Serving Southeastern North Carolina since 1927 and an outgrowth of R.S. Jervay Printers established in 1901 MISSING EBONEE SPEARS News from the African American perspective without fear or favor Wilmington Police are continuing their search for VOLUME 90/NO. 22 JUNE 1, 2017 - JUNE 7, 2017 FIFTY CENTS 30 year old Ebonee Spears of Wilmington. The local Crimestoppers organization has joined with the Wilmington Police Department in offering a reward NC of up to $5,000 for SUPREME information on Ebonee's COURT whereabouts. If you know IN where Spears may be, call SEATING Wilmington Police at ORDER (910) 343-3600 CHIEF JUSTICE JUSTICE JUSTICE JUSTICE JUSTICE JUSTICE JUSTICE or use Text-a-Tip. MARK MARTIN PAUL NEWBY ROBIN HUDSON BARBARA JACKSON CHERI BEASLEY SAM IRVIN, IV MICHAEL MORGAN ON THE WEB NC high court told to review VISIT US AT www. redistricting maps third time wilmingtonjournal.com AND BY CASH MICHAELS OF Carolina justices will have to back to the North Carolina jus- ence in other congressional That ruling is not likely to READ THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL heed the US High Court's find- tices again after the federal districts. return now that the NC THIS ing that the State's redistrict- High Court ruled last week In 2015, the GOP-led NC Supreme Court is 5-4 AND MORE For a third time since 2011, ing process is unconstitution- that the State's Republican-led Supreme Court ignored feder- Democratic majority. the North Carolina Supreme ally flawed because of racial General Assembly "stacked- al direction that the 2011 maps "The N.C. Supreme Court is Court will have to review gerrymandering. and-packed" Black Democrats were racially skewed, ruling The US Supreme Court into the First and Twelfth instead that the overuse of North Carolina's legislative Please see and congressional redistrict- Tuesday sent a 2011 redistrict- Congressional Districts so race in the voting maps was ing maps, and this time, North ing lawsuit, Dickson v. Rucho, that they would have less influ- entirely proper. THIRD TIME/Page 2 “Trump's war on children” BY Marian Wright Edelman REV. WILLIAM BARBER BRUNSWICK COUNTY Rev. Barber says UPDATE he will soon announce his choice for next NCNAACP head BY CASH MICHAELS OF THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTOS DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MEMORIAL Thus far, several NCNAACP officials have A place where new FBI agents were required to visit under Director Comey. Here, the announced whom they are supporting to become Obama family visited the monument in 2011. the conference leader, but the current president says he'll wait until he's actually set to step down. The Reverend Dr. William J. Barber, II, outgo- Under Director Comey, FBI special agents ing President of the NCNAACP,says, even though he's already announced his intentions to step BERNEST HEWETT down after 12 years to join a national movement were required to visit Dr. King's Memorial surrounding the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Take notice! Luther King, Jr.'s 1968 Poor People's Campaign, he FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called King a communist hasn't done so yet. In a phone interview last week, because of his fight for civil rights The Reverend Barber said that, when he does Act! decide what his last day on the job will be, he will BY FREDERICK H. LOWE also announce whom he'd like to see become the OF NORTHSTARNEWSTODAY.COM next conference president during State conference BY BERNEST HEWETT elections in October. CONTRIBUTING WRITER Barber's announcement is expected to occur by SPECIAL TO THE TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM the middle of June. First Vice President Carolyn ormer FBI Director James Comey,who was Coleman said last week that candidates for State Everyday, here in Brunswick hired by President Barack Obama and president are expected to formally file by June 15. County, I see the grip of racism FF fired by President Donald Trump, ordered Thus far, only The Reverend Dr. T. Anthony coming back to my people and the FBI's new special agents to visit the Washington Spearman, NCNAACP Third Vice President for other minorities, poor people, D.C. memorial honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. the past six years, and President of the NC Whites, etc. The hate is still alive for a discussion concerning unchecked government Council of Churches, has been the only one to for- and well and growing every day. power. mally file to run for the post. People have hate in their hearts As FBI director, Comey kept a memo on his desk "My 53 years of membership in the NAACP for no other reason except that written by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The memo PRESIDENT OBAMA AND DIRECTOR COMEY and twelve years of leadership experience in the they want to hate. It is very described Dr. King as a Communist, and it requested NCNAACP prepare me to become the next presi- important that we, as a people, a technical surveillance on the civil rights leader.The unnamed black woman who said: "Character, dent of this great civil rights organization," The begin to study our elected offi- 1963 memo was signed by Robert Kennedy, the U.S. courage, collaboration, competence. We have to be Reverend Spearman, who also pastors a church in cials. We need to know those peo- Attorney General, Comey said during an interview able to call on those tools in our toolbox to be able to Greensboro, said in a statement sent to ple who are running for office. on "60 Minutes" the newsmagazine broadcast Sunday make sure that we are correcting some of the things NCNAACP membership last weekend. We must understand the private nights on CBS Television. that happened in the past." Ms. Coleman has said she hasn't decided yet, or community committees that Scott Pelley, a 60 Minutes reporter, who inter- "What's the lesson?" Pelley asks Comey. and former NCNAACP president, Melvin "Skip" come in our communities. We viewed Comey, said, "there is no court order. It was a "The lesson is the importance of never becoming Alston has indicated that he's definitely not a can- need to take note of those ele- signature of the FBI director and the signature of the untethered to oversight and accountability.I want all didate but will support Ms. Coleman if she runs. ments that are all around us, attorney general." of my new special agents and intelligence analysts to The Reverend Spearman, however,seems to be affecting our lives and our chil- "Yep," Comey said."And then open-ended. No time understand that portion of the FBI's history the FBI's attracting a good deal of support thus far. dren's lives. We live in a society limit. No space restriction. No review. No oversight." interaction with Dr. King and draw from it an under- The Reverend Cardes Brown, President of filled with race hatred, and it is A 60 Minutes narrator said: "Some of the worst of standing of the dangers of falling in love with our Greensboro Branch of the NAACP, and State slowly working on especially the the FBI's history is its investigation of Dr. King. So, own rectitude. And the importance of being chapter Religious Affairs Committee Chairman, on Comey's orders, FBI Academy instructors now immersed in that design of the founders with over- has formally endorsed Spearman, as has Bishop bring new agents here [Dr.King's statue] to talk about sight by the courts and Congress so we don't fall in Please see values lost in the pursuit of the man who became a love with our own view of things," Comey said. BRUNSWICK/Page 2 monument." President Trump fired Comey on May 9th. Please see The camera then focuses on the face of an President Obama appointed him in 2013. THIRD TIME/Page 2 TO ADVERTISE OR SUBSCRIBE, VISIT US AT CALL (910) 762-5502 WWW.WILMINGTONJOURNAL.COM 2 CONTINUED Thursday, June 1, 2017 Barber moves to another president, "This is the assign- vice president automatically would not confirm whether BARBER lane…," wrote Attorney Al ment for one who will not only assumes that role when the cur- what she decided during a Continued from Page 1 McSurely, Chair of the speak truth to power but speak rent president leaves before his meeting last Monday. There ISSN 0049-7649 - AN NCNAACP Communications truth with power." or her term is up, unless the was speculation that both Ms. INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER George Battle, Presiding Committee. Meanwhile, which one of first vice president decides not Coleman and Second Vice Dedicated to R.S. Jervay, Prelate of the Piedmont Leslie Malachi, National the four current NCNAACP to take it. President Carolyn McDougal Founder of R.S. Jervay Printers, Episcopal District. 1901 Director of the 2,200 member vice presidents will serve out In this case, First Vice would step aside, allowing and T.C. Jervay, Sr., Founder of "Reverend Dr. T. Anthony African-American Ministers' the rest of The Reverend Dr. President Carolyn Coleman Third Vice President The Wilmington Journal, Spearman is prepared to carry Leadership Council, agrees, Barber's term after he formally has said that she hadn't made Spearman to assume the post, An offspring of the Cape Fear on Dr. Barber's vision, spirit, writing that, if Rev. Spearman steps down? According to the up her mind on succeeding The but, as of press time, there was Journal, 1927 Published Weekly At and intellectual brilliance as is elected the next NCNAACP NAACP Constitution, the first Reverend Dr. Barber, and he no confirmation of that.