ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI CDISPATCH.COM 50 ¢ NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY FRIDAY | FEBRUARY 5, 2016 Chase ends with N. Columbus crash according to Interim CPD Chief Fred Police: Two loaded firearms Shelton. The officer pursued the car less than one mile before the car hit a light found in crashed Taurus pole at the intersection of 21st Avenue A Ford Taurus BY ISABELLE ALTMAN North and Martin Luther King Drive, ac- struck a [email protected] cording to Shelton. light pole at Three people were in the car when it the inter- A Thursday night car crashed. The driver and the front passen- section of chase involving an officer 21st Avenue ger fled on foot. The rear passenger was North and from the Columbus Police transported to Baptist Memorial Hospi- Martin Luther Department ended in a tal-Golden Triangle, authorities say. King Drive wreck in North Columbus. The rear passenger was identified on Thursday The pursuit began at as De-andre Deshaun Tillman, Shelton night follow- about 8:30 p.m. when a said. ing a pursuit CPD officer attempted to Shelton Authorities say he was treated and re- by the Colum- pull over a Ford Taurus leased from the hospital and arrested on bus Police multiple charges, including felony pos- Department. speeding and driving er- Courtesy photo/Columbus Police Department ratically on Martin Luther King Drive, See CAR ChASE, 8A African ‘What matters is who you are’ Children’s Choir to perform Sunday Choir raises money to help fund education for thousands of at-risk African children BY ISABELLE ALTMAN [email protected] After five months of tour- ing the U.S., Patience Nama- Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff ta, a 7-year-old from Ugan- Larry Lester, a Negro League baseball historian from Kansas City, speaks to hundreds of students at Cook Elementary School on da, will perform a concert at Thursday. Lester, along with Robert Paige, the son of famed baseball pitcher Satchel Paige, spoke to the Columbus students as the First United Methodist part of a Black History Month celebration. Church in Columbus on Sun- day with 17 other African school children. Negro League historian, The children are the Afri- can Children’s Choir, part of a son of Satchel Paige faith-based non-profit organi- zation called “Music for Life” speaks in Columbus that funds education for 7,000 to 8,000 African children per BY SAM LUVISI year. The choir is made up of [email protected] children between the ages of 7 and 9 who come from the pro- n celebrating Black History Month, grams the organization sup- Columbus Municipal School District ports. The children tour the Ihosted Negro League baseball his- torian Larry Lester and Robert Paige See CHOIR, 7A — the oldest son of Leroy “Satchel” Paige, a longtime Negro League star — at a presentation Thursday morning at Cook Elementary Magnets Fine Arts Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff School. From left, Amaris Webber, 9, Ferlaysha Carpenter, 10, and Marissa Kidd, 9, listen to “This is a way to bring (Black His- a presentation about the history of Negro League baseball at Cook Elementary on tory Month) to life, bring it to reality,” Thursday. Amaris is the daughter of Annette Henley and Bobby Webber, Ferlaysha is CMSD Superintendent Philip Hickman the daughter of Daniel Lavender and Russel Kelly, and Marissa Kidd is the daughter told the hundreds of fourth and fifth of Maurice and Dorothy Kidd, all of Columbus. graders gathered in the school’s audito- rium for the presentation. O’Neil, who scouted for the team fol- — who wore a jacket representing the The Columbus High School Baseball lowing his retirement. 1935 Pittsburg Crawford Negro League team also attended. “He told me to focus on my grades,” team — brought home the aspect of Hickman told the crowd he, in fact, Hickman said. the injustices of inequality that plagued Courtesy photo owed part of his success to an encoun- He then introduced CMSD Board of the nation, including sports teams, and The African Children’s Choir which disallowed black players from will perform at First United ter with National Negro League player, Trustees member Glenn Lautzenhiser, Buck O’Neil. Hickman, who worked as who introduced Lester and Paige. joining teams with white men. Methodist Church in Colum- “It was so wrong for these men bus on Sunday at 8:45 a.m. a ballboy for the Kansas City Royals As the children sat wide-eyed and and 11 a.m. in his youth, had an encounter with silently in the audience, Lautzenhiser See BLACK HISTORY, 8A WEATHER FIVE QUESTIONS CALENDAR LOCAL FOLKS PUBLIC MEETINGS 1 Who played Mick Dundee in “Croco- Today dile Dundee”? Feb. 8: Colum- ■ Gallery reception: A reception at 6 p.m. commemo- 2 Steve Prefontaine ran track for bus Municipal rates an exhibit of pottery, drawing, design and surface which university? School District texture on fired clay by Ashley Chavis at the Mississippi 3 Who wrote “The Bourne Identity”? Board of Trust- 4 What is the name of the island University for Women Eugenia Summer Gallery in the ees, Brandon which lies in the middle of the Niagara Art and Design Building on campus. Free to the public. Central Offices, Nakiya Whitfield Falls? 5 Who was the first president to win a 6 p.m. Third grade, West Lowndes Nobel Prize? Saturday Feb. 12: Answers, 6D ■ Origami and Shodo: This Columbus Arts Council’s Lowndes County High 52 Low 26 “First Saturday Arts for All” session for ages 6-18 School District Sunny offers the art of Japanese paper folding and calligraphy Board of Trust- Full forecast on from 10 a.m.-noon. $8 per person; preregistration ees, District page 2A. required. Call the CAC, 662-328-2787. Central Office, ■ Twin Kennedy in concert: The Columbus Arts 11 a.m. Council presents sisters Carli and Julie Kennedy of Brit- Feb. 16: ish Columbia on guitar and fiddle. Tickets to the 7 p.m. Lowndes County INSIDE show at the Rosenzweig Arts Center Omnova Theater, Supervisors, Classifieds5D Obituaries 4A 501 Main St., are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Get Sarah Dunser works at Courthouse,9 136TH YEAR, NO. 281 Comics 5B Opinions 4,5A them at columbus-arts.com or 662-328-2787. 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NAACP in 2000 to increase While the movie acad- minority hiring in the TV emy hastily adopted new industry, are broaden- rules aimed at breaking up ing their focus to the big future white monopolies screen. The Multi-Ethnic Media for the Oscars, the studios Coalition called Thursday and their hiring practices on Sony, Warner Bros., are the root of the prob- Fox, Universal, Paramount lem, he said. and Disney to enter dis- “We can have the most cussions aimed at bring- diverse set of awards vot- ing full diversity to on- and ers, but we’re not going off-camera jobs, including to have any nominations the executive ranks. or wins for people of col- The uproar over this or if there are no roles,” year’s all-white cast of Mayeda said. Academy Award acting Alex Nogales, president nominees helped set the and CEO of the National stage for the new effort, Hispanic Media Coalition, coalition leaders said. agreed. 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