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

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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. If Cooper said. hospital systems have had coming into their public sisters, and family ish man to serve in the U.S. we can have more Black She also said the fact that to go it alone in creating health departments to members out there be- Senate in Georgia. So, I people owning their own the Pfizer and Moderna scheduling systems. schedule appointments, cause they’re family. Has it think that we’re moving home and owning their vaccines come in bundles Among his concerns is re- others lack an online sign- changed? Absolutely not, forward as well as that own small business, then of 975 and 100, respec- ports he’s heard in his up portal and a few have right now. Trump has em- we’re reminded that we we won’t be so reliant on tively, has “hamstrung” the community of elderly been forced to turn away boldened people to show have to confront the racist the white dollar that wasn’t state’s ability to more people having to wait in people due to limited who they are,” said Omar history of America. designed for us. We’ve flexibly distribute the vac- long lines of cars for ap- supply. Cohen reported Beasley, chairman of the “With electing Joe Biden been trying to get in this cine. The state has sent pointments offered in per- more than 257,000 doses Durham Committee on the as president, Kamala Har- market for a long time, vaccines to all 100 son on a first-come, were administered by Mon- Affairs of Black People. ris as vice president, we now we’re about to create counties, which improved first-serve basis. “You day throughout the state. Goldie Frinks Wells, definitely are making a lot a market ourselves,” he regional access but added don’t have one plan. I Lawmakers want the state daughter of civil rights ac- of progress, but this re- said. logistical hurdles. Navigat- know we have to be flex- to give more directions to tivist Golden Frinks, the minds us that if we don’t “Politically, we don’t ing a new IT system also ible because this is a mov- local officials. first Southern Christian really face our past and ad- want a handout. We just has challenged some local ing target, but I still see “It would be helpful to Leadership Conference dress the racism that is want people to get out of health departments. Add- that this was ripe for con- give some marching or- field secretary that Martin rampant in every aspect of the way so we can do what ing to the delays is vaccine fusion to begin with,” Bur- ders, even though they Luther King Jr. hired to our institutions and soci- we can do. A lot of times hesitancy among nursing gin said. may not follow it, to some oversee desegregation ef- ety, that’s where we’re there are policies that hold home workers and the ab- Cohen said she didn’t of the health departments forts in North Carolina, making the mistake,” she us back, and we don’t even sence of a statewide sys- want to create “an ad- so they have some sense of agreed that Black people said. know the policies exist. So, tem for scheduling vaccine ditional layer of bureau- how to do this,” said state have regressed. Murdock said grassroots in regard to government, appointments. cracy over an appointment Sen. Gladys Robinson, D- “When I think about what organizing is crucial. Black get out of the way. In re- State Sen. Jim Burgin, a system.” Guilford. Dr. King and my father and people have to remain vig- gard to our folks, get in the all those who were in the ilant, she said. game.” struggle had accom- “We need more engage- Kelvin and Ronda Bul- plished, the events of the ment at the local level, lock, advocates for equity past week and this past which we have here in Dur- in education, have seen year, and many of the in- ham. We have a very en- strides made in improving justices that we’ve seen gaged community; we’ve education for Black chil- have caused me to think got to see more of that. dren. Acknowledging we’ve gone back,” she said. You have to be invested in there’s still room for “The struggle isn’t over. who your mayor is, who growth, Kelvin Bullock We have to fight for our your city council members said: “I do feel like in the civil rights. We have to are, who’s sitting on your past few years the conver- fight for better schools, school board. We can never sation of equity in educa- better health care, better stop showing up. We have tion has become much wages. Those things seem to organize year-round and more commonplace. I natural for our white coun- advocate for bold policies know in the last 30 years terparts, but they’re taken that actually make people the conversation around COURTESY away from us.” want to show up. We can’t equity, explicit biases, and Wells, 78, still believes in get complacent, sit back, microaggressions have be- the dreams of King and her and kick your feet up be- come much more common Why most workers aren’t father, but she had hoped cause that’s when your in education.” to see greater progress by rights will be taken away.” However, Ronda Bullock now. Leonardo Williams, of the pointed out that the “I have hope, but I Durham Small Business COVID-19 pandemic brings protected for what they do thought I’d see some Coalition and co-owner of up a host of other issues things different than I do. I Zweli’s Kitchen, promotes regarding disparities in have hope, but I don’t social economic justice education. “People are fo- and black entrepreneur- cusing on getting through on their own time know if I’ll see it in my life- ship. the pandemic, and I get time,” she said. Continued from page 1A Gloria De Los Santos, of “More Black people are that, but it’s making equity government workers were displaying white supremacist symbols, like a confederate Action NC, said racial heal- starting to realize the way an add-on. Equity is still at flag, at the rally. Courts have recognized limits on the public speech of police officers ing begins with facing our forward in all things, play. There are children to uphold public confidence, community relations and department morale. past. whether it’s civil rights, who aren’t seeing them- But as the Brennan Center, a liberal-leaning law and public policy institute, observed “It takes acknowledging whether it’s economic selves in the lessons and in an August 2020 report, “few law enforcement agencies have policies that specifically this country was founded equality, whether it’s who are being ostracized,” prohibit affiliating with white supremacist groups.” The absence of such policies could on racism and built on the simply having the ability to she said. make it harder for departments to later discipline off-duty police officers for their backs of Black and brown make your dreams come “We have to be bold. We role. individuals. White Ameri- true, the way forward is have to stand on what our State lawmakers who participated are a different matter. Because they were elected cans don’t want to address economically. For the long- ancestors taught us, by the people, they can’t be removed like ordinary employees. That might require a racism because they would est time, the heart of the people like Martin Luther recall election or a state impeachment process. then have to address white Black community has been King Jr., Black women, and But for most of the folks who snapped selfies in the Capitol – or ended up in someone privilege,” she said. in the church, whereas for other Black leadership be- else’s – if they don’t get a knock on the door from the FBI, they may soon be getting Although disheartened others, the heart of their cause we haven’t reached one from HR. by the attack on the Capi- community has been in the the Promise Land yet. If we tol, North Carolina State bank. Now it’s time to don’t stand up for our- Senator Natalie Murdock bring the bank and church selves, our children, and remains hopeful. together,” he said. our children’s children, we She said we’re experienc- Williams is also co- will go back, because those ing both progress and re- founder of Bank Black Dur- Trump supporters have gression. ham, which was formed to not disappeared. We have “We had this threatening, help increase Black home to stand up and do the horrifying riot in our U.S. ownership by 10% in 10 work.” years and to increase Black MLK/FBI documentary shows hatred for King Continued from page 1A There are lessons for posed with intimate notes former FBI Direc- 2021, for sure. Having King home movies and tor James Comey. Communist leanings in news footage of blood- There is nothing ter- the ’50s and ’60s was as ied Black men and ribly new in the telling, smeared as the social- women being hauled no huge revelations or ism of today. “I Am a away by cops. TYLER MITCHELL/AP bombshells. Most of the Man” placards at pro- The film is ultimately details — including tests echo the “Black crippled by something This combination of photos released by Vogue shows images of Vice President-elect King’s infidelity and the Lives Matter” signs of out of the makers’ con- Kamala Harris on the cover of their February digital and print issues. use of Withers as an FBI today. White America’s trol. We are told that informant — have been anxieties around Black after the FBI makes a sa- known for years. But empowerment have not lacious tape and sends it Harris team ‘blindsided’ by that’s not Pollard’s inter- changed much. to King’s wife, King “un- est. His canvas is large, “MLK/FBI” has a dif- dergoes a real emotional stretching back to post- ferent feel than tradi- crisis. And it’s an emo- Civil War Jim Crow, ex- tional documentaries, tional crisis that the FBI Vogue cover change ploring how notions of eschewing the usual is listening in on.” But Black sexuality were pattern of old footage we can’t listen to any of Continued from page 1A college sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha. turned into social punctuated by talking it. All surveillance tapes But the magazine said it released both Vogue has released both images online, weapons and into the heads, in favor of just are under seal and the images as digital magazine covers to “re- but the photo of a sneaker-clad Harris is way FBI agents were footage and soaring earliest they can be re- spond to the seriousness of this moment the one that will grace the cover of the made mythical in pop- songs, like “Lord Don’t leased is 2027. in history, and the role she has to play fashion bible’s print edition. ular culture. Move the Mountain” by Pollard also offers leading our country forward.” The person with knowledge of the nego- Pollard is patient and Mahalia Jackson and threads of interesting Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian tiations said Harris’ team has expressed to thoughtful, leaning his “Oh Freedom” by Harry avenues only lightly ex- descent, posed in the light blue suit in Vogue its disappointment over the maga- film on David J. Gar- Belafonte. plored, like what front of a gold backdrop for the maga- zine’s decision. The cover also generated row’s book “The FBI and Pollard has inter- happens when those se- zine’s cover. She also posed, more casu- outrage on social media as posters ex- Martin Luther King Jr.: viewed historians, jour- cret King recordings are ally dressed in slacks, a blazer and pressed disappointment in how the mag- From ‘Solo’ to Mem- nalists and participants, made public. Some feel sneakers in front of a pink and green azine decided to present the nation’s first phis.” The most sala- but we mostly only hear that historians may be background, for photos that were planned female vice president on its cover. Harris cious stuff must wait them. That means the complicit if they investi- for inside the magazine, the person said. is set to be sworn in as vice president on until three-quarters commentary of some- gate information that Pink and green are the colors of Harris’ Jan. 20. through, until the film- one like Andrew Young they shouldn’t have in maker has pulled all the — a civil rights hero the first place. And historical threads to- himself, a King con- Hoover’s personal life as BUSINESS BRIEFS gether. 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The County reserves the right to accept or reject, in whole or in part, such proposals as appears in its Call 833-990-0354. judgment to be in the best interest of the County. (M-F 8am-6pm ET) 5A RELIGION-Life/The Triangle Tribune Sunday, January 17, 2021 «BIBLE STUDY AROUND THE TRIANGLE RALEIGH PLAY www.bullcitypoetryslam. COMPUTERS Mike Wiley’s Breach of com. Donate your used com- Peace will be performed puters and accessories for virtually Jan. 22-23 at Ra- TRIBUTE underprivileged kids Jan. leigh Little Theatre. Call A virtual tribute to Herbie 18, 8 a.m. to noon, South- (919) 821-3111. Hancock featuring Howard east Raleigh YMCA on Rock McNair is Jan. 24, 6 p.m. Quarry Road. MEETING Visit www.hayti.org. Raleigh District C will HISTORY host a virtual community MISC. Friends of the City of Ra- meeting Jan. 27, 6:30 p.m. SCHOLARSHIPS leigh Museum will host a on Zoom. African American stu- virtual discussion with Joe dents can now apply for McGill of the Slave Dwell- DURHAM Dominion Energy’s Educa- ing Project Jan. 21 at 8 p.m. SOUL SLAM tional Equity Scholarships. Register on The next Jambalaya Soul Visit www.dominionen- Eventbrite.com. Slam is Jan. 16, 5:30 p.m., ergy.com/EquityScholar- Hayti Heritage Center, 804 ships. Deadline: Jan. 25. Old Fayetteville St. Visit God sees, knows and cares when we’re anxious and depressed LIFEWAY CHRISTIAN RESOURCES But the issue remains: David’s problems and What do we do when we concerns may have NASHVILLE, Tenn. – This have a bout of the blues? weighed heavily on him, week’s Bible study is King David wrote some but he looked to the God he adapted from the Bible amazing psalms of praise, knew and trusted. Wha- Studies For Life curriculum. but he also wrote psalms tever weighed him down Left to right: Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock Bible passage: Psalm that reflected his troubled was no match for a right- 31:1-8 soul. Through his words in eous God. Just as David Discussion question: What Psalm 31, we find the best cried to God for His help are some things that lift A Black-Jewish Senate answer to the blues. and righteous intervention, your spirits when you’re In Psalm 31, David was so can we. feeling down? not explicitly fighting de- In our moments of de- Food for thought by Lynn pression, but he was facing spair and depression, we runoff election win in GA Pryor: circumstances that may feel no one sees or By Sara Weissman many Jews, like himself, nent civil rights lawyer in weighed heavily on him. cares; but God sees, knows Sometimes we just get DIVERSE ISSUES IN EDUCATION aren’t historically white, Georgia in the 1950s. At the Although we’re not sure of and cares. In those mo- down. I’m not referring to and those who are, includ- same time, Garrow noted the exact circumstances, ments when we’re in a tight clinical depression; that’s a For scholars, the Rever- ing Ossoff, still aren’t per- that the story isn’t so sim- many scholars think King spot surrounded only by whole different matter. ent Raphael Warnock’s and ceived as white by white ple. While some Southern David wrote this psalm at depressing thoughts and Some call it the blues, the Jon Ossoff’s joint Senate supremacists. Jews identified with their the time his son Absalom feelings, let’s remember blahs or the doldrums. But victory reflects a long, In the South, in particu- Black neighbors, others was attempting to take that God will always deliver whatever it’s called, we’re winding relationship be- lar, the two groups histori- tried to distance them- over the kingship. those who choose to look not at our best. tween Black and Jewish cally faced anti-Black selves or actively discrim- It was evident from to Him in spite of circum- Jan. 18, 2021, has been communities in the United racism and anti-Semitism. inated against them. David’s instructions to his stances. God will set us free identified as Blue Monday, States, particularly in the In the context of Georgia, “Not all Southern Jews soldiers to treat his son from the tight space of de- the most depressing day of context of Georgia’s politi- as Black people began were pro-civil rights, pro- gently that he loved Absa- pressing thoughts and the year. For 15 years, the cal history. moving to , ten- Black equality,” he said. lom deeply (2 Samuel 18:5). bring us to a spacious third Monday of January Often, people date Black sions between the city’s “Some Jews in really tough, He wept bitterly when he place. has been viewed as a de- and Jewish leaders work- Black and white residents racist Southern cities, heard Absalom was dead Bible Studies for Life con- pressing day because the ing alongside each other to over low-wage jobs bub- Southern towns, felt they (v. 33). nects the Bible to life for excitement of Christmas is the civil rights movement, bled over into a race riot in had to be white racists But earlier, David had to adults, students and kids. well past. Many have failed but historians argue that’s 1906. themselves to avoid being run for his life because of a It helps individuals and in their new year’s res- too simple a narrative. It was a “pogrom of Afri- paired with Blacks” and threat from his own son, groups know God’s Word olutions by this time and “It’s not just the 1960s can American com- meet the same treatment the very one he loved and through trustworthy are facing the bills and context,” said David Gar- munities,” spurred in part from W=white suprema- cared for (17:21-22). Such content, creates biblical debt accrued at Christmas. row, a historian and biog- by the rhetoric of Tom cists. circumstances were not community through engag- All this as the weather re- rapher of the Rev. Martin Watson, a U.S. senator Against the backdrop of just an external challenge; ing and conversational mains bleak. Luther King Jr. “… Pro- from Georgia at the time, Georgia’s history of racism David surely felt heavy- group studies, and helps Well-meaning family or nounced Jewish support said David Levering Lewis, and anti-Semitism, Lever- hearted at his situation. I people engage the culture friends will try to “talk us for Black equality goes a history professor at New ing Lewis called Ossoff’s can only speak for myself missionally by unpacking out of” our feelings. “What back literally a century.” York University and two- and Warnock’s win “the and say that if one of my what the Bible says about have you got to be sad He noted that many of time winner of the Pulitzer most remarkable reversal” two sons rebelled and real-life issues. about?!” “You just need to the white allies involved in Prize for his biography of of longstanding “traditions sought to take my life, I More information can be turn that frown upside the creation of the NAACP W.E.B. Du Bois. of Black underrepresenta- would experience more found at biblestudiesfor- down.” In my experience, in the early 1900s were Only nine years later, Leo tion in politics” and “exclu- than the blues! life.com. those clichés don’t help. Jewish, with Jews in the Frank, a Jewish man, was sion of the outsiders of the North serving as longtime lynched by a white mob mainstream” in the state. champions and financial after he was falsely con- He argued that these supporters for civil rights victed of murdering a tropes haven’t wholly dis- causes. teenage girl working in his appeared. Ossoff’s oppo- Among American Jews, factory, signifying a “re- nent David Perdue the image of prominent newed anti-Semitism.” In depicted him in an ad with Jewish thinker Rabbi Abra- 1958, white supremacists what appears to be an en- ham Joshua Heschel bombed Atlanta’s oldest larged nose, a Jewish marching alongside the synagogue led by racial in- stereotype, while Warnock Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. tegration advocate Rabbi faced “dog whistles” with is widely embraced as a Jacob Rothschild. “The Republicans portraying peak moment for Black- temple was bombed in the him as a “communist” and Jewish relations, but that same way that African “liberal radical.” narrative ignores “the con- American churches were For Gordon, Ossoff and sistent and determined burned,” Garrow said. Warnock’s win – and the commitment to these Being reviled by the successful organizing ef- changes from the left-wing same forces brought col- forts of Stacey Abrams – Jewish community,” said laboration and a sense of signal hope for a brighter Lewis Gordon, solidarity. For example, future, created by Jewish, professor who is Black and Morris B. Abrams, who Black and, he hopes, in- Jewish. would become the second digenous communities For him, it’s also impor- president of Brandeis Uni- working together “in the tant to remember that versity, arose as a promi- midst of violent forces.”

Gospel Group Fire hits Mural move to Walltown Billboard’s No. 1 Park Recreation Center By Bill Carpenter “Heal the Land,” which is started producing their tentatively scheduled for a music and the result was SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE third quarter 2021 release. their debut album, “It The fiery gospel four- “We wanted a name that Takes a Village,” in 2012. some known as Group Fire was special,” Cooper says Their 2018 sophomore has scored its first Bill- of the boy band’s unique set, “Join the Praise Party,” board Gospel Airplay chart name. “We saw where God earned them a Stellar No. 1 hit with “More Than used fire a lot through the Award nomination in the Friends” (Jet Records North Bible, with Moses and the category of Quartet of the / East). In its 20th week on Burning Bush, the Hebrew Year. In 2019, their ballad the national survey, it Boys in the fiery furnace, “Again” rose to No. 17 on leaps from last week’s po- Elijah with the chariot of the Billboard Gospel Air- sition of No. 5 to take the fire, etc. We figured the play chart, spent 28 weeks top spot for the week end- same way He used fire in on the chart and led to two ing Jan. 16. the Bible, we want Him to Stellar Award nominations “We are so humbled and use us as well.” in the categories of Duo/ amazed by the love the The Newark, New Jersey, Chorus Group of the Year gospel music industry has act consists of two sets of and Contemporary shown us over the last two 20-something brothers: Te- Duo/Chorus Group of the years,” said lead singer Te- relle and Juwan Cooper, Year. They were named in relle Cooper, 24. “This is and Tajohn and Al-Shamir the Top 5 New Artist of the everything that we’ve ever Hill. They all started sing- Year by Billboard magazine dreamed of for our group, ing together at the Palm in December 2020. and we are so grateful to Garden Holiness Church the programmers for play- where the Coopers’ grand- Website: www.theofficial- ing our music and welcom- father, Bishop T. Cooper, is groupfire.com ing us into the gospel the pastor. Bishop Cooper Facebook: @theofficial- The City of Durham’s Transportation Department and NCDOT are partnering industry with open arms.” noticed the young group’s groupfire on the replacement and upgrades of approximately 435 signal cabinets, The track is the second talent and started funding Twitter: @thegroupfire commonly known as traffic boxes, across Durham. Due to the upgrade of single from the group’s their recording sessions. Instagram: @thegroupfire the Durham signal system, the signal cabinet featuring the mural “It Takes forthcoming third album, The Coopers’ father, Steve, YouTube: thegroupfire A Village” will be transferred from its current location at the corner of West Club Boulevard and North Buchanan Boulevard to its new location on the Read more news not in the paper campus of Walltown Park Recreation Center on West Club Boulevard. at www.triangletribune.com SWAC WWW.TRIANGLETRIBUNE.COM ready for The Triangle football – TRIBUNE and more Sports SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2021 – PAGE 6A respect “Yes.” That was the one-word an- HBCU FOOTBALL swer SWAC Commissioner Charles McClelland gave in response to the many calls and emails he’s gotten from people inquiring about a football season. Despite what’s happening in basketball, with a plethora of postponements left and right, McClelland says that was to be expected. “The pauses were antici- pated in basketball,” he said at Wednesday’s virtual SWAC Media Day. “That means our medical professionals are South Carolina State officials doing an outstanding job. It break ground on new turf field. doesn’t mean student-athletes have COVID, but it’s more of contact trac- ing.” In fact, McClelland said they’ve had CIAA inducts 6 into Alcorn State’s Chris Blair BONITTA zero COVID BEST cases among basketball stu- FAMU dent-athletes. 2021 John McLendon The infections have come from outside sources, which they quickly dispensed. “We coach are pretty confident that our student-athletes in our envi- Hall of Fame ronment are better off than if inducted they were outside our envi- By Bonitta Best 2,150 points and 1,076 re- etteville State (2000-12): ronment,” he said. [email protected] bounds, and, at the time, Phillips is the Broncos’ all- So, yes, Virginia, there will became just the 15th Divi- time winningest coach with The CIAA Basketball Tour- sion II women’s player to 75 victories, including a 57- into college be SWAC football next month. nament is a bust, but the amass over 2,000 points 35 CIAA record. His teams 2021 John B. McLendon Hall and 1,000 rebounds. won three CIAA titles, ap- Keeping it in-house of Fame will still go on – al- * Celeste Trahan-Davis, peared in four conference HOF beit virtually. Elizabeth City State (2005- championship games and Each football team will play By Bonitta Best six conference games, with The presentation will air 08): Trahan should have three DII playoffs. He also the exception of Jackson Feb. 26 on the CIAA Sports both a CIAA and NCAA won two coach of the year [email protected] State. The Tigers added a Network as part of the vir- award renamed in her awards. A&M legendary coach non-conference contest tual CIAA Tournament ex- honor. She set a new DII * Johnny Stoutamire Jr., Rudy Hubbard was named to the against Edward Waters called perience, Feb. 23-27. standard by becoming the Livingstone (1974-78): 2021 College Football Hall of the W.C. Gorden Classic. And The six inductees span first female student-athlete Stoutamire was named an Fame Class. Hubbard is the only just like basketball, McClel- over four decades and in- to record 2,000 points and All-American in his junior HBCU product on the list of 13 land said they expect stop- clude student-athletes and 1,500 rebounds in a career. and senior season by the inductees. pages in football during the a coach. Trahan-Davis was a two- Pittsburgh Courier, which Led by Hubbard, the Rattlers season, but a contingency And the winners are… time CIAA player of the was a prestigious honor at are the only HBCU team to win a plan is in place, although he * Cassie King, North Car- year, the 2008 defensive the time. He played four Division I-AA (now FCS) cham- didn’t go into specifics. olina Central (2004-07): player of the year and a seasons in the NFL with the pionship in 1978. He amassed an They will, however, control King broke the Lady Eagles two-time All-America selec- , Pittsburgh 83-48-3 record from 1974-85, what they can control. Each single-season scoring tion. Her senior season was Steelers and Washington third-best in program history be- institution will decide record with 664 points in her crowning glory with a Redskins. His jersey hind Jake Gather (203) and Bill whether or not to allow fans. 2004-05, an average of 22.9 double-double average of number was retired by the Joe (86). Those that do must enforce points per game. She also 23.7 points and 15.9 re- Blue Bears in 2006. The Ohio native played running masks, social distancing and set a school and tourna- bounds a game, earning her * Greg Toler, Saint Paul’s back at Ohio State from 1965-67, hand washing. “We will not ment record with 59 points South Atlantic player of the College (2005-08): Toler and was the Buckeyes’ first black be responsible for super- in a game. King, who is the year and the Ron Lenz na- was a three-time All-CIAA assistant coach under coach spreader events,” he said. girls basketball coach at tional player of the year. selection and the 2008 Vir- Woody Hayes. McClelland said he sought East Wake High in Raleigh, She is having a stellar over- ginia Small School Defen- advice from commissioners finished her Eagles career seas career. sive Player of the Year in his SCSU upgrades at the SEC and Sun Belt Con- with 44 double-doubles, * Kenny Phillips, Fay- Please see CIAA/7A South Carolina State is upgrad- ference on how they maneu- ing Willie Jeffries Field by replac- vered through football and ing the synthetic turf, which is the COVID process. almost 15 years old. “The greatest impact of this R-E-S-P-E-C-T project is to enhance the welfare The SWAC has led the COLLEGE CORNER of our student-athletes,” athletic NCAA in FCS attendance 42 director Stacy Danley said. “Our of the past 43 years. Every- effort began some two years ago, body who’s anybody knows and I’m proud of this moment SWAC fans love their foot- and especially happy for our stu- ball, and they take a backseat dent-athletes.” to no one. The Bulldogs open the spring With the FBS football sea- football season Feb. 20 against son now over, it’s the SWAC’s North Carolina Central. turn to shine. ESPN is ex- pected to televise several All-Pro spring games, but McClel- The honors keep piling up for land said that’s not enough. linebacker “We are going to start to de- Darius Leonard. mand that our value and our The South Carolina State all- worth be recognized,” he time great and two-time MEAC said. “We don’t have to ac- defensive player of the year, was quiesce to others as in pre- named NFL First Team All-Pro by vious times. We have been The Associated Press. proactive – in fact, almost de- Leonard recorded 132 tackles manding – in telling ESPN (86 solo) and three sacks during that we want more games on. the regular season. He also was We need to expand our cov- named to the Pro Bowl. The Colts erage and put our best COURTESY lost to the Buffalo Bills in the first games on TV, and, quite Former North Carolina Central coach John McLendon was ahead of his time round of the NFL playoffs. frankly, our best games are on Saturday. And nobody is From Brave to Packer going to move their games to Alcorn State wide receiver Chris a Thursday night” (to accom- NCAA honors legendary Blair has signed a reserve/future modate ESPN.) contract with the . Fall blockbuster coach John B. McLendon Blair averaged 21.2 yards per With Bethune-Cookman reception and was the team’s re- and Florida A&M arriving in Former North Carolina “Working with the college ceiving leader with 931 total July, Alcorn State will move Junior forward Kiyana Central basketball coach students and college ath- yards and seven touchdowns in to the West to make it six and Brown’s double-double of John McLendon will be hon- letes really was the place his senior season. six in both divisions. The 22 points and 10 rebounds ored with the 2021 Theo- closest to his heart,” said East is gonna be brutal with earned her MEAC co-player dore Roosevelt Award granddaughter Tracey Two-year partnership Alabama A&M, Alabama of the week. during the NCAA Conven- Banks in a press release. “To Norfolk State and Towson Uni- State, Jackson State, Missis- Teammate Anissa Rivera tion this month. The award hear that he is the recipient versity have signed a home-and- sippi Valley State, B-CU and was named defensive player is the highest honor given of this award means a great home series for 2023 and ’24. FAMU. of the week with 15 points, by the Association. deal to our family.” The teams have only met once, a The 10-year conference nine rebounds, four blocks, McLendon, who was way James Naismith, the inven- 31-21 win by Towson in the Divi- schedule has been com- three assists and two steals. ahead of his time, was a bas- tor of basketball, taught sion II playoffs. Both have since pleted and given to each The women are scheduled ketball genius. Think four- McLendon at . McLen- move up to Division I-FCS. school. While they all won’t to begin conference play corners offense, the fast don died in 1999 at the age “We very much look forward to be able to play each other, Jan. 16-17 at home against break… He should have of 84. facing a quality non-conference the rivalries will continue. South Carolina State, but never left NCCU, where he CC will always treasure opponent like Towson,” NSU “The five largest football you know how that goes. coached from 1941-52. He our time together sitting on coach Latrell Scott said. “I’ve classics will be SWAC On the men’s side, the left for Hampton, then Ten- press row at the 1999 CIAA known Rob Ambrose for a long matchups,” McClelland said. wait isn’t over yet. The nessee A&I (now Tenn. Tournament in Winston- time and have great respect for Eagles have another week State), Kentucky State and Salem. Always. his program. We know that those Best for last? before hosting rival North Cleveland State, where he will be two competitive games Of course, Deion Sanders Carolina A&T Jan. 23-24 at became the first African NCCU basketball that our fans will be excited was the last speaker on Wed- McDougald. American coach to head a In no surprise, North Car- about.” nesday. Here are a few of his In other news, coach LeV- predominately white pro- olina Central women had lit- snippets (paraphrasing): elle Moton was named one gram. The NCAA is rec- tle trouble with Division III of 40 Rising Head Coaches ********** Please see SWAC/7A ognizing him for his lifetime North Carolina Wesleyan of work. College, 87-58. Please see NCAA/7A 7A SPORTS/The Triangle Tribune Sunday, January 17, 2021 CIAA inducts 6 in HOF

Continued from page 1A senior season that recorded six interceptions, 13 pass breakups and three blocked kicks. Toler set school records with 14 total interceptions, 36 pass breakups and 50 passes defended. As the No. 1 HBCU prospect, the Arizona Cardinals selected him in the fourth round of the 2009 NFL Draft, making him the only SPC player to be drafted. He played in 88 games, including 49 starts, and collected 277 tackles, eight interceptions, four forced fumbles and two sacks. * Johnnie Walton, ECSU (1965-68): The four-year starter at quarterback had a breakout senior season after completing 114 of 204 passes for 1,400 yards and 16 TDs. He earned a spot in the history books by becoming the first African American quar- terback from North Carolina to the play in the NFL with the . Walton made history again in the Continental Football League as the first black quarterback COURTESY to win a championship in the league. NFL Hall of Famer Larry Little. Bethune-Cookman athletics bids McClairen farewell BETHUNE-COOKMAN ATHLETIC dent-athlete, coach or comedian, a task masker … COMMUNICATIONS anyone connected with Be- he could recognize talent DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – thune-Cookman, Little has like no one I ever knew and When a member of the a story, or several. The get the most out of that tal- Super Bowl Champions ones he shared included an ent." and Pro on-campus incident best Lucas, who also coached Football Hall of Famer left to oral storytelling and with Cy, said McClairen mentions you in the same the day in 1993 when Little had "ran his race." breath as his mother and was enshrined in the Pro "He's done his thing and Don Shula, that's high Football Hall of Fame. now he's moved on," he praise. "That was a proud day for said. "We should all feel Larry Little spared none me, but I looked into the good about this." crowd and saw coach Cy Thompson's remarks in- when lauding his mentor, Left to right: Marcus Clarke and Suzette McQueen Bethune-Cookman legend and I could see it in his cluded the characteristics Jack "Cy" McClairen, at eyes – the pride. `He's one of great coaches that McClairen's homegoing of ours.'” McClairen displayed. service last week at Day- Also speaking were Percy "Great coaches have an tona Memorial Park. Williamson, who led the ability to bring out the McClairen, a Wildcat leg- basketball team to a 1977 God-given talent in us," he end whose contribution to SIAC championship; Ha- said. They also have an in- his beloved alma mater rold Lucas, a football team- nate ability when pressure spanned over seven dec- mate of McClairen and rises and stakes are high to ades, passed away at the friend since 1949; and B- reach in our hearts and age of 89. CU Vice President of Inter- lead us to victory in the "I thought my mom was collegiate Athletics, Lynn most precarious moments never going to go away, I W. Thompson. of our lives. We were full of thought coach Shula was Williamson noted that fear and finished full of never going to go away, the 1977 team recently sat faith. When we believed we and I thought coach Cy down with McClairen to tell were chumps, coach Cy would never go away," Lit- him what he meant to convinced us that we were tle, who played for them. "We loved him, he champs.” McClairen before embark- loved us and he knew it," Friday's services also in- ing on his professional ca- Williamson said. "Today cluded full military honors reer, said. "But they have, was gravy. He's one of the and both Episcopalian and and it's taught me that most influential men in my Omega Psi Phi fraternity when the Lord calls me, I'll life, and I have no reserva- rites. be ready." tion in proclaiming that. He Like every former stu- was a renaissance man – a Anthony “Tony” Lee NCAA to honor former NCCU coach McLendon Continued from page 6A rounding out the top three. announcer Anthony by Silver Wave Media. “Tony” Lee passed on Jan. Other HBCU coaches CIAA on NCAA boards 4 from COVID-19 compli- listed were Norfolk State’s CIAA administrators Mar- cations. Lee was the official Robert Jones, Tennessee cus Clarke and Suzette voice of Bison athletics State’s Brian “Penny” Col- McQueen have been and, ironically, replaced lins and N.C. A&T’s Will named to NCAA commit- another PA announcer, Jones. tees. Shellie Bower Jr., who also Clarke, senior associate died. Hs funeral was this Softball season commissioner for business weekend. It’s about to get real busy administration and inter- * Morehouse former head in HBCU sports. nal operations, was ap- of basketball operations Fall and winter sports are pointed to the NCAA Joe Wingfield Sr. died Jan. underway and spring Division II Management 11 at age 75. The 1983 sports season will be start- Council. graduate led basketball op- ing in a few weeks. McQueen, senior associ- erations from 1981-87. He And with a new season ate commissioner for ex- returned in 2006 as a vol- comes preseason polls. ternal relations and unteer on men’s basketball HBCU Softball just released strategic partnerships, will coach Grady Brewer’s staff. its preseason poll. Claflin chair the Committee on Wingfield’s grandson, Jor- North Carolina FC moves was voted at No. 1, fol- Women’s Athletics. dan Walker, was drafted lowed by Tuskegee and 21st overall by the St. Louis Winston-Salem State In memory Cardinals in the 2020 MLB to USL League One * Howard University PA Draft. STAFF REPORTS president and general Youth Academy director CARY – The North Caro- manager Curt Johnson. and NCFC USL League Two lina Football Club will join “We can do more to de- technical director. “Provid- USL League One. The shift velop our best players and ing our top talents with are committing that player meaningful developmental SWAC ready for football provides the largest youth- development will be the opportunities going for- to-professional soccer or- Continued from page 6A ganization in the United focus of our professional ward will continue to sup- States the opportunity to team for the foreseeable port our Academy’s * A three or four kid from Georgia called my mother. How did he get her enhance its youth devel- future. I could not be more mission of producing number? Turned out to be a dog. opment pathway. excited about the next step youth national team * I’m hands on everything. I even follow players to Golden Corral to make sure they “We are pleased to con- and can’t wait to collabo- players and professional are getting a good meal. tinue the partnership we ratively work with NCFC soccer players, as well as * I don’t give a damn about the style of SWAC play. I’m only worrying about our have had with the USL Youth Academy players those who choose to play play. I haven’t watched one piece of film on anybody else, but I’ve watched a ton of since 2018 as North Caro- and coaches as well as collegiate soccer.” our players on film. lina FC prepares to com- other elite players and pete in USL League One,” coaches throughout the said chairman Steve Malik. state and country.” CELEBRATING 20 YEARS “We are in the midst of a The North Carolina Foot- very important period with ball Club and the largest key initiatives. In addition youth club in the state, to this strategic move to North Carolina FC Youth League One, we remain fo- with over 13,000 players, cused on the Downtown has provided youth South project and the asso- players from the area the ciated future professional opportunity to play in the soccer stadium, the 2021 USL Championship N.C. Courage season, and through academy con- enhancing our youth-to- tracts since 2018 and pre- pro development model viously with the Carolina for both boys and girls.” RailHawks of the NASL By participating in since 2014. In 2020, the League One, North Caro- team had an all-time high lina FC will be able to sig- in youth academy con- nificantly increase tracts with five, including first-team minutes for goalkeeper Nicholas Holli- young academy-aged day, who at the age of 14 players and focus ad- became the youngest ditional financial resources player in club history to on youth development. sign an academy contract. NCFC will additionally aim The club has also operated to attract the country’s top in USL League Two with young players into the North Carolina FC U23 since 2017. club’s development path- This year’s African American Cultural Celebration is funded, in way through enhanced “This is an exciting tran- part, by the City of Raleigh, based on recommendation of the sition for our club and for Raleigh Arts Commission, and with support from the United scouting and recruitment. Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County. “It is important that as our young, aspiring the landscape of soccer in players coming through North Carolina evolves, our our academy program and club does the same,” said development pathway,” said John Bradford, NCFC 8A FOCUSThe Triangle Tribune Sunday, January 17, 2021

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COURTESY Performers from last year’s African American Cultural Festival. African American Cultural Festival kickstarts Black History Month RALEIGH CARY p.m. – Celebrating the Leg- * Jan. 18, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. * Jan. 16-18 – Dreamfest. acy through the Arts Zoom STAFF REPORTS registration. Attendance to tive to provide members of HBCU choirs one voice and – United Way volunteer Visit townofcary.org. program. Visit Durham This month marks the some live programs may increase the visibility of supply drive at two loca- Parks & Recreation website. North Carolina Museum of be limited. You can watch their valuable talents, as tions: Wake up and Read, DURHAM History’s 20th presenta- additional on-demand vi- they perform “Lift Every Raleigh; and The Frontier, * Jan. 18, 4 p.m. – Book CHAPEL HILL/ tion of the African Ameri- deos any time. Voice and Sing” Park Harvest Dream Big Book CARRBORO can Cultural Celebration, “While we won’t be able * dance along to the Allen * Jan. 18, 7 a.m. – virtual Drive & Community Cele- * Jan. 18,11 a.m. – Virtual an event that recognizes to celebrate in person this Boys, a sacred steel band Triangle MLK Interfaith bration, Durham Central MLK Celebration. Keynote the contributions of Afri- year, we are thrilled to vir- from Mount Airy Prayer Breakfast. Streamed Park. speaker is the Rev. William can Americans, past and tually continue our 20-year * celebrate literature and on WRAL.com. * Jan. 23, 11 a.m. to 2 Barber II. Visit Zoom. present, and the impacts tradition of showcasing the the spoken word with the they have made and con- talents of African American N.C. Association of Black tinue to make to North Car- artists and performers, am- Storytellers olina’s history and culture. plifying the voices of au- * watch Neal Thomas This year’s celebration is thors and community create a beautiful basket a virtual experience on Jan. activists, and highlighting from parts of a white oak 30, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with the little-known or untold tree digital platforms providing Black history and scholar- * enjoy the dance film community organizations, ship from across the state,” “Remembrance,” choreo- authors, artists, musicians, said Alyson Vuley, com- graphed by Tamara Wil- filmmakers, and scholars munity programs and fes- liams, performed by opportunities to showcase tivals coordinator. University of Charlotte their skill, knowledge, and While this year’s theme is dance students, and culture. “Health and Healing,” recorded by Charlotte film- However, you’ll still be which includes a range of maker Marlon Morrison able to engage with live- discussions on health and Register for your virtual streamed events that in- wellness, information seat so you’ll have access clude performances, panel about health disparities, to the on-demand videos discussions, and inspiring and suggestions for pro- and interactive live- music, but now you can do moting and preserving streams at so from anywhere in the their health, highlights of https://www.ncmuseu- state and from the safety the virtual festival will also mofhistory.org/aacc- and comfort of your home. invite you to: 2021/schedule-of-events. All interactive sessions are * listen to 105 Voices of free but require advance History, a national initia- DUKE UNIVERSITY The Rev. Starsky Wilson Social justice activist to North Carolina Central to highlight Duke’s MLK celebrate King legacy STAFF REPORTS On Monday, Jan. 18, MLK Day of Service: The DREAM Here and NOW! vir- DURHAM — North Caro- NCCU’s Office of Com- tual program. lina Central University will munity Engagement and commemoration events Service will sponsor the an- To register, visit host a number of events in nual MLK Day of Service on http://bit.ly/NCCUMLK- STAFF REPORTS utions … child well-being university to acknowledge January to honor the life the ongoing fight for racial the university’s campus in Day2021. DURHAM, – The Rev. and racial justice are inti- and vision of the late Mar- justice within our own the Department of Nursing Additional community Starsky Wilson, a nationally mately and forever inter- tin Luther King Jr. community and the world Building parking lot from 9 events: recognized children's twined. ...” Events are open to a lim- at-large, and for com- to 11 a.m. * Wednesday, Jan. 20 – rights and racial equity The annual program will ited number of NCCU stu- munity members to con- The signature event will Thursday, Jan. 21, 9 a.m. to champion who in De- link “voices of wisdom dents only; one program sider how we can support provide a small number of 2:30 p.m.: Eagle Pride cember succeeded Marian from the past and hope for will be conducted virtually this fight at Duke and in NCCU students with the Blood Drive in the Alfonso Wright Edelman as pres- the present that guide our and is open to the public. our surrounding com- opportunity to commem- Elder Student Union ident of the Children’s De- pursuit of a more just Each event will be done in munities,” she said. orate King’s memory, as- * Friday, Jan. 22, 1:30 to fense Fund will deliver the world,” according to a accordance with the health Other virtual events: sist the community and 5 p.m.: Grow To Life: MLK keynote address for Duke committee statement. and safety guidelines and * Jan. 17, 11 a.m., Duke earn hours of service. Day Mobile Food Distribu- University’s annual Martin The virtual program will adhere to the North Caro- Chapel: The Rev. Luke A. Activities will include as- tion at 902 N. Mangum St. Luther King Jr. commem- also feature performances lina State Executive Orders. Powery, dean of the chapel, sembling package care kits * Saturday, Jan. 23, 11 oration on Jan. 17. by John Brown’s Jazz Am- All participants are re- is the preacher during the to support community or- a.m. to 2 p.m.: MLK Day Wilson, an activist and bassadors, The Collage quired to wear face cover- regular worship service, ganizations’ Families Mov- Lunch Bag and Food philanthropist who served Dance Company and Duke ings, practice proper social which will include a litany ing Forward, JJ Henderson Supply Distribution at as chief executive of the student dancer Akylah distancing and adhere to of prayers related to the Towers and Grow to Life. Jesus City Academy, 410 church-linked Deaconess Cox. all Centers for Disease MLK commemoration. The celebration will con- Liberty Street, Foundation in St. Louis, Other highlights will in- Control and Prevention View on the chapel web- tinue at 11:30 a.m. with the Missouri, from 2011 until clude greetings from Duke guidelines. site. his new appointment, will University President Vin- * Jan. 18, 1 p.m., virtual speak on “Voices of the cent E. Price, Chancellor for unity rally hosted by Duke Movement,” the commem- Health Affairs A. Eugene athletics, with Price joining oration theme. Washington, Durham other speakers from the The program, usually at- Mayor Steve Schewel and university community, in- tended by hundreds in Duke Black Student Associ- cluding several student- Duke Chapel, is being pre- ation co-president Tobi athletes. sented online this year. All Akinyelu. * Jan. 20, 3-4 p.m., virtual of the Duke events are free “We have worked hard to panel discussion on the and viewable by the public. reimagine the MLK pro- THE ULTIMATE MEASURE OF MAN IS NOT current wave of athletes’ Wilson served as co-chair gram in a virtual format social justice activism, led of the Ferguson Commis- this year in a way that will WHERE HE STANDS by Etan Thomas, a former sion, a group that rec- inspire and engage our IN MOMENTS OF COMFORT AND NBA player and author of ommended reforms after community during this dif- the book, “We Matter: Ath- the 2014 police shooting ficult time,” said Kimberly CONVENIENCE, BUT WHERE HE STANDS AT TIMES OF letes and Activism,” and fa- death of Michael Brown in D. Hewitt, vice president cilitated by Duke men’s Ferguson, Missouri. The for Duke’s Office for Insti- CHALLENGE & CONTROVERSY. basketball operations di- commission’s report called tutional Equity. “We are rector Nolan Smith. for sweeping changes in very excited about our key- ” Panel members will in- policing, the criminal jus- note speaker. Dr. Wilson is REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR clude Mark Anthony Neal, tice system, child well- the kind of leader who par- James B. Duke Distin- being and economic ticularly reflects the legacy guished Professor of Afri- mobility. of Dr. King as a pastor, vi- can and African American Wilson, who holds a doc- sionary and someone who Studies, and Jenna Frush, a torate in ministry from is deeply committed to the North Carolina Democrats observe Master of Theological Duke, has described him- well-being of children.” Studies student at Duke Di- self as a “street preacher” Rubenstein Scholar and THE 26TH ANNUAL REV. DR. MARTIN vinity School and medical at heart. He says he is now St. Louis native De’Ja student. Questions for the honored to serve young Wood, a Duke senior, says LUTHER KING, JR. DAY OF SERVICE panelists may be sub- people through CDF at a she is excited that Wilson mitted in advance to sha- time when “it’s a little too will share insights from his We encourage everyone to commit [email protected]. easy to forget about craft- leadership of the Ferguson Learn more about this an act of service in his honor. ing policy for children who Commission. year’s commemoration at don’t get to vote, don’t “The annual MLK Com- http://mlk.duke.edu. have lobbyists and can’t memoration at Duke pro- PAID FOR BY THE NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATIC PARTY (WWW.NCDP.ORG). NOT AUTHORIZED BY ANY CANDIDATE OR CANDIDATE’S COMMITTEE. make campaign contrib- vides the space for the