TEEN MOMS
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sic, practical instruction in respon
sible parenting. Group facilitators
prepare topic presentations with
related learning activities to ensure
the information is integrated into
the teen mom’s lifestyle. MYM par
ticipants receive free child care,
transportation and dinner at each
session.
The Interfaith Food Shuttle drops
ofTfoods for the moms to take home
with them. Donated articles of babj
clothing also are available for th<
moms. Local churches donate theii
space to house MELD Young Momi
groups. St. Ambrose Episcopal
Church and Martin Street Baptist
have donated their facilities t<
house MELD Young Moms.
MYMs depends on the kindness o:
people to provide child care and cool
a meal once a week at the group
Anyone interested in improving th«
well-being of teen mothers can cal'
250-8710 to volunteer.
SUPERINTENDENT
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‘If [the administrators! didn’t
overreact the way they did when
they tried to forcibly search willie
instead of calling his mother or the
police like he asked, this situation
would never have gotten to court,”
Campbell later told The CAROLIN
IAN.
HELPING AFRICA
(Continued from page 1)
before, but we want tne world to
know that Africa will never be alone
again. We are joining hands across
the Atlantic and we will be speaking
out, especially for Africa because a
stronger Africa will because a
stronger Africa will make a stronger
America and a stronger Africa will
make a stronger world."
In his last visit to Washington,
D.C. in November 1991, Rev. Sulli
van was presented at the White
House with the nation’s highest
civilian award, the Presidential
Medal of Freedom.
Those interested in additional
information on the Teachers for
Africa Program should contact Dr.
C.T. Wright of IFESH at 1-800-835
3530.
ABC REPORTER
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NBC. “Out of the top 50 IreportereJ
who’ve appeared on network televi
sion [news] most frequently, not a
single one was black, Latino or
Asian... not one,’ said Claiborne.
And when you go beyond the top
50, Claiborne notes that African
Americans accounted for a total of
five percent of all field reports and
news anchor stories combined that
made it on the air. Individually,
nine percent of NBC’s stories were
reported by black reporters or news
anchors, CBS had 14 percent, and
NBC had a dismal two percent.
Claiborne praised his own net
work, ABC, for making considerable
progress in hiring African-Ameri
cans in many behind-the-scenes
technical capacities, like camera
people and videotape editors, but he
chided the network, which made
history back in the ’70s when it
made the late Max Robinson the
first African-American to regularly
co-anchor an evening newscast, for
not replacing Kenneth Walker,
Lark McCarthy and Charles Tho
mas, three well-respected black
journalists, who have left within the
last few years.
Now, only weekend anchor/corre
spondent Carole Simpson, medical
correspondent George Strait and
Claihome, three out of a total of 60
reporters and correspondents at
ABC, are African-American.
In the face of this less-than-favor
able trend, Claiborne says qualified
black media professionals are mak
ing “meager” progress.
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“It would appear to me, in njy
opinion, that there is a conscious or
unconscious ignoring of black men
and women in the media,” he said.
“Maybe it’s a legacy of the Reagan
era, when the subtle and sometimes
not so subtle messages coming out of
the White House were in effect,
‘Hey, it’s okay, you don’t have to
worry about appeasing those people
anymore. That civil rights stuff
doesn’t matter anymore.’"
Claiborne exposed many of the
tricks that some local television
stations use to make people think
they have a large compliment of
people of color on staff, like giving
the one or two there more than nor
mal exposure.
Many station managers hired
African-Americans out of “obliga
tion” to comply with federal law and
nothing more and still others who
say they find it difficult to comply,
complain unconvincingly, Clai
borne suggests, that they can’t find
anyone “qualified.”
“Of course there are [qualified
reporters and producers of color]...”
Claiborne states categorically. “But
in many cases they do not, or maybe
even do not want to seek, hire, and
where necessary, cultivate and
train [people of color] for on-air re
porting.”
With African-Americans and His
panics grossly underrepresented in
major national television markets,
Claiborne says this condition has to
impact how those same groups are
perceived in the press.
“Rightly or wrongly, the vast
majority of people get their news
from television. When they deny
minojrity representation, they are
preventing people from gaining the
valuable insights, perspectives and
participation ofits minority popula
tion.
“It’s also subliminally telling its
audience that these people are not
important,” claims Claiborne. He
says there has been a racial “devalu
ation” of people in society, evidenced
by many of the incidents of racial
conflict cropping up across the coun
try and the absence of positive im
ages of color.
Claiborne warns that despite the
industry’s current condition, those
black journalists who are working
and are visible must maintain high,
professional standards and skills so
that the story of African-Americans
can be accurately and vividly told.
ideally, we aa DiacK joumausis
offer something more, something we
can bring from the common well of
our experiences. Hopefully we can
bring a special and unique insight
and understanding... a perspective
that is our own, and a compassion
for stories about our community.”
That is something, Claiborne con
tends, that white reporters simply
can’t do, and may not want to.
The way to ensure that the black
perspective is an integral part of the
network and local news decision
making process, insists Claiborne,
is to have more African-Americans
in executive and supervisory man
agement.
“These are the positions where
the real power is... these are the
positions that decide who gets hired,
and what gets covered.” He says the
reporters are footsoldiers in the
scheme of things and the executives
are the colonels and generals.
Claiborne suggests that there is a
“glass ceiling” that prevents many
people of color from entering media
management. "That is the real chal
lenge, how do we break down these
barriers? [We] must make the clear
and convincing argument of the
rightness and fairness of our cause,
to demand, when necessary, that we
be included in the process, [so] that
we are able to take our rightful place
in the American news media.”
According to the latest figures
given to The CAROLINIAN, both
WTVD and WRAL say that at least
30 percent of their staffs are people
of color. In management, the pro
gram directors and the community
affairs directors at both stations are
black, as are other varying supervi
sory personnel. Both stations also
have black female co-anchors for
prime-time newscasts.
NEWS BRIEFS
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prisoners were released as of
Monday, April 8.
BROOKS SAYS FEDS
CAN STAY HOME
In a move to try and fore
stall an announced federal
takeover, N.C. Labor Com
missioner John C. Brooks
■eid Mondav that his depart
ment has improved dramati
cally since the Hairnet
chicken plant fire of last Sep
tember, and that the U.S.
Department of Labor has
been “grossly misleading” the
public about the state’s Job
safety program. Brooks, s
Democrat who is running foi
re-election, told reporters
that the attacks made against
him and his department were
political in nature. Twenty
five people died ina fire at the
Hamlet chioken processing
plant that had never been
inspected. Federal officials
deny Brooks' charges.
DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM
The United Negro College
Fund/Lilly Endowment has
just awarded St. Augustine’s
College a check in the amount
of $25,000. This is one of three
annual installments of St.
Augustine’s Leadership and
Organizational Development
Program grant award of
$75,000 over a three-year
grant period beginning in
February. The purpose of the
grant is to help strengthen
management at the college by
offering skill-building work
shops for senior administra
tors, on-site team building
retreats for the administra
tive cabinet, and the annual
Presidents’ Institute for
presidents and board chairs.
FAIR HOUSING MONTH
Each year, the City of
Raleigh observes the month
of April as Fair Housing
Month. The purpose of the
Fair Housing Office is to
administer the Fair Housing
Ordinance, No. (1976) 330 for
the City of Raleigh.
The Fair Housing Ordi
nance makes it a violation of
the law to discriminate
against a person because of
their race, color, religion, sex,
sexual preference, or na
tional origin in the access of
renting, buying, selling and
purchasing housing.
If you feel that you have
been discriminated against
in the above-mentioned ar
eas, ask the Fair Housing
Office to check into it. Their
number is 831-6101.
RAPP PROGRAM
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require a long-term suspension.”
Ms. Omit* noted that since excep
tional students, by definition, de
part from the norm in acadmic,
physical, and/or social develop
ment, They are more sensitive and
likewise vulnerable to changes in
stress levels, expectations, and atti
tudinal climates within our schools.
Furthermore, as accountability
measures increasingly focus on high
SATs and pressure schools for
immediate results, the danger ex
ists that exceptional and other stu
dents who may not meet the new
more rigorous academic or behav
ioral standards or who cannot re
spond at the rate expected, will find
themselves further alienated and,
in fact, considered ‘undesirable.’ ”
The RAPP program would try to
develop a strategy for the student to
return to regular school within six to
eight weeks, administrators said. A
certified teacher would give special
education students classes to match
those in regular school, while a
counselor would work on any behav
ioral problems and with disadvan
taged parents to find county finan
cial aid.
Janet Stevens, Wake’s assistant
superintendent for student serv
ices, said RAPP is a first step for
closing a gap in the system: What to
do with students who are suspended
for the rest of the year for violence.
Members of Concerned Citizens
for Educational Equity also said the
school system "has defined a need to
exclude students from the main
stream of education because of their
inability to address these students
in the regular classroom.”
As the program pertains to the
special education population with
its high percentages of African
American males, "We believe that
RAPP demonstrates a maintenance
of the belief that exclusion promotes
social and academic success in dis
regard to obvious reality that'statis
tics disprove this theory.”
The citizens’ group suggested
that the Wake County Public School
System commit itself to learning
strategies and behaviors that as
sure progress on the part of all chil
dren in an inclusive policy verus the
punitive-exclusionary policy that is
by definition the RAPP program.
It was further noted that the crisis
intervention committee that the
Wake schools requested to design
RAPP had no African-American
parents participating.
The group requested that parents
with children in special education
write to them for additional infor
mation at P.O. Box 27782, Raleigh
27611.
Once a parent signs for a student
to go into any special program, the
school administrators have a right
FARMER OF THE YEAR-Dr. Daniel Lyons, left, presents
Charles Sneed of Kitrell with the 1992 Smalt Farmer of the
Year award for accomplishments. He nourished his land,
sharpened his marketing skills and streamlined expenses.
By working closely with Morth Carolina A4T State
University’s Cooperation Extension, Sneed’s 54 acres
produced soybeans, corn and livestock at increasing
efficiency since 1989.
RECEIVING HONORS-Dr. Fumey Brown, loft, presents o
plaque to Dr. Prozell RoMnton, prosMont Saint Augustine’s
Collage during a recent Laymen’s League Breakfast
honoring Or. Robinson on his 25th year as president ot the
college. Tha observance was also a celebration of the
125th anniversary of the founding of the codego.
RECEIVING CONGRATULATIONS—N*Kengle Best and Ray
Rogers are congratulated by PhyMs Cain, chairperson of
th** middle school level of Delta Carousel on tholr selection
of King and Queen of the middle school Delta Carousel.
They were recognized and awarded prizes at the closing
■ctivity held recently at Enloe High School.
to place them in the RAPP plan
without further approval by the
parent.
CRIME BEAT
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BREAKING DRUG LAW
Darrell Anthony Griffin, 118 E.
South St., Men’s Dorm No. 615, has
been arrested and charged with
possession with intent to sell drugs.
Griffin allegedly broke the drug law
on the street at 316 S. East St.
Wednesday at 1 a.m. In Ilia posses
sion was a pill bottle allegedly con
taining $140 worth of crack cocaine
rocks and $40 in U.S. currency.
FUGITIVE CAUGHT
Osborne Brendan Young, 800
Park Place, Hempstead, N.Y., has
been apprehended by the Raleigh
Police Department. Young has been
charged as a fugitive from justice
(murder). He was picked up Tues
day between 6:59 and 8:29 p.m. at a
residence, 564 Dacian Road.
CONCEALED WEAPON
William Eugene Ellison of 801-C
Elkhart Drive has been arrested
and charged with carrying a con
cealed weapon. Ellison allegedly
was in possession of a Charter Arms
.38-caliber revolver and five .38
caliber bullets at some apartments
located at 581 E. Lenoir St. Tuesday
at 4:30 p.m.
TAKING WOMEN’S SUITS
Mary Magdeline Hinton, 1340
Raintree Circle, and Ollie Dennis
Hooker, 1208 Savannah Drive, have
been arrested and charged with
larceny (felony). The duo allegedly
stole $1,552.96 worth of women’s
suits from a business located at
4325 Glenwood Avenue. The re
ported theft occurred Tuesday at
7:45 p.m.
CAUGHT WITH STOLEN
PROPERTY
Tyrone Anthony Quiller, 32, was
arrested and charged with posses
sion of stolen property Sunday.
Quiller allegedly took a 1991 Chevy
four-door Suburban, valued at
$24,000, from 400 Woodbum Road.
Wilson Temple
Women To Have
Woman’s Day
The United Methodist Women oi
Wilson Temple will observe theii
annual Woman’s Day on Sunday
during the 10:55 a.m. worship serv
ice.
The theme for the program is
“Serving Our Lord.” Rev. Edith L.
Cleaves, a member of the North
Carolina Conference Staff, will be
the guest speaker. She works with
the Council on Ministries for the
United Methodist Churches in the
Raleigh and Rockingham districts.
She is working in the capacity of
ethnic minority local church minis
tries. She is a member of Wilson
Temple.
Ms. Mildred High is president of
the women and Ms. Gloria A.
Hunter is vice president and pro
gram chairperson.
The pastor is Rev. Jesse Brunson.
The public is invited to attend.