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WWW.TRIANGLE TRIBUNE.COM Durham city leaders The Triangle call for federal reparations RIBUNE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE TRIANGLE’S CHOICE FOR THE BLACK VOICE Durham officials have called for a federal program that would T give reparations to the descendants of people who were en- slaved. The call came in a resolution that passed at a meeting VOLUME 22 NO. 41 WEEK OF OCTOBER 11, 2020 $1.00 on Monday night. The resolution stems from a recommendation from the city’s Racial Equity Task Force. It delivered a 14-page report to council N.C. A&T’s Devin members in July. Haygood signs first “This is a resolution responding to several of the recommen- dations by the race equity task force, which concerns areas of professional contract policy that are either outside of our legal scope or our financial size in order to be able to implement,” Mayor Pro Tem Jillian Johnson said. The City Council is also calling for a universal basic income, a guaranteed living wage and an increase to the minimum wage. Please see REPARATIONS/2A Racial ‘Racist justice Roots’ giving project DHIC is up Booker Park South is the third phase of Washington Terrace. on death By Kim Williams-Pulfer and Una Osili THE CONVERSATION Hang tight: more penalty The tragic, high-profile BY CDPL STAFF killings of George Floyd and other Black Americans “Racist Roots” is a project in 2020 have sparked a of the Center for Death affordable senior Penalty Litigation, in col- reckoning on race. We are seeing an outpouring of laboration with others di- donations from individ- rectly affected by the death uals, corporations and penalty. It aims to place foundations that began to housing on the way North Carolina’s modern grow as soon as protests death penalty within the and other activities in sup- By Bonitta Best “We are pleased to have been units, storage areas, a fitness context of 400 years of his- tory and to expose its deep port of racial and social [email protected] able to secure more than $1.5 center, community gathering million in annual low-income room and onsite property entanglement with the justice started to spread With another affordable across the country. housing tax credits to help management. aims of white supremacy. housing bond referendum up meet the needs for seniors in Primavera is being built on This project is the result of Much of this funding will for vote, the DHIC recently an- likely support Black-led Wake County,” new DHIC Pres- Spring Forest Road, and will more than a year of re- nounced that it had secured fi- ident Yolanda Winstead said. include 164 apartments: 130 search, writing, and rela- groups engaged in crim- nancing for more affordable inal justice reform and Booker Park South is the one-bedroom and 34 two-bed- tionship building. Below is senior housing in Wake third phase of the Washington room units. an excerpt. fighting for education County. equality. Wealthy donors Terrace revitalization project The two buildings will sur- The North Carolina Housing in East Raleigh near St. Augus- round a courtyard and lawn Andrew Ramseur was a in the first half of the year Finance Agency awarded low- gave nearly $6 billion in tine’s University. BPS will area, plus a community gar- young Black man accused income housing tax credits to house 68 apartments: 54 one- den. The Primavera will also of killing two white people, donations of $1 million or Booker Park South and Primav- more, but people at var- bedroom and 14 two-bedroom have the same amenities as and the white citizens of era – both in Raleigh. The de- units. Booker Park South. Iredell County were clam- ious income and wealth velopments will add 232 units levels are also increasingly Seniors will have access to To stay abreast of updates, oring for a lynching. They for seniors with limited in- laundry facilities or visit dhic.com. spewed racist epithets and supporting racial equity comes. causes and organizations. washer/dryer hookups in called Andrew a “beast” 1. Crowdfunding re- and a “monkey” in public lated to victims of racial forums. They barraged injustice. The GoFundMe newspapers with com- pages crowdfunding to ments like, “He should be seek justice for George hanging from the nearest Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, traffic light as a warning to Breonna Taylor and Jacob the rest.” Instead of con- Blake have all attracted at demning the racist furor, least $1 million so far. As Harris pitches to Black the district attorney Floyd’s GoFundMe memo- quickly promised the rial campaign has garnered death penalty. more donations than any A few months later, Ram- other campaign in the on- voters, some want to hear more seur’s family arrived at the line platform’s history, courthouse for his trial. raising over $14 million By Kathleen Ronayne Outside, a crowd of angry with 500,000 individual white people massed in the and Kat Stafford shadow of a Confederate donors from 140 countries THE ASSOCIATED PRESS worldwide. Many of these monument. Inside, crime gifts to the impacted fam- RALEIGH — Standing before scene tape inexplicably ilies of police violence Sen. Kamala Harris at a cam- blocked the rows of seats were for $5 and few were paign event near a Raleigh bar- behind Ramseur, forcing for $50,000 or more. bershop, Marcus Bass asked his family to sit in the 2. Direct support for the Democratic vice presiden- back. In a courtroom where grassroots organizations. tial nominee a pointed ques- every lawyer, judge and After Memorial Day week- tion: How would she and Joe juror was white, they end, many Black-led grass- Biden convince young Black watched a jury sentence roots organizations began voters their ticket isn’t simply him to death. to draw much higher levels the lesser of two evils? “I ap- Ramseur’s trial might of support as the protests preciate your question and the sound like something out garnered more participa- point,” Harris replied. “No- of the distant past, but it tion and attention. Even body is supposed to vote for happened in 2010. He is among the newer residents before the protests us; we need to earn it.” FILE erupted, the Movement for That’s what Harris, the first of North Carolina’s death Black Lives had received Black woman to appear on a Kamala Harris and VP Mike Pence debated Wednesday. row, which houses about 140 people sentenced to $5 million in the first five major party’s presidential need for access to health care. something more than a pol- execution since 1985. The months of 2020 to support ticket, is trying to do in swing The theme takes on a new sig- itician who looks like them. lawmakers, prosecutors, Black communities af- states like North Carolina, as nificance after President Don- They’re not yet convinced and judges who run the fected by the pandemic the presidential contest enters ald Trump was hospitalized Biden and Harris are com- bureaucracy of death in and to address broader is- its final weeks. In conver- with the virus, reviving criti- mitted or able to execute North Carolina may imag- sues of racial equity. This sations at barbershops and cism of the administration’s meaningful change. “I do think ine that today’s death pen- was nearly double the $2.7 historically Black colleges and handling of the pandemic. they have a lot more work to alty has no relation to the million the group, founded universities, through ads on The intensifying focus on the do,” said John Ray, a 32-year- state’s brutal history of ra- in 2014 following the popular websites and live In- vice presidential debate offers old Black man who works with cial terror and legalized death of Michael Brown in stagram interviews, Harris is Harris an important chance to youth in Detroit. “We know oppression. But the truth Ferguson, Missouri, raised pitching herself and Biden as a address doubts about the that grandparents and certain is, despite decades of ef- in all of 2019, according to team that can make meaning- Democratic ticket. Biden’s his- age demographics are already forts to reform the death the Chronicle of Philan- ful progress on issues that tory-making selection of Harris going to vote. So, should a lot penalty, the past is written thropy. matter to Black Americans, like as his running mate has ener- of energy be spent there, or all over the present. 3. Shoring up HBCUs. police reform, ending the new gized and excited many Black should we be trying to really Imagine North Carolina’s Historically Black colleges coronavirus pandemic and voters, particularly women, activate those populations that death penalty as a sturdy and universities and re- creating a more equitable who are among the Democratic historically don’t vote? Some tree. It grew from a seed lated groups that fund economy. Party’s most reliable voters. are saying, ‘What are you going planted in the soil of slav- scholarships for the stu- She’ll have the chance to Harris attended Howard Uni- to do beyond campaign prom- ery. In the beginning, it dents who attend them, pitch to her biggest audience versity, and was a member of ises to actually make things was used to ruthlessly en- are getting more donations yet on Wednesday, when she is the Alpha Kappa Alpha soror- better for me in my com- force the dominance of en- in 2020. HBCUs in the past expected to debate Vice Pres- ity. Members donning the so- munity?’” slavers. It matured in the received fewer donations ident Mike Pence.

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