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Police Chief 1 old Be Quiet
About Ingram Shooting
Jo I UAStt MICHAELS
Contributing Writer
After an unarmed citizen was
shot to death by a Raleigh police
officer last November, the police
chief wanted to inform the commu
nity of the detail s as soon as the next
day, but was told not to by his supe
riors. This admission comes in the
aftermath of what many supporters
and critics of the police department
and the city administration agree
was a badly mishandled episode on
the part of officials.
Raleigh Police Chief Frederick K.
Heineman made the admission
during a meeting in his office last
Friday with several local press rep
resentatives. The meeting was ar
ranged by Jayne Kirkpatrick, direc
tor of Raleigh’s Public Affairs Office,
to discuss ways of improving how
the media secures information from
the police department.
Chief Heineman, after listening
to many of the concerns and prob
lems some reporters have with con
firming stories through his depart
ment, reassured them that he real
ized how important their job was,
and that it was his responsibility to
make sure that the media get all of
the pertinent information they need
for their stories. “I just didn’t come
out of the woodwork,” Heineman
said. “My job is to take care of you
[the media]. Dissemination of infor
mation... that’s my job, that’s my
responsibility.”
At that point, he was asked by The
CAROLINIAN why no press confer
ence or detailed public information
session was held after the police
shooting of Ivan Lorenzo Ingram
last Nov. 8. After a drug suspect had
been accidentally shot by an officer
on March 23, he held a press confer
ence about the matter the next
morning.
“[After the Ingram shooting] I
was told not to,” said Heineman. “I
wanted to hold a press conference at
1 o’clock that Saturday [the day
after Ingram was shot], but I was
told not to.”
(See POLICE CHIEF, P. 2)
New Rap Video
“Assassinates”
Public Figure
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP)—A new
Public Enemy video in which the rap
group kills make-believe Arizona
officials for refusing to make Martin
Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday
was shown on “Entertainment To
night’ and MTV.
MTV spokeswoman Carol Robin
son said, however, that there were
no plans to put it on the cable music
station’s rotation of hit videos and it
would be accompanied by a discus
sion each time before it is shown.
“The message we’re concerned
about is that if you don’t see things
my way we’re going to kill you,’ she
said. “We respect Public Enemy’s
passionate position but we do think
it warrants discussion.”
Chuck D, Public Enemy’s lead
rapper, told about 50 youngsters
and others gathered at a Manhata
tan hotel for a news conference
Tuesday that the video “is quite a
radical point of view, most people
would think, but I feel fine.”
The video, “By The Time I Get to
Arizona,” begins with “a David
Duke type character as governor of
Arizona” denying he is racist when
he refuses to acknowledge the holi
day, Chuck said. Throughout the
video are re-enactments of civil
rights struggles from the ’60s.
By the end of the video, viewers
Bee a senator fall to his office floor
after eating poisoned candy and the
governor’s car blown up after he
steps into it. The killings are inter
spersed with re-enactments of
King’s assassination.
“It’s a trip into the fantasy world
of Public Enemy. You know, the big
payback,” Chuck said.
In a release, the group’s publicist
said Chuck in the video “spews
venom at the misguided powers
that-were in the state Of Arizona
(See RAP VIDEO, P.2)
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ADMIRING KING - Kristel Holloway, a first grader at E. C. Brooks, visiting the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Gardens here admires the King statue shortly after hearing her father, Rev. Johnnie Holloway of WHRams Grove
Baptist Church speak of the great deeds of Dr. King. Kristel asked her mother, Mrs. Judy Nottoway, to accompany
her to the King Memorial Gardens. (Photo by James Giles)'
Efforts To Integrate Inner-City
Schools Seen Falling Far Short
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)—Ef
forts to desegregate the nation’s
inner-city schools have become fu
tile because there are no longer
enough white students for urban
classrooms, the National School
Boards Association says.
That likely will force school inte
gration battles to shift to suburban
America, where there is “a very
large minority migration under
way,” the group said in a study re
leased week.
The shift “leaves behind increas
ingly concentrated low-income mi
nominority communities within
central-city school districts” that
can no longer be meaningfully de
segregated, the study said.
Integration of inner-city public
schools has become “an exercise in
futility” as the pool of white stu
dents has shrunk while minority
populations have grown over the
last 20 years.
The study, commissioned by the
association’s Council of Urban
Boards of Education, was conducted
by Gary Orfield, professor of educa
tion and social policy at Harvard
University, and Franklin Montfort
of the University of Wisconsin.
Orfield said the study was based
on 1988 data from 40,000 schools
collected by the Education
Department’s Office of Civil Rights.
Among other findings:
•Segregation of blacks held flat
nationally from 1980 to 1988, even
as the Reagan administration
pushed to allow a return to neigh
borhood schools in areas that had
court-ordered busing plans in effect.
•By some measures, segregation
did increase in the late 1980s for
black students in the Northeast and
Midwest and for Hispanics in the
West and Midwest.
•St. Louis, Indianapolis, and
Kansas City, Mo., have used deseg
Segregation of blacks held flat nation
ally from 1980 to 1988, even as the Reagan
administration pushed to allow a return
to neighborhood schools in areas that
had court-ordered busing plans in effect.
Hispanic segregation has dramatically
increased since the 1960s.
"Fewer white children were being
bom in many areas and a continu
ally smaller share are growing up in
big central cities or their older sub
urbs,” the report said.
Hispanic segregation in inner
city schools has grown steadily
while black integration has held
steady at the level of the early
1970s, the study said.
"Hispanic and Asian immigration
is accounting for a substantial share
of the nation’s population growth
and Hispanics are locating very
disproportionately in some of the
nation’s largest urban centers,” it
said.
By 1986, the study said, the 25
largest urban school systems had 27
percent of the nation’s black stu
dents and 30 percent of Hispanics—
but only 3 percent of whites.
regation plans including both city
and suburban districts to stabilize
the percentage of white enrollment
while providing some increase in
integration and better educational
choices.
•The study said some larger sub
urban school systems are facing
rapidly increasing minority enroll
ment.
“This opens both new possibilities
of racial integration and new risks of
extending large new patterns of
segregation across msyor sectors of
suburbia,’’ it said.
Orfield stud that while blacks
remain significantly less segregated
than they were before the civil
rights movement of the 1960s, His
panic segregation has increased
dramatically.
I
Overall, Hispanic enrollment
rose from less than five percent of
the national school enrollment to
more than 10 percent. In 1988-89,
57 percent of Hispanic students
were in California or Texas.
In 1970, the average Hispanic
student in the West attended a
school that had a white enrollment
of just over 50 percent. By 1988, that
school was just one-third white.
Since 1986, there has been very
little change in segregation for
blacks across the country. Only in
the Midwest, the study said, has
segregation become substantially
more intense.
The three states showing the larg
est declines in the share of black
(See INTEGRATION, P. 2)
14th Annual Minority
Health Conference Set
For Chapel Hill
See Page 3
Chuck D. of Public
Enemy To Speak At Duke
University On Jan. 29
__See Page 9
Martin Luther King
Celebration Planned
/\s me oora Dinnaay approaches
for the slain civil rights leader, Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a num
ber of events have been planned in
celebration on the official national
holiday, recognizing the man and
the legacy he left for all people.
The Raleigh-Wake Martin Luther
King Celebration Committee chair
man, Rev. Leonard Farrar, states,
“The committee has been working
extremely hard to offer something
special on Dr. King’s birthday. As
beloved as the lessons and memo
ries are, so are the activities we
sponsor; this year is no exception.”
The U.S. Congress declared, and
former President Ronald Reagan
signed into law, a bill declaring 1986
the start of a national holiday to be
celebrated on the third Monday of
each January. King’s birthday is
actually Jan. 15.
The Raleigh-Wake Committee
was one of the first in the nation to
be organized for the sole purpose of
planning and promoting the holi
day. Last January, the federal King
Holiday Commission in Washington
recognized the Raleigh-Wake Com
mittee observances as a model tor
communities nationwide.
Lloyd M. Davis, executive direc
tor of the federal commission,
stated, “After examining and par
ticipatingin Raleigh’s programs, we
have concluded that their activities
are among the best planned and
implemented in the country. We
here in Washington and the King
Center in Atlanta are very know
ledgeable of the outstanding service
they provide each year.”
This year’s events mark the sev
enth year the group has organized
local activities. The 1992 official
celebration will take place on Jan.
20. The observance starts with an 8
a.m. prayer breakfast at Broughton
High School cafeteria. The guest
speaker, the Rev. Ann P. Lightner,
pastor of Mt. Calvary AME Church
in Baltimore, Md., will be joined by
numerous civic, religious and gov
ernment officials.
The King Memorial March will
leave the Capitol Building atll a.m.
and wind its way through downtown
Raleigh to the Memorial Audito
(See DR. KING, P. 2)
Parents Hopeful After
Wake School Summit
BY CASH MICHAELS
Contributing Writer
“It’s been like a dream come true...
a wall has been lowered here,” said
an emotional Columbus Presley, an
African-American parent with five
children in the Wake County school
system. Like many other black par
ents, Presley has been highly criti
cal of the public schools in the past
for allegedly not listening to the
concerns of black parents when they
complained. But last Friday and
Saturday was different... the system
finally listened.
Hundreds of parents, teachers,
principals, administrators and even
school board members came to
gether in the Jane S. McKimmon
Center at N.C. State University last
weekend, for a two-day African
American Parents’ Educational
Summit, sponsored by N.C. State,
Wake County Public Schools and
the Wake County Education Foun
dation.
The'concept for the summit,"de
vised by Dr. Lawrence Clark, associ
ate provost at NCSU, incorporates
the community, the school and the
home as the three basic components
that are key to maximizing the full
learning potential of youth. With
the theme, “It Takes a Whole Village
to Raise a Child,” the home compo
nent and the parental perspective of
the black student’s relationship
with the school became the focus of
the first of three planned summits.
Issues that have historically been
at the core of black parents rocky
relationship with the public schools,
like mistrust, tracking black chil
dren to low-achiever classes, and
ting plight of the black male child,
were discussed in detail during a
video-assisted panel discussion Fri
day evening, and then in greater
detail during four workshops that
specifically focused on these con
cerns on Saturday.
In both sessions, parents were
encouraged to put tough questions
to Dr. Robert Went2, superinten
dent of Wake County Schools, as
well as teachers, principals and
administrators. By most estimates,
the dialogue was positive valuable,
and a building block toward further
discussions about other important
issues, like multicultural curricula.
As Presley told The CAROLINIAN,
this is a symbolic door that has
never been opened before.
“Fighting so hard in the commu
nity, I was almost at a point of gi ving
up...,” said Presley. “Many times I’m
saying to myself, ‘God, how can you
allow this to happen to these young
kids? You know what’s going on.’
But this summit came up, and being
here... I was just overwhelmed.
Tears came into my eyes to see that
my prayers, and the prayers of
many other parents, had been an
swered.”
Presley said he would now go back
into the community to let other
(See SCHOOL SUMMIT, P. 2)
JV.C. Bar Association Honors Attys.
Julius Chambers & Annie Kennedy
Seven North Carolina lawyers
were honored Wednesday as the
N.C. Bar Association established
Justice Funds in their names.
Areception and ceremony, featur
ing Supreme Court Chief Justice
James G. Exum and NCBA Presi
dent Rhoda B. Billings, announced
the seven names.
Those honored were Wade M.
Gallant, Jr. (1930-1988) of Win
ston-Salem, Frank H. Kennedy
(1893-1975) of Charlotte, Hugh L.
Lobdell (1908-1982) of Charlotte,
Joseph T. Nall (1942-1989) of
omunneia ana George m. oraeaes
(1850-1885) of Raleigh.
Also honored and on hand for the
event were Julius L. Chambers, 55,
of Charlotte and Annie Brown Ken
nedy, 67, of Winston-Salem.
A Justice Fund honors lawyers,
past and present, whose careers
have demonstrated dedication to
the pursuit of justice and outstand
ing service to the profession and the
public.
These funds are gifts to the N.C.
Bar Foundation’s Endowment of
$25,000 by one or more persons
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ANNIE BROWN KENNEDY
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JULIUS CHAMBERS
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Iiuiiuiiug an luuiviuuai.
Those individuals receive special
recognition in the form of a perma
nentbronze plaque and a biographi
cal sketch housed at the Bar Center.
To date, 37 Justice Funds have been
established.
The money goes to fund or help
fund worthy projects such as a Sen
ior Citizens Legal Handbook, a War
on Drugs Symposium, law-related
activities for school-aged children
and educational opportunities for
attorneys to better serve the public.
The N.C. Bar Association, the
largest voluntary legal or profes
sional organization in the state with
more than 9,500 members, provides
services to attorneys and the gen
eral public.
The N.C. Bar Foundation Endow
ment was established in 1987 to
form an ongoing financial resource.
Through June 1991, the endowment
had approved funding of more than
$175,000.
Julius L. Chambers was born in
1936 in Mt. Gilead. He received his
undergraduate degree from North
Carolina College (now North Caro
lina Central University) in Dur
ham. Chambers received his M.A.
degree in history from the Univer
(See N.C. BAR, P. 2)
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