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THE AFTERMATH

Public Art Practice PAGE 16 MLK and these streets PAGE 15

Roger’s stones PAGE 13

Returns, resolutions and redemption on Super Tuesday PAGES 7-12

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

The night before the election It’s the night before the 2020 Primary, and I still don’t know who I’m going to vote for.

I mean, I do — I’ve been

by Brian Clarey following some of these races for months, and some of these candidates for years. I am, in election parlance, a highly informed voter, which some of the candidates like and others not so much.

Earlier this evening I sat with my wife going through our ballot, race by race, candidate by candidate. We don’t always agree, but like a lot of married couples we share many core values, so we had a pretty easy time working our way down the ballot, with only a few snags for deeper discussion.

We’ve got a new voter in the house, too, who is willing to defer to my expertise, such as it is, in the down-ballot races but like everybody else at school will not be deterred from voting for Bernie Sanders.

Not that I would try. Because we’re set to go vote in less than 12 hours, and I’m still not sure who I will be voting for in the presidential race.

I’m an independent, but I’m taking the Democrat ballot just so I can weigh in on

Trump’s eventual challenger. I can think of great reasons to vote for any of the few who are left. And I can also think of plenty of reasons not to.

Mike Bloomberg is an A-level administrator who truly gets things done. But he’s no Democrat, and his tactic of buying his way into the final stages of the primary demonstrated exactly what many progressives are campaigning against this cycle: preferential treatment for the rich. I agree with almost everything Elizabeth Warren has ever said. But she’s waffling on key issues, and does not look like she can win a primary. I can see a path to victory in November for Bernie Sanders, through activation of the youth vote who might not come out for anyone else. But the youth vote is fickle. And, ironically, Bernie is hella old, and he just had a heart attack.

The job would surely kill him. Speaking of old, I think Joe Biden is a creature from a different century who has no business being president. But then, all the legacy Democrats seem to be falling into line behind him — the ones who haven’t been bought by Bloomberg yet, that is.

As an aside — if I had voted early for Pete Buttigieg or Amy Klobuchar, I would be pretty steamed right now.

But I waited. And even with fewer candidates in the field, I still can’t make up my mind.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

I just really believe fundamentally that everybody has a creative spirit. We just need some time and space and some encouragement.

—Karen Archia, pg. 16

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CITY LIFE Mar. 5-8, 2020

by Rachel Spinella

THURSDAY Mar. 5

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Conserving Nature’s Keystone: The Gopher Tortoise @ Greensboro Science Center (GSO) 6 p.m.

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FRIDAY Mar. 6

OMG: Cyberbullying @ 2 p.m. Milton Rhodes Center for Arts (W-S) 2 p.m.

This play focuses on a creative middle school student named Crystal who uploads her first Facepage and, in doing so, gets an introduction to the cyber world. This social media story is about bullying, the power of words and love. Watch Crystal navigate the cyber world and learn that the only power a bully has is a victim’s silence.

Find the event on the North Carolina Black Repertory Company website for more information.

Brooks Williams @ Bib’s Downtown (WS) 8 p.m.

A museum, aquarium and zoo all rolled into one, the Greensboro Science Center is hosting a free event for all ages that focuses on tortoises — more specifically the gopher tortoise. Expert on this species of turtle, Christopher L. Jenkins, will be providing insight on these creatures and how his organization is working toward preventing these turtles from going extinct.

Find the event on Facebook for more information.

Green Books’ Oasis Spaces @ International Civil Rights Center Museum (GSO) 6 p.m.

On Friday, this museum will be launching the new traveling exhibit titled Navigating Jim Crow: The Green Book and Oasis Spaces in North Carolina. Developed by the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission with the funding from the Institute Museum and Library Services, this exposition explores The Negro Motorist Green Book, a hostel guide and resistance tool which cultivated an essential network that helped African-American communities. Along with this launch there will be a film screening of The Green Book Guide to Freedom. Find the event on Eventbrite.

SATURDAY Mar. 7

Thunderstruck Dance Competition @ the Carolina Theatre (GSO) 8 a.m.

Skillet @ Piedmont Hall (GSO) 7 p.m.

The Memphis rock band that formed in 1996 will be rocking Greensboro this Thursday night. The group has received Grammy nominations for two of their albums titled Collide and Comatose. The Christian rock band consists of members; John Cooper, the only original member of the group, his wife Korey Cooper, Jen Ledger and Seth Morrison. Find the event on the Greensboro Coliseum Complex website for more information.

Founded in 1981, the Fiddle & Bow Society is a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to promotion and preservation of folk music as well as dance. The organization will be hosting singer songwriter Brooks Williams this Friday. The folk singer has released albums of contemporary folk, blues and instrumental guitar. Enjoy a sandwich or a platter while listening to some folk tunes with Brooks. Find the event on Facebook.

Florence Dore @ the Ramkat (W-S) 8 p.m.

Professor by day and rocker by night, Florence Dore comes to the Ramkat this week. Dore works as an English professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and is the author of The Obscene: Sexual Subjects in American Modernism. She also having released a rock album back in 2001 titled Perfect City.

Go see this educator rock the scene. Find the event on Etix.com for more information.

Festival of Friends @ First United Methodist Church (HP) 5 p.m.

This church is hosting a delicious dinner that will be catered by Country BBQ. The event will provide chopped pork BBQ that includes your choice of sides along with coffee and dessert. Along with this, the benefit will also be offering takeout orders for those looking for quick bites. The event will also include a pajama party for children up to age 8 in the Education Building. Find the event on Facebook.

Founded in 2003 by Jeremey Fullam, a teacher, performer and choreographer, Thunderstruck is an international dance competition. Competitors a part of the tournament will be qualified for the international finals in Las Vegas. Find the event on Facebook for more information.

Karaoke @ World of Beer (GSO) 8:30 pm.

Have a habit of singing in the car or the shower? Head on over to this bar in Greensboro, to sing your heart out with friends. Groups of six or more will be able to receive a complimentary pretzel. Find the event on Facebook for more information.

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Ali Siddiq @ Comedy Zone (GSO) 7 p.m.

Scavenger Hunt: Let’s Roam When Winston Met Salem @ 301 S. Liberty St. (W-S) 10 a.m.

Visiting Winston-Salem for the first time or looking for a fun activity to do with friends, this Sunday the “Twin City” is hosting an event where guests can partake in a photo scavenger hunt. Attendees will have teams and wander throughout the city competing against others in games like the hilarious photo challenges. For more information check out the event on Evensi.

Wake Baseball vs. Louisville @ David F. Couch Ballpark (W-S) noon Be there to see Wake Forest take on Louisville this Sunday in their final baseball game. Police, fire-fighters and EMS first responders and their families will receive free admission to the game. The event will also be on Dollar Dog day, bring your family or friends and enjoy $1 hot dogs while watching the final baseball match. For more information, check out the event on AllEvents.in.

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Let My People Go @ Harrison Auditorium (GSO) 2 p.m.

NC A&T University will be holding a dance adaptation of the 1998 DreamWorks movie The Prince of Egypt. The production is a dance interpretation choreographed in theatrical ballet. It features musical dance numbers that contain the storyline and express the artistry of dance as well as acting ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary and hip hop.

Find the event on Facebook for more information.

SUNDAY Mar. 8

Up Front

This stand-up comedian, public speaker and writer will be taking the mic this Saturday. Back in 2013, Ali Siddiq was named by Comedy Central as the number 1 comic to watch. And as of 2019, he became a finalist on NBC’s comedy competition show “Bring the Funny.” Go see this comedian if you are looking for a night filled with smiles and laughter. Find the event on Eventbrite for more information.

Bob Ross Landscape Oil Painting Workshop @ Shelf Life Art and Supply Company (GSO) 2 p.m.

Late American painter, art instructor and television host Bob Ross — known for his slogan “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents” — will be the primary focus of this workshop. Graduate from UNCG with a bachelor’s in fine arts design, Julie Belnap will be administering her knowledge of Bob Ross to guests interested in learning more about his painting technique. Participants will not only learn about his art style but be able to create their own landscapes. All art supplies such as canvases, paint, brushes, palettes and easel will be provided for attendees.

For more information find the event on Eventbrite.

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place on the east side of Winston-Salem.

Michael Pitts, a 38-yearold charter-school teacher, also weighed the relative merits between Biden and Sanders before voting at the Heavenview United Pentecostal Church in the city’s southern suburbs.

“What was important to me was looking at what could benefit me as an African-American and what could benefit our community,” Pitts said.

“Me being an educator, Sanders kept pushing forgiveness on student loans,” Pitts continued.

“He seemed genuine.

What scared me about Joe Biden is [former President] Obama hasn’t fully backed him…. What really weighed in Bernie’s favor is that he has a straightTODD TURNER A dream deferred? Bernie Sanders’ pledge to carry North Carolina foundered forward plan for what he against a rally by moderate voters coalescing around Joe Biden. wants to do.”

Many of Sanders’ supchange is a big deal. I’m a grad stuKimmela White, a 56-year-old publicporters displayed a marked loyalty to dent, and although I don’t have a lot of housing resident who lives in Sunrise their candidate in comments at polling student debt, I have friends who struggle Towers in Winston-Salem, said she places, suggesting they will be reluctant with it.” immediately ruled out Bloomberg and to sacrifice bold initiatives like Medicare Heightened enthusiasm among Sanders. for All and a Green New Deal to join the Democratic voters in North Carolina “I think Bloomberg is a Democratic moderate coalition thought to be needed was confirmed by early-voting numbers Trump,” she said. “I wouldn’t vote to defeat Trump. What’s more, even as that show a 32.1 percent increase from for Bloomberg and I wouldn’t vote for Biden leads the delegate chase in symthe 2016 primary, when Sanders trailed Trump. The Russians is helping Sandbolically important battleground states Hillary Clinton in the state. And while ers because they think Trump can beat like North Carolina and Minnesota, Sanders made a push to mobilize young Sanders.” (Intelligence officials have Sanders carried delegate-rich California voters this year, including holding a rally informed the president and members of on Super Tuesday, meaning that the race at Winston-Salem State University that Congress that the Russians favor Trump is far from decided. drew 1,400 people, early-voting numbers and Sanders, but there is no evidence “My vote was based on my values and reveal the most robust growth among that the Russians have actively assisted beliefs, and not who can beat Trump in white voters over the age of 70. Meanthe Sanders campaign.)

2020,” said Nargiza Kiger, a 34-year-old while, the only categories that showed White voted for Biden in early votgraduate student at UNCG who lives in a decline in North Carolina were black ing. But then she watched him on CBS Winston-Salem. “I wanted to vote for women between the age of 18 and 55 News’ “Face the Nation,” and decided a candidate that stands for particular — the same demographic responsible she won’t be able to support him in the positions that are clear and not the ones for helping Democrat Doug Jones win a general election because “he was dodgthat are marketable as being able to beat special Senate race in Alabama in 2017 ing questions.”

Trump.” and helping Stacey Abrams come close Her favorites now, she says, are KlobuKiger framed her support for Sandto winning the governor’s race in Georchar and Warren. ers in terms of existential and economic gia in 2018.

“It’s time to get a woman in there to survival that transcend considerations of Interviews with voters during North do the job a man can’t do,” White said. political viability.

Carolina’s Democratic primary revealed Klobuchar has dropped out of the “Climate change — he’s the only an electorate struggling with ambivarace, and Warren has failed to gain traccandidate who talks about it in a serious, lence towards the candidates, and hastily tion, slipping to third place in her home strategic way,” Kiger said. “I’m a mother trying to assess their respective strengths state of Massachusetts. of a 4-year-old, so for me, climate and weaknesses.

Up Front

Only weeks after the near-death experience of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, the former vice president capitalized on his miraculous rebirth in South Carolina by roaring into North Carolina and other Super Tuesday primary states, as voters hedged caution against the populist brushfire set by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“Being old-school, I don’t appreciate [Democrats] being called ‘socialist,’” said Fred Terry, a black voter who is the husband of state Rep. Evelyn Terry in Winston-Salem, in a rebuke towards Sanders, a self-described “democratic socialist.” “That’s what’s going to happen. People will not turn out. Folk will get beat up on that.”

Terry added that his support of Biden was calculated to “help with down-ballot voting,” especially for Democratic candidates like his wife in state-level races.

The lightning-speed reversal of Biden’s fortune played out with many North Carolina voters holding off on their decision until the last-minute.

Shane Burton, a 41-year-old sales representative, typically takes advantage of early voting, but this year he waited until the actual election day. As it turned out, his favorite — former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg — had dropped out of the race on Sunday, the day after the South Carolina primary. Buttigieg joined Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who also dropped out, for a campaign rally in Dallas on the eve of Super Tuesday to endorse Biden.

“My heart was with Mayor Pete,” Burton said. “Ideologically, I align with Pete. Now, it’s Biden all the way.”

Biden grabbed a formidable 43.0 percent of the vote share in the North Carolina Democratic primary, with Sanders trailing at 24.1 percent. Former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who saturated the state with advertising, fell short of the 15 percent threshold needed to secure delegates, with only 13.0 percent of the vote.

Likewise, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren received only 10.5 percent.

Like in other states, the North Carolina primary revealed a generational split among both black and white voters.

Hilda Moore, a 61-year-old black voter who works as a housing counselor, said she considered Sanders and Warren, but ultimately opted for Biden when she voted at the Carver High School polling

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Voters coalesce around Biden in North Carolina, dampening Bernie fever

by Jordan Green

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Manning and Cunningham win big in federal races on Super Tuesday

By Sayaka Matsuoka By 10:45 p.m., Kathy Manning’s campaign was celebrating and cheering inside South End Brewing in downtown Greensboro.

With about 90 percent of precincts reporting across Guilford and Forsyth counties, Manning’s campaign had declared victory in the race for the newly drawn 6th Congressional District. Manning gathered 48.4 percent of the vote statewide, while Rhonda Foxx and Bruce Davis fought for a far-off second place with 19.9 and 15.1 percent respectively.

“Thank you all for everything you have done to get us to this night,” Manning said in her victory speech. “Since the moment I decided to run, I have been overwhelmed by the number of people who have jumped in to help….

You have lifted me up with your enthusiasm, and I want you to know how much that has meant to me.”

After thanking her supporters and her team, Manning congratulated her opponents and talked about the importance of the new district. She ran against four other candidates in the race including Foxx, Davis, Derwin Montgomery and Ed Hanes Jr. “It is a privilege to run for office,” Manning said. “It is a particular privilege to run in this newly drawn 6th district. A district that makes sense, a Triad district that includes all of Guilford County, all of Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem, because this is a district that has so much in common. We have all suffered from the loss of manufacturing jobs and we all have significant portions of our community that have not shared in the economic recovery that our president likes to crow about.”

In addition to leveling criticism against Donald Trump, Manning pointed to specific issues facing the district including food insecurity, homelessness, underfunded schools, increasing gun violence and threats to the environment.

Going forward, Manning said she and voters have two goals to keep in mind for November. At the federal level, Manning talked about the importance of keeping the House and flipping the Senate and getting a new president elected. At the state level, she used similar language and talked about re-electing Gov. Roy Cooper, Attorney General Josh Stein and flipping the state House and Senate.

“I know that sounds like a tall order, but it’s critical that we do everything we can to achieve these goals because it’s the only way we’re going to get our country

back on track,” Manning said.

Manning, who lost to Rep. Ted Budd for the 13th Congressional District seat in 2018, proved to be a prolific fundraiser during, drawing in more than $4.2 million for that campaign. According to the state board of election, Manning had raised $871,471.72 since January 2019 for this year’s election cycle and had $436,280 cash on hand. Foxx, who came in second, raised $130,773, while Davis, who came in third, raised $5,085.

Anthony Gutierrez, a 24-year-old voter, said that he was swayed by Manning’s strong advertising campaign.

“I voted for Kathy Manning mostly because of all the ads that she’s been putting out,” he said at the Piedmont Baptist Association, where he voted on Tuesday. “I looked up on some of what she wants to do, and I think she can get some bills passed that would make a difference.”

Just down the street, Davis sat in front of a computer screen in his campaign office in downtown Greensboro.

“So far, I see a lot of precincts that haven’t come in yet, the larger precincts that we’re hoping will do well, especially the High Point precincts,” Davis said.

“So we’re just still kind of hopeful looking at things as they progress.”

Foxx said that she wanted to congratulate Manning on her victory.

“At this point, we need to unite as Democrats so we can defeat Trump and Thom Tillis,” she said. “And I’m proud that a woman will go to represent this district in Congress.”

In the US Senate race, Cal Cunningham called his victory much earlier in the night, when he shared a tweet by the Associated Press that declared him the winner at around 8:45 p.m. on Facebook.

“Thank you, North Carolina. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate,” Cunningham wrote.

Like Manning, Cunningham won by a large margin in his race, with 57.0 percent of the vote statewide against Erica Smith, who came in second with 34.0 percent, Trevor Fuller with 3.8 percent and Steve Swenson and Atul Goel, who both got less than 3 percent each.

In February, Republican operatives flooded airwaves with ads supporting Cunningham’s opponent, Smith, which stoked indignation among Democratic voters who were angry about GOP interference. One voter on Tuesday said that the GOP ploy may have worked in

Kathy Manning won by big margins on Super Tuesday.

Cunningham’s favor.

“It just bothered me the way the Republican PAC associated themselves with Erica Smith,” said Betty Marks, a 70-year-old African American woman who voted at Piedmont Baptist Association on Tuesday. “And I think that may hurt her in this election because a lot of people don’t understand that she didn’t have anything to do with it.”

Marks said that after the news about the interference came out, that it made her wonder if Cunningham had a chance to win against Tillis.

Prior to the election, the Charlotte Observer and the News & Observer, noted that Cunningham was the safer bet to beat Tillis in November.

“For primary voters who are concerned more with choosing a candidate most equipped to beat Tillis,” the editorial panel said, “Cunningham offers the clearest path forward. His more moderate positions on issues such as healthcare will appeal to the persuadable voters that Democrats need for a repeat of the 2018 blue wave, and Tillis surely would prefer to spend the summer telling those center-to-right North Carolinians about Smith’s Medicare for All support and advocacy of marijuana legalization.”

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last month, Cunningham said that he would strengthen the Affordable Care Act if elected and would invest in a clean energy economy to create good-paying jobs. He also had a direct message for both Mitch McConnell and Thom Tillis during a February candidate forum in Charlotte.

“We are coming for you,” he said.

On the Republican side, Tillis won his Senate seat handily, drawing in 78.1 percent of the vote against three challengers.

Tillis was previously considered vulnerable to a Republican primary, but an endorsement from President Trump last June appears to have made a difference.

“Trump and Tillis butted heads,” said David Hill, a UAW member who works at Freightliner in Rowan County. “Thom did some things I would consider not conservative. I was dead-set against him at first. I ended up voting for him in the primary because of Trump’s endorsement. I like the direction the president’s going in.”

In the 6th Congressional District Republican primary, Lee Haywood won the primary against Laura Pichardo, with 73.25 percent of the vote.

District court judge races

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Super Tuesday 2020 at Craft Recreational Center.

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Longtime Guilford County Commissioner Skip Alston reclaimed his seat on Tuesday, winning 66.7 percent of the vote against second-time challenger Fahiym Hanna. Alston, who first held the seat from 1992 to 2012, served as chairman five times during his tenure, and reclaimed his seat in 2018. During his run, he repeatedly spoke to his years of experience over Hanna, who ran on a platform that focused on a county-wide worker program that would provide participants with access to basic needs like shelter and transportation.

This time around, Hanna managed to narrow the gap from his 2018 run

against Skip by about seven points.

In an interview with TCB in February, Hanna said that even if he didn’t win the race, he would continue to work towards implementing his model in other ways.

“I would find a way to do it in a different capacity,” he said. “I would set it up as a nonprofit or as a business model, but it would be most ideal to do it through the county.”

On Facebook, Alston thanked his supporters for giving him another four years.

“Thanks everyone for your confidence in me and re-electing me to serve you again on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners for another four years,” Alston wrote. “I promise to work hard for you over the next four years, and I will not let you down. Please keep me in your prayers.”

In District 5, Democrat Carly Cooke won easily over opponent Macon Sullivan, and will face Republican Troy Lawson in the general election. Lawson won narrowly against opponent Cyndy Hayworth by about one percentage point.

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tinue to advocate for children whether in the seat or not.”

Winner Jenkins spoke similarly about her outlook.

“I’m feeling great,” she said. “I feel confident that I’ve done the best that I can do, along with my team. There are no losers when you’re running because you’ll win regardless. You may not win the race, but there’s other things you can do to influence the minds of children.”

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In the Guilford County School Board races, one incumbent won re-election to her seat while another fell to a political newcomer. Incumbent Dianne BellamySmall of District 1 fought off challengers Jeff Golden and Ron Tuck and ultimately came away with 56.11 percent of the vote. Bellamy-Small has represented the district since 2017 and explained why she was seeking a second term to TCB in February.

“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.

On Facebook, she thanked her supporters and said that her “heart is filled with gratitude” and while she doesn’t have “money to pay people,” the “kindness [she] felt in District 1 today was priceless.”

A rematch in District 7 saw incumbent Byron Gladden, who was first elected to the seat in 2017, get ousted by challenger Bettye Taylor Jenkins, who in turn lost to Gladden in 2016. This year, Jenkins won handily, getting 61.4 percent of the vote in the race. Jayvon Johnson came in second with 24.7 percent while Gladden fell to third with only 13.9 percent.

Both Gladden and Jenkins campaigned at Brown Recreation Center on Tuesday afternoon, talking to voters as they entered the polling location.

“I feel good regardless of what the results are,” Gladden said on Tuesday.

“I feel that despite all the adversity that’s been thrown at me, I have maintained my values and my position and will con-

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Angela Foster, who has been in Seat 7 for 12 years, fought off incumbent Michele Lee in her race, winning 55.6 percent of the vote.

Keyona Barrett, a school social worker, said on Tuesday that she voted for Foster because of her experience in the courtroom.

“I’ve been in court with her a lot,” Barrett said. “And she sat in some of my cases as a youth and as a professional, I know her inside and out of the courtroom.”

In Seat 13, incumbent Brian Tomlin also maintained his seat on the bench, garnering 54.7 percent of the vote against challenger Moshera Mills.

Tomlin, who was appointed by Gov. Roy Cooper to fill the seat left open by Judge Lora Cubbage in March 2019, said in a February interview that he believes his experience as a lawyer makes him a good judge.

“I think having seen what I’ve seen and done what I’ve done makes me able to cover and handle the things you see as a judge,” he said.

Barrett said she voted for Tomlin too, because of her firsthand experience with him.

“When I was a DSS social worker, Tomlin was a family attorney and I watched how he fought for the parents to reunify their children with them,” she said. “I grew up in foster care and I felt like if my parents had had the opportunity to have an attorney like Tomlin, then we would have been in a better situation, maybe we could have reunified with our family. I have actually seen him at work.”

New to the bench are Caroline Tomlinson-Pemberton, who won Seat 4 against Tomakio Gause, and Kelvin Smith, who won Seat 12 against Gavin Reardon.

Tomlinson-Pemberton won her race by fewer than five points, coming into the primary after being hit by a car in

January.

In an interview in February, Tomlinson-Pemberton said that despite the setback, she was determined to continue her campaign.

“I’m in this race because I truly believe in the judicial system,” she told Triad City Beat.

In Seat 12, Kelvin Smith also beat Gavin Reardon by less than five percentage points to become the next district court judge. On Wednesday, Smith posted on his campaign’s Facebook page and thanked his 40,000 supporters.

“For I know the plans I have for you...

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! To all of my family, supporters, volunteers, and most importantly the voters of Guilford County, I thank all 40,049 of you!

Now the real work begins,” he wrote.

Up Front

by Sayaka Matsuoka As the dust settled on Wednesday morning, a handful of incumbents emerged to reclaim their seats in some school board and county commission races, while several newcomers won to other positions, most notably in district court judge races.

Of the four district court judge races, two will see new candidates ascend to the bench while two incumbents fought off challengers for their seats.

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term, won a commanding share of the vote against two challengers in the Democratic primary in the South Ward. Larson took about half the vote, compared to about 30 percent by Carolyn Highsmith and about 20 percent

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In the North Ward, DD Adams won 75.5 percent of the vote against challenger Eunice Campbell.

Voters in the Northeast and Southwest wards chose new representatives, thanks to the retirement of Mayor Pro Tem Vivian Burke and Councilman Dan Besse’s decision to run for state House.

Hilda Moore, a housing counselor, cast her vote for Barbara Hanes Burke, the daughter-inlaw of the current representative, at the Carver High School polling place.

Burke, who currently serves on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth JORDAN County School Board, prevailed Southwest Ward opponents Kevin Mundy (right) and Scott Andree Bowen campaigned GREEN outside the Little Creek Community Center polling place on Tuesday. with 57.2 percent of the vote.

Morticia (Tee-Tee) Parmon, the independent candidate, all victorious (The precinct is split between the East daughter of the late state Sen. Earline primary candidates will be seated on the and Northeast wards.)

Parmon, won 21.6 percent of the vote, next city council in December.

Shawnee Haney said she showed up while Keith King, owner of Kingz Forsyth County voters also supported when the poll opened at 6:30 a.m. and Downtown Market, took 21.2 percent. a quarter-cent sales tax to fund a local went home to get dressed for work, “That was a tough one,” Moore said. teacher pay supplement by a margin of and when she came back a poll greeter “I voted for Barbara. I’ve seen her out almost 20 points. outside told her the ballots were still not campaigning more than anyone else.”

In other local races, challenger available. She said she was able to make In the Southwest Ward, Kevin Mundy, Denise Hines edged out incumbent Reit back from work in Charlotte, and vote a nonprofit leader poised to become nita Thompkins Linville in the Forsyth before the polls closed at 7:30 a.m. the city’s first openly gay city council County Clerk of Superior Court race, Elections Director Tim Tsujii characmember, bested Scott Andree Bowen, 50.7 percent to 49.3 percent. terized the matter as a “small hiccup.” who directs the youth and food pantry And in the multi-representative He said the poll workers couldn’t locate ministries at a local church. Mundy’s Forsyth County Commission District B the East Ward ballots at first, but the lopsided win gave him nearly twice Anrace, the three incumbents — Chairconfusion only delayed voting by 10 dree Bowen’s vote total. The two greeted man David Plyler, Richard Linville and minutes. voters together outside the Little Creek Gloria Whisenhunt — easily defended Later, at about 4:30 p.m., a poll Community Center. their positions against newcomer Terri greeter reported to TCB that the Miller “Both of the candidates seem very Mrazek. The three Republican incumPark Recreation Center in the Southwest compassionate, and very friendly bents will face Democrats Christopher Ward had run out of Democratic ballots. towards each other,” observed Kyle VanSmith, Gull Riaz and Eric Weiss in the The Forsyth County Board of Elecderpoel, a software developer who voted November general election. tions and State Board of Elections at the polling place.

Some voters in Winston-Salem experiagreed to allow the polling place to Robert C. Clark, the only Republican enced difficulty when they showed up to extend voting at the polling place from member of the council, walloped pritheir polling place, only to find that the 7:30 p.m. to 8:10 p.m. mary challenger George K. Ware, 84.0 ballots for their races were not available.

Todd Luck, a spokesperson for Forsyth percent to 16.0 percent.

Scippio said the first 12 voters at the County, said the extension was authoAll of the Winston-Salem City Fourteenth Street Recreation Center rized “after there were long lines earlier Council wards heavily lean towards one polling place reported that they received in the day due to not having enough party or the other, making the primary Northeast Ward ballots even though they ballots of certain ballot styles for about a crucial test. Barring an extraordinary live in the East Ward. She said all but 40 minutes at the precinct, during which partisan challenge in the general election one returned to the polling place and numerous voters left.” or a successful petition campaign by an were able to vote on the correct ballots.

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Winston-Salem voters stuck to the familiar, supporting Mayor Allen Joines and a slate of incumbent council members by comfortable margins in a decisive local primary election tucked into the presidential nominating contest.

Joines led opponent JoAnne Allen, 69.3 percent to 30.7 percent in final balloting, cementing a sixth term. The popular mayor will face nominal Republican opposition from Kris McCann in the November general election.

Joines pledged during his campaign to continue efforts in increasing employment and reducing poverty through a number of measures, including privately funded initiatives to provide free community college and internships.

“We were really simple in our message: We laid it out really clearly what we want to do, and I think we drew really measurable goals,” Joines said in an interview at his campaign office on Liberty Street. “So, I think it gives me motivation to structure projects and programs that address them because I know the voters are going to be looking at how we’re doing. The poverty rate’s either going up or down or staying the same.”

With the city council election largely overshadowed by a volatile Democratic presidential nominating contest playing out across 14 states, Joines held a low-key celebration at his campaign office with his wife, children and campaign manager. The entrance to the modest suite was marked only by a campaign sign leaning against a dumpster at the back of a parking lot next to a UPS store. By 10 p.m., with less than half of precincts reporting, the mayor sent his family members and campaign manager home, and turned out the lights.

Annette Scippio, who was appointed to the East Ward seat in 2018, prevailed over three formidable challengers in her first election, winning about 40 percent of the vote. Kismet Loftin-Bell, a classconscious consultant, and Phil Carter, a scrappy community organizer, each drew about 22 percent of the vote, while George Redd IV, an administrator with Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County, came away with about 17 percent.

“To God be the glory, and his will is being done,” said Scippio, a retired corporate manager and nonprofit leader, while watching the results at the Forsyth County Government Center. “I look forward to serving the people with wisdom and compassion.”

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by Brian Clarey “Nancy Sinatra, will you be quiet!” implored Mark Robinson of Greensboro. “These Boots Were Made for Walking” still blared through the speakers as he tried to make his victory speech at the podium inside Modlin Farm, at the end of a road in Archdale.

He had just won the Republican nomination for the lieutenant governor’s race in November, emerging early from a crowded, nine-candidate field with about a third of the vote and holding on through the night. At 9:15 p.m., his was one of the earlier races called that evening. He will face Democrat winner Yvonne Holley in the fall.

It’s been a wild ride since his comments during a Greensboro City Council meeting in April 2018 went viral — he was speaking out against the cancellation of a gun show at the Greensboro Coliseum; the online footage has been viewed more than 1 million times. Since then he’s spoken at the NRA convention and appeared as a guest on Fox News, where host Brian Kilmeade suggested he run for office.

As the music faded, Robinson thanked the ones who brought him here, perhaps a hundred of them eating from a catered buffet line and watching the returns come across on two big screens on either side of the stage.

“This victory is because of patriots like you,” he said to cheers. “That’s what has set our campaign apart from every other campaign in this race, in this cycle, as a matter of fact. This is a true grassroots movement of the people who are desperate for change.”

More cheers.

“And it starts right there in the halls of government with folks no longer being concerned with getting rich and re-elected, but be in service to the people that have put them in office.”

Clapping now. “That’s right.”

Robinson’s campaign manager, Conrad Pogorzelski III, credited the win to a barnstorming tour through all 100 NC counties.

“It was brutal,” he said. “We did about six a day, for 12 hours a day.”

Pogorzelski noted that, if Robinson wins the general election in the fall, he will be the state’s first African-American lieutenant governor.

Elsewhere in the Council of State races, current Forsyth County district attorney Jim O’Neil, who lost his bid for the Republican nomination for attorney general in 2016, prevailed in a three-way

Mark Robinson of Greensboro rode a viral video from a 2018 city council meeting to the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor.

race with almost half of the vote. The auditor’s race will be between incumbent Democrat Beth Wood, who held off challenger Luis A. Toledo by a wide margin, and Republican victor Tony Street. Democrat Jenna Wadsworth will challenge incumbent Commissioner of Agriculture Steve Troxler in the general election. Commissioner of Insurance Mike Causey fought off a Republican primary challenger, Ronald Pierce, by more than 30 points. Josh Dobson took the Republican nomination for commissioner of labor, an open seat, and will face Democrat Jessica Holmes, a Wake County commissioner, in November.

In the Republican race for secretary of state, EC Sykes will face longtime incumbent Elaine Marshall in the fall And incumbent Republican State Treasurer Dale Folwell will face Democratic candidate Ronnie Chatterji, who narrowly won a close three-way race.

In the open seat for superintendent of public instruction, UNCG associate professor Jen Mangrum won the Democratic race against four challengers.

Mangrum came to politics with an unsuccessful run against Senate Majority Leader Phil Berger Jr. in 2018, came in a close second in Guilford County, where she lives and works, behind Constance (Lav) Johnson, while Keith

A. Sutton took most of the counties east of Raleigh. Mangrum’s coalition of the rest was enough to get her on the ballot against former Pat McCrory education advisor, Republican Catherine Truitt, for the open seat.

“She is an outstanding professor who leads one of the best programs that prepares teachers,” said Nargiza Kiger, a graduate student at UNCG, after voting at the Little Creek Community Center in Winston-Salem. “She is well fit for the job. She understands how public education works and how to change it.”

Results in the governor’s races fell along predictable lines. Incumbent Democrat Roy Cooper and current Lt. Gov. Dan Forest both won handily. WinstonSalem voter David Hill, 54, cast his vote for Forest at Little Creek as well.

“I like Dan Forest,” he said. “He’s pro-life. He protects the Second Amendment. He’s a true conservative. He’s been serving as lieutenant governor. The other candidate [Holly Grange], I just don’t know much about her.”

The Republican ballot had two races in the state House that concerned Triad residents. In District 59, covering the eastern side of Guilford County surrounding Greensboro, House Whip Jon Hardister handily defended his incumbency against primary challenger

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The Democrat ballot held more competitive and consequential races. An open seat in District 72 — vacated by Derwin Montgomery, who ran for Congress — will almost certainly go to Amber M. Baker, who won the Democratic primary by almost 20 points. Democratic candidates in District 75, which covers a strip across the south side of WinstonSalem, view the prospect of turning the seat blue in the fall as a reachable goal.

Elisabeth Motsinger, the longest-serving Democrat on the Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County School Board, defeated Gardenia Henley by 28 points. Incumbent Republican Donny Lambeth did his part by beating a primary challenger, Jacob Baum, by 36 points. And in District 71, where there is no Republican challenger in the general election, incumbent Evelyn Terry prevailed against primary challenger Kamika Brown, winning the night by 30 points.

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The anger in the American electorate has only intensified from 2016 to 2020. Across the political spectrum, it’s fueled by the accelerating wealth divide, endless and exorbitant wars, and the sense that the system only works for a corrupt, politically-connected elite. The centrifugal force of a system that no longer provides a meaningful sense of belonging to the vast majority of its citizens means that the political energy is at the polar ends — expressed in rising white nationalism fed by the tea party on the right, and a warming feeling towards socialism and anarchy rooted in the Occupy movement on the left.

Give the Democratic establishment a frontrunner who can win in November, and what do they do? Pretty much exactly what their Republican counterparts did four years ago.

Just to sample some of the hysteria among the sages of the Democratic establishment, listen to James Carville, Bill Clinton’s political strategist, react to Sanders’ win in the Nevada caucus telling MSNBC host Brian Williams: “If you’re voting for him because you think he’ll win the election, politically, you’re a fool. And that’s just a fact. It’s no denying it, there’s so much political science, so much research that this is not even a debatable question.”

Or Chris Matthews, another MSNBC host. Beyond comparing Sanders’ victory in Nevada to a Nazi invasion, his willful misrepresentation of Sanders’ democratic socialism stands out as singularly bizarre and paranoid. He really said, “I believe if Castro and the reds had won the Cold War, there would have been executions in Central Park, and I might have been one of the ones getting executed.”

Before Sanders’ win in Nevada, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was forced to resign as chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2016, chastised a reporter at the Miami Herald by saying, “We’re a long way from who is going to be our nominee and so that speculation is really not helpful at all.”

Rep. Donna Shalala, another south Florida Democrat, was even more blunt.

“He’s not going to be our nominee,” she said. “That’s a hypothetical question, and since I don’t think he’s going to be the nominee, I don’t have to answer the question.”

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Given the absolute fealty that Republican lawmakers now demonstrate before President Trump, the recent past seems like a reverse speculative fiction so outrageously fanciful that someone must have made it up.

The headline in the New York

by Jordan Green Times four years ago to this day literally read, “Inside the Republican Party’s Desperate Mission to Stop Donald Trump.”

The story opens with this apocalyptic assessment by a party mandarin: “The scenario Karl Rove outlined was bleak.”

The opening paragraphs bear quotation in full: “Addressing a luncheon of Republican governors and donors in Washington on Feb. 19, he warned that Donald J. Trump’s increasingly likely nomination would be catastrophic, dooming the party in November. But Mr. Rove, the master strategist of George Bush’s campaigns, insisted it was not too late for them to stop Mr. Trump, according to three people present.

“In public, there were calls for the party to unite behind a single candidate,” the article continued. “In dozens of interviews, elected officials, political strategists and donors described a frantic, last-ditch campaign to block Mr. Trump — and the agonizing reasons that many of them have become convinced it will fail. Behind the scenes, a desperate mission to save the party sputtered and stalled at every turn.”

The senior party officials, consultants, donors and, yes, journalists who make up the political class often forge a consensus around a type of candidate considered viable, someone who can supposedly gain the support of an electoral majority. The people often have another idea.

In late 2015 and 2016, Donald Trump’s savage xenophobia, fearmongering against Muslims and dystopian descriptions of urban crime and disorder coupled with shameless pandering to the Christian evangelical, gun-rights and antiabortion movements fueled a white-nationalist insurgency that swept through the Republican primaries, and, against all conventional wisdom, the November general election.

He couldn’t possibly win after he was caught on video bragging about grabbing women’s genitals. And then he won.

There’s another candidate who maintains an ambivalent relationship with his party, whose rallies draw huge crowds, who is supposedly weighed down by fatal liabilities, who commands loyalty from a base of fanatical supporters, and whose appeal reaches beyond the comfortable parameters of the party.

He is an independent senator from Vermont who is seeking the Democratic nomination. His name is Bernie Sanders, and, incidentally, he is holding a rally at Winston-Salem State University today.

How can the political class be so blindered? On the Democratic side, far from learning their lesson from the Hillary Clinton fiasco, they promoted Joe Biden, a legacy institutionalist with a platform and persona crafted to ap-

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Newspaper deadlines prohibit comrooted in age. mentary on Tuesday’s primary results In today’s electorate, there are more — you can read our reporting from the black Millennials than there are Baby day in the News section beginning on Boomers, a trend that carries across the page XX — but there are some facts board. about this election, and the next one, For the first time in history, Baby that will shape the next generation of Boomers do not make up the largest electoral politics. segment of the potential electorate — These facts fall squarely along the that distinction belongs to the Millenaxes of race, age and income — factors nials, though they’re not registered to that, along with geography, provide vote at the same ratio as Boomers… yet. the benchmarks of modern political But it’s coming. In the 2018 midterm strategy. And those things don’t mean election, for the first time, Gen X, what they used to.

Millennials and Gen Z combined to Using race as an elecoutperform Boomers toral strategy dates back and prior generations by For the first time even before African2.1 million votes.

Americans got the vote.

And then there’s the in history, Baby After Jim Crow, through matter of income, at Boomers do not the Civil Rights Era one time a traditional and afterwards, black boundary line between make up the political power was the parties. That, too, is largest segment expressed, by necessity, dissolving into somethrough block voting — thing else. The rise of of the potential the thinking being that Trump brought a fresh while there may not be tide of low-income electorate. enough black votes to voters to the Republican carry a single candidate, Party, and Mike Bloomthe block would be enough to tip one berg is a Democrat now. side to victory.

What does it all mean? Lots of things, But there is no such thing as “the most of them far in the hazy future. But black vote” right now, particularly in what’s most likely is that a new playbook the presidential race. While most black will need to be drawn to address this folks seem to agree about Trump and new plurality.

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ber of small black-owned businesses in have normal people, civil right leaders Winston-Salem. that we learned about besides Martin “This building, the Enterprise CenLuther King. So, one of my friends, his ter, is sitting on 1922 S. Martin Luther inspiration was Kobe Bryant and his King Jr. Drive,” Degraffinreaidt stated drive and determination and the things after the film. “In this building — in this that he did.” whole building we have about 45 small “The students do understand, but we businesses. I think this is an economic have new struggles,” he continued. “Not base for those small businesses, to help the exact same struggle, a new struggle them grow. We offer to them as many of getting into college and can we stay resources as we can, to help them grow in college or can you afford to stay in their business.” college. Once we graduate, can we find After the film, Degraffinreaidt led jobs in our majors?” the audience in a discussion, her large As people began to stand and file out hoop earrings moving of the auditorium, slightly as she talked.

Degraffinreaidt, “Do you, from your watched from afar For more informaperspective, think and spoke about tion on the documenthat students that how she hopes tary, check out the hear about Martin Felton-Stackhouse’s Luther King and what generation will contrailer at youtube.com/ went on, do you think tinue to interpret and watch?v=dE73UMlqaIs. that it is pertinent?” advocate for King’s asked one woman to values. her peers.

“Dr. Martin Luther Tavin Felton-Stackhouse, a college King wanted his work to speak for him student from Winston-Salem State Uni— to define him,” she said. “So, it was versity, responded. “Now, the younger my desire and prayer that it would give generation look to a different type of some incentive to make people get up role models,” he said. “For instance, we and take action.”

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by Rachel Spinella f you look at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. drive, what does it really mean?” a woman with a leopard beret hat on her head asked. “Is it the connotation that Martin Luther King Drive represents poverty? It shouldn’t. It should represent who he is and who he was.”

Patricia Degraffinreaidt, an event planner at the Enterprise Conference and Event Center in Winston-Salem, helped organize a documentary screening last Thursday night that explored this very notion.

The MLK Streets Project was released back in 2012 and focuses on the different streets throughout the US named after the civil rights icon.

The first street to be named after King was in Chicago, in 1968. Today, the street sheds light on the Great Northern Migration and features a statue honoring the tens of thousands of African Americans who migrated from the South to the city. In North Carolina, cities such as Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Raleigh, Asheboro and many more have followed suit with streets after him.

The film was inspired by Chris Rock’s stand-up comedy act called “MLK Blvd,” where he performs a series of jokes connected to the streets named after the Christian minister and activist.

“I don’t care where you live in America, if you are on Martin Luther King Bld.,” Rock says in the film. “It ain’t the safest place to be.”

Before the screening, viewers grabbed snacks and beverages from a small table outside of the auditorium. Many adults ranging from ages 40 to 70 sat in the rows of chairs that were placed in front of the screen.

Colorful, animated faces of people young and old appeared across the thin material that hung from the ceiling, followed by the sound of funky ’90s music that echoed throughout the room then faded to the background.

The film makes the sobering assessment that despite what the Christian minister and Civil Rights activist stood for, the streets named after him have high poverty and crime rates. Many of the interviewees in the film talk about how there aren’t many AfricanAmerican-owned businesses today, even though that was one of the many issues that King was fighting for during his lifetime. On Thursday, the film screening took place in a center filled with a num-

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high-pitched beep from a cash register punctuates the air. A paper bag is whipped open, emitting a rush and rustle as a bundle of produce fills its insides. Notes from a synth flute flow from the speakers overhead as Ace of Base’s “The Sign” begins to play. It’s the symphony of Deep Roots Market on a Saturday afternoon. But in the back corner of the store, a smaller microcosm of sound begins its own performance.

Quick, frantic scrawls emitted from a pastel crayon and the scratchy resistance of a paint-soaked sponge gliding across a blank sheet of paper act as a kind of abstract orchestra, mimicking the nonfigurative art that each utensil creates.

“People will say ‘Oh, just so you know, I can’t draw,’” explains Karen Archia, the founder of Public Art Practice and former owner of the now-closed People’s Perk Coffee Shop in Greensboro.

“And I’ve come to learn what that really means. And it means that I can’t accurately or perfectly recreate something that I see, and that’s only one really narrow form of marking and drawing.

So, one of my goals is to liberate people from that constraint of ‘I can’t draw.’ If you can sign your name, you can make beautiful marks.”

Archia is a self-taught artist who has been holding space for art-making in public spaces since September 2019. She usually creates work in the seating area at Deep Roots Market and invites others to explore artmaking with her three times a week.

On a recent Saturday, Archia sets up her shopping cart full of art supplies — various paints, empty sour-cream tubs, clear squeezy bottles of Elmer’s glue with the orange twisty tops, large sheets of thick watercolor paper — next to her regular table and gets to work. Today, she uses long pipettes which she dips into black ink to create curving, organic waves on her canvas. She’s joined by three of her friends, some of whom have attended these sessions before.

“It’s probably my third time,” says Lakeisha Williams. “And each time it’s a different experience. It does something different for me. It tends to help me reconnect with art and it helps me feel alive and artistic…. This kind of lets me know that you don’t have to go to school for art to be an artist.”

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a few words and phrases as prompts for the group to latch creative spirit,” she says. “We just need some time and space on to: sentimental, nostalgia, layered, least favorite, process of and some encouragement.” erasure, self-generative.

LaToya Winslow, a third-time Public Art Practice participant Williams starts by adding a few drops of gray paint to her and former People’s Perk patron, opts for the pastels for her blank sheet and smears them with a foam brush. Minutes piece. Bright marks of orange, red and blue slowly start to fill later, she introduces a range of darker tones to the canvas, the paper canvas that she’s taped to the table. She says the gently spreading the pigments together with a palette knife. occasions have replaced the community aspect that People’s Next to her sits Michelle Everette, whose piece contrasts Perk provided for her. against Williams’ darker portrayal with its bright pops up blue That’s intentional too. and drops of red.

Archia explains that she chooses to create in public spaces, “I remember when I was in second grade, I used to love rather than working in an isolated studio or renting out a drawing and stuff and painting and using my hands really,” Evseparate space to create art, to invite others in. Her ultimate erette recalls. “And then someone goal, Archia says, is to turn Public told me that a picture of a gorilla I Art Practice into a nonprofit that To learn more about Public Art Practice, encourages art-making in public made was ugly and then I stopped.

I was like, ‘I’ll never draw again!’” spaces and inspires other artists to follow the page on Facebook or on Everette, who is a poet, says do the same.

Instagram at @publicartpractice. words come more easily to her as “There’s value in making art in an artistic medium than visual art. plain sight and making art in everyYou can also follow Archia on But she says watching Archia has day space because the point is that made her want to get more visually Instagram at @scrappyunicorn. art is accessible to everyone; art is creative. She even purchased one for everyone; everyone is an artist,” of Archia’s paintings and put it in Archia says. “Fundamentally, we all To participate, visit Deep Roots Market her living room. have a creative spirit. And I think on Mondays at 12:30, Tuesdays at noon “Every time I see it, I have so making art in an everyday space and Saturdays at 3 p.m. many feelings about it,” Everette like this where people are grocery says. “To me, it’s just like love. It shopping, eating, there’s a diversity looks like someone who loves life of people here, that they see the made it. I feel lovely when I look at it. It’s very inspiring. I think making, I think it brings a sort of energy to the space as well that being around Karen is just so inspiring…. And I hope to be and it sends the message that art is something that is not rariinspired here. I’m already inspired.” fied and it’s not just in a museum and that art is everywhere And that, for Archia, is the goal of Public Art Practice. and can be made everywhere.”

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March 5-12, 2020

CROSSWORD ‘Soy If I Care’—it coulda bean worse. SUDOKU

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