WWW.TRIANGLE TRIBUNE.COM The Triangle Deadline for compensation forBy MarthaNC Waggoner eugenics2013. claims THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Major reasons for denials, which victims can appeal, include miss- RALEIGH – A first deadline for ing paperwork and a determina- compensation payments to those tion someone wasn't sterilized on sterilized under North Carolina's orders of the Eugenics Board of RIBUNE past eugenics program is looming North Carolina but on orders TTHE TRIANGLE’S CHOICE FOR THE BLACK VOICE at the end of the month and less issued at the county level, said than a third of compensation Graham Wilson, spokesman for claims have been approved. the state Commerce Department. That department oversees the VOLUME 16 NO. 15 WEEK OF OCTOBER 12, 2014 $1.00 Authorities who are reviewing claims say one main reason so few industrial commission tasked with claims have been approved is that approving claims. Southern sprints past a state law setting aside $10 mil- North Carolina sterilized about lion for the qualifying victims 7,600 people whom the state doesn't cover many of those who deemed feeble-minded or other- Chapel Hill in junior had been sterilized. wise undesirable between 1929 As of Sept. 30, the N.C. Industrial and 1974. Wilson noted that com- varsity action. Commission had approved 213 pensation is allowed only for those claims for compensation of the sterilized under orders of the state 731 claims reviewed, or about 30 eugenics board. percent. The Office of Justice for "It's the way the statute is writ- Sterilization Victims has received ten," Wilson said. "If counties took another 55 claims that the com- it upon themselves to do it under mission hasn't yet reviewed under their authority, they do not quali- the state law, approved in July Please seeDEADLINE/3A District Students speak out against Supreme responds to excessive police force in schools school bus Court blocks incidentsBy Latisha Catchatoorian [email protected] DURHAM – Two alleged inci- rulingBy Gary D. Robertson dents of sexual assaults on a Associated Press Durham Public Schools school RALEIGH – Same-day registra- bus have parents and the com- tion won't be allowed during munity reeling. early voting in North Carolina, According to various news and Election Day ballots cast in outlets, last month a 5-year-old the wrong precinct won't be boy was made to perform a sex counted this fall after the U.S. act on a 10-year-old student on Supreme Court on Wednesday a school bus driving children blocked a ruling that had set home from Pearson aside parts of a 2013 election Elementary. According to law. WRAL, the boy’s mother A majority on the nation's informed police the same day highest court agreed to halt the he was assaulted. ruling of the 4th U.S. Circuit Now, a second family has Court of Appeals. Two justices come forth with similar allega- dissented. tions involving their child. The decision means the full Controversy has erupted as law will remain enforced while to the response time of DPS to the state and civil rights groups the mother, who is Latino and that challenged the law prepare speaks Spanish, who made the Wake County schools student Ajamu Dillahunt discusses students’ fears. for trial next summer. The full initial claims. Both the school He said there is restorative jus- law was enforced during the and the police department Wideman said they are trying to By Latisha Catchatoorian tice. May primary as well. have been working with inter- curb the use of suspensions and [email protected] Student Jorge Ramos, who was In-person early voting begins preters to make sure the lan- promote practices of restorative born in Mexico but came to the Oct. 23, and the registration guage barrier is not an issue. RALEIGH – To be a black or justice, peer mediation and U.S. at age 5 and grew up in the deadline remains Friday, as “The original complaint was brown student in Wake County demand accountability of school WCPSS, said he was in middle originally planned. made to the (Durham) police public schools oftentimes means resource officers. WCPSS suspen- school when he started to notice The court's order was department on Sept.11, and being disproportionately disci- sion rates are some of the highest certain inequalities. unsigned, as it typically is in we (DPS) heard about it then plined compared to their white in the country. “As I grew older, it became more these situations. Justices Ruth from the police department classmates. Black students make up only 25 and more apparent that they (dis- Bader Ginsburg and Sonia and then Ms. (LaManda) Pryor, The Youth Organizing Institute, percent of the student body but ciplinary actions) specifically Sotomayor dissented, saying the principal, began the inves- NC HEAT and other grassroots constitute 60 percent of out-of- affected the students of color, they would have left the appel- tigation on the morning of the organizations that lobby for stu- school suspensions. especially those from low-income late ruling in place. It is unclear 12th,” said DPS dents’ rights held a press confer- Minority students also are often- households. It was always the how the other seven justices Superintendent Bert L’Homme ence Monday in front of the times arrested and incarcerated Hispanic kids or the black kids came down on the matter, at a press conference on Raleigh Police Department head- for minor student code of conduct being the ones in after-school other than that at least five Thursday. quarters to speak about police offenses. detention or the ones getting into formed a majority and voted in Marie Lang, an attorney with brutality and the criminalization Tavon Bridges, a recent gradu- fights,” he said. North Carolina's favor. the Law Offices of James Scott of youth. ate of Knightdale High, said it has Ramos said suspensions State attorneys filed an emer- Farrin, is representing both of “We’re here because the police the highest rate of suspensions in infringe on a student’s ability to gency application for a stay last the families who made allega- department is no less responsible all of Wake County. learn. week, the day after the 2-1 cir- tions. Lang said she knows her than the school board for funnel- “At this school, I saw many He said this cause is about the cuit court decision in favor of client (the first mother) was ing thousands of youth of color, instances with police and student criminalization of an entire group setting aside the provisions. assisted in terms of expressing queer youth and disabled youth resource officers: people being of people both in the streets and Lawyers for the state argued her concerns, but said she can- out of the school system and into handcuffed, tackled to the ground in schools. that bringing back the provi- not speak as to whether her the prison system,” said Qasima and tazed,” he said. “All throughout this country, sions would cause voter confu- client was unhappy with the Wideman with the YOI. “As youth Bridges said he found hope police brutality, mass incarcera- sion and trouble for local elec- response time from the school in Wake, Durham and Orange through NC HEAT because many tion and the school-to-prison tion officials to implement after she notified them of the County public schools, we have students are unaware of their pipeline has been the new face of them again. incident. seen unspeakable violence from rights or are afraid to fight back slavery, the old face of systematic Rep. David Lewis, R-Harnett, “Obviously, this is a very dif- police both on and off school out of fear of being harmed or incurring criminal charges. who shepherded the voting law ficult time for the family, lots grounds.” Please seeSTUDENT/2A through the state House, said of questions and concerns for he's glad the decision of "two mom, for the parents going obviously partisan appellate forward. We are first trying to court judges" at the 4th Circuit make sure the family gets the was blocked. Democratic presi- services they need as a result dents appointed all three of this,” Lang said. “Obviously, judges on the panel that ruled the safety of the children is the Survivors strut their stuff at Oct. 1. most important thing. It "The law is reasonable, fair appears they (DPS) are taking and treats all people the same," some steps to do that. What Lewis said in an interview. the Law Offices of James Scott annualBy Latisha Catchatoorian breast cancer walk Attorneys for civil rights Farrin are seeking to find out is [email protected] groups and voters who sued what happened on the bus that had dismissed potential prob- day and why this incident was RALEIGH – Thousands of breast can- cer survivors and supporters “got lems to administer the provi- allowed to occur.” sions and said keeping the law L’Homme acknowledged their pink on” at the American Cancer Society’s eighth annual Making fully in place would mean thou- that there are two ongoing sands of voters would be disen- investigations, one with the Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk. Individual and group/team walkers franchised. They said black school and one with the voters use same-day registra- Durham Police Department, were out at North Hills to participate in a family-friendly, non-competitive tion and out-of-precinct ballot- both of which he can speak lit- ing at higher rates than whites. tle of. 5k walk, which raised money for breast cancer research. The entire Ginsburg wrote she would “We are also obligated to have denied the application, carefully observe student con- North Hills area was a sea of pink-clad men, women and children ready to saying the lower appeals court fidentiality laws.