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Dispatch from the enemy camp For this week’s paper, I watched Senior Editor Jordan Green use modern technology to do the work of a foreign correspondent.

by Brian Clarey His conversations with a medic on the ground in Syria became the string for this week’s Citizen Green, which I’ll remind our readers is an award-winning political column.

And I saw Associate Editor Sayaka Matsuoka wrangle months of reporting into a tight, coherent and newsy feature on abortion clinics and those who disrupt them.

For our editorial, we looked at the work of a North Carolina journalism nonprofit that’s helping to fill the gaps left by our decimated daily newspapers.

In between, I viewed the parody video of President Trump slaughtering his enemies in the Church of Fake News, among them Black Lives Matter, deceased Sen. John McCain and just about every major media outlet in the world — he seemed to hold particular disregard for the BBC News, though in the end, no one was spared from the berserker rage.

We won’t be linking out to the video, but it’s important to note that it screened during a convention of the pro-Trump group American Priority, at a Trump property in Miami, in front of Donald Trump

Jr., Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, among others, and was reportedly met with cheers.

Never before, in a 25-year career, have I ever felt such open disdain for our industry. Every reporter I know has, since the 2016 campaign, had uncomfortable, sometimes perilous, moments with Trump supporters and others who hate them for what they do.

I’ve got my problems with mainstream news: they police the subtext; they blur the lines between journalism and marketing; they rarely use semicolons — when I worked for a daily I was told that we should strive to write for an eighth-grade reading level. Don’t get me started on television. Just this week, amid the cries of “fake news” and “enemies of the people” and “unholy alliance,” ABC News’ “World News Tonight” used B-roll from a Kentucky gun range and tried to pass it off as the bombing of Syria.

But if they’re the enemy of the people, I suppose we are, too.

Later today, our little band of insurrectionists will eat pizza while we put the paper together and load the website — these things are still legal in the United States. We’ll make jokes about headlines and bicker over teasers, and we likely won’t give much thought to those who consider us enemies, the ones who cheered in Florida while the president gunned us down.

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THURSDAY Oct. 17

SATURDAY Oct. 19

Nicole Stockburger & Julie Swarstad Johnson @ Scuppernong Books (GSO), 7 p.m.

Settle in for a night of poetry. Nicole Stockburger reads from Nowhere Beulah, and Julie Swarstad Johnson shares Pennsylvania Furnace, both forthcoming collections from Unicorn Press. Find the event on Facebook.

Anne Bogel & Charlie Lovett @ Footnote Coffee (W-S), 7 p.m.

Tate Street Festival @ Tate Street (GSO), 1 p.m.

The Wood Brothers @ the Carolina Theatre (GSO), 8 p.m.

Americana and folk rock find their way into the Carolina Theatre through a concert by the Wood Brothers. Tood Albright opens with some country blues played on a twelve-string guitar. Find the event on Facebook.

Dark in the Park @ Historic Bethabara Park (W-S), 5 p.m.

Spend an evening in the park to celebrate the season a bit before Halloween actually hits. As the sun goes down, light up jack-olanterns or hop on a hayride. Take a spooky tour, or show up in costume to trick-ortreat. Find the event on Facebook.

PRIDE Winston-Salem @ Trade Street (W-S), 10 a.m.

Celebrate the local LGBT community during this day of self-love, partying and Pride. A food-truck rally keeps guests going as the parade goes by, and booths with LGBT-friendly businesses offer a day of connection. Learn more at pridews.org.

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SUNDAY Oct. 20

Footnotes Coffee hosts a conversation between Anne Bogel and Charlie Lovett.

Bogel invites people to join to hear a live interview of Charlie Lovett, author of The Bookman’s Tale. Learn more on Facebook.

Fall Dessert Market @ Foothills Brewing (W-S), 1 p.m.

FRIDAY Oct. 18

Ghost Stories @ Blandwood Mansion (GSO), 7 p.m.

Prepare for a night of spooky stories inside the halls of Blandwood. The night of eerie tales continues a Halloween tradition, and guests of all ages can enjoy and be frightened by the lineup. Find the event on Facebook.

Tate Street explodes into a bursting festival with music, food and activities. Six different bands fill the area with a live soundtrack as more than 60 vendors showcase their craftsmanship. Find the event on Facebook.

Dr. Bacon @ Muddy Creek Cafe & Music Hall (W-S), 8 p.m.

FemFest VI @ Monstercade (W-S), 2 p.m.

Heroes vs Villains Double Header @ Skate South (HP), 4 p.m.

Don a mask or cape for this roller derby showdown between four different teams, hosted by the Greensboro Roller Derby.

Come costumed as a superhero or villain and take part in a costume contest during the two matches. Find the event on Facebook.

Feel the funk with a concert from Dr. Bacon. The seven-piece group meshes together the vibes of funk music with the instrumentals of classic rock, putting saxophone and violin beside the electric guitar.

Learn more on Facebook.

Silent Disco @ Gas Hill Drinking Room (W-S), 9 p.m.

Grab a pair of headphones and join a crowd of people dancing to music only they can hear at this silent disco. DJ Stas and DJ Poochie LaFever transmit the tunes directly to people’s headsets. Find the event on Facebook.

This baked-goods bazaar brings together local dessert specialists for a sampler of treats. Indulge your sweet tooth with sugarfree, gluten and vegan options included.

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This all-day lineup of concerts stars both female-fronted bands and feminist-supporting groups. The afternoon raises funds for Winston-Salem Family Services for the city’s women’s shelter. Find the event on Facebook.

Shane Mauss @ the Idiot Box (GSO), 7 p.m.

This comedy show dives into the world of psychedelics. Shane Mauss, with his own experiences with the substances, combines science, history and comedy for a wellrounded act. Find the event on Facebook.

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NYT journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones speaks about racial inequality in Forsyth County Schools

by Sayaka Matsuoka A black and white photo of white mothers carrying a casket with a black baby doll projects onto the screen. A moment later, the screen switches to an image of six-year-old Ruby Bridges making her way down a set of steps — escorted by US Marshals — clutching a tiny briefcase in her right hand.

“These photos are black and white, but this wasn’t that long ago,” said Nikole HannahJones, staff writer for the New York Times and MacArthur “Genius Grant” winner. Another photo of federal troops escorting black students through a white mob appears.

“This was violently resistant,” she said. “These people are arguing about children getting an education.”

Hannah-Jones gave a stirring presentation in the Kenneth R. Williams Auditorium on Winston-Salem State University’s campus on Thursday evening, speaking for more than an hour about the inequality and racial segregation in the American public school system.

“I don’t give inspirational speeches,” Hannah-Jones said at the start of her talk. “If you don’t feel discomfort at the end of my speech, I feel like I’ve failed.”

Hannah-Jones has been writing and reporting on education for the last 15 years. She got her start at Chapel Hill News and the News and Observer after graduating with a masters in journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2003. From there, the journalist went on to work for The Oregonian, ProPublica and now the New York Times. In August, she launched the 1619 Project, a major initiative examining the legacy of slavery in the United States timed for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved people to the country.

“All I ever wanted to write about was racial inequality,” Hannah-Jones said in a phone interview on Friday. “So, when I started covering Durham Public Schools it was perfect because it was very segregated. There was no way to write about it and not talk about racial inequality.”

Displaying a timeline of racist policies from the start of slavery through Jim Crow and beyond on the screen, Hannah-Jones broke down how systemic injustice takes place within public education, detrimentally affecting black and brown students.

She explained how for centuries, black Americans were barred from being educated by having resources and access to schooling withheld from them. Even after the Supreme Court Ruling of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 finding that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional, subsequent court rulings and public policy just a few decades later re-segregated much of the country back to how it was during the Jim Crow era, Hannah-Jones said.

“Separate is inherently unequal,” Hannah-Jones said in her speech. “The longer a child stays in a segregated school, the more the achievement gap increases.”

Speaking to an auditorium full of educators, school board members, parents and concerned community members, Hannah-Jones pivoted halfway through her presentation to the state of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.

“This is one of the most segregated districts in the state,” she said.

A 2018 report titled “Stymied by Segregation” by Kris Nordstrom, a policy analyst with the NC Justice Center, backed Hannah-Jones’s claim.

Nordstrom’s report found that the Forsyth County school district was among the top ten most segregated district by race and economics.

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by ProPublica during her presentation, HannahJones compared two high Nikole Hannah-Jones, writer for the New COURTESY IMAGE York Times and MacArthur Genius. schools in the district: Carver High School and Ronald W. Reagan High School. The first has a predominantly black student population, with black students making up 71 percent of the school, while the latter is 73 percent white.

Hannah-Jones quickly began pointing out the disparities between the two.

At Carver, only two percent of students were enrolled in the one AP course offered, while at Reagan, one-third of students were enrolled in the nine total AP courses.

The statistics continued.

Carver had a 40 percent chronically absent teachers while Reagan came in at 26 percent.

Carver had a 65-69 percent graduation rate, placing it in the lowest 10 percent in the entire district, while Reagan boasted a 97 percent graduation rate.

The problem, Hannah-Jones said in her talk, isn’t that black children and students are inherently inferior compared to white students. It’s that for decades and centuries, black students have been compromised and ignored. The solution? Reintegration.

“We do not value black children the same as we do white children,” she said. “If that was the case, then there’s no reason why Carver and Reagan shouldn’t be doing the same.

“There’s not anything wrong with a black school,” she continued. “There’s something wrong with how we treat black schools.”

On Friday, Hannah-Jones talked about how she always localizes data in her speeches.

“I want them to know that I’m not talking about what’s happening somewhere else,” she said.

As members of the crowded nodded, snapped and exclaimed in agreement with Hannah-Jones’s report, she urged them to make a change.

She even brought up how she had to make the difficult decision to act in accordance with her own values when her child entered school in New York City. She mentioned how every time she asked advocates and other journalists who cover racial inequality in schools where they sent their own kids, their answers proved hypocritical; they had been sending their kids to the whiter schools with the better resources.

“Either you can sustain the system or you can tear it down,” she said.

In the end, she and her husband chose to send their daughter to the predominantly black school in their neighborhood.

“If you think, Not my child but somebody else’s, that’s the same somebody else as it has been for generations,” she said. “This is a system that we choose. Ask yourself, what side are you on?”

‘This is one of the most segregated districts in the state.’

What the obstacles to abortion access look like in the Triad

by Sayaka Matsuoka Protesters, religious organizations, laws and more act as obstacles to abortion access in the Triad.

Hundreds of pro-life protesters gather in the parking lot next to the SAYAKA MATSUOKA brick abortion clinic in Greensboro on Saturday.

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Several studies have repeatedly proven that claims such as the ones in the magazine are untrue.

A 2018 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that examined close to 400,000 women in Denmark debunked claims that link abortion to depression. The study examined whether first-trimester first abortion or first childbirth is associated with an increase in a woman’s use of an antidepressant for the first time.

“The increased risk of depression did not change from the year before to the year after an abortion,” the study said.

“And contrary to previous claims that abortion has long-term adverse effects, the risk of depression decreased as more time elapsed after the abortion.”

The American Cancer Society also refutes the notion that abortions cause breast cancer, stating on their website, “Scientific research studies have not found a cause-and-effect relationship between abortion and breast cancer.”

The risk to future pregnancies is also exaggerated.

“Women rarely become infertile after an uncomplicated abortion,” states the Harvard Medical website.

And while many crisis pregnancy centers encourage women to carry their pregnancies to term, few state the

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nications coordinator at the center.

While the center doesn’t offer abortion services or referrals to clinics who do provide abortion, Holloman says the center offers free pregnancy testing, STD testing and treatment and ultrasounds.

Holloman also says the center provides counseling for women thinking about getting abortions by pairing them with a center volunteer who is not required to have medical or psychological training.

On a recent visit to the center, I noticed that the rooms were equipped with a pair of cushy chairs and a deep red Bible. Here is where the volunteers tell the women about the options in front of them — adoption, abortion or carrying to term.

“We just offer women the opportunity to be fully informed before they make a decision,” Holloman says.

Holloman also provided Triad City Beat with a copy of a glossy magazine titled “Before You Decide” styled after teen magazines like Seventeen that is given to the patients. The publication includes photos of fetus development and claims that abortion leads to depression, breast cancer and makes it more difficult to have children later in life.

“They have nothing to back up their claims,” Tate-Wall says about the information provided by many crisis pregnancy centers.

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Every Saturday and most Fridays, dozens of protesters show up to A Woman’s Choice abortion clinic in Greensboro, the only one in the city. On Oct. 5, the clinic counted 253 protesters. And that number is growing, according to those who work and volunteer for the clinic.

“Just the behavior of the protesters has changed,” says Selina Tate-Wall, manager of A Woman’s Choice. “When I first started, they were silent protesters.

They were kind of quiet. But now, their behavior has changed. They’re belligerent; they’re loud. They have speakers.

They hold up big signs that are invasive and scary.”

The teal shirts signify volunteers and supporters of Love Life, a religious organization that works to mobilize churches in Greensboro, Raleigh, Charlotte and New York City to oppose abortion. After congregating at Destiny Church just a few buildings down, the protesters make their way into the Midori Express parking lot every Saturday around 9:30 a.m. to pray and sing. But even before Love Life shows up, groups of other protesters who are more aggressive than their tealclad counterparts, gather at the abortion clinic.

“Sir, please, please do the right thing,” says Wes Durr, a protester equipped with a microphone as he stands next to the

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A wave of people wearing bright teal shirts streams into the parking lot of Midori Express on Randleman Road in Greensboro on a recent Saturday morning. Women, children and men of all ages pool at the makeshift stage constructed at the edge of the lot as a guitarist strums his instrument.

“I raise a hallelujah, in the presence of my enemies,” he sings. “I raise a hallelujah, louder than the unbelief. I raise a hallelujah, my weapon is a melody.”

The crowd begins to sway. Some sing along. Others put their hands in the air.

Some hold hands. They sing for their message to be heard: across the parking lot, up the walkway, through the walls and the door of the abortion clinic just 200 feet away.

This is what getting an abortion looks like in Greensboro.

parking lot where patients park to get to the clinic. “Honor God in this situation.

You have a chance to be a man and to save your beautiful child that’s in there.

We urge you, sir… do not let them violate you or your wife.”

Durr makes sure to speak directly to the patients as well as those who accompany them if he can see them. Later, when he sees a black woman walking to the clinic, he turns on his microphone to talk to her.

“My name’s Wes and I’m out here with the Christians and we want to plead and beg you to not let them kill your child,” Durr says. “Do not let them kill that beautiful black child that is inside of your body ma’am.”

Durr says he’s been coming out to the clinic for about two and a half months and wants to abolish abortion and help people turn to Christ.

“We haven’t been given the right to strip away life,” the 28-year-old says.

He says he usually gets here early and stays until the abortion doctor — or, as he says, the “hired assassin” — comes in.

In the driveway leading up to the clinic, protesters in pink vests attempt to hand plastic cups filled with pamphlets, snacks and tissues to cars that drive in.

They’re associated with the Greensboro Pregnancy Center, a faith-based organization that counsels women against having abortions. Also known as a crisis pregnancy center, organizations like the Greensboro Pregnancy Center exist all over the country and on average, outnumber abortion clinics two to one. According to numbers by the Guttmacher Institute and NARAL Pro-Choice, there are a little over 800 abortion clinics in the country and more than 3,500 crisis pregnancy centers. In North Carolina, there are 14 abortion clinics and 115 crisis pregnancy centers. In the Triad, there are five crisis pregnancy centers, including one in Yadkinville, and three abortion clinics.

Despite not offering abortion services, the Greensboro Pregnancy Center is one of the first results that comes up when users search “abortion Greensboro” in Google. Currently housed in an old brick building off of Gate City Boulevard, the Greensboro Pregnancy Center has been operating since 1985.

“Our mission is to empower women to face their unplanned pregnancy without fear,” says Mary Holloman, the commu-

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Continued from pg. 7 marked differences in mortality rates between abortion and childbirth.

A 2012 study published in Obstetrics and Gynecology concluded that “legal induced abortion is markedly safer than childbirth” and that “the risk of death associated with childbirth is approximately 14 times higher than that with abortion.”

Multiple studies by researcher Priscilla K. Coleman, whose work is extensively cited in the magazine, have been criticized by the American Psychological Association.

“We were unable to reproduce the most basic tabulations of Coleman and colleagues,” states researcher Julia Steinberg in a 2009 Washington Post article.

“Moreover, their findings were logically inconsistent with other published research — for example, they found higher rates of depression in the last month than other studies found during respondents’ entire lifetimes. This suggests that the results were substantially inflated.”

These claims exist solely to deter women from getting abortion care, says Tate-Wall.

“These are myths that are not proven,” she says. “It’s a scare tactic.”

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In recent years, states across the country have passed increasingly restrictive abortion laws. In North Carolina, a handful of laws have been passed in efforts to restrict abortion access.

In 2011, the Republican-controlled General Assembly passed a law that required a pregnant woman to undergo counseling and receive an ultrasound before getting an abortion. The law also required a physician to describe the image on the ultrasound to the patient.

In 2014, a federal district court judge permanently blocked the forced ultrasound law.

In 2015, another law was passed requiring patients to receive state-directed counseling, and then wait 72 hours before the procedure is provided. In March, a ban on abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy was deemed unconstitutional by a federal court. State law also restricts access to abortion for those who receive their health care through the government. This includes state and federal government employees and those covered through Medicaid or Medicare.

In April, Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill that would have applied punishments to doctors and nurses who don’t provide care for the newborns that survive failed abortions.

“Laws already protect newborn babies

and this bill is an unnecessary interferto the clinic with signs offering free ence between doctors and their paultrasounds. A similarly styled magenta tients,” the Democratic governor said in billboard advertising the crisis pregnancy center hovers in the lot next to the aborhis veto message. “This needless legislation clinic. At the same time, abortion tion would criminalize doctors and other healthcare providers for a practice that clinic volunteers dressed in rainbow vests simply does not exist.” act as a barrier between protesters and Current proposed legislation includes patients.

House Bill 28, which would ban aborForrest Hinson signed up to become tions after 13 weeks, House bills 22 and a clinic escort at A Woman’s Choice last 53, which would require doctors to tell year and volunteered for about a year. women that some medical abortions The escort’s main job is to help guide cars into the parking lots and then walk can be reversed halfway through and patients from the cars to the clinic doors.

House bill 54 which would ban the most “You just have to be extremely common and safest method of secondvigilant,” Hinson says about being a trimester abortions. Companion bills for House bill 53 and 54 were also filed volunteer. “I was willing to call them in the state Senate as Senate bill 52 and liars to their faces. I was willing to quesSenate bill 51 respectively. tion them in front of them. I would Reps. Debra Conrad, Donny Lambeth engage with them to get a patient away from them. Most of the time the patients and Lee Zachary of Forsyth County and John Faircloth of Guilford County are would say, ‘Thank you for getting me away from them.’” all sponsors of House bill 54. Conrad, In March, Hinson says he stopped volFaircloth and Lambeth are also sponsors of House bill 53. Sen. Joyce Krawiec of unteering after some of the interactions Forsyth County sponsored both Senate with the protesters got personal. bill 51 and 52.

“They would call me a pedophile,” “These regulations, these restrictions, Hinson says. “A child-hating pedophile.

They would say things like, ‘I thought they’re not about healthcare,” says black lives mattered.’”

Katherine Ferris, the mediIn one instance, Hinson, cal director at the Planned ‘I was very who is black, recalled a Parenthood in WinstonSalem. The clinic is one of relieved. I don’t time when one protester compared abortion to the the three abortion providers have any Holocaust and slavery. in the Triad.

“They are looking for a “They’re about politics,” regrets to this heated reaction,” he says.

Ferris says. “Our goal is day.’

Still, he says that the to care for women. That’s work was meaningful what abortion is; it’s health– Selina Tate-Wall because it helped women care.” make their own decisions.

THE ADVOCATES “It doesn’t matter what people think Ferris, who has been an abortion proabout banning abortion,” Hinson says. vider since 2003, says she got into abor“As long as there’s a pregnant person tion care to help provide comprehensive that doesn’t want to be pregnant, aborhealthcare. tion will exist. It is best to have it in a “Recognizing that as a family physimedical space in a legal manner than cian, my goal is to provide comprehenhave people die from a botched abortion sive care,” she says. “A huge part of or be forced to have a child they didn’t women’s life is reproductive life. I felt want.” that it was necessary to not ignore that key part of that healthcare.”

THE PATIENTS Ferris says that there are often protestGreensboro clinic manager Tate-Wall ers outside her clinic, too. She mentions got an abortion when she was 17 years how protesters try to lure patients into old and living in upstate New York. She mobile buses or units for free ultrasounds says she was 16 weeks pregnant and or try to intercept them as they make didn’t think she could handle another their way to the clinic. child.

“When protesters are blocking these “It wasn’t easy,” she says. “I just repatients, what they’re doing is stopping membered being scared. I had two chilwomen from talking to their critical dren at the time, and I didn’t want any healthcare provider,” Ferris says. more children at that time. I was living At the clinic in Greensboro, a pink in a rooming house with my boyfriend.

I was just really not in a good place to bus owned by the Greensboro Preghave another child. I had no money, no nancy Care Center sits in the lot next

family really around to depend on.”

She says a friend drove her to the clinic after she rescheduled her appointment about a dozen times.

“It was a constant fight within my head of how can I make this decision,” she says.

Now, almost 30 years later, she says she knows she made the right choice.

“Ultimately, I feel like I made the right decision for myself,” she says. “I was young and I was not stable with a place to stay. I didn’t have a job. I was on public assistance. I was struggling with the two kids I had.

“I was very much okay with my decision,” she continues. “I was very relieved. I don’t have any regrets to this day.”

Desiree, whose last name was withheld to protect her privacy, says she had an abortion a year ago at A Woman’s Choice. She says the choice was hard, but that she also doesn’t regret her decision. The now 30-year-old single mom of two says she didn’t want to have a third child in her situation.

“I know that if I had another child, I wouldn’t be in the place that I am today,” Desiree says. “It’s hard enough being a single mother of two.”

When Desiree got to the clinic, she says the hardest part about getting the abortion was facing the protesters.

“It triggered me to go into shutdown mode,” she says. “I didn’t allow myself to feel anything.”

She says protesters told her she was “killing her baby” and that “God didn’t want her to do this.” One protester told her that she could die.

“I kind of tried to tune them out and run inside as fast as I could,” Desiree says. “It was a cluster of emotions. It made me angry; it made me sad.”

Desiree, who was just seven weeks along, opted for the abortion pill and says that the process was lonely. She said it wasn’t an easy choice for her, which made facing the criticisms that much harder.

“This girl or woman is already going through one of the hardest decisions of her life and what you are telling her does not help,” Desiree says. “I wish they would be more considerate. I don’t need your extra criticism and judgment. What I need most in this decision is love and compassion.

“If there is a woman or girl out there struggling about this decision, don’t feel bad,” Desiree says. “It’s available for a reason. It’s my body; it’s my choice. I feel great that I had the choice.”

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On Aug. 7, an undisclosed quantity of a cancercausing chemical compound was accidentally released from a Shamrock Environmental Corp. waste-processing facility in Greensboro’s Bryan Park Industrial complex. It was enough to spike the levels of this chemical compound — an industrial solvent known as 1, 4-dioxane — in the downriver communities of Pittsboro and Fayetteville 300 times above safe levels as set by the EPA. The city of Greensboro addressed the contamination directly in a press release issued Tuesday afternoon, roughly 24 hours after the story broke.

There’s a lot to unpack here: a company’s accidental spill of a carcinogen into a waterway that ultimately provides drinking water for about a third of the state; the fact that both Greensboro and the state Department of Environmental Quality withheld the nature of the accident and the name of the company itself until the Tuesday press release; the power of watchdog journalism to hold government and corporate players accountable for their misdeeds.

That last bit, natuWhat happens rally, interests us the most — and, of course, when there’s no its inverse property: one there to catch What happens when there’s no one there to the news? catch these pieces of news?

In days gone by, this story would have been the purview of a state environmental reporter at a large, daily newspaper or maybe — maybe — the final project of a journalism grad student. But this one came to the public record through NC Health News, one of a spate of nonprofit journalistic efforts in North Carolina that have been filling the gaps left by decimated newspaper staffs.

Like a lot of other journalism nonprofits, NC Health News is staffed by actual reporters and editors — Greg Barnes, who broke the 1, 4-dioxane story spent 30 years at the Fayetteville Observer before moving over to this new manifestation of the First Amendment.

And its reporting is getting results.

Greensboro responded with a press release the very next day; by late afternoon, WECT News in Wilmington reported that the DEQ would be investigating the incident in Greensboro.

The demise of local newspapers means that more stories of malfeasance, ineptitude and corruption will slip through the net. Yet people are consuming more journalism now than at any other point in history.

It’s heartening to know there are still good people out there with notebooks, asking questions, rising to meet the demand.

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“When trucks would show up a convoy of civilian vehicles heading into the city. As with killed and wounded, the soon as they reached their destination, another hospital medics would come out [of the about 12 miles away, they learned the convoy had been hospital] to assess whether they hit. Fifteen minutes later, medics started pulling the killed were alive or wounded,” an Ameriand wounded off flatbed trucks and putting them in an can volunteer working as a combat ambulance. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said medic with the Syrian Democratic the bombing killed 19 people, including 15 civilians and two Forces told me. “And if they were local reporters.

by Jordan Green alive, we would bring them in for The tanks, artillery and aircraft engaged in assaulting Sari triage, and then we would take them in for triage and treatKani and other Syrian cities is Turkish, but Dave told me ment. The situation deteriorated rapidly. At the first triage that the vast majority of ground forces fighting against the point, they would get preliminary treatment, and they were Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces are Syrian proxies brought to us for higher care. That deteriorated. The triage who fight under the name of the Free Syrian Army. point was air-striked by the Turkish armed forces two days “It feels like ISIS, but with airstrikes in terms of their tacago.” tics and strategy, and treatment of civilians,” Dave said.

I will call this source “Dave.”

His assessment is shared by US military officials, accordThe American volunteer, who has been in northern Syria ing to media reports. On Sunday, NBC quoted unnamed for five months, spoke to me on condition of anonymity.

US officials as saying the Turkish-backed militias “include The Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led, multi-ethnic al-Qaida and ISIS supporters,” while reporting that three militia that has held northeastern Syria for roughly the past Kurdish prisons holding ISIS fighters came under attack four years, was up until a week ago the United States’ priover the past weekend. A report in Foreign Policy on Monmary ally in the fight against ISIS — or, day quoted US officials as saying that we were their primary ally. Following the the Free Syrian Army was deliberately pullout of American troops announced releasing ISIS fighters. on Sunday, the Syrian Defense Forces These reports directly rebut Presihastily entered into an alliance with the dent Trump’s tweet suggesting that the ‘Hell’s empty and the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad as “Kurds may be releasing some [of the devils are here.’ its best option for repelling a Turkish ISIS prisoners] to get us involved.”

– ‘Dave,’ an American invasion from the north. The sudden Fighters with the Free Syrian Army withdrawal of US forces puts American are accused of striking brutality. Videos volunteer working as a combat volunteers in a legally tenuous position. have circulated showing civilians, medic with the Syrian Dave has been working out of the including a prominent Kurdish politiDemocratic Forces. main hospital in Sari Kani (or Ras cian, being pulled from vehicles and exal-Ain, as it’s known in Arabic). On ecuted by members of the Free Syrian Sunday, he said, they received orders Army, according to Syrian Democratic to evacuate the hospital because the Forces. The Free Syrian Army has fighting was so close, but the following denied responsibility. day the order was reversed. As the Turkish offensive goes Despite the horrific toll of the war, Dave told me he has into its seventh day on Wednesday, Sari Kani is among the seen the Kurds’ determination firsthand: He said he has had few cities in northern Syria that remains under control of to stop patients from pulling bandages off so they could go the Syrian Democratic Forces. back out and fight.

“The fighting is extraordinarily intense and extraordinarily “These people are fighting for their homes,” he said. desperate,” Dave told me on Monday. “Through a lot of “The reason why this is being called a war of genocide and sacrifice, the SDF has been able to mostly secure the city. displacement is there is no place for them to go. It’s not just There has been fighting directly outside of the hospital.”

Kurds; it’s also Syrians and Armenians. It’s a multi-ethnic Knowing Dave’s interest in the Syrian Civil War and and pluralist society. That’s what makes this region so sympathies for the Kurds, I texted him on Signal — an important.” encrypted text, voice and video app — on Oct. 12 to ask Dave’s admiration for the Kurds’ multi-ethnic model of if he would recommend any sources of information on the shared governance is matched only by his dismay at the Turkish offensive. decision by President Trump to withdraw support, and reOn Sunday at about 7:20 p.m. — 2:20 a.m. on Monday in activate ISIS. Syria — I received a response.

“To say this will destabilize the region — the region is “I’m here,” he said. He continued, “We just evacuated already destabilized,” Dave said. “Hell’s empty, and the Sari Kani. I just helped drive ambulances full of civilians devils are here. This should remind people how precarious wounded in an airstrike, and I want to talk about it.” our neoliberal capitalist modernity is. This is happening Early Monday afternoon — around 9 p.m. in Syria — I because of our position as a superpower and because we received a call on Signal from Dave. have a leader as fickle as Trump.”

Dave said while his combat medic group was evacuating patients from the hospital in Sari Kani, they passed

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Nik Snacks Sweet success: Triad bakeries and cake shops fire up their ovens

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Women-owned classics

• Kings Classic Bakery 533 N.Trade St. W-S, 336.983.2157 • 3 Layers Cakery 521 N. Liberty St., W-S, facebook. com/3layerscakery • Le’Chateau Bakery 1200 Clemmonsville Road, W-S, lechateaubakery.com While these bakeries are not new enterprises, all are women-owned empires with humble beginnings.

“I still put the homemade taste in everything,” says Robin Shoemaker, owner of Kings Classic Bakery. “I’m hands-on. I want to keep the same taste and the goodness they’ve grown to love.”

For the past 18 years she has been providing layer

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cakes, chocolate eclairs and buns to fans new and old at the Dixie Classic Fair as well as from her home kitchen in King. Wishing to expand and capitalize on the boom of the Winston-Salem market, Shoemaker is ready to take the leap and continue the tradition of handmade cakes.

The neighborhood strongholds

• Cheesecakes By Alex, 625 N. Trade St., W-S, cheesecakesbyalex.com • Ava’s Cupcakes, 1539 Hanes Mall Blvd., W-S, avascupcakes.com/winston-salem What every one of these independent shops all agree upon is maintaining passion and drive to do what you love. Building a support system, fostering community and taking your business to the next level when the time is right is integral to reaching the next level success. Alex Amoroso and his son, Alex, Jr. are not new to its Gate City fans but a second Cheesecake’s by Alex location slated for Winston-Salem’s Arts District will bring a new face to the old neighborhood. Michelle Spell of Ava’s Cupcakes has recently capitalized upon her appearance and eventual win on the Food Network show, “Cupcake Wars.” With three locations in New Jersey, Clemmons and Winston-Salem, she has nearly a decade of experience with no signs of stopping.

“I believe that a person who is unwilling to quit cannot be stopped,” Spell says. “I tend to have very lofty goals and the courage to reach them.”

Who knows? Maybe the diversity of talent and experience of each business will inspire the next cake-baking, chocolate-tempering, flour-dusted entrepreneur to take a leap of faith and open up shop.

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“My shop is not just a storefront for my cake business,” Danielle Kattan of Canvas Cake Studio says. “It’s also a maker space of a different variety.” Along with a full calendar of classes, the studio is available for customers to rent. Not limited to cake decorators or budding bakers, she says, “If someone wants to teach how to make a wreath, hand-lettering, bullet journaling, beading — there are so many talented people in this area.”

The LoFi neighborhood in Greensboro seems to attract an array of independent food-centric businesses

dedicated to handcrafted foodstuffs and fostering community.

Sage Mule, owned by Janice and Steven Gingher, is surrounded by Greenway at Fisher Park apartments, Crafted — the Art of Street Food and Preyer Brewing.

The bakery and bistro hybrid’s name is a pseudo-portmanteau of Greensboro: Sage, a shade of green paired with Mule, another name for a burro.

“We’re offering a full menu, breakfast and lunch, sandwiches crafted on housemade bread,” Steve says.

The outfit plans to serve beer and wine too, after they open on Oct. 26.

John and Lucia Bobby are no strangers to the Twin City culinary community. John was formerly the executive chef at Rooster’s: A Noble Grille and Lucia Bobby is an award-winning pastry chef. Bobby Boy Bakeshop was 16 years in the making. Sharing a space with the Caviste Wine Shop, the pair plan to have “wine dinners, tastings, events. A lot of cool stuff,” John says. The goal is to open on Oct. 22.

Quiche under glass at Bobby Boy Bakeshop in Winston-Salem

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• Bobby Boy Bakeshop, 1100 Reynolda Road Suite 100, W-S, bobbyboybakeshop.com • Canvas Cake Studio, 300 Jonestown Road, W-S, thecanvascakestudio.com • Sage Mule, 608 Battleground Ave., GSO, facebook. com/thesagemule What sets all three apart are the diversified offerings outside of appeasing the Triad’s sweet tooth.

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inston-Salem has always been a breadeating, pastry-baking, sugar-craving kind of town. From Moravian sugar cakes and cookies to the defunct Royal Cake Company to Borton’s Buttercreme Bakery longjohns,

by Nikki Miller-Ka tigertails and B&G handmade fried pies, the city is accustomed to sweet treats making their way to the streets via family-owned enterprises. That legacy spills over to Greensboro from time to time.

Generally, opening a retail bakery requires less equity than other brick and mortar food businesses and is easier to start. Smaller bakeries can establish themselves with specialty products, value-added activities and developing a loyal following of local customers.

The baked-goods empires of the today are mostly women-owned, homegrown and cater to clientele seeking unique sweets with an edge. Enter the boutique bakery shop.

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CULTURE World’s first tattoo history convention gathers in W-S

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hey’re really a bunch of nerds.

Hundreds of grown men — and a few women — decked out in everything from three-piece suits to casual tees, covered in beards and hundreds of tattoos, swarmed the American Legion building off Miller Street in Winston-Salem on Saturday.

Cars with license plates from Kentucky, South Carolina, Ohio, Indiana and as far as Massachusetts filled the parking lot. All had gathered to attend the first Tattoo Historical Society Meeting.

“This was truly an experiment,” says CW Eldridge, the founder of the society and the owner of Tattoo Archives in Winston-Salem. “There’s four or five tattoo conventions every weekend but they’re for tattooing. They have history lectures but usually everyone is so busy tattooing that they don’t get to go to them.”

According to Eldridge, and many of the people attending, this is the first ever convention dedicated solely to the history of the art form.

“There’s never been a gathering of these museums and these lecturers under one roof at one time,” he says.

Eldridge has been in the business of collecting and preserving tattoo history for years. According to the Tattoo Archive website, Eldridge has been collecting and learning about tattoos since he joined the Navy in 1965. Fifteen years later, he founded the Tattoo Archive in Berkeley, Calif. and in 2008, Eldridge and his wife, Harriet Cohen, who co-owns the shop, moved to Winston-Salem, reopening Tattoo Archive in the city. The shop includes a vast selection of books on the history and art of tattooing while acting as a working tattoo shop for custom work. It also includes a nonprofit that works to preserve the history of tattooing. This year, the two founded the Tattoo Historical Society.

“The interest has just grown,” Eldridge says. “The tattoo boom that we enjoy now started in about 1980. What’s happening now is that tattoo collectors are publishing books on tattooing.”

To collect tattoos is to collect art.

At the inaugural Tattoo Historical Society Meeting on Oct. 12, more than a dozen tables covered from end to end with binders, books and plastic sheets full of tattoo art fill the room. Sheets of drawn tattoos, or flash, are highly coveted among enthusiasts, depending on who wielded the pen.

On the table closest to the entrance, tattoo artist Arnold Rojas from Corpus Christi, Texas, shows off flash by William Matthews, known in the community as Bill the Beachcomber.

“I started looking for his stuff in the ’80s,” says Rojas, who owns Electra Art Tattoo in Corpus Christi.

“He’s not as well-known because he died before tattooing got popular.”

Some of Beachcomber’s work that Rojas has collected dates back to the 1920s. Rojas even managed to find Beachcomber’s descendants and buy several of his designs and one of his tattoo pens from his daughter. He says preserving the history helps understand the experience of many of the earliest tattoo artists.

“It wasn’t easy tattooing Charlene Anne Gibbons holds up a picture of her mother, Anna “Artoria” SAYAKA MATSUOKA back then,” Rojas says. “It Gibbons at the convention. wasn’t accepted. Tattooers Nearby, Leif Hansen from Greenville, NC, carries around a had to change their name. Having a tattoo artist in the family display case that contains flash by an unknown artist. Other was taboo.” tattoo historians and artists gather around to scrutinize the Charlene Anne Gibbons knows exactly what that’s like. thickness of the lines and the coloring of a carefully handThe daughter of famous tattoo artist Charles “Red” Gibbons drawn dragon. and “tattooed lady” Anna “Artoria” Gibbons, Charlene says “It’s got an early British vibe but it’s an all-American style,” she remembers having to ignore snickers from neighbors and Hansen says. “The illustrations are some of the best I’ve ever stares from passersby as a child. seen.”

“I felt the repulsion and sneers,” she says. “But I also saw He says he bought it from another prominent tattoo collecthe pride in my parents. I felt everything.” tor for a few grand.

Gibbons gives a talk at the event, speaking about her par“It’s amazing,” says Hansen about the gathering. He runs his ents’ history as tattoo artists and as sideshow and circus perown shop, Great Wolf Tattoo, back in Greenville and says he formers. Her mother became known as a “living art museum” puts flash on the walls to educate customers who come in. who performed with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey “I definitely enjoy teaching them about it,” he says. “They Circus and is still considered one of the first tattooed ladies in wouldn’t be getting the tattoo here the nation. without the guys that came before.”

In contrast to her mother, Gibbons is Paul “Rambo” Ramsbottom underinkless.

Learn more about the Tattoo stands the need to preserve tattoo “It’s not in my skin but it’s in my history. blood,” she says.

Historical Society and Tattoo Hailing from Manchester, England, Several attendees approach Gibbons Archives at tattooarchive.com.

Rambo claims to run the largest tattoo after her talk to ask for photos or to museum in the world, aptly named purchase autographed pictures of her Rambo’s Tattoo Museum. mother. She’s kind of a celebrity. And He says it’s important to remember the work of the foundalthough she doesn’t have any tattoos of her own, Gibbons ing fathers of tattoo. says she’s dedicated to preserving her family’s history. She’s “If we do not preserve any history, it can get distorted by even writing a book about her parents. different medium,” he says. “It only takes three or four genera“It shouldn’t be forgotten,” she says. “Both of my parents tions to change history. It’s important for tattoo history to gave their lives for this profession. stay true, simple and honest.”

“I’m always glad to be around people in the tattoo community,” she continues. “I grew up in it my entire childhood. It has sustained me.”

‘Feel to heal’: Musician Heather Mae bears her soul during GSO show

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eather Mae swaps out her mic for a hot-pink megaphone.

A drum solo pounds as the megaphone blares to life: a siren, like a police car, cutting through everything else. She stomps around the stage, adjusts her pants and crop-top to show a bit more stomach, then yells out the chorus to a song titled, “I Am Enough.”

SAVI Heather Mae came out with “My body is not wrong! My body is not ETTINGER her new album shameful!” she shouts. “If you don’t like what you see, turn around. Turn around.” members, who she names as her supHer voice echoes off the brick walls of port system. Throughout the serenade, the Crown. The cozy venue tucked away moments of speech interrupt the music. on the third floor of the Carolina TheThe voice — with comforting phrases and atre in Greensboro housed a stop on the the occasional “I love you”— comes from singer/songwriter’s tour to celebrate the Mae’s own mother, in clips gathered with release of her new album, Glimmer. Mae a recorder and a bottle of Jack Daniels. crafted it as a way to climb out of an “I asked her to give me words of enintense depressive episode in 2017, but couragement.”

Mae says. “‘What would she considers it a project that conceptuyou say to my fans who didn’t have ally goes back even further. moms like you?’”

“I guess I started making Glimmer Like much of the album, the song since I was one years old,” she admits in deals with difficult issues. She sings each an interview with Triad City Beat, “since I lyric with care, as her voice and light have had bipolar disorder all my life.” piano dive into a narrative about truly The album crests up and down needing help to escape the worst sympthrough upbeat pop and intense drum toms of mental illness, namely suicidal to slow, balladic piano, feeling emotionideation.

For Mae, the presence of her ally like the cycles of Mae’s own experimother’s voice as she performs feels like ence with bipolar disorder. She ties it the only thing that could fill the space in together with a theme that she calls the song. “feel to heal.”

“I’ll always send up a smoke signal to “If you feel what you’re feeling, and my family,” she says in an interview. allow yourself to hurt,” Mae says, “you The night grows late and she sends will get through it.” out the notes of a On stage, Mae song titled “I’m Still Learn more about Heather slows things down Here.” The chorus, with a love song Mae and listen to Glimmer at a repetition of the assembled out of heathermae.net/home. title, acts as an afthe wedding vows firmation as much she recited to her to herself as the wife. Her performance is personal. She audience.

The piano slows, but she sings gets onstage with the goal to form what on, and eventually she lifts her hands she calls “mini protests” for those who from the keys entirely, relying entirely on need them. her voice.

She invites the audience to join “I was just always so afraid of being her as she sings. too much to be pulled up to a table,” she “I’m still here,” morphs into “You’re says. still here,” and finds a place to rest The night continues with “Smoke on “We’re still here.” Other than the Signals.” She lends a few notes from the melodic chanting, the room stays silent. piano as a voice talks over the speakers.

She steps from the stage and out of the A smile appears on her face, alongside stage lights to address the audience. furrowed eyebrows.

“You are never,” she pauses, “never Mae says in an interview that the alone.” song serves as her message to her family

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CROSSWORD ‘This Grid Is Haunted’—is that a ghost? SUDOKU

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