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This Week
Four years after Jackie
Robinson entered major
league baseball to break the
“color barrier,” Chuck
Cooper of the Boston Celtics
bacame the first black player
admitted to the National
Basketball Association in
1951.
RALEIGH, N.C.,
VOL. 51, NO. 17
TUESDAY, JANUARY 21,1992
N.C.'s Semi-Weekly
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Judge Stafford Bullock Supervising
State Courts To Experiment With Night Court
fne Administrative Office of the
Courts (AOC) has completed plans
for two experimental projects
designed to measure the potential of
night courts to improve the
administration of justice in North
Carolina.
The pilot projects will be conducted
at the District Court level in Asheville
and Raleigh with a $295,312 grant
from the Governor’s Crime
Commission, AOC Director Franklin
Hate Crimes Spark Concern
Children
Target Of
Violence
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP)—There
have been far more violent racial
crimes, but the attack on two black
children walking to school brought
tears to the mayor’s eyes and stirred
this hard town’s heart.
A 14-year-ol d boy and his 12-year
old sister were jumped last Monday
by four white teenagers who beat
them, robbed them of $3, sheared off
the girl’s hair, and in a final act of
humiliation, sprayed them with
white shoe polish, police said.
"You’ll be white today!” police said
one attacker shouted.
Mayor David Dinkins, who is
black, described the attack as a
horrific crime—one that evoked
such painftil memories of his youth
that it brought tears to his eyes at a
City Hall news conference.
The children escaped with their
lives—unlike Yusuf Hawkins, 16,
and Michael Griffith, 23, who were
killed by gangs of whites in
Brooklyn and Queens in 1989 and
1986, respectively—but the case
has gained nearly as much attention
as those widely publicized killings.
One urban expert speculated that
New Yorkers were appalled by the
attack because it involved children
and was "especially evil* because of
its unprovoked physical and mental
abuse.
(SeeHATE CRIMES,P.2)
Freeman, Jr. announced.
Beginning on February 3 and
running for 65 weeks, evening court
sessions will be held from 5:30 p.m. to
9:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday,
in the two cities.
Four retired District Court judges
will preside over the courts in each
city, freeing regular judges and often
scarce courtroom space for more
important trials, including drug
related cases, during regular court
PARENTS POSE QUESTIONS - During the first-ever
African-American Parents Educational Summit held
recently at N. C. State University’s McKimmon Center,
several among the more than 300 parents of Mack Wake
County students questioned Wake School Superintendent
Robert E. Wentz and other educators. Questions posed
were relative to expulsion, drop out rate, black boys
labeled as problem children and sent to special education
NCCU Appointing Percy Murray To
Post Of Interim Vice Chancellor
DURHAM—Dr. Donna J. Ben
son, interim chancellor of North
Carolina Central University, has
appointed Dr. Percy E. Murray to
the post of interim vice chancellor
for development.
His appointment was announced
Jan. 10 at the Personnel Committee
I, ,
MAKING A POINT - With Raleigh Police Chief Frederick K. Heineman in the
audience. Rev. David Foy borrowed the title of a book “We Live In Two Orders" to
make a point to members of a national accreditation committee during a public
hearing at city hal. Foy stated, “In most instances whites in North Raleigh are
treated with more respect as compared to African-Americans who live in
Southeast Raleigh. When there is a druag 'bust* in North Raleigh, the area is
cleared out. In Southeast Raleigh, men are shot on the spot," referring to Ivan
Lorenzo Ingram who was killed during a drug raid. (Photo by James Giles)
hours.
District Courts generally have
jurisdiction over misdemeanors,
domestic relations, juvenile
proceedings, probable cause
hearings in felonies and minor traffic
offenses designated as infractions.
However, the experimental night
courts will be limited, specialized
sessions.
Night court at Asheville will be
administrative in nature. Pleas and
of the University of North Carolina
Board of Governors, with the sup
port of the ECCU Board of Trustees.
Dr. Murray, an NCCU alumnus,
has been chairman of the NCCU
Civil Rights Advocate
Dr. Stone Leaves Legacy As Educator
BY MYRON B. PITTS
Special To The CAROLINIAN
CHAPEL HILL—It was nearly 1
p.m. and Dr. Sor\ja H. Stone, associ
ate professor of African-American
studies at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, was pa
tiently and gently doing the thing
that she did best—setting the record
straight.
The topic before her large histoiy
class happened to be the slave com
munity in the antebellum South.
Specifically, Stone wanted to know
how and when slaves strengthened
community relationships.
One student, taking advantage of
the open, unfettered class discus
sion preferred by Stone, called out,
“During their free time.”
The smooth, coffee-with-cream
colored surface of Stone’s face broke
suddenly into a wide grin and the
soft skin around her eyes crinkled
like crepe paper.
“Let’s not call it ‘free’ time,” she
chuckled. ”1 don’t want to call it free
time.”
Stone’s recognition of the subtle
irony in the students’ suggestion
that an enslaved people could have
free time incited rippling laughter
through the crowded lecture hall of
more than 80 students. But her ef
forts to correct discrimination and
press for change at UNC-CH often
preliminary motions will be heard
Monday through Wednesday in
misdemeanor and infraction cases
and such matters as applications for
court-appointed attorneys will be
handled. Actual trials will be held on
Thursdays.
The grant money will enable the
night courts to pay a part-time
prosecutor and other personnel as
well as the retired judges. The
experiments don’t require any new
classes, more preparation tor college. Videotaped
presentations expressed what many parents felt. Many
parents are concerned. The summit served as a door that
has never been opened before. The concept for the
summit, Dr. Lawrence dark, associate provost at NCSU
and sponsored by NCSU, Wake County Public Schools and
the Wake County Education Foundation. (Photo by James
Giles)
Department of History and Social
Science since 1979. He is professor
of history at the university.
(See NCCU APPOINTS, P. 2)
. were not amusing.
Stone, who died Aug. 10, 1991,
after an unexpected stroke, gave the
history lecture last spring during
her last semester of teaching. Many
at the university hope her legacy of
award-winning teaching and civil
rights activism will not be lost upon
ftiture generations.
Margo Crawford, the director of
UNC-CH’s Sonja Haynes Stone
Black Cultural Center and Stone’s
friend for more than two decades,
says that her buddy helped usher in
a new phase of the civil rights move
ment in the late 1960s when they
were both at Northeastern Illinois
University. Stone was a young pro
fessor of inner-city studies;
Crawford was an undergraduate.
“From the time I met her I was
extremely impressed because she
was extremely valuable to the 1960s
civil rights movement,” Crawford
recalls. “The climate at the time was
that black people were very angry,
and with good reason. Oppression
makes people angry.
“Sonja was not wearing the anger
like the rest of us, and at the same
time it was quite clear that she was
very determined and committed. If
you’re carrying too much of the
anger it's like these additional
(See SONJA STONE, P.2)
permanent court personnel, AOC
Director Freeman said.
Night court in Raleigh will handle
victim-initiated cases, those in which
law enforcement officers are not
involved and thus are not required to
testify. These cases generally involve
minor assault charges, trespassing,
communicating threats and other
domestic disputes.
Court administrators believe
Homosexual Studies
Address Biblical,
Genetical Theories
BY CHESTER DEBNAM, JR.
An Analysis
A recent Washington Post article published by the News
and Observer said, “Scientists have uncovered new evi
dence that genetic factors may play an important, if not
dominant role in determining whether males become
homosexuals.” This is the second major study addressing
The Bible doesn’t
indicate that
hoosexuality is any
greater sin than
fornication between
unmarried men and
women.
Raleigh’s night court will free up
about two and a half days for the trial
of other cases in Wake’s District
Courts.
The night courts will be supervised
by Chief District Court Judge
Stafford B. Bullock in Raleigh and
Chief District Court Judge Earl J.
Fowler, Jr. in Asheville.
(See NIGHT CO! TOT P.2)
the cause of homosexuality. The first article indicated that
homosexuality could be related to the fewer number of
brain cells that affect sexual preference. The bottom line
could be to prove that homosexuality is not a matter of free
will but that “God made them that way.”
ISRAEL AND EARLY CHURCH
The children of Israel fell into a similar trap. In *he Book
of Jeremiah, the second chapter, we find these words: “For
my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken the
fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns,
broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” The apostle Paul
wrote in the epistle to the Colossians, in the third chapter:
“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth;
fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concu
piscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry.”
The homosexual is justified in his pursuit of equality in
employment and housing, for all of us have sinned at some
point in the above areas. But if studies indioate that God
made the homosexual as they are and therefore they are not
(See HOMOSEXUALITY, P. 2)
LEGACY—An issue of Hie Black Ink featuring a (rant-page picture of Or. Soa|a
H. Stone lying in the aisle of Memorial Hal during a lecture. The event recagatzed
Stone’s legacy as an award-winning educator aad dedicated dvd rights activist.