Julian Bond: a Dedicated Life of Service
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Volume XXVI, Number XXX August 20-26 , 2015 Links host a Night of Glamour -See Page 8 Groundbreaking cartoon Visit Us Online at www.NorthDallasGazette.com character -See Page 9 Julian Bond: Miss Black USA A Dedicated Life crowned of Service -See Page 10 By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Win Tix to Horace Julian Bond was born Jan. The Whispers and 14, 1940 in Nashville, Tenn. into a Stephanie Mills!!! family of privilege. His father, Ho - For details, go to: race Mann Bond, was a noted edu - www.northdallasgazette.com cator who served as president of Fort Valley State University in Y R Georgia, where such notables as TA N W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson E Where are M M were frequent guests. O During their formative years, C the caring adults? most Historically Black Colleges By Marian Wright Edelman worrying about. and Universities (HBCUs), estab - NNPA Columnist Aijalon “AJ” Morris is lished during the Reconstruction beginning his senior year Era to provide higher education for What’s on the minds of at Pearl-Cohn Entertain - formerly enslaved African Ameri - many high school students ment Magnet High School cans, were headed by Whites. Blacks born into a life of privilege And it got worse, as I noted in a these days—the start of a in Nashville, Tenn., said: Bond’s father was the first Black distanced themselves from the nas - column on Rice. new school year, getting a “I have no friends that I president of Lincoln University in cent Civil Rights Movement. Referring to Rev. John W. Rice, driver’s license, worrying grew up with. I have lost Pennsylvania, his alma mater. His I remember how incensed I be - Jr., she said, “My father was not a whether they’ll make the five this year and I have mother, Julia, was a librarian. came when Condoleezza Rice march-in-the-street preacher. He team, perhaps daydream - lost three to prison ... I Young Julian was sent off to boasted in a Washington Post inter - saw no reason to put children at risk. ing about college and was in fifth grade and I George School, a private Quaker view that “My parents were very He would never put his own child at sweating over SAT lost my [first] friend. He boarding school near Philadelphia, strategic. I was going to be so well risk.” exams? But that’s not got killed. Seventh grade, and later enrolled in Morehouse prepared, and I was going to do all Julian Bond’s father, who had what three Black male my friend killed some - College. At Morehouse, Bond chose of these things that were revered in more blue blood credentials than high school students told body, and he’s in jail for a life of activism that would become white society so well, that I would Rev. Rice, obviously instilled a dif - a Children’s Defense life ... From my freshman the hallmark of his life. be armored somehow from Fund audience this sum - This is significant because many racism…” See BOND, Page 7 mer they’re thinking and See VISION, Page 3 INSIDE... People In The News… See Page 2 People In The News . 2 Op/Ed . 3 Health . .4 Community . .5 Education . .6 Community Spotlight . .7-8 Entertainment . 9-10 Market Place . 11 Career Opportunity . .12-13 Meb Keflezighi H.M. Trey Louis B. Stokes Church Directory . .14-15 NDG Book Review . .16 Join thousands of readers who visit NorthDallasGazette.com daily! People in the News www.NorthDallasGazette.com “Teaming up with the champion. 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