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N.C. Court to Decide the Fate of Voting Rights for Blacks PRESORTED STANDARD .S. POSTAGE PAID WILMINGTON, N.C. PERMIT - NO. 675 50 CENTS Established 1987 THEME: "Greater is Coming!" VOLUME XXVIII, NO. 37 September 10 - September 16, 2015 INSIDE 2 Opinions & Editorials 3 4 Top 10 7 3 Health & Wellness Changing the Back-To-School 4 Career & Education Spirit or Rule Scholarships 5 Business Resources Color of What of Law? 6 Events & Announcements For Black and 7 Spirit & Life You Eat Minority Students 8 Classifieds Black Methodist Leaders N.C. Court to Decide the Fate Organize for Justice of Voting Rights for Blacks By Jazelle Hunt, Washington Correspondent By Freddie Allen Sr. Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Two pivotal court cases in North Carolina will determine the balance of political power in the state for years to come, and may signal the future of voting rights nationwide, ac- cording to civil rights and vot- ing rights advocates working in the state. Bishop John R. Bryant, Senior Bishop AME Church listens to a In the wake of the United speaker during a press conference with clergymen representing States Supreme Court decision the African Episcopal Church (AME) at the National Press Club in Shelby County vs. Holder in Washington, D.C. on September 2. A portrait of the slain Rev. that gutted Section 5 of the Vot- Clementa Pinckney of Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. LQJ5LJKWV$FW1RUWK&DUROLQD is in the background. (Freddie Allen/NNPA News Wire Service) state legislators passed H.B. 589, which shortened early WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Flanked by images of the nine voting by a week, eliminated Rev. William Barber II, the president of the North Carolina State Conference men and women at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., same day registration during of the NAACP speaks during the America’s Journey for Justice at the Lincoln and the four little girls killed in the 1963 bombing of 16th Street the early voting period, prohib- Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., among other victims of ited voters from casting out-of- Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Freddie Allen/NNPA News Wire) racial violence, a coalition of Black Methodist leaders stepped precinct provisional ballots, ex- VTXDUHO\LQWRWKHFXUUHQW¿JKWIRUUDFLDOMXVWLFH “[H.B. 589] makes it hard- convener of Moral Monday Center for Justice at New York The coalition announced its social and political goals via a panded the ability to challenge er to register to vote, harder to Movement, called H.B. 589 University School of Law, a voters at the polls, removed the “Liberty and Justice for All” press conference, held at the Na- cast a ballot, and harder to have “the worst and the most cyni- non-partisan public policy and tional Press Club in Washington, D.C. pre-registration program for 16 that ballot counted,” said Li- cal voter suppression law in law institute, voter imperson- and 17 years-olds and imple- “We…are complicit due to our lack of follow-through. God eberman. the country” and said that the ation at the polls is more rare alerted us in March of 2010 when we gathered in Columbia, mented a strict photo ID re- During the trial, lawyers attempts to roll back opportu- than someone getting struck by quirement. Lawmakers eased South Carolina to sound the alarm regarding the plight of Af- for the state chapter of the nities put in place to overcome lightning. rican American males. Prior to Trayvon [Martin], prior to Eric the photo ID requirement lead- NAACP presented clear evi- past and ongoing discrimina- “We know that African ing up to the N.C. NAACP vs. *DUQHUSULRUWR0LFKDHO%URZQ´VDLG5HY6WDFFDWR3RZHOORI dence that each of these provi- tion are reminiscent of the days Americans and Latinos were *UDFH$0(=LRQ&KXUFKLQ5DOHLJK1& McCrory court case. sions was designed with the in- of Jim Crow. far more likely to use same day In that case, lawyers for “We were saying this then. However, to our own shame and tent to discriminate and has the “We have never seen since registration out-of-precinct vot- detriment, we confess the lack of follow-through. We wrote the the plaintiffs argued that H.B. impact of disproportionately the days of Jim Crow the at- LQJDQGWKH¿UVWZHHNRIHDUO\ 589 discriminates against check, but failed to deposit the resources to make it a negotiable burdening the right to vote for tempt to roll back opportunities voting and the other measures instrument of fact.” Black and other minority vot- African American and Latino and provision put in our voting that were restricted and elimi- ers. Comprised of representatives from the African Methodist voters in North Carolina, said policies to overcome past barri- nated by H.B. 589, what’s more Episcopal (A.M.E.), African Methodist Episcopal Zion (A.M.E. Denise Lieberman, a Lieberman. ers to overcome past discrimi- is that we know that lawmakers senior attorney with the Ad- Zion), and Christian Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.) churches, the “Our lawsuit argued that nation and continuing barriers knew that before they passed FRDOLWLRQKRSHVWRLQÀXHQFHIHGHUDOVWDWHDQGORFDOJRYHUQPHQWV vancement Project, a multira- H.B. 589 violates Section 2 of and continuing discrimination. the H.B. 589, because they cial civil rights group, called in changing biased and discriminatory policies. It also aims to WKH 95$ DV ZHOO DV WK DQG We know that whole prem- implemented those measures call the faith community to political action. the N.C. voting law “the most 15th amendments of the United ise of this law was fraudulent, precisely to make voting more onerous voting law in the coun- About 150 clergy members, faith professionals, National States Constitution,” Lieber- because it was the claim of accessible for the very commu- Pan-Hellenic Council members, media, and more – including try” and said that it combines man added. fraud,” said Barber, adding that nities that ended up using them nearly every conceivable voter %ODFN/LYHV0DWWHUDI¿OLDWHVDQGDUHODWLYHRI5HY'H3D\QH0LG- 5HY :LOOLDP %DUEHU ,, there has been no evidence of the most,” said Lieberman. dleton-Doctor, one of the Charleston Nine victims – attended the suppression tactic to attack vot- president of N.C. State Confer- voting fraud in the state. ing at every step of the process. press conference. ence of the NAACP and the According to the Brennan Fate continued on page 3 At the event, A.M.E., A.M.E. Zion, and C.M.E faith leaders outlined a list of political demands, with criminal justice reform chief among them. Others included a reversal of biased drug Nature: Study Creates Cell Immunity laws, body cameras for all law enforcement and deployment of Justice continued on page 5 to Parasite That Infects 50 Million Serena Williams Teams Up There are two common ap- proaches to protecting humans with Nike for ‘Greatness from infectious disease: Tar- geting pathogens and parasites Collection’ Sneaker Trio with medicines like antibiotics, By Chelsea Lenora White or dealing with the conditions Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times that allow transmission. A paper The parasite E. histolytica is published today in the journal 1DWXUH6FLHQWL¿F5HSRUWVGHP- a major cause of dysentery onstrates the effectiveness of a third strategy: Adjusting the in the developing world. New landscape of the human body to remove the mechanism that study pinpoints genes that allows pathogens to cause dis- ease. The discovery is the result may offer cell immunity to this of serendipity and collaboration between high-level scientists in parasite that infects 50 million. GLIIHUHQW¿HOGV "It was pure luck that I end- ed up on this paper," says Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD, direc- tor of the University of Colorado As the U.S. Open kicked off August 31st, Nike surprised all Cancer Center. "Bill Petri and I with the announcement of their newest partnership. had been social friends for years discover if the loss of any single "We do this all the time in thousands of these independent The renowned lifestyle and sportswear brand snagged ten- – Christmas parties, that kind of gene would confer immunity to cancer research," Theodorescu cell cultures. However, a small nis all-star Serena Williams to curate a trio of sneakers for their thing. When I was at Virginia the parasite E. histolytica, which says. "Commonly, we're looking number of cells seemed to resist Greatness Collection in honor of her iconic tennis career. it happened that we were on a infects 50 million people and for genes that, when silenced, the parasite. 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