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NAACP To Seek
New Leadership
At National Meet
BY SHEHETTIZI WOODLEY
Staff Writer
The nation’s oldest and largest
civil rights organization will be
searching for a new leader to guide
the group into the 21st century.
Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks, execu
tive director of the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People, will officially rep
resent the organization for the last
time at its annual convention.
Hooks will retire in the spring of
1993. As a result, the NAACP has
named a search committee to be
gin the process of selecting a new
executive director.
Members selected for the
NAACP search committee are
from all regions on the country,
and they encompass a wide variety
of backgrounds and points of view,
according to Dr. William F. Gi
bson, chairman of the NAACP Na
tional Board of Directors.
Hooks will attend the NAACPs
1992 annual convention in Nash
ville, Tenn. at the Nashville Con
vention Center July 12-16. The
convention's theme is “Honoring
Our Past, Fulfilling Our Present,
Preparing for Our Future.”
A three-day prelude to the con
vention will be held July 9-11. The
pre-convention activity, the Health
Summit, will examine critical is
sues facing the African-American
community.
The summit will produce policy
statements for both the guidance
of the NAACPs constituency and
for action by policymakers.
Dr. Louis L. Sullivan, secretary
of the Department of Health and
Hainan Services, will be the key
note speaker.
The convention will include a
number of plenary sessions featur
ing a series of speakers including
Jack Kemp, secretary of the De
partment of Housing and Urban
Development; William Gray, presi
dent of the United Negro College
Fund and former whip in the
House of Representatives; Marian
Wright Edelman, president of the
Children’s Defense Fund; and Rev.
Jesse Jackson.
A special workshop, “The
Changing Role of African-Ameri
cans in Film—The Making of Mal
(See NAACP, P. 2)
Watts Activist Didn’t Expect
Riots In Los Angeles County
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP)—Ted Watkins once
thought that his efforts to provide training programs,
thousands of jobs and affordable homes to people in
South Central Los Angeles would help prevent a repeat
of the 1965 Watts riots.
"Anybody who thinks about rioting is out of their
mind in Los Angeles County,” Watkins said in 1980.
Now the 68-year-old head of the Watts Labor Commu
nity Action Committee surveys the ruins of his world.
His headquarters and mini-mall were looted, then
torched on April 30 during rioting that far surpassed 1965
in deaths and destruction.
"Stereos, videos, stoves, refrigerators, couches, beds,
you name it, everything was gone,” he recalled earlier
this month while sitting in a barren furniture shop, now
his makeshift office.
Watkins and his 45-year-old daughter, Tara Watkins,
said they were not surprised that the WLCAC was tar
geted when so many other black-owned businesses were
left standing.
“We had the goodies,” said Ms. Watkins, who has
worked at the center most of her life. "The looters knew
we had VCRs, stereos and first-rate toys. And they knew
where to find them.”
Neither Watkins nor his daughter seemed to want to
blame the looters and arsonists.
Instead, Watkins said his $3 million loss has more to
do with what he said is a lack of attention paid to Watts,
which is mostly black and Hispanic.
(See LA. AID SLOW, P. 2)
CRIME BEAT
Editor’s Note: 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
mentioned are guilty of crimes.
STRUGGLE WITH OFFICER
Nineteen-year-old Derrick Cortez Torain of 7130 Vardiman Gardens
was charged with two counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer and
one count of resisting arrest and obstruction. Police say Torain got into a
struggle with Raleigh Police Officer Bradford Marshall at police head
quarters on the fourth floor. A door was damaged during the incident.
POINTING GUN
Thomas Person Ward III, 22, of 817 Peace Terrace, was charged
with assault with a deadly weapon. Police say Ward allegedly pointed a
gun at 21-year-old Patricia Bell Jones at the same address.
CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPON
Robert Boss, 18, of 528 Grantland Drive, was charged with carrying
a concealed weapon. Police say Boss was arrested at 4000 Poole Road by
Officer G.K. Takano with a .32-caliber Jaguar starter pistol.
POSSESSION OF COCAINE
Thirty-seven-year-old Alton Marvin Chavis of 306 Hill St. was
charged with possession of cocaine. Police say Chavis was arrested at the
corner of Fisher and Pender streets with a ziplock plastic bag containing
two rocks of crack cocaine.
AND MORE COCAINE POSSESSION
Forty-year-old Larry Donnell Simmons of 1516 Joe Lewis Avenue
was charged with possession of cocaine, drug paraphernalia, and carry
ing a concealed weapon. Police say Simmons was arrested on the 100
block of Fisher St. with a plastic marijuana pipe, a razor blade, a small
baggie with cocaine residue and a small rock object.
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Civil Unrest Rises As President
& Congress Continue Debate
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BY LARRY A. STILL
NNPA New* Service
WASHINGTON, D.C.—While
the Democratic Congress and Re
publican administration continue
debate billion-dollar proposals
aid all major, deteriorating ur
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LEADERSHIP SUMMIT-Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, center,
President of the Rainbow Coalition, welcomes New York
City Mayor David N. Dinkins, right, and Maurice Cox, Vice
President, Corporate Development and Diversity, Pepsi Cola
Company, to the recent “National Leadership Summit,
Rebuild America, 1992 and Beyond." Pepsl-Cola was a
sponsor of the summit at the Sheraton Washington Hotel in
Prof Alleges Discrimination
In St. Augustine’s College Suit
BY CASH MICHAELS
Staff Writer
A lawsuit filed in U.S. District
Court last Friday alleges that St.
Augustine’s College President
Prezell R. Robinson and his vice
chairman for academic affairs,
Dwight Fennel “conspired” to deny
a resident white college professor
tenure at the school because of his
race.
That allegation and more is con
tained in the 19-page document
filed by the attorney for Dr. Allan
Cooper, the plaintiff in the suit.
Dr. Cooper, an associate professor
of history and political science, has
taught at the historically black in
stitution since 1981. Dr. Cooper is
also a member of the City of
Raleigh’s Human Resources/Hu
man Relations Advisory Commis
sion.
The CAROLINIAN obtained a
copy of the suit last Monday. The
defendants, Dr. Robinson and Dr.
Fennel were reportedly officially
served with the suit that same
day.
Dr. Cooper alleges that during
his 11 years of teaching at St.
Augustine’s, he has met every aca
demic and administrative require
ment for tenure. Tenure is when
an academic institution grants
professional employment security
to a qualifying faculty member.
A recognized political scidMe
scholar, Dr. Cooper has authored
three books and a wide-ranging
series of published articles and re
views internationally. He has also
lectured throughout the United
States, Canada and the Caribbean.
In 1987, Dr. Cooper was pro
moted to chairperson of the Divi
sion of Social Sciences and the De
partment of History and Political
Science. He has also served on sev
eral college committees, and is
well respected by his fellow faculty
members and hie students.
So, in 1990, when Dr. Cooper
requested to be considered for sal
ary increase and tenure, he was
pleased to receive a supportive
evaluation from his superior, then
vice chair for academic affairs, Dr.
Thelma Roundtree. Dr. Roundtree
gave Dr. Cooper an “excellent” rat
ing, the highest possible, and rec
ommended both the salary in
ban areas following the Los Ange
les “riots,” the U.S. Department of
Labor provided a meager $2 mil
lion emergency grant to relieve
“civil unrest” in California as
black unemployment continues to
rise nationally.
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Washington, D.C. The three-day session brought a multi
racial group together to work on what Rev. Jackson called
“a program of hope, action and economic justice one
month after Los Angeles and a month before the
Democratic National Convention.” Mayor Dinkins was one
of several big city mayors concerned with problems of the
inner cities.
crease and tenure.
The procedure, as outlined in
the faculty handbook, called for
that recommendation to be for
warded on to Dr. Robinson for his
review and approval, and then to
the Board of Trustees for the final
decision. Having not only met, but
exceeded set requirements and
standards for tenure, Dr. Cooper
told The CAROLINIAN that he
was “shocked” when it was not
forthcoming.
In March of 1991, when he fi
nally wrote to Dr. Robinson to in
quire why he was not tenured, Dr.
Cooper alleges that Dr. Robinson
wrote back saying, “...You have
demonstrated beyond any reason
Radiothon Set By WLLE
For July 4th To Assist
In Incubator Funding
BY CASH MICHAELS
Staff Writer
In a presidential election year
where African-Americans seem
ingly have no place politically to
go, this holiday weekend, July 2-5,
will be an “economic call to arms.”
In short, if black people plan to
truly make it in this country, com
munity leaders say they must get
their economic act together. On
Saturday, July 4, this serious ef
fort to build black businesses con
tinues.
Prom 9 a.m. to noon, the Busi
ness Building Society of Wake
County will sponsor its first radio
thon to raise funds for the develop
ment of a small-business incubator
in Southeast Raleigh. The radio
thon will be heard on WLLE-AM
570, and it will be hosted by Ms.
Margaret Rose Murray, president
of BBS; Prank Roberts, host of
“Let’s Talk” on WLLE; and this
writer.
"The purpose of the BBS Radio
thon is to raise seed money for Af
rican-American commerce in the
community," said Ms. Murray. She
marveled that despite all of the ac
complishments African-Americans
can lay claim to here in Raleigh,
having their own black business
incubator is not one of them.
i
In announcing distribution of
the limited funds to assist west
coast communities and workers af
fected by 'the recent events, Secre
tary of Labor Lynn Martin de
clared, “The rebuilding process is a
national priority. We are commit
able doubt sound scholarship, a
spirit of true professionalism... As
we approach the end of the aca
demic year, your status will be re
evaluated as it relates to tenure.”
Dr. Cooper has not received ten
ure since that letter.
In his suit, Dr. Cooper alleges
that Dr. Robinson “conspired with
defendant Fennel [who had suc
ceeded Dr. Roundtree in 1991] to
disregard the recommendation for
tenure, and in furtherance of that
conspiracy, defendant Robinson
ultimately refused to recommend
to St. Augustine’s College’s Board
of Trustees that tenure be con
ferred upon [Dr. Cooper], The act
(See WHITE PROF., P. 2)
“We must have a place where
small businesses can go and grow,
and get all of the help and support
an incubator can provide so that
they may grow and become suc
cessful," Ms. Murray said. She
pointed to similar incubators in
Charlotte and other cities, where
small businesses for people of color
and women share secretarial, jani
torial, and warehousing support
services in their infancy. Once the
businesses grow to a certain level,
they’re able to be “hatched” from
the incubator, allowing for a new
small business to move in. This
continuous cycle helps to provide
jobs in the community, for the
community.
“The facility we’re talking about
constructing will be multi-level,
providing for shops, offices, a mini
convention center and a place
where young people can go to rec
reate. Why should our youth go
out to the shopping malls when we
will have our own ‘mall’ right here
in our community?” asks Ms. Mur
ray. The goal is to raise $25,000 on
Saturday to add to fluids already
raised during the B.B. King con
cert four years ago.
Guests on the radiothon will
(See WLLE RADIOTHON, P. 2)
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ted to assisting the communities...
the healing process must begin
immediately—individual by indi
vidual, neighborhood by neighbor
hood.”
She added, “There is a desire in
(See CIVIL UNREST, P. 2)
Local Deltas
Join In Effort
To Preserve
Estey Hall
BY ALLEE M. PEEBLES
Contributing Writer
The national headquarters of
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
has initiated a new project, the
preservation, beautification and
cherishing of African-American
landmarks, monuments and his
toric places.
In short, it is referred to as Proj
ect Cherish. The Raleigh Alumnae
Chapter is one of the 12 Delta
chapters located in places where
significant African-American his
tory is visibly represented. Here in
Raleigh, such a landmark is Estey
Hall, which is located on the cam
pus of Shaw University. The
Raleigh chapter will carry out
various activities to cherish and
preserve Estey Hall.
On Sunday, June 7, the Raleigh
Alumnae Chapter held its cere
mony in the Shaw University
Learning Center at 4:30 p.m.
President Annette Watson gave
the greetings on behalf of the
chapter. Soror Lucille Webb, co
chairman of the committee, gave
the background of the sorority’s
project and indicated that the local
chapter was pleased to work with
the Estey Hall project and school
officials.
Soror Wilmoth Carter, co-chair
man of the committee and former
(See ESTEY HALL, P. 2)
NEWS BRIEFS
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HOMELESS PANEL
A group studying how to
help homeless people has
been put on hold while a
proposed mission for the'
needy is being challenged
in court. The Cary Town
Council voted recently to
suspend the committee’s
meetings temporarily. Last
month, the council rejected
a proposal to turn a down
town hotel and restaurant
into housing for the home
less, and a church group
appealed in court. Christian
Community in Action had
asked Cary for permission
to convert the Chatham
Street property into a min
istry called The Carying
Place.
BOND PLANS
House leaders Friday
proposed a $500 million
bond referendum for educa
tion projects. But they did
not say how the state would
spend the money or repay
the debt. The proposal
called for $300 million in
bonds for the University of
North Carolina system, $100
million for community col
leges, and $100 million for
public schools.
WAKE MEDICAL GETS
FACELIFT
In a bid to hold its own in
an escalating competition
for patients, Wake Medical
Center wants to spend $40
million to renovate older
patient rooms and add an
extra floor. The Wake
County commissioners and
state regulators must en.
dorse the plan before con
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
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