TUESDAY
JOINING THE BOARD
Robert J. Brown, chairman and chief
executive officer of B&C Associates, Inc., has
been named to the state board of directors of
First Union National Bank of North Carolina.
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KING
Creator and king of “New Jack Swing,”
Teddy Riley is putting his career on hold as an
entertainer to work on forthcoming projects.
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This Week
Anna Julia Cooper, an educator,
wrote a remarkable series of feministf
essays in 1892, titled “A Voice from the
South.” She wrote that “To be a woman
of the Negro race in America... is to have
a heritage, it seems to me, unique in the
ages.”
RALEIGH, N.C.,
VOL. 51, NO. 55
TUESDAY, JUNE 2,1992
N.C.’s Semi-Weekly
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Committee To Ask FBI Probe Ingram Shooting
BY CASH MICHAELS
Staff Writer
After what many in attendance
said was an embarrassing confron
tation, the Raleigh City Council’s
Police Affairs Committee voted
last Thursday to ask the
Federal Bureau of Investigation to
probe the police shooting of Ivan
Ingram. Ingram was shot and
killed last Nov. 8 by a Raleigh po
lice officer while police were raid
ing a Carver Street address for
drugs. Ingram was a bystander
who later was found not to have
either a weapon or drugs on his
person, nor any drugs or alcohol in
his system.
After a long discussion about
why a Raleigh police officer had to
shoot a dog recently, both City
Manager Dempsey Benton and Ra
leigh Police Chief Frederick K.
Heineman announced that the FBI
had finally responded to the city’s
request to investigate any civil
rights violations in the police
shooting of another African-Ameri
can citizen, Tony Farrell. Farrell
was shot and wounded in January
1991 when a Raleigh plainclothes
police officer mistook him for a
drug store robbery suspect.
Benton reported that the FBI
said no civil rights violations were
found, so they considered the case
closed.
Later in the meeting, commu
nity activist Rev. David Foy asked
the committee if the FBI had also
investigated the shooting of Ivan
Ingram. The question seemed to
confound Benton, Heineman and
the City Council members in at
tendance. Finally, when Mayor
Avery C. Upchurch, chairman of
the committee, asked the question
again, both Benton and Heineman
admitted that no such request had
been made.
District C City Councilman
Ralph Campbell, Jr. then made a
motion for the FBI to be officially
asked to investigate the Ingram
shooting, but before the vote, Dis
trict D Council member J. Barlow
Herget startled many in the cham
bers, including Ms. Soloana
Ingram and other members of the
Ingram family, when he said that
he felt an FBI investigation would
not be required because the officer
who shot Ingram was also black.
Herget contrasted that with the
Farrell case, where the officer was
(See POLICE, P. 2)
HUNT BLUE
Teachers
Petition
For Funds
More than 400 NCAE members
from across the state took leave
time or paid for their substitute
teachers last Wednesday, and
traveled to Raleigh to deliver their
message to the General Assembly.
They came from Surry, Haywood,
Cumberland, Mecklenburg, Wake,
Edgecombe, Johnston, Forsyth,
Guilford, Bertie, Stokes, Lincoln,
Gaston and Robeson counties, as
well as numerous others.
“We expect legislators to fund
teaching positions, fund the salary
schedule and give us the resources
we must have to provide a quality
education for the children of this
state,” said NCAE President Rose
Marie Lowry at a noon rally at
Peace College.
"We are never going to improve
the education system in North
Carolina if educators and kids con
(See TEACHERS, P.2)
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
PULLEN PARK CLASSES
Pullen Park Arts Center is offering the following classes:
June 3—Beginner Wheel Pottery. Ages 16 and up, 7-9:30 p.m., 6
weeks, $59 plus materials.
June 8—Intermediate/Advanced Painting. Ages 16 and up, 7
10 p.m., 6 weeks, $56 plus materials.
June 8—Painting. Ages 16 and up, 1:30-4:30 p.m., 4 weeks, $33
plus materials.
June 9—Children’s Pottery Wheel. Ages 11-15, 1:30-3 p.m., 5
weeks, $35.
BUSINESS ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETS
The Triangle Area Business Advisory Council will hold its quarterly
meeting on Thursday, June 4, beginning at 9 a.m. at the State Voca
tional Rehabilitation Office off Lake Wheeler Road in Raleigh. The pro
gram will diecuss the partnership of services between vocational reha
bilitation agenciee and employers with the common goal of opportunitiee
for employment of persons with disabilities.
For more information about the group or meeting, call Sue Spicer at
248-2299.
LAYMEN’S FISH FRY
The Laymen of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church will have a fish fry
consisting of trout, hushpuppies, slaw, potatoes and tea, at the church,
813 Darby St., Raleigh.
FLOWERS WITH WINGS—BUTTERFLIES
Durant Nature Park is offering the following Nature of the City
program: "Flowers with Wings—Butterflies,” June 13 from 10 a.m. to
noon. Suitable for all ages. Visit a garden exhibiting bright colors that
won’t sit still. This tour of the Durant Butterfly Garden will emphasize
the life cycle and favorite foods of these beautifiil insects. In addition,
learn methods for attracting them to your garden.
Durant Nature Park is located on Durant Road between Falls of the
Neuse Road and U.S. 1. Call 831-6856 for pre-registration, or meet at
the parking lot. The cost is $2 for adults and $1 for children.
(See CALENDAR, P. 2)
Citizens And Police Meet
C.O.P.E.
Fights
Crime
BY CASH MICHAELS
Staff Writer
They came because they want
their community back from the
drug dealers and prostitutes that
claim their streets at night.
They came because they feared
for the safety of their families in
areas where random gunfire is
now more the norm than the ex
ception.
They came because they cannot
afford to be afraid anymore.
Approximately 100 residents of
the Raleigh East Community gath
ered last Thursday night in the
cafeteria of the former Crosby
Garfield Elementary School to
meet with members of the Raleigh
Police Department about festering
community crime problems. I was
the first meeting in Downtown
East under the auspices of Project
COPE.
COPE (Citizen Oriented Police
Enforcement) is the department’s
latest weapon in the war against
crime and community fear. Realiz
ing that they can’t fight the prob
lem without first knowing who,
what, when, where and why, the
problem is, COPE is designed to
bring police officers and commu
nity residents closer together, and
working in partnership.
Reducing the perception of crime
(See COPE, P. 2)
MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE-Veterans, families honor
thou who socrMcod oN during Memorial Day Services at
the Raleigh NaSenel Cemetary. After the Memorial address
by John T. Caldwell, former Chanceler, N.C. State
University: recognition of patriotic groups and placement of
Memorial Wreaths were conducted. Pictured left to right
Clyde A. Douglas, Raleigh Pest No. 1, American Legion;
Juhiis R. Haywood, Commander Post No. 157, American
Legion; Margaret SneMng with Memorial Wreath honoring
Plummer Vines of Post No. 157 and John Thompson
Moore, Post No. 157, American Legion. (Photo by Jamos
Silos)
Racial Discrimination Subjects
May Contribute To Hypertension
DURHAM—A Duke University
psychologist has found evidence in
a laboratory study of 60 women
suggesting blacks and whites have
different cardiovascular and emo
tional responses to racial and gen
der discrimination.
Moreover, Dr. Maya McNeilly, a
research assistant professor in the
Division of Medical Psychology at
the Duke Medical Center, said the
race of the investigator may influ
ence the direction and magnitude
of these effects.
She said the study, conducted in
collaboration with Norman B.
Anderson, Ph.D., director of the
Duke Program on Health, Behav
ior and Aging in Black Americans,
supports suggestions by other re
searchers that lifelong exposure to
the chronic stress of racism may
be a contributing factor to high
blood pressure, and that emotional
and personality factors may influ
ence this relationship.
McNeilly discussed the research
findings in a presentation pre
pared for the seventh Interna
tional Conference on Hypertension
in Blacks, meeting here last week.
The conference is sponsored annu
ally by the International Society
on Hypertension in Blacks.
The Duke study is part of a
much larger and rapidly growing
body of research into the causes of
disproportionately high rates of
hypertension among blacks,
McNeilly said. Various researchers
have observed differing cardiovas
cular responses among blacks and
whites subjected to a variety of
stresses, according to McNeilly.
The Duke study is believed to be
one of the first to examine the car
diovascular and emotional re
sponses of blacks and whites to ra
(See RACIAL, P.7)
The study is be
lieved to be one of
the first to "exam
ine the cardiovas
cular and emo
tional responses of
blacks and whites
to racial and gen
der stress in a labo
ratory setting.
Blacks
Fought
In Wars
BY JOHN T. MOORE, JR.
Contributing Writer
Last week, Borne senior citizens
of the Washington Terrace com
munity had an informal discussion
on the roll that blacks had played
since 1770 in American wars. All
had relatives or friends who were
veterans of conflicts from the
Spanish-American War to Desert
Storm.
None of the participants ever
studied American history or knew
much about race relations within
the United States, so Ms. Mary
Allen Jones stated, “I can’t see
why our boys have to go overseas
and fight those wars, and when
they return back home they will
get the short end of the stick.”
The other six elderly African
American women nodded their
heads in agreement.
Historically speaking, Ms. Jones
and her peer group did not know
that King James I of Great Britain
and his relatives did not permit
the Africans to come to Virginia or
North Carolina from 1619 to 1770
to be landowners, judges, gover
nors, big merchants, etc., but to be
slaves for their colonists. The idea
of the superiority of the Anglo Sax
ons over all races of mankind still
prevails today. But that idea is a
myth.
Moreover, Crispus Attucks, a
native of Massachusetts, was not a
subject (citizen) of King George III
of Great Britain like George Wash
(See WARS, P. 2)
Doctors Urge African-Americans
Participate In Organ-Donor Plan
BY DR. JAMES H. CARTER
An Analysis
At a recent meeting of the Ra
leigh chapter of the LA. Scrugg
Medical Society, the oldest known
black American medical society
and an affiliate of the Old State
Medical Society and the National
Medical Association, its black phy
sician membership discussed the
abysmal history of tissue and or
gan donation by black communi
ties across America.
We art baffled as to why black
Americans, benevolent and spiri
tual as we are, havs withheld vital
organs and tissues that could have
sustained the lives of others. More
importantly, we have on occasion
refused to donate tissue and or
gans to our own family members
in medical crises.
This neglect is inconsistent with
our black history of supporting
others in distress which paren
thetically gave birth to Mutual Aid
Societies and institutions such as
the North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Co. and countless other
agencies that aid black Americans.
For many ysars, the spirit of shar
ing among members of the commu
nity has been reflective of the ba
sic values of black Americans.
I contend that the failure of
black Americans to participate in
medical efforts to sustain and pre
serve life is due to an unfamiliar
ity with what is required. Some
non-black physicians, unknowl
edgeable about our culture and
values, argue that our poor partici
pation in organ and tissue trans
plant programs is due to “igno
rance and superstition,” deroga
tory terms that are unbefitting a
benevolent people who have
known much pain and suffering.
(See DONORS, P. 2)
Health Insurance
Crisis Reaching
U.S. Charities
“Self-help community groups and charities assisting
North Carolina’s low-income and vulnerable citizens are
themselves victims of huge increases in health insurance
costs,” according to Lynice Williams, Health Care Cam
paign coordinator for N.C. Fair Share.
Fair Share joined in the release of a national report by
Families USA documenting the problems and cost of
health insurance for charities. The report is based on sur
vey responses by 467 charitable organizations located in
all 80 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
According to the su-vey, the cost of health insurance
(See HEALTH. P. 2)
DOROTHY ALLEN-FREEMAN