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WWW.TRIANGLE TRIBUNE.COM 1998 15 YEARS Hopeful signs for a cure in The Triangle 2013 the ByHIV/AIDS Jazelle Hunt Andwar she certainly is living. Now NNPA WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT 51, Thornton is an Emmy-Award winner, author, life coach and mo- WASHINGTON – Rae Lewis tivational speaker, jewelry designer Thornton likes to sneak in a tranquil and avid reader. tea time between expanding her “One thing I’ve done is live incred- RIBUNE brand and the 16 pills she has to ibly well with this disease,” said TTHE TRIANGLE’S CHOICE FOR THE BLACK VOICE take each day. But that’s nothing Thornton, who lives in Chicago. “But compared to the 21 pills she was don’t confuse my HIV now with how taking in her darkest days of bat- it used to be. Now, they can keep VOLUME 15 NO. 40 WEEK OF DECEM BER 8, 2013 $1.00 tling full-blown AIDS. you here and you can live a long life, Thornton was diagnosed with HIV but it is a very hard life.” at 23 years old after attempting to As of 2010, the HIV/AIDS mortal- donate blood. The following year ity rate is 2.7 (per 100,000), down she shared her story and made the from 8.3 in 1990. Thanks to ad- cover of Essence magazine, instant- vances in research, treatment and Exploitation of ly becoming toe face of HIV/AIDS global management, HIV-positive for young, successful, heterosexu- people are living longer, better lives. black college al black women – catapulting her- “It’s a mixed bag. We are still sad- self into a life of activism and min- dened by every new infection, and athletes istry. Today, she continues to min- they’re still happening so rapidly,” ister, teach and welcome the world said Adam Tenner, executive direc- into her life through her award-win- tor of D.C.-based nonprofit Metro ning syndicated blog, Diva Living Teen AIDS. “But it’s not like the old with AIDS. See HOPEFUL/2A Teachers McCrory face honors former campus NCCU risks By Carolyn Thompson chancellorSTAFF REPORTS ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH – Governor Pat When a 16-year-old student McCrory recently honored Dr. slammed a metal trashcan onto Julius L. Chambers posthu- Philip Raimondo’s head, it did mously for over 20 years of more than break open the his- service in higher education. tory teacher’s scalp, knock him His son, Derrick Chambers, out and send him bleeding to accepted the Spirit of North the floor. Carolina award on behalf of “It changed my whole world,” the family Raimondo said about the at- at the tack in the school where he Governor’s taught for 22 years. Award for Experts say the phenomenon Excellence of student-on-teacher violence ceremony is too often ignored. “There’s at the NC some reluctance to think that Museum of the teaching profession can be History. Dr. unsafe,” said Dr. Dorothy Chambers Espelage of the University of died in Illinois. PHOTO/LATISHA CATCHATOORIAN August The educational psychology 2013 after professor recently headed a na- Well-wishers greet outgoing City Councilman Howard Clement. months of tional task force on classroom failing violence directed at teachers. health in Chambers The group found that little has the wake of a been done to try to understand heart attack. or prevent such incidents de- Dr. Chambers is only the sec- spite the potential implications Community honors retiring ond person to receive such an on teacher retention and stu- honor, which is presented to dent performance, among oth- state employees who have mentored others in the pursuit councilmanBy Latisha Catchatoorian and I justHoward thank God for giving me the councilClement in 1983, came in at the height of excellence and whose [email protected] opportunity.” of the revitalization and construction achievements are of the high- Clement’s wife Ann wheeled her smil- of downtown Durham. He saw many lo- est caliber. The governor gives DURHAM – A.J. Howard Clement, a 30- ing, suit-clad husband around the crowd cal buildings and landmarks go up, such the award to employees who year City Council member, retired from of constituents. Parkinson’s disease did- as the Durham Bulls baseball stadium exemplify the state motto “To the board Monday night. Friends, fam- n’t slow him down as he greeted friends and what is now the Durham Marriott. be, rather than to seem.” ily and colleagues gathered to pay hom- and guests who clamored to get a word “Howard has been very much a part “Dr. Chambers is best known age to Clement as he stepped down and of thanks in. of the great things happening in as a civil rights champion dur- his replacement, Eddie Davis, was sworn “It’s a little bittersweet,” he said. “I’m Durham,” Mayor William (Bill) Bell said. ing his career as a private liti- in. glad I’m here, but I’m sad to say good- Clement, who is originally from gator and as director-counsel “It’s been a wonderful experience,” bye. It’s a great city.” Charleston, S.C., arrived in Durham in of the NAACP Legal Defense Clement said. “I am so grateful for the Clement, who was appointed to the Please seeCOMMUNITY/2A Please seeTEACHER/3A opportunity to have served 30 years, Please seeMcCrory/2A N.C. NAACP leads picket against state budget director By Latisha laws that keep his customers Foundation and Civitas Catchatoorian and workers poor.” Pope’s Institute. Brown calls this stores target areas with a me- [email protected] “bought-and-paid-for politics.” dian household income of Pope has backed laws that CHAPEL HILL – N.C. Budget $40,000 or less and at least 25 cut aid to the jobless, reduce Director Art Pope is also the percent of the African- early voting, trim health serv- head of Roses and Maxway dis- American population. ices for women and children, count stores. Pope is being crit- “Art Pope makes his millions end the Racial Justice Act, and icized for using money from from places like Roses, which more. He also was an incre- his stores to fund right-wing he usually puts in low-income mental part of creating racial- groups and legislation that communities and then takes ly discriminatory maps for the harm the working class and that money and uses it to live new General Assembly and poor. whatever lifestyle he chooses congressional districts, pack- Picketers passed out infor- to live,” said Barrett Brown, ed- ing black citizens into a small mation regarding Pope’s prac- ucation chair for the Alamance number of districts, which is tices near a Roses store at chapter of the NAACP. called gerrymandering. University Mall. Brown said Pope then makes “We are out here because According to the N.C. “huge contributions” to con- they are cutting all the mental NAACP, a reported $40 million servative political candidates health programs, the Medicaid; linked to Pope’s stores have so they can pass bills engi- they’re just cutting all these gone to political donations and neered by right-wing think social things for people,” pick- PHOTO/LATISHA CATCHATOORIAN right-wing groups that “pass tanks like the John W. Pope See NC NAACP/2A Picketers at a Roses store in Chapel Hill protest Art Pope’s policies. SchoolBy Mike Meno boardThe meeting marked atcensors least Anyone who values academ- continue“Although some may think the third time this year that a THE POLICY WATCH ic freedom and believes that that censorship is a relic from North Carolina school board students should be taught crit- a bygone age, the urge to sup- The Brunswick County Board has openly considered remov- ical thinking skills should be press seemingly dangerous or of Education recently met to ing from a reading list or alto- greatly concerned by calls to offensive thoughts will exist discuss whether or not to re- gether banning a critically ac- keep students away from great as long as human beings con- move the Pulitzer Prize-win- claimed work of literature af- books. Sadly, even in 2013, tinue to think,” Brian Hauss, a ning novel “The Color Purple” ter a small group of parents these dangerous trends persist from a high school reading list. complained about its content. across the country. See SCHOOL 3A Juniper Level renovates Index To subscribe: 919-688-9408 or Follow The former online http://tcppc.com/Subscribe Tribune on Editorial 4A Sports 1B Rosenwald Email: [email protected] Please School Focus 6A Classifieds 4B © 2013 The Triangle Tribune Arts & Life 5B Religion 6B recycle 2A NEWS/The Triangle Tribune Sunday, December 8, 2013 “Things in 2013 are very, secret access to something HopefulContinued from 1A signs of a teriorationcure in others, in kidney struggle againstdifficult, expensive illness,HIV/AIDSer layer of health care access very, very different than it was disease, hepatitis, bone loss others don’t have access to.” and without insurance it’s when President Obama days, when we were burying in 1982 or 1992, or even and even nerve damage. Improved treatment has hard to fight. Young people signed the HIV Organ Policy people very quickly after di- 2002,” said Phill Wilson, People had to take a hand- also unexpectedly given rise with HIV/AIDS have usually Equity Act into law. First in- agnosis. We spend so much founder and director of the ful of these pills, several times to the development of preven- been ineligible for insurance troduced in February, the time looking at what’s broken, Black AIDS Institute. “The daily. And usually doctors tative measures beyond the for their pre-existing condi- HOPE Act revises current laws we don’t often look at what’s treatments available today are wouldn’t start prescribing condom.

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