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Black Colleges Still Tops
In Graduating Most Blacks
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)—
Twelve historically black colleges
head the list of higher learning in
stitutions which graduate the most
blacks, but three predominantly
white echools are among the top 20,
a study says.
Die study, in the current edition
of the bi-weekly publication Black
Issues in Higher Education, identi
fied the 1000 colleges and universi
ties. which awarded the most
bachelor’s degrees to blacks, in 30
msjor disciplines, in the 1988-89
school year.
Topping the list was Howard
University in Washington, D.C.,
with 744 black graduates, repre
sentint 86.8 percent of its graduat
ing class that year. Next were
Southern University and Agricul
tural and Mechanical College in
Louisiana, 676; Hampton Universi
tyh in Virginia, 639; N.C. AAT State
University, 609; and Jackson State
University in Mississippi, 483.
The study was conducted by Vic
tor Barden, director of institutional
research at George Mason Univer
sity in Virginia. He compiled the
figures from government statistics.
The rest of the top 12 producers of
Made graduates also were histori
NEWS BRIEFS
' WHY NO RIOTS IN
TRIANGLE?
Just because there was no
violent reaction to the Bod
nag King verdict here in the
Triangle similar to Los Ange
les and other American cities
doesn’t mean that it could not
happen here. Many black
Isadora point to recent inci
. dents of police shootings, like
Tony Farrell and the killing
of Iran Ingram, as reminding
African-Americans of sys
tematic oppression. They say
that if Job opportunities get
ashad hero as they are in Los
Angeles, then anything could
happen.
HAMPTON OUT
It’s bow official. As of June
1, Trover Hampton will no
longer bo ehiofof police in the
eitjr ofDurham. Hampton had
originally tondorod his resig
nation amid a smoldering
controversy involving allega
tions ofaeall-girlringope rat
ing oat of hie department but
an SBI investigation found
no evidenoe of such. But the
oontroveny left enough bad
blood in the community so
that even though Hampton
reoonsidered his resignation,
Durham City Manager Or
ville Powell refused to re
scind it. Hampton was
Durham's first African
American police chief; and is
hailed as achieving national
aoereditation for his depart
ment.
STATE EMPLOYEES
WANT RAISES
Because of the bad budget
deficit last year, the sched
uled four percent state em
ployee raise never beoame a
reality, making it 22 months
since state workers received
an increase. Now state work
ers are saying loud and clear
that they want their four
percent hike this go-round of
the Legislature, and they are
signing petitions and calling
lawmakers to make sure
they get the message. Demo
cratic Majority Leader Hen
son Barnes and House
Speaker Dan Blue say the
best they may be able to get
out of the budget might be
two percent, but four per
cent would be puehing it.
State workers say they don't
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
cally black institution*. But the
University of Maryland at College
Park ranked 13th by granting
blacks 286 bachelor’s degrees,
amounting to 6.6 percent of the
111
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baccalaureate class. The other two
predominantly white schools among
the top 20 were Rutgers University
New Brunswick, N.J., 255; and
Temple University in Pennsylva
nia, 254.
Most of the schools in the top 100
were public institutions—simply
because they are larger and attract
(See BLACK COLLEGES, P. 2)
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Annual Business Opportunity
Confab Set For May 14 & 15th
There was a time when a email
African-American business person
could all but forget having access to
the same contracts to supply goods
and services to large corporations
that his white counterpart had. It
was aclosed process. Many purchas
ing agents, under the false impres
sion that black business automati
cally spelled “inferior” quality,
wouldn’t even bother to take phone
calls from inquiring black suppliers,
and kept qualifications for the bid
ding process virtually a secret.
Thus, the same opportunities
that small white businesses had to
grow by supplying large companies
and corporations with the goods and
services they needed at a cost-effec
tive price were denied to small black
businesses.
Then several things happened to
open the door in a big way.
First, the economy and the high
cost of doing business caused many
large corporations to look for cost
effective alternatives to big, expen
sive supplier contracts, that meant
a second look at small black busi
nesses, and the discovery that many
of them indeed had the expertise
and the quality control required to
satisfy corporate specifications.
What was missing was capital,
the kind that a few contracts from
corporate clients could provide.
Because these black businesses had
to find alternative ways to turn out
the same product as their white
counterparts, with nowhere near
the capital. That meant they were
able to produce the same quality at
a greatly reduced cost.
The corporations took a look at
one more important piece of infor
mation.
The workforce was increasingly
becoming one of color, with white
melee becoming the minority by the
next decade. That means that major
corporations have to rethink who
they will be serving in the market
place, so that relationship needs to
start right now.
Enter the Piedmont Minority
Supplier Development Council. A
local offshoot of the national organi
zation, PMSDC is a coalition of
major corporations like Carolina
Power and Light, Burroughs
(See MINORITY, P. 2)
Unique Workshops Target
Racism In The Workplace
BY CASH MICHAELS
Staff Writer
“I had always felt that blacks were
inferior to whites, but I never
stopped to figure out why."
It was the admission of a closet
racist, a white person, not someone
who burns crosses, or wears a white
sheet, or is even outwardly hostile to
African-Americans or other people
of color. That kind of bigot at least
has the courtesy to warn you that
he’s coming, let alone in the same
room.
Even the closet racist looks down
on whom he, too, would call an
anachronism. But at least the "ex
tremist” admits his hatred un
abashedly. The closet racist, on the
other hand, will deny, deny, deny...
until he is one day forced to face
what he feels and why he truly feels
it. And that is usually only when he
is placed in the position of admitting
it to himself and others.
That was the essence of a unique
race awareness workshop that was
sponsored by Northern Telecom,
Inc. of the Research Triangle Park
last week. Twenty-five participants
(14 black, 11 white) spent two days
40 miles from Raleigh, at the Aque
duct Conference Centerin Chatham
County.
Several of the participants were
Telecom employees, while others
were teachers from Raleigh’s
Broughton High School, scene of
recent student racial unrest. Two
members of the Raleigh Human
Resources/Human Relations Advi
sory Commission (one white, one
black) also went along.
Their objective for the two days
was to create a mini-society based
solely on race. The goal was to chal
lenge the participants to deal with
their racial differences in an honest
and personal way, bringing to the
surface whatever hidden emotions
and attitudes they had.
To accomplish this delicate task,
it would take a specialist, someone
who knew how to tap those atti
tudes, particularly in whites; con
front them with thenyskillftilly; and
then hold their hand^ks they redis
covered who they actually were,
despite what they had actually seen.
That specialist is A1 Vivian.
Vivian is a race relations consult
ant with a company known as
“BASIC” (Black Action Strategies
and Information Center), Inc.,
based out of Atlanta. Ga. The firm is
headed by his father, the legendary
(See PERSONAL RACISM, P. 14)
Raleigh Police Officers
Take To TheFieldln
New C.O.P.E. Program
community policing is a
“buzzword” for law enforcement
across the nation, but the City of
Raleigh Police Department has
taken community policing to a more
sophisticated level.
COPE, or Citizen Oriented Police
Enforcement, puts the regular beat
patrol officers into the community to
help find out what problems citizens
are having and what can be done
about those problems. Officers for
mally survey residents door to door,
then develop a detailed action plan
to address residents’ concerns.
Recently, the Raleigh City Coun
cil gave Raleigh police approval to
take the new COPE program into
two neighborhoods: Fairmont, lo
cated directly north of Hillsborough
Street near North Carolina State
University; and Downtown East, a
large area bounded by New Bern
Avenue, South Swain Street, East
Lenoir Street, South East Street,
Smithfield Street, Garner Road,
Hoke Street and South Blount
Street.
Five officers and a supervisor
were assigned to each of the tar
geted areas in late Apnl. Once prob
lems are identified, the police de
partment designs its officers’ re
sponse and refers non-law enforce
ment matters to the responsible
governmental agencies for action.
Police Chief Frederick K. Heineman
is expected to meet with residents
soon to discuss the project’s findings
and solutions.
“This program is designed to fos
ter a closer relationship between the
Dolice and the communitv." said Lt.
J.W. Pierce. “It's a team effort.”
As an adjunct to the COPE pro
gram, a special drug enforcement
initiative targets drug trade in the
Downtown East area as well as
College Park and Sawyer Road. A
team of seven police officers and a
supervisor go into the area each
night to conduct campaigns against
the drug traffickers. Three detec
tives from the Narcotics Unit also
assist in this special effort.
Begun in Apnl, this special drug
program is funded through May 16.
So far, it has proved successful,
(See C.O.P.E., P. 2)
Community Business Expo
Termed Success Here
BY CASH MICHAELS
Stair Writer
“Why can’t we do this more often?
The question was anything but i
complaint. In fact, it was a state
ment of evidence that African
American cortstmwrs,when given i
choice, can and will respond to tha
choice if the quality is good and thi
price is right.
That’s why hundreds of blacl
shoppers, as well as 70 black mer
chants, have all agreed that the firsl
“Your Community Black Business
Expo ’92” was a rousing success.
“The Lord answers prayer, and
this was a big one,” said a happy
Rev. David Dolby, president of the
Raleigh Ministerial Alliance. The
alliance, along with the Business
Building Society, in association
with the Crabtree II Task Force,
sponsored the expo at the Garner
Road YMCA last Saturday.
For one whole day, the “Y” was
transformed into an African-Ameri
can shopping mall, where Afrocen
tric clothing, tee-shirts, videos, jew
elry, food and other goods and serv
ices were on display. The vendors
’ were not only from Raleigh, but
i from as far away as Greensboro , For
- $25 for booth space, each merchant
- had a crack at exhibiting their
i wares to a constant flow of young
t and old. Many of the shoppers told
i Hie CAROLINIAN how impressed
they were with the variety and
: quality the merchants had to offer.
“This is something I could get
used to,' said one unidentified shop
per who was purchasing an “African
Queens” outfit from one of the out
side vendors.
Ms. Margaret Rose Murray,
president of the Business Building
Society and chairperson of the
Crabtree II Task Force, was elated
by the day1 s end wi th the community
response.
There was such a good feeling
hen today. All of the vendors I spoke
with wen happy, and many of them
wen pleased with the sales they
wen making. This proves that we
(See BUSINESS EXPO, P. 2).
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CRIME BEAT
Editor’s Noiot This column, a fixture of The CAROLINIAN in
years past, has returned to our pages in hopes of deterring crime
in our community. The information contained herein is taken from
public arrest records and does not necessarily mean those men
tioned are guilty of crimes.
BURGLARY
Forty-year-old Nelson Junior Banks, Jr., of 1446 Sawyer Road, (or,
police say, 1611 Star St.), was arrested and charged with breaking and
entering a unit of the Washington Terrace Apartments. Police say Banks
used force to enter the unit
SHOPLIFTING
Sheila Hodges, 34, of Routs 1, Box 169, Smithfield, was arrested and
charged with larceny. Raleigh police say Ms. Hodges allegedly stole $178.97
worth of bed sheets, boys’ sheets and boys’ shirts from a department store
at 4217 Six Forks Road in Raleigh.
WEAPON DISCHARGE AND ASSAULT
Police say 31-year-old Arthur Domain Carmichael of 4206-1 Avent
Ferry Road was charged with discharging a firearm in an occupied property
and assault on a female. Carmichael allegedly fired a weapon in the
apartment of the female, putting one bullet hole in the sheetrock wall.
FAKE DRUG CHARGE
Forty-one-year-old James Henry McKoy of Route l, Box 926, Apex, and
33-year-old Walter Randolph Williams of 814 Coleman St. in Raleigh were
arrested for possession with intent to sell counterfeit cocaine and possess
ing drug paraphernalia, respectively. Both men were arrested in the 300
block of Fisher Street
ASSAULTS FEMALE
Police say 25-year-old Vincent Dupree Stokes of 5227-C Perrith Drive
in Durham used his hands, feet and fists when he allegedly assaulted a 19
year-old black female at her apartment on North Pettigrew Street in
Raleigh. The fe: lale reportedly had a tooth knocked out.
KNIFE ASSAULT
Emma Dunn Copeland, 37, of 542 E. Davis St, was arrested and
charged with assault with a deadly weapon against a 34-year-old male at
her home. Police say Ms. Copeland allegedly cut the man with a steak knife.
He was rushed by EMS unit to Wake Medical Center for treatment