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WWW.TRIANGLE TRIBUNE.COM The Triangle Judges skeptical about North Carolina voting RIBUNE law Bychanges Alan Suderman and Gary D. Robertson TTHE TRIANGLE’S CHOICE FOR THE BLACK VOICE ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND, Va. – Members of a federal appeals court expressed skepti- cism Tuesday that North Carolina's 2013 major rewrite to voting laws, re- VOLUME 18 NO. 18 $1.00 quiring photo identification to cast in-person ballots, doesn't discriminate WEEK OF JUNE 26, 2016 against minorities. The three-judge panel met Tuesday to hear arguments over whether to overturn an April trial court ruling upholding the law. Six Athletics baseball Judge Henry F. Floyd questioned the timing of the changes - done after coach honored for Republicans took control of state government for the first time in a century and after the U.S. Supreme Court undid key provisions of the Voting Rights 20th anniversary of Act - and whether they weren't done to suppress minority votes for politi- cal gain. "It looks pretty bad to me," Floyd said. first league title But the law's authors said they were aiming to prevent voter fraud and in- crease public confidence in elections. "It was not a nefarious thing," said Thomas A. Farr, an attorney representing the state. The U.S. Justice Department, state NAACP, League of Women Voters and others sued the state, saying the restrictions violated the remaining provi- sions of the federal Voting Rights Act and the Constitution. The 4th U.S. Please seeJUDGES/2A New Atwater candidates Civil for WWP rights president andWORKERS VP WORLD PARTY 2016 activist DURHAM – North Carolina ac- tivists kicked off the Monica Moore- By Latisha head/Lamont Lilly for president dies LATISHA CATCHATOORIAN E and vice president campaign on Catchatoorian North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus members donate scholarship funds to its June 14, Republican presidential [email protected] candidate Donald Trump’s birth- DURHAM – Legendary civil foundation. day. rights activist Ann Atwater died Activists from across the Triangle on Monday. She spent her life gathered to send a message to championing educational and Trump that workers and oppressed economic equality for African- people do not support him. His rise Americans in Durham. reflects a desperate and dangerous Atwater died at Duke Hospital effort to destroy working-class just a few weeks shy of her 81st Black Caucus unity by trying to turn the anger of birthday. white workers away from billion- Atwater suffered in recent aires like himself and against their years from several health com- immigrant, Mexican, Arab, Muslim, plications and was confined to a foundation raises African, Asian, Indigenous sisters hospital bed in her home (made and brothers in this country and possible by a community across the world. fundraising effort) and was as- “Prisoners cannot vote, and they sisted with public outings in a are dying in our local jails. Youth year. with the help of professors wheelchair. Neither of those thousandsBy Latisha for HBCUs cannot vote, and our schools are Shaw University senior and staff members, it’s been things dulled her spirit. Catchatoorian being underfunded. Undocu- Camery Hunt is this year’s more than worth it. “She fought hard and stayed [email protected] mented workers cannot vote, and William L. Wainwright schol- “My career goals after grad- the course,” Mayor Bill Bell said. DURHAM – The North Car- the border walls just keep getting arship recipient. An only uation are to attend graduate “She had her own personal prob- olina Legislative Black Cau- higher, and U.S. foreign policy con- child from a small town in school at UNC-Greensboro lems, but that still didn’t stop cus Foundation raised tinues to displace the masses,” said North Carolina, Hunt will be (and) major in specialized her fighting for what was right.” $140,000 in scholarship campaign coordinator L.T. Pham at the first in her family to earn education services, with a Born in 1935 in Hallsboro, funds for HBCU students at the press conference. “Workers a college degree. minor in business adminis- North Carolina, Atwater came to its annual scholarship ban- World Party is running an election “Obtaining a degree is such tration. Upon receiving my Durham as a young married quet last week. campaign in the spirit of fighting a major milestone for master’s degree, my desire is teenager. The discrimination Every year the NCLBC back against the ills of capitalism. me…receiving (this scholar- to open my own day care fa- she faced as a black woman and Foundation hosts a banquet We are not running because we ship) has assisted me cility in Atlanta, which I will the racism she witnessed to honor the importance of want to win a seat in the White tremendously with my col- call Happy Hands Day Care around her propelled her into a HBCUs and educating our House, but because now, more than lege expenses and the pur- Center,” she said. lifetime of activism. After her di- youth. The Caucus saw a ever, workers and oppressed peo- chasing of my textbooks,” Rep. Garland Pierce, D-48, vorce, she raised their two need for programs that ple must unite to overcome the Hunt said. said that we know the impor- daughters alone in extreme championed African-Ameri- forces like Donald Trump and Hunt is majoring in pre- tance of graduating our poverty. can youth, and, as a result, Hillary Clinton who will only make kindergarten education and young boys and girls from She was approached by formed the foundation, matters worse. “ said her academic journey universities, but we “have to Howard Fuller to join Operation which sponsors the educa- Workers World Party is organizing hasn’t always been easy, but Breakthrough, a program to help tion scholarship event each Please see BLACK/2A a mass campaign for real revolu- people escape poverty, and tionary alternatives in this election slowly but surely became a year: to abolish capitalism, defend leader in the fight for economic the Black Lives Matter movement justice. She mobilized poor and fight for revolutionary social- blacks in Durham to stand up ism. Our candidates are launching for their rights. campaigns across the country for “Her amazing spirit, willing- Forward Cities plans to move ballot access. Here in North Car- ness and ability to reach over olina, with its oppressive laws for the racial divide in such a dan- third parties, nearly 100,000 veri- gerous era are a testament to the fied signatures are needed to get on human spirit,” wrote Shannon DurhamBy Maria Magher forward to progress the ballot. Yet, the Workers World Talton in her remembrance of CORRESPONDENT Party Durham branch is launching a Atwater. DURHAM – Durham has seen a campaign for official write-in status One of Atwater’s most well- in North Carolina. known interactions was her re- great deal of change in the past few years. Trump was greeted by hundreds lationship with former Ku Klux of protestors, including four that Klan member C.P. Ellis. In 1971 While the city has recently blossomed with trendy new got arrested, in Greensboro last both Atwater and Ellis were week. We salute and joined the asked to co-lead a charrette in- restaurants, exciting tech com- panies, growing educational pro- protests to shut him down here in tended to manage the transition North Carolina and everywhere he of Durham public schools’ inte- grams and innovative entrepreneurship, it was not all spews his hate speech and bigotry. gration after schools had been When he was in Raleigh in Novem- facing violent protests to deseg- too long ago that downtown was desolate and struggling with ber, we were on the frontlines of or- regation. ganizing the protest that shut him Both strongly resented each high crime rates and a bad repu- tation. down and made him end his other upon their first meeting, speech early. but soon found common Yet many would say that de- spite these encouraging ad- We support the lesbian, gay, bi- ground when they realized both COURTESY PHOTO sexual, transgendered and queer wanted the best for their chil- vances, Durham is still struggling, and if community The Hillside High School Pep Band entertains at a reception. peoples' organizing and uprisings dren. around the state against House Bill “Here we are, two people from leaders don't think proactively, the problems will only get home in favor of 'progressive co-founder Christopher Gergen 2, and those being targeted by vio- the far end of the fence, having policies.'" said. lence, such as in Orlando last week- identical problems, except her worse. "Durham, like many urban en- In particular, Boyd said, the "One notion is that innovation end. being black and me being city is seeing a lot of minorities is ultimately the future of our With the racist police killings of white…The amazing thing vironments across the country, has many challenges staring it in being displaced by the economic country and our economy and Akiel Denkins in Raleigh, Jesus about it, her and I, up to that system and the rise of apathy our community well-being." Huerta and La’Vante Biggs in point, [had] cussed each other its face," said Ed Boyd, the chief strategy officer of iNvictus among those in the position to But the group believes that in- Durham, and, recently, Deriante (out), bawled each other, we provide aid. novation and entrepreneurship Miller in Kinston, we stand with the hated each other. Up to that Group Holdings in Durham. "Among them are a growing eco- These are precisely the issues shouldn't come at any cost; they movement to challenge racist po- point, we didn’t know each that the Forward Cities initiative should be promoted thought- lice murders.