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' u S - F PRSRT STD . 'S POSTAGE A 338 NENNEBERGE { ‘ : l'fi\ul)\ l ‘&Gos S QA LIBRARY | \ AUGUSTA GA . ; :.::(“*fl A, GA 3(\/90(»»\_ - PERMIT NO 302 2N 4 4 % / /AN <Pk ~ v / cqg— P AY T ST Serving Metro Augusta, : S | — South Carolina and The CSRA April 5- April 11, 2007 Black teen who pushed hall monitor freed from juvenile prison Page 2A Magic Johnson speaks to cruise industry about minority travelers Page 2A E{:fi”fl children sched to appear with Tonfi Wilson and the ather of Soul Band Page 3A Procrastination kills African American dreams Page 7A i‘ .' [ '(Au L [ ‘ Getting in the game Page 4% & w.sl W « A Compilation Pmm Page 1B A Raisin in the Sun Shines Page 1B Charlotte Riley-Webb artwork «hmd at the Lucy Craft Laney Muse um Page 1B The Message of the Res urrection By MARY SULLIVAN Page 3A Local youth demon strates bravery Page 6A Library offers uultl:*:f TnhaßookOamr TNDEX_ e e ¥R e A Vol. 25, No. 1284 Can Tiger Do It Again? Focus ils the name of the game. By the look of things, one would deeply believe that Tiger leads the pack in this field too. An as the tournament opens today, people will be gazing to sece how intense Tiger is at this juncture of his game; considering he has reached thc ten year anniversary of his initial win here in the Garden City. Yet, as with the COUISEC Over thc‘ ycars. Tiger has matured Other jnurnahsts com- Correcting justice: When the system fails By GORDON JACKSON Special to the NNPA Dallas (NNPA) - District Attorney Craig Watkins has come to dean house, the jailhouse. Watkins said he h()pcs to be able to right more wrongs similar to cases like those of the 16 indi viduals recenty released after DNA evidence proved they had been incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. “I'm going to do the right thing,” Watkins said, “So that 20, 30, 40 years from now, when I'm on my deathbed, [ can die in peace, because I did the right thing. Whar's been happening here has not been right. “Everybody thinks that the civil rights struggle is over, its not. There's a new civil rights struggle, dealing with criminal justice,” said Dallas’ first Black District Attorney at a criminal justice forum, recently hosted by the Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black Journalists. Watkins served on a panel, which also included Joyce Ann Brown, Curts Wilbert, Tyrone Brown and James Waller. Randy Mcllwain, reporter for NBCS, moderated the forum. Of the five pan elist at the forum, three of them had served time for crimes they did not commit and one had been given a life sentence for what's usually a mis demeanor charge. RO TR T b !‘l!ifiéjli"/;?‘”"l e o | Ten years after Tiger’s breakthrough, little progress for black golfers By Eddie Dells When Tiger Woods won his first Masters a decade ago, the waiters, dishwashers and lock er-room attendants at Augusta National cheered as loudly as the fans. The victory was about more than golf. It was about breaking down barriers. There was symbolism in a young black man winning a big tournament at Augusta National, a country club in the Decp South that was notori ously slow to accept social change — and where blacks sulalr?:rgcly were considered employees, not equals. That one Masters moment was sure to lead to many more. Or so the theory went. Ten years after that break through, though, there has been litde progress. Woods will be the only black player in the www.augustafocus.com “ Article of Analysis and nterpretation e iy IR P T s R AL ‘ ; ; | v E % 5 b ] L : / 2 ‘ [ o v 3‘2 : P (‘;‘ :’/ = s | v o - e ¢ -~ &% WA MRS Y \ : - LBS = - B R ' N E A .o L i _,fil,__ i ,wm o : -mnmnmn Watkins stated that with help from the New York-based Innocence Project, all of the 434 cases of murders, rapes and other felonies he has on his books would be reviewed for potental DNA testing. He said that 16 of the 32 cases reviewed so far have been overturned, including 12 high-profile cases, Wallers and Browns cases among them. “Weve got to change the way we look at the criminal justice system and do certain things to make sure that we don't have people who look like us, or any other folks, being labeled as crim inals for the rest of their lives,” said Watkins. M. Brown, accompanied by his mother Nora, rave a distinet sense of how things felt for him. ‘fimwn committed a $2 robbery at age 17, where no one was hurt. After violaung his parole by testing positive for marijuana, he was sentenced to life by a Dallas judge. “It started sinking in,” Brown said. “I said, ‘Man, I could be here for the rest of my life.™ Browns description of prison life confirmed it was not a haven of rehabilitation and rebuilding, but an enclosed jungle of criminal actvity. In fact, many of his encounters came with the prison guards. “They could just say that you threatened them,” he said. “They dont need any evidence, See Justice, page 8A field at Augusta National this coming week. ‘ “Its a travesty, no doubt aboutit,” said Pete McDaniel, a black author and journalist who has chronided the history of blacks in golf. “We've got a S6O billion-a-year industry. That’s a pretty big pie. Here it is in 2007 and we dont get a sliv er of the piec. We get table aoods on his own has engendered a surge in popular ity that has led to about a three fold increase in prize money, which derives mainly from more lucrative TV and spoa sorship deals. But it has yet to trickle down. It hasntt even led to any other black playi on the fidln fact, there are only a hand cuhtirfiin s:l minor leagues of pro golf, not really hoping they can be the next Tiger — nobody dreams of that — but thinking they might get to join Tiger on the Tour some day. One of them, Tim O’'Neal, is starting his third straight year on the Nationwide Tour, the step below the PGA Tour. “There’s no extra pressure on me,” O'Neal said. “Not atall. | think of mysclf as another play er out there trying to make it to the PGA Tour.” Another, Andy Walker, was on the NCAA championship team at Pepperdine in 1997 and is now on The Gateway Tour in Arizona. Stll another, Kevin Hall, was the first black golfer o eam a scholarship at Ohio State. He is deaf — someone who easily could capture bthc nations imagination — but is sdll try- T a p . ‘"flwy’rcw?mfing. Things Another set of King documents headed for auction block ABLANTA (AR) - A faded green folder contain ing documents once belonging to slain civil rights leader the Rev. Mar tin Luther King Jr. is set to b(‘ auctioned ()fi But a spokesman for the King estate says the papers belong to the estate and wants the auction halted. For nearly 40 years, the collection sat in the basc ment of a friend of King's. Shc said she gnt the papers as part of a debt settlement with the now-defunct radio statton WERD, which shared the building that housed the King-led South ern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta. The documents include handwritten notes and typed speeches, letters to and from King, statements and position papers. All the documents are from the carly-to-mid-19605, auction organizers said, but they have not yet been authent cated or appraised. Auction organizers expect the documents to bring-at least $250,000. The April 15 auction is being hosted by Gallery 63 in Atlanta. “These papers are Library of Congress stuff,” Paul Brown, the gallery's owner, said on its Web site. “They need to be archived In a museum, in a moisture and light-controlled envi ronment. Ideally, I would dont happen overnight,” said Gary Player, who was encour aged when he saw blacks flock ing to watch Tiger at the Presi dents Cup in Players native South Africa in 2005. Player guesses it will be sever al years before a big influx of blacks hits the PGA Tour. Indeed, the powers that be in golf would like to believe a base of players is building — a grass roots group of kids who mighe have picked up their first club at one of Tiger's charity dinics, or at a driving range built by First Tee, ;:'c“?gundadon fund ed in part by the PGA Tour and aimer:t getting underprivi leged kids onto the golf course. But it will take a while to find out. “I think one, it takes ime,” Woods said. “And two, its about building a bigger base and having more kicfa Like | said, its a pyramid effect. The FIFTY CENTS ment that he has become a ‘real man’. The course has under gone significant transfor mations. It has been lengthen 500 yards, chan red six hulcs, wi(h new tmck tces, New trees and some bigger, deeper bunkers since 1997. K'c( as Tiger explained in his Tuc.\‘éa)' press confer ence, experience and wis dom are important. This would explain to many of us why Jack Nicklaus has six titles. See Tiger, page 9A hl\( 0 See rhcm go to a muscum, where they can be shared. But | have no con trol over who the high bid der will be or how much they will offer.” News of this auction comes just months after the King family sold a collec tion of King's papers to the city of Adanta for $32 mil lion. But Isaac Newton Farris, president and chiet execu tive officer of the King Cen ter, told The Atlanta Jour nal-Constitution he had no idea this latest set of papers existed untl Monday. He said he would try to stop the auction. “There 1s no such thing as a separate collection,” Farris said. “Unless somebody has documentation that (King) has given them this, the King estate owns that.” However, experts tamiliar with intellectual property law say that depending on how the woman — who wants to remain anony mous — got the papers, she might have the right o sell them, although the Kings could stll control the con tent. “The main thing to keep in mind 1s the distinction about who owns the physi cal property and who owns the intellectual property,” said Doug Isenberg, an Atlanta attorney and past See King, page 10A more you go through junior golf locally to the state, to national, then to amateur, col legiate, mini-tours, pro, then eventually out here, youre just dwindling it down.” According to a study by the National Golf Foundation, there were 1.3 million adult black golfers in 2003, which would equal about three per cent of all adult players. More difficult to gauge is the number of young black players being brought into the f? ld, and how many are devoting themselves to the game, whether thmugh First Tee, a local course or a pri vate club.’ What is certain is that because blacks are, on average, poorer than whites — accord ing to a study by the National Urban League, among others — they dont have as much Sec Golfers, page 10A