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PUSHING BUTTONS New Smithsonian exhibit examines our democracy: The good, the bad and the ugly

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

A 6th district for all of us Jordan Green and I have been talking politics for 15 years. We’ve both lived in Greensboro that entire time. But until this year,

by Brian Clarey we have never voted in the same congressional election because we’ve always lived in different districts, as did all of my friends in Winston-Salem.

Not everybody likes the new congressional maps that we’ll be voting on in North Carolina this year — a rectification of the GOP gerrymander dating back to 2011, which itself was retaliation for the Democrats’ gerrymander in place when I became a North Carolina voter in 2000.

But I like them. And you should too — at least in the Triad, where for the first time in modern history we are all voting in the same district.

The new 6th Congressional District includes all of Guilford County and a part of Forsyth that includes Winston-Salem, a new urban district that reflects the Piedmont Triad as a market, a genuine Combined Statistical Area with the No. 3, 5 and 9 cities in the state, an oasis of blue in a red state that for this entire century has been carved up by people who don’t

live here, its political influence diluted, its majority marginalized.

Consider this: Under the old map, 6th district incumbent Rep. Mark Walker was elected by voters from Rockingham, Alamance, Caswell, Person, Randolph, Chatham and Lee counties, with a sliver of eastern Greensboro chiming in. Rep. Ted Budd relied on voters from Iredell, Rowan and Davie counties along with a southwest quadrant of Guilford. Winston-Salem was the easternmost point in the 5th Congressional District, held for a long time by Rep. Virginia Foxx, which also included Stokes, Surrey, Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga, Avery, Wilkes, Yadkin, Alexander and Catawba counties.

It’s kind of insane.

Worth noting is that Walker has opted out of running for re-election in his district this year because he doesn’t have a prayer — though he began his political career at Lawndale Baptist Church in Greensboro, he could never win with an urban electorate.

And this year’s slate of candidates is a hot one, with heavy hitters from all three Triad cities in the mix.

This is how things are different when voters choose their candidates, instead of the other way around.

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We hope the exhibit encourages people to see how they can play a role in our democracy. That when you put your voice out there, it can resonate over a long period of time.

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CITY LIFE Jan 16-19, 2019

by Rachel Spinella

Up Front

THURSDAY Jan. 16

Greensboro Fringe Festival after-work networking social @ Elm Street Lounge (GSO), 5 p.m.

Elm Street Lounge invites you to enjoy a delicious cocktail or half-priced beer or wine on Thursday and Friday. Find the event on Facebook.

Un-Writing World History @ Wake Forest University, Museum of Anthropology (W-S) 4:30 p.m.

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This Friday, Greensboro’s Boxcar Bar + Arcade is transforming into Bikini Bottom for SpongeBob SquarePants fans. The American cartoon will be streaming live with drinks inspired by the show. Find the event on Facebook.

Creative Lettering With Keelah @ Wallburg Emporium & Coffee Shop (W-S), 6 p.m.

NC Concealed-Carry Handgun Certification Training @ Girlz on Fire LLC, (HP), 8 a.m.

Those interested in becoming a carrier for safety precautions, head on over to Girlz on Fire LLC for a training course to become a carrier. This course will test student’s knowledge on specific aspects of the class itself, in order to receive a license.

Find the event on Facebook.

Culture

The Museum of Anthropology is showcasing an exhibit displaying ancient worldly artifacts. Learn more about these archaic objects that reflect religion, politics and the environment of societies of the past. Find the event on Facebook.

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LGBTQ Center Grand Opening @ Guilford Green Foundation & LGBTQ Center (GSO), noon Those interested in Greensboro’s LGBTQ community should head down to this new center that is making its grand opening this Friday, with a ribbon-cutting at the new space. Have a slice of cake and see all that has been accomplished. Find the event on Facebook.

Be There & Be Square Party @ Boxcar Bar + Arcade, (GSO), 3 pm.

Remember the days when phones and texting didn’t exist and people relied on writing letters to one another? Artist and calligrapher Kella Gallagher will be teaching people the art of calligraphy. Find the event on Facebook.

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FRIDAY Jan. 17

Quinston: LGBTQ Young Professionals @ Hoots Satellite (W-S), 5:30 p.m.

North Star LGBTQ Center will be hosting this social event for those who are a part of the community and allies. Drinks will be included. Find the event on Facebook.

Winter Show @ Greenhill (GSO), noon Greenhill hosts a showing for 100 artists from across North Carolina. The show exhibits different pieces from paintings to sculptures, photography, woodwork and even fabric and fiber works. The artists showcasing their work offer their backgrounds, experience and perspective. Find the event on Facebook.

Throwback to the ’80s @ Midtown Café & Dessertery (W-S), 5 p.m.

Looking for a fun throwback Friday night, then dress up and go on down to this café in Winston-Salem. Take part in taking pictures with colorful backdrops and props.

Food and drinks from the era will also be served. Find the event on Facebook.

Disaster! The Musical @ Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance (W-S), 8 p.m.

A new Broadway musical makes its way to North Carolina’s stage, as focuses on different disaster films that show tidal waves, earthquakes and infernos. The performance is said to feature unforgettable 70s songs. Find the event on Facebook.

SATURDAY Jan. 18

Robert Dubac’s Book of Moron @ Greensboro Coliseum Complex, (GSO), 4 P.M. Greensboro Coliseum is featuring writer, actor and stand-up comic Robert Dubac and his off-Broadway hit, Book of a Moron.

If you’re looking for a night full of laughs than head on over and check it out. Find the event and link for tickets on Facebook.

Live Life Foundation Fashion Show Featuring Saks off 5th @ Van Dyke Performance Space (GSO), 7 p.m.

Have a love for fashion, the Live Life Foundation is showcasing a private collection from Saks off 5th and clothing designs from new emerging artists. Check out the event on Facebook.

Poppas Play & Learn @ Greensboro Children’s Museum (GSO), 1 P.M. Every child needs an important man to look up to, this event hosted by Father Figures Forever. A non-profit organization that gives aide to fathers by providing necessary resources. Find the event on Facebook.

Beginner’s Basics: 102-Buttercream Flowers @ the Canvas Cake Studio & Café (W-S), 2 p.m.

For those interested in learning how to decorate and design flowery or artistic style frosting than head on over to take the class to create beautiful cakes. Find the event on Facebook.

Jan. 16-22, 2020

Cuppa Love Teas @ Canteen Market & Bistro (W-S), 2 p.m.

This market and bistro will have different kinds of tea from this new local tea business.

If you’re a tea drinker, then be sure to catch this week’s tea event. Find the event on Facebook.

Smooth jazz @ the Historic Magnolia House (GSO), 6 p.m.

Greensboro’s the Historic Magnolia House hosts a brunch filled with the sounds of smooth jazz. Even if you’re not a smooth jazz fan, you can still enjoy a nice meal out with loved ones. Find on the event on Facebook.

WE’RE EXAMINING: emotional and physical reactions to memories of stressful or traumatic experiences.

YOU MUST BE: •Age 18 or older •Able to read and write in English THE BASICS: •5 visits to our lab within 2 weeks •$150 total compensation

WHAT YOU’LL DO: •Interviews and questionnaires (3 hour visit) •Monitor your bodily reactions while you think of past experiences (2 hour visit) •Wear a cardiac monitor and answer questions on a tablet computer on 3 days (30 min set-up per day)

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CONTACT US TO GET STARTED! You will be asked to complete screening questions online and over the phone.

Email or call us to get more information and be directed to the online survey.

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A King Dinner, @ Forsyth Seafood Market and Café (W-S), 5 p.m.

To commemorate Martin Luther King Day, this market and café is hosting a Civil Rights era cuisine in order to celebrate of one of history’s influential leaders. Find the event on Facebook.

with Dr. Blair Wisco at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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Looking for a glamorous brunch followed by entertainment, check out the drag themed meal open to all ages. Hosted by Bentley Baleniciaga and Ebony Addams, the event provides special drag performances, included with plenty of food and drinks, and contests to win prizes. Find the event on Facebook.

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January drag brunch, @ Chemistry Nightclub (GSO), 11 a.m.

Opinion

SUNDAY Jan. 19

I was not part of the media swarm that enveloped Brian James of the Greensboro Police Department upon the city’s announcement of his ascension to chief on Tuesday morning.

I’ll get my turn with Chief James when he takes office in February. But for now, I’ll describe how he got here — because it’s possible that Jordan Green and I are the only working newspaper journalists in the Triad who might remember when James’ future with the GPD looked uncertain.

Who else remembers Julius Fulmore, Scott Sanders, the PHOTO Caption Black Book and the Secret PoCREDIT lice, the RMA Report and all of the other trappings of the David Wray fiasco that embroiled the GPD beginning in January 2006, when City Manager Mitch Johnson locked then-chief Wray from his office and all the trouble began?

I edited a few hundred thousand words on the Wray Fray as it unfolded in real time and wrote a few thousand more, competing against narratives set by city council, a new crop of “citizen-journalist” bloggers that had spring up in the city and a nearly 100-part propaganda series by truecrime writer Jerry Bledsoe that appeared over the course of three years or so in the old print version of the Rhinoceros Times that did not survive the paper’s migration to digital format.

In that period, James had gone from being assistant to the chief to a man in fear of keeping his job.

There was a lot of turnover in the GPD in those intervening years.

James survived the culling.

Eventually he and James Hinson would settle their EEOC claim against the city and go on to become part of command staff under Chief Wayne Scott. Hinson’s story spun off in a different direction last year, but James quietly fulfilled his duties, bided his time and, almost 15 years later, got his due.

As chief, James scratches a lot of itches. He’s not the first black chief in Greensboro, not by a longshot — Sylvester Daughtry got that title way back in 1987 — but he’s local, a graduate of both Page High School and NC A&T University, and in his 23 years on the force he’s done just about everything but ride a Segway. And he’s been preparing for this for a long time.

Make no mistake: I have no idea how James will perform under the pressure of modern police dilemmas, how he’ll navigate the link between crime and mental illness or addiction, what his priorities will be when he puts his people out on the street in February.

For that matter, I’m not certain if any police chief has an effect on crime and violence, as those are functions society’s failures, not the result of less policing.

But I’ve been watching this story unfold for almost 15 years, and unlike a lot of things I’ve covered, I consider this a fine resolution.

News

Salsa Social @ Art for Art’s Sake (W-S), 7 p.m.

Looking for a romantic and fun night with friends or significant other, head on over to AFAS to learn how to dance the salsa. Water will also be sold should you forget to bring some. Find the event on Facebook.

Brian James makes chief

by Brian Clarey Up Front

Cunningham Dance Class, @ Wildlight Wellness Collective (W-S), 12:45 p.m.

Have an interest in learning how to dance, Brenda Daniels will be teaching a class all about it. Space is limited if you are interested email rsvp@helenmoneau.org to reserve a spot. Find the event on Facebook.

Or, scan the QR code to take you straight there.

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Crowded Democratic primary for Winston-Salem’s East Ward

by Jordan Green Four candidates are vying in the March 3 Democratic primary fill the East Ward seat that Derwin Montgomery held for nine years.

Annette Scippio is the incumbent in the Democratic primary for the East Ward seat on Winston-Salem City Council. But since her appointment to fill the vacant seat in late 2018, this will be voters’ first opportunity to weigh in on the ward’s representation since Derwin Montgomery resigned to serve in the state House.

The relatively crowded race with four candidates suggests the challengers aren’t intimidated by Scippio’s incumbency.

Since the majority African-American ward leans heavily Democratic, the March 3 primary will almost certainly determine who represents the ward when the new council is seated in December.

Scippio said during an interview at City Hall that her first year on city council has been a learning experience.

“It takes a bit of time to learn how to navigate this position,” she said. “The most important thing to know is that whatever you want to do, it’s going to take money to get it done. Money the city uses comes from taxes, bond money or outside sources such as grants. All of these require lead times.”

The 70-year-old Scippio worked in the nonprofit sector before taking the oath to serve on city council. She’s the former executive director of Leadership Winston-Salem, a program launched by the chamber of commerce in the 1980s, and the Delta Arts Center. Prior to that, Scippio worked as a group research manager at Del Monte, and research manager at General Foods, now part of Kraft.

Kismet Loftin-Bell, a 38-year-old consultant who currently teaches political science at Forsyth Tech and Surry Community College, said she can relate to the financial challenges of East Ward residents from firsthand experience.

“I am the East Ward,” she said during an interview at Krankies. “I understand what it’s like to be a child going home to little food. I understand what it’s like to be a young mother. I understand what it means to be disappointed. I understand what it means to be a single parent…. I understand what it means to be underemployed and unemployed, to be seen but overlooked, to be praised but passed

over for promotion, to be hustling but never quite making ends meet…. To be told I have too many skills, but not the right skills…. I know what it feels like to feel violated, to have car break-ins in the neighborhood and… to be woken up by gunshots.”

George Redd IV, the 45-year-old program services director at Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County, said he decided to run for the East Ward seat after enrolling in the City of WinstonSalem University. Taking a bus tour across the city, Redd said he was struck by the contrast in comments by the other bus riders, who noted with pride that they shopped or dined at locations on the west side, but made comments like, ‘How do people live this way?’ when they got to the East Ward. Eventually, Redd spoke up, saying, “This part of town is all right. I’m proud of this part of town.”

He said he confided to his wife in March that he was thinking about running for city council. By October, he had finalized the decision.

The slate is rounded out by 60-yearold Phil Carter, who works in the Transformative Learning Department at Forsyth Tech.

Carter has made two previous bids for city council, first in 2009 in the North Ward, where he pulled 25.2 percent of the vote in a three-way contest won

by DD Adams, who still represents the ward. And in 2013, Carter took 9.2 percent of the vote in a three-way East Ward contest won by Montgomery. Serving as Forsyth County Democratic Party second vice chair and precinct chair at the time, Carter intervened when rumors surfaced that Montgomery planned to anoint a successor in 2018. Carter insisted that the party should select the replacement through a formal process.

After holding a public forum, the party recommended Scippio, whose appointment was ratified through a vote of city council.

“The people of the East Ward need to be brought back into governance,” Carter said. “They need to be positioned where ZIP code doesn’t matter. Genius knows no ZIP code, but opportunity has.

[My representation] would be in keeping the people first, being well acquainted with the issues affecting their prosperity, organizing community members and business owners so there’s a wealth

Winston-Salem’s East Ward, a majority-minority district that leans heavily towards Democrats, will have new representation for the first time in nine years.

accumulation, sustainable housing, and inclusive governance where everybody wins.”

Preserving housing in the East Ward, where elderly residents struggle to keep up with maintenance and investors often buy up properties and convert them to rentals after owners pass away, is a shared concern for candidates.

Scippio said she is motivated to work to revitalize neighborhoods, and to eliminate board-up housing and vacant lots.

And she wants to convince young people to buy homes in the East Ward.

Scippio attributed the changes she’s observed in the East Ward over the course of her lifetime — mostly for the worse — to the loss of manufacturing jobs and lack of personal responsibility.

“There was a great energy because of employment,” Scippio said. “Neighbors’ goals were to own a home. Homes were well-maintained. People worked hard.

We didn’t have idleness. The homelessness was never evident. There was a strong sense of community. Children were nurtured by neighbors, churches and teachers. They were given expectations and aspirations. That doesn’t exist now.”

Kismet-Bell said she is serving as executor of her grandfather’s estate. She admitted it’s a “learning process and “it can be challenging.” She said she wants to enlist churches and recreation centers to get involved in educating residents about “after-life planning,” so that families can preserve wealth and housing.

“There are a lot of empty homes in the East Ward where the parents have passed away, and the children are not interested in taking on the responsibil-

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ity,” she said. “They may have moved away. How do we protect them? We do it beforehand…. What’s going to happen?

Is a family member going to take it over or donate it?”

Redd said serving on city council would be a natural extension of his work for Habitat for Humanity. One housing solution, he said, is a city program that’s already in place. TURN, an acronym of Transforming Urban Residential Neighborhoods, provides financial assistance to low- and moderate-income households, both owner-occupied and investorowned, to make repairs.

“If elected as city council member, I will make sure everyone knows about the program,” he said.

Carter said, if elected, he would like Winston-Salem to implement something similar to the city of Chattanooga’s property tax relief program, which uses state funds to absorb the cost of any property tax increase for elderly, disabled and veteran homeowners whose annual incomes fall below a certain threshold.

If necessary, Carter said, the city should lobby state lawmakers for legislation to enable such a program.

The East Ward is roughly split in two by Salem Lake. The subdivisions beyond the lake run as far as Glenn High School. The older portion of the ward, closer to downtown, includes both the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter and inner-city areas that were doubly devastated by redlining in the 1930s and urban renewal in the late 1960s. The contrast between the booming Innovation Quarter west of Highway 52 and the depressed areas to the east presents a

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by Sayaka Matsuoka First-term school board members Dianne Bellamy-Small and Byron Gladden each have two primary contenders to face off against come March 3.

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dent Contreras.

“There has to be mutual respect regards to difference of opinion,” Gladden said. “We’re not gonna get everything that we want; there’s no magic wand.

You have to learn how to respectfully disagree. There is not one board member that doesn’t want the best for children.”

Gladden faces primary opposition from two Democrat candidates: Jayvon Johnson, a pastor at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Greensboro, and Bettye Taylor Jenkins, a former teacher’s assistant with Guilford County Schools.

Johnson, who grew up in Durham, said in an email to TCB that he is running for the school board to be a greater advocate for children. Before becoming the youth pastor at Mount Zion, Johnson served as the at-large member on the Guilford County Council of PTAs. Johnson cited systematic concerns with regard to economics, racial tolerance and societal trust as the main issues facing District 7. When it comes to school safety, Johnson noted how he would work with police officers in schools, educating families on the student handbook and creating mini scenario workshops to train for different events.

A former teacher’s assistant for Guilford County Schools, Jenkins ran for the seat in the 2016, losing to Gladden in the general election by more than 30 points.

In a statement to TCB, Jenkins states that she believes that the district “needs an educator on the board who has been through the trenches and can see both sides, looking from the outside and inside.”

She notes her 33-year tenure of working within the state school system, where she served as a teacher’s assistant, school social worker and more. She also mentions the need for a reinstitution of respect during the board meetings, stating that “the community must play an active role to ensure board members who embarrass or shame our communities by yelling, being disrespectful and attempting to get in a brawl with other fellow members…are held to a higher standard and accountable for their actions.”

She also states that she supports increasing career and technical education courses, resources for students with disabilities and pay increases for employees as some of her platform points.

“I know that I can make a difference and will represent my community with the upmost respect,” Jenkins said.

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Two of the three incumbents up for re-election on the Guilford County school board will face primary challengers on March 3.

Of the nine districts including the atlarge seat, only the odd numbers are up for re-election this year. Districts 2, 4, 6, and 8 will be up in 2022.

Democrats Dianne Bellamy-Small of District 1 and Byron Gladden of District 7 are both facing two challengers.

Bellamy-Small, who has represented District 1 since January 2017, faces two Democratic primary challengers in her district: Jeff Golden, a former High Point City Council member, and Ron Tuck, an independent contractor. The district runs horizontally, covering parts of south Greensboro near Sedgefield then radiating to the southwest, picking up areas of Jamestown and High Point.

“I am seeking a second term because I believe I have demonstrated hard work, responsibility, experience and integrity as the… District 1 representative,” Bellamy-Small wrote in an email to Triad City Beat. She noted several primary concerns for her district, including school safety, achievement levels for students, competitive pay for teachers and staff, and more medical and mental health services for students. With regard to a recent study that found a $2 billion need for school construction, repairs and maintenance, Bellamy-Small said she strongly supports Superintendent Sharon Contreras, and said she trusts Contreras and her staff to guide the priorities for the county.

Golden, who served on High Point City Council from 2012-19, said in an interview that while he has no issues with Bellamy-Small, that he believes the school board needs a voice from High Point.

“A lot of people feel like if you don’t have a High Point address on the board that they aren’t invested,” Golden said.

“That may or may not be the truth, but people don’t feel like High Point is represented.”

Golden told TCB that he contemplated running for the school board four years ago and decided to run this year because of his past experience of working with children.

“All my early work in community service was around kids,” Golden said.

“When I ran for city council, I thought I was gonna have more involvement with schools than we had.

I felt like now was a good time to transition.”

Golden noted an imbalance in the schools within the county and the need to find adequate funding to help some of the poorer, older schools.

“We can’t take our most risky students and most From L-R: Byron Gladden, Jayvon Johnson, Bettye Taylor FILE at-need and put them up in Jenkins, Dianne Bellamy-Small, Jeff Golden and Ron Tuck PHOTO one school,” Golden said.

“I don’t know if mandatory in the holy scriptures and that “it takes a lines are the answer. Back in the day, we husband and wife to raise a child.” drew our school lines so that you had to To the east of Bellamy-Small’s district go to the school in your neighborhood, lies neighboring District 7, currently but now we have so many ways to opt represented by another first-term incumout of schools and kids are opting out of bent Democrat, Byron Gladden. The districts.” district runs north to south, covering To fix the problem, Golden said that much of east Greensboro from McNair making sure that money goes to the right Elementary near Lake Townsend all the schools is a start. For that, he hopes to way to Vandalia Elementary. get community input on how to spend “I am running for re-election because the money to address the needs found in I feel that my perspective, my voice and the recent facilities study. my connections with my district need “I hope that I can build fresh ideas to be continue to be represented on the when it comes to the allocation of reboard,” Gladden told TCB. “Over the sources,” Golden said. “To put the right last three years, I’ve been very dedicated dollars in the right places.” to expanding my knowledge about my Ron Tuck, an independent contractor role.” in Greensboro, is the third candidate.

Gladden said that the biggest concern The biggest plank in Tuck’s platform facing his district is equity. is the implementation of more appren“Not just with an equitable share as it ticeship programs for students. relates to new facilities,” Gladden said.

“Kids need to be taught skills,” Tuck “and not just to keeping neighborhood said. “Some of the schools in Greensschools open, but putting programming boro specialize in certain career proin those schools that will attract kids grams, but not in High Point; we are from all over.” a growing city. Young people need the He also mentioned the need for highopportunity to thrive in the community.” quality teachers in addition to facilities in Tuck said he wants to provide students East Greensboro. the opportunity to gain a skill whether “There is a different level of expectait’s in construction, sales or service. tion when it comes to my school district “I have a plan for the youth to become and other districts,” Gladden said. “No workable in this area,” he said. child can rise with low expectations. We While Tuck primarily works as an need qualified teachers to go where they independent contractor, he has been are needed. It doesn’t make sense for known to openly preach on city streets. my district to have 80 percent first-year A News & Record article from 2014 deteachers but on the other side, they have scribed a scene in which Tuck protested teachers that have been teaching for 10 against same-sex couples getting married to 15 years.” at the Congregational United Church Gladden also talked about the balance of Christ in Greensboro after the state’s of working with a diverse board, one ban on same-sex marriage was found to that often times will not agree on various be unconstitutional. When asked about topics. his remarks from that day, Tuck respondDistrict 3 representative Darlene Gared that he is “conservative when it comes rett did not file for reelection after citing down to families” and that he believes concerns with working with superinten-

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challenge for the ward. Before he retired from the city council to serve in the state House, Montgomery shepherded the East End Plan, an effort to boost investment east of Highway 52 while protecting the area from gentrification. Under the plan, city council agreed to allocate $3 million in economic bond funds to SG Atkins Community Development Corp. for land-banking purposes. But Scippio was not comfortable with the plan, and at her prompting city council put it on hold.

The problem she had with landbanking, Scippio said, is that it wouldn’t deliver an immediate and tangible result to residents.

“I want a wow project,” she said.

Scippio said she asked SG Atkins CDC to bring back a new proposal.

“They will be coming forward with a real project,” she said. “We would invest the entire $3 million in one property.

Hopefully, we’ll be announcing something soon.”

Loftin-Bell said it’s important to get the project back on track, so the ward doesn’t lose out on the funds. And she supports the partnership with SG Atkins CDC because, she said, it gives the city leverage to ensure that the ward gets the

right kind of development.

“It’s necessary to protect our interests,” she said. “Then we can put in policies setting the guidelines for the kind of development we want: Are your employees coming from the district? Do they have adequate transportation?”

Redd articulated a similar position.

“I thought Derwin Montgomery had a great idea with the East End Master Plan,” he said. “We need to put that back on the table so we can have some say.”

But Redd said the public-input process leading up to the approval of the master plan wasn’t adequate.

“The city and SG Atkins should bring residents to the table to work out an amicable solution,” he said.

Carter said he would rather see the $3 million broken into $65,000 allotments to renovate houses in the ward. But he noted that would still only cover 46 houses.

“I would like for us to be able to do that, and more,” he said. “It can’t be a one-time event. That wouldn’t be enough.”

While acknowledging that some residents are distrustful of the police or afraid to report crime because of fear of retaliation from neighbors, the

candidates for the East Ward to varying degrees emphasized building a stronger partnership with the department.

Scippio said she often finds herself relaying concerns from residents to the police.

“Tell me, and I can get the police involved,” she said. “But it really helps our police if we get more firsthand witnesses.”

Redd is the grandson of one of the first black officers to serve on the Winston-Salem Police Department. His uncle, Donnell Oliver Redd, is a retired assistant chief. He wants to promote more dialogue between young people of color and the police. It’s work that Redd has already undertaken: He organized an etiquette class through Habitat for Humanity, and brought in Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough to talk about leadership.

“Training is a big part of it,” Redd said. “How to deal with situations….

People make assumptions about police officers that they’re bad. That’s not true.

Police officers want to do their job, and they want to go home to their families.”

Loftin-Bell said she is concerned about racial profiling, but the solution to breaking down preconceptions is more community policing so that officers get to know people before trouble comes.

“At a recent public forum, I stood up and said, ‘Come visit me, so when you see my son in the street, you’ll know who he is,’” she said.

Loftin-Bell co-directed a summer youth-employment program funded by the city and operated by the WinstonSalem Urban League. During that time, she said she brought Winston-Salem Police Chief Catrina Thompson in to speak to the participants.

“As we improve the relationship of the police department to the black community, can we also improve the diversity of the police department?” Loftin-Bell asked. “That will help address bias and racial profiling. People with lived experience can learn from each other and check each other.”

Carter said he has also facilitated meetings between residents and the police. He said the city needs to hire more officers to fill a deficit, and that greater communication will ensure that officers are assigned to the places with the highest need.

“We need to make sure our policemen are open to dialogue,” Carter said. “It is the wisdom of the people that guides how they patrol the community. The people know their community. They know them better than the police.”

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In early January, Bielski messaged me: “What is your take on the issue in Virginia and all the gun controversy?” He added, “It’s pretty serious: UN troops are supposed to be involved. The Virginia National Guard as well.”

Neither of those claims is true.

A user named “Catholic Charismatic” tweeted a photo on Dec. 31 showing UN armored vehicles on a truck on Interstate 81 near Lexington, Va., accompanied by the text: “As predicted! UN vehicles in Virginia to assist with shock-troop gun control! Are you ready!

Photo captured yesterday! Foreign troops! Retweet this vigorously (as 90% of my Followers aren’t receiving my Tweets.)”

The photo shared by “Catholic Charismatic” is similar to one shared on social media in 2016. Snopes.com determined at the time that the trucks were manufactured by Alpine Armoring for use abroad by the United Nations.

Similarly, in response to a suggestion by Rep. A. Donald McEachin (D-Va.) that Gov. Ralph Northam might have to call out the National Guard to enforce gun laws, a spokesman for the governor has indicated he has no such intentions.

Some Virginians are literally contemplating civil war to prevent their duly elected officials from carrying out the will of the voters.

One speaker told county supervisors at a hearing last month in Pulaski County, “I really do think we may be on the brink of another war,” while arguing that citizens might need guns to overthrow a tyrannical government, according to the Roanoke Times.

Maybe talk like that could be written off as hyperbole if local officials, including sheriffs, weren’t more or less pledging to defy state law. As an example, Culpepper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins wrote on Facebook that if the Virginia General Assembly carries through on its promise to enact gun-control measures, he would not only challenge the laws in court, but also “deputize thousands of our lawabiding citizens to protect their constitutional right to own firearms.”

The Tazewell Board of Supervisors passed a resolution asserting its right to raise a militia to frustrate lawmakers in Richmond.

It may seem that Americans are embroiled in multiple culture wars. But as the violently Islamophobic, anti-immigrant and antireproductive justice rants on the Roll Call page show, the points of polarization are all intertwined.

In a Jan. 11 Facebook Live video arguing that “gun confiscation” is the first step towards “mass extermination,” a Second Amendment supporter named Kevin Holland argued that, contrary to reporting in the Guardian and other reputable media outlets, it’s actually people who care about racial justice who embrace conspiracy theories. The threat, as Holland articulated it, is not just restrictions on gun ownership, but also any attempts to force a reckoning with the United States’ history of racial injustice and to build an inclusive society.

“You’ve got groups of people that are out there hollering that black and brown people are just so badly mistreated, this that and the other,” Holland said. “And then you’ve got people saying, ‘Oh, well, we need to have this mass amount of refugees flow into the country.’ All the while, good Americans are setting back and saying, ‘Guys, listen: A lot of what y’all are saying is the conspiracy theories.

Y’all are the ones that are being led by the nose who believe fallacies that aren’t really there.’

“Yes, there’s racism,” Holland acknowledged. “Yes, there’s bad things that has happened in history. But that doesn’t mean that we have to gauge our future from the bad things that have happened.”

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In early 2019, a right-wing militia leader from Georgia named Chris Hill launched a Facebook group to promote a rally scheduled for Nov. 9 that would cross from northern Virginia to Washington, DC, highlighting the differences between gun laws from one jurisdiction to the other.

As reported by Triad City Beat, the nowby Jordan Green defunct Roll Call Facebook page attracted dozens of first responders, law enforcement and detention officers, along with neo-Confederates, members of Bikers for Trump, QAnon enthusiasts and Proud Boys. Billed as a Second Amendment rally, the Roll Call page vaguely threatened that “if no remedies” were “timely available,” the protesters would, “without further notice… seek all remedies afforded” under “the Constitution.”

The rally promoted a big tent of far-right demands that align with many of President Trump’s major themes: the border wall, voter ID and restrictions on abortion. And while much of the Roll Call page was centered on longstanding far-right paranoia about the government taking away people’s guns, comments and videos also featured Hill and others advocating violence against Muslims, immigrants, abortion providers and progressive politicians.

The Security Force III% network led by Hill splintered a couple months before the event. No surprise that the reconstituted “Declaration of Restoration” rally turned out to be a dud, with only about a hundred people showing up.

In the meantime, voters in Virginia handed control of the legislature to the Democrats, who had campaigned on a slate of guncontrol measures in response to the May 31, 2019 mass shooting in Virginia Beach. The agenda, according to the Guardian, includes “universal background checks, bans on military-style ‘assault weapons’ and high-capacity ammunition magazines.”

Gun-rights activists are expected to pour into Richmond on Jan. 20 for a lobbying day. The Virginia Citizens Defense League, one of the lead organizations, has reportedly asked supporters to refrain from carrying military-style rifles and other long guns, but others, including out-of-state activists from as far away as Indiana and Alabama may not heed the call for restraint. Meanwhile so-called “Second Amendment sanctuary” resolutions have swept counties and municipalities across Virginia. The resolutions typically oppose any efforts to restrict the Second Amendment right to bear arms and prohibit the use of county funds to restrict gun rights.

And while Republicans remain firmly in control of the NC legislature, four counties, including Wilkes, Surry and Davidson, have passed pro-Second Amendment resolutions, with Sheriff Greg Seabolt calling for a similar measure in Randolph. The Davidson resolution stipulates that the county will not appropriate any government funds or provide staff time for the purpose of enforcing laws “that infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.”

I first learned about the furor swirling over Richmond through a Facebook message from John Bielski, a firefighter in northern Michigan. Bielski had joined the Roll Call Facebook page set up by militia leader Chris Hill. When I contacted Bielski last fall, he disavowed Hill, calling him “reckless.” He also told me that he’s a member of a different militia, that coordinates with law enforcement. They had been invited to travel to Dearborn, outside of Detroit, to provide security for a film shoot, but Bielski said they backed out when they learned that the purpose of the endeavor was, as he put it, “to rile up the Arabic nation.”

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Any good Carolina grad can tell you lawsuit that was settled the moment it that the Daily Tar Heel is not UNCwas filed over Thanksgiving weekend.

Chapel Hill’s student newspaper but an This is significant on so many levels, independent entity that has no financial not the least of which is the role of the ties to the university, thereby securing DTH itself. editorial independence. In this, those It’s likely that no other UNC-system selfsame Carolina grads will tell you, the university newspaper would have the Daily Tar Heel is, like so many of those desire or ability to pull off this lawsuit other storied Chapel Hill Institutions, against its own governing body. completely unique.

As it stands, the legacy media — daily We kid, but it’s true. And because of newspapers and local TV news opthat independence, erations — would have the paper and its pardropped this lawsuit It’s likely that no ent company, DTH the moment the payMedia, was able to do off came down. But other UNC-system what most other news our local defenders of newspaper would entities in the state the First Amendment were unable or unwillaren’t what they used have the desire or ing to do: Challenge to be. The last time all ability to pull off this the big dailies in the the UNC Board of Governors. state got together to lawsuit against its A lawsuit filed by sue somebody, it was DTH last week accuses own governing body. to overturn a state law the board of violating that took away their open meetings laws paid legal notices, one in its settlement with of a few remaining the North Carolina Sons of Confederreliable sources of revenue. And like ate Veterans, saying that its members a lot of things once deemed essential “conceived, negotiated, approved, and to running a newspaper, lawsuits are a executed [it] in total secrecy.” luxury.

That settlement, sharp-eyed newsSo North Carolinians once again owe hounds will remember, gave the SCV a debt to Chapel Hill and the “univer$2.5 million, the Silent Sam Statue and sity of the people” — yes, we know the instant legitimacy for a group that, bepaper is separate from the school — for fore now, was basically a 400-member stepping up when others couldn’t, or biker gang bankrolled by $150 annual wouldn’t. dues. And it happened through a hinky

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Separately all of these things mean nothing, but together they are pieces of a puzzle that equal a unique dining experience

by Nikki Miller-Ka for people in the Triad.

Supper clubs are not new, but pop-ups — or temporary dining experiences — are one trend that the Triad picked up right on time. According to a yearly survey conducted by the National Restaurant Association, pop-ups placed sixth on the list of culinary trends for 2018.

Pop-up restaurants are mini-restaurants that temporarily operate in parks, promenades, museums, warehouses, event centers and even other restaurants.

Their restaurateurs and followers use non-traditional means of communication, such as social media or email listservs, to spread the word about their events. Some announce dining events hours before they take place, and they often sell out. Pop-ups can also move to different locations over a period of time.

Like food trucks, pop-up restaurants allow restaurateurs and chefs to hone skills or test new food ideas.

The concepts particularly appeal to new culinarians because they can take advantage of exclusive spaces to introduce concepts without great expense. They can also attract investors who want to transform an idea into a full operation or another dining possibility.

Will Sanders and his wife Alex Hensleigh took this concept and brought it to fruition in 2017 when they created Moontide Sundries, a pop-up supper club they operated out of their home in Greensboro.

“I was employed full time in a restaurant and had endless food ideas that I couldn’t execute where I was working,” Sanders said. “Alex had the bright idea of hosting pop-ups ourselves.”

COURTESY PHOTO Alex Hensleigh and Will Sanders of Moontide Sundries plating during one of their supper club dinners Opening a brand-new restaurant in 2020 is expensive and risky. Pop-ups act as a prophylactic against crushMachete is on track to open in the former Crafted, Art When asked about the importance of pop-ups, Arming waves of uncertainty and debt. of the Street Food location sometime this year. strong said, “People are looking for different things.

Tal Blevins of Machete took this concept to heart, In contrast, WinstonPeople are not getting the recognition they deserve. which led him to become Salem native Ashley They are behind the scenes and it’s cool to have others one of the first investors Hardesty Armstrong come out and recognize their work.” in Lazy Bear, a pop-up Find The Table Experience on Instagram: is co-owner of Forsyth An unexpected benefit of the pop-up concept is the that became a twothetableexperience Seafood Market and connections the guests and the restaurateurs make Michelin star restaurant Café and founding chef with one another. It’s a social experiment that proves to in San Francisco’s Mission of the Table Experibe the true definition of a movable feast.

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It’s a pop-up In true pop-up fashion, Sanders and Hensleigh of a San Francisco cocktail moontidesundries dinner series that foMoontide Sundries took their show on the road last and bar food concept, cuses on farm-to-table year to Boston and Virginia Beach.

True Laurel, named one of cuisine in unexpected “We were very surprised at how easy it was to fill a Find Machete on Instagram at Esquire magazine’s Best spaces and focuses on group so far away. It was made up of a few locals that Bars in America and on machetegso and online at machetegso.com unique flavors sourced we already knew, and a few people that had heard of us Eater’s Best New Resfrom local vendors and through people in Greensboro, which was rather mind taurants 2018 list, before farmers.

As progenitor blowing,” says Sanders. returning to his homeof the series she has “At the end of the day, we all eat to energize and town of Greensboro. After partnered with area chefs, talented culinarians, photognourish ourselves, but supper club fills a need for socialoperating as a pop-up supper club for over two years, raphers and mixologists to bring her vision to life. ization and intimacy.”

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thin, red laser shoots from the user’s hand as they drag and move jagged lines across a map of North Carolina.

The shifting boundaries outline a myriad of red and blue hexagonal discs that span across the state; with each small alteration, two red and blue bars in the lower left corner of the screen grow longer or shorter. The name of the game? “Gerrymandering Madness,” and it’s free to play now at the Greensboro History Museum.

The interactive attraction on the second floor of the downtown museum opened as part of the institution’s new traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian titled American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith. The installation, which opened in December, runs until March 27 and aims to educate the public about the history of democracy in the United States and its shifting definition since the founding of the nation.

The gerrymandering simulator, which was created by Durham company CrossComm, is played on an Oculus Rift and is installed in an area of the museum titled “Connection Point,” a kind of game center that accompanies the more straightforward walk-through exhibit.

Users put on a pair of virtual reality goggles and find themselves in a paneled room with a North Carolina flag in one corner and the American flag in the other. On the center wall is a screen which shows the map of North Carolina’s blue and red areas that indicate Republican and Democratic voters. Players use a remote control to shape the map to try and disenfranchise one party over another. On the desk in front of the screen is another state map that shows population densities for different areas which helps guide players on which lines

The exhaustive exhibit at the Greensboro History Museum displays multiple examples of democracy including protest signs, campaign buttons and more.

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to manipulate. property, women, black freed and enslaved people, all the way Glenn Perkins, the curator of community history at the through to the passage of the 26th Amendment in 1971, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. museum, explains how players can drag and drop lines around The exhibit also includes other manifestations of democracy urban or rural areas to change how votes weigh in elections. such as the right to petition and right to assemble.

“The idea is that it’s a game,” Perkins says. “It’s to try and A display of posters from both national and local protests engage younger people. They’re gonna start to vote and think with slogans like “Immigrants built this country” and “Stop about how things like this affect their vote.” abortion now” demonstrates a wide range of political ideoloAnd even though the simulator is meant to just be a fun gies. Nearby, multiple screens play a rotating playlist of past addition, its presence speaks to the broader mission of the campaign ads by presidential hopefuls like Mitt Romney and exhibit, which is to educate viewers on the complicated ways Donald Trump. that democracy has been both upheld and degraded through“One of the most important takeout the course of the country’s history. aways is the recognition that democ“It just seemed like this year was such racy has always been about conflicting an important one in terms of anniverA Great Leap of Faith is on opinions and dialogue and debate saries,” Perkins explains, “like the 100th display at the Greensboro Hisanniversary of women’s right to vote and disagreement,” Perkins says. “It’s tory Museum until March 27. and the 150th anniversary of 15th Amendimportant to put some of our political ment which gave black men the right disagreements of our current time in Visit greensborohistory.org to to vote, and the 60th anniversary of historical context to see that they are learn more.

Greensboro sit-ins, and it being a census not entirely unique. They may be special year, on top of it being an election year.” for our age, but we’ve been arguing The main exhibit can be viewed on about these questions for nearly 250 the third floor of the museum and starts with the founding of years now.” the United States. It chronicles how rowdy colonists sought Perkins also hopes the exhibit will remind visitors of the to separate from their British royal leaders and establish a importance of voting and engaging in the political process. country for the common people. And yet, as viewers advance through the installation, a recurring theme of disenfranchise“We hope the exhibit encourages people to see how they ment and the question of who democracy serves comes up can play a role in our democracy,” he says. “That when you again and again. The exhibit outlines in exhaustive detail, the put your voice out there, it can resonate over a long period of number of groups of people who were excluded from voting time.” throughout the years starting with white men who didn’t own

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wafts up, and the image gets put into a final bath — called “There’s so many variables and techniques,” she says, “so, a fixer. The fixer washes off any remaining silver particles to it’s never boring.” keep the image from fading.

Dent stands outside the darkroom, where twine and “This photo is from 1983,” Bast recalls, “in Del Rio, Texas.” clothespins hold up finished and drying prints from the Bast explains how that the unlucky fighter underneath the instructors. Dent points to a figure in the center of a vintage jumping bull is actually Lane Frost, subject of the film 8 Secphotograph with an old car and young men posed in front. onds. He looks to the print, remembering the story of taking “My father, which is this guy right here,” Dent says, “was a this photo and many others decades ago. Bast himself dabbles photographer.” in both film and digital photography, but Like with Dent, Dulaney’s practice feels enjoys the difficulty of getting the perfect like a tradition. Dulaney began learning negative, and the deliberate and meticufilm photography at 16. Though he teaches To learn more about Sawlous process of the darkroom. both digital and film photography, Dulaney “It slowed me down,” Bast says. “You thinks that creating in the darkroom adds tooth and their classes, can’t hurry.” a certain element of the unknown. visit sawtooth.org.

Athena Kroustalis, another guest of the Beside the prints of new and vintage darkroom, agrees that the darkroom carnegatives, he hangs some test strips of ries a certain meditative quality. different pictures. The strips show how the “It is just really zen and relaxing to be in photo develops when exposed to light for the darkroom,” she says. varying amounts of time, becoming darker from left to right Kroustalis places a test print down in the third bath, beside as the light was exposed longer. which floats another picture with the image almost whited“It all comes down to an educated guess,” Dulaney says. out. She explains that the darkroom keeps even experienced “I’ve got 48 years of educated guesses.” film photographers on their toes, trying out new strategies.

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t takes a few seconds to adjust in the darkroom.

As the door shuts, cell phones and other screens are tucked away. The light flickers off; an orangered glow bathes the room. Now, the magic can happen.

The Sawtooth School for Visual Art in Winston-Salem is hosting an open house of its darkroom on this rainy Saturday morning. Some visitors come to learn and chat, others carry in old negatives of family photos yet to be developed.

“You don’t learn to print film watching a YouTube video,” Dulaney says. “You have to get your hands in some developer and mess up some paper.”

Dulaney, an instructor at Sawtooth for the past five years, has been involved in the practice since adolescence. Stepby-step, he shows a small tour group how to turn a negative on a roll of film into a printed photograph, worthy of framing and hanging on a wall.

He takes only four or so guests into a round chamber, and grabs a bar on the wall. He pulls the bar, rotating the walls around them. The circular wall closes off one room and reveals a cozy film room.

“I call it the ‘“Star Trek” door,’” he jokes.

Here, guests can lay out negatives onto a lightbox to see more clearly the pictures they have taken. Once the negative is selected, they go back into the larger room, to a type of projector called an enlarger.

Instructor Bill Dent gathers a few guests around him. One attendee, Chip Bast, hands Dent a negative, which Dent then slides into part of the enlarger.

The machine projects the image in light onto the photo paper. As the seconds, measured meticulously, go on, the image of a bull rearing up above a bullfighter forms, and then the lights shut off again.

The shadows of the projection form an image so precise that the eyelashes of the bull become visible. Bast takes the photo and places it gently into the first of three liquids: the developer.

The multi-chemical mixture uses a bit of silver in the paper to takes the tones from the image and puts them in reverse: where the light carved out bright white spaces turns a deep black.

The moment the image hits the perfect point, Bast then moves it to an acidic liquid, made to stop the picture from over-developing. The vinegar-like scent

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