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Was Wilmington Journal Bomb Scare Mishandled? Serving Southeastern North Carolina since 1927 and an outgrowth of R.S. Jervay Printers established in 1901 OUTOUTside Looking ININ OUR VOICE News from the African American perspective without fear or favor VOLUME 88/NO. 41 OCTOBER 8-OCTOBER 14, 2015 FIFTY CENTS EXCLUSIVEEXCLUSIVE DR. E. FAYE WILLIAMS WAS WILMINGTON JOURNAL GUEST EDITORIAL BY DR. E. FAYE WILLLIAMS “When will it end?” PAGE 4 BOMB SCARE MISHANDLED? BY CASH MICHAELS Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 9 a.m. The The Carolinian and Wilmington Outraged citizens are now asking COMMENTARY OF THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL Wilmington Police Dept. Bomb Squad Journal. Indeed a partial police report the Wilmington Police Dept., "Do our had to be deployed. on the incident was not made available black lives matter?" [WILMINGTON] Unless you saw a "Su-spicious electronic device found to either newspaper by the Wilmington First, the facts. photograph with a caption on the front outside Police Dept. until Tuesday, Oct. 6, five According to the Wilmington Police page of The Carolinian Newspaper in of black days after it was requested on Dept. partial report (only one page of Raleigh last week, or read a short piece newspa- NEWS Thursday,Oct. 1st. the report was made public), at 9 a.m. about it in The Wilmington Journal the per; ANALYSIS And during the time that the on Wednesday Sept. 30, a "suspicious next day, you would have been hard bomb Wilmington Bomb Squad was on the package" was discovered at 412 S. pressed to learn that an electronic squad scene investigating the strange device, Seventh Street in Wilmington. The device with loose wires, and plugged probes" should have been the headline. while the street was reportedly blocked "reporting person" was listed on the into an outside building outlet was But instead, no television station in off to stave off traffic, there was no found operating inside a Journal vend- Wilmington, let alone the state, report- evacuation of any of the residents on Please see ed it. Neither did any other newspa- either side of the Journal's building, ing machine just outside the newspa- BOMB SCARE/Page 2 per's offices on South Seventh Street on pers in town, or anywhere else, except across the street, or on the block at all. WHY WE ARE GATHERING ON OCT. 10 TO DEMAND 'JUSTICE OR ELSE' DR. JULIANNE MALVEAUX COMMENTARY BY DR. JULIANNE MALVEAUX “Ben Carson: The brother from another planet” PAGE 4 BRUNSWICK PATRISSE CULLORS COUNTY UPDATE Co-founder of #BlackLives Matter to speak in NC DURHAM, N.C. -- Patrisse Cullors, co- founder of the #BlackLivesMatter move- PHOTO BY ROY LEWIS/TRICE EDNEY NEWS WIRE ment, will speak Wednesday, Oct. 28, in During summer rally and announcement, Minister Louis Farrakhan applauds as the Page Auditorium at Duke University. Rev. Jamal-Harrison Bryant welcomes women to the 'Justice or Else' march in celebration The 7 p.m. event is free and open to the of the 20th anniversary of the 1995 Million Man March. Tamika D. Mallory, National public, but tickets are required. Tickets Executive Director of the Nation Action Network responds with a raised fist. will be available from the Page Auditorium box office beginning Oct. 14 for members of the Duke community BERNEST HEWETT and starting Oct. 21 for the general pub- Nation of Islam Invites Thousands to lic. BY BERNEST HEWETT Cullors is a Los Angeles-based artist CONTRIBUTING WRITER 20th Anniversary of Million Man March and activist. She co-founded #BlackLivesMatter in 2013 together with A CALL FOR (TriceEdneyWire.com) - Editor's Note: With a back- address at 1 p.m. (EST). Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi in drop of intense protests against repeated police shootings The following is an open letter to America from the response to the killing of Trayvon ASSISTANCE of unarmed Black people, poverty, economic inequality chief organizer and visionary, Nation of Islam leader, Martin, a Florida African-American and other injustices, this Saturday's 20th Anniversary of Minister Louis Farrakhan. In it, he outlines the mean- teenager, and the acquittal of shooter When the rain storm came the 1995 Million Man March is expected to draw thou- ing of the demand - 'Justice or Else'. For more details George Zimmerman. and the water began to rise, sands of men and women to the National Mall in on the Oct 10 gathering, please visit JusticeorElse.com. What began as a social media hashtag when people began to need Washington D.C. for a gathering, 'Justice or Else'. The following are the words of Minister Louis on Twitter quickly became a broader help, when houses filled up ccording to spokesmen for the Nation of Farrakhan:(SPECIAL TO TRICE EDNEYWIRE.COM) movement, inspiring protests in with water, when cars and Islam, the gathering will start at the This October will mark the 20th Anniversary of the response to a series of deaths of trucks filled up with water, steps of the U. S. Capitol and people will African-Americans in police custody. In there was a call for assistance. assemble down the National Mall. There was no call for the color AThere will be a sunrise prayer service of those who brought the assis- beginningA at 7a.m. The program will start at 10 a.m. Please see MARCH/Page 2 tance. There came together a (EST). Minister Louis Farrakhan will give the keynote Please see CULLORS/Page 2 combined effort of men and women toward the betterment of mankind. Then, why is First Black student to integrate NEXT WEEK: there so much hatred TRIBUTES expressed when there are FROM FAMILY peaceful times? NH County public schools dies at 65 AND FRIENDS I would like to know what goes on in the minds of people SPECIAL TO High School. He was in the 7th grade. having to get up and go to school," who hate just because of the THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL McCrae's father, the late Rev. Aaron Adrian McCrae said Monday. color of a person's skin. As a BY FRANCES WELLER OF WECT McCrae, Sr., filed a lawsuit against During an interview with WUNC Black man, I find that Blacks the Board of Education. It was that radio in August, 2008, McCrae usually teach their people Aaron McCrae, the first black stu- lawsuit, and the Wilmington minis- recalled the challenges becoming the peace, faith, and love, not hate. dent to attend an all-white school in ter's perseverance that led to desegre- first black to attend an all-white New Hanover County, passed away gation in public schools. school. Here's an excerpt from that I was taught to that, it I worked last week at 65. His family says he McCrae would tell his sons over the interview: died from liver cancer. years that things did not go smoothly. I did remain strong. I never let them Please see It was 1962 when McCrae became "My dad told me that he went to BRUNSWICK/Page 2 the first black student to walk into the school and suffered discrimination AARON MCCRAE then all-white Chestnut Street Junior on a day-to-day basis and he hated Please see MCCRAE/Page 3 TO ADVERTISE OR SUBSCRIBE, VISIT US AT CALL (910) 762-5502 WWW.WILMINGTONJOURNAL.COM 2 CONTINUED Thursday, October 8, 2015 BOMB SCARE have, according to local resi- female teens were arrested for dents, at least publically calling in three false bomb Continued from Page 1 explained why it saw no reason threats to area schools, Sheriff ISSN 0049-7649 - AN to evacuate the area to the local Sid Causey said that bomb INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER report as Shawn Jervay Dedicated to R.S. Jervay, media. threats cost money and time Founder of R.S. Jervay Thatch, the Wilmington But that didn't happen. In and scare parents." Printers, 1901 Journal's office manager. fact, Journal supporter, Linda February 21, 2008 - The and T.C. Jervay, Sr., Founder Outside of giving the report- Pearce, said she called a local Ports' Authority gave employ- of The Wilmington Journal, ing officer's name and listing An offspring of the Cape Fear television station about the ees at the Cape Fear River Port Journal, 1927 the case status as "inactive", incident, and said she was told the option of not reporting to Published Weekly At nothing else of relevance is by the station that WPD said work after a bomb threat was 412 South Seventh Street, noted on WPD report page. But there was nothing to be con- made. In a statement, the Wilmington, NC 28401 Linda Rawley, Public Affairs By Black Press SENC, LLC cerned about. authority said, "The Ports' P.O. Box 1020, Wilmington, Officer for the WPD, did answer "I was upset because the Authority's first concern is for NC 28402 a number of questions about police told the media it was no the safety of its employees, ten- Periodical Postage Paid At the police investigation that are big deal," Pearce wrote in a ants, customers, and the pub- Wilmington, NC 28402 referenced in this story. (910) 762-5502, piece published in the Journal lic." Fax: (910) 343-1334, In an interview, Ms. Shawn Oct. 1. "I know because I called Oct. 1, 2008 - An office build- Email: [email protected] Thatch said she was reporting them, and they told me that's ing at 17th Street and Website: to work that morning at 9 a.m., what they were told. There Independence Blvd. was evacu- www.wilmingtonjournal.com and as she was about to enter Single Copy 50 Cents were no alerts that the neigh- ated after an employee report- Subscription Rates the building, she heard a noise bors could have seen on their ed to work at 7:30 a.m.
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