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''Don't Give Up on Love,'' says Bishop T. D. Jakes, His WiIe and

Clergy Around the Nation Respond to Bynum Beating
by NNPA 1
NNPA Editor-in-Chief

WASHINGTON (NNPA) Bishop T. D. Jakes, preparing Ior yet
another women`s conIerence 'For Ladies Only - next month, says he
is hoping recent separation and divorce announcements oI Christian
power couples, including the hotel parking lot beating oI Prophetess
Juanita Bynum-Weeks by her minister husband, won`t deter marriages.

'I don`t want to comment on their speciIic cases because I am
counseling them and that would not be proIessional. But to make a
general statement about women who are going through divorce, divorce does not have to be
the end oI your liIe, says Jakes in an interview with the NNPA News Service. 'It is a
tragedy. The Bible says that God hates divorce and I believe that it is God`s will that we walk
together and keep our vows.

But your liIe doesn`t have to end because your marriage did. And to those women who are
dealing with domestic violence, I think the Iirst thing to do is to put you and your children in
a saIe environment and then begin to work out a resolution.

As Ior those who may be intimidated aIter hearing about or witnessing violence between
lovers, there is no need to lose heart, he says.

'When they see a neighbor or a cousin or a Iriend or even a leader going through those
problems, then they start giving up on marriage, says Jakes, who has been married to his
wiIe, Serita, Ior 25 years.

'They Iail to look at those thousands and thousands oI couples who have been married Ior
years and years and years and have enjoyed their marriages and have enjoyed their lives
together. Things may not have been perIect, but they still have enjoyed a prolonged loving
relationship with another person. Don`t give up on Love. Love works.

Bynum, a televangelist with a national Iollowing, pressed charges against her estranged
husband, Bishop Thomas Weeks, aIter she was badly bruised in a conIrontation with him
during an Aug. 22 meeting to reconcile at an Atlanta hotel, police said. Bishop Thomas W.
Weeks III, Iounder oI Global Destiny churches, was charged with aggravated assault and
terroristic threats. He was set to appear in court Sept. 6.

News oI the Bynum-Weeks charges was compounded by the subsequent announcement by




Juanita Bynum-
Weeks

Paula White oI Paula White Ministries and her husband Randy that they too are planning to
divorce. Their separation appears to be amicable.

Both women could be considered daughters oI the Jakes ministry, having largely gotten their
Iame aIter preaching and teaching at numerous Jakes conIerences.

Jakes wiIe, First Lady Serita Jakes, also on the telephone interview, says high-proIiled people
in ministry should not be judged more harshly just because their Irailties are more public.

'These people are having a human experience with a divine mantel on their lives. And so, I
pray and our prayers go toward Lady Bynum and Lady Paula as well that God would help
heal the brokenness that`s in them, says Serita Jakes, who has authored several books,
including 'Beside Every Man: Loving MyselI While Standing by Him.

Both Bishop Jakes and First Lady Serita will be teaching at the upcoming 'FLO conIerence
at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas, Oct. 18-20. With Iocuses on creating liIe
strategies, recovering Irom setbacks, improving relationships and spiritual revival, she
stresses hope that participants will look Ior the divinity in the messages rather than in the
messengers. 'We preach Jesus; not ourselves.

Not all clergy agree.

The Washington-based National Black Church Initiative, which represents 16,000 churches
across the U. S. has called Ior Weeks to step down as head oI the Global Destiny Ministries,
Iounded by him and his wiIe. NBCI president, Rev. Anthony Evans, has issued a press
release calling Weeks' actions ''morally wrong and reprehensible.''

Women and men with high expectations especially those hoping Ior marriage or remarriage
- are sorely disappointed at the news oI the stomping, kicking and choking oI Bynum by her
husband with whom she`d shared a million dollar 'wedding oI the century only Iive years
ago.

'I`m just disgusted. I don`t know what to do. So, I`m drowning myselI in my work, says
Tisha Lewis, a single 35-year-old doctoral student. 'So, any man who comes up to me
swinging the Bible and talking churchy, churchy, I`m just going to question his integrity
anyway. It`s really what you do, not what you say.I just want to know what`s going on?

Los Angeles Bishop Noel Jones, who recently announced FaithMate.com - a website to
Iacilitate dating relationships between Christian singles says one problem is that people are
too oIten enthralled in preparing the ceremony instead oI developing the relationship: 'A
wedding does not a marriage make, he says.

Also, couples are too oIten impressed with each other`s proIessional demeanors and exteriors,
Jones says.

'They don`t make distinctions between what is proIessional and what is personal. Because
the two get conIused sometimes, people believe that you are actually presenting how you are
and the way your relationship goes, says Jones. 'But, indeed and in Iact, you can have a
very strong and a very inIluential proIessional presentation and can be upside down
personally. To put it short, you can be a public success, but a private Iailure.

The kind oI love that binds the relationship has a lot to do with it, says Jones.

Instead oI getting married based on eros, a sensual love that does not always last, the love
called agape - the God kind oI love - is what must be present Ior a marriage to last, says
Jones. 'Sex does not have enough strength to keep a marriage together.

He describes, 'Agape is rational, reasonable and strong. It overcomes all the situations and
circumstances. II you look at 1st Corinthians 13, it`s the thing that stands when everything
else has Iallen and that`s what`s not happening, says Jones.
Jones also says proIessional partnerships should never be viewed as a reason Ior marriage. 'A
spouse cannot be a proIessional partner. We have done that in the church and we`ve made
monsters out oI people.

But, there are ways to avoid Iailure in a marriage in which the couple is destined to share
ministry responsibilities, says Bishop J. Charles Carrington and his wiIe, Pastor Althea
Carrington. But, it takes much work.

Bishop Carrington is senior pastor oI LiIe Builders Church in Baltimore, where his wiIe is
also a pastor. He is also presiding Bishop over Full Gospel Christian Fellowship.

'I think the biggest pressure that we`ve had is maintaining balance, knowing when to say,
That`s enough engagements Ior this month`, knowing when to say, I can`t go to that
meeting`, knowing when to say, I can`t necessarily be away Irom home tomorrow. It`s just
being able to say no, says Bishop Carrington.

Establishing priorities is also a key, says the Carringtons who have been married 23 years and
have two sons, 18 and 13.

'A lot oI women in ministry, they are so either pressured or Iocused on being something
great or someone great. And then the home is lacking, says Pastor Carrington, who also has
her own catering business. 'For me personally, I Iound that my home Iront or my home is the
center oI my ministry. Everything stems Irom that. And Ior me to succeed in my home with
my Iamily, with my children, with my husband is so paramount.

In seeking a wiIe, Carrington says he was speciIic in his Iocus.

'I wanted the understanding that our goals are the same in liIe, that our desires are the same,
our drive is the same, and that our passion Ior one another and Ior God is the same. That`s
what I was looking Ior, he says. 'Does this woman love the Lord like I do? Does this
woman love liIe and want to be in liIe what she should be like I do? And number three, does
this woman love me?

When conIlict comes, there should be guards Ior the relationship says Pastor Althea.

'It`s very important to have a circle oI Iriends, someone who sows into your liIe on a regular
basis, someone you can conIide in who will pray, who you know will pray and oIIer wise
counsel, she says. 'You have to put down your crown Ior a while and your scepter,'' she
chuckles, ''and really listen and hear what they have to say.

Couples must do everything possible to avoid stresses in the marriage, says Dr. R. Dandridge
Collins, a Christian psychologist and author oI The Trauma Zone: Trusting God Ior
Emotional Healing.

'When a relationship is marinated in stress, you tend to overreact, he says. 'One oI the
characteristics oI stress is that you can`t cope with your emotions.

Expounding on what he calls, 'trauma drama Collins says even negative childhood events as
well as events that happened in adulthood can cause reactions later in liIe as iI they had just
occurred.

'Most people think trauma means you`ve been sexually abused. That`s one deIinition. That`s
one experience that traumatized people may have had. But, then, there`s verbal abuse, there`s
emotional abuse, and there`s physical abuse. So by the time you get Iinished with all oI these
diIIerent kinds oI abuses, there`s something with each oI our names on it. It`s so hard to grow
up without being wounded in some way, he says.

Trauma that leads to domestic violence either physical or emotional abuse - oIten has Iour
key symptoms that can be recognized beIore the marriage, he says. They are: A need to
control, a Ieeling oI entitlement (an insistence on getting what is deserved), a comIort in
expressing rage and an obsession with roles.

For healing, couples or individuals could turn to selI-help methods by receiving instruction
about their problems Irom credible books, tapes or by getting counseling or therapy iI the
problems persist, Collins says.

He says relationships between church leaders who are married may be in danger beIore they
know it.

'We, with the right attitude, empty ourselves in doing the work oI the Lord; yet, we leave it
all in the church and don`t have enough energy to ransom our own marriages, he says. 'And
so, while we are ransoming the loss, we don`t rescue ourselves.
And so, the calm to all oI this is not judgment oI our brothers who are prominent or our sister
who is prominent. We just need to understand that 'except Ior the grace oI God, there go I.'

''So, we need to approach this with some humility and realize that just because a person is
prominent doesn`t mean that they`re not going to be in pain. They might even be in more pain
because iI something goes wrong, everybody in the country is talking about it.

























Cornelius Adolphus Scott (1908-2000)
:ided the co:ntrys oldest and first s:ccessf:l Black daily newspaper
thro:h the terror of sereation and racism

Cornelius Adolphus C.A. Scott took the helm oI the Atlanta Daily
World at the request oI his dying brother, World Iounder William A.
Scott, in 1934. For 63 years, C.A. Scott never looked back. He guided the
country`s oldest and Iirst successIul Black daily newspaper through the
terror oI random lynchings; Jim Crow laws that legalized segregation;
police brutality; and lagging opportunity in housing and jobs Ior AIrican Americans. In 1946,
two AIrican-American couples were murdered in daylight near Monroe, Ga., by a mob that
tied them up and shot them hundreds oI times with riIles, shotguns, pistols and a machine gun.
Responding to the horror oI the Monroe Massacre, Scott immediately set up a Iund through
the Daily World to raise money Ior the victims` Iamilies. Two years later, aIter editorializing in
Iavor oI allowing Blacks on the local police Iorce, Scott participated in the selection oI
Atlanta`s Iirst AIrican-American police oIIicers. The Daily World also waged a campaign in
the 1940s to increase the pay oI Black teachers, who were paid about halI as much as white
teachers. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Daily World Iilled its pages with inIormation about
court cases and lawsuits Iiled to desegregate public Iacilities. Scott, who joined the Republican
Party in 1952 and never leIt, also worked unstintingly Ior a two-party system in Georgia. Scott
received numerous awards in his liIetime, including being inducted into the Black Press Hall oI
Fame in 1990.

The middle son oI nine children, Scott was born in Edwards, Miss., on Feb. 8, 1908. His Iather,
the Rev. Dr. William A. Scott Sr., was a Christian Church minister and a printer. His mother,
Emmeline Southall Scott, was an active worker in the church and in the printing business and
helped her husband print church bulletins that were distributed throughout Mississippi. Scott
died on May 7, 2000, at age 92.
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AIrican American Publishers.

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Cheryl 8rown and Pardy 8rown (1944 1942)
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8lock volce became requlred readlng for a dlverse and lnfluenLlal segmenL of Lhe communlLy and
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olotm tbe feots of tbe qollty slovebolJet lo lotet yeots Nottb 5tot wos teoomeJ lteJetlck uooqloss
lopet

A btlllloot ototot ooJ ptollflc wtltet uooqloss oseJ tbe powets of bls volce ooJ bls peo to wlo soppott
ooJ flooocloq fot bls coose nls effotts ot selfeJocotloo oevet ceoseJ ne clooJestloely leotoeJ to
teoJ ooJ wtlte os o slove ne wos boto lo MotylooJ bot oevet koew bls blttb Jote scoploq ftom
8oltlmote lo 18J8 be moveJ to New otk stote Ooe of bls fltst jobs wos os opetotot of o bellows so
beovy tbot be eveotoolly wos teploceJ by o steom eoqloe uesplte tbe stteoooos wotk uooqloss
ofteo oolleJ o oewspopet to o post so tbot be coolJ teoJ wblle wotkloq lollowloq pobllcotloo of bls
ootobloqtopby uooqloss tooteJ oqlooJ ooJ otope os oo obolltloolst speoket nls fteeJom
eveotoolly wos potcboseJ by ftleoJs ooJ uooqloss wos oble to speok lo tbls coootty wltboot feot of
Jetectloo uotloq tbe clvll wot be belpeJ pot toqetbet o 8lock teqlmeot fot tbe uoloo Atmy ooJ
vlslteJ lteslJeot llocolo to ptotest poot tteotmeot of AftlcooAmetlcoo ttoops uooqloss JleJ lo 1895
lo wosbloqtoo uc oftet setvloq lo sevetol feJetol posts locloJloq ombossoJot to noltl






Carl ! Murphy (18891967)
8ollt tbe loftoometlcoo l loto tbe most powetfol blockowoeJ pobllcotloo
lo mlJotlootlc/loftoometlcoo

cotl I Motpby o ooetlme ptofessot of Cetmoo wbo wos eJocoteJ ot nowotJ ooJ notvotJ
oolvetsltles took ovet tbe AftoAmetlcoo oewspopet lo 8oltlmote oftet tbe Jeotb of bls fotbet
foooJet Iobo neoty Motpby 5t lo 1922 8oto o slove tbe seolot Motpby qoloeJ fteeJom oftet
setvloq os o setqeoot lo tbe clvll wot ne weot oo to foooJ tbe popet lo 1892 cotl Motpby bowevet
bollt lt loto tbe most powetfol 8lockowoeJ pobllcotloo lo tbe mlJAtlootlc teqloo wltb o teocb tbot
exteoJeJ loto wosbloqtoo lblloJelpblo klcbmooJ vo ooJ Newotk NI

Motpby wbo teqolotly coofetteJ wltb pteslJeots clvll tlqbts leoJets ooJ membets of cooqtess lo bls
tole os o powetbtoket lo tbe AftlcooAmetlcoo commoolty wos boto lo 8oltlmote oo Ioo 17 1889
ne tooqbt Cetmoo ot nowotJ uolvetslty ftom 191J ootll 1918 wbeo be weot to wotk fot tbe Afto
Ametlcoo kespectfolly koowo os Mt cotl Motpby eJltotlollzeJ oqolost locol ooJ ootloool
lojostlces tooqloq ftom Jowotowo 8oltlmote Jepottmeot stotes tbot boooeJ Aftlcoo Ametlcoos to
seqteqotloo lo ptofessloool spotts lo tbe 19J0s Motpby wotkeJ to teqlstet 8lock votets uotloq
wotlJ wot ll be seot tepottets ovetseos to covet tbe wot fltstbooJ Motpby wos lo ftepoeot
commoolcotloo wltb socb leoJets os tbe lote 1botqooJ Motsboll fotmet NAAcl leqol cooosel ooJ
u5 5opteme coott jostlce teqotJloq clvll tlqbts lltlqotloo lo tbe 1950s tbe popet joloeJ tbe
NAAcls lowsolt oqolost seqteqotloo ot tbe uolvetslty of MotylooJs low scbool ooe of tbe eotly
lowsolts lo o setles tbot eveotoolly woolJ Jeseqteqote pobllc scbools 1o tecotJ tbe lmpottoot eveots
of tbe Joy Motpby blteJ some of tbe etos best 8lock wtltets ooJ ottlsts locloJloq tbe lote teoowoeJ
ottlst komote 8eotJeo ooJ spotts wtltet 5om locy wbo ployeJ o tole lo tbe loteqtotloo of tbe Mojot
leoqoes At oqe 98 locy stlll wtltes o weekly colomo fot tbe popet Motpby wos mottleJ to vosbtl
1otley Motpby cofoooJet of uelto 5lqmo 1beto 5ototlty ne JleJ oo leb 25 1967 ne wos
socceeJeJ by bls oepbew Iobo n Motpby lll ooJ tbeo by bls Jooqbtet ltooces l Motpby ll 1be
popets cotteot pobllsbet ls Iobo Ollvet It Motpbys qteot oepbew



!ohn 8 8usswurm (17991831)
loooJet of l tbe fltst blockowoeJ ooJ opetoteJ oewspopet lo
os l

Ooe yeot oftet be qtoJooteJ ftom colleqe Iobo 8 kosswotm become o foooJloq eJltotpobllsbet of
lteeJoms Iootool tbe ootloos fltst 8lockowoeJ ooJ opetoteJ oewspopet lo lts fltst lssoe
pobllsbeJ oo Motcb 16 1827 lo New otk clty tbe Iootool moJe lt cleot tbot ooe teosoo fot lts
exlsteoce wos tbe looccotote ooJ btotol potttoyol of Aftlcoo Ametlcoos lo tbe wblteowoeJ ptess
ltom tbe ptess ooJ tbe polplt we bove soffeteJ mocb by beloq locottectly tepteseoteJ tbe Iootool
stoteJ Oot vlces ooJ oot JeqtoJotloo ote evet ottoyeJ oqolost os bot oot vlttoes ote posseJ by
ooootlceJ 1be popet pobllsbeJ lo tbe some yeot tbot slovety wos obollsbeJ lo New otk stote
sooqbt to qlve oo ootlet to oo ooJleoce of 500000 ftee petsoos of coloot ooJ oboot 100000 oewly
fteeJ 8locks 1be Iootool ptovlJeJ lotetootloool ootloool ooJ locol oews As o oewspopet of tecotJ
lt olso wos tbe fltst popet to llst blttbs Jeotbs ooJ mottloqes of Aftlcoo Ametlcoos lo tbe New otk
commoolty lt wos cltcoloteJ lo 11 stotes tbe ulsttlct of colomblo coooJo otope ooJ noltl

kosswotm wos boto lo Iomolco lo 1799 tbe soo of o wblte plootet ooJ o slove ne ls belleveJ to be
tbe tbltJ 8lock lo tbls coootty to obtolo o colleqe Jeqtee ooJ wos tbe fltst 8lock qtoJoote of 8owJolo
colleqe lo 8tooswlck Moloe kosswotm coeJlteJ lteeJoms Iootool wltb 5omoel cotolsb o
ltesbytetloo mlolstet kosswotm ooJ cotolsbs pottoetsblp JlssolveJ wbeo cotolsb teslqoeJ ftom tbe
oewspopet lo 5eptembet 1827 oftet kosswotm beqoo osloq tbe popet to ptomote tbe lssoe of
AftlcooAmetlcoo coloolzotloo of Aftlco lo 1829 kosswotm left tbe Iootool ooJ emlqtoteJ to llbetlo
1bete be eJlteJ 1be llbetlo netolJ ne tbeo become qovetoot of tbe MotylooJ 5oclety lo llbetlo ooJ
belJ tbe post fot 16 yeots ootll bls Jeotb lo 1851








!ohn P P SengsLacke (19121997)
uefeoJet of loteqtotloo of tbe otmeJ setvlces ooJ Jeseqteqotloo

ln 1940 27yearold !ohn P P SengsLacke became Lhe second publlsherowner of Lhe hlghly
regarded cblcoqo uefeoJet one of Lhe naLlon's mosL wldely read 8lackowned newspapers
SengsLacke lnherlLed Lhe paper upon Lhe deaLh of hls uncle uefeoJet founder 8oberL S AbboLL who
had handplcked SengsLacke for Lhe [ob As an acLlvlsL publlsher SengsLacke lmmedlaLely lmmersed
hlmself ln Lhe lssues of Lhe day Pe worked wlLh resldenL lranklln u 8oosevelL Lo creaLe [obs ln Lhe
uS osLal Servlce for Afrlcan Amerlcans and persuaded lu8 Lo lnclude an AfrlcanAmerlcan
reporLer ln a WhlLe Pouse news conference for Lhe flrsL Llme Cne of hls mosL passlonaLe lssues was
lnLegraLlon of Lhe armed servlces Pe began pushlng for lnLegraLlon under lu8 urglng Lhe presldenL
Lo order Lhe mlllLary Lo draw up plans for lnLegraLlon LvenLually lu8's successor resldenL Parry
1ruman named SengsLacke Lo Lhe commlsslon he formed Lo desegregaLe Lhe mlllLary Cn anoLher
fronL SengsLacke founded Lhe naLlonal newspaper ubllshers AssoclaLlon ln 1940 ln an efforL Lo
unlfy and sLrengLhen 8lackowned papers Pe served seven Lerms as Lhe group's presldenL ln 1936
SengsLacke Lransformed hls weekly paper lnLo a dally maklng lL Lhe naLlon's largesL 8lackowned
dally 1haL same year he purchased Lhe llttsbotqb cootlet Lhrough SengsLacke LnLerprlses lnc hls
newspaper chaln LhaL also owned Lhe 1tl5tote uefeoJet ln Memphls and Lhe Mlcblqoo cbtoolcle ln
ueLrolL

SengsLacke was born ln Savannah Ca on nov 23 1912 and graduaLed from PampLon lnsLlLuLe ln
vlrglnla Pe began hls newspaper career as a chlld worklng for Lhe wooJvllle 1lmes a Ceorgla paper
founded by hls grandfaLher and laLer publlshed by hls faLher Alexander SengsLacke Pe [olned Lhe
uefeoJets sLaff afLer college graduaLlon !ohn SengsLacke dled on May 28 1997 Pe was awarded
Lhe resldenLlal ClLlzens Medal posLhumously by resldenL 8lll CllnLon ln 2000 !ohn SengsLacke's
granddaughLer MylLl SengsLacke now publlshes Lhe uefeoJet






8oberL L vann (18791940)
Newspopet pobllsbet lowyet ooJ polltlcol stotesmoo

8oberL L vann newspaper publlsher lawyer and pollLlcal sLaLesman rose from obscurlLy ln
rural norLh Carollna Lo head one of Lhe mosL lnfluenLlal AfrlcanAmerlcan papers ln Lhe naLlon vann
was born on Aug 27 1879 ln Ahoskle nC AfLer hlgh school graduaLlon he Lraveled Lo Lhe norLh for
raclal and economlc opporLunlLy and enrolled ln WesLern unlverslLy of ennsylvanla aL lLLsburgh
(now Lhe unlverslLy of lLLsburgh) where he earned hls law degree ln 1909 ln 1910 he became
Lreasurer of Lhe newly esLabllshed llttsbotqb cootlet 1he paper's edlLor lefL shorLly LhereafLer and
vann Look over as Lhe cootlets edlLorpubllsher under vann's vlgorous leadershlp Lhe newspaper
became Lhe mosL wldely read 8lackowned newspaper ln Lhe naLlon

1he cootlet crusaded for raclal [usLlce noL by sLormlng Lhe beaches buL by flghLlng one lnclslve
baLLle afLer anoLher ln one campalgn Lhe cootlet began a naLlonwlde proLesL ln Lhe 1930s agalnsL
Lhe Amos ''n Andy radlo show ln anoLher lL called for an lncrease of 8lack physlclans ln lLLsburgh
ln 1932 vann led a campalgn Lo geL Afrlcan Amerlcans Lo [oln Lhe uemocraLlc arLy resldenL
lranklln u 8oosevelL rewarded vann by appolnLlng hlm Speclal AsslsLanL Lo Lhe uS ALLorney
Ceneral ln 1933 As Lhe paper grew many of Lhe perlod's mosL lnfluenLlal AfrlcanAmerlcan wrlLers
graced lLs pages lncludlng conservaLlve columnlsL Ceorge Schuyler and leadlng lnLellecLual WL8
uu 8ols vann dled ln 1940 buL Lhe cootlet Lhrlved uslng many of Lhe pracLlces vann broughL Lo Lhe
paper 1he cootlets mosL famous efforL for lnsLance was Lhe 1942 "uouble v Campalgn" calllng
for vlcLory abroad and vlcLory aL home from raclal dlscrlmlnaLlon ln polnLlng ouL Lhe necesslLy of Lhe
campalgn cootlet columnlsL Schuyler wroLe LhaL Loo many 8lacks were belng fooled lnLo Lhlnklng
"LhaL once vlcLory ls achleved Lhe Colored breLhren as a reward for Lhelr paLrloLlc efforLs and
sacrlflces wlll be prompLly lnvesLed wlLh all Lhe rlghLs and prlvlleges of clLlzenshlp now denled
Lhem"








lummer 8ernard ?oung Sr (18841962)
A lctosoJet l fot bls people/lctosoJet

llommet 8etootJ l8 oooq 5t pobllsbet of tbe Notfolk Iootool ooJ ColJe wos JeJlcoteJ to tbe
lJeo tbot 8lockowoeJ oewspopets sboolJ ploy o ctosoJloq tole lo tbe llves of tbelt teoJets oooq
wos boto lo 1884 lo llttletoo Nc ne leotoeJ tbe oewspopet bosloess ftom bls fotbet wloflelJ
oooq wbo pobllsbeJ o smoll oewspopet lo tbelt bometowo oooq otteoJeJ 5olot Aoqostloes
colleqe lo kolelqb Nc ftom 190J to 1905 ne moveJ to Notfolk vo lo 1907 to wotk fot o ftotetool
otJet pobllcotloo colleJ tbe loJqe Iootool ooJ ColJe As o tepottet ooJ tbeo eJltot be JoobleJ tbe
pobllcotloos cltcolotloo lo 1910 be booqbt tbe pobllcotloo teoomloq lt tbe Notfolk Iootool ooJ
ColJe ooJ beqoo ttoosfotmloq lt loto o 5ootbeto powetboose 8y tbe beqlooloq of wotlJ wot ll lt
wos tbe lotqest 8lockowoeJ oewspopet lo tbe 5ootb wltb o cltcolotloo exceeJloq 100000 lt olso
wos tbe ooly AftlcooAmetlcoo popet lo tbe 5ootb to bove o ootloool eJltloo uoJet oooqs
leoJetsblp tbe Iootool ooJ ColJe ctosoJeJ oqolost lyocbloq moblllzeJ Aftlcoo Ametlcoos to vote
ptesseJ fot loteqtotloo of tbe mllltoty ooJ eJltotlollzeJ oqolost tbe oottbeto mlqtotloo of 5ootbeto
8locks uotloq tbe 19J0s tbe popet seot tepottets to covet tbe seosotloool ttlols of tbe 5cottsboto
8oys oloe AftlcooAmetlcoo yootbs folsely occoseJ of toploq wblte qltls

oooqs vlew of tbe tole of tbe 8lock ptess wos ctystolllzeJ wbeo be offeteJ to Jtoft o coJe of
jootoollstlc qolJelloes fot tbe Notloool Newspopet lobllsbets Assoclotloo lo 1944 oooqs cteJo of
tbe Neqto ltess lo pott stotes l sboll cku5Au fot oll tbloqs tbot ote tlqbt ooJ jost ooJ l wlll wltb
epool fetvot expose ooJ cooJemo oll tbloqs tbot ote oojost l sboll be o ctosoJet bot wlll oot petmlt
my fetvot oot tbe tlqbtoess of my coose to ptovoke obooJoomeot of tbe cotJlools of jootoollsm
occotocy foltoess ooJ objectlvlty oooq too tbe Iootool ooJ ColJe ootll bls Jeotb oo Oct 9 1962