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WWW.TRIANGLE TRIBUNE.COM Harris team says it The Triangle was blindsided by VP- elect’s Vogue cover By Darlene Superville RIBUNE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TTHE TRIANGLE’S CHOICE FOR THE BLACK VOICE WILMINGTON, Del. — Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has landed on the cover of the February issue of Vogue magazine, but her team says there’s a problem: the shot of the country’s VOLUME 23 NO. 3 WEEK OF JANUARY 17, 2021 $1.00 soon-to-be No. 2 leader isn’t what both sides had agreed upon. Instead of the powder blue power suit Harris wore for her cover shoot, the first African American woman elected vice pres- ident is instead seen in more casual attire and wearing Converse North Carolina Central’s Chuck Taylor sneakers, which she sometimes wore on the cam- Cassie King among six paign trail. Harris’ team was unaware that the cover photo had been inductees into CIAA Hall switched until images leaked late Saturday, according to a per- son involved in the negotiations over how Harris would be fea- of Fame. tured on the cover. Harris’ office declined comment and the person spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity. In a statement, Vogue said it went with the more informal image of Harris for the cover because the photo captured her “authentic, approachable nature, which we feel is one of the hall- marks of the Biden-Harris administration.” Please see HARRIS/2A Slow You can vaccine be fired rollout for bad concern behavior By Bryan Anderson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS off job RALEIGH — Lawmakers said Tuesday in a meeting By Elizabeth C. Tippett with North Carolina’s top THE CONVERSATION public health official that the state lacks organiza- Can you be fired for joining tion, flexibility and needs a violent mob that storms to give better instructions the Capitol? Of course you to counties on how to ad- can. minister the coronavirus Among the jarring images vaccine. of white insurrectionists who Data from the Centers broke into the U.S. Capitol on for Disease Control and Jan. 6 was a man marching Prevention on Monday through the building holding ranked North Carolina as a Trump flag with his work the 10th slowest state in ID badge still draped around the country per capita in his neck. It didn’t take long administering doses. A for internet sleuths to zoom fourth of the more than in on the badge and alert his 820,000 doses distributed employer, Navistar Direct thus far to North Carolina Marketing, a Maryland direct have been administered, LIAM EDWARDS | UNSPLASH mail printing company. according to state data Black Lives Matter protest rallies were more diverse last year. The company promptly shared with the CDC. fired the man and contacted Mandy Cohen, secretary the FBI, issuing a statement of the state Department of that “any employee demon- Health and Human Serv- strating dangerous conduct King holiday brings that endangers the health ices, praised Iredell and Robeson counties for ex- and safety of others will no hausting their supplies longer have an employment and not keeping any doses opportunity.” on the shelf but acknowl- reflection on African Even though the Capitol edged other systems have Police let all but 14 of the unnecessarily reserved rioters walk away, the FBI extra supply out of fear the and District of Columbia po- federal government will lice have begun tracking fail to ship secondary American progress them down. Other com- doses. panies have also taken action North Carolina’s slow By Freda Freeman progress is being eroded. of the U.S. Capitol by Trump against employees identified in the many photos from in- pace is not unusual, given CORRESPONDENT Although progress ebbs and supporters] showed that many states are have vac- flows, African Americans must clearly there’s 25% to 35% of side the Capitol. Even the DURHAM – Black people are cinated around 2% to 3% of stand united in the continued America that is blatantly rac- CEO of a data analytics firm through waiting for change their populations. Produc- fight for their rights and to fa- ist. And when you look at the found himself without a job and asking for permission. tion will only continue to cilitate healing by getting the votes that Trump got, there’s following his arrest. As the nation observes the ramp up, with vaccines country to face its racist past an additional 10% to 15% that Non-unionized workers in Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s being more widely avail- and white privilege. are racist sympathizers who the United States – about 90% birthday, many are looking able by the late spring or “I think, on its face, things are just numb or don’t care of all workers – are employed back over recent events and early summer. A number may look better, but I think at-will. That means you can asking themselves if Black Please see KING/2A of factors have contributed what we saw this week [siege be terminated at any time, to North Carolina’s rocky without notice, for any rea- rollout. Cohen pointed to son. It doesn’t even have to ever-changing federal be a good reason. Unless the guidance complicating company has guaranteed matters. A CDC advisory your job in writing, or there panel urged states to give «REVIEW is a specific law that protects higher priority to adults 75 your conduct – such as laws years or older a week into protecting union organizing vaccine distribution. or whistleblowing – your fate President Donald ‘MLK/FBI’ explores the is up to them. Trump’s administration is The law is more protective expected to once again up- when it comes to unionized date its guidelines to ex- roots of an American ill will workers and government pand preference to those employees. These workers who are at least 65 years By Mark Kennedy may have the right to be ter- old. The administration minated only for cause, and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS also plans to stop holding they might get a hearing pro- back millions of second There’s an iconic photograph cess prior to being dis- doses. “I’m all for course of the Rev. Martin Luther King ciplined. Government corrections in the middle, Jr. that was taken as he trium- workers are also protected but understand course phantly boarded one of the by the First Amendment, par- corrections mean that we first integrated buses in Mont- ticularly when it comes to have to change what we’re gomery, Alabama. It was 1956 free speech in their capacity doing and it means the and King looks out a window, as citizens rather than plans that were put in firmly at the front of the bus, speech related to the work- place do need to adjust,” almost gazing toward his place. Cohen said. “We’re going movement’s next big social That’s why the teachers to incorporate new guid- hurdle. The image was taken and off-duty police officers ance as fast as we can and by Ernest Withers, a key chron- spotted at the Capitol have keep moving forward and icler of the civil rights move- only been suspended pend- continue with that sense of ment — and an FBI informant. ing investigations, rather urgency of wanting to get That the FBI wanted some- than fired outright. For these AP PHOTO vaccine out.” one close and watching King is workers, their fate may de- During a Tuesday after- at the heart of director Sam The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to thousands during his "I pend on whether they were noon news conference, Pollard’s engrossing documen- Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the peacefully participating in the day’s earlier rally – an ac- Democratic Gov. Roy tary “MLK/FBI,” a film that art- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Cooper signaled his sup- fully explains how the two tivity that would be consid- port for the changes. “Dr. sides of that slash came to be Spike Lee’s blistering 1997 violent cause. That included ered protected speech – as Cohen and her advisory enemies. film “4 Little Girls.” wiretaps, blackmail and in- opposed to engaging in vio- committee will work very Pollard is a veteran producer In “MLK/FBI,” Pollard ex- formers, trying to find dirt on lence or joining the capitol quickly to make sure that and filmmaker who co-di- plains how J. Edgar Hoover King. “I think this entire epi- invasion, which would be un- we adjust our recommen- rected two episodes of “Eyes used the full force of his fed- sode represents the darkest protected illegal conduct. on the Prize” and earned an eral law enforcement agency part of the Bureau’s history,” Things get murky if these Plase see VACCINE/2A Oscar nomination for editing to attack a progressive, non- Please see DOC/2A Please see WORKERS/2A Index 5007 South Park Drive, Publisher: Gerald O. Johnson Suite 200-G Managing Editor/Sports Editor: Bonitta Best 1A 5A News Religion Durham, NC 27713 Advertising: Linda Johnson 4A 6A Classifieds Sports (919) 688-9408 [email protected] 8A Focus © 2021 The Triangle Tribune www.triangletribune.com 2A NEWS/The Triangle Tribune Sunday, January 17, 2021 King holiday brings NC lawmakers irritated reflection on progress over slow vaccine rollout Continued from page 1A Capitol, but the day before entrepreneurship by 25% Continued from page 1A Harnett County Repub- Some counties have been about the fact that they that, we elected a Black by 2025. dations accordingly,” lican, worries counties and overwhelmed by calls have racist brothers, man and a 30-year-old Jew- “Equity is ownership.