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The thing about socks I have a thing about socks.

In my house, laundry rolls at a constant, slow boil, the wet and dry machines churning and

by Brian Clarey chugging with such volume frequency that I’ve taken to using closed-captioning on the TV set, which is a totally normal thing for anyone to do, not just old people.

The laundry makes its way from the hampers and floors, through the machines and to a staging area in front of the TV, where it gets folded and sorted with efficiency — almost every time by my wife, about whom I am definitely not complaining.

As the individual piles grow, socks are tossed onto a recliner for later sorting, which sometimes happens but more often does not, and so the socks frequently make their way back to the laundry station to be tossed, loose, into what I have named the “socks box.”

Occasionally I dump out the socks box and spend a couple hours sorting the socks into their various colors and sizes,

weeding out the ones with holes, or that have been outgrown, the ones whose elasticity has finally given way.

It’s awful work. Grueling and brutal, even in front of the TV — discerning black from navy from charcoal grey; comparing thickness and texture and pattern and length. Completely thankless, too, because no one cares but me. And even though I do not like doing it, it bothers me way more than it should when someone else does it, and then I pull a pair of mismatched socks out of the socks box while I’m trying to get ready for work.

Did you know that every time someone wears a pair of mismatched socks, it creates two loose socks? Well, it does. And loose socks, in my house, seem to multiply at a rate that far exceeds the norm.

It’s unusual for me, this sock thing. I am not a perfectionist. I know that absolutely no one gives a good crap about my socks, and that no one can even see them. And after I pull them on in the morning and put on my shoes, I absolutely forget all about them — I have no idea which pair of socks I am wearing right now, for instance.

But I know they match. And it makes me feel better than it should.

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BBQ for Mental Health @ St. Francis Episcopal Church (GSO), 4 p.m.

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Grab a barbeque plate or some Brunswick stew for a cause as the St. Francis Episcopal Church raises money for mental healthcare. Patrick Rock provides the soundtrack, and all proceeds go to Sanctuary House, a nonprofit that promotes recovery. Find the event on Facebook.

First, enter your dog into a costume contest. Then try it by yourself or with a group of friends. With spooky drink specials and other activities to come, Boxcar promises a night with a frightening amount of fun.

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Mona Wu @ SECCA (W-S), 6 p.m.

Venture into hiking trails as darkness falls to experience nature at nighttime. Grab your flashlight and find animal storytellers waiting to tell of their lives and finish off the hike campfire-side with cookies and cider. Find the event on Facebook.

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The Wolves @ Scales Fine Arts Center (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

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Join the Wake Forest University Department of Theater and Dance for the opening of this award-winning film. Follow the story of a girl’s indoor-soccer team through this tale of modern teenage life.

The coming-of-age feature runs through the week and next weekend. For more information, visit Facebook.

Head over to the Preview Gallery for a reception for printmaker Mona Wu’s Impressions. Inspired by Chinese woodcutrelief printing and North Carolina’s nature scenes, Mona Wu incorporates Chinese characters into scenic pieces. Learn more at secca.org.

Don a creepy costume for this celebration of Halloween for a morning of seasonal shopping. Steel drummer Tracy Thornton provides the soundtrack as guests enjoy a petting zoo, trick-or-treating and a photobooth. Find the event on Facebook.

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Apple Festival @ Historic Bethabara Park (W-S), 10 a.m.

Ghoulash! @ Center City Park (GSO), 2 p.m.

SUNDAY The Turkey Buzzards @ Beer Co. (GSO), 6 p.m.

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With a bouncy house and face-painting, along with a craft market, the whole family is sure to enjoy this festival of frights and fun. Try out some game booths, bingo or craft sessions. Explore a story-filled cemetery tour or a classic haunted house. Learn more at greensboro-nc.gov Night of the Preps @ Monstercade (W-S), 9 p.m.

Head to this harvest festival for a day of live music, history and food. Performances from Góilín, the Ends and Soultriii liven up the park, and booths will be set up offering craft goods and tasty treats. Learn more on Facebook.

Dash City Craft Fair @ BB&T Ballpark (W-S), 1 p.m.

UNCSA Jazz Ensemble @ the Ramkat (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

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UNCSA’s award-winning jazz ensemble takes the stage for a night exploring the various genres of jazz. Enjoy Latin, swing and other types of jazz, from big-band tradition to soloists putting the spotlight on their skills. Check out the event on Facebook.

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Shop around over 40 vendors for the first ever Dash City Craft Fair. Browse through handmade crafts and vintage wares, with live music and college football adding to the activities. Parking and admission are free. Find the event on Facebook.

Polish off your preppiest look for this Monstercade masquerade. Dress like the most mainstream bully from your high school days and come out for an evening of rock with DJ Turbo Killer and Guy Nice. Whether you wear salmon shorts or golf hats, it’s sure to be a basic blast. Check it out on Facebook.

A Midsummer’s Night Dream @ Triad Stage (GSO), 7:30 p.m.

Step into the world of magic and mischief with Triad Stage’s rendition of this Shakespeare comedy. Catch this tale of fairies and romance in it’s opening performance, with its run going through Nov. 18. Purchase tickets and find the event on Facebook.

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Party at the Polls @ Anderson Recreation Center (WS), 11 a.m.

No matter your party, or even your voter status, celebrate civic engagement at Park Shelter No. 4. #VoteTogether, a nonpartisan organization, offers free food and musical entertainment for this family-friendly event. Have some fun, then head to nearby polls to cast your vote. Learn more on Facebook.

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This California duo grabs the audience’s attention with grit and guitar. Grab a drink and listen to the authentic string sounds of this folk band. Defining themselves at “outlaw country,” this show is sure to entertain. Learn more on Facebook.

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4by Jordan questions for Byron Pitts Green

Your first job out of college was at a news station in Greenville, NC. Can you talk about what it’s like to start in a small market, and how it shaped your career in broadcast journalism?

My first job was at Shaw University in Raleigh. I couldn’t get a job for a year out of school. I wasn’t good enough, whatever it was. I kept sending out résumés and tapes. My Your mother suffered from dementia before she died. first job in broadcast was at WNCT in Greenville. It paid Can you talk about what that was like for your family? $8,600 per year before taxes. That was very little money My mom’s name was Clarice Pitts. She was from Apex, then and now.

NC, which is in Wake County.

My mother is a Christian woman, and a woman of great My mom passed away about seven years ago now. faith. Her favorite scripture was James 1:2, which says, Cancer ultimately took her life. The last several years she “Count it all joy.” What it means is that whatever your developed dementia. It was difficult for our family. My experience, it’s happening for a reason.” In a job in a small mother was the strong matriarch. She was the one you market, making very little money, it was great because called on in times of crisis and celebration. She didn’t call when you don’t make any money you know you’re doing it on you in times of need. because you love it. I had clarity The roles change for caregivthat this was absolutely what I ers. Often times that is traumatwanted to do. The saying is, “To Byron Pitts will give the keynote ic. I remember oftentimes telling speech at the Caregiver Education thine own self be true.” Knowing my children: “The woman you who I was — a fairly shy kid from Conference hosted by the Center for see now is not the woman who a working-class family, college raised me.” You would see the education, sure — I didn’t know Outreach in Alzheimer’s, Aging and changes in her personality — the Community Health at NC A&T Unimuch about the world. I wasn’t times when she wasn’t engaged particularly well read. There versity in Greensboro on Oct. 27. The and in a fog. Other times when was value in starting in a small conference is free to all pre-registered place where I can make mistakes she’d be very angry, for no apparent reason. Moments of — mistakes that would get you participants, including lunch, parkmemory lapse when she forgot fired in a place like Atlanta or events. She never forgot people, ing, respite care and health screenBoston. ings. To pre-register, call Terri Long at even though she forgot events.

Professional deadlines are Then for her family, which one of the important lessons in 336.285.2165 or 888.248.2808, or visit included her children and her journalism. I’ve missed deadline coaachhealth.org to pre-register. The twice in my career. The first siblings, there is an emotional registration deadline is Oct. 22. toll it takes on you. As family time I missed a deadline was members, there is an emotional in Greenville. It was because I cost. This is a woman who was didn’t manage my time well that educated in sociology at Morgan State University. She day. I remember the anchorwoman coming to me after the spent the bulk of her professional life as a social worker. show very upset. She said, “Byron, that might have been This vibrant, independent mind was slowly slipping away. the greatest piece in the history of television, but it doesn’t She sent her children to college. She owned her own matter if you’re not ready.” The other time was when I was home in North Carolina. She was very independent. Near working as a correspondent at CBS. We didn’t make air in the end, the extent beyond what insurance covers takes time because our satellite truck broke down, and there was a toll on the family. Dementia and Alzheimer’s has been no way we could get the tape out. I felt awful about it, but it known to damage families. In our case it only made our wasn’t my fault; there was nothing I could do about it. family stronger.

Can you talk about the value of good writing in broadYou were operating at the top of your profession, which cast journalism? is very demanding. How were you able to dial back your I went to Ohio Wesleyan University. At the time, it was professional commitments to help meet the needs of a primarily known for print journalism. The dean was heartfamily member? broken when I told him I wanted to go into broadcast. He It gave my professional life greater clarity and context. It wouldn’t talk to me for six months. reminded me I would not have had my career if not for my I love to write. It surprises me sometimes how many mother. This woman — and my siblings — gave us everypeople in television take the writing parts of the craft for thing that she had, and so it was important to work hard to granted. It’s important to know how to tell a story. There are figure out that balance. I know what great pride my mother people who understand the production quality, and they took in my professional success. I knew that mattered. I have great presence. If you can write, you can overcome a knew that even in her declining health, it gave her joy to lot of the other things. see me on television.

Byron Pitts, co-anchor of ABC News’ “Nightline” and an ABC News contributor, spoke to City Beat about his experience of caring for his mother, who suffered from dementia, during her final years in Wake County, and about getting his start in broadcast in Greenville and the future of journalism. The interview is edited for clarity and length.

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State legislative candidates clashed on education funding, voter ID and other issues during a forum hosted by High Point’s YWCA on Monday.

Michael Garrett, a Democrat challenging Republican incumbent Trudy Wade in state Senate District 27, cited the Red for Ed march, which drew about 30,000 teachers to Raleigh in May, as evidence of widespread discontent about education funding.

“Unfunded mandates are not only a bad idea, but it’s poor governing policy,” Garrett said. “When I was raised, I was always taught: Put your money where your mouth is. I hesitate to say that to this General Assembly, because when it comes to education, we can’t find money for anything. We’re 37th in teacher pay, and we’re 39th in what we invest in our children. And that is immoral and horrific. We are a Top 10 state; we can do better.”

But it was Bill McCaskill, another Democrat challenging Jerry Tillman in Senate District 26, whose criticism drew the sharpest response from the two Republican senators on the panel.

McCaskill cited a 2017 bill passed by the legislature that mandated a reduction in the ratio of students to teachers for kindergarten through third grade, adding that lawmakers did not increase funding to pay for additional teachers.

“We had a crisis situation where the local school boards were trying to decide what they were going to cut — teachers, athletic equipment,” he said. “That’s typical since 2011 [the year Republicans took control of the legislature].”

Republican Jerry Tillman, an eightterm lawmaker from Archdale who serves as the Senate majority whip and previously chaired the Education Committee, defended the legislature’s handling of the matter.

“We funded every one of the K-3 positions, according to the numbers the school system sent in,” Tillman said. “If they didn’t send the right numbers in, they got the wrong number of teachers.

We took the K, 1, 2 and 3, and funded them — all those positions. There was no unfunded mandate there, unless they

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Democratic challengers and Republican incumbents in Senate districts 26 and 27, and in House District 62, presented contrasting positions to voters during a candidate forum in High Point on Monday.

Jerry Tillman, Michael Garrett and Trudy Wade at a candidate forum at the YWCA High Point on Monday.

erred in their numbers. We wanted to can certainly take the money and use count art and PE teachers. And I got it somewhere else. We ask for accountthe legislation through that separated ability, we ask to see the numbers. I think them out of that K-3 allotment, so that that took us six months to get that. And wouldn’t skew the number and make I did call Guilford County to see what the class size larger and larger. We took happened to the money. I would also say those out of the numbers. We’re funding that we have increased funding every those separately.” year I’ve been in the General Assembly Tillman’s district has always traditionto the tune of $2 billion more since I’ve ally covered parts of Randolph County, been down there. And I think that will although a past itcontinue under the eration also included leadership we have Moore County to now.”

Republicans defended the southeast. The The loudest voter ID, while Democrats new map shifts the fireworks went off excess coverage to when the candidates varied, with some issuing High Point in the responded to a sharp critiques and others southwest corner of question about voter measured concern.

Guilford County in ID — a Republicanaddition to Ranbacked initiative dolph. that the moderators Trudy Wade, who is defending the described as an example of “systemic District 27 seat against Garrett, echoed racism.”

Tillman’s position.

Republican incumbents Tillman and “The school system — your school Wade, along with Rep. John Faircloth, board — lets us know how many teachardently defended the measure. Demoers — and your superintendent — you crat Garrett lobbed pointed barbs, while need,” Wade said. “We funded that McCaskill and Martha Shafer — who is amount of teachers. The problem was challenging Faircloth in House District they put in art teachers, PE teachers, so 62 — expressed more measured reservathey didn’t have enough funding because tions. they also have flex spending, where they “I believe in voter ID, and I believe it

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has nothing to do with racism,” Wade said. “I think everyone should have a valid ID, and I think everyone of us in this room should help anyone who doesn’t have one have the access of getting one…. I cannot imagine you’d be able to get around in this world without having an ID and be able to get a prescription drug, or be able to go event, to an X — to a movie that’s R-rated — you can’t even do that without showing an ID. So I can’t even imagine people in this day and time not having a valid ID. I really think if we as a community would help people get a valid ID that we’d do a lot more for this community.”

Tillman made no apology for the measure, which was included in a 2013 law struck down by the federal courts and is now on the ballot as a statewide referendum.

“Voter ID is favored by 73 percent of North Carolinians; 46 percent of black voters favor voter ID,” he said.

“They don’t want their vote nullified by someone voting illegally, and you don’t either. Folks, it makes sense…. Georgia did voter ID, put it on the books four years ago. Voter participation went up.

Black voter participation went up. It’s a good thing. It’s a commonsense thing.

Who in the world could oppose it unless

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let’s talk about some details. I do know that the Brookings Institution says a person’s more likely to be struck by lightning than to attempt in-person voter impersonation.”

At the end of the program, candidates took questions from the audience, which numbered about 50 people. An unidentified man expressed frustration.

“I’d like to know what happened to the truth, and when it didn’t matter,” he said. “Because it seems like a lot of stuff is thrown around that is not truthful, and facts don’t matter anymore.”

Tillman asked him for an example.

Wesley Hudson, who represents Ward 4 on High Point City Council, jumped into the fray.

“Voter fraud is made up,” he said. “It doesn’t happen. Why are we protecting ourselves from something that doesn’t happen, and in the process creating a problem?”

Disputing Hudson’s argument that voter fraud is nonexistent, or statistically irrelevant, Faircloth recounted an experience in which he said five college students told him that they voted for president on their college campus and also in their home states outside of North Carolina.

On another issue, Democrats McCaskill and Shafer argued that North Carolina should allow undocumented students to attend state universities at in-state tuition, as opposed to out-ofstate tuition, which is the case under the current law.

“I think it’s a shame for us to take children who come here through no fault of their own, and educate them from K through 12th grade, and then throw up obstacles to them to be able to earn a college degree,” Shafer said. “Once they earn a college degree, they can get better jobs, earn higher wages, pay more taxes, make major purchases, and contribute and help support themselves and their families at a higher level.”

Faircloth didn’t close the door on the idea.

“Our problem as policymakers is that we have to choose between what’s available and what exactly we’re going to do,” he said. “We can have a lot of things, folks, if people are willing to pull about three times the money out of their pocket every year…. I think there are ways we can work together across the aisle and across communities. There’s a way to do it, but it takes us being willing to sit down and find the common ground.”

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you’re wanting to do something illegal like cheat? It does disenfranchise certain groups, and that’s called cheaters….

Do you want someone to go in and vote fraudulently for a dead person? I don’t want that. No, I don’t.”

Faircloth argued that it’s not a problem for voters to obtain a photo ID. “I can assure you that if someone wants to vote in this state, and they require an ID, that the ID will be provided,” he said. “We did a lot of work.

And it’s a very simple process. Nobody seems to have any problem with a driver’s license…. People find a way to do it. If they need an ID, they find an ID somewhere. We’ve said we’ll provide the IDs. Everybody that votes should have one, so we’ll know that they only vote one time.”

Garrett said he opposes voter ID even if the measure is broadly supported by voters.

“I know it’s an unpopular position to take, but I am opposed to it because I do believe that it is a solution in search of a problem, and it discriminates,” he said.

“Let’s say we disagree on it in principle.

Well, this General Assembly, when they tried to do it before — before it was struck down as unconstitutional — they said, ‘Well, we’ll take IDs of hunting and fishing licenses, but not IDs issued by state institutions. And if a college student votes at her school instead of at her home, we’ll revoke the tuition tax deduction.’ So does that sound like integrity of the ballot box to you, or does it sound like trying to discourage a certain group of people from participating in democracy?”

McCaskill offered conditional support for voter ID. “I am not opposed to having an ID for voters if the legislature will appropriate the funds for every citizen to get an ID free,” he said. “I have no problem with that. However, if you look at the latest federal court order finding our voter ID law unconstitutional, they specifically documented over and over in this court order how the Republican ID law was being used to suppress low-income, minorities, and to keep those type people as much as they could from voting. So if we could get an ID into the hands of every voter, I would support that.”

Shafer noted that voter ID laws in other states vary in their degree of restrictiveness.

“So to me the devil is in the details,” she said. “What are we talking about?

And with this constitutional amendment we don’t know because the implementing legislation has not been written. So

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City draws supporters in quest to lift gag order on police video

by Jordan Green A dozen local groups commit to filing a friend-of-court brief supporting an anticipated appeal by the city of Greensboro to a legal order that prevents council members from commenting on police body-camera video of a controversial arrest.

A consortium of Greensboro civic groups, pastors, academics and newspapers came forward on Tuesday to back the city of Greensboro in a legal appeal to lift a gag order preventing city council members from commenting on police body-camera video capturing an incident of alleged racial profiling.

In February, Guilford County Superior Court Judge Susan Bray ruled that city council members may view police body-camera video documenting police treatment of Zared Jones, but prohibited them from commenting on what they saw in the video. Jones, a 29-year-old nursing assistant who is black, was visiting downtown Greensboro on a Friday evening in September 2016 along with three friends when the incident occurred. The city had a Nov. 1 deadline to file an appeal to the gag order.

While civic groups announced plans to file a friend-of-court brief in support of the city’s anticipated appeal to the gag order, council members are seeking to enlist support from other North Carolina cities for the appeal. The city council voted unanimously to appeal the ruling.

Councilwoman Michelle Kennedy, an at-large member, recently emailed a request to Mayor Steve Schewel asking the city of Durham to file a friend-of-court brief in support of the city of Greensboro’s appeal. Kennedy said Schewel told her he believes Durham City Council will support the request.

“The consensus of this council is we need to be able to speak about what we see,” Kennedy said. “That’s part of our role as representatives of the people.

This is an issue of transparency and democracy that’s not lost on any of the folks who are supporting this. If there were a brief submitted to support us from Asheville and Durham, that speaks to something that is an issue across North Carolina. We need to address it.

If the police acted in the best way, we want to say that. If there’s an issue, we need to be able to address it.”

Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan told Triad City Beat she is reaching out to other North Carolina mayors to seek support, although she declined to specify the cities.

The Rev. Nelson Johnson speaks during a press conference to highlight a gag order on police body-camera video capturing an incident involving Zared Jones (center).

The groups supporting the city’s and St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, are appeal of the gag order include Triad also joining the friend-of-the-court brief, City Beat; Carolina Peacemaker, a weekly along with SOI Community Play All newspaper serving the African-American Stars Alliance. community; and Roch Smith Jr., the “The city’s brief is challenging the curator of Greensboro101.com. Among ruling that the court can make a law the civic groups supthat would prevent porting the appeal the city council are the League of from talking about Mayor Nancy Vaughan is Women Voters of what they see their reaching out to other citthe Piedmont Triad, employees doing on ies for support in the city Beloved Commuvideotape,” said the nity Center, the Rev. Nelson Johnson, of Greensboro’s appeal Homeless Union of the retired pastor of against the gag order.

Greensboro, DeFaith Community mocracy Greensboro Church. “We think and the Guilford that that has reached County Anti-Racism Alliance. The list the point of absurdity. How can they be of signatories also includes faculty memresponsible to the public that they reprebers from UNCG, NC A&T University, sent without being able to share with the Guilford College, Elon University and public what they are looking at?”

Greensboro College. The Pulpit Forum, Triad City Beat publisher Brian Clarey a group of African-American clergy said in a prepared statement that the

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newspaper “has a strong interest in seeing that no gag order is unconstitutionally imposed on Greensboro City Council banning them from discussing what they see and think about Greensboro police conduct contained in police body-camera or dash-camera recordings. Any such gag order interferes with the public’s right to know and the newspaper’s right to report about matters of fundamental public interest.”

The local groups supporting the city’s appeal are also calling on city council to watch the entire set of police videos surrounding Jones’ encounter with the police. Graham Holt, who is Jones’ lawyer, said he sent a confidential letter to city council after viewing the videos. Holt and Jones, like members of city council, are bound by a gag order pertaining to the contents of the video.

“I described in the letter what’s on the body-camera footage,” Holt said during

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a press conference at the Beloved Community Center on Tuesday. “That puts them on notice about what happened.

Therefore they are under obligation to take action.”

Jones was arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing and misdemeanor intoxicated and disruptive after asking Greensboro police for assistance when he was thrown out of a bar on McGee Street. Jones’ charges were eventually dismissed. He filed a complaint with the police alleging that he and his friends were racially profiled and harassed when they arrived downtown, and that police escalated the situation, leading to charges against one of Jones’ friends of assault on a law enforcement officer.

“What happened to these young men is unquestionably unconstitutional and clearly a violation of their civil rights,” Holt said.

In November 2017, the police department’s professional standards division cleared the officers of wrongdoing. The division commander found officers “did not make a bias-based arrest in their encounter with Mr. Jones in Sept. 10, 2016. Likewise, the applicable chain of command determined the evidence available to the officers at the time of Mr. Jones’ arrest established probable cause for the arrest, and Mr. Jones’ arrest was therefore lawful.”

Although two years have passed since the incident took place and a year since he filed a complaint, Jones said he’s committed to vindicating his name and holding the officers accountable.

“I really don’t get discouraged,” he said. “The more time that passes, it intensifies the desire to get the results. My friend was Tased for being downtown.

Metal prongs had to be removed from his back. He was Tased for being black and being downtown. It’s completely unacceptable.”

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House District 75 candidates at odds over Medicaid expansion

by Jordan Green Healthcare is front and center in the state House District 75 race, which pits Republican incumbent Donny Lambeth against Democratic Dan Besse, in suburban Forsyth County.

Few would have predicted two years ago that Republican Donny Lambeth would be fighting to hold on to his seat in the state House in this election.

Lambeth ran unopposed for District 75, which stretches across the southern portion of Forsyth County from Kernersville to Clemmons, in his first election in 2012 and has faced only nominal opposition since then.

Lambeth’s Democratic opponent, Dan Besse, is a longtime Winston-Salem City Council member with a long track record of activism in the Democratic Party. The two candidates share a thoughtful approach to policymaking and long records of public service, although Besse is a bit more pugnacious than Lambeth, who dislikes political combat.

Besse said he had been fielding requests from Democratic lawmakers to run for the District 75 seat since the beginning of the year, but what ultimately persuaded him was a call from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.

“The governor finally called me and said, ‘We want you to run, and you can help with healthcare,’” Besse recounted.

“The reason they persuaded me was healthcare, education, and clean water and air.”

Lambeth received a similar summons from his party leadership when he took office in 2013, albeit from then House Speaker Thom Tillis, who is now the junior senator from North Carolina in the US Senate. Lambeth had recently retired as president of Lexington Medical Center and Davie Hospital, part of the Wake Forest Baptist Health system, and also chaired the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board at the time.

“I talked to Speaker Tillis about spending time on education,” Lambeth recalled. “That’s my passion. He said, ‘No, you’re going to focus on healthcare.

That’s where I need you.’”

Lambeth has leveraged his background as a hospital administrator into forecasting the state’s future needs.

Among the issues he says the state needs to manage is the difficulty recruiting doctors in rural areas, increasing costs as the population ages and technological advances that allow urban hospitals to collaborate with their rural counterparts to expand access to services like

stroke and chest-pain programs through telemedicine.

Besse is making a frontal attack on Lambeth’s record on healthcare, particularly on the issue of Medicaid expansion.

“As uncomfortable as the fact may make him, Donny Lambeth voted on party lines to prohibit North Carolina from expanding Medicaid within two months of taking office in 2013,” Besse said. “That disappointed many of us.”

Besse cites research that indicates expanding Medicaid coverage in North Carolina would recoup $2 billion in taxes that residents have already paid the federal government, provide healthcare to 600,000 people and create 40,000 jobs.

“Continuing to refuse to expand Medicaid is immoral and fundamentally economically stupid,” Besse said.

Lambeth said that while he doesn’t support Medicaid expansion, he’s tried to achieve the same goal through other means.

“My party has not been favorable towards Medicaid expansion,” Lambeth acknowledged. “When I was told that wasn’t going to happen, I worked on an alternative called Carolina Cares.”

Lambeth’s bill, which was filed in 2017, attempts to expand coverage through the private insurance market instead of Medicaid. It includes a work requirement, with exceptions for certain groups like veterans and farmers. The bill relies on funding from the federal government and providers, with no funding from the state. The plan requires subscribers to pay for coverage, but Lambeth said people who can’t afford employer plans might qualify for coverage by paying as little as 5 percent.

And he said the plan would cover about 85 percent of those who are currently caught in the Medicaid gap. Lambeth acknowledged the legislation hasn’t gotten much traction.

“Things in Raleigh don’t move very fast,” he said. “You have to work with a lot of people to get anything done.

We’ll file that bill next year if I’m elected again.”

Americans For Prosperity-North Carolina — a 501(c)4, or “social welfare organization” financed in part by the billionaire Koch brothers — plans to spend six figures on advertising and grassroots get-out-the-vote efforts to support Lambeth, along with six other Republican incumbents, according to a press release. The conservative group lauded

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Lambeth as “an advocate for tax reform, common-sense spending reforms, and regulatory reform. In addition to this, Representative Lambeth is a champion on reforming the healthcare regulatory environment.”

The group is also supporting Trudy Wade, a Republican incumbent defending her Senate seat in Guilford County against Democrat Michael Garrett.

Chris McCoy, the state director of Americans For Prosperity-North Carolina, did not respond to a Facebook message requesting comment for this story.

The Besse campaign quickly publicized Americans For Prosperity’s intervention in the race, trumpeting it as proof that “the Republican right wing is now so panicked about us that it’s called in their big-money shock troops to attack,” and then quickly pivoting to a fundraising request to supporters. The Oct. 10 Facebook post by the Besse campaign also took a shot at their opponent, referencing “Donny Lambeth and his buddies in the Koch Brothers network.”

After one of Lambeth’s supporters complained that the Besse campaign was misrepresenting Lambeth’s track record as a healthcare advocate, the incumbent himself chimed in on the thread. “They

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are desperate and not telling the truth,” Lambeth said. “Sad. But I will prevail.”

He added, “They have paid me nothing and I have never accepted an endorsement from this group.”

Campaign finance law prohibits candidates from independent election groups that don’t disclose their donors from coordinating with candidates. Lambeth said no one from Americans For Prosperity has reached out to him, and that he hasn’t seen any of their electioneering materials.

“I have not taken a dime from them or any extremist group,” he said.

Lambeth added that Americans For Prosperity’s assist is no different than what an education advocacy group running television ads attacking him for his support of constitutional amendments that the Republican majority placed on the ballot is doing for Besse.

Besse said his larger point is that Lambeth’s policies are aligned with the Koch brothers’ interests.

“His continued interest in privatization of healthcare provision [Medicaid] that had been managed well by a public entity is also completely in line with the Koch brothers’ anti-public services agenda,” Besse said. “From their stand-

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so he can hammer away at his message that his opponent’s opposition to expanding Medicaid has hurt the state.

“It’s a process where you have to work hard through the end,” Besse said. “You have to stay on your message, and you have to outwork and outsmart the other candidate.”

Lambeth argues that, considering healthcare is the second-largest item in the state budget after education, the legislature needs someone with his expertise to continue representing District 75.

“If you look at today and in the next 20 years, our population will grow from a third of people being over 60 to half being over 60,” Lambeth said.

“We’re living longer, and it’s proven that healthcare costs more as you age. We’re not well positioned in North Carolina to meet the demands for healthcare. We don’t have enough primary-care physicians. We don’t have enough specialists. We need some loan forgiveness programs so people will stay and work here. We need to expand telehealth. You can’t overestimate how important it is that we meet the need to restructure our healthcare system to meet the needs of our aging populations — and I’m one of them.”

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point, the key is all about who controls the strings of legislative power. Donny’s willingness to keep voting for the current leadership is what they want to see continue. They could care less about what an individual may do so long as they vote the way they want them to.”

While opposing the expansion of Medicaid, Lambeth has led efforts to reform the current system.

“The reason I did not vote for expansion is we had a Medicaid program in North Carolina that was broken,” Lambeth said. “We had to reform it. What I’ve done is reform it.”

He added, “We’re the largest state that has not moved to a managed-care system. He [Besse] doesn’t know healthcare. North Carolina is the last state and largest state that has not moved to managed care. Managed care monitors quality outcomes. The current Medicaid system doesn’t monitor quality outcomes.”

The Medicaid reform effort led by Lambeth was signed into law by thenGov. Pat McCrory in 2015, but it requires federal approval for implementation. Lambeth said that hasn’t happened under either the Obama or Trump administrations.

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She ushers me into her tidy, sundappled apartment in Winston-Salem’s West Salem neighborhood, casually mentioning that she’s just celebrated her 90th birthday. She tells me she doesn’t know how she lived so long, and over the course of our 90-minute visit she keeps coming back to that sense of

surprise at her longevity.

Shirley Deane doesn’t look anything like 90. With sparkling eyes, sharp wits and an energetic if deliberate gait, she comes across as someone two-thirds her age. It might have something to do with her experience as a world traveler and an independent person who supported herself in an era that was far less accommodating towards women’s liberation. She displays a mischievous sense of humor, noting my last name and mentioning that all the men she met in Europe with generic color names — Brown, White, Black — turned out to be CIA agents.

(For the record, I am not now and have never been an agent or asset of the CIA.) Sitting across the living room from Deane, it’s easy to see her as the 27-year-old accordion performing jazz tunes on a Norwegian cruise ship in 1956, or driving her Land Rover through Iran as part of a headlinegrabbing journey from London to Kathmandu six years later.

It’s all in her memoir, An Unreasonable Woman: In Search of Meaning Across the Globe, published by Winston-Salem-based Press 53 in 2010.

Deane’s signature accomplishment is probably the publication of her book, Black South Africans: Profiles of Natal’s Leading Blacks — A Who’s Who, in 1978. Featuring musicians, political leaders and agriculturalists, among other notable black South Africans both famous and obscure, the book includes one page with essential facts, including dates of birth, residence and professional achievements, followed by a vividly written narrative profile for each of the subjects. The fact that there was a need for such a book under the apartheid system that ruled South Africa in the late 1970s, and the resistance Deane encountered in compiling it, strikes me as an apocryphal lesson in the way white supremacy operates.

Deane initiated the undertaking after picking up a copy of a volume called Who’s Who in South Africa, and discovered that it didn’t include a single black person — an incredible oversight in a country with 16 million blacks and only 6 million whites.

“Can you imagine: I almost lost my life,” Deane tells me. “The apartheid government wanted to see Africans depicted as good truck-loaders and unloaders, as good workers in the gold and copper mines. They didn’t want to see black South Africans raised in stature.”

As Deane details in her 2010 memoir, during the course of writing Black South Africans her magnetic tapes containing interviews were erased, her apartment burglarized, and she was harassed by security agents.

To understand why Deane, an American expatriate, was willing to undergo the risk and adversity necessary to complete the project, she says that there are some other things people need to know about her. Her lengthy preface in our conversation hit on two themes: her sense of independence, good fortune to have a talent that enabled her to travel, and rejection of chauvinism.

“I wanted to see the whole world, and I remember when I was 8 years old, the English teacher I had growing up in New York City gave us an assignment: Write a paper on why America is the greatest country in the world. And I wrote, ‘I don’t think America is the greatest country in the world. I think that the world is like an orchestra. And you can’t say that the trombone is better than the flute. And you can’t say that the bass is better than the violin. I think that every instrument plays its part, and just like that every country plays its part.’”

The teacher gave Deane a failing grade. Furious, Deane’s mother went to see the principal to complain. The teacher was fired, and Deane’s grade was changed to an A. At the same age, Deane, who was born with perfect pitch, got an accordion. The instrument “became my ticket to the world,” she says.

Beginning at the age of 16, she started performing on television and radio. She played nightclub sets from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., part of a “hellish” routine that involved getting up the next day at 8 a.m. to take classes at New York University. One night Deane was performing at a nightclub on Broadway owned by the boxer Jack Dempsey. Three musicians from Oslo who were on leave from the cruise ship where they were employed showed up. After the set, they asked Deane to come back to ship for a jam session.

They took her to see the captain, and soon she had a contract that took her across the Atlantic.

In Europe, Deane played her accordion — jazz and classic, never polka — for US Army and Air Force personnel.

While in Europe, Deane received a request to take up a nightclub residency recently vacated by Zsa Zsa Gabor in Johannesburg, South Africa.

As soon as Deane arrived in Johannesburg, she encountered a “whites only” water fountain, and the audiences at her performances were exclusively white. The arrangement struck her as ridiculous.

“Even though I only had a two-week contract,” Deane recalls, “I said, ‘I have to go back and do something about this, even if it results in zilch, just so I can put some effort into changing this to some sensible way to live.’”

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ost people don’t know that Laos is the most heavily bombed country per capita in the world.

During the Vietnam War, the United States dropped more bombs on Laos — an effort to stop the infiltration of communist North Vietnamese forces — than on Japan and Germany combined in World War II. Because of the country’s long history of being caught in the middle of wars like this, many Laotians sought refuge in Thailand. Vonne Keobouala’s family was among them.

Short, with long, jet-black hair tied back in a low ponytail, Keobouala walks from table to table, greeting customers who have dropped in for an early dinner on a recent Thursday evening at Lao Restaurant + Bar in downtown Greensboro. The restaurant, which opened in late August in the former Crafted location on Elm Street, is Keobouala’s third restaurant but the first that focuses on Laotian cuisine.

Keobouala’s family fled Laos in the late 1970s; they came to the United States in February 1980, after a Catholic

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church in Illinois sponsored them. In 1985, in search of better Lao Restaurant + Bar is Keobouala’s way of changing that. jobs and weather, her family moved to California where her “We’re ready to share our story and our Laotian backmother sold Laotian food out of a minivan. A few years after ground,” Keobouala says. “We’re ready to bring authentic that, her brother moved to North Carolina for a job and then Laotian food to the table.” recruited the rest of his siblings. Keobouala was the last to Those who frequented the location when it was Crafted will move to Greensboro in 2005. Four years later, Keobouala and remember the shotgun-style space, with a small entryway, her brother, Jit “Matt” Lothakoun, carried on the restaurant then the narrow hallway that leads to a more open dining tradition that their mother started with the popular restauarea. But gone are the lime-green walls and colorful accents. rant, Simply Thai, in Elon. The restaurant debuted a second Instead, the surfaces have been painted white, with a black location in Jamestown late last year. ceiling, dark wood elements and a few gold details to make up “When we settled in Greensboro, we knew there were lots a minimalist color scheme. of southeast Asians here,” KeobThe food, on the other hand, ofouala says. “But we decided to open fers a more vibrant palette.

Simply Thai because Thai food was Flecks of bright-purple cabbage Lao Restaurant + Bar is located at more recognizable. Laotian food, no and fresh, green onion float in the 219-A S. Elm St. in Greensboro. Find one knows.” mango-colored broth of a bowl of Because Laos is landlocked by mee kati. A red coconut curry nooout more at lao-restaurant.com.

Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar China dle soup, mee kati is just one of the and Cambodia, influences from the noodle options on the restaurant’s other countries, especially Thailand, menu. Thin, white rice noodles soak make their way into Laotian cuisine. up the aromatic, sweet and spicy But it’s still different and distinct, Keobouala says. broth, creamy from a whipped egg that gets added towards “It’s more herbal with more of a spicy kick,” she says. “It’s the end of the process. The dish is warm and delicious, with not as sweet as Thai food; it’s more funky.” crunchy pieces of peanuts that add nutty savoriness while Despite North Carolina having the fifth largest Laotian popvegetables like cabbage, bean sprouts and lemongrass bring a ulation in the country, according to the 2017 census, there isn’t depth of texture. a whole lot of Laotian food in the area. There’s Lao Kitchen on The dish isn’t that common in Laos, according to Keobouala.

Gate City Boulevard in Greensboro and Bida Manda in Raleigh.

“We decided to offer it because we want to bring dishes like

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But if you come for dinner, Keobouala says sharing is the best way to experience Laotian food. Start with the Lao sausage, made with pork, lemongrass, and dill; and a pile of Lao papaya salad, funky with shrimp paste; a side of sticky rice, Lao’s signature finger food, ready to be plucked, rolled and plunged in sauce; and an order of seen lod, or beef or pork jerky.

“When we first came, we were embarrassed or ashamed to bring out our food,” Keobouala says. “But now we want to carry on the tradition. Lao is special to us because I want to share our story and introduce the culture through food.”

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this so people can recognize them,” Keobouala says. “We want to introduce this food to the mainstream.”

Aom, on the other hand, is a traditional dish that’s popular throughout the country.

An earthy herbal stew made with fresh dill and green-striped Thai eggplant, aom offers subtle, peppery notes that make it a comforting dish in the cooler months of the year. Heavy with vegetables but light enough to eat a whole bowlful, aom is kind of like a Laotian minestrone.

“The dish is more common in central Laos,” Keobouala says. “It’s one of my favorite dishes because I like Thai eggplant and I like dill. Dill is what makes aom. I eat it with sticky rice.”

At an average of about $16 per entree, the dishes at Lao Restaurant + Bar aren’t too pricey but may be more than what customers are used to paying at similar Thai

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The survivors of the Stoneman-Douglas high school shooting toured through Winston-Salem for a screening of the documentary We Are the Change at SECCA.

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he world watched them rally on Pennsylvania Avenue but — until recently — few had witnessed the view from over their shoulders as they crafted protest signs or hugged before taking the stage.

These intimate scenes comprise We Are the Change, a documentary rooted in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students’ field trip from their homes in in Parkland, Fla. to the US capitol for conversations with legislators and the March for Our Lives demonstration. RiverRun International Film Festival, which hosts a medley of events year-round, brought the film to Winston-Salem at both the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and at Salem Academy on Oct. 18 where students heard from survivors traveling with the film eight months after a 19-year-old former classmate rocked their affluent

suburban community when he massacred 17 people with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.

“I thought: There’s no way I’m doing this. I can barely get out of bed. How am I going to travel eight hours to our capitol and speak on something I barely know?”

But she boarded the bus alongside classmates the next day.

“I was a teacher and now I’m chief organizer of trips to government entities,” Debby Miller, a language arts teacher at Stoneman Douglas, says. “What was interesting was every parent I contacted [about the trip] said, ‘Oh, hell no,’ and every kid in the background yelled, ‘I’m going,’ and at 4 o’clock Sunday morning there were 50 kids in the parking lot.”

In an interview following Thursday’s screening, filmmaker Gina Onori says the hardest part of producing the film was being present as students related their experiences to legislators.

“I was crying as I was filming, so I was like, Do I stop filming?

But to make change, people need to hear this. People need to realize the pain of what they’re going through.”

On March 23, the day before the March for Our Lives demonstration, the Parkland students met with some of their congressional representatives and better-known politicos like former Vice President Joe Biden, US Rep. Nancy Pelosi and

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former US Rep. Gabby Giffords, who became a gun-control advocate after surviving an assassination attempt in 2011.

Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio snubbed the group.

“What scared me the most was saying one thing that was wrong and that being nitpicked and discrediting what everyone else was saying,” senior Florence Yared says of feeling thrust into the public eye. “I did my research the best I could, and I had to try because if I didn’t, who would?”

A common theme in the students’ testimony is how the shooting illuminated their stake in politics and spurred an enthusiasm for civic engagement.

“I wanted equal rights and the basics, but I didn’t want to get into arguments with anybody and thought it wasn’t that important,” Yared says. “Now I’m keeping up with the news and talking to people about political issues.”

“In only a few short days we worked up the nerve to actually approach the government to make a change so that this never had to happen again,” senior Ashley Santoro says. “I think as little might have been done, we still did a lot and it means a lot and that makes me still want to work.”

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one asks for age — just ZIP code — when calling representatives.

We Are the Change underlines the humanity of Stoneman Douglas students who “Tell them to vote for you and not the gun manufacturers,” he says following the found themselves turned into symbols of the anti-gun violence movement, a downscreening. side of which is immense pressure to visibly participate in national discourse, to “Seeing [the documentary] again reminded me of everything that happened on the continue inspiring audiences, all while being cast at once as America’s saviors-to-be trip because then it was a blur for me to be honest,” Yared says. and as too naïve to grasp the complexity of the debate. What they “We were hit with so much. To be reminded more than a million undeniably understand, though, is their own trauma and how stopeople came to a march… and then there were like 500 sister rytelling can shift priorities, both personal and public.

Learn more at marches around the US and more around the world, is incredible.”

“I believe I’m a different person before the 14th and after,” Eaton marchforourlives.com. said. “Before [the shooting], I would see these things on TV and Onori’s film shows how media bombarded the students and think that would never happen in Parkland…. I wanted to stay out teachers with lights, mics and cameras throughout the DC visit. of politics because I didn’t want to say the wrong thing. After, I “A lot of times I put my camera away and just talked to them,” have moments I don’t want to get out of bed… but days like today she says. “I was spending most of the time with them, so we beI’m here talking to you and I feel empowered because we’re making change and you’re came more friends and it made things more comfortable.” helping us. I don’t want you guys to have to be two different people, though; I want Of course, there is nothing comfortable about speaking publicly about your trauma. you to be the same person throughout your whole life, so when you can vote like your “We’re never going to fully recover,” Yared continues. “It’s hard seeing my commulives depend on it because they really do.” nity still heartbroken. Even as we’re still staying politically active… [the media] isn’t looking into how we’re doing and it’s hard seeing it firsthand.”

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This raw sentiment reverberates throughout the International Civil Rights Center & Museum as six local panelists dig into how they navigate diversity in their respective fields. This event just marks the beginning.

Edwin Gil’s Faces of Diversity project aims to produce 111 portraits, each representing a city from around the world.

The Greensboro installment, No. 43, culminates with four events throughout the upcoming weekend; these panels held on Oct. 20 served as the launch point.

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Through glass upcycling and paint, guests are invited to around diversity. CEO John Swaine believes the project paralmake a personal touch on the project — literally. During lels the museum’s mission. discussions, a dance, and a Halloween party, Gil requests “It reveals something about the humanity of the commuparticipants to leave fingerprints, which nity,” He explains. “This community is a are then compiled into mosaic portraits. complex tapestry.”

Though sometimes uncomfortable, Gil was inspired by the fingerprint for its Find more about the Faces providing a stranger a fingerprint solidifies individual nature. Two people may share that moment as a memory. Gil counts on the same features but never fingerprints. of Diversity by Edwin Gil at guests remembering not only the print, Like threads in a tapestry, they combine edwingil.com. but the meanings behind the events that to construct something greater than the surround them as well, engaging both sum of their parts. The Colombian artist the mind and body to experience the aims to bring a component of vulnerabilunknown. ity to the project, for good reason.

Once assembled, the Greensboro Cultural Center will house “Sometimes it’s kind of hard to leave that comfort zone, the final piece. For the inaugural kickoff however, the museum and cross that border,” he says. provides a contextual backdrop for this project centering The panels don’t shy from this idea.

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She points out that it’s essential to “move ourselves to uncomfortable spaces.”

The discomfort is formulaic, almost. To leave the comfortable and to confront the unknown fosters learning.

And this learning must start at a younger age, as organizer Maria Gonzalez explains. Respecting differences must be taught early, as they are inevitable.

With more than 100,000 fingerprints gathered thus far, Gil hopes to bring the celebration of difference to multiple audiences. Gil hopes to “pop bubbles” that people of all ages form around themselves with these varied events. Through his work, Gil reminds the audience that risk-taking can be positive, and encourages people to not just view the artwork but also become a part of it.

“Art allows humans to talk about things we usually don’t,” he says.

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The first panel consisted of Program Director of the National Conference for Community and Justice Michael Robinson, FaithAction International board member Chi Nguyen and Lumbee tribe member Amanda Jacobs. The panelists drew attention to the position Greensboro finds itself in — with some progress made but needing to be continued.

Nguyen suggests that diversity often must be sought out.

Jacobs agrees, narrating how she had to venture out to connect with other local Native Americans. While difficult to confront the idea of still-needed progress, Robinson comments that “the tension is necessary for growth.”

The second panel, featuring Gwen Frisbie-Fulton, Victor Sanchez and Paul Byun, focused on promoting diversity in their workplaces. Sanchez, a sergeant in the Greensboro Police Department, strives to diversify the police force and challenge any bias he encounters on the job. Byun combats these biases through his videography, placing attention on underrepresented communities. An author and storyteller, Fulton desires to

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October 25-31, 2018

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Oct. 27th, 2018

Inspired by his wanderlust to places visited or merely dreamed of, award-winning and Grammy-nominated guitarist, composer, and producer Russ Freeman’s music has provided life’s soundtrack for hundreds of thousands ofENcontemA ED DEN porary jazz fans for over a quarter N RBAR century.

BRANFORD PASSPORT To Entertainment

MARSALIS QUARTET

FOR TICKETS, call 336-887-3001 2018 & 2019 or visit HighPointTheatre.com

Show | 8pm / Doors | 7pm

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We will be partnering with the Greater High Point Food Alliance to collect items for food banks across the High Point area. Please bring a donation of non-perishable food items with you to help this great cause!

Acts and dates are subject to change. For tickets and updates, go to HighPointTheatre.com or call (336) 887-3001.

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FEATURING RUSS FREEMAN