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January 7 - January 13, 2013
Vol. 40 No. 2• The Journal For Community News, Business & The Arts • insightnews.com
Citing ‘naked racism,’ N.C. Governor pardons Wilmington Ten By Cash Michaels Special to the NNPA from The Wilmington Journal RALEIGH, N.C. – In what civil rights leaders across the nation are calling a signicant moment in the civil rights movement, North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue has granted individual pardons of actual innocence to all members of the Wilmington Ten. “I have decided to grant these pardons because the more facts I have learned about the Wilmington Ten, the more appalled I have become about the manner in which their convictions were obtained,” Perdue, a Democrat who leaves ofce on Jan. 5, said in her Dec. 31 statement. “Justice demands that this stain nally be removed. The process in which this case was tried was fundamentally awed. Therefore, as Governor, I am issuing these pardons of innocence to right this longstanding wrong.” The Wilmington Ten – nine Black males and one White female – were activists who, along with hundreds of Black
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Gov. Bev Perdue issues pardon for Wilmington 10
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Cancellation of family skate event in Coon Rapids brings charges of racism OBITUARY Harry Colbert, Jr. Contributing Writer A holiday event that was supposed to cater to kids ages 5 – 12 was cancelled when owners of a Coon Rapids skating rink insisted on $3,000 worth of police presence. That is what promoter Kimberly Holield-Jones claims happened when she booked Cheap Skate Roller Center, 3075 Coon Rapids Blvd., NW for a Dec. 26 event. Holield-Jones said though she has a signed contract and a receipt for deposit, the owner and a manager of Cheap Skate said she would have to pay for eight Coon Rapids police ofcers to patrol the early-evening event. “It was supposed to be a nice little family event,” said Holield-Jones.
Holield-Jones said there where initial trepidations from Cheap Skate owner, Rick Lund, who said the venue had been the site of a shooting years prior following a teen event. “We assured him this was not a teen party and he asked us to provide four security (ofcers), which we agreed to. (Lund) signed the contract and we came back on Dec. 1 and dropped of a deposit and got a receipt.” Things seemed to be on track until Holield-Jones had a conversation with Jeremy Keeville and he expressed concern again over who was coming. Holield-Jones said Keeville saw a Facebook posting of the event where older individuals indicated they were attending. The promoter told Keeville that of course older patrons would be on hand as the target audience was so young
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New Year’s promise: “Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Fully” Artspeak
By Irma McClaurin, PhD Culture and Education Editor The three maxims in the title greet me each morning. They are kitchen magnets placed above my stove, meant to guide me on the attitude I should
carry into my day and into life generally. I take them to mean: 1) do not overly complicate my life (with work, obligations, possessions, other people’s problems, or needless drama); 2) nd joy and fun in my daily routines; and 3) make time to be connected and deeply embrace the passions that arise from friendships, family, and special friends/partners/lovers. They seem simple enough, but as I listen to NPR, read the newspaper, or watch msnbc, I realize that the world we wake up to each day is complicated,
Education
Evaluating tutoring programs: What to look for
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messy, and unpredictable. How ironic that at a time when we can deconstruct DNA, purchase a ticket on a shuttle for a future trip to Mars or Venus, or deploy drones that kill civilian children in another country, we seem unable to live a simple life, laugh enough, or love completely. Last year, in 2012, I stayed with a friend through her nal days. She was only four years older than me. What a wakeup call. At the close of the year, I learned another friend has cancer, a reminder that life
Aesthetics
Trey makes the move from CD to 3D
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is fragile. And, throughout last year I mentored a person terminated from a job after years of service and loyalty— life is not fair nor predictable. Such events cause me to question the fairness of life. Why does that person get ill or die? Why does another person end up unemployed? Where is the logic and “science” to explain such things? I am an anthropologist, trying to answer a fundamental question: What makes us
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Verlea Lee Barbee March 30, 1928 – December 22, 2012 Verlea Lee Barbee, mother of Twin Cities social services entrepreneur, Dr. Vincent Peter Hayden, Ph.D, and grandmother to the rst African American State Senator elected from Minneapolis, Jeff Hayden, died in Minneapolis, December 22. Verlea Barbee lived in Minneapolis since 1958 and retired from a career in Honeywell Corporation in 1991. While at Honeywell, she was an active member
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Verlea Lee Barbee
Reuniting family: A lifelong work By Dr. Peter Hayden, Ph.D., CEO, Turing Point In growing up, I watched many of my friends with their parents, and I was often envious of what I saw. My mother was very young when I came along, and she needed time to work on her own growing up. I had
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Business This year’s resolution: Be resolved
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