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. Harris is rority’s green and pink colors Harris has appealed to Black years of Jim Crow, when of $1 million or more than likely to deliver a message can often be spotted outside voters during recent visits to Black people, including other institutions. As a re- that’s particularly resonant for her events. Michigan and North Carolina, children, were frequently sult, HBCU endowments Black Americans, including the But she’s still facing skepti- including those who couldn’t sentenced to death under are relatively small. disproportionate toll the coro- cism about her past as a pros- or didn’t vote in 2016 and the watchful eyes of lynch All told, the roughly 100 navirus has taken on their ecutor, and some young Black those whom Trump is court- communities and the vital Plase see GIVING/2A voters say they’re looking for Please see HARRIS/2A Please see DEATH/3A
Index 5007 South Park Drive Publisher: Gerald O. Johnson News Sports Suite 200-G Managing Editor/Sports Editor: Bonitta Best Classifieds Life Durham, NC 27713 Advertising: Linda Johnson Religion Focus (919) 688-9408 [email protected] © 2020 The Triangle Tribune www.triangletribune.com 2A NEWS/The Triangle Tribune Sunday, October 11, 2020 Durham leaders call for For Kamala Harris, Black reparations voters want to hear more Continued from page 1A voter participation and was and campaigns to increase Continued from page 1A sity in Raleigh with a his- bad relationship instead of Group sent incorrect not working with state or voter registrations.” The ing, particularly Black tory in the civil rights gambling on a new one. voter registration forms local governments. board said the mistake men. movement, as the site of “We’ve dealt with him for Eleven thousand voter came in the final stages of Despite Trump’s efforts, her first North Carolina four years. We’ve already registration forms pre- The company has since processing due to a data Black voters nationally visit, where she delivered seen what he can and can’t filled with incorrect infor- been reaching out to error. support Biden by a wide a speech on the Supreme do. We already know his mation were mistakenly people who were sent the margin, polling shows. Court. Shaw senior Biance antics,” said Jackson, who sent to people in North incorrect forms, which The company and a state She’s also campaigned in Wilburn learned through plans to vote but not for Carolina by a group seek- were intended for those board spokesman didn’t Milwaukee and Philadel- her work with an advocacy Trump. ing to increase election eligible to vote but not cur- immediately respond to phia, two cities with large group last year that many Nicole Small, of Detroit, participation, state elec- rently registered. The state emails asking if the 11,000 Black populations in swing of her peers thought vot- said early momentum tions officials said Tues- board encouraged people incorrect forms were sent states. ing didn’t matter, a per- from Harris’ selection has day. The North Carolina to carefully review any on behalf of a campaign or Her message in Detroit, ception that she’s worked fizzled out. State Board of Elections re- mailings from non-govern- a nonpartisan group. Civi- the nation’s largest Black to change. Wilburn, who is “Now, some of those leased a statement saying ment groups and discard tech COO Sarah Jackel said city, was clear: I see you. 21, called Harris’ visit to who were really excited, that the company called any that have incorrect in- in a statement that the “There’s so much that is campus a “wow” moment they’re now gravely con- Civitech mistakenly sent formation. company is working to about Detroit, as not only before the California sena- cerned. Some are tradi- the forms that included in- contact those who received a measure of our country tor greeted students and tional Democrats who are correct name, address and The board described Civ- the incorrect forms and is and its excellence but also grooved to a drumline per- saying, ‘We see no visibil- birth date information. The itech as a vendor that also mailing them new as a matter of the chal- formance. ity in our community.’ You company aims to increase “works with companies blank forms. lenges that we face as a But Tory Jackson, a 36- really need to get out here, nation,” Harris said, rec- year-old mental health and you need to show that ognizing the unique chal- worker from Raleigh who you understand that you lenges facing the city, is Black, said many of his have a fight on your which was devastated by friends are resigned to hands. They act as if they COVID-19 and the eco- another Trump win and have it made,” said Small, Racial justice giving is nomic fallout. may opt out of voting. He a Detroit Charter Commis- booming after Floyd She chose Shaw Univer- likened it to staying in a sion member. Continued from page 1A dollars from donors like ball great Michael Jordan, HBCUs have a total of only MacKenzie Scott, Jeff make significant philan- $2 billion in their endow- Bezos’ ex-wife; Netflix CEO thropic commitments. ments. Reed Hastings; and former Additionally, 43.8% of the By comparison, 54 pre- New York City Mayor Mi- wealthy Black donors sur- dominantly white colleges chael Bloomberg. veyed indicated that they and universities have $2 4. Black philanthropists made giving to groups that billion or more in their own are leading the way. Do- aim to improve race rela- endowment. In 2018, for nors from all backgrounds tions a high priority, as op- example, there were seven have turned their attention posed to an average of of these major gifts total- to increasing calls for racial 5.7% of all donors. ing $48 million. In con- equity. While new donors A diverse range of do- trast, there were at least 33 are turning their giving to nors are also increasingly of these donations by mid- racial equity issues, participating in providing September this year, total- wealthy African Americans large racial justice gifts. ing $347 million.. have contributed to causes These include Kroger su- These philanthropic life- that support racial justice permarket chain CEO Rod- lines for Howard Univer- and equity. ney McMullen and the sity, Morehouse College, We have continued to see hedge fund investor Spelman College and other affluent Black people, like George Soros’ Open Society schools have totaled in the entertainer and fashion Foundations. hundreds of millions of icon Rihanna and basket- COURTESY Pandemic increases hardships on families By Taylor Knopf People reported feeling the Centers for Disease N.C. HEALTH NEWS overtaxed juggling jobs, Control and Prevention and Child advocates are wor- child care and virtual Kaiser Permanente. Those ried that increased hard- schooling all in the same findings have come full cir- ships due to the space with limited band- cle during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic width, she said. pandemic, as those with could have long-term “It’s incredibly stressful chronic health conditions physical and mental health to be a parent right now. — such as diabetes or high impacts for kids. In July, We see that not just for the blood pressure — are also 30% of North Carolina families we support, but at higher risk of developing adults with children re- for our own staff,” Ga- serious complications from ported that they were be- lanter said. “It’s like being the virus, Shonkoff noted. hind on their rent or a computer that’s running As the pandemic has mortgage payments a really big program all the upended nearly every as- and/or they could not af- time. Everything is glitchy, pect of life, people often ford enough food for their harder to do and slower. say they wish everything families, according to data We are all operating that would just return to nor- collected by the U.S. Cen- way.” mal. JENNY WARBURG Neglect, abuse, food in- “But normal wasn’t such Henry McCollum, an innocent man who spent 30 years on N.C.’s death row, sus Bureau. Because kids have been security, homelessness a great thing for most was still shackled at the moment of his exoneration. relatively spared from se- and substance abuse in the people in our country. We rious illness caused by home are a few examples want a ‘better normal,’” COVID-19, “there might be of what experts call Ad- said the founder of ACEs NC’s death penalty is the a false sense that nothing verse Childhood Experi- Connection Jane Stevens bad is happening to young ences, which have been during the webinar. children,” said Harvard Pe- shown to increase a per- diatrics Professor Jack son’s risk of developing By mid-September, the fruit of a racist past Shonkoff during a recent mental health problems. Exchange Family Center National Institute for Another study found the was serving almost as Continued from page 1A quarters of people ex- to preserve the death pen- Health Care Management higher a child’s ACE score, many families through tele- mobs who were ready to ecuted under current alty, to disguise its true Foundation webinar. But, the more likely they are to health as it was before the do the job themselves if North Carolina laws were motives and its brutality. he added, “in fact, the be incarcerated later in life. pandemic. And some par- the all-white jury didn’t do executed for killing a white The goal was never to root stresses that their families Children with a higher ents who previously it for them. person. out and destroy the racism are experiencing have an number of adverse experi- emailed weekly with new Today, people of color Certainly, the death pen- on which it feeds. It makes enormous effect on many, ences are also more likely issues were seeing huge make up less than 30% of alty looks different today Black men the face of vio- many children.” to grow into adults with improvements with their North Carolina’s pop- than it did in the past. In lence, while obscuring the The economic side ef- physical health problems children and home lives ulation but 60% of its death the 19th century, ex- fact that throughout Amer- fects of the pandemic such as cancer, high blood due to the virtual therapy row inmates. Black defen- ecutions were carried out ican history, white people caused increases in food pressure, liver disease or sessions. “This is our new dants are far more likely to by county sheriffs on pub- carried out a sustained and housing insecurity ac- diabetes, according to a normal and families are en- be wrongly convicted. Of lic hanging grounds. Thou- campaign of racial terror. It ross the country, according groundbreaking study gaging with it,” Galanter the 10 death-sentenced sands of white spectators allows society to see an im- to the NIHCM Foundation conducted in the 1990s by said. people who’ve been exon- traveled to picnic, drink, poverished defendant ac- analysts. Elevated stress in erated and released in and cheer the death of a cused of a single crime as the home is often a predic- North Carolina, only one Black man at the end of a a monster, even as that so- tor of abuse. Because child was white. The rest were noose. ciety fails to hold wealthy care centers and schools Black or Latino men. In the early 20th century, people accountable for have been closed, there are Yet, the targeting of Black as North Carolina sought to crimes that cost lives on a fewer people to detect and defendants is far from the burnish its reputation in a much larger scale: corpo- report signs of abuse, ac- only way that racism per- modernizing world, the rate fraud and greed, fi- cording to the foundation meates the North Carolina death penalty became nancial scams, report. Additionally, child death penalty. Nearly half more controlled and sani- environmental degrada- advocacy centers across the people on death row tized. The state took over tion, even torture. the U.S. have reported see- had an all-white jury or a executions and hid them The death penalty today ing 40,000 fewer children jury with only a single per- behind the walls of Ra- is the apex of a criminal during the pandemic. son of color. Rigorous leigh’s Central Prison. It punishment system that Those are multidiscipli- statewide studies show worked to find new cages nearly 70,000 people nary organizations that in- that prosecutors strike methods of killing that in North Carolina, includ- vestigate child abuse Black jurors from capital were less gruesome for ing children as young as 11 allegations and provide juries at two-and-a-half spectators. It built an elec- years old. mental health treatment, times the rate of white ju- tric chair, then a gas A system that separates training and case manage- rors. chamber, and then moved families, blights com- ment to families where When it comes to the to the sterile and medical- munities of color, and con- abuse has occurred. death penalty, white lives ized injection of poison sumes unfathomable The Exchange Family matter. Defendants are into the veins of a prisoner quantities of public re- Center, a Durham non- twice as likely to be sen- strapped to a gurney and sources. A system that has profit aimed at preventing tenced to death if they’re draped with a clean, white turned a blind eye to police child abuse and neglect, accused of killing a white sheet. brutality and normalized initially saw a drop off in person. More than three But the goal was always the killings of Black people. clients when stay-at-home orders went into effect and services moved online. Ex- ecutive Director Rachel Ga- lanter said that families Keep up with latest breaking were overwhelmed and many said they couldn’t news on our website: commit to more virtual calls when the center www.triangletribune.com switched to telehealth. 3A NEWS/The Triangle Tribune Sunday, October 11, 2020 Democrat’s personal scandal roils Senate race By Brian Slodysko and The newly obtained texts firmed the authenticity of provide both a more spe- those texts at the time. “I Gary D. Robertson cific timeline about their have hurt my family, dis- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS relationship, which shows appointed my friends, and RALEIGH — A race in it was recent, as well as de- am deeply sorry. The first North Carolina critical to tails that describe intimate step in repairing those re- control of the U.S. Senate encounters — not simply a lationships is taking com- has been thrown into tur- digital exchange. The text plete responsibility, which moil over allegations of messages were not ob- I do. I ask that my family’s personal misconduct by tained from Guzman Todd. privacy be respected in this Democrat Cal Cunning- But the AP contacted her to personal matter,” Cunning- ham, a married man who confirm their authenticity. ham, who has two teenage had an extramarital rela- In a series of interviews late children and has been mar- tionship with a consultant. Monday as well as in the ried for two decades, said Previously undisclosed text messages, Guzman at the time. text messages obtained by Todd described two in-per- Democratic control of the It’s Your Time The Associated Press and son encounters with Cun- Senate will be vital if Dem- additional interviews show ningham, one in March in ocrat Joe Biden wins the that the relationship ex- Los Angeles that she said presidency. Without it, he tended beyond suggestive did not include intimate can be assured that the Re- VOTER texts to an intimate en- contact and a second in publican majority will re- counter as recently as July. July in North Carolina, ject his plans to expand Republicans hold a 53-47 where she said they were health care access, make 3 Ways To VOTE In North Carolina majority in the Senate, and intimate. significant investment in the contest between Cun- In the text messages to green energy and rewrite ."CTFOUFF .BJM*O#BMMPU7PUJOH Any registered voter may vote from their home, no special requirement is needed. ningham and Republican her friend, Guzman Todd the tax code so that Deadline for your county to receive a request is Tuesday, Oct. 27. Sen. Thom Tillis has been told her she was intimate wealthy Americans among the most watched with Cunningham in his shoulder more of the bur- Return by mail: Postmarked by Tuesday, Nov. 3 in the country, with polls home, which she later char- den. showing a tight race and acterized as “weird.” In But it’s also unclear both parties investing another exchange, Guzman whether the revelation of &BSMZ705*/(0DU0DU heavily in the outcome. 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The chamber Cal,” she said in a separate about an extramarital tryst. If you miss the deadline to register, you may use “same-day registration” during has been a bulwark for Re- text message. She added in “He had this clean-cut Early Voting at the times the sites are open in your county. publicans under President another, “He knows (that I) image with a great story, a Donald Trump, with Dem- can tank his campaign.” great background, an im- Find Voting locations and hours at vt.ncsbe.gov/pplkup ocrats in control of the In a statement, Guzman peccable record of service,” Ask the election official for a registration form, show an identifying document, and House. Todd apologized for the said Brad Crone, a longtime vote a ballot - all on the same day. 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But you Southern states like North by engaging in a relation- full explanation” for his ex- automatically get your voting rights back in North Carolina after you finish your Carolina. ship with Cal Cunningham tramarital activity. But he full sentence, including probation or parole. It does not matter whether the felony Yet the text messages during a period of marital may be ill positioned to conviction occurred in NC or somewhere else. and interviews offer a separation. The relation- force the issue after dis- Once you complete a felony sentence, your citizenship rights are automatically glimpse that is at odds ship spanned several closing hours before the restored to you. No court document is needed. Just finish your sentence and register with the image of a de- months and consisted pri- text messages were made voted family man. A week like any other citizen. Failure to pay a court fine, fee or restitution does not block marily of a series of text ex- public that he has con- your right to vote, even if it is the reason for continued supervision. ago, a conservative web- changes and an in-person tracted the coronavirus. site, NationalFile.com, pub- encounter.” But Chris Cooper, a polit- IF YOU HAVE PROBLEM Call 888.687.8683 lished text messages Cunningham’s campaign ical science professor at between Cunningham and declined to comment on Western Carolina Univer- /01)050*%/&&%&%50705&*/&-&$5*0/ Arlene Guzman Todd, a the newly disclosed texts sity, said Trump’s history $SFEJU.FDLMFOCVSH$PVOUZ7PUFS(VJEF/$4#&(07 public relations strategist or on Guzman’s statement. isn’t already baked into from California, that sug- The campaign instead how people feel about Cun- gested a personal relation- pointed to a statement is- ningham. ship. sued on Friday and con-
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Visit By Mark Sherman and Thomas suggested the prominent: a water dispute Zoom. Email rob@ncpoli- Visit wake.ces.ncsu.edu. www.MyNCDMV.gov. court needs to revisit the between Texas and New cywatch.com. Jessica Gresk issue because it has Mexico, and a case involv- HIP-HOP CHAPEL HILL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “created a problem that ing a provision of the Dela- SUMMIT Hip Hop Caucus will hold SEMINAR A summit on stabilizing a virtual tour rally Oct. 20 UNC School of Social WASHINGTON — The Su- only it can fix.” Until then, ware constitution that the health and wealth gap in NC to mobilize voters. Work will host its next preme Court, already he said, the case will con- keeps the number of state is Oct. 13-15 online. Reg- Register at https://respect- seminar on “Let’s Get Inno- poised to take a significant tinue to have “ruinous con- judges affiliated with the ister at eventbrite.com. myvote.com. vative: Cultivating a Move- turn to the right, opened sequences for religious two major political parties ment for Engagement, its new term Monday with liberty.” The court turned fairly even. The justices MARCH MORRISVILLE Empowerment, and Com- a jolt from two conserva- away the appeal of the seemed prepared to up- March Out the Vote FUNDRAISER munity Inclusion” Oct. 13, tive justices who raised former clerk, Kim Davis, hold Delaware’s political march and rally is Oct. 15, Hemophilia of NC Virtual 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Register new criticism of the court’s among hundreds of re- party provision, and the ar- 3 p.m., MLK Memorial Gar- Family Festival & Walk for at ssw.unc.edu/sswe- embrace of same-sex mar- jected cases Monday. gument passed without dens on Rock Quarry Rd. Bleeding Disorders is Oct. vents/. riage. Thomas’ four-page state- any comment about the 17, 10 to 11:30 a.m. Visit The justices returned ment prompted outrage partisan fighting over the FEST www.hemophilia- STONE CENTER from their summer break from LGBTQ rights groups Supreme Court’s makeup. Cider & Sangria Fest is nc.org/festival. 2020 Sonja Haynes Stone on a somber note, follow- and others. Alphonso The justices will hear a Oct. 15, noon to 9 p.m., Memorial Lecture presents ing the death of Justice David, president of the total of 10 arguments this The Chocolate Boutique, DURHAM Deborah Willis Oct. 14, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, hear- Human Rights Campaign, week and next, but the 8480 Honeycutt Rd. MARKET 6:30 p.m. Register at ing arguments by phone said in a statement that term is so far short on The next Black Farmers unc.edu/events. because of the coronavirus Thomas and Alito had “re- high-profile cases. That GUNS Market is Oct. 11, 1-4 p.m., pandemic and bracing for newed their war on LGBTQ could change quickly be- An introduction to hand- 411 W. Chapel Hill St. CANCELED the possibility of post-elec- rights and marriage equal- cause of the prospect of guns class is Oct. 15, 6-9 Town of Chapel Hill has tion court challenges. ity” as the direction of the court involvement in law- p.m., Eagle One Firing POETRY canceled all major events The court paused briefly court “hangs in the bal- suits related to the elec- Range, 4410 Craftsman Dr. Jambalaya Soul Slam through the end of year: to remember Ginsburg, the ance.” tion. Perhaps the biggest Register at bookwhen.com. Grand Slam Poetry finals is Festifall Arts Festival, holi- court’s second woman. But With Ginsburg’s death case currently on the jus- Oct. 17, 8-10 p.m., Hayti day parade, Chapel Hilli- a statement from Justice and the retirement of Jus- tices’ docket is post-Elec- JOB FAIR Heritage Center, 804 Old days and Halloween in Clarence Thomas, joined tice Anthony Kennedy in tion Day arguments in the Dress for Success Trian- Fayetteville St. Visit event- downtown. by Justice Samuel Alito, un- 2018, only three members latest Republican bid to gle NC will host a virtual brite.com. derscored conservatives’ of the majority in the gay strike down the Affordable job fair Oct. 16 at 10 a.m. HILLSBOROUGH excitement and liberals’ marriage case remain: Jus- Care Act, which provides Register at www.crowd- GOTV AQUATICS fears about the direction tices Stephen Breyer, Sonia more than 20 million cast.io/e/job-fair/register. GOTV concert hosted by The Homestead Aquatic the court could take if the Sotomayor and Elena people with health insur- NC musicians and organi- Center will reopen Oct. 12 Senate confirms President Kagan. Barrett’s confirma- ance. COMMUNITY zations is Oct. 18, 6:30-8 for Chapel Hill and Orange Donald Trump’s nominee tion would cement a 6-3 The justices last heard ar- Annual Crosby Com- p.m.. Visit County residents at limited for Ginsburg’s seat, Amy conservative majority on gument in their courtroom munity Day is virtually Oct. VoteNC.org/party. capacity. Reserve your Coney Barrett. the court, and she has com- in February and skipped 16-18. Email time at https://tochaq.ge- Commenting on an ap- pared her approach to the planned arguments in dynasty.winters@wake- LICENSE tomnify.com. peal from a former county law generally to that of her March and April before gov.com. The Durham License clerk in Kentucky who ob- mentor, Justice Antonin hearing cases by phone in Plate Agency has moved jected to issuing same-sex Scalia, one of the dis- May. marriage licenses, Thomas senters in the gay marriage On Monday, Chief Justice wrote that the 5-4 majority case. John Roberts began the in a 2015 case had “read a Reversing the court’s hearing by noting what the right to same-sex mar- decision in the gay mar- public has only seen in pic- riage” into the Constitu- riage case would seem a tures: that the door to the Mormons called on to tion, “even though that tall order, but Thomas’ justices’ courtroom and the right is found nowhere in statement underscored lib- section of the court’s the text.” And he said that erals’ fears that the court bench in front of Gins- help reduce racism the decision “enables could roll back some of burg’s chair have been courts and governments to their hardest-fought gains. draped with black fabric. By Brady McCombs speeches by other top Members believe church The cases the justices Said Roberts: “We at the brand religious adherents THE ASSOCIATED PRESS leaders Saturday at the con- presidents are living pro- who believe that marriage spent about two and a half court will remember her as ference that comes as phets who receive rev- is between one man and hours discussing Monday, a dear friend and a treas- SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — many members live elations from God. one woman as bigots.” however, were far less ured colleague.” The Church of Jesus Christ through a reckoning over Like the leaders who of Latter-day Saints’ pres- racial injustice, especially spoke on Saturday, Nelson ident issued another plea in the U.S. following the didn’t mention the for members to help end May police killing of George church’s past ban on Black racism, saying Sunday at Floyd. men in the lay priesthood. the faith’s signature con- “God does not love one The prohibition, which ference that God loves race more than another. His stood until 1978, was people of all races equally doctrine on this matter is rooted in the belief that Like us on Facebook! and that it pains him to see clear,” Nelson said. “I as- black skin was a curse. It re- Black people suffer prej- sure you that your standing mains one of the most sen- @TriangleTribune udice. before God is not deter- sitive topics in the faith’s Russell M. Nelson’s com- mined by the color of your history. ments followed similar skin.” Please see MORMON/8A MEAC’s WWW.TRIANGLETRIBUNE.COM best The Triangle chance in TRIBUNE football Sports SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2020 – PAGE 6A playoffs? Former CIAA Commissioner Leon Kerry used to always HBCU FOOTBALL brag that the biggest differ- ence between Division I and COLLEGE CORNER Division II HBCU teams was that in DII, teams had a legiti- mate shot to win a national championship. While no CIAA team has ever won a DII football championship, Winston-Salem State did get a seat at the table after advancing to the title game in 2012. The BONITTA Rams lost to Val- Kameron Smith BEST dosta State. In basketball, however, the conference has had its share of successes: the Rams under legendary coach Clarence “Big House” Gaines in 1967, Morgan State (yes, the Bears were once DII) in ’74, North Carolina Central in ‘89, and Virginia Union three times Marcque Ellington in three different decades under another legendary coach Dave Robbins (’80, ’92, COURTESY ’05). Devin Haygood with his parents and coach on senior night. Home The women broke through with championships by VUU in 1983, Hampton in ‘88 and again Shaw in ‘12. Over in the MEAC, Florida Count those euros By Bonitta Best A&M has the conference’s only [email protected] NCAA national championship North Carolina A&T grad Garner native Kameron Smith among the Big 3 of football, Devin Haygood’s hiring of has rejoined Winston-Salem State and women’s and men’s bas- NVEA Management is paying as quarterbacks/ receivers ketball. off. Haygood inked a deal coach. Smith is one of the great- Ironically, the Rattlers won with three-time national est quarterbacks to ever play at the title in the first year of the championship Kb Trepca in WSSU. newly formed Division I-AA Mitrovica, Kosovo, in Europe. He led the Rams to a 32-4 (now Football Championship In one season as an Aggie, record in three seasons, includ- Subdivision) in 1978, knocking Haygood averaged 7.7 points ing an appearance in the 2012 off Massachusetts, 35-28. and 4.2 rebounds, and led the NCAA Division II Football Na- But the MEAC may have its team in blocked shots (43). tional Championship Game. He best chance at making some holds school records in total of- noise this season. With the In memory fense, passing yards, passing at- pandemic sending the sports Claflin student Shadae L. tempts, pass completions and world into a schizophrenic Spann was killed recently in a touchdown passes. frenzy, the league was granted car accident. Spann was a jun- “It means a lot. It feels more to an automatic berth to the FCS ior biology major and Honors me than any other job,” said playoffs. The opportunity is College student from Sumter, Smith who spent the past two extra special since the NCAA South Carolina. seasons at St. Augustine’s. “It reduced the playoff field, for “Claflin University mourns means a bit more to me than it this season only, from 24 the loss of a student with out- would being at a different uni- teams to 16. standing potential,” President versity. “I am excited for our stu- Dwaun J. Warmack said. “We “I was surrounded by great dent-athletes and coaches to solicit your prayers for teammates and great coaches, participate in the FCS play- Shadae’s family and friends as and we all worked hard and we offs,” Commissioner Dennis E. they deal with this unex- challenged each other. So I be- Thomas said. “Furthermore, pected and tragic incident at lieve that if we can get a good the MEAC is primed to make this time.” competitive spirit and get every- history this spring with its body working as hard as they first-ever championship game, New kid on the block can, we’ll be in good shape to go and it is exciting to make that Winston-Salem State fresh- and win some championships.” sort of history in our 50th an- man Rajah Caruth earned his That road won’t begin until fall niversary.” first Late Model win last week- 2021. The conference was given an end at the Greenville-Pickens automatic berth until the late Speedway in South Carolina. Campbell semifinalists 1990s, but teams still earned The product of the NASCAR Norfolk State wide receiver at-large spots. From 1999 to Drive for Diversity Youth Marcque Ellington is a semifinal- 2014, FAMU advanced farther Driver Development Program ist for the 2020 William V. Camp- than any other team – a semi- drives Late Model stock cars bell Trophy. The award honors final loss to Youngstown in for Rev Racing. Interestingly, the best football student-athlete ’99. The only other squads to Gracie Trotter, who also both on the field and off. win one playoff game during drives for Rev Racing, re- Corin “Tiny” Adams Ellington is one of just three that time period were North cently became the first female semifinalists from HBCUs out of Carolina A&T under Bill Hayes winner in ARCA Racing his- 199 entries. The list will be and Bethune-Cookman, tory. trimmed to 14 by November. coached by Brian Jenkins. Caruth’s win was a big hit Ellington started 11 of 12 The Celebration Bowl came on Twitter. NASCAR driver games last season and caught 25 into the picture in 2015. It pits Bubba Wallace, the only black passes for 302 yards and two the MEAC regular-season driver in NASCAR’s highest touchdowns. He earned his de- champion against the SWAC level of competition, sent con- gree in less than four years and champion during a weekend gratulations. Sunoco is the is now enrolled in NSU’s cyberse- filled with a smorgasbord of full-time backer on Caruth’s curity graduate school program. activities in Atlanta. And while car. The other two HBCU candidates: the MEAC can still earn an at- * Florida A&M senior punter large, only North Carolina A&T Bowling honor Chris Faddoul is averaging 44 has made the cut. That didn’t N.C. A&T senior Cameron yards per kick, including 52 in- go well. Strombeck was recently side the 20 yard line. He’s earned The Aggies were still crying named the MEAC preseason All-MEAC honors every year. over their regular-season loss bowler of the year. Strombeck * Alabama State senior running to archrival North Carolina followed her sister, Emily, to back/kick returner has rushed Central in 2016, which Aggieland. Emily won MEAC for 1,372 career yards, plus 246 knocked them out of the Cele- bowler of the year twice. Caruth receiving yards. bration Bowl, to put up much Last season, Strombeck of a fight against a depleted bowled 48 matches and to- Reruns it is Richmond team. A&T fans al- taled 9,577 pins for an aver- Since there won’t be any CIAA ways get mad whenever I com- age of 199.52 per match. She football this season, fans can plain about the loss. recorded 26 matches with watch old games on Aspire TV: “We’ve shut out NCCU for 200-plus games. * Oct. 10, 1 p.m. – 2018 Win- the last two years,” they harp. ston-Salem State vs. Shaw That would mean more if the HU’s Six adds staff * Oct. 17, 1 p.m. – 2017 CIAA Eagles weren’t in rebuilding E. Todd Moore has joined championship mode. Not to mention it the Hampton women’s bas- * Oct. 24, 1 p.m. – 2018 CIAA proves my point. ketball staff. Moore is a vet- championship But this season might be dif- eran coach on both the high * Oct. 31, 1 p.m. – 2019 CIAA ferent. The CB has been can- school and collegiate level. championship celed, and the conference is He’s coached at Alcorn State, hosting its first-ever MEAC South Carolina State, Morgan Bayou Classic moves championship game in April, State, Benedict College and The 47th Annul Bayou Classic with the winner going to the Edward Waters College. will have a new home next playoffs. Moore spring. The game, which pits Last season ended in a tie for MSU grad on men’s team SWAC rivals Grambling State vs. first place between A&T and Morgan State alumna Corin Southern, will be played at Inde- “Tiny” Adams has been hired the rejuvenated South Caro- other. to reach my full potential, I pendence Stadium in Shreveport, as an assistant coach on the lina State. FAMU, which would “Morgan has been home for have to step outside of my Louisiana. Loyola (Md.) University men’s have been the outright winner, me a total of seven years. comfort zone.” Normally showcased in No- basketball staff. The move was on probation and disqual- There’s no replacing the feel- Adams said her ultimate vember around Thanksgiving, will make Adams just one of ified. The Aggies and Rattlers ing of not only being around goal is to become the first fe- the Classic was postponed until two Division I female assis- are leaving the conference family, but also seeing and male head coach of a men’s DI April 17 due to the pandemic. tant coaches on a men’s pro- after this season, along with being a part of its growth,” program and lead them to “It is definitely an honor and a gram. Edniesha Curry at the Bethune-Cookman, so you Adams said. “…And since I The Final Four. privilege for us to be speaking University of Maine is the know they’re slobbering for a know Morgan inside and out, about playing the Bayou Classic playoff run. in this current state of pandemic I’m starting to drool just that we’ve been in,” Grambling thinking about a return of State coach Broderick Fobbs said. HBCU football myself. “It has been extremely tough.” 7A LIFE/The Triangle Tribune Sunday, October 11, 2020 BOOK Novel pits love against family traditions By Molly Sprayregen putting immense pressure Tether” is a captivating on her to marry. and charming read, but it THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Azere desperately wants falls short at certain mo- Jane Igharo’s “Ties That to please her family, which ments. Tether” tells the story of is why when she falls in Some of the qualities in Azere, a love with Rafael, who is the characters — such as Nigerian white, she doesn’t know Azere’s obsession with ro- immigrant whether to feel overjoyed mantic comedies — feel a living in at the love she has found little forced, rather than Canada or distraught at the pain skillfully woven into the who at 12, she will cause her family. narrative. made a As Azere and Rafael’s re- That being said, the book promise lationship unfolds, she be- is also an intriguing ex- to her comes forced to decide amination into the dy- dying between her mother and namics of family father that the man she loves, and she relationships and what it she would only marry a also must consider means to have pride in Nigerian man. whether she can stay with one’s culture and heritage. Azere’s mother regularly Rafael without losing key It also holds some unex- reminds her of this prom- parts of who she is and pected twists and turns ise as she sets her up with where she comes from. that will keep readers en- man after man after man, At times, “Ties That gaged until the end.
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Even if you survive, career as a radiologist in fund these retail cards for a three-year cumulative re- are committed to the well- Voting by mail is safe and you could have serious Greensboro and is now re- the direct benefit of its duction since 2018 of being of our members, and secure, but be sure to fol- heart or lung issues, or be- tired in Julian, North Caro- members from the monies nearly $1 billion. we want to help them pri- low the directions exactly, come one of the “long lina. oritize and pay for their received from the federal government following liti- SENIOR CORNER Mormons called upon to help end racism Continued from page 5A known widely as the Mor- men who will sit on the The church disavowed mon church doesn’t pro- faith’s top leadership the ban and the reasons be- vide ethnic or racial panels are Black. 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