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Nonprofit brings Christmas joy

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

The holiday season can be a tough time for a family when funds are tight. COVID-19 has placed many Forsyth County residents in this trying predicament.

But thanks to Rasheeda Shankle and Honorable Youth Inc. (HYI), some struggling families will have something to smile about Christmas morning.

On Saturday, Dec. 12, HYI held a drive- through Christmas toy drive to collect as many toys as possible to distribute to needy families. They also distributed donated toys to children enrolled in their Angel Tree Program. “Today we are just trying to bring a little Christmas joy to the city of Winston-Salem, considering everything that is going on with the pandemic,� said

Shankle.

HYI is a nonprofit that works with area youth and parents to help them achieve intergenerational economic security.

Shankle, executive director of HYI, says they also do a lot of financial literacy workshops with the families to assist them in becoming financially stable.

The idea for the angel tree came to Shankle out of sheer need. While communicating with the families involved with her nonprofit, one of their biggest fears was not being able to provide anything to their children for Christmas.

Shankle and her team then jumped into action. “During the pandemic, we have been providing rent and utilities assistance for our parents and what we did was we sent out an email asking how

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A mother and her young daughter pick up their toys from the toy drive.

Honorable Youth Inc. provided toys for 30 families this holiday season.

they were doing during the holiday season and all of our families weren’t really able to do anything for their kids this year,�

Shankle said. “So, we got an angle tree and collected donations and we were able to get gifts for 30 of our families.�

Shankle is glad to be able to provide assistance to those in their time of need. “It’s going to be awesome just to see them smile,� she said. “We visited some families and took food boxes to them and since many people have been in bad spirits, we are excited to see the joy it’s going to bring to the kids.�

The pandemic has impacted us all in some way.

For the families connected with HYI, the impact has been devastating. “A lot of our families couldn’t even pay rent,� she continued. “By the grace of God, we were able to receive grant funding from the Winston-Salem Foundation and with that we were able to take some of the financial burden off of those families, but it wasn’t a lot. “We still have families right now that can’t pay utility bills for this upcoming month, because they still are out of work.�

According to Shankle, the HYI is working on

expanding their career development program to assist the parents in their program with obtaining essential jobs. They are also looking to get into affordable housing because that is also a need for their families.

Shankle says the positive messages she receives from the families she assists fuels her to continue to do more. “To be able to be a support system for them is just amazing,� she said. “Everyone has been very thankful and grateful for the services we have provided.�

Local Ministers’ Conference preparing for the future ‘Praying will not be the last resort anymore.’

Although there are few weeks left in 2020, the Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity (MCWSV) is already laying the groundwork for 2021. At the end of each term the president of the Minsters’ Conference is required to provide a report looking back at some of the accomplishments of the organization, and on Tuesday, Dec. 15, Pastor Tembila Covington gave her report and discussed the future of the organization.

Covington, who will be serving her second term

as president, is the founder and senior pastor of Crossing Red Sea Ministries in Rockingham, N.C. In her first term Covington said her focus was to build unity and strengthen collaborations with the community. “Coming in I shared that I hoped that we worked together as a unified front and I said that envisioned faith leaders engaged in friendly and productive associations, collaborating and working together,� Covington said.

And in her second term she’s looking to build on that success.

Under her leadership, along with a host of

other accomplishments, the Ministers’ Conference helped raise more than $28,000 in scholarships for local students, established the Julius Sampson scholarship, partnered with local organizations

on the #BLM street mural, hosted voter registration drives, community prayer events, established community gardens, and much more. The Conference also gained its highest number of paid members in nearly

a decade.

Moving forward, Covington said, “I envision faith leaders, laypersons, and people of all age groups working together engaged in productive collaborations and harnessing resources. ‌ strengthening relationships, communication, and partnerships with local, state, and national agencies, community stakeholders and nonprofits.â€?

Covington also discussed a ‘three-tiered approach’ to reaching their goal that is guided by faith.

She said as faith leaders, the conference has to remember to put God first. “We have gone through

some trying times in 2020 with this pandemic and one thing it has made me to realize is that we need to remember as faith leaders to put God first,â€? she continued. “This is not a political organization, it is about justice. It is about faith and we need to ensure we’re putting all of our efforts, our outreach, our missions, our events on the forefront as faith leaders to make sure we’re always representing the type of organization that we are. ‌ What does that mean? More teaching, more preaching, more theological reflections.

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Others elected to the conference’s cabinet include: Dr. Keith Vereen, 1st vice president, Rev. Dr. Charolette Leach, 2nd vice president, Elder Reginald McCaskill, parliamentarian, Rev. Angela Brown, secretary, Minister Eddie Moser, assistant recording secretary, Rev. Constance Lowery, chaplain, and Rev. Dr. Dennis Leach Sr., treasurer.

The ecumenical membership of the Ministers’ Conference of WinstonSalem & Vicinity consists of leaders of faith-based organizations in the Piedmont Triad area and vicinity. These faith leaders represent Christian churches, Jewish synagogues, and faith-based societies in our community. Our mission is to promote fellowship across denominations, cultures, races and socioeconomic classes, and to work toward justice for all. We unite in the belief that as we work together, we can make a difference

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Winston Salem State University raises $3.3 million for student financial aid SUBMITTED ARTICLE

Winston-Salem State University’s Million Dollar Match campaign exceeded its $2 million goal by more than 60% - providing almost $3.4 million for student scholarships.

The campaign was possible thanks to WinstonSalem couple Anna Reilly and Matt Cullinan, who agreed to match any donations for need-based student scholarships between February 2019 and April 2020. Their nearly $1.7 million matching gift is the largest single gift from a couple in WSSU’s 128year history. More than 500 alumni and friends of the university contributed during the campaign, creating 31 new alumni endowments.

“This was a community-wide effort that created an important source of support for our students,” WSSU Chancellor Elwood L. Robinson said.

“The matching gift from the Reilly-Cullinans - to whom we are very grateful - energized our donors in a very significant way.

The Reilly-Cullinans were great partners in this endeavor.”

Initially, the goal for the Million Dollar Match was to raise $1 million that would be matched by the couple; however, after receiving overwhelming support from alumni and friends of the university, the Reilly-Cullinans agreed to exceed the original match.

“We were introduced to Winston Salem State about three years ago and our interest grew as we learned more about this incredible university,” said Anna Reilly. “When we understood that more than 40% of WSSU students are first generation, and many more of modest means, we felt like we had to invest. It became clear that Winston Salem State University truly sits at the nexus of opportunity and resources coming together to change a person’s life. It may present the greatest point of leverage in higher education today. Our previous experience had been with private elite universities with few resource limitations.

After meeting the Chancellor for the first time, our eyes were opened to the financial environment in which the University operates.”

“We were impressed by the talented leadership

team Chancellor Robinson was developing. Those administrators set the stage for what could happen,” said Matt Cullinan.

After meeting with Chancellor Robinson in 2018, the couple learned more about the challenges facing students - particularly juniors and seniors who may have difficulty with an outstanding balance or the loss of a parent or other support person.

The couple immediately established a $50,000 emergency fund for students; however, they desired to do more.

“These students were not returning to finish degrees after they had done the hardest part - getting in, getting through two or three years and then being sidelined by small financial impediments. It was tragic,” said Matt Cullinan.

After establishing the fund, Anna said the couple “tried to dig deeper and learn more. Winston-Salem State University is our community’s main branch of the University of North Carolina System. It should be commanding the kind of resources that other schools in the system do.”

Matt added, “It is an excellent school, and they do everything on a very limited budget. They make the most of every dollar in service of their students.”

What followed was a series of conversations with Robinson and Vice Chancellor for Advancement LaTonya Afolayan to determine the best way they could have a positive impact on the university.

“We asked the Chancellor, where was the greatest opportunity for Winston Salem State?

What could have a significant impact? Immediately, the Chancellor said that the most significant need is financial aid,” said Matt Cullinan. But there was more. Chancellor Robinson saw a chance to generate excitement for Winston Salem State and build its capacity to generate philanthropic resources.

“It was clear that the university has a long tradition of alumni support,

but they didn’t have a deep history of large-dollar philanthropy,” said Matt Cullinan. “That culture must be built over time.”

That is when the Million Dollar Match was born. The match provided an incentive for alumni, friends and a variety of organizations to support the University “We accepted their challenge. We offered alumni and friends of the college the opportunity to match. It changed everything,” said Afolayan, noting that prior to the challenge, the minimum for an endowment was $25,000, but with the matching challenge, an endowment could be established for $12,500.

“A lot of young alumni stepped up and said, ‘we can do this.’ We had a lot of people who wanted to give $5,000 or $10,000.

People started coming forward.”

The Million Dollar Match was launched in February of 2019 coinciding with the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) basketball tournament in Charlotte.

In that first month, more than $140,000 was raised and that figure kept growing.

“When we got to the end of 2019, we were at $1.1 million,” said Afolayan. “When we met with the donors, they said ‘Keep going. You guys have shocked us, and we want you to keep going’.”

And keep going they did. By the time the campaign ended in April of this year, the university had raised $1,698,000 that Anna and Matt matched.

“It’s fantastic that the University met and exceeded this ambitious fundraising goal” said Matt. “This experience has provided momentum for Winston-Salem State and has given the Chancellor and his team the chance to stretch even further. It puts the University in the position to pursue a larger campaign in the future. It was an honor for us to be part of this effort.”

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Bianca Green helps clients achieve dream of home ownership

BY JOHN RAILEY

In almost 20 years of working for the county of Forsyth, almost 15 of those as the loan officer for the county’s Homeownership Program, Bianca Green has helped hundreds of local residents buy their homes, often their first ones. Most of her clients work, some more than one job, so she often meets with them on evenings and

the program with increasing their economic mobility. The program gives its participants a well-earned jumpstart to the middleclass.

Initial findings from CSEM’s internal research show that for every $1 spent assisting these homeowners through this program, they accumulated $9.56 in net worth. The average accumulated equity for the 508 participants

cruiting minority students.

Green enrolled, studying biology and chemistry, with dreams of becoming a doctor. She found, however, that she didn’t like the lab or morgue parts of that plan. She talked to an advisor and changed her major to psychology. “It was a trying time,” Green said.

“My car died, so I started taking the bus to school, catching the 6:15 a.m. bus for my first class at 8. The bus arrived downtown around 6:30. But the trolley that went through Old Salem did not start running until 9, which meant I had to walk from downtown to Old Salem to be in class at 8. Some of those days, I was like, ‘This is for the birds.’ I would cry.

But as my dad would say, ‘That which does not kill you makes you stronger.’”

She graduated and went to work for Forsyth County Department of Social Services in intake,

making the first contact with clients and connecting them with services such as Medicaid and financial assistance. She learned rudimentary Spanish, developing a rapport with Latinx clients, helping many at the former Reynolds Health Center, and subsequently becoming the supervisor of a unit providing Medicaid, cash and daycare assistance.

She loved the work.

“I always wanted to help people,” she said.

Green later took a job at Experiment in Self-Reliance, a local nonprofit, helping clients purchase homes through the Individual Development Account, or IDA, program.

She referred clients to the county’s homeownership program, and became familiar with its processes.

When the loan officer job opened, she applied and was hired.

Often, she said, her

clients are “the first ones in their family to become a homeowner. For me, this is priceless. Single mothers, single fathers, young couples, mature ones and folks in their 60s. The biggest part I do is be a supporter/cheerleader. I help them discover their selfworth. I tell them, ‘You’re the first asset. You matter.

Your role in becoming a homeowner matters.

Don’t listen to the naysayers. You’re responsible.

You show that every day with your kids.’”

Green does most of the program’s work and sees all its clients, dealing with more than 60 clients a year and closing an average of 30 homes a year. Green said: “We’re passionate about what we do. We are their cheerleader, their accountability partner. We hold them accountable.

We will be there every step of the way with them.”

The average house

cost for clients is $149,000 to $190,000, Green said.

Clients are encouraged to put up $1,000 of their own money for down payments.

Most of the program’s clients are in the northern and southern parts of the city and in Rural Hall, Green said. About 90% of the clients are Black, as many as 8% are Latino, and about 2% are white.

Green said, “I love the impact that buying a home has on people’s lives. It’s amazing.”

To read a longer version of this story, including more from Arteria Logan, please go to www. wschronicle.com.

John Railey, raileyjb@ gmail.com, is the writerin-residence for CSEM. For more information, visit www.wssu.edu/csem.

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Arteria Logan (left) and Bianca Green. weekends. Green, also a licensed real-estate broker, guides them through the complex home-buying process, beginning with financial literacy classes and ending with the lifechanging purchases of homes.

“She was there with me from beginning to end, right through the closing,” Arteria Logan of WinstonSalem said of Green. Logan spent most of her life in apartments before buying her first home last year.

This holiday season marks the second in the home for her and her family, a dream come true.

Green makes those

in CSEM’s study sample is $34,289 after an average of nine years in the program, or $3,810 in net wealth accumulated per year. Those 508 participants have also paid $6,225,641 in property taxes since acquiring their homes, according to CSEM Director Craig Richardson and Zach Blizard, the CSEM research manager who leads the study.

Green, 51, is one of four children. Her father, a retired Army veteran, was a janitorial manager for a medical park in the city.

Her mother taught kindergarten and drove a school bus.

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Logan’s house decorated for Christmas. dreams happen year ’round for her clients, always getting a thrill from closings. Green said, “For the majority of the folks I work with, this program is the only way.”

Green is the linchpin of the county program, which promotes homeownership among low- to moderateincome residents by subsidizing down payments for qualified homebuyers, mainly first-time ones, and comes under the Forsyth County Community and Economic Development department. Dan Kornelis, the department director, has said Green “is awesome. She’s what makes it work.”

Winston-Salem State University’s Center for the Study of Economic Mobility (CSEM) and the county of Forsyth have come together to study the program. Since 2004, more than 600 participants have been through it. In interviews with CSEM, participants have credited

Three months after graduating from Reynolds High School, Green had a child. She went to Forsyth Technical Community College by day, working as a librarian by night in the radiology lab at what is now known as Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, to pay her tuition.

She wanted to become a computer engineer. Her parents and other family members helped her with childcare. But by the late 1980s, after about two years of ’round the clock studying and working, Green said, “I got burned out.” She took a break from school, continuing to work at the hospital.

Her father’s health declined. He talked with Green about her education, telling her, “You need to finish what you started.

Promise me when you go back, you’ll finish.” Bianca made the promise.

In 1991, she got a call from a friend at Salem College, which was re-

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Black businesswoman Mellody Hobson named chair of the board of Starbucks Mellody Hobson, a Princeton graduate who in 2019 earned the Woodrow Wilson Award, the university’s highest honor, was recently named chair of the board of Starbucks. With the promotion, Hobson becomes the only African American woman to chair a Fortune 500 company.

“I am thrilled and honored to take on the role of chair,” Hobson exclaimed. “Over nearly two decades, I have seen the company continue to elevate and transform its business - adapting to various market environments and evolving consumer trends.

“I look forward to working with the board and talented leadership team on accelerating our strategy, supporting our valued partners, and continuing to create significant value for all of our stakeholders.”

Hobson, 51, also serves as chairman of After School Matters, a Chicago non-profit that provides area teens with high-quality after-school and summer programs.

Additionally, the Chicago-born businesswoman is vice chair of World Business Chicago, co-chair of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, and a board member of the George Lucas Education Foundation and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

She is a member of The Rockefeller Foundation Board of Trustees and serves on the Investment Company Institute’s executive committee.

Besides serving over 15 years on the Starbucks board of directors, Hobson is the co-CEO of Ariel Investments, LLC, a global value-based asset management firm. In that role, she is responsible for the management, strategic planning, and growth for all areas of Ariel Investments outside of research and portfolio management.

Hobson also serves as chair of the board of the company’s publicly-traded mutual funds. Before being named co-CEO, Hobson spent nearly two decades as the firm’s president.

“Beyond Starbucks, she has brought invaluable experience to boardrooms across the nation. She currently serves as a director of JPMorgan Chase,” the company wrote in a news release, noting that Hobson is also a past director of Estée Lauder Companies and served as chair of the board of DreamWorks Animation until the company’s sale.

In addition to graduating from Princeton, Hobson also received honorary doctorate degrees from Howard University, Johns Hopkins University, St. Mary’s College, and the University of Southern California. In 2015, Time Magazine named her one of the “100 Most Influential People” worldwide.

“From the very beginning, I set out to build a different kind of company - one in which all decisions were to be made through the lens of humanity,” said Howard Schultz, Starbucks’ modern day founder and chairman emeritus.

“Mellody has been a trusted advisor to me and the company for more than 20 years. She is a fearless leader defined by her grace and wisdom. She has long embraced Starbucks’ purpose and, along with the leadership team, will continue to reimagine Starbucks’ future through the foundation of its past. My heart is full and thankful that Starbucks will have Mellody’s leadership as chair.”

Stacy M. Brown is the NNPA Newswire senior national correspondent.

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COVID-19 may wipe out 75% of North Carolina’s 20,000 restaurants Algenon Cash Guest Columnist Small independentlyowned restaurants are facing an extinction level event as we move deeper into colder months and the coronavirus spread reaches all-time highs. Without immediate financial aid, over 75% of the state’s 19,504 eating and drinking locations are in danger of closing permanently.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March, 17% of restaurants throughout the country (or about 110,000 establishments) have closed, either permanently or long-term, and 10,000 restaurants have closed over the last three months alone. As for the 10,000 restaurants that have closed over the past three months, the majority had been well-established in the industry for years and on average, had been in business for 16 years.

Local restaurant owner Vivian Joiner of Sweet Potatoes, further sounded the alarm during a recent Chronicle Live interview: “Not one restaurant, not one retail shop, not one small business, nothing that you think is going to be there is guaranteed to be there at the end of this unless we get financial help from government.”

Triad Food & Beverage Coalition conducted a study to measure the impact COVID-19 business restrictions are having on the industry. The organiza-

tion surveyed 100 operators throughout the region – restaurants (86%), bars (11%), caterers and food trucks (3%).

According to the survey, 52% of all respondents saw a 50% or more drop in sales revenue over the past six months with only 2% reporting flat sales or no impact. About 52% of operators also had to lay off or furlough at least ten employees in the past six months, with nearly 100% of operators expecting more staff changes to occur in January.

North Carolina mayors would like restaurants to receive $120 billion in aid in the next coronavirus stimulus package - especially as cases rise and restaurants are no longer able to provide outdoor dining service. Leaders called on the U.S. Senate to immediately take up and pass the RESTAURANTS Act that provides restaurants, bars, and food trucks with industry specific federal aid so we can beat this pandemic and sustain local small businesses.

American voters overwhelmingly approve of significant federal funding for states, cities, and towns, to overcome the devastating economic effects of the coronavirus on the economy and essential public services. Economists also agree that industry-specific aid is a smart investment and project that passing the RESTAURANTS Act would generate a $4.7 billion economic benefit for North Carolina.

The Independent Restaurant Coalition has also called on the Senate to urgently pass industry aid to prevent massive layoffs and permanent closures.

Food services account for 8.7% of all employment in North Carolina.

Sales and profit margins are critical in an industry where operators are expected to run a successful business in a financially tight environment that can be easily derailed by simple errors. The average restaurant operates a payroll at 28-30% of sales revenue, food cost is often 32-35% - therefore most well-run restaurants may hit a 40% gross profit before fixed expenses.

Rent averages 10% of sales and operators must also budget for utilities, insurance, trash pick-up, pest control, etc. – the goal is to maintain these expenses at 20% of sales. Therefore a typical owner may clear 10% before taxes, but to be honest, most only get around 5% because of waste, theft, unexpected maintenance, and a range of other externalities.

So if a restaurant earns $1 million in sales, the owner receives $50,000 before taxes. To be honest, they could make more being the general manager at their local McDonald’s.

However, most operators will quickly tell you they are not in the business for profit; moreover, they enjoy making a difference in their community, hiring neighbors seeking work, and serving people.

Now the same operators who sponsor yearbook ads, host fundraisers, and feed the hungry are the ones in need. More than 64% of operators responding to the survey expressed that lack of capital and cash flow assistance is needed for them to revive their business. Over 20% requested $30,000 or more

to rebuild.

Over the past several months, Democrats and Republicans have failed to come to a consensus on what should be included in a relief bill since the last round of relief was passed in April. Republicans are calling for business liability protection, while Democrats have asked for assistance for state and local governments. The White House is demanding a fresh round of direct stimulus payments to all taxpayers.

Operators are not optimistic the federal government will act within time.

When asked if “the federal government’s response has been helpful,” over 95% responded “somewhat disagree.”

Restaurant operators have been told to “pivot” and many have closed temporarily, reduced staff, increased marketing, altered operating hours, and attempted to incorporate curbside pick-up, delivery and online sales. But the pandemic has been ongoing for 10 months and operators have exhausted capital and creativity, not to mention patience.

We now have a vaccine and effective therapeutics providing a light at the end of the tunnel - but realistically, it will take until next summer or fall before there is widespread distribution.

Congress must act now to save restaurants. January may be too late.

Algenon Cash is a nationally recognized speaker and the managing director of Wharton Gladden & Company, a consulting firm. Reach him at acash@ whartongladden.com.

I got the COVID vaccine. You should, too.

Judie HolcombPack Associate Editor

In August I made the decision to enroll in the Pfizer BioNTech COVID vaccine study being conducted by a local research company. I am not one who is usually a risk-taker and I thought long and hard before I made the decision. But I am an older adult – a much needed demographic for the study – and healthy with no underlying health concerns.

Besides, someone had to do it. Why not me? So I joined the over 40,000 people around the country who were enrolled in the vaccine study that would hopefully result in a successful vaccine against COVID and help bring this horrific pandemic to an end sooner rather than later.

The process to be accepted into the study involved several hours of education about the ben-

efits and risks of the vaccine, a health check-up, and a time for questions with the doctor overseeing the study. I was informed that I had a 50% chance of getting the vaccine versus a placebo, an app was installed on my iPhone to report any symptoms I experienced, and I was given a gift card for my participation.

The first shot was similar to a flu shot and with the exception of a slightly sore arm, I didn’t experience anything unusual.

For that reason, I assumed I had received the placebo.

Three weeks later I returned to receive the second shot. I didn’t immediately experience anything unusual, which confirmed my suspicion that I had received the placebo. That evening, nothing; the following morning, nothing.

I took my temperature and it registered the usual 97.6 degrees. By that time I had convinced myself I had the placebo and went on with my day’s activities, expecting no change.

Just after lunch I suddenly realized I wasn’t feeling my usual perky self. Something was different and I was feeling

a little bit queasy. I took my temperature and it was 101. Bingo! I had the vaccine!

I haven’t felt any fear by participating in the vaccine study because I know that by the time a drug gets to Phase 3, it has been determined to be safe for testing in humans.

Also, this vaccine doesn’t contain the whole virus or those parts of the virus that can make you sick.

Instead, it contains part of the virus’ genetic code, the RNA, which helps your body produce antibodies to fight COVID-19.

I am elated that the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine has shown to be 95% effective and has been given an emergency approval by the FDA. Millions of doses are now being delivered to the states to begin their vaccination programs, starting with front-line healthcare workers and those in long-term facilities.

According to a recent Gallop poll, 42% of Americans said they would not get the vaccine. This number appears to be deceasing with more news and data being shared about the effectiveness and

safety of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, as well as the Moderna vaccine that is awaiting final approval.

But to bring the pandemic under control, the majority of Americans need to get vaccinated. And we all need to continue to wear masks, practice social distancing, and not gather in large groups until the rate of infections, hospitalizations and deaths decreases significantly.

I again think about why I volunteered to be in this study. Yes, I wanted to do my part to help my fellow Americans. And the gift cards I receive when I return to the facility for blood work is an added bonus. But on a more personal level, I want to safely visit my children and grandchildren again. I want to see my grandchildren grow up. I want to hug my family and friends again.

And so I took a leap of faith and got the COVID vaccine. I hope you will, too.

Judie Holcomb-Pack is associate editor of The Chronicle and grew up on the Southside of WinstonSalem.

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Let us hope the vaccine beats COVID-19 Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.

Guest Columnist We have been in various phases of lockdown and shutdown since March. Our movements have been inhibited and our lifestyles have been rearranged.

Wearing a mask has become a no-brainer. Going into a store automatically means that we must practice social distancing.

That is just the way it is.

The month of December has always been celebrated as the holiday season. The vaccine is now here as well. The CDC advisers voted to recommend Pfizer/BioNTech

COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, signed off on it Sunday. According to reports, the first shipments of the vaccine happened late Sunday.

First responders will be the first in line to receive the vaccine, after which those of us who have preexisting conditions will receive it. In the coming months, those in the general population will receive the vaccine. Reports say that children under sixteen years of age will be the last to receive it.

A survey given recently revealed that 63% of us would be willing to take the vaccine. That number gives me pause. Maybe we are concerned about how quickly the vaccine was made. Arguably, this vaccine came on the scene

rather quickly. Usually, it does take some time for research and testing in order to come up with a vaccine. Researchers counter and say they have been working on this vaccine for years.

As we know from the beginning, African Americans have been hit the hardest with COVID-19. A study by the Pew Research Center said that of 12,648 adults surveyed, only 42% of African Americans would consider taking the vaccine. This compares to 63% of Hispanics.

Many of us remember the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. A partnership with the Public Health Service in 1931 was formed to examine the progression of syphilis in African American men. The men were misguided and treatment was not administered. As

a result, Black men and their families eventually received a settlement of $10 million. This injustice in healthcare has not been forgotten.

African Americans have not had adequate healthcare, coupled with a reticence about going to the doctor. This is especially true for Black men. I go to the doctor; however, there are many who will just not go.

“The Black community’s distrust of the nation’s medical establishment is rooted in a long record of mistreatment.

The late 1900s were defined by medical breakthroughs in the medical community, but many of these experiments and discoveries were made at the expense of Black people’s human dignity,” said Dr. Reed Tuckson, co-found-

er of the Black Coalition Against COVID-19. He added, “There is a history of insults that have occurred in healthcare for people of color.”

However, Dr. Anthony Fauci said, “It would be doubly tragic that the lingering effects of that prevent you from doing something so important.”

Even while we have the vaccine now, there will be other hurdles to jump.

First, the distribution to hospitals and healthcare facilities will be crucial.

It will be also important to have both doses, four weeks apart, so that the medication will work. We know that COVID-19 does not play favorites. It strikes all of us, sometimes without much warning. This trail of destruction must stop. The science says this vaccine can stop it.

America will have to ask itself a moral question: Will family, race, political affiliation or socio-economic status be determining factors in whether we take the vaccine or not?

Each family will have to decide. Attitudes and opinions will vary.

What will yours be?

James B. Ewers Jr. is a former tennis champion at Atkins High School and played college tennis at Johnson C. Smith University where he was allconference for four years.

He is a retired college administrator and can be reached at overtimefergie.2020@yahoo.com.

No going back Oscar H. Blayton Guest Columnist It is not unfair to say that President-elect Joe Biden misappropriated the moral authority of the progressive movement in America to win the White House.

The voters who joined forces to rid our nation of a vile cancer symptomatic of our body politic being riddled with the disease of white supremacy, were not harmonious in their vision for America’s future. Selfidentified moderates and conservatives who were sick of Trump were content to vote to re-set the country on its slow track to a community for the common good. Progressives, on the other hand,

still seek to cure the nation of the illness of white supremacy and push forward with all deliberate speed toward a society that values all human life, as well as the planet on which we live.

While progressives, moderates and some conservatives made common cause to save this nation, progressives must stay true to their values.

During the campaign, Biden paid lip service to some progressive ideas to garner enough votes to defeat the mad king of Trumpland and end his reign of bigotry and hatred. But since the election, Biden’s conservative slip has been showing, metaphorically, and he has ceased to be as meticulous about appearing to be someone who wants to move the country forward. “Just plain Joe” wants to take us back to the way things were before Trump. But the way things

were before Trump is what led to Trump in the first place. Trump did not create Trump’s America. He just recognized that this country is filthy with his kind of people and exploited that fact. Going back to the way things were will deliver us into the hands of another Trump in very short order.

We must recognize the fact that a huge portion of America pines for a “Leave It to Beaver” version of a country where June Cleaver vacuums the house in her pearls and high heels while dinner is in the oven in anticipation of the arrival of the master of the house. But viewers of this American fantasy would be hard-pressed to recall seeing a Black person or an Asian or a Native American on that program, let alone a Muslim or someone with physical or mental disabilities.

Too many white

Americans are wrapped in a comfortable gauze of white exceptionalism and exclusivity and must push out of their privileged cocoons if they are to enter into the warm, life-giving sunlight that is our global humanity. Their avaricious hoarding of the world’s resources to the detriment of all others harms us as a people within the larger community. “America First” has never meant anything other than “We will do whatever it takes to get what we want and whatever is left over can be shared by the rest.”

We must not go back to the way things were. We must not go back to our painful past where police murders of people of color went unnoticed by public officials and news media.

We must not go back to a time when abusive behavior toward women and sexual assaults were normalized as unfortunate

embarrassments that are the price of patriarchy.

We must push forward to an era where Black and brown crime is not viewed as deserving of more punishment than white crime.

We must go forward to an America where politicians do not equate justice movements with hate groups and argue that they should be treated in the same manner.

Joe Biden will become president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2021, and as citizens and residents, we must do everything we can to help him move the nation forward.

But we also must do all we can to prevent him from taking us back to where we do not want to go.

It will not be easy to cure this nation of its ills.

The majority of white voters voted for Trump in 2020 knowing him to be a racist, xenophobic bigot.

But, as people of color,

we have allies in millions of right-thinking white Americans who know what this country can be.

And together we can provide the cure.

We need progressive politicians if we are to make progress. We need progressive candidates if we are to have progressive politicians. And we must think progressively and proactively if we are to find, promote and elect progressive candidates.

Moving America forward is not in the hands of any politician. It is in the hands of the American voters, the American people the people who look back at us in our mirrors.

Oscar H. Blayton is a former Marine Corps combat pilot and human rights activist who practices law in Virginia.

Embracing ecological realism ROBERT C. KOEHLER

Guest Columnist

Our post-election hope couldn’t be more fragile.

Does Joe Biden see his mission as merely reclaiming situation normal from Donald Trump? How aware is he of the big, beyond-our-lifetimes future and the crucial need to address climate change?

Is he able to acknowledge that human “interests” go well beyond national borders? And if so, how much political traction would he have to have before he could begin turning vision into policy?

A recent bit of news: The House just voted overwhelmingly in favor of the 2021 Pentagon budget: $740.5 billion. The vote was 335-78. More Democrats than Republicans gave it their blessing - in utter defiance of any sane recognition of true security, national or otherwise.

This is situation normal in action, requiring nothing from a politician except

limited thinking.

Waging war, preparing for war, worshipping at the altar of militaryindustrialism are precisely the opposite of what we must be doing. This is running away from - and intensifying - the real threat we face. Yet our political leaders do so with a shrug, and the corporate media follows suit with a shrug of its own.

The takeaway here is that the real election isn’t over. As Margaret Klein Salamon, cofounder of The Climate Mobilization, put it in an interview with Truthout: “We need the most powerful social movement in history to put unbearable pressure on Biden and Congress to launch a full-scale climate mobilization.”

“We need … ” That alone won’t make it happen. What we also need is a shift in consciousness: socially, culturally, politically. It’s not as if we need to move our attention - and our spending - from one war to another: from fighting terrorism and “evil” to fighting climate change. The one thing we do not need is another war, certainly not

against Planet Earth.

The first priority of the movement is a profound expansion of political thinking: beyond the clichés of war and security. Stewart M. Patrick, writing at World Politics Review, puts it with stunning clarity: “The global environmental crisis, encompassing runaway climate change, collapsing biodiversity and the slow death of the world’s oceans, has exposed the limitations of traditional political realism as a guide to statecraft in the 21st century. The time has come for the nations of the world to embrace a new approach to world politics that treats the preservation of the biosphere as a core national interest and a central objective of national security policy. Call this new mindset ecological realism.”

The thinking that ecological realism must replace is something Patrick generously refers to as “political realism,” which “depicts the international system as an inherently anarchic realm populated by independent states recognizing no superior authority.”

This is worth a moment of reflection: the grotesque “realism” of the last 500 years or so of human history, or perhaps much further back than that, is that the planet is, in essence, an elementary school playground: an “anarchic realm” full of other kids, none of whom you can really trust, some of whom are out to get you. I’d say we’ve reached a point that you could call grow up or blow up.

The overarching truth, demanding an upward shift in awareness - including the awareness of President Joe Biden - is that the human race has entered what scientists are calling the Anthropocene: the intertwining of human and natural forces. Human exploitation of Planet Earth has reached a point where what we do and how we live reverberates across the circle of life and could destroy it, for every species, for all life.

Doesn’t this seem like something the governments of the world should take seriously? How, oh how, do we move beyond the dead end of political realism?

This sort of think-

ing “loses its way,” Patrick writes, when it faces “threats without a threatener;” that is, “dangers arising not from geopolitical rivalry or malicious intent, but from human interactions with the environment, as with climate change or pandemic disease.”

We must push our politics beyond the cul-de-sac of so-called political realism. We must have a president who can see beyond, and understands that our interests do not stop at the national border. We must have a president who can see: “the yawning chasm between our fragmented international system, composed of nearly 200 sovereign entities, and the integrated Earth system, a bio-geophysical unity that obeys no national boundaries.”

I believe that Biden is capable of seeing this, but may well require the pressure of an unrelenting climate-and-sanity movement, linked to a racialjustice-and-sanity movement, before he is willing, before he is able, to acknowledge that he sees this - and begins pragmatically embracing ecologi-

cal realism.

No more clichés about war, OK, Mr. President?

The effects of war and the Industrial Revolution are what have brought us to where we are now: the Anthropocene. All it’s taken is 75 years of nuclear testing, in conjunction with industrial pollution, agribusiness, the production of non-biodegradable plastic and more, and here we are, on the brink of unsustainability.

Politically, the problem is that leaders find it so much easier to get people to coalesce around belief in a common enemy. I’m sure the temptation for the president to do this is nearly irresistible.

The movement that pushes national and global politics beyond this must be a movement declaring that the human race has grown up. Now it’s time for the political system to do so.

Robert C. Koehler (koehlercw@gmail.com), syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Chicago award-winning journalist and editor.

He is the author of “Courage Grows Strong at the Wound.”

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Judge: Test all N.C. prison staff for virus every 14 days

BY JORDAN WILKIE CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS

North Carolina’s Department of Public Safety will begin to test every staff person who comes into contact with inmates in state prisons, starting this week.

The prisons could have done this on their own months ago, following guidance from another state agency. But they did not.

Instead, the move to test prison staff was ordered Thursday by Vinston Rozier Jr., a Wake County Superior Court judge who has been overseeing a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of conditions in state prisons since April.

Routine testing of prison staff is important, plaintiffs in the case argue, because staff members are the primary connection between prisons and the surrounding communities.

The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services came to the same conclusion, according to a July 31 email that the plaintiffs uncovered in discovery and attached to a public court filing last week.

“Given that inmates are tested on arrival and generally spend at least 14 days in a processing center, the main way COVID-19 can be introduced into a facility is through staff,” Megan Sredl, a DHHS epidemiologist, wrote to DPS staff.

“It will be faster and more effective to regularly test all staff to see if they have introduced the virus, rather than identifying the virus in a sample of inmates after it has already been circulating in the facility.”

Since the first cases

were identified in state prisons in March, disease spread has followed a similar pattern. A single case in a prison is identified. Shortly thereafter, expanded testing reveals a large outbreak. Prison staff and inmates fall ill by the dozens, and in several major outbreaks at Neuse, Piedmont and Raleigh’s women’s prison, among several others, have quickly ballooned into hundreds of cases.

In September and again on Nov. 25, DPS announced major prison transfers and temporary facility closures in part because of high staff vacancy rates, where COVID-19 infections exacerbated long-standing staff shortages.

How many have died?

Since April, public health experts and civil rights groups have warned Gov. Roy Cooper and DPS that COVID-19 would move rapidly through the prison population, threatening the health of prison staff members and the communities in which they reside when they are off work.

Experts have also warned from early in the pandemic that without expanded testing, more people in state custody would become ill and die from COVID-19.

Commissioner of Pris-

ons Todd Ishee told the Senate Committee on Prison Safety on Nov. 30 that, as far as the prison system knows, four prison staff members have died from COVID-19 infection.

There were 319 staff members out of work with the illness, and 1,560 had gotten sick since March.

An investigation in May by the NC Watchdog Reporting Network into the death of Barbara Anne Stewart, a nurse at Caswell Correctional Center and the first known prison staff death, revealed that a lack of testing at the prison masked a significant COVID-19 outbreak.

Indeed, when the state began mass testing of every person in state custody, DPS discovered extensive outbreaks in its prisons that were otherwise undetected.

While DPS has significantly ramped up testing for its staff and for people held in prisons, often on the heels of an order from Rozier, plaintiffs have routinely criticized the testing strategies as insufficient.

In May, DPS announced its first plan to test prison staff for the new coronavirus, which causes COVID-19. The majority of staff testing has been voluntary.

At the Nov. 30 hearing in front of the Senate committee, Ishee said pris-

ons had begun a new testing regime, whereby all staff members were being tested every 14 days, but only when there was an active outbreak at the prison.

There were 26 prisons with active outbreaks.

For all other prison staff, voluntary testing was still available.

But Judge Rozier determined that was not enough. Staff at every prison must be required to be tested every 14 days, he wrote in his order, released Thursday afternoon.

The state will have to report those tests and results weekly to the courts.

For the first time, the public will have consistent reports on how many staff at which prisons are testing positive. Epidemiologists and other public health experts have been seeking this information for

months, as have journalists.

Previously, DPS reported positive staff tests, but only by region and for staff members who used the voluntary testing system. If staff members got tested by their own doctors, at community events or elsewhere, DPS said it could not reliably report those tests and results.

That is the same reasoning Ishee gave to state senators at the Nov. 30

hearing for not being able to say for sure that more prison staff members have not died from the disease.

Staff members could have become ill and subsequently died without ever alerting the prison system, Ishee said.

Now, it should no longer be possible for the state’s prison staff to get sick and die from COVID-19 without the state or the courts knowing about it.

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D ecember 17, 2020

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Dave Moore looks to expand his helping hand in the community

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

The work Dave Moore has done in the community has been well detailed over the past 15 years. His passion for helping formerly incarcerated men reenter the workforce through his auto body repair program is to be commended, but Moore wants to do more.

Through his Southside Rides Foundation, which he founded in 2005, Moore’s Project MOORE (Mentoring Our Own and Rejuvenating the Environment) program teaches its students the trade of auto body, along with how to be an entrepreneur.

Moore now has a property at 1321 Hardesty Lane which he plans to turn into a multifunction location.

His goal is to offer young Photos by Timothy Ramsey men and women ages 14Moore, left, give a $1,000 check to one of his former 19 an opportunity to learn graduates for tools and supplies for their own shop. from a professional barber, and become successful in offer mentoring for young munity in a positive way.

“It was like what she their lives. ladies, and a music studio “I felt it in my heart for aspiring musicians to told me I should be doing record clean music. The with the guys came into ef- before I started, because I only requirement is that fect,” he said. “I told my- love these little dudes,” he they attend school and self I had to switch things said. “I am not faking this, up and teach these dudes a it’s real. Why I am like maintain good grades.

“With this music thing, trade, so they don’t have to I am, I don’t know; God it’s a lot of young kids out go out there and hustle like made me this way. I love what I do, and I would do it here and a lot of them are I tried to do.

“I am trying to make even if no one would help in gangs and other things, but they like music,” said my community safe, be- me. Everything you go Moore. “Yes, I have a stu- cause I love my commu- through, I think God puts dio, but it’s rules to the nity. I have kids and I have you through that to get you game and they will have to grandkids and I want them where you’re going.

“If I hadn’t been to prison, I wouldn’t be doing this. I probably would be dead or with a life sentence or something. God told me he had bigger plans for me and to focus on that goal.

When it’s good, you know you have God’s support, because it’s good.”

Moore says he doesn’t need any appreciation from the guys in his program, because that is not why he does it. He only wants to see the men succeed after deciding to change their lives for the better.

“All they have to do is stay doing what they are doing, and I will appreciate that,” he said. “Stay out the street and tell me you don’t have any charges and I am satisfied with that. No one owes me anything, because God has my gift whenever I get it. I stay spiritually grounded, but I am me.”

Nearly all of the young men who enter the proDave Moore, left, stands with Dennis Davis, a gradu- gram are receptive of the ate of his auto body program. life lessons Moore offers them. Moore says because of the respect he earned respect it just like anything to be safe.”

Moore says he knew over the years, most of the else. I would die for this, so I just tell them to line even before being released young men respect what up if they are serious about from prison that his pro- he is attempting to do.

Moore estimates he gram was going to be sucdoing the right thing. has graduated nearly 1,000 “I feel like another Tu- cessful.

“Everything that I did, former inmates from his pac is going to come out of here, another New Edi- I had to be the best at it,” program over the years and tion is going to come from he said. “When I sold many of them have gone right here, we might even dope, I was good; when I on to own their own busisee another Quincy Jones, opened my body shop, I nesses themselves. He rethat’s just how I think. was even better. When I cently blessed four former The object is to give these got in prison, guys were members of his program young men and women op- coming to me to help them with $1,000 for tools and portunities that they don’t start their own business. supplies for their shops.

Dennis Davis met really see, feel or touch. So, I thought the only They see it on TV, but it’s thing I know how to do is Moore in 2010 while innot in their face like that. body work, it’s a market- carcerated at the Forsyth We have some structure able trade and I wanted to Correctional Center on Cherry Street. He is a behind this music thing share that with them.”

While doing his auto graduate of the auto body and as hungry as these guys are to get noticed, the body class in jail, Moore program.

“I graduated from the was approached by Forsky is the limit.”

The vision for his pro- syth Technical Commu- program and when I got gram came from his niece, nity College, Davidson out, I still do work at the said Moore. While Moore Community College, and shop to this day,” said Daoperated his mechanics the Mecklenburg County vis. “I also started my own shop, he was also selling Sheriff’s Department and record label, NC Money drugs. After his niece was began teaching for those Team Records, and that’s where the idea came from arrested for having a pack- institutions.

“I broke my curricu- to do something with the age delivered to her home, Moore accepted responsi- lum down while inside and kids and music. they were getting all of the “He helped me unbility to spare his niece.

While Moore was in- bookwork,” Moore said derstand that I can take a carcerated, his niece died about his teaching while negative and turn it into a from an illness. Moore in prison. “They were get- positive and have my own stated that his niece always ting life skills, job readi- brand, my own company, wanted him to do some- ness, anger management and help out my commuthing positive with the skills, business planning, nity as well.”

Davis is a Winstonyoung men he was work- and learning all of the ing with. While in prison auto body tools and equip- Salem native and says he grew up in the projects. he began to teach other in- ment.”

Moore says he gets He says it feels good to be mates about the auto body trade and once released, he such personal joy when involved with something started his foundation to he witnesses individuals positive after doing somestart impacting the com- graduate from his program thing negative.

It’s going to take more than a pandemic to dull the Christmas spirit in WinstonSalem! Most of the traditional events we look forward to have re-imagined ways to continue to offer us holiday cheer. With all these choices, it will be hard to choose which ones to attend. However you choose to celebrate the holidays, here’s wishing you the joy and peace of this special season.

*Tanglewood’s Festival of Lights, a holiday tradition, runs 6 p.m. until 11 p.m. through January 1. Over 100 displays spread over a four-mile route is a light-andmotion-filled adventure. Tickets are $15 per family cars, vans or trucks. Carriage rides and tractor-pulled hayrides are available by reservation and at an additional charge. Call 336-766-9540 for information. www.forsyth.cc/parks/tanglewood/fol/. *Enjoy the beauty of a Victorian Christmas at Korner’s Folly, 413 S. Main St., Kernersville, Wednesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sundays 1-5 p.m. The 1880 home of artist Jule Gilmer Korner will be transformed with floor to ceiling garland, lights and Christmas trees. Self-guided tours will include 22 decorated rooms and lasts about 1-1/2 hours. Tickets are $10/adult and $6/children 6-18 (under 6 free). Limited number of tickets available. For ticket information, visit www.kornersfolly.org. *Find unique gifts and holiday items at The Cricket’s Nest through Dec. 23.

Their annual craft show has been cancelled for 2020, but the shop is open Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m., Thursday from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Rooms are filled with unique items of all kinds handmade by local seniors. The Cricket’s Nest is located at 4401 Country Club Road. www.cricketsnest.com. *Cricket’s Nest is stepping out into the Virtual World with the “Virtual Cricket” – a Facebook Live Event – Friday, Dec. 18, 9:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Please tune in and watch as we feature some of our unique items. Since it will be ‘LIVE’, you’ll get to see all the ‘bloopers’ in real time! *Christmas by Candlelight at Korner’s Folly, Dec. 19 and 26, 5-9 p.m. by appointment only. Interpreters from Kernersville Little Theatre will greet guests before they begin a self-guided tour. $15/adults and $6/child 6-18. For tickets, visit www.kornersfolly.org. *Winter Wonder Wander presented by Theatre Alliance Dec. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22, in the parking lot of their new location at 650 W. Sixth St. Arrive any time, no reservations required. $5 per person donation requested, masks required.

Call 336-723-7777 or visit www.theatrealliance.ws for more information. *The annual presentation of The Nutcracker presented by the UNC School of the Arts will not be done live this year, but instead will be a streamed film. The timeless tale of “The Nutcracker” will be presented in the newly created for film by the schools of Dance, Design & Production, Filmmaking and Music. The film will be widely available for free to watch on-demand beginning Dec. 17. For more information, visit www.uncsa.edu. *The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem presents “Home for the Holidays: Christmas Greetings from Broadway,” streaming Dec. 18 through the 25th.

Tickets are $12 per household for the virtual performance. Once tickets are purchased, an email will be sent with a link to the performance. For information, call 336-725-4001 or visit www.LTofWS.org. *A holiday tradition that tells the Christmas story with an infusion of gospel music, dance and spoken word, the annual “Nativity According to the Gospels” will be a virtual holiday celebration this year. Presented by the N.C. Black Repertory Company, Nativity will be available to watch Dec. 18-25 and will feature scenes from the classic Nativity. Virtual tickets are on sale now at a price of $10 per household. A confirmation email with a link to access the video will be sent upon purchase of a virtual ticket. Patrons will have three hours from the moment they click “Watch” to view the video during the Dec. 18-25 screening window. For information on group screenings (school/church/organizational screenings), please email Clarielle Marsh at clarielle@ncblackrep.org. www.ncblackrep.org. *Christmas for the City, a free event to bring together our community in a celebration of everything Christmas, is being planned for Dec. 19, 4-7:30 p.m. Presented by Love Out Loud, their website states that the event in being planned “with very open hands, for a drive-thru, drive-in, drive-on experience” to be held at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds. The event will include a drive-thru donations dropoff for Senior Services, worship service and music, area nonprofits, and more. For details, visit www.christmasforthecity.com. *Spring Theatre’s Holiday Film “Season’s Screenings” is a socially-distanced sampler platter featuring characters new and old, songs both joyful and triumphant, and a vibrant cast packed with more good cheer than you can shake a peppermint stick at. View the film on Dec. 23 at 7:30 p.m. when it will be publicly streamed via the Theatre’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. “Season’s Screenings” showcases both professional and community performers with ages ranging from four to 75. In keeping with Spring Theatre’s mission to empower the next generation, half of the performers are school-and-college-aged. Performers come from eight states and 19 cities within North Carolina. For more information and to keep up with the project, please like/follow Spring Theatre on Facebook @springtheatreorg.

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Timothy Ramsey Sports Columnist

Is professional boxing dead?

Last week I wrote about the boxing showcase headlined by Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. Following that exhibition, the professional fight of the year between Errol Spence Jr. and Danny Garcia happened and let’s just say, I was left wanting more from the fight.

As we close out 2020, that led me to start thinking about how bad the state of boxing is and will it ever rebound.

Spence is one of the pound-for-pound best boxers in the sport and Garcia is a former welterweight title holder, so I thought the fight between the two boxers was going to be reminiscent of the great middleweight bouts of the past.

Unfortunately for fans, it seemed like both fighters were too methodical with their approach, making for a somewhat boring fight. Spence won by decision, but I was hoping for more action. It makes me think that both fighters were fighting to protect their records and/ or titles, instead of fighting to beat the other man.

Overall, it was an enjoyable fight for boxing purists with two of the best fighters in the sport.

My question is: why didn’t this bout garner more attention from media and fans? If this was 10 or 20 years ago, this would have been one of the biggest fights in recent memory.

At first, I wanted to blame COVID-19 for the lack of interest, but I don’t think that was the biggest reason. I have come to the conclusion that boxing does not have the same draw that it did a decade ago.

What really confirmed my belief was when I saw the proposed exhibition fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Logan Paul that is supposed to take place on Feb. 20 of next year. It was amazing to see how many more people were posting about the newly announced exhibition versus how many people discussed Spence vs. Garcia.

I never thought we would come to the point that an exhibition between a retired fighter and an Internet sensation would be more popular than a fight with two of the best boxers in the sport.

The writing was on the wall for boxing starting in the early part of the 2000s when Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) began to really take off. The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) ushered in a line of superstars that started to eat into the popularity of boxing.

The UFC roster around that time included such superstar names like Quintin “Rampage” Jackson, Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell, Anderson “The See Fight on B3

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BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

The North Forsyth Lady Vikings volleyball team has gotten off to a slow start

to the season at 0-6. The ladies gave it their all against the Golden Eagles of Surry Central, but were unsuccessful after a tough match.

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Stevenson positively impacting the lives of local youth

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Ensuring the success of the next generation is not just a goal for Antonio Stevenson, it is a way of life. His work with at-risk youth has made a tremendous impact in the community.

Stevenson is attacking the issue of at-risk youth from multiple fronts.

He mentors young men through his nonprofit My Brothers Second Chance (MBSC), he trains young athletes while also giving them life lessons, and has written two books to inspire the youth.

With My Brothers Second Chance, Stevenson and other mentors use their past experiences to show young men a better path to pursue, other than a life in the streets. He gives a lot of credit to his board members for advancing the nonprofit to the level it has reached.

“We do team building and focus on anger management skills and the main thing we do is what I call hard core mentoring,” said Stevenson. “The majority of our kids don’t have fathers, so we are

you sag, so don’t even get in here with that.’ It was crazy to see kids mentoring each other and we not having to say anything.

“When COVID-19 hit, it put a damper on things, because we are in our phase of trying to get them registered for college. Two of them registered for college anyway and college is not for everyone, so those who graduated that did not register for college are working.”

Stevenson lost his mother earlier this year and she was the reason he founded his nonprofit initially, he said. For the young men in the program to call, text and check Submitted photo on him during one of the Stevenson and the mentors with the My Brothers Second Chance program expose the darkest moments in his life young men to what they can achieve if they do the right thing. meant the world to him. the big brothers and the of their lives. He currently joys seeing the growth in “My mom was the reaones they call when things has 22 kids in his program, the young men in his pro- son I did it at Carver, beranging in age from teen- gram, especially when they cause I knew there were aren’t going smoothly. begin to mature and man- some more Antonio Ste“We try to play defense agers to young adults.

“100 percent of our age each other’s behavior vensons walking the halls and intercept every opportunity they have to turn kids have amazing moth- without any of the adults at Carver High School,” ers; I can’t think of one kid having to say anything. back to their own ways.” he said. “I knew there “It is great to see them were some kids that just Stevenson says he in my program that doesn’t doesn’t want people to have a loving mother,” mentoring one another had a mother and would think he has “bad kids” in Stevenson said about the now,” he said. “They will sort of feel around their his program. For him, all youth in his program. tell one another to make way in the dark to be men, of the kids are good, they “They just have a lack of a sure they have their belt on so everything I was doing or say, ‘You know Mr. Ste- was because of my mom. have simply lacked some male role model,” Stevenson said he en- venson be tripping when parenting in certain areas See Youth on B5

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Elder Richard Wayne Wood

Durham’s fabric co. Spoonflower urged to withdraw Hindu gods’ napkins

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Sunday School Lesson

A Regal Response to Holy Light Scriptures: Matthew 2:7-15 By the end of this lesson, we will: *Explain how the wise men point to the universality of Jesus; *Grieve for those who suffer innocently due to the world’s brokenness and sin; *Join with peoples of every ethnicity and culture to worship Jesus, the King of all nations.

Background: Who were the wise men, three kings, magi? (Note: “Magi” refers to a Persian religious caste, but when the Gospel was written, the term was loosely used for astrologers, seers, and fortunetellers.) They were distinguished foreigners who visited Jesus after his birth with significant gifts. They are said to be astrologers, since they followed an eastern star all the way from Persia, India and Arabia to Jerusalem and then Bethlehem - a journey that would take an estimated two years.

Their names and countries of origin are not given in the Bible, but Western tradition has identified them as Gaspar, King of Sheba, who brings frankincense, Melchoir, King of Arabia, who brings gold, and Balthazar, King of Terse and Egypt, whose gift was myrrh. The three gifts have been described as symbols of Christ’s identity and mission: gold for a king; frankincense, a gift for deity; myrrh, a spice for a person who was going to die.

Lesson: The arrival of the foreigners in search of Jesus, saying, “Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him” (verse 2). Their inquiry resulted in an audience with Herod. After explaining to Herod how they discovered that the Messiah was to be born and that his star appeared in the east and guided them to Jerusalem, Herod, who was king himself, was not about to let anyone take away his kingdom. (Herod’s gained knowledge from the kings ultimately resulted in the slaughter of the children at Bethlehem from two years old and under.)

After their conversation, Herod encouraged their search and asked “… and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also” (verses 7-8). Herod knew of the prophecy and was plotting to make sure it did not actually manifest.

Leaving Jerusalem, the kings were once again guided by the star of the east from Jerusalem to Bethlehem “… till it came and stood over where the young child was …” they rejoiced with exceeding great joy” (verses 9-10). Verse 11 is very telling – the fact that the young child was found in a house indicates that they were no longer in the stable, but were now in a house at Bethlehem (verse 11). The three regal men paid Jesus the kind of respect only God deserves, bowing before him and worshipping him. Psalm 72:11:” Yea, all kings shall fall down before him and all nations shall serve him.” Despite their culture and religions in a foreign land, they accepted Jesus as their Savior. Because they had faithfully sought the Savior, the wise men were guided by God in dreams. Was it one dream or was it a dream they all had? We don’t know, but it seems when you obey God’s revelation, you get further divine illumination (verse 12). After meeting Jesus, they did not go back the way they came.

Joseph too was warned in a dream and instructed “Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I bring thee word, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.” (Jesus was at this time about two years old). Prophecy is again fulfilled concerning Jesus. This time it’s Hosea 11:1, “When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.” Joseph indeed stayed in Egypt until Herod’s death. (Note: There was a large Jewish population in Egypt at the time, especially in and around the city of Alexandria where the “Great Library of Alexandria “ was located. Jesus is said to have studied world religious teachings about God there.) (The UMI Annual Commentary 2020-2021, The King James Study Bible, The Tony Evans Study Bible, The Life Application Study Bible).

For Your Consideration: How have you noticed God’s protection in your life as you followed His direction? Why do you think Matthew includes the Magi, but Luke leaves them out completely?

Application: The Magi were both real and symbolic. As real men, the three kings confirmed ancient prophecies about Jesus being the Messiah. and as symbols, they showed that He came to save all people, rich and poor, learned or unschooled, from anywhere in the world. So then, as the regal response to the Holy light, we too should seek God with sincere determination, respect Jesus as more than a great teacher and admirable person, but as the Son of the living God, and know that when we get to know Christ, we are changed forever.

Upset Hindus are urging Durham-headquartered “world’s largest custom fabric, wallpaper and home decor digital marketplace” to immediately withdraw napkins carrying images of various Hindu deities, calling it highly inappropriate.

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada, said that Hindu deities (Shiva, Krishna, Lakshmi, Ganesh, Murugan, Kali, Hanuman, etc.) were highly revered in Hinduism and were meant to be worshipped in temples or home shrines and not for wiping mouth/fingers, catching crumbs/gravy (which may be beef), blowing noses, containing coughs/sneezes, throwing on dirty plates, covering laps, etc., for mercantile greed. Inappropriate usage of sacred Hindu deities, concepts, symbols, or icons for commercial or other use, were not okay,

as it hurt the devotees.

Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, also urged Spoonflower CEO Michael Jones to offer a formal apology, besides withdrawing the objectionable Hindu deities’ napkins from company’s and re-

sellers’ websites.

“Global marketplace” like Spoonflower should not be in the business of religious appropriation, sacrilege, and ridiculing entire communities. It was deeply trivializing of immensely venerated Hindu gods and goddesses like

Shiva, Krishna, Lakshmi, Ganesh, Murugan, Kali, Hanuman, etc., to be displayed on napkins, Rajan Zed emphasized.

Hinduism is the oldest and third largest religion of the world with about 1.2 billion adherents and a rich philosophical thought and it should not be taken frivolously. Symbols of any faith, larger or smaller, should not be mishandled, Zed noted.

Rajan Zed further said that such trivialization of Hindu deities was disturbing to the Hindus world over. Hindus were for free artistic expression and speech as much as anybody else, if not more. But faith was something sacred and attempts at trivializing it hurt the followers, Zed added.

Spoonflower, reportedly established in 2008 and with offices in Durham and Berlin (Germany), claims to be “a global marketplace connecting makers and consumers with artists worldwide.”

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The justice team of Parkway United Church of Christ envisioned and created a somewhat different Christmas nativity in front of its church building this year. The group reflected on the statement in the birth story of Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospel of Luke “(she) laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.” The sign above the scene asks “Is there room for all?”

Mother Mary in the constructed scene is kneeling, stretching, reaching through a barrier of books toward a baby in a creche. The baby is enveloped in a reflective Mylar blanket. “A primitive fence continues along the sides of the roughly constructed barn, the pickets as spines of books which can inspire us to ready our hearts and minds to love all people as Christ loves us,” says Tammy Willard, who coordinated the artistic vision of the project.

The scene is perched on an embankment in front of Parkway’s church building adjacent to Silas Creek Parkway in Winston-Salem.

“The room we seek for our neighbors and ourselves is varied because the barriers are many. It’s not just a border fence and those over 500 children still separated from their parents at the bor-

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Parkway United Church of Christ has created a different nativity in front of their church. der. It’s the high rates of incarceration, pandemic isolation, those without adequate shelter due to eviction and foreclosure. We need room for sufficient medical care and the breaking down of barriers for people to live, love, and express who they are fully. We think of bar-

riers for those with disabilities and those facing mental health challenges. We think of room for an imagination of how we live within our ecosystems without bending them toward destruction,” says the Rev. Craig Schaub, pastor of the church.

“Most deeply, though,

there is a plaintive cry to the theme,” Schaub continues. “Will we make room for all our feelings, all dimensions of ourselves? Incarnate holiness is birthing each moment in us to clear room for us to know the divine spark within us, in others, and between us all.”

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Thursdays and Saturdays Free Meals Christ Rescue Temple Church, 1500 North Dunleith Ave., will serve hot meals as part of the People Helping People Feeding Program. Meals will be served every Thursday and Saturday from noon until 1 p.m. at the church’s location. For more information, call 336-7229841.

NOW Zoom services New Birth Worship Center (NBWC) in East Bend has gone virtual. Please join Dr. James L. E. Hunt, Senior Pastor on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. on Zoom webinar. The link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84789021891 or Dial-In: 1 301 715 8592 ID Mtg. #: 84789021891.

In addition, Sunday School is taught by Deacon James Henry at 9 a.m. via telephone conference call #: 1 917 900 1022 ID#: 868433#.

All are welcome to join us for Zoom (virtual) Bible Study on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Our Pastor, Dr. Hunt, will be the teacher. The Zoom Link: https://us02web. zoom.us/j/89195349778 or Dial-In Mtg #: 1 301 715 8592 ID#: 89195349778#.

For additional information, please call 336-6993583 or visitwww.newbirthworshipcenter.org or visit our Facebook page.

Dec. 18 Drive-thru Winter Festival Drive-thru Winter Festival will be held on Friday, Dec. 18, from 12-4 p.m. at St. Stephens Missionary Baptist Church, 5000 Nobel St. Free admission, music and vendors, free box lunches and 1000 combination meat and food boxes will be given away. Wake Forest Baptist will also offer information on participating in an Alzheimer’s prevention study. For more information, call Dr. Lamonte Williams at 919-394-6180.

Dec. 19 Blood drive Whole Man Ministries will be hosting a blood drive

Saturday, Dec. 19. The event starts at 9 a.m. and will be held at the church’s location, 3916 Old Lexington Road.

For more information, call (336) 785-2080.

Dec. 20 First Waughtown Baptist Church Live Stream Senior Pastor Dennis W. Bishop will continue the Advent message, “An Attitude of Expectation.” In addition, everyone is encouraged to prepare their sacramental elements as we will celebrate the Lord’s Supper each Sunday in December. Please join us at 10 a.m. Sunday, December 20, on Facebook Live, https://www.facebook. com/FirstWaughtown/ or the First Waughtown website, https://www.firstwaughtown.org and click on MEDIA. How to submit items to the Religion calendar: The deadline is Sunday at 11:59 p.m. to have all calendar items submitted for that week’s paper. Send your calendar items to news@wschronicle.com. You can also drop them off, Monday through Friday before 5 p.m., or mail your items to Winston-Salem Chronicle, 1300 E. Fifth St., Winston-Salem, N.C. 27101; or send them via our website, www.wschronicle.com.

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NOW – Volunteer Center of the Triad The Volunteer Center of the Triad is responding to COVID-19 by bringing the volunteer community together. We have designated a portion of our website www.volunteercentertriad.org to assist our non-profit community as their needs arise around the COVID-19 pandemic.

If you are interested in volunteering, visit www. volunteercentertriad.org, click COVID-19 Response and search volunteer opportunities available.

NOW - Dec. 19 – Buy Black! Holiday Market S.G. Atkins Community Development Corporation and The Green House Village Market are sponsoring a BUY BLACK! Holiday Market continuing every weekend through December 19 at The Enterprise Center, 1922 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive in Winston Salem.

For more information and vendor opportunities, please call Patricia Degraffinreaidt at 336.734.6916 or email sgatkinscdc2@ gmail.com.

NOW - Dec. 31 – Scholarship drive Atkins High School Alumni and Friends, the Atkins Class of 1969 cordially invites you to participate in our scholarship drive for Winston-Salem Preparatory Academy, formerly Atkins High School.

You can do so by purchasing a large, 50 X 68-inch, beautiful, high quality Atkins High School afghan

for only $79. All proceeds go towards the scholarship. If you are interested and willing to help, please call Ms. Shelia Smith at (336) 671-8836 or (336) 893-5326, or email us at Atkinsclassof1969@ gmail.com. Thank you, in advance, for your support.

Dec. 19 – COVID testing Twin City Medical Society, The Forsyth County Department of Health and ESR present free COVID-19 testing and flu shot vaccination for the Winston-Salem community Dec. 19. No appointment or insurance is necessary.

Testing site is 3480 Dominion St. Dec. 20 – Grand opening The Oil Lady will hold a grand opening on Dec. 20 from 1-5 p.m. The event will be at her new location, 3800 Reynolda Road, Ste. 240.

Jan. 5 – Teacher grant application deadline Applications are currently being accepted for the 2021 Forsyth County Teacher Grants, awarded

by The Winston-Salem Foundation for professional development to PK-12th grade educators in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. The deadline for applications is Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at 5 p.m. An advisory committee of professional educators will review applications; applicants will be notified of funding decisions by late February 2021. For more informa-

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Spider” Silva, BJ Penn, Georges “Rush” St. Pierre and Randy “The Natural” Couture and many more.

The best thing about MMA was that the best fighters in each division routinely fought one another, which was a stark contrast to what boxing was offering at the time.

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case nowadays. When I was a kid, we had names like Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Tommy Hearns, Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield, Oscar De La Hoya, Felix Trinidad and Pernell Whitaker to look forward to seeing in the ring.

That list got even longer as I became a teenager and young adult. It was like there was a great matchup to look forward

boxing, the first thing I would do is eliminate the multiple boxing organizations, because there are too many belts. I would make one champion per division to eliminate confusion and make the belt worth that much more.

Secondly, I would have all of the top-ranked boxers in the division fight one another. If there was only one belt per division, I guarantee boxers would

MMA had over boxing was the frequency it was shown. There is an MMA pay-per-view every month and each event is headlined by a superstar fight.

Boxing, on the other hand, maybe had two or three top tier fights each year to look forward to at the time.

Finally, as the UFC continued to bring new stars to the forefront, boxing stars were beginning to age, and the sport did not have the same marketing savvy to do the same as the UFC. Boxing has a few stars, but not the household names like the UFC was able to make out of many of their fighters.

I feel I grew up in the last great era of boxing.

There were superstars across all divisions of boxing and that is just not the

to every couple of months.

Right now, boxing is in a place that I don’t think they can recover from. I feel like boxing was too arrogant in their dominance in combative sports and did not take other entities like the UFC seriously.

Now they are paying the consequences.

By allowing promoters to handpick fights, along with the poor marketing by the sport of boxing, many fans have gravitated to other sports or other forms of entertainment in general. With the amount of streaming services available, people have sports, movies and TV shows to look at with the tap of a button on the remote.

Boxing can be fixed, in my opinion. If I were in charge of the sport of

be more likely to fight the best of the best.

I feel one of the biggest mistakes boxing makes is not marketing their fighters to the best of their abilities. The UFC does a great job at this. You see UFC fighters on many platforms such as TV shows, movies, video games and commercials. Boxing should take a page out of the UFC’s playbook and market their fighters to a broader audience.

Lastly, I would get rid of the promoters. They are one of the main reasons the sport has declined so much in the last 20 years.

I sincerely hope boxing has a chance to return to the glory days of old, because I am worried if it continues on this path, it may never recover.

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TAKE NOTICE that a Motion to Terminate Parental Rights seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The above-mentioned minor child was adjudicated to be a neglected and dependent child on March 11, 2020. The nature of the relief being sought is the permanent and irrevocable termination of your parental rights pursuant to the Motion to Terminate Parental Rights filed by the Forsyth County Department of Social Services on August 31, 2020 with respect to the above-referenced the minor child pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1102.

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TAKE NOTICE that a Motion to Terminate Parental Rights seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The above-mentioned minor child was adjudicated to be a neglected and dependent child on March 15, 2019. The nature of the relief being sought is the permanent and irrevocable termination of your parental rights pursuant to the Motion to Terminate Parental Rights filed by the Forsyth County Department of Social Services on June 8, 2020 with respect to the above-referenced the minor child pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1102.

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The termination of parental rights hearing regarding the parental rights of the unknown/unnamed father is scheduled on Monday, February 8, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. in Courtroom 1-D of the Hall of Justice in Winston-Salem, North Carolina or as soon thereafter as the Court can hear the said case.

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Having qualified as Fiduciary of the Estate of Sophia L. Wilson (20 E 1941), also known as Sophia Lorraine Wilson, deceased June 6, 2020, Forsyth County, North Carolina, this is to Notify all persons, firms, and corporation having claims against the Estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before March 22, 2021 this Notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons indebted to the said decedent or estate shall please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

Having qualified as Fiduciary of the Estate of Deborah Lynn Swaim (20 E 2094), deceased September 5, 2020, Forsyth County, North Carolina, this is to Notify all persons, firms, and corporation having claims against the Estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before March 15, 2021 this Notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons indebted to the said decedent or estate shall please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

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The City of Winston-Salem seeks proposals for the second round of NC ESG- CV2 funding anticipated to be available from the State of North Carolina to address the housing needs of individuals and families experiencing homelessness, and for imminent at-risk persons impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This funding will be used to assist those experiencing homelessness and prevent imminent homelessness for those impacted

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Last month, members of the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Incorporated-Beta Lambda Chapter, distributed books to students from the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club.

National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Incorporated is a professional organization of teachers, dedicated to promoting the academic achievement of young people across the globe.

Sylvia Adams, executive director of the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club, warmly welcomed the members and helped to facilitate the matching of books to readers from kindergarten through grade twelve. Since the local chapter,

Beta Lambda, supports initiatives designed to promote literacy, the collaboration between the two organizations was an excellent way to bring books and students together.

Beta Lambda Chapter President, Donna Mickens, members Benita Brown, Valeria Edwards, Renna Giles, Joyce Irby and Ann Moye, along with Ms. Adams, supported the idea that literacy development can help students become lifelong readers and expand an understanding of themselves and the world.

Our Kudos President, Mitchell Wimbush, and Zinos Pledgee, Karisalyn Wimbush, and Hub Parents Nekeyda Wimbush and Kathy Thomas, supported this event.

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When I lost her, I lost myself for a second, but these kids were calling and texting and it put me in a much better place, and it made me think that what I was doing in their lives was all worth it.�

The training methods used by Stevenson could be categorized as more military style than your traditional weights and cardiovascular equipment. “It’s rough training and something I would have loved to be involved with when I was a young man,�

Stevenson said about his training. “We use battle ropes; we pull tires up hills; it’s tough work.�

Stevenson says he grew up in an era where quitting was not an option. He says a few kids have come out and found the training was too tough for them and walked away after one day. For those who stay, Stevenson says he tries to make sure his guys understand the word finish. “Whatever you have to do and however deep you have to dig, you do that to finish,� he said. “A lot of times I pull my phone out and let them know they are not quitting in front of me, they are quitting in front of everyone and that’s what life is to me. Life is an amazing workout where you just can’t quit. “My workouts are total body workouts and people trying to get in shape and I do it with them most of the time.�

His book, “Lessons Learned,� is basically Stevenson’s life story, he said.

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his life from middle school through early adulthood.

He touches on his humble beginnings, sports, and even being shot. “Lessons Learned� was about my mom releasing me to people to be mentored and without those who mentored me, I would have been dead a long time ago,� he said. “I put the books out to save lives.�

Stevenson speaks fondly of his high school football coach and other male role models who positively impacted his life.

He wants to do the same thing for the young men in his program, along with the young men he trains.

His second book, “The Answer to America’s Crisis,� focuses on the importance of mentoring and how impactful it can be with helping young men stay away from a life in the streets. “It’s going to take a special group of brothers to sit down in every city, to come up with a plan to get in the middle of these young brothers,� he said. “Most of these young men just want money and are willing to get it by any means necessary. They don’t see themselves successful in school or in their community, so we have to first recreate the vision of love with them. “Too many of our young men are killing each other because they have no appreciation for human life. They don’t love each other, because they don’t love themselves. If we want to help them, we have to go back and show them how to love themselves.�

Stevenson says he

B5 was frustrated with the response from the community when he and Sherriff Kimbrough made a call to the community for mentors and only eight people showed up. “You mean to tell me only eight people want to see Black kids stop dying?� he said. “And half of those eight were women.�

As a means to share his message to a broader audience, Stevenson also records a weekly inspirational video on social media. He enjoys doing the videos because he knows someone needs to hear a positive word, he said.

For Stevenson, he says it’s important that he shares his past troubles with them to give life lessons about what not to do. “As a kid, I thought I was tough and had a problem with a dude and some of his guys jumped me, so when I saw him out by himself, I followed him and I shot at him and I put that in my book,� said Stevenson. “I put that in the book because that one crazy scenario changed my life. “That next morning I was checking the news on TV and the newspaper and it let me understand I wasn’t a thug, because I didn’t want to go to prison or have that on my chest, so I tell these boys all the time that I know they are tough, but they don’t want to go to prison and give away 10 years of your life just because someone said something to you. I talk to them all the time about being shot and growing up in a house without a father and how I used that for motivation and the reason why I succeed.�

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