WWW.TRIANGLE TRIBUNE.COM Stith named to lead The Triangle NC community college system By Gary D. Robertson RIBUNE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TTHE TRIANGLE’S CHOICE FOR THE BLACK VOICE RALEIGH — Thomas Stith III, the head of the U.S. Small Busi- ness Administration in and a former top aide to VOLUME 22 NO. 50 WEEK OF DECEMBER 20, 2020 $1.00 then-Gov. Pat McCrory, was hired Monday to lead the state’s community college system. The State Board of Community Colleges voted unanimously in an online meeting to choose Stith as the next president of the The CIAA makes a final 58-campus system — which is one of the nation’s largest. Stith succeeds Peter Hans, who was at the post for barely two years decision about its before he was named president of the University of North Car- women’s and men’s olina system in August. An interim has been in place while com- munity college board members conducted a search. tournament. Stith, who was previously chief of staff to the Republican gov- ernor and a Durham City Council member, has most recently been a Trump administration appointee as the SBA’s district of- ficer for the state since September 2019. Stith’s work at the SBA has included getting financial assistance to businesses strug- gling to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. Please see COLLEGE/2A Prison Lacks staff to bill to be balance tested scale for By Jordan Wilkie CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS blacks North Carolina’s Depart- ment of Public Safety By Deborah Riley began on Monday to test SPECIAL TO THE AFRO every staff person who comes into contact with in- Congress paid homage to a mates in state prisons. The local hero last week with the prisons could have done passage of legislation named this on their own months for Henrietta Lacks. ago, following guidance The House of Representa- from another state agency. tives passed the “Henrietta But they did not. Lacks Enhancing Cancer Re- Instead, the move to test search Act” in honor of the prison staff was ordered African American woman by Vinston Rozier Jr., a from Turners Station who Wake County Superior died in 1951, at 31 years old Court judge, who has been from cervical cancer, and is overseeing a lawsuit chal- COURTESY popularly referred to world- lenging the constitutional- Black Lives Matter rally after the killing of George Floyd. wide as the “Mother of Mod- ity of conditions in state ern” medicine. prisons since April. Rou- “Henrietta Lacks’ DNA has tine testing of prison staff helped spur countless medi- is important, plaintiffs in cal breakthroughs for years,” the case argue, because NC racial justice task said Rep. Kweisi Mfume, staff members are the pri- M.D.-7, in introducing the mary connection between bill. “This bill honors her life prisons and the surround- legacy by working to make ing communities. force makes 125 sure underrepresented com- The N.C. Department of munities are counted and Health and Human Serv- protected in clinical trials.” ices came to the same con- According to the American clusion, according to a July recommendations Cancer Society, 1 in 5 clinical 31 email that the plaintiffs trials fail due to low enroll- uncovered in discovery By Lori D.R. Wiggins George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, the task force alongside state ment of racial minorities. The Henrietta Lacks Enhanc- and attached to a public CORRESPONDENT Ahmaud Arbery, and others at Attorney General Josh Stein. court filing last week. the hands of police and racist “For far too long, Black ing Cancer Research Act di- “Given that inmates are The North Carolina Task vigilantes. Since then, the 25- people and white people have rects the U.S. Government tested on arrival and gen- Force on Racial Equity in Crim- member panel held 61 meet- not been treated equally in the Accountability Office to in- erally spend at least 14 inal Justice released its final ings; hosted six listening United States, and this failure vestigate actions across fed- days in a processing report Monday, unanimously sessions and three public has caused real harm,” said eral agencies to address center, the main way delivering 125 recommenda- hearings; accepted and stud- Stein. “Our report identifies barriers to participation by COVID-19 can be intro- tions aimed at eradicating sys- ied countless submissions by opportunities for real change underrepresented pop- duced into a facility is temic racial bias from the the public and experts; and es- to make the criminal justice ulations in federally funded through staff,” Megan state’s systems of cops and tablished two work groups system fairer for every North cancer clinical trials. Sredl, a DHHS epidemiolo- courts. each to focus on law enforce- Carolinian. I look forward to The bill requires the GAO gist, wrote to DPS staff. “It Governor Roy Cooper com- ment and courts, said Su- continuing this necessary to provide policy options to will be faster and more ef- missioned the task force in preme Court Associate Justice address these disparities and fective to regularly test all June following the killings of Anita S. Earls, who co-chaired Please see FORCE/2A create more racially inclusive staff to see if they have in- and government spon- troduced the virus, rather sored/supported trials. than identifying the virus Mfume underscored “ex- in a sample of inmates ploitive and deceptive medi- after it has already been cal practices” resulting in low circulating in the facility.” African American represen- Since the first cases were Controversy continues over tation in and distrust of gov- identified in state prisons ernment sponsored/related in March, disease spread medical research in America. has followed a similar pat- The legislation was originally tern. A single case in a ‘Downtown South’ project introduced in March 2019 by prison is identified. Shortly Mfume’s predecessor, the thereafter, expanded test- By Lori D.R. Wiggins late Rep. Elijah Cummings, ing reveals a large out- CORRESPONDENT who died in October of that break. Prison staff and same year. inmates fall ill by the The Mfume acknowledged dozens, and in several voted 7-1 Tuesday night to re- Cummings’ strong belief in major outbreaks at Neuse, zone about 145 acres near the need for legislation to in- Piedmont and Raleigh’s South Saunders and Wilming- tervene and change the pat- women’s prison, among ton streets and Interstate 40 tern of reluctance, distrust several others, quickly bal- for a mixed-use sports enter- and underrepresentation in loon into hundreds of tainment complex dubbed government-funded re- cases. “Downtown South.” The deci- search. In September and again sion comes less than a week The extraction of Lacks’ on Nov. 25, DPS an- after the Wake County Plan- cells without her consent and nounced major prison ning Commission unani- the inhumane treatment of transfers and temporary mously rejected the rezoning black men during the Tuske- facility closures in part be- request by Kane Realty. gee Syphilis Study motivated cause of high staff vacancy While proponents contend Cummings to craft the origi- the project will uplift Raleigh, rates, where COVID-19 in- DOWNTOWN SOUTH/GENSLER nal legislation. especially its southern corri- Negative consequences of fections exacerbated long- Rendering of the proposed Downtown South development in standing staff shortages. dor, critics say it shouldn’t the infamous 40-year Tuske- Since April, public health happen without community South Raleigh. gee Study, conducted by the engagement between res- experts and civil rights concern about how the pro- equity to dismantle policies United States Public Health idents and developers, and groups have warned Gov. posed project of skyscrapers and systems that have created Service from 1932-72, con- surefire plans to control Roy Cooper and DPS that will increase property taxes, and sustained these in- tinue to surface nearly 50 stormwater runoff from down- COVID-19 would move speed gentrification, displace equities.” years later in the low enroll- town Raleigh and Interstate 40 rapidly through the prison vulnerable, longtime residents, “This rezoning underscores ment of African Americans into Walnut Creek and the population, threatening and subsequently erase the those policies and the system and other persons of color in flooding it causes, and to pro- the health of prison staff area’s history and culture. that the statement itself talks recent COVID-19 vaccine vide solid guarantees of af- members and the com- Commissioner Nicole Ben- about that have created and trials, Mfume said. fordable housing, living-wage munities in which they re- nett pointed to the project’s sustained these inequities,” “I believe the most pro- jobs, and investment in minor- side when they are off contradiction to the city’s she said. The motion to deny found reason for low enroll- ity- and women-owned busi- statement on equity in which it the Downtown South rezoning ment begins and lies with the nesses. There’s additional Plase see PRISON/2A commits to “prioritize racial Please see SOUTH/2A Please see LACKS/2A

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Continued from page 1A ging or drinking beer in years to get a legal system work.” public. The report also ad- grounded in white suprem- Some of the task force’s vocates for better jury se- acy and racism,” said task early recommendations al- lection and oversight, and force member Henderson ready are being imple- better court data collection Hill. “Undoing that legacy mented. Others will and reporting. takes public education, require legislation. The rec- The report urges legisla- and it takes process. Before ommendations are catego- tion to decriminalize up to you can correct anything, rized as law enforcement 1.5 ounces of marijuana, you’ve got to speak the and the courts. Law en- make possession a civil of- truth.” forcement focus on re- fense, erase past convic- The task force is a di- thinking public safety with tions, and establish a task verse group of North Caro- different ways to respond force to study marijuana linians, including criminal to non-criminal issues and legalization. Citing re- justice reform advocates a renewed embrace of search, Earls said Black and law enforcement of- COURTESY community policing, Stein people are disproportion- ficers, police chiefs, sher- said. ately arrested and con- iffs, prosecutors, public The panel’s recommen- victed for marijuana defenders, judges, and Stith to lead N Carolina dations ban the use of although both white and other elected officials. force like the chokehold; Black people use it at simi- “It is an urgent time to re- require officers to inter- lar rates. Last year, she consider everything from vene in and report miscon- community college system added, 10,000 people in fines and fees in petty duct among fellow cops; the state were convicted of cases, to lengthy sen- Continued from page 1A hands-on skills and clinical Stephens said the panel re- mandate law enforcement having small amounts of tences, due to their social work such as nursing. ceived resumes from all Stith said after the vote leaders stand firm against marijuana; nearly 7,000 costs and accompanying Stith, 57, graduated from over the country, but that that his top priority will be “abuse of power” among were minorities. racial disparities,” said North Carolina Central Uni- Stith was “at the top of to marshal the forces of the their ranks; and promote The report also ad- Duke law professor Bran- versity and will be the sys- every list.” system office and cam- routine psychological eval- dresses the school-to- don Garrett, a scholar on tem’s second Black Stith said he’s got a puses to help the state re- uations of officers; and prison pipeline that finds criminal justice outcomes, president. Vic Hackley was family history of business cover from more education on racial youth of color represent evidence and constitu- the first in the mid-1990s. development and educa- COVID-19-related job bias, crisis intervention, more than 70% of criminal tional rights. The 21-member board tion. His parents started a losses and business clos- and mental health. The re- complaints in the 2019-20 The task force will con- who elected Stith is largely two-year business school ings. Community colleges port also recommends the school year. The panel rec- tinue its work through the a mix of appointees by in Durham in the 1950s. often provide key work- use of police body and ommends raising a end of 2022. The final re- McCrory, current Demo- Stith “is a proven leader force training incentives to dash cameras, the release child can be prosecuted port is the path toward cratic Gov. Roy Cooper and with a broad network of re- companies and help stu- of footage from those cam- from 6 years old to 12. tackling racial disparities Republican legislative lationships in business, dents retool their careers eras that currently is off- North Carolina’s juvenile in the criminal justice sys- leaders. GOP State Treas- education and government through low-tuition limits, and asks the justice system currently re- tem, “not the final word.” urer Dale Folwell and Lt. in North Carolina,” system classes. “The system will Legislature to allow civil ports the youngest age in “This work needs a per- Gov. Dan Forest, or their board Chair Breeden Black- lead the effort to rebuild police oversight boards the country. In addition, manent commission,” Earls designees, also are on the well said in the release. “He North Carolina’s econ- and grant them more the panel recommends re- said, noting the idea, which board. House Speaker Tim has the skills and talents to omy,” Stith said. power. quiring a school admin- would allow continued Moore and Senate leader lead our great community Nearly 700,000 students “It is critical that we re- istrator or social worker to monitoring and examina- Phil Berger praised Stith in college system at a critical take community college cruit and train the kind of first approve School Re- tion, is a panel recommen- a system release. time.” classes statewide. A major- officers who … see them- source Officer petitions, dation included in an Board member Bob Stith, who currently lives ity of campus-based in- selves as guardians, not ending life without parole appendix to the report. Stephens, who was general in Charlotte, officially be- struction occurred online warriors,” Stein said. sentences for juveniles, Meanwhile, the effective- counsel for McCrory while gins work Jan. 11. during the fall, with some In the courts, the panel and a review of sentences ness of the panel’s rec- governor, led the presiden- face-to-face classes for calls to eliminate cash bail of juveniles in the system ommendations will be tial search committee. for suspects of non-threat- now. apparent. ening crimes; reduce court Many on the panel sup- “What measures our suc- costs and fines paid by port the possibility of a cess will be data showing those who are convicted; truth and reconciliation reduced racial disparities, reclassify as civil infrac- commission to address the outcome measures, and Henrietta Lacks’ bill to tions misdemeanors such state’s history of racial in- lived experiences,” Earls as sleeping in public, beg- equity. “It took us 400 said. balance medical scales for Downtown South project African Americans Continued from page 1A utation as a developer. For and housing, while also Continued from page 1A body without her knowl- her district, the devel- mobilizing the com- request came from Com- horrific Tuskegee Study of edge or consent. Lacks’ opment would increase munity, to Kane and city missioner Roberta Fox, 1972, in which hundreds cells miraculously sur- access to amenities like leaders. “We recognize saying “it is not reason- of unwitting Black men vived, continued to mul- groceries, shopping, and Downtown South has able and in the public’s in- suffered and died need- tiply outside her body and entertainment for res- enormous benefits and, terest in its current form.” lessly as part of an unethi- have since contributed to idents who now have to we also recognize, if the Technically, commis- cal and inhumane medical the development of the travel to Cary, Garner’s project is not developed sioners had until Jan. 11 to experiment,” he said. polio vaccine, cancer and White Oak, and Cameron with the community and decide the matter, but “We appreciate Con- HIV treatments, Parkin- Village. the environment in mind, were pushed to decide gressman Kweisi Mfume son’s disease and count- Raleigh Mayor Pro-Tem it can be detrimental to sooner as developers said for bringing The Henrietta less medical advances. The Corey Branch, who repre- both,” said ONE Wake the deal would dissipate if Lacks Enhancing Cancer immortal HeLa cell line is sents District C, home to steering committee not rezoned by year’s end. Research Act, H.R. 1966 to well-known in the medical the historically black, member Father Jemonde Stormie Forte, a Raleigh the floor of the U.S. House community and is used flood-zoned Rochester Taylor, rector of St. Am- attorney who represents of Representatives” said worldwide in government Heights, Worthdale, and brose Episcopal Church, District D, where the proj- Ron and Hope Lacks, de- and private industry re- other Southeast Raleigh which shares a backyard ect would be located, said scendants of Henrietta search. The Lacks family neighborhoods impacted with the Walnut Creek the issue “has been so Lacks. “Our hope is for a was not made aware of the by downstream flooding Wetlands and a neighbor- challenging” as people new beginning and a existence of the HeLa Cell and other environmental hood with residents living from a variety of com- change in the way that line for years after her injustices, believes the on the flood plain. munities speak out about Black and brown people death. project may help “slow it Twice the group has can- affordable housing, storm- have been treated by the “Hopefully this legisla- down,” he said, adding vassed Rochester Heights, water, and minority busi- medical institutions, and tion can be part of proving he’s witnessed other proj- the city’s first planned ness participation. with this bill, hopefully, to Black people that we are ects fix preexisting issues. subdivision for Black “The flip side of the coin more minorities will start not just an experiment to Organized Neighbors for people during segregation, is there are people who to participate in clinical benefit others,” Ron Lacks Empowerment Wake, or and hosted five com- live in District D in close trials.” said. ONE Wake, a platform for munity Zoom meetings to proximity who are excited Lacks was being treated “We look forward to see- community engagement educate residents, many about the project; they’re in 1951 at Johns Hopkins ing a bridge between our launched in October by of whom had never heard very, very interested in Hospital where cell sam- community and medical faith groups and non- of Downtown South, Tay- seeing a mixed-use devel- ples were taken from her research institutions.” opment,” she said, adding profits, took its push for lor said. The group also many applaud Kane’s rep- the environment, jobs, has met twice with Kane. Judge: Test all NC prison staff for virus every 14 days Continued from page 1A gotten sick since March. An ramped up testing for its work. investigation in May by the staff and for people held in Experts have also warned N.C. Watchdog Reporting prisons, often on the heels from early in the pandemic Network into the death of of an order from Rozier, that without expanded Barbara Anne Stewart, a plaintiffs have routinely testing, more people in nurse at Caswell Correc- criticized the testing state custody would be- tional Center and the first strategies as insufficient. come ill and die from known prison staff death, The state will have to re- COVID-19. revealed that a lack of test- port those tests and results Commissioner of Prisons ing at the prison masked a weekly to the courts. For Todd Ishee told the Senate significant COVID-19 out- the first time, the public Committee on Prison break. will have consistent re- Safety last month that, as Indeed, when the state ports on how many staff at far as the prison system began mass testing of which prisons are testing knows, four prison staff every person in state cus- positive. Epidemiologists STOCK members have died from tody, DPS discovered ex- and other public health ex- Around 21% of North Carolina adults with children say they felt down, hopeless or de- COVID-19 infection. tensive outbreaks in its perts have been seeking prisons that were other- this information for pressed this year, says census survey data. There were 319 staff members out of work with wise undetected. While months, as have journal- NC families struggle to meet the illness, and 1,560 had DPS has significantly ists. basic needs amid pandemic Visit us online: By Nadia Ramlagan Based on census house- Vikki Crouse, policy ana- N.C. 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I imag- sets the stage for the rejec- struggle to meet needs to piece together impor- ine Joseph’s rough cal- tion of Jesus. More than poverty and uncertainty. have to get back to the ba- tant details about Jesus: loused carpenter’s hands 700 years before this birth Continued from page 2A "The CARES Act really sics," Boissiere said. "We His resurrection and ascen- trying to tightly wrap the in Bethlehem, Isaiah wrote, without support for their demonstrated that our have to make sure that the sion, His teachings and mi- baby. “The ox knows its owner, basic needs during the cri- leaders can intervene to poorest and most fragile racles, His disciples and Finally, Mary musters her and the donkey its master’s sis," Crouse said. "We see reach families and chil- families in our economy detractors, His death on strength and does it her- manger, but Israel does not that 1 in 5 families in dren that are struggling. are taken care of and that the cross and His birth in self. Jesus was in a manger know, My people do not North Carolina report that We know that our country we're funding those pro- Bethlehem. because they were alone understand… They have they sometimes or often has the resources to do grams that can have an Luke claims to have con- and away. abandoned the LORD, they don't have enough to eat." better by all kids and all impact and make sure that sulted “eyewitnesses.” I This brings comfort to have despised the Holy The data show 18% of families," she said. "Right everybody's basic needs like to think that Luke is everyone who finds them- One of Israel” (Isaiah 1:3-4). North Carolina house- now, we need immediate are met in this country." sighting an eyewitness selves away and alone on This is why most manger holds with children said and decisive action to help Boissiere pointed to the source when he tells us Christmas. scenes include an ox and a they had little or no con- families survive this catas- federal Temporary Assis- that Mary “treasured all * Humility. Jesus, the donkey. Do you know your fidence they'd be able to trophe." tance for Needy Families these things, pondering King of Glory, was born in Master’s manger? In case pay their rent or mortgage Meanwhile, COVID-19 program, which allows them in her heart.” The a barn. His family was we miss this allusion to on time, while 21% of re- cases across the state are states to provide short- first two chapters of Luke poor, working class at Isaiah, Luke spells it out, spondents said they felt rising to alarming levels, term cash assistance to might just be based on best. Luke confirms this “…and laid Him in a down, hopeless or de- with more than 6,000 new low-income families with Mary’s memory. when he tells us that Jo- manger, because there was pressed. Sixteen percent cases reported last week. children, as a stopgap so- There is a rather unusual seph and Mary could only no room. …” of parents statewide lack Leslie Boissiere, vice lution. detail recalled and re- offer the poor man’s offer- “He came to His own, and health insurance coverage, president of external af- According to the report, peated in Luke’s account of ing when they brought the those who were His own and some have likely de- fairs at the Annie E. Casey the program is long over- the birth of Jesus. Not child to Jerusalem to pres- did not receive Him. But as layed getting medical care Foundation, said even due for improvement. once, not twice, but three ent Him to the Lord (2:24). many as received Him, to for themselves or their with a promising vaccine In 2019, only 23% of times the text declares that They could not afford a them He gave the right to children. on the horizon, North Car- families with kids in pov- Jesus was laid in a manger, lamb, so they offered a become children of God, Crouse said the $1.8 tril- olinians could be facing erty received TANF assis- a manger, a manger. What pair of turtledoves. He even to those who believe lion in federal relief law- health care, financial and tance, down from nearly does the manger mean? emptied Himself; He hum- in His name” (John 1:11- makers passed earlier this mental-health challenges 70% at the program's in- * Obscurity. Jesus was bled Himself, and by doing 12). year prevented more fam- for years to come. "We ception in 1996. born away and alone. so, He knocks the shine off O come to my heart, Lord ilies from slipping into When He was born, almost all our foolish pride. Jesus, there is room in my no one noticed. Caesar did- Indeed, blessed are the heart for Thee. n’t notice; Quirinius was poor. “Listen, my beloved BOOK clueless. There were not brethren: did not God Anarcho-Blackness Notes sections of race and gender theory that unset- Toward a Black Anar- gender. tles and subverts social chism Skeptical hierarchies, he explores By Marquis Bey of satis- what we can learn by mak- AK Press, $13 PB fying him- ing the kinship of Black- self with ness and anarchism “The history of Black- the usual explicit, including how an- ness is a history of disrup- finger- archism itself is trans- tion toward freedom.” pointing formed by the encounter. In this bold and expan- this lack As Bey frames it, if the sive treatise, Bey seeks to invites, state is predicated on a ra- define the shape of a Black Bey ad- cialized and gendered cap- anarchism — not, he says, dresses it italism, its undoing can by listing “all the Black head on, not by construct- only be imagined and un- people who are anarchists ing a new cannon of Black dertaken by a political and the anarchists who are anarchists but by outlining theory that takes race and Black people,” but through how anarchism and Black- gender seriously, a theory a fluid and generative en- ness already share a cer- of anarcho-Blackness. counter between anar- tain subjective chism and Blackness. relationship to power, a ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Classical anarchism way of understanding and Bey is assistant professor of tended to avoid questions inhabiting the world. African American Litera- of race, specifically Black- Through the lens of a ture and English at North- ness, as well as the inter- Black feminist and trans- western University.

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Ticket prices actors and musicians, all durham.com. triangletribunenewspaper.com MLB WWW.TRIANGLETRIBUNE.COM changes The Triangle status of TRIBUNE Negro Sports SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2020 – PAGE 6A Leagues The Associated Press NEW YORK — Willie Mays HBCU BASKETBALL will add some hits to his record, Monte Irvin’s big league batting average should climb over .300 and Satchel Paige may add nearly 150 victories to his total. Josh Gibson, the greatest of all Negro League sluggers, might just wind up with a COURTESY major league record, too. Howard player Makur Maker is The statistics and records injured. of greats like Gibson, Paige and roughly 3,400 other players are set to join Major The Maker League ’s books after MLB announced Wednesday it is reclassifying the Negro Leagues as a major league. show at MLB said it was “correcting a longtime oversight in the game’s history” by elevating Howard is COURTESY the Negro Leagues on the centennial of its founding. The CIAA Tournament will miss its debut in Baltimore, Maryland. The Negro Leagues consisted on pause of seven leagues, and MLB will include records from CIAA makes the By Donal Ware those circuits between 1920- SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE 48. The Negro Leagues began to dissolve one year after Makur Maker is out indefinitely. Jackie Robinson became The Howard guard/forward, a MLB’s first Black player with official call for ‘21 former five- recruit from Cal- the Brooklyn Dodgers in ifornia, is reportedly the most 1947. highly rated recruit to ever sign Those leagues were ex- By Bonitta Best at an HBCU. The thing is, we know that’s not true. Great high cluded in 1969 when the [email protected] Special Committee on Base- school players have always ball Records identified six of- In no surprise to most, the played at HBCUs, going back to ficial “major leagues” dating CIAA voted to cancel its the 1940s. They just weren’t to 1876. women’s and men’s basket- called five-star recruits. “It is MLB’s view that the ball, and volleyball seasons. While I initially found it a little Committee’s 1969 omission Both sports had been strange that Maker was going to of the Negro Leagues from moved from a winter start be “shut down” indefinitely be- consideration was clearly an to the spring. cause of a groin injury, it re- error that demands today’s Basketball was to begin on minded me about the caution I designation,” the league said Jan. 9 with a conference- felt when he first committed to, in a statement. only schedule. The cancel- then signed to play at Howard. The league will work with lation, of course, means no The HBCU world celebrated. CIAA Tournament, the con- Media outlets that generally the Elias Sports Bureau to re- NCCU men acknowledge UNC at the end of the game. view Negro Leagues statistics ference’s biggest money- don’t cover us came out of the maker which was set to woodwork to write about Maker, and records, and figure out ney staples like the CIAA ourselves,” coach LeVelle make its debut in Baltimore, which is a good thing. I wrote how to incorporate them into Fan Fest and the step show Moton said. “We expected Maryland. about it as well and said, “For this MLB’s history. There was no virtually during tourney to win basketball games.” “This was not an easy to work, Maker must actually standard method of record week. More details will be The game was a replace- decision or one that was PLAY for Howard.” keeping for the Negro released next year. ment for both teams after taken lightly by the CIAA While the injury is legit, it could Leagues, but there are cancellations. Unless Board,” said Virginia State also be a situation where Howard enough box scores to stitch NCCU men conclude another replacement President and board Chair is being a little more cautious together some of its statisti- semester happens, the Eagles are off Makola Abdullah. “We all with Maker than it or any other cal past. North Carolina Central until Jan. 9, when division want to have a season, and school in the same situation For instance, Mays could be ended its non-conference play begins. They travel to we want our student-ath- would be with a similar player. It credited with 17 hits from schedule (maybe) with a Florida A&M for back-to- letes, coaches and staff to also reminded me that there are his 1948 season with the Al- tough 73-67 loss to na- back contests on Saturday have a season. However the and have been good players at abama Black Barons. Irvin, a tionally ranked North Caro- and Sunday. data, which changes almost HBCUs. teammate of Mays’ with the lina. daily, does not support This isn’t just about Maker. New York Giants, could see The Eagles led early, fell 1 more for Lady Eagles such a decision. The poten- What it should do is remind us – his career average climb behind in the second half NCCU women are set to tial risk outweighs the de- true HBCUers who went to and from .293 to .304 if numbers before scoring the game’s host Charleston this week- sire to play.” graduated from our schools, who listed at Baseball-Reference final nine points. “We’re end in their home opener. Conference officials said were down with the HBCU cause from his nine Negro League confident. We believe in Please see CIAA/7A seasons are accurate. And they still plan to host tour- before it became more popular Paige, who currently is cred- within the last few years, and, ited with 28 major league more specifically, within the last wins, should add at least 146 several months, who truly under- to his total. stand HBCUs – that great basket- While some have estimated ball players have always come Gibson slugged over 800 from our schools. homers during 16 Negro HBCUs say no more Earl Lloyd, the first Black player League seasons, it’s unlikely in the NBA. Sam Jones. Cleo Hill that enough records exist for Sr. Earl “The Pearl” Monroe. him to officially pass Barry Bobby Dandridge. Bobby Phills. Bonds for the career record discrimination in academic rules Lindsey Hunter. Ben Wallace. Flip at 762. Murray. And, more recently, Kyle Depending on what Elias By Tom Goldman O’Quinn who played at Norfolk State and Robert Covington of and MLB rule, though, Gib- WUNC son could wind up with Tennessee State, an NBA All-De- For more than 50 years, fensive Team performer. They all another notable record. His the NCAA has imposed aca- .441 batting average in 1943 played and thrived while at demic rules to make sure HBCUs. would be the best season college athletes aren't just mark ever, edging Hugh And there are some really good athletes, and the decades- current players as well. While Duffy’s .440 from 1894. Gib- long process has generated son’s line came in fewer than Maker was a great signing and plenty of controversy. will hopefully lead to other high 80 games, however, far short Critics claim the academic of the modern standard of ranking recruits playing at our standards, and the penalties schools, this should be a re- 162. for not meeting them, dis- “We couldn’t be more minder that our programs can be criminate against Black col- successful with players who are- thrilled by this recognition of lege athletes and the significance of the Negro n’t necessarily five-star recruits. Historically Black Colleges If you look at HBCUs historically, Leagues in Major League and Universities. Now, law- Baseball history,” said Ed- we have survived for almost 184 yers have filed a class ac- years, amidst the evils of racism, ward Schauder, legal repre- tion, civil rights lawsuit sentative for Gibson’s estate severe underfunding, and any- demanding the NCAA's cur- thing else you can imagine that and co-founder of the Negro rent system, called the Aca- Leagues Players Association. could have taken our programs demic Performance down. “Josh Gibson was a legend Program, be abolished. who would have certainly Still, for various systemic rea- Putting HBCUs at sons, HBCU alumni have had lim- been a top player in the a disadvantage major leagues if he had been ited opportunities to play and The APP requires college coach professional sports at the allowed to play.” teams to hit certain aca- MLB said it considered highest levels. Six NBA head demic benchmarks. If a coaches – North Carolina A&T input from the National Base- team comes up short, which ball Hall of Fame and Mu- grad Al Attles, who is the only uses a metric called the APR HBCU grad to lead his team to an seum, the Negro League (Academic Progress Rate), Researchers and Authors NBA title; Lloyd, who coached the the punishment can range Pistons in the 1971-72 season; Group, and studies by other from having practice time baseball authors and re- Draff Young of Johnson C. Smith cut to a ban on postseason served four games as head coach searchers. play. The benchmarks are “The perceived defi- for the Kansas City-Omaha Kings based on team members' Former Savannah State player Troyce Manassa. in 1973; Grambling’s Bob Hop- ciencies of the Negro grades, eligibility, whether Leagues’ structure and kins, who coached the Super- they're graduating or stay- same benchmarks as pre- worth, that Fegan says scheduling were born of Please see MAKER/7A ing in school. And they put dominantly white institu- skews dramatically toward MLB’s exclusionary practices, HBCUs at a disadvantage. tions who don't have the HBCUs. "While only six-and- and denying them major Attorney Beth Fegan says mission [HBCUs do]. The a-half percent of Division 1 league status has been a dou- that's because an important NCAA should be supporting schools are HBCUs," she ble penalty, much like that part of HBCUs’ mission has the mission of HBCUs, not said, "72% of the teams exacted of Hall of Fame can- always been to enroll low-in- penalizing them for it." that've been banned from The BEST didates prior to Satchel come, first-generation and Fegan has done battle with post-season competition are Paige’s induction in 1971,” at-risk students. "And so the NCAA before. The dis- HBCUs. So, in effect, 114 of baseball historian John HBCUs are already starting crimination lawsuit she and 159 teams are HBCU teams in HBCU Thorn said. “Granting MLB at lower graduation success other attorneys filed last that've been banned." status to the Negro Leagues a rates, lower academic pro- week in Federal District The bans on those HBCU century after their founding Sports gress rates," Fegan said, "and Court zeroes in on the aca- teams meant less money for is profoundly gratifying.” yet they're being held to the demic penalties. A decade's Please see HBCU/7A 7A SPORTS/The Triangle Tribune Sunday, December 20, 2020 CIAA makes decision HBCUs say no more to cancel tourneys discrimination in academic Continued from page 6A reduce travel, teams will * Feb. 8: Morgan State at rules The team’s matchup play back-to-back on Sat- Howard, ESPNU against Appalachian State urdays and Sundays. Continued from page 6A milestones, like [scoring] every school to the same The MEAC Tournament Allen hires Tatum on Monday was canceled. schools that aren't rich to 1,000 points [for his ca- standard if every school is still scheduled for Toccara Tatum is the The Lady Eagles have start with. And it meant reer]. I finished with 900 don't have the means to March 10-13 at the Norfolk new head women’s bas- played just three games college athletes’ lives were and something. Just [not live up to those - Scope Arena. Teams can ketball coach at Allen Uni- this semester. Division altered. In 2017, Troyce being able to] perform on dards?" still opt out of the season versity, which recently play begins Jan. 2 with Manassa was the senior the big stage. It was just a The NCAA did not re- due to COVID concerns. rejoined the SIAC. Tatum back-to-back contests at captain of the men's bas- bummer for me overall." spond to repeated requests was the head coach at Car- Norfolk State. ketball team at Savannah Now 27, Manassa has for comment on this story. ESPN sets men’s olina University in Win- State University. It's the paused his basketball But over the years, NCAA schedule ston-Salem for the past MEAC basketball oldest public HBCU in odyssey because of the officials have acknowl- Four MEAC men’s games two season and led the The MEAC has updated Georgia. pandemic. He's studying edged, numerous times, are scheduled on ESPN TV Bruins to a 36-21 record. its women’s and men’s A 6-foot-4 guard, Ma- for the GRE and hopes to that academic rules and networks. The four don’t “Tatum is a relentless re- basketball schedules after nassa was named to his all- pursue a masters degree in penalties hurt Black ath- include matchups cruiter with plenty of the opting out of Bethune- conference second team. business research. And he letes and HBCUs dispro- streamed on ESPN3. coaching experience, and Cookman, Maryland East- But his final season ended also has a new role – he's portionately. Still, the rules * Jan. 4: Howard at Nor- we look forward to her ern Shore and Florida A&M with a postseason ban be- one of three named plain- continued. folk State, ESPNU joining the AU family,” women (the men will still cause the team from sev- tiffs in the lawsuit against The NCAA has provided * Jan. 23: N.C. A&T at said athletic director Je- compete.) eral years earlier didn't hit the NCAA. extra money to HBCUs to NCCU, ESPNU rome Fitch. Division play begins on its academic benchmarks. Manassa says he relished help with academic sup- * Feb. 1: NCCU at How- Jan. 2 and ends Feb. 28. To For Manassa, it meant no the nurturing environment port for athletes. But critics ard, ESPN2 chance to shine in tourna- at his HBCU. But having ex- say it still pales in compar- ment play. perienced the penalty of ison to the money that "It caused me a lot of not measuring up academ- large, predominantly white emotional distress," Ma- ically, even though he was- schools spend. The lawsuit nassa said. "Just knowing n't the reason, Manassa asks for compensation for that we could've done feels strongly that the Black college athletes Maker show at Howard is something, knowing I NCAA needs to measure whose teams have been could've had that opportu- more fairly. "All schools are penalized by the APP, and nity. Also knowing I not created equal," he said. for an end to the program on pause for now could've achieved some "So how you going to hold and its penalties. Continued from page 6A to do this on our own. We taken note, come to our sonics for 22 games dur- must build great, sus- schools and, again, we ing the 1977-78 season be- tained programs from the would have benefited fi- COLLEGE CORNER fore being fired; Willis ground up. And we don’t nancially. COVID-19 de- Reed of Grambling who have to count on four- and railed that. And Maker’s had stints with the Knicks five-star players to make it injury has derailed the in- and the Nets; Avery happen. Other schools can terest level, at least, even Johnson, a Southern grad do it like North Carolina further. who was on the cusp of Central grad and head The exposure that a leading the Dallas Mave- coach LeVelle Moton, who player like Maker brings to ricks to an NBA champion- has led his program to Howard, to HBCUs, and ship; and former Jackson three straight MEAC Tour- the interest level that State star Lindsey Hunter, nament championships other highly-ranked re- who was head coach of the and four overall, after tak- cruits potentially playing Phoenix Suns on an in- ing over the NCCU pro- at our schools could bring terim basis in 2013 –are gram two years into its is a good thing. But situ- the only six HBCU alums move from Division II to ations like what is happen- to become head coaches Division I. Coaches and ing at Howard will give in the NBA. Also Rick Ma- schools can build pro- pause to potential recruits. horn, a Hampton alum, grams like Ben Jobe, a Fisk I’m not knocking the sign- was interim head coach of grad who won five confer- ing of Maker, but it’s fleet- the Tulsa Shock of the ence championships, and, ing and if other HBCUs WNBA for a season. in one of his most mem- don’t capitalize financially (Of note, there were only orable moments, led on the opportunities at two, Art Shell and Alcorn Southern to a first round hand, then it’s a waste of State grad Leslie Frazier, in win over ACC champion time. We don’t need the NFL. Both got raw Georgia Tech in the 1993 further exposure. We need deals with their respective NCAA Tournament. By the real dollars. teams. Both deserved a way Jobe, who coached We have done it before, second chance and while both Phills and Johnson, and we can get this done Shell received that chance, should be in the National again– on our own. it was 10 years too late. In College Basketball Hall of Major League Baseball, Fame and the Naismith Donal Ware is the host of there was Cecil Cooper of Memorial Basketball Hall the nationally syndicated Prairie View A&M, Hal of Fame. sports talk radio program McRae of Florida A&M, and This should have been a FROM THE PRESS BOX TO Larry Doby of Virginia situation where Maker PRESS ROW. He is a Mor- Union for half a season in came in, the spotlight gan State University grad- 1978.) shined on Howard and uate and has been Seven HBCU alums in the HBCUs, Burr Gymnasium covering HBCU sports for NBA as head coaches, 12 was filled to capacity more than 20 years. Visit across all American pro- every night, and Howard www.boxtorow.com for fessional sports leagues. benefited financially from more information. Levister Shameful. marketing and exposure. See, we are going to have Other players would have Grant lets North Carolina Central hire golf coach A Tara VanDerveer Fund from each program will insurance, plus football for the Advancement of headline the event on the and basketball and es- Women in Coaching grant SWAC Digital Network. ports. has allowed North Carolina January 13 interviews “SWAC member institu- Central to hire an assistant should be a blockbuster tions have a long and golf coach. with Alabama A&M, Ala- proud history of providing Jameshia Levister, a bama State, Alcorn State, students with a wide range former LPGA Futures Tour Grambling State and Jack- of educational, profes- golfer and NCCU alumna, son State on the same day. sional and career opportu- returns home. Back then, Let the fireworks begin. nities within all branches the Eagles didn’t have a And speaking of the of the U.S. Armed Forces,” women’s golf team, so Le- SWAC, the USAA has be- SWAC Commissioner vister played on the men’s come the Official Military Charles McClelland said. team. Appreciation Partner of the “Several of our campuses She played in the No. 1 conference. The partner- currently offer ROTC pro- spot under coach Pete ship gives the corporation grams while also serving as Hayes, and earned the exclusive rights in prop- a significant recruiting CIAA Men’s Golf Rookie of erty and casualty insur- base for the U.S. Military.” the Year Award. ance, banking and life as a whole.”

MEAC updates Three Courage players spring football With Florida A&M and Be- thune-Cookman opting out re-sign with team of spring football, the MEAC went back to the drawing board to update April 2019 before signing a full contract STAFF REPORTS its spring schedule. in July of that year. She has made two The season will still kick CARY – Three players will return to appearances for the Courage and has off on Feb. 20 and end on the North for 2021 one clean sheet against the Orlando April 3. The inaugural con- after signing contracts. Hailey Harbi- Pride on June 1, 2019. ference championship son, Samantha Murphy, and Ryan Wil- Williams was selected 40th overall in game is April 17, with the liams have each signed a one-year the 2018 NWSL Draft by the Courage. winner advancing to the contract with a one-year option ahead She was signed as a national team re- NCAA FCS playoffs. of the 2021 season. placement player twice during the 2018 The conference is now Harbison was selected 9th overall in season and was able to participate in down to seven football the 2019 NWSL Draft out of Pepperdine. the 2018 Women’s International Cham- teams: four in the Northern Due to an ACL injury, she missed the pions Cup. Division and three in the entire season. Harbison made her first Her first start came in the Women’s South. appearance for the Courage during the ICC Championship which the Courage The new schedule will 2020 Fall Series. She was able to play in won 1-0. In 2019, the defender played have the Northern teams three matches in September and Oc- in four matches. Williams played in one playing four conference tober. match in the NWSL Challenge Cup and games within the division, Murphy first joined the team on a four games during the 2020 Fall Series. goalkeeper replacement contract in and the Southern teams playing each other twice. All seven squads have one open date for a possible money game.

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AMAR REDDY PHOTOGRAPHY Zankhna Parekh, left, is with Jessica McDonald, who is wearing one of her de- signs. Local designer dresses ‘powerful’ women By Freda Freeman otic fabric made of pure Carolina Kristen Cooper CORRESPONDENT silk and hand-done em- was the planned “show- broidery. She describes her stopper” for the spring DURHAM – Zankhna Pa- clothing line as elegant yet show, but it was canceled rekh likes to dress women powerful. due to COVID-19. in clothes that make them Parekh said her designs “These women have a feel confident, empow- are cross-generational, ap- cause; they’ve had amaz- ered, and ready to conquer pealing to 20-year-old trail- ing positions,” Parekh said. their next challenge. Pa- blazers to 50-year-old high “I’ve had mental health rekh is the CEO and cre- achievers. Her newest line, specialists and human ative director of the Zaftan, a modern twist rights activists walk the Durham-based Zankhna on traditional kaftans, is runway. I had a young lady Designs. styled to suit the fashion open my show last She is a physical thera- taste of generations X, Y, fall/winter who was in a COURTESY pist turned fashion de- and Z. She said one of the wheelchair. She’s an advo- signer. Parekh, 43, spent Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker and members of the department hosted main reasons she became a cate for traumatic life in- the first 17 years of her life 17 children during a "Shop with the Sheriff" event at the Walmart on New fashion designer was to juries to young kids. The in Kenya until she moved Bern Avenue in Raleigh. The event was made possible through a grant offer high-end clothes at a young lady who was going to the United States to at- fraction of the cost. to open my awarded by the Walmart Corporation. tend college. “I felt there was a need in spring/summer show has She relocated to North the luxury space for very down syndrome, and she’s Carolina in 2006. Stitching high-end but very unique, a big advocate for hiring and designing since she very modern looking cloth- people with mental disabil- was in the sixth grade, Pa- ing that didn’t cost an arm ities in her coffee shop. rekh launched her busi- and a leg; especially when These are women who are ness in 2013. you’re 30 years old-plus making this world a better “Twenty to 30 years ago, and things start fitting you place.” not everybody was really differently and you have Cooper, who likes the getting into the fashion had kids. I just couldn’t embroidered details and business. I loved medicine; find something out there functionality of Parekh’s I still do. I really have a that was very luxurious pieces, said, “Zankhna’s very health and medically and beautiful, and made of designs make you feel bold oriented mind and life- evergreen fabrics that did- and confident. It’s hard to style. It was an amazing ca- n’t cost $3,000,” she said. find an outfit that makes reer for about 12 to 13 Parekh has held fashion you feel that way. I’m a big years, but then we decided shows throughout the Tri- fan of her work and the to stay home with the kids, angle area to present her message she sends and I thought, I know how designs. The models are through her designs and to stitch, design, and sew… local women who aren’t mission.” why don’t I pursue this professional models. Past Most of the proceeds now for the next chapter of shows have featured U.S. from the fashion shows are my life,” she said. World Cup soccer cham- donated to local charities, Drawing on her three pion Jessica McDonald, such as women’s shelters, geographical backgrounds who lives in North Caro- homeless shelters, and – India, Kenya, and Amer- lina, and Ms. Wheelchair soccer leagues that cater to ica – Parekh travels the North Carolina McKayla children with disabilities. world for unique and ex- Creef. First Lady of North

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