people remember the slain civil
rights leader’s dream.
The observance opens Jan. 19 with
a 7 p.m. university/community
banquet in the Carolina Inn ballroom.
For ticket information, call 962-6962.
The university will be closed in
observance of the Martin Luther King
Jr. holiday Jan. 20. A community
memorial service will be held at 3
p.m. in Chapel Hill's First Baptist
Church on Roberson Street.
A free, public discussion and forum
on King will be held at noon Jan. 21 in
the Sonja Haynes Stone Black
Cultural Center on the first floor of
the Frank Porter Graham Student
Union.
Later, Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority
will sponsor a candlelight vigil at 6:30
p.m. in the Pit, followed by a
procession ,to the Hanes Art Center
auditorium. Patricia Russell
McCloud, president of the Atlanta
consulting firm Russell-McCloud and
Associates, will give a free lecture
there on "Celebrate the Difference
(One Siie Doe Not Fit All)” at 7 p.m.
The lecture is sponsored by the
Chancellor’s Committee for the
Martin Luther King Jr Birthday
Celebration and the Carolina Union
Crditical Issues Committee.
Members of the university and
(See DR KING, P. 2>