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Your Facebook feed is a joke First off: I am telling you this because we’re friends. Not to sound contrarian, not to burst a populist bubble, not for my own

by Brian Clarey gain, though indeed one of my goals here is to get people to stop their nonsense.

And many of you are not going to like what I’m going to say. You’ve invested a lot of time and, sometimes, money into this toxic, one-sided relationship. But I’m always willing to spit out the truth, even though I know people like BS a whole lot more.

Here it is: Your Facebook feed sucks. It’s useless — the same tired memes and film clips from the same people, occasional sponsored posts of minimal interest and, for business-page owners, nowhere near the penetration we enjoyed just a year ago among the audiences we’ve amassed.

I know this because my Facebook feed sucks, and my business page — the one for this newspaper — is doing exactly squat for my goals.

For any business, social media is not about attracting new customers — though in some cases it has been used successfully to introduce people to a brand. It

is intended to build community among existing customers, give them a place to strengthen and enhance loyalty.

For us, it’s a place to grow our readership — technically speaking, our product because it is what we sell — by directing people to our website. Generally speaking, we only post our own content on Triad City Beat social media, with links to the source on our site.

Last week, Jordan Green broke a huge story that within 24 hours had gotten picked up by national media, including Newsweek and the Washington Post. We set a record for daily pageviews on our site — 20,600, up from 19,400 that came in 2014 when Green broke a story about a white fraternity party at Wake Forest University that asked of its guests to dress like black people.

Of those views, a scant 1,500 or so came from Facebook, where we had dutifully posted the story within minutes, just as Facebook has trained us to do. And on a big day, with a big story, it barely moved the needle.

The rest of those pageviews, the other 19,000 of them… well, you’re gonna have to buy me a cup of coffee before I tell you where they came from.

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If you’re arrested, they’re going to take you downtown, make you take off your civilian clothes, have you squat and cough while they check you for contraband. You might see your name in the papers.

The fact that the case is dismissed doesn’t compensate for what you went through. You’ve already been disgraced.

-Catherine Netter, in the News, page 8

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CITY LIFE March, 1 - 7

by Lauren Barber

Art party @ Wherehouse Art Hotel (W-S), 6 p.m.

Multimedia artists Zach McCraw and Savannah Tuttle exhibit new works to peruse before live performance-art collaboration between Amanda Medina and Ash Williams, and another between McCraw and Javier Colon, beginning at 8 p.m.

Find the event on Facebook.

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The Body Project @ Greensboro Project Space, 6 p.m.

Ladymith Black Mambazo @ Carolina Theatre (GSO), 8 p.m.

ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament @ Greensboro Coliseum, 8 p.m.

Explore work from more than a dozen visual artists who focus on the four humors of the body: phlegmatic, choleric, melancholic and sanguine.

Performances corresponding with the body’s humors from Paper Lantern, the Phoenix Theatre Company, MAT and Scrapmettle will begin at 7 p.m. Learn more at greensboroprojectspace.com.

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The sixth seed team takes on the winner of Game 3. This tournament extends through the weekend, culminating in a championship game on March 4 at 2 p.m. Learn more at greensborocoliseum.com.

FRIDAY

Comic Book Roadshow @ Hampton Inn Greensboro Airport, 10 a.m.

Geek out and sell old comic books, sport trading cards printed between 1900 and 1970, comic and televisionrelated toys and other pop-culture collectibles.

Learn more at comicbookroadshow.com.

Nelson Mandela called Ladysmith Black Mambazo “South Africa’s cultural ambassadors to the world.” Witness the five-time Grammy Award winners center peace, love and harmony in their unique dances and vocal harmonies. Learn more at carolinatheatre.com.

SATURDAY

Natural egg dyeing @ High Point Museum, 10 a.m.

Kaleideum After Dark @ Kaleideum Downtown (W-S), 6 p.m.

Join one of two group rides with CycleBar Winston-Salem and hear a live DJ. After your dismount, find Mojito Mobile Food Truck for dinner and enjoy beer from Fiddlin’ Fish and wine from Carolina’s Vineyards and Hops. Learn more at downtown.kaleideum.org.

Mad Hatters Tea & gallery opening @ North Trade Street Arts (W-S), 7 p.m.

Join the characters of Alice in Wonderland for a tea party featuring baked goods from Artsy Cakesy and the opening of artist Allison Hutchins’ Through the Looking Glass exhibit during the First Friday Gallery Hop. Find the event on Facebook.

Though Easter is more than a month away, the High Point Museum wants to school us in the art of natural egg-dyeing. They’re providing the eggs and plant material like onionskins and blueberries. Find the event on Facebook.

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Poetry Out Loud state finals @ Triad Stage (GSO), 3:30 pm

Tiffany Ashton, William Massey, Casey Noel & Danny Dockery @ Muddy Creek Café (W-S), 2 p.m.

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Adam Sobsey, Hynde’s biographer, joins forces with local musicians to illuminate the music and life of Chrissie Hynde, leader of the rock band the Pretenders. Sobsey reads excerpts of his analysis of a number of Pretenders’ songs before the audience experiences a live rendition. A Q&A session follows. Learn more at greensboroprojectspace.com.

Oscars watch party @ Geeksboro (GSO), 8 p.m.

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Tight Fright, Speak N Eye, Drat the Luck & Power Animal @ Monstercade (W-S), 8 p.m.

Up-and-coming country star Tiffany Ashton graces the Muddy Creek stage after William Massey brings his Southern roots music and singer-songwriter Casey Noel performs original work influenced by folk, blues and country. Danny Dockery is known in the Triad music scene for his unique blend of country, rock, beach and soul music. Find the event on Facebook.

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Pianist Fidel Leal & wine tasting @ SECCA (W-S), 5:30 p.m.

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High school finalists from across the state compete to advance to the national competition in Washington, DC. Students also vie for cash prizes and money for their schools to purchase books. North Carolina Poet Laureate Shelby Stephenson delivers a guest reading. Find the event on Facebook.

Chrissie Hynde & the Pretenders: A Live Rock Biography @ Greensboro Project Space, 8 p.m.

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Brooklyn-based metal band Tight Fright headlines a show otherwise bursting with Camel City talent. Support punk-rock band Drat the Luck, groove to Speak N Eye’s blend of hip-hop, psychedelic rock and folk, and experience Power Animal, a self-described “space-psych-agro noise improv collective.” Find the event on Facebook.

Root for your favorites at this public screening of the 90th Annual Academy Awards ceremony.

Learn more at geeksboro.com.

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The Winston-Salem Hispanic League presents a concert with respected Cuban pianist Fidel Leal beginning at 7 p.m. Dogwood Hops and Crops provides wines from five countries to sample in the hours prior, alongside hors d’oeuvres and desserts from Kilwins. Learn more at hispanicleague.org.

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Carl Bernstein

by Lauren Barber The legendary journalist Carl Bernstein paid a visit to Temple Emanuel in WinstonSalem on Feb. 24, speaking on the role of the press, the state of national politics and the Trump presidency. The bestselling author and CNN commentator is known for his reporting on the Watergate scandal of the Nixon administration alongside then-colleague Bob Woodward.

While he lauded the press’ coverage of Trump’s administration as some of the best investigative reporting on a president in his lifetime, he lamented that it follows “egregious journalistic failure during the [presidential] primaries.”

“We provided free air time to a candidate such as had never been done before because it was great theatrics, because it was pushing the ratings through the roof, because it was ‘good television,’” Bernstein said. “There we were at every rally with the cameras waiting as, down from the sky, comes Trump Air Force One — it’s not reporting… no candidate should be covered in that way.”

He cited the lack of editorial framing as one of the media’s LAUREN BARBER most detrimental failures. This, Carl Bernstein, the former Washington Post reporter who helped break the Watergate story, speaks at Temple Emanuel. alongside ongoing attempts to adhere to a perceived thoritarianism, fundamental dishonesty is Joe McCarthy.” centrism and neutrality that is a mythical impossibility, The key difference, he says, is hyperpartisanship and a the pursuit of which is antithetical to the public good in disregard for truth endemic in today’s Republican party, failing to provide Americans with meaningful context whereas many of the Republicans of Nixon’s era played and analysis. All the while, he said, Trump vehemently key roles in bringing to light the conspiratorial criminality reframes the conduct of the press of their sitting president. Bernstein as the issue, deflecting from his dubbed this ideological entrenchown. Bernstein noted that President ment a ‘Cold Civil War’ that is daily Bernstein noted that Nixon Nixon applied the same strategy as eroding our democracy. and Trump both demonized Watergate unfolded, “the last time “[Trump] is somewhat evolutionwe saw the American system work ary, maybe even inevitable given the press to deflect. in all its grandeur,” according to the nature of this Cold Civil War in Bernstein. which we cannot have a fact-based “We have a president of the debate, in which the best attainable United States that has called the press ‘the enemy of the version of the truth is not valued,” Bernstein said. people,’ a phrase steeped in totalitarianism, in murderTime will tell whether Americans will increasingly trust ous acts,” Bernstein said. “Really, lying and untruth is the the press and whether congressional Republicans will (at enemy of the people, especially when the lying is done least) cooperate in good faith with the Mueller investigaby the president. The only comparable leader that I can tion. But it’s not looking good. think of that has posed the kinds of questions about au-

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Rep. Amos L. Quick III (second from right) spoke at Union Square on Tuesday evening.

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“So what that bill would have done would have been to train our SROs also in youth development. For many years I served as executive director of the six Boys and Girls Club units here in Greensboro. Anybody in here who’s ever had a teenager, at some point in time, you would want to handle them in a different way. I’ve had two. But you have to understand that with the development, everything a child does is not a federal offense.”

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In the absence of any practical likelihood of removing the millions of guns at the disposal of potential mass shooters, and the political impasse over gun control with the NRA and far-right militias ready to launch an insurrection to defend the Second Amendment, the political debate is shrinking into a narrow arena: securitizing, or hardening schools.

The debate increasingly focuses on whether schools should have more police (euphemistically called “school resource officers”) or armed teachers, with a third option to hire armed security officers. Unfortunately, the likely consequence of securitizing schools is accelerating the school-to-prison pipeline. More guns in the hands of more male authority figures who have internalized racialized fears of black males creates the risk of more tragedy.

Rep. Amos L. Quick III, who represents a district in Greensboro and serves as the Democratic Freshman Vice Chair in the state House, cautioned against hiring more police to patrol schools during a town-hall meeting hosted by Democratic members of the Guilford County legislative delegation at Union Square on Tuesday. Quick made the point that 999 out of 1,000 days, the average police officer is not likely to encounter a school shooter, and their vigilance will be put to use in more mundane, everyday conditions.

“Most days SROs don’t have to confront intruders on the campus,” said Quick, who previously served on the Guilford County School Board. “And what winds up happening is that there’s a school-to-prison pipeline that is exacerbated by SROs on campus.

That’s not a statement to tick ’em off or whatever; I’m just telling you as a fact.”

Quick is a primary sponsor of the School-Justice Partnership/Training SROs bill, which was referred to the House K-12 Education Committee and has yet to receive a hearing.

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Guilford DA’s retirement sets stage for contest between two women

by Jordan Green With the announcement that Guilford County District Attorney Doug Henderson is retiring, two women — former judge Avery Crump and prosecutor Stephanie Reese — are vying for the position in the May 8 Democratic primary.

Ricky Marquise Hunt, 26, had been sitting in Courtroom 1 in High Point since 8:30 a.m. It was Thursday, and District Court Judge Avery Crump had worked through a docket with 211 cases for traffic and misdemeanor criminal offenses. Hunt was among the last handful of defendants when the prosecutor called his name at 2:30 p.m.

Hunt was up on two charges: a driving-while-license-revoked-not-impaired offense from 2016, and assault on a female from 2017. He elected to represent himself. The prosecutor announced they were dismissing the driving-whilelicense-revoked charge, and Hunt said he was pleading not guilty on the assault charge. The complainant, the grandmother of Hunt’s wife, was present.

Testimony during the trial revealed that the altercation occurred when Hunt decided to take his small child against the great-grandmother’s wishes. She pulled at his arm while he held the child, and he pulled away from her. She lost her balance and fell. Both the accuser and the accused expressed contrition about how they had conducted themselves.

Judge Crump found Hunt not guilty.

Then, a Guilford County Sheriff’s Deputy appeared behind Hunt and started to place handcuffs on his wrists.

Both the defendant and the judge appeared startled. The prosecutor explained that Judge Crump had issued an order for arrest the day before when Hunt failed to appear in court on a separate driving-while-license-revokednot-impaired charge from 2017.

“It’s going to be recalled,” Judge Crump said from the bench, hastily signing a new order. The deputy removed the cuffs, and Judge Crump informed Hunt that his next appearance would be April 4, while admonishing him to think about how he’d treated his grandmotherin-law next time he needed a babysitter.

The courts can seem vast and impersonal to the defendants who cycle through the Guilford County system — the third largest in the state. The complex interplay among four institutional actors — law enforcement, prosecution, public and private defense lawyers, and judges — shapes both the massive case-

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load and the care with which justice is dispensed to individual defendants.

On May 8, Guilford County voters will choose someone to fill one of the most powerful positions in the machinery of local justice: the district attorney.

Unlike the sheriff, whose jurisdiction excludes Greensboro and High Point, the district attorney is responsible for the prosecution of every single criminal defendant in Guilford County.

The announced retirement of District Attorney Doug Henderson, who has served three terms, opens the office to new leadership for the first time in 12 years. Two women, both Democrats like Henderson, have filed for the position.

Stephanie Reese has worked in the office as an assistant district attorney for 17 years. The other candidate is the district court judge who heard Ricky Hunt’s assault case on Feb. 22. On Tuesday afternoon, Avery Crump completed a final order, walked down the hall to submit her resignation from the bench, and then drove to Raleigh to file for election as Guilford County District Attorney.

Crump said this is the first time a woman has run for district attorney in Guilford County, much less held the office.

Henderson easily defeated a Republican opponent during his first election in 2006, and since then he’s run unopposed. His retirement clears the way for new leadership in a role few Guilford County voters have likely given much thought. Voters will entrust extraordinary power in one of two women, neither of whom is a household name.

During a town-hall meeting hosted by

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Democratic members of the Guilford County delegation to the state General Assembly on Tuesday evening, Catherine Netter, a substitute teacher who previously worked as a detention officer for the sheriff’s office, implored people in the audience to pay attention to the district attorney race. Afterwards, she explained how the discretion exercised by the district attorney can determine how poor people experience the court system.

“When you stack the charges I can’t afford bail and I’m stuck in jail,” Netter said. “By the time you reduce the charges, hell, I’ve already served the time.... If you’re arrested, they’re going to take you downtown, make you take off your civilian clothes, have you squat and cough while they check you for contraband,” she continued. “You might see your name in the papers. The fact that the case is dismissed doesn’t compensate for what you went through. You’ve already been disgraced.”

Reese expressed support for current programs that she said already help reduce the number of people in jail.

“The DA’s office works closely with pre-trial services in determining what defendants’ past records are so we can set bond appropriately,” she said. “Pretrial services has also been working with [the Greensboro Police Department] on the electronic-monitoring program.

All of those programs are designed to see if there are alternatives. I’m in favor of working with law enforcement in the community to develop and support alternatives. Nobody believes that spending time in custody is going to make

the situation better, but there are some people because of their crimes, because of their record, they pose a threat to the community, and those are the people we focus on.”

Crump cited her handling Ricky Hunt’s missed court date on his drivingwhile-license-revoked charge as an example of how she gives defendants the benefit of the doubt and seeks to avoid unnecessary jail time. Based on the fact that he showed up for court at 8:30 a.m., she said she was willing to believe that his absence the previous day was an honest mistake.

“There was no point in him being arrested for a traffic case which is minor,” Crump said. “It would have been a lot of waste and time. That’s a very minor Class 3 misdemeanor. It could be just someone has an unpaid ticket.”

Both Reese and Crump said they plan to be more visible than Henderson, who doesn’t directly prosecute cases and typically delegates questions from the media to Howard Neumann, the office’s chief assistant district attorney.

“My big goal for our office is that I work really hard to keep our community safe and I work for just results in cases,” Reese said. “I think an important part of that is reaching out and involving the community more and being able to spend more time to hear the concerns and trying to find answers to the problems that we have. I’ve prosecuted and tried every kind of case, from murder to robbery. I’ve specialized in financial crimes like identity theft and case with abuse of the elderly.”

Prior to her election to the bench in 2008, Crump worked as an assistant district attorney in Guilford County for nine years. Before that, she held the same job in Bronx County, NY. “I’ll be a more hands-on district attorney,” Crump said. “I have a history of prosecuting cases. When I get back in that office I will be prosecuting. I’ll delegate some, but I’m also going to be in the courtroom. I’m a worker.”

Both candidates said they won’t continue the current district attorney’s practice of delegating press duties.

“I think it’s part of the job,” Reese said.

While Crump cautioned that she won’t have a lot of spare time, she said, “I do see myself giving interviews.”

Both candidates said they’re prepared

Gays for Trump founder files for NC House seat

by Jordan Green

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media user, Boykin has flirted with the alt-right and Islamophobic extremists while cheerleading for the president.

Boykin is organizing the second annual March 4 Trump in Washington.

Boykin acted as emcee for the Raleigh March Against Sharia, part of a string of simultaneous rallies organized across the nation by Act for America on June 10, 2017. Based in Virginia Beach, Va., Act for America is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “an anti-Muslim hate group because it pushes wild anti-Muslim conspiracy theories, denigrates American Muslims and deliberately conflates mainstream and radical Islam.”

Boykin said he was recruited to coordinate the Raleigh event by Scott Presler, a Gays for Trump member who went on to work for Act for America. The Raleigh event attracted an array of far-right groups, including a patriot militia-styled “3 Percenter” clique from the Piedmont Triad and the preppy white supremacist group Identity Evropa, who went on to participate in the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. Boykin told TCB that the rally was not against Muslims. “Not saying that people who practice Islam are bad,” he said.

“There’s an Islam lite.”

His comments reflected a toxic and distorted view that Islam is incompatible with the American system of government, and the myth that American Muslims are attempting to establish sharia law to oppress non-Muslims in the United States.

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Peter Boykin speaks at an MCCAUSLAND anti-sharia rally in Raleigh.

murdered and killed by people following sharia law,” Boykin said. “They will try to get in an area and try to change it.”

He added, “I am someone who understands that the law is based on a Christian structure, and there is a separation of church and state.”

Boykin said he didn’t invite Identity Evropa to the event and didn’t know much about them at the time. “I said, ‘Y’all look like an alt-right group,’” he recalled. “I said, ‘I’m going to go out on a limb if I let you speak. If you keep it to this topic, that’s fine, but if you go into any other thing I will take this mic from you and denounce you on the spot.’”

Boykin’s support for Trump and alignment with far-right causes has put him in coalition with homophobes while alienating him from mainstream LGBTQ organizations. Boykin said he took exception when Alan Hoyle, a Christian theocrat associated with the Oath Keepers militia, picked up the bullhorn and started preaching against homosexuality and “fornication.”

Boykin said he’s not disappointed in the least in Trump’s record on LGBTQ issues, including the president’s announcement that transgender people will no longer be allowed to serve in the military, which has been struck down by the federal courts and is opposed by Defense Secretary James Mattis.

“It was more of an economic thing to make sure the military didn’t pay for the transgender surgeries, which are elective,” Boykin said. “The school of thought is still out if there is a mental disorder. I hate to say that transgenders [sic] have a mental disorder because at one time homosexuals were considered mentally challenged.”

The American Psychological Association has issued an opinion that “identifying as transgender does not constitute a mental disorder.” The Pentagon began paying for gender-reassignment surgeries after lifting a ban on transgender service members in 2016, and has done as recently as November 2017 despite Trump’s order.

Boykin goes so far as to reject the umbrella term “LGBTQ ,” which stands for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer.”

“I prefer ‘Gays, lesbians, bisexuals and allies,’” he said. “They have their own agenda. We can support it, but we can’t let them interfere with what we have accomplished. Truly I don’t consider transgender to be gay.”

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The founder of Gays for Trump is challenging an African-American Democrat in a bid to represent a Democraticleaning NC House district in Greensboro.

Peter Boykin, an outspoken gay Trump supporter and proprietor of MagaFirstRadio.net, filed on Monday as a Republican in House District 58.

Amos Quick, a former Guilford County School Board member who is serving his first term, filed for the seat two weeks ago. A former Boys and Girls Club executive director, Quick now serves as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in High Point. Quick also faces a Democratic challenger in Kate Flippen, who is pursuing a master’s degree in public health at UNCG, according to an article in the News & Record.

“I’ve been telling people that in order to make change in the GOP and make sure we are making America great again we have to get involved,” Boykin said.

“It’s important that we get involved in midterms when voting is so low.”

Boykin and his husband David Smith, who is black, became fixtures on the 2016 campaign trail by showing up at Trump rallies wearing red MAGA hats and “Gays for Trump” shirts featuring a rainbow-themed stars and bars motif that flipped the assumption about who Trump supporters were supposed to be.

During Trump’s Oct. 14, 2016 rally at White Oak Amphitheater in Greensboro, Smith earned brief media notoriety for ejecting Greensboro resident Derek Dunham from the venue.

“Get this guy out of here,” Trump said when he spotted Dunham near the front holding an American flag in an upside-down distress position. Video captured Smith placing Dunham in a headlock and using his body to shove him up the aisle away from the stage where Trump was speaking. Smith then high-fived other Trump supporters before two Greensboro police officer escorted him out of the venue. The sight of the police escorting out a young black man raising his fists in exultation led to predictable assumptions by other Trump supporters: The video shows an elderly white man swatting Smith with a Trump placard as he passed.

“This was my hubby founder of #GaysForTrump @7Valentine7 [Smith] at #Greensboro #TrumpRally last year kicking out #Antifa,” Boykin tweeted more than a year later.

As a public speaker and prolific social

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to provide the leadership needed to help the county deal with increased juvenile caseloads as North Carolina ends the practice of prosecuting 16- and 17-yearolds as adults beginning in late 2019.

Reese said she would work to ensure that staff communicates well with victims to ensure that they feel respected and have the opportunity to give testimony. “Unless you’re immersed in the system it’s very confusing,” she said. “It’s not like television. I envision taking our people that we have in place and trying to add to them. We need to make sure that we’re making direct contact [with victims] and make sure they’re notified if they want to be notified.”

Crump said there’s no excuse for communication with victims to fall through.

“Under my leadership, there will always be good communication with all victims,” she said. “I made sure as a judge that the victim was always contacted before we moved forward with cases.”

CJ Brinson, a racial justice activist and former candidate for Greensboro City Council, said he plans to raise several issues with candidates during the campaign. He said he’s already spoken with Reese. Brinson said he will ask candidates for district attorney if they would support signature bond or $1 bail for nonviolent offenders and deferred prosecution or alternative courts for marijuana possession and similar offenses, and whether they would be willing to prosecute police officers for murder, excessive force, tampering with evidence and other breaches.

Crump, like Reese, said as district attorney she would be able to look at alleged criminal misconduct by police officer with impartiality. “I can always promise you when a case comes into the office, I will look at the evidence,” she said. “I don’t come in with favoritism on either side.”

Reese said she would hold police officers to the same standards as any other citizen. “There’s nothing incredibly new that there’s an officer in that shooting,” she said. “They’re professionals. There are consequences like there are for anybody if you break the law. People don’t realize this: We’re also incredibly lucky that the vast majority of our law enforcement officers are incredible stewards of our community, and they don’t support those who don’t have the same goals.”

The candidates are likely to receive more pointed questions as the campaign progresses.

“If we’re going to have accountability with the new DA,” Brinson said, “we need to establish that early.”

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Murder trial for man accused of killing Eric Pegues pushed to 2019

by Jordan Green The man accused of killing Winston-Salem hip-hop promoter Eric Pegues in May 2016 likely won’t face trial until 2019.

Eric Pegues, a 41-year-old hip-hop promoter, was fatally shot in the parking lot of the Paper Moon Gentleman’s Club at closing time in the early morning hours of May 25, 2016.

Pegues had developed a fruitful partnership with Brad McCauley and Charles Womack, two co-owners of the final incarnation of Ziggy’s, which had closed months earlier. Pegues brought hip-hop artists with national stature like Snoop Dogg, Kevin Gates, Future and Lil’ Boosie to Ziggy’s. His success as an entrepreneur drew on deep community ties: He helped serve free meals and organized at least one protest against police abuses. On the night he was killed, his friend Cedric Duke, who was working security at Paper Moon, admonished Pegues to not party too hard because they were planning to serve a meal the following afternoon.

On Monday, the man accused of killing Pegues made an appearance before

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a superior court judge in the Forsyth County Hall of Justice. With tattoos covering his head, neck and arms, and with hands cuffed in front of him, 41-year-old Sierras Cobb wore a blue jumpsuit issued by the Forsyth County Law Enforcement Detention Center.

First-degree murder is only one of the felonies Cobb faces, along with possession of a firearm by a felon, habitual

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felon, possession with intent to sell or distribute marijuana and accessory in a separate murder case. A prosecutor told Judge L. Todd Burke that the Forsyth County District Attorney’s office was willing to reduce his first-degree murder to voluntary manslaughter and consolidate the remaining charges if Cobb agreed to take a plea deal.

“Yes sir, that’s correct,” Cobb responded when Burke asked him to confirm that he was rejecting the deal.

Burke scheduled Cobb’s next appearance on the accessory to murder charge for April 16, and his next appearance for habitual felon and possession of a firearm by a felon for June 4. Burke noted that Cobb’s lawyer, Nils Gerber, has another capital case coming up later this year, so Burke said Cobb’s first-degree murder charge probably won’t go to trial until 2019. Cobb has already received a five-year federal sentence for possession of a firearm by a felon, which he must serve separately from any prison time that comes out of his state charges.

An indictment for accessory after the fact to murder issued last year alleges

that on May 27, 2015 Cobb assisted a man named Anthony Abran by driving him away from a murder scene and helping him dispose of a gun. Abran pleaded guilty to the crime in November 2016.

An affidavit attached to a search-warrant application by Winston-Salem police Detective J. Morisette states that at about 3:20 a.m. Cpl. GW Lovejoy responded to gunfire at the intersection of East 25th Street and North Jackson Avenue near the Piedmont Park Apartments community. Lovejoy found 28-year-old Delmorio Lamontae Blockson slumped in the front passenger seat of a black 2015 Chrysler 200 and dead from an apparent gunshot wound. The affidavit also says Detective Morisette learned Blockson had been in a fight prior to the shooting.

Sierras Cobb also faces felony charges of possession of marijuana with intent to sell or distribute and maintaining a vehicle or dwelling place for controlled substances.

Cobb is being held without bond in the Forsyth County jail on a federal detainer and the first-degree murder charge.

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It’s hard to overestimate the Here’s what Graham said in an interview with the influence of Billy Graham, who Moskoviskij Komsomolets newspaper during a 2015 trip to died on Wednesday at the age of Russia, according to People for the American Way’s Right99. The North Carolina native son Wing Watch: “I very much appreciate that President Putin ushered evangelical Christianity is protecting Russian young people against homosexual into the mass-media era while conpropaganda. If only to give them the opportunity to grow solidating it as a political force. up and make a decision for themselves. Again, homosexuThe evangelical movement’s als cannot have children, they can take other people’s chilby Jordan Green enthusiastic support for Donald dren. I believe that President Obama — and I’ll repeat, he’s Trump has made it increasingly clear that its animating faith a very nice person — is leading America down the wrong is neither public compassion nor private morality, but rather road. He’s taking a stand against God.” a tribal identification with white, Christian nationalism. It’s Around the same time, when then-candidate Dontempting to look back on the public life of Billy Graham ald Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown of through a rosy filter and see a kinder, more inclusive vision Muslims entering the United States,” Franklin Graham of evangelical Christianity. rightly credited himself for being a step ahead, writing on As Tara Isabella Burton wrote in a piece for Vox entitled, Facebook: “For some time I have been saying that Muslim “Evangelical America needs Billy Graham now more than immigration into the United States should be stopped until ever,” Graham was “for the majority of his career, we can properly vet them or until the a religious figure who transcended and unified the war with Islam is over.” political spectrum. He provided a glimpse of a The father Billy Graham was To appreciate Billy sincerely held faith that, at times, prompted politiknown for a humility that has vanGraham’s legacy, cal action, rather than the other way around. In ished among the current generation that, he represents a vision of authentic evangeliof evangelical leaders. In 1993, he one need look cal Christianity drastically different from today’s called the Cleveland Plain Dealer to no further than politicized Christian right, which has become little publicly apologize for suggesting more than the faith-outreach arm of the Republithat AIDS was “a judgment of God.” his son, Franklin can Party.”

The elder Graham is shrewd in a way Graham.

Graham’s reputation as a faith leader able to that his son, Franklin, doesn’t need bridge the United States’ political chasm is often to be. As a public figure whose star premised on the fact that he sat at the side of both shown in the latter half of the 20th Century, Billy Graham had to be cognizant of the power Democratic and Republican presidents. He advised them of daily newspapers and broadcast media to enforce the and gave them moral cover in ways that were at the very liberal consensus of the era. least problematic. As an evangelist who pioneered religious His true feelings, expressed in private conversations with broadcasting through radio and television, Graham rose President Nixon, are right in line with the Christian nationto prominence during an era of political consensus. Yet the alism openly espoused today. Aside from advocating that increasingly theocratic cast of the current merger between the United States bomb the dikes to destroy the rice crop the evangelical movement and the GOP has Graham’s in North Vietnam — a war crime — Graham and Nixon fingerprints all over it. expressed a shared hostility towards Jews. After Nixon Before Billy Graham, evangelical Christianity was a complained about the “Jewish influence in Hollywood and social force deeply at odds with conventional politics, more the media,” tapes record Graham as saying, “This stranglefocused on spiritual rewards in the hereafter than attainhold has got to be broken or the country’s going down the ing political goals in the earthly realm. Its sensibilities were drain.” captured in the old hymn “This World Is Not My Home.”

When the tapes were released in 2002, Graham apoloGraham’s pivotal role was to create a comfortable meeting gized and said not only did he not remember making the place for Christian faith and political power. Along with statement but that he also didn’t recall “having those feelradio and television, Graham harnessed the new technolings about” Jews. ogy of sound amplification to preach to 350,000 people The apology strains credibility: The tapes reveal a man during the eight-week Los Angeles Crusade in 1949. He not only aware of his feelings but actively concealing them. soon was consorting with the politically powerful: As Tim “I go and I keep friends with Mr. [AM] Rosenthal at Funk reported in the Charlotte Observer, one year later the New York Times and people of that sort, you know,” the 31-year-old Graham would be kneeling on the White Graham told Nixon. “And all — I mean, not all the Jews, House lawn in a white suit and buck shoes after praying but a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine, they swarm with President Truman. around me and are friendly to me because they know that To appreciate Billy Graham’s legacy, one need look I’m friendly with Israel. But they don’t know how I really no further than his son, Franklin Graham, who serves as feel about what they are doing to the country. And I have president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelical Asno power, no way to handle them, but I would stand up if sociation in Charlotte. The younger Graham is among the under proper circumstances.” most vocal evangelical leaders in supporting Trump, while espousing homophobic and Islamaphobic views.

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See more about these candidates, both women, on page 8.

And we need to know: Where the hell is everybody?

They’re lining up three and five deep to battle it out in North Carolina’s redrawn US Congressional districts and the state legislature. Last year, Greensboro City Council had the biggest slate of candidates it’s had this century.

All across the country, they’ve emerged from women’s marches and Black Lives Matter: Senate, Congress, county commissions and city councils and school boards.

Where, we ask, are The movements these issues have brought all the candidates forward have toppled companies, driven in the Guilford things from the shadCounty DA race? ows, changed, each in its own small way, the world.

So where, we ask, are all the candidates in the Guilford DA race?

Remember, the DA determines whether a police officer will be charged for taking a civilian life and the manner and frequency with which sexual crimes are pursued. The office prosecutes all crime on the county in “all criminal and some juvenile matters,” according to the state website, and as well as “advising law enforcement officers in the district,” which in this case includes the Greensboro and High Point police departments and the Guilford County Sheriff ’s Office.

The district attorney sets the timbre of law enforcement and safety in her district, in much the same way that Attorney General Jeff Sessions does for the federal government, establishing priorities, procedures and a culture that permeates all the way down to the cops on the street.

And the requirements for office are ridiculously simple: One need only be a registered voter in the county, at least 21 years old and licensed to practice law with the NC Bar. But it’s too late. Filing is closed for one of the most consequential positions in local government, with neither ceremony nor fanfare, like a short meeting that could have been handled by email.

And the opportunity won’t come up again for another four years.

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CULTURE Athena Greek Taverna goes beyond the gyro

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utside the living rooms of Greek families and the occasional music professor, there’s only one place you’ll hear the sharp, metallic sound of the bouzouki, a string instrument in the same family as the mandolin and the lute, on a given Tuesday night: Athena Greek Taverna, where the letters of the moniker glow royal blue against an all-white façade on Stratford Road.

The family-owned restaurant serves authentic Greek cuisine with English translations and descriptions printed in an extensive menu, including classics such as pastitsio, a macaroni and ground-beef dish topped with béchamel sauce, and a substantial list of Greek wines.

Indoors, brown paper is laid atop the blue-and-white checkered tablecloths and serene paintings of Peloponnesian sunsets and olive-oil bottles line the walls. A mirror covering a side wall creates a sense of openness.

It’s casual, clean and a little rustic, making it a great lunch spot.

I advise pairing a pita sandwich with a crisp salad or one of two traditional soups: Avgolemono, which is made with chicken and rice then finished with whipped egg and lemon, and fasolada, LAUREN BARBER Athena’s traditional Greek fare, far removed from fast food, includes arrays of grilled meats, lemon-soaked potatoes and the a tomato-based white bean best Greek salad this journalist has ever eaten. vegetable soup.

The complementary bread skaras, char-grilled octopus in a vinaigrette dressing, smooth ing coriander, fennel and oregano all atop romaine with red is just fine dipped in a classic oil, vinegar whipped caviar, giant lima beans with fresh herbs and spices onion, scattered parsley and lemon wedges. In general, the and black pepper combination, but using and delicious tirokafteri, whipped feta cheese with hot roasted seasonings are mild and earthy, and the grilled flavor comes its wonderful crust to pull apart melty peppers. It comes with eight trithrough nicely without the meat saganaki (fried cheese) will set your soul angles of pita, but I found myself becoming blackened. This is true free. The owners import this unique using the spreadable dish to garfor the chicken in particular, which Learn more at athenagreektaverna. cheese from Greece, douse it in brandy nish other foods at the table, too. is moist and tender. It quickly net and visit at 680 S. Stratford Road and set it aflame tableside. Frequent Aside from skewers, one costbecame a favorite at our table. patrons know to exclaim, “Opa!” when (W-S). effective way to satisfy a table The platter comes with green another table’s order is served up. of meat-eaters is Yianni’s Pikilia beans cooked down in a tomato While the saganaki stands out, the Platter. It’s meant to serve four base, rice, unique lemon potatoes list of hot and cold appetizers rivals the people, and despite some doubts, we found that the meat and one of the best Greek salads I’ve ever had. It’s simple, length of the entrée menu. You’ll find alone might serve five. In the heap of assorted meat, you’ll freshly tossed and luckily accompanies almost all of Athena’s everything from the spanakopita and find grilled chicken breast, gyro meat, pork and lamb chops entrées. Notably, though, the platter leaves out Athena’s tzatziki many will recognize to octapodi on the bone and homemade Greek-style sausage containseafood options, which include salmon, shrimp, octopus and

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Even if you don’t set aside some of your entrée for later in order to accommodate these treats, the generous portions almost guarantee leftovers. And it feels like more than a restaurant piling onto a platter; it feels like taking home a plate from festivities at an old friend’s house, like carrying home a little reminder of love from their kitchen to yours.

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squid. During my dinner trip, I overheard a man tell a friend that he visits Athena almost every week to eat the char-grilled octopus when it’s available — make of that what you will, but devoted regulars are most often a positive sign.

If, somehow, you have room to spare, order up some Greek coffee and baklava or a sweet (or savory) crepe. I should note that Athena’s makes ice cream in-house and plants delectable, globular éclairs at

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CULTURE Francois fancies film with score for ‘Clara’

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or composer Francois Byers and director Bishen Sen, the idea for their new short film “Clara” arose from an experience that would prove to be seeded in fraud.

“I thought I was being trolled at first,” Byers said, laughing as he recalled the story of how the original idea for “Clara” came to be. “I was just out of college and living in Portland around 2014 and I was unemployed, and I was having fun on Chat Roulette and met this girl from the Netherlands. And randomly, right off the bat, she told me that she had Stage 4 lung cancer.”

And after a few weeks of talking and connecting, a strange relationship was born.

“She told me she had this contract or something that said if she didn’t get better in a few months then they would pull the plug or whatever. So we continued talking and then one day I contacted her the day before they were going to pull the plug and didn’t get a response.”

A few days later, Byers received a Facebook message from the girl’s father, informing him that she had passed, but that she had left a letter saying how grateful she was to have someone to talk to and connect with at the end.

“Our conversations were really relaxed and I would ask her about her experience and if she was scared and all that,” Byers said. “She had this lack of fear because I was [a] stranger, you know, so we were really able to open up and it was really kind of bittersweet. So I told Bishen about it and that we should do a short film. And then we sort of just got to work on it.”

Nailing down the script and storylines over the past four years, Byers and Sen took glimpses of Byers’ experience and formed what was to become “Clara.”

The film runs around 20 minutes and is about a jingle writer and suicide-attempter named Ross and a nurse named Clara. Grappling with the recent death of his child and the end of his marriage, Ross works and lives by himself in his garage. His numerous attempts at suicide land him in the hospital where he finds a companion in Clara, a cheerful and compassionate nurse who is recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer. The film focuses on the beginning of their journey together, exploring how one person with severe depression and another with cancer can provide grace to each other’s struggles.

Francois Byers, of Bjorn and Francois, stepped away from the stage to write the score for “Clara,” a short film about a dying girl.

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“We worked hard on it but then the backstory sort of took super dark theme for another,” Byers said. “Conventional a strange twist,” Byers said. “About five months ago, I was scores work with orchestral sounds and Protools, but this is all telling my girlfriend about all of it. And so we searched for the piano. It’s similar to what Bjorn and I do, sort of bringing melgirl I met online, because she had taken her Facebook down, odies to the table and seeing what works. But now I’m having but then we found her and she had pictures and was still alive. to translate these pieces to Bishen who doesn’t know music at I was like, what the f***, this all. He’ll try and describe what whole time she was alive and he has in mind and I have to totally trolled me for four find ways of making sense and years.” getting to that place. But a lot To watch trailers, donate to the film and Byers laughed at the of it is starting from scratch, learn more about Clara, visit kickstarter. memory but said the strange and so I’ll sort of drift while com/projects/794916306/clara-short-film. developments don’t change playing and imagine scenes the heart of the story. Even out from the script and put myself of fraud, art is being created. in that world. It’s almost like “It was weird and so convincmethod-writing for me.” ing — I really thought she was dead,” Byers said, laughing. “But “Clara” is set to be filmed in Charlotte and different locait led me into writing songs and melodies for her, sort of in tions around North Carolina this April, with a Kickstarter homage. And then it was shocking to find all of it out, that all campaign up and running to raise the last portion of the of these feelings were just false. But despite all of that, we still production budget. wanted to continue the idea we had from all of it, and really But even with deadlines looming and the final pieces still get into the mental sickness next to physical sickness, this colfalling into place, Byers is focused on this new way of creating liding of two worlds.” his music.

A pianist and second half for Winston-Salem-based Delta“Writing the score is an entirely new beast for me,” Byers Gypsy-folk band Bjorn and Francois, Byers wrote the score for said. “You have to keep the script and all of the scenes in mind, “Clara,” his first film score, something he is becoming fasciwhile also keeping it simple and meaningful. It’s been a weird nated with. road for it all, but it’s really amazing to see how it all is coming “I’m having to write a lullaby for one scene, and then this together finally.”

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CULTURE Manic depression at center stage in HPCT’s Next to Normal

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iana manically tosses sliced breads around the kitchen, including the floor, and still-inthe-package Kraft singles. The calendar is still set on April, which passed many moons ago.

“Everything is fine,” she says, convincing no one, let alone herself. “I’m just making sandwiches. And I think the house is spinning.”

Courtney Lowe convincingly and empathically brought Diana, a mother who lives with bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, to life in High Point Community Theatre’s rendition of Tony award-winning musical Next to Normal at the High Point Theatre on Feb. 22.

She faces the deafening guilt of failed motherhood, of being unable to achieve what American society teaches is the pinnacle achievement of womanhood: to give birth and raise children. Those dozens of sandwiches represent her overcompensation for the shame she carries, forever attempting to correct course.

Her husband Dan, portrayed by Brian Kilpatrick, sympathizes to the extent he can but wonders if he is the “crazy one” for hanging onto a marriage with a woman he feels is vastly different from the wild and free Diana he proposed to at age 22, 18 years ago.

The thing is, she is still that Diana, but the version who is in a lifelong process of healing from trauma. While Dan feels twinges of resentment and loss, Diana, too, mourns the loss of past selves, often feeling isolated from reality and, therefore, her loved ones.

Unlike 16-year-old Natalie’s experience of her home life, the musical doesn’t merely center her mother.

Rebecca Evans brings emotional and psychological depth to the Natalie character, who rotates between three colors of high-top Converse, glasses and a lot of plaid. The most significant thing she wears, though, is a black backpack with a highlighter-bright Mickey Mouse face print; it’s always bursting at the seams. Natalie is graduating early with a full ride to Yale, perhaps partly the product of finding refuge by immersing herself in academics, a subconscious attempt to overcompensate for the instability of her home life due to her mother’s distressing and ongoing illness. The backpack is also a material symbol of

Henry learns more about his partner Natalie’s home life as she and her father grapple with the ongoing consequences of Diana’s treatments. L-R: Caleb Jackson, Brian Kilpatrick and Rebecca Evans.

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Natalie’s emotional “baggage,” and the burdens of feeling fore tossing an incredible medley of pills in the trash. unseen at home, thereby unwanted and unworthy in the Audiences come along for the rollercoaster ride that is world.

Diana’s journey through treatments between armies of She finds a confidant (and romantic partner) in Henry, pills, hypnotherapists and — eventually — electroshock though, who is portrayed by Caleb Jackson. Their relationtherapy. Wilson Mericle, who plays both Diana’s psychoship, like all of Natalie’s relationships, is turbulent as he pharmacologist and hypnotherapist, finds balance between becomes a disrupting force for her entrenched patterns, clinical detachment from his patient and really trying his particularly pushing away anyone who begins to earn best in spite of how crude many treatment options for emotional intimacy for fear of abandonmental illness remain. We’ve all seen ment. the commercials: nausea, headaches, Next to Normal succeeds in providweight gain, vomiting, diarrhea, suicidal Learn more at hpct.net. ing a medically accurate portrayal of a ideation and on and on. highly stigmatized, chronic illness, and In response to these unsettling rethe ways it interacts with the unique alities, the full cast sings a song to the pressures of womanhood (or at least middle-class, white melody of “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music, womanhood). She experiences euphoria, racing thoughts, swapping “things” with “pills” to a humorous effect. At hypersexuality and hallucinations during manic episodes, one point, Diana says her favorite color is Valium. Next to emotional vacancy, catatonia and hopelessness when deNormal reminds us that though mental illness can engenpressed. It’s a song and dance even those most intimately der tremendous pain, it’s okay to laugh about its absurdifamiliar with struggle to navigate, let along wish to try. ties. This is why we have comedy — to cope with tragedy.

“I miss the mountains; I miss the pain!” Diana sings beThat said, one of the greatest accomplishments of this

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musical is allowing Diana’s character to resist the narrative: that people — especially women — living with mental illness are weak or incapable of making the best decisions for their own health. Oftentimes, she truly needs someone to step in, but Diana asserts agency over her body and mind throughout the play, which is crucially important even though she doesn’t always get her way and it doesn’t always go well.

The performance clocked in at nearly three hours, a little long for most audiences. But Thursday’s crowd listened attentively, and a few attendees shed tears.

Though we are not Diana or Dan or Natalie, we can see ourselves somewhere in these characters, in the way that they struggle to live up to their promises to each other and foster trusting relationships. We, too, are still mending our relationships both with others and ourselves, still transforming hour by hour, day by day.

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