The Carolinian [March 4, 2008]

              Mar. 4-Mar. 10,2008
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Fight through
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Center hopes to keep community remembering
Rebekah Cansler
Staff Writer
Greensboro has a very rich his-tory,
but are we familiar with it?
The Beloved Community Cen-ter
wants to make sure that the
younger generation understands
and remembers the hardships,
joys, and triumphs of their black
ancestors. The BCC calls their en-deavors
"The Grassroots History
Project," and say the hope to help
the Greensboro community real-ize
what a unique and wonderful
past it has.
Faith Community Church in
downtown Greensboro held a
panel discussion Sunday, Feb.
24 where the oldest members of
the four original African Ameri-can
communities were invited
to speak about their lives as chil-dren.
The oldest speaker in atten-dance
was Mrs. Mary Sapp, 97.
She belongs to the Persimmon
Grove's community. The names
of the other communities are
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Persimmons Grove Church after being rebuilt In 1958.
Sugartown/Bass Chapel, Collin
Grove, Woodyside/Persimmon
Grove, and Raleigh Crossroad/
Persimmon Grove.
Lewis Brandon, BCC Grass-roots
History Coordinator, gave
an estimate of the size one com-munity,
Raleigh Crossroad/ Per-simmon
Grove, covered.
"It started at Guilford College
and went all the way to the Macy's
Department Store off of Wen-dover,"
explained Brandon
The speakers at the Sunday
panel discussion talked about the
churches and schools being the
binding part of the communities.
All these communities have close
bonds, because over time people
began to intermarry with each
community, making the bonds
grow stronger. Brandon also ex-pressed
that even though these
communities were poor, no one
knew it because of the close sense
of belonging these environments
gave.
Now the communities are all
but extinct because of develop-ment
of businesses, housing, and
annexation in Greensboro. Only
some of the original houses and
the four church cemeteries still
remain. The four churches in the-ses
communities are still active,
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The Beloved Community Center (BBC) displays old newspapers highlighting
struggles of the African American community in Greensboro as part of a cur-rent
exhibit.
but their original buildings have
been torn down and rebuilt. This
is such the case with Persimmons
Grove Church.
BCC at Faith Community
Church felt the need to host this
event because they want the pub-lic
to see and participate in this
great history. BCC is also dedi-cated
to tracking down historical
information pertaining to theses
communities and documenting
it so the information cannot be
lost.
BCC helped N.C. A&T with
the dance production of "Bullet
Holes in the Wall: Reflections on
Acts of Courage in the Struggle
for Liberation" by providing ma-terials
and research information.
SEE CENTER ON PAGE TWO
Kroto encourages students to think of sustainability
Cynthia Marts
Staff Writer
"If you make people think
they're thinking, they'll love you;
but if you really make them think,
they'll hate you." This quote, from
Don Marquis, is how Dr. Har-old
Kroto began his speech last
Wednesday evening.
Titled "Science, Society and
Sustainability," the speech was
Kroto's second lecture of the day.
The evening covered topics from
chemistry and nanotechnology,
to teaching, critical thinking, sus-tainability,
and the environment.
Kroto encouraged advancement
of scientific thought in our every-day
society.
Senior Abel McLawhorn heard
about the lecture in a class, and
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said he had no problem when
another professor required stu-dents
to attend. He had heard of
Dr. Kroto and his work before,
and while he held some reserva-tions
about Kroto's comments on
certain religious ideas, he enjoyed
hearing him speak.
"He used logic while explain-ing
why we need to think about
the things around us," said
McLawhorn. "His lecture was im-portant
if you've ever asked your-self
what we are going to do when
we run out of natural resources.
It's really only a limited amount
of time."
"We're going to talk about seri-ous
things," began Kroto. "Things
that concern me and a lot of the
scientific community. This is very
serious talk."
Ethan Burke, a member of
the Bio Tour group that was on
campus that day, came to see the
lecture after it was mentioned to
them and found it to be very in-teresting
and right up their alley.
"He brought up a lot of issues
that we talk about too," Burke
said, referring to the Bio Tour
group's ideas on sustainability
and the environment. "Issues that
will affect us all, about our liveli-hood.
He is just more on the sci-ence
side, versus our socio-politi-cal
side. I thought it was great."
Graduate Student (ennifer
Longpre, who said she had never
even heard of the speaker before
she attended the talk, agreed with
Burke.
"He was phenomenal," com-mented
Longpre. "His topics were
very important. We are definitely
in a crisis now, globally, in many,
many areas. He did a good job of
touching on them in a scientific
light."
In 1996, Dr. Kroto won a Nobel
Prize in chemistry for his group's
SEE KROTO ON PAGE TWO
Dr. Harold Kroto continues to speak with students after his lecture on
sustainability.
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