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Six months ago, James “Jim” Shaw announced that he would be resigning as president and chairman of the liberty Street Community Development Corp.

In august, Shaw announced that his last day with the CDC, a private nonprofit that works to revitalize the liberty Street Corridor, would be oct. 31, 2014. The board was supposed to meet the following month to discuss finding his replacement. now, the 10-member board has decided to dispose of the assets and debts before dissolving liberty CDC altogether.

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“We are not looking for an executive director and do not anticipate doing so,” said vice President and acting Chairman Stan Senft. “In my opinion we are not doing enough work up there to justify hiring an executive director who would spend the bulk of his or her time raising money to pay their salary. It makes no sense.” he said that he discussed all of the options with the nonprofits’ founders and that they agree makes no sense.

Charity Wagner tries on shoes.

Charity Wagner, a senior at Parkland High School, asks about shoes to go with prom dresses she likes.

She’ll try them on later. Her mother, Carla Fulton, looks on.

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Jada Paul visits hometown to start giving students prom dresses

By Donna roGerS The ChronICle

at first, it was hard to figure out what was happening in the large room at the Marriott in downtown Winston-Salem on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 21.

Some girls were looking at shoes, purses and other accessories.

Some girls were getting their faces glamorized.

Jada Crawley Paul, a 2002 graduate of Mount Tabor High, came to town for the first Prom Dress Giveaway sponsored by the Chris Paul Family Foundation.

Some were standing in lines holding dresses, waiting to try them on. others were looking at dresses on racks. everyone appeared to be having fun.

What was going on was a Prom Dress Giveaway sponsored by the Chris Paul Family Foundation.

The experience was totally free for the 65 girls – 50 pre-selected and 15 who

attended after hearing about the event. They had the opportunity to choose new and vintage gowns, shoes, jewelry and accessories.

The event featured a fashion show with models from the dance team Scarlet lace, from Winston-Salem State university; makeup demonstrations; motivational speakers promoting education, self-esteem and healthy lifestyles; prizes; giveaways; food; and beverages.

This was the first Prom Dress Giveaway the foundation has sponsored in Winston-Salem.

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Board member Carrie vickery said that the board is trying to do the responsible thing.

“It would be easy to say ‘ok, let’s just string the CDC along even though it’s not pulling its weight or doing as much as we should be for the sake of appearances’ and that’s not the route we are taking,” she said. “We decided that the best thing for the community is to funnel those dollars elsewhere.”

She said that the nonprofit did attempt to look for other options before making that decision. “one of the thoughts we had originally was could we combine with another CDC. That was a conversation we

efforts underway to renew expired historic tax credit

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as of this year, north Carolina no longer has its historic long-standing Preservation Tax Credit, which was credited by many for spurring growth in downtown WinstonSalem and beyond.

First enacted in 1998, the credit offers tax breaks for rehabilitating historic buildings. It expired at the end of 2014 as part of a tax reform bill passed with republican support designed to eliminate tax breaks and lower the tax rate overall. republican Gov. Pat McCrory has proposed a new historic tax credit that would offer smaller incentives to bigger projects with an overall cap on the program, and restoring the also eliminated tax break for movies made in the state. house rep. ed hanes of the 72nd District is among the Democrats sponsoring a omnibus economic development bill to bring back the full, unaltered historic tax credit, along with other measures like re-establishing the movie tax credit and earned income tax credit. "our job should be to help everyone and that's what the historic Preservation Tax Credit does," said hanes. according to the n.C. State historic Preservation office, nearly $300 million of rehabilitation work has been done in 39 completed commercial projects in Forsyth County since 1998. nearly $16 million of rehabilitation work has been done on 124 non-income producing residential projects in Forsyth. Though

work done expired, through the end of last year still counts for the credit.

Construction or new projects this year do not.

City Council Member Jeff MacIntosh said Winston-Salem has a high number of historic districts and properties. he said the tax credit often makes restoring buildings financially feasible when it wouldn't otherwise be. he said its been vital to projects that have helped revitalize downtown, like turning the nissen Building i n t o apartments in 2006 and transWashington forming an empty tobacco plant into 525@vine, a laboratory and office complex in the Innovation Quarter, which opened last year. he said without it, many developers will look to other states that offer the credit.

"It's been so beneficial to Winston-Salem," he said. "The bottom line is that so much restoration work, all that money in the ground, wouldn't have occurred at all without this credit." he's personally used the tax credit several times on qualifying houses. he and his wife, Susan, specialize in buying old homes, restoring them, then reselling them. he said one house, which took about $65,000 worth of work to restore, gave him a

artivity on the Green designed to spruce up liberty Street area

Many downtown residents have kept a close eye on the construction that’s transforming a dilapidated parking lot in the heart of the arts District into an outdoor space that will be just as unique as the area around it.

In May, residents will get a chance to see just how much.

The art-themed park, between Sixth and Seventh streets, will be called artivity on the Green and is made possible through a grant from the Thomas J. regan Jr. Foundation to arts for

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arts Sake (aFaS). opening day is expected to be on May 2, complete with a ribbon-cutting and food trucks.

The local nonprofit initiates or supports a wide variety of free special events and programs designed for residents to enjoy and create local art.

“It dresses up liberty Street, which is in dire need of dressing up,” said harry Knabb, chairman and Ceo for aFaS. “There will be a place to go in the afternoons and for residents in the area to have some green space.”

Councilman Derwin Montgomery said that the park is just another great amenity that adds to the

area. he also believes that it’s just the beginning of an overhaul of liberty Street.

“The liberty Street area is the next frontier of development in the area. This is leading the way along that corridor. It is going to bring a much-needed sense of activity,” he said. “artivity is going to be symbolic of the art and activity that will be happenMontgomery

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the foundation held three others in los angeles, where the foundation and its founder are based. los angeles Clipper basketball superstar Chris paul, and his wife, Jada Crawley paul, are from Winston-Salem. Chris paul started the foundation in 2005. “i wanted to do something for the girls,” said Jada paul on Saturday at the event. She explained that the foundation has been providing activities for boys in the past. She said the prom is a time girls can dress up. “it will be something they remember forever, because prom is a big deal,” paul said.

Brionna Miller’s mother, Julie Miller, who attended the event, agreed that prom is a big deal for her daughter, who is in a wheelchair. “any kind of prom, or anything like that, she gets excited,” Julie Miller said.

“She likes to be involved, like anybody.” Brionna, an 11th-grade student at Glenn high School, nodded in agreement when asked whether she was excited.

“She’s got a few people in mind” as dates, Julie Miller said. the Millers had finished their shopping. Carla Fulton and her daughter were Charity Wagner shopping for shoes.

Charity, a 12th-grade student at parkland high, found out about the event through the media, her mother said. She was one of the 15 girls who were not pre-selected but attended the event. She was able to participate after the preselected girls were served first.

Carla Fulton said Charity still had to try on two dresses she chose from the rack of prom dresses, and would need to look at purses and maybe a bracelet. naomi harrison, a 12th-grade student at east Forsyth high, was at the make-up station. She came because a teacher invited her.

“She thought it would be fun for me to come,”

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$13,000 state income tax credit combined with an equal federal tax credit. he said in his projects, keeping the historic character of the house generally doesn't drive up his construction cost. "it almost always made sense to use it," Macintosh said.

Many different projects have used the credit. it was used twice by Goler Community Development Corporation, which is devoted to revitalizing the historic Goler-Depot Street area that used to be the thriving economic center of the local black community. it used the credit to transform an abandoned tobacco factory into Gallery lofts, an 82-unit apartment complex that stays filled to capacity. the CDC also used it to restore Craver apartment Building, which was built for black families just before World War ii. Goler CDC Chair Michael Suggs said the credit provided equity for the projects, which would've been unfeasible without it. he said he fully supports bringing the tax credit back. "i think it's a great idea," he said. "it has the potential to restart development in Winston-Salem."

While it's been used to convert other old factories Washington into lofts, it's also been used on smaller projects. When Walter Roy little, a barber and owner of purrfect-Cut Barber Shop, decided to finally convert the long abandoned top floor of his building into lofts, he found out it would qualify for the credit. Builders took special care to keep the 1923 archi-

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Princess Wingate, a senior at Early College of Forsyth, shows off a prom dress she tried on.

photos by Donna Rogers

Julie Miller and her daughter, Brionna Miller, show off the items they chose at the giveaway.

Brionna is in the 11th grade at Glenn High.

naomi said. She said she doesn’t have a date for the May 2 prom at east Forsyth. “i might just go with friends,” she said.

Jada paul said the foundation started months in advance working with all the high schools in the area to choose four girls in need from each school to attend the event.

Foundation officials allowed 15 girls who showed up to the event to participate. “it’s been amazing,”

Jada paul said of the event. “to see the girls excited and confident, it makes it all worthwhile.”

She plans to make the prom Dress Giveaway an annual event. “there’s something special about doing things at home,” said paul, a 2002 graduate of Mount tabor high. “i would love to grow the event where the girls [from the public] just come in. But we have to grow to that point.”

“That could help us significantly in financing the project,”

tecture intact as they converted it into the four apartments that make up ella's lofts. Construction was completed by last summer, and only a month after their dedication, all four units were filled. he said he hopes the credit will help with the expensive project. local church, Wholeman Ministries, was also planning to use the credit in its $631,000 homes 4 our heroes project to restore five houses on Cameron avenue for homeless veterans. Most of the work on the first house was done before this year, with the finishing touches being scheduled for this week. the others have yet to be completed.

Wholeman pastor Barry Washington said the houses were built between 1938 and 1940 using bricks by the historic local brick mason George Black.

Washington checked with the city and state about using the credit, and preserved the front of the houses to meet its qualifications. he hasn't applied for the credit yet and wasn't aware it had expired, but hopes it is restored. "that could help us significantly in financing the project," he said. to have qualified for the historic tax credit, a building had to be listed in, or had the potential to be listed in, the national Register of historic Deeds, or was located in a registered historic district. it had to be certified as a historic

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structure by the state, which required a payment of a $500 to $2,500 fee, depending on the cost of the project. the repairs had to be consistent with the hist o r i c nature of Macintosh the building and, were applicable, its historic district. only rehabilitation costs to the structure counted toward the credit. other expenses involved in the project, such as landscaping, paving and acquisition costs, did not. the tax credit provided 20 percent tax credit for rehabilitation costs for income-producing historic properties, which combined with a 20 percent federal historic tax credit. there was a 30 percent credit for non-income producing properties, which don't qualify for a federal tax break. those rehabbing a historic factory, such as a tobacco or textile plant, could've instead used the Mill Rehabilitation tax Credit, which is part of the historic tax credit program. in Forsyth, a tier-three county (meaning its among the top 20 counties in the state economically), the mill credit would result in a 30-percent tax credit on rehabilitation costs on an income-producing structure.

St. Benedict’s Catholic Church will host a viewing of the henry Gates’ critically reviewed “Many Rivers to Cross” Saturday, Feb. 28, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the parish center, 1208 hattie ave.

First aired on pBS last year, “the african americans: Many Rivers to Cross” is a series of episodes depicting 500 years of african-american history authored Gates. the program at St. Benedict’s will cover four episodes of this documentary, including, “the Black atlantic,” “into the Fire,” “Making a Way” and “a More perfect Union,” which covers 1968 to 2013.

St. Benedict’s africanamerican Ministry is sponsoring a presentation and dialogue. “a part of our Mission at Saint Benedict the Moor is to enlighten and create a better understanding of God's purpose for us all to unite as one,” says Daisy Foster, a coordinator of the event. “the participants will be given the opportunity to put into proper perspectives facts and myths regarding the evolution of the african american from slavery to freedom.”

Foster says the program is appropriate for all members of the family and will provide opportunities for engaging community dialogue. “this activity can be a family affair. our young audience will get a very valuable history lesson and parents will receive the knowledge needed to continue this discussion on a more intimate level in the home,” she says. “there will be breakout sessions for discussion by age group. participants will be given the opportunity to ask questions and make comments on the materials presented.” professor Fred-Rick Roundtree from WinstonSalem State University will be the facilitator for this event. admission to the program is free, however a $5 fee for lunch is requested. please RSVp to stbensnews@gmail.com.

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SALEM CREEK CONNECTOR PROJECT IN WINSTON-SALEM, FORSYTH COUNTY TIP Project No. U-2925 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold an informal project update meeting regarding the ongoing Salem Creek Connector Project in Winston-Salem.

The project is currently under construction.

The meeting will take place on March 12 from 4 until 7 p.m. at the Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church - Fellowship Hall, 144 Fitch Street, Winston-Salem.

The purpose of this meeting is to update the community on the progress of the Salem Creek Connector Project and to explain what to expect in the future.

Citizens may stop by at their convenience; there will not be a formal presentation.

Maps will be available to review and NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments. Written comments or questions can also be submitted at the meeting or later by March 26th.

NCDOT is constructing a new 1.1-mile, four-lane road with a median from Martin Luther King Jr. Drive south of Winston-Salem State University to Rams Drive (formerly Stadium Drive) at the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter. A new diverging diamond interchange will be built at U.S. 52, and the current interchange at Rams Drive will be removed. A roundabout will be built at Salem Avenue and City Yard Drive and nine bridges mainly over parts of Salem Creek and U.S. 52 will be built. The nearly $69 million project started in December 2013 and should be completed by summer of 2016.

Project information is also available online at www.ncdot.gov/projects/salemcreekconnector For additional information, contact Jeremy Guy, Resident Engineer, 1151 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., Winston-Salem, NC 27101, by phone at 336-747-7950 or by e-mail at jmguy@ncdot.gov.

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At left, people who visited the traveling Thankful Heritage Museum poured over the black news pages of local newspapers from the 1950s and ‘60s along with front pages with headlines about Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral and Malcom X’s death.

Above are black history posters on display.

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Traveling museum showcases African-American memorabilia Effey Howell owns the Thankful Heritage Museum.

On Saturday, Feb. 21 from 4 to 6 p.m., Freedom Tree IDR, formerly The Institute for Dismantling Racism, held a Black History Commemoration and fundraising event at Parkway United Church of Christ. The Thankful Heritage Museum was there. Thankful Heritage Inc. (THI) is a 501c3 non-profit organization that features a traveling African-American museum filled with a collection of African-American artifacts dating back to the 1700s. The traveling museum of AfricanAmerican history was started 21 years ago by Effey Howell (pictured) and has over 1,000 items, some dating as far back as the 1700s. Howell, a 2007 ECHO award winner for building social capital, regularly does exhibits at schools, churches, community centers and the local Juneteenth celebration.

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ing there, which in turn will lead to much more happening in the area.”

It’s designed to create an artful space between the Innovation Quarter and the downtown Arts District.

There will be red lines that will lead visitors into the park and rise up to create an option for sculptures to be displayed.

At the center of the park, the red lines will come together into 13 masts that will create fog formations in an effort to recognize the city’s past in manufacturing.

“At night it’ll be lit up, and when the fog hits the light it will look like it’s glowing,” Knabb said.

“The fog will become animated.”

Montgomery said that the masts are bound to attract activity to the area.

“There will be a place to embrace all facets of art in the area,” he said. “Art is very much a part of who we are as a community.

This park is continuing to show how we integrate that into the fabric of what we normally see, like parks.

When we infuse our innovation and artistic sense, we have something that is unique to our community and attractive to those near and abroad.”

There will also be an art performance shelter made out of silver steel bands and a concrete wall to be used as an evolving canvas for painters.

The shelter will have built-in benches and easels, as well.

“We’ll have 10 mural artists painting there in the beginning of May. We’ll leave it up for a year, paint over it and do it again with new artists.

We have some of the best mural artists in the area, so we are real excited about that,” Knabb said.

Local and regional businesses are building the park. STITCH Design shop drew up the plans, architecture was done by Stimmel Associates and the construction is being done by Frank L. Blum Construction Co. Knabb said that he feels the park will help to infuse more art into downtown, citing that it doubles the size of the arts district.

He said that he would like to see it used by everyone in the community, whether it’s by pet owners, nearby children or the residents who live downtown.

“It’s going to bring more range, depth and interest to the area,” he said. “It’s a gift to the community and the city of Arts and Innovation. I look at it as a giant piece of art.”

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Black History Month ending, Celebrate black history all but not work year, and include everyone in community Black History Month 2015 will end in a few days. All month media, organizations and businesses have given tidbits about African-Americans and their accomplishments.

Some people who have been honored are living and some are dead. Some people are well known and others are not as well known. Men and women make the lists of accomplished African-Americans.

Special programs have been presented during Black History Month. Some gave homage to African-Americans from the past. Some offered discussions about African-American life for the future.

Black History Month 2015 also is known for the movie “Selma” and how it has galvanized AfricanAmericans across the nation to make sure young people see the movie to learn about some of their history.

The Voting Rights Act Of 1965 will be 50 years old in August. The movie, which explores the drama surrounding events that led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act, has made African-Americans realize the important accomplishments of the people behind the Civil Rights Movement. The movie also has made them realize that the work in the 1960s must be rekindled because some of the same goals of the establishment to quash the African-American vote back then have been rekindled today.

We know that Black History Month can’t hold most of the many accomplishments AfricanAmericans have made over the centuries. They can’t be dwindled down to a month of recognition, really.

Those accomplishments should be recognized yearround.

To that end, The Chronicle will recognize people in the Winston-Salem area in March during a Community Service Awards Banquet. The awards are intended to recognize individuals of any race in the following categories: Man of the Year, Woman of the Year, Community Service, Minority Business, Lifetime Achievement, Human Relations and Community Organizations.

Nominations for the awards are closed. The winners will be recognized at the banquet on March 21.

Work in the black community continues after Black History Month, and The Chronicle is recognizing people who are working to make the community better.

The Black Press strives to serve the community

Almost 190 years ago, prominent free black men met in New York City to discuss forming a vehicle to communicate their views on issues that affect the Black community. Up to that time, Black Americans had been denied usual channels of public media.

They decided to publish Freedom’s Journal, the first newspaper produced by Black Americans. Rev. Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwurm, who attended the meeting, became the paper’s editors.

While the editors of Freedom’s Journal acknowledged that white citizens sometimes defended the honor of Black Americans in public forums,, they proclaimed in the first issue, “Too long have others spoken for us ... We wish to plead our own cause.”

The Chronicle is proud to be a part of that legacy.

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It has been so long that I don’t actually remember when I started celebrating black history. I do recall that it started out as Black History Week.

Upon quite reflection and over time, I have come to realize that black folks created and invented a lot of things.

For example, Alexander Mills invented the elevator and Albert R. Robinson invented the electric trolley. In addition, John Love invented the pencil sharpener and John Burr invented the lawn mower.

As I grew older, a week of black history turned into an entire month. I am sure that Carter G. Woodson in 1926 didn’t really think about this turn of events.

Yet I suspect the contributions were so enormous that one week simply would not do.

There are some compelling questions to be asked regarding Black History Month as we know it to be now. As we know, there are those who are calling for an end to Black History Month.

They argue that there ought to be a seamless transition from black history to American history. Proponents further say that Black History Month further separates and segregates our society.

It is my thinking that as long as many of the learning tools and dispensers of information give out little or partial information then Black History Month must continue.

I agree that our history should be interwoven into American history, however, at this point the rhetoric

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and the practice of the rhetoric don’t match.

I have often mused whether talking intentionally about the contributions of black people make some people uncomfortable. I am sensitive to this comfort issue, however, sometimes folks have to feel uneasy in order to appreciate the facts.

Will the information tools tell us that Sarah Boone invented the ironing board, that Alice Parker invented the heating furnace and that George T. Samon invented the clothes dryer? We probably have to go to some extremes to acquire this information.

The celebration of Black History Month in the new millennium has special significance, especially for young students. If you are my age or a little younger, you are a product of segregated schools. You either went to an all-black school or an all-white school.

This wasn’t a reflection on us as much as it was the times. Many of us lived in places where our contact with each other was quite limited.

As a result, it may have been easier to celebrate the accomplishments of black folks because there wasn’t the peer pressure or the resistance. And because we had black teachers for the most part, these purveyors of the information affirmed our pride.

We now live obviously in different places and during a different time in our

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history. Students nowlearn in integrated classes and their classmates are of different ethnicities. With all of these groups together, you have a real melting pot of ideas and learning styles. The question then boils up “How do black students feel about celebrating Black History Month”? Are they embarrassed by it? Are they afraid of being rejected?

And finally do they believe there is any correlation between their success and the success of their ancestors?

In a few public settings now recently, I have shared a few analogies.

For instance, there could be no Condoleeza Rice without there first being a Shirley Chisholm, the first AfricanAmerican to run for president of the United States; there could be no Barack Obama without there first being an Edward Brooke, an African-American Senator from Massachusetts; and finally, there could no Usher without there first being a Sammy Davis, Jr. The analogies are endless, yet the point is that we all stand on the mighty shoulders of those who came before us. They were role models for us before the term became chic and fashionable. The proposition has to be made to young people that their own success is inextricably tied to the success of their ancestors.

One of the things that I have observed more with young students is that they

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mix well together. Seeing black students and white students together is not the aberration that it once was.

So it would stand to reason that white students would also appreciate Black History Month. It has always been my view that we can all learn things from each other. I do hope that black students celebrate with great pride this month the many achievements that have been made through the years.

February will be gone before you know it. While I think we still need to keep February, we need to do more throughout the year.

There are too many highlights to keep them confined to one month. I encourage parents, grandparents and other love providers to keep this spirit of information-sharing alive and well. Use the library and the Internet as wonderful sources for information. We have an opportunity to provide our children with a platform made up of respect, admiration and caring. We can love and care about each other everyday.

Let our children, friends and neighbors see us as the torchbearers of kindness, civility and good will. February should be a month of inclusion not exclusion. We grow more when we learn more.

Celebrate black history because it is American history.

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The legacy of Carter G. Woodson Benjamin F. Chavis

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The best way to celebrate Black History Month is to make more Black history. Black History Month is now celebrated around the world. We are grateful for the visionary leadership of noted historian and scholar Carter G. Woodson for being the founder of what was known as Negro History Week in 1926 that 44 years later evolved into Black History Month.

It is also important to note that this year marks the centennial celebration of Woodson’s founding of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). The mission of ASALH is to “promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community.”

Established in 1915, the association has no peer in the preservation of our rich

history.

ASALH continues to extend the legacy Carter G. Woodson “speaking a fundamental truth to the world – that Africans and peoples of African descent are makers of history and co-workers in what W. E. B. Du Bois called, The Kingdom of Culture.” Yes, it is clearly of the greatest necessity for all of us to support and spread knowledge about the accomplishments of Woodson, which included his landmark, The MisEducation of the Negro.

Written in 1933, the book is as timely today as it was 82 y e a r s ago.

W e must not a l l o w anyone or anyWoodson thing to diminish or to dismiss the uninterrupted relevance and importance of Black American history, culture and intellectual genius. The “fundamental truth” about the glorious and triumphant history of peoples of

We are the Black family, community, nation and global community. We are a people of the long centuries-long struggle for freedom, justice and equality. Our history did not begin or end with the tragedy and holocaust of transatlantic slavery. The history of African people begins with God’s creation of humanity. We are the original people. Human civilization had its birth and evolution in the cradle of the heart of Africa.

When I hear people today say that Black Americans have a challenge with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) academic courses and disciplines, I ask: Why? We are the originators of math and science. One of the reasons Black History Month is so important is because it forces us to remind ourselves that high achievement and excellent academic performance are a vital components of our historical evolution.

Being skilled in science and math is not tantamount to “acting White,” whatever that is. Rather, it’s thinking Black in the finest of

traditions.

In a real sense Black History Month is Black Achievement Month. We must do a better job in defining and controlling the narrative about Black Americas in the past, currently and the future. The so-called “mainstream” media is still full of negative stereotypes and debilitating caricatures when it comes to reporting news, sports or about the cultural arts of people of African descent.

Let’s make more history together. Our future will be determined by what we do today. Let’s make this Black History Month a time of both reflection and action to advance the interests of Black America and all African people everywhere.

Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. is the President and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and can be reached for national advertisement sales and partnerproposals at: ship dr.bchavis@nnpa.org; and for lectures and other professional consultations at: http://drbenjaminfchavisjr.wix.com/drbfc.

Prominent alumnus: SCSU needs some changes African descent needs to be retold and appreciated by all people throughout the

world.

We are a proud people.

We are an African people.

Rep. James Clyburn

Guest Columnist

The letter below was recently sent to the South Carolina State University National Alumni Association: To: Our Fellow “Loyal Sons and Daughters,” Her Friends and Supporters From: James E. and Emily England Clyburn, Class of 1961 We, for obvious reasons, have refrained from speaking publicly about our beloved alma mater’s current crisis, until now. We love SCSU and have never been hesitant to “sing (her) praise(s) far and near.” We have always given to her cause religiously.

Many of you attended and contributed to the Galas in Columbia and Spartanburg that launched the James E. and Emily E. Clyburn Endowment for Archives and History at SCSU. Over the past 30 years we have hosted an annual golf tournament and “Bid Whist Luncheon” in Santee, and have donated all our honoraria to these causes. These activities have funded hundreds of need-based scholarships for college-bound students.

These events and others have contributed over $1.2 million to the Archives and

History Endowment and over $2 million in scholarships and aid to 1,400 students attending SCSU and various other colleges and universities throughout South Carolina and the country. We have also endowed scholarships at Allen, Benedict, Claflin, Morris, MUSC, USC and Voorhees.

But today’s crisis is about more than giving, and bulldog tenacity is going to be required to survive. If SCSU were to close, we probably could find other appropriate entities to support, but that would not remove the stain or lessen the shame of closing South Carolina’s only state supported HBCU, although that state support has been tenuous to say the least. In fact, one might say, it has been much less than “minimally adequate.”

The economy, less than equitable state support and dramatic cuts in state and federal student aid are making college education for blacks in South Carolina less attainable. The recent ad hominem attacks on SCSU and ill-conceived proposals for its future have sullied the school’s storied

reputation and will further erode enrollment and undercut faculty and student recruitment.

If, as we are told, 4,300 students is the break-even point, and SCSU’s current enrollment is 2,900, immediate and dramatic action need to take place. We believe several things need to occur: (1) A five- to seven-member governing board of retired executives and college presidents needs to be installed to serve for a time certain, 18-24 months; 2) A highly qualified Chief Executive Officer who is committed to the mission and respects the legacy of HCBUs should replace the current president, who has precious little support from alumni and supporters, and minimal credibility with those who determine the school’s funding and academic status; (3) The law regarding qualifications to serve on the Board of Trustees should allow — in addition to a member from each of the 7 Congressional Districts, a gubernatorial appointee and a Student

Body representative — 4 at-large members regardless of state residency, two of which should come from recommendations by the National Alumni Association (i.e. The Citadel).

Representatives from several out-ofstate HBCUs have recently begun recruiting our best and brightest. If things continue along the current plane, the legislation to close the school will not be needed.

There will not be enough students showing up in September to open the doors.

Of course, that could be the aim of some legislators, and we are among those who believe that.

We will probably have more to say at the proper time. In the meantime, you can find a concise and precise history of this controversy — which we know to be manufactured and orchestrated — on pages 274 thru 278 of "Blessed Experiences, Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black.”

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U.S. Rep. James “Jim” Clyburn represents S.C.’s 6th Congressional District, serving since 1993. He is assistant Democratic leader in the House of Representatives.

The silence of U.S. businesses is deafening Mary Anne Howland

Guest Columnist

The film “Selma” calls us to consider where we stand today and what we are doing as individuals and communities about racial justice.

In the past few months, a rainbow of people has taken to protesting in cities throughout the country.

Racial injustice brought to light by failures of grand juries to indict white police officers after the deaths of unarmed black men is moving citizens of all backgrounds to action.

The media feature voices of passionate, concerned black, brown and white people, students and, of course politicians. We see the arts community in solidarity with the movement.

Athletes and entire sports teams put their careers on the line to speak up.

But where are the voices of the business community?

As a businessperson, I

am deeply disturbed by the silence of my peers. Is the travesty of justice and police corruption, lack of respect and utter disregard for human dignity not our concern? Many of us are already leaders in our communities, working hard to strengthen local and regional economies. Most are good people running responsible businesses. But what does our silence say?

Silence is a signal of acceptance. Silence is seen as an endorsement of the status quo. Silence is not good for business.

More and more businesses owners are turning business into a force for good. We recognize the interconnected and circular nature of our economy. If we take care of our employees, they take care of us. If we pay a living wage, then our community has purchasing power that ultimately benefits our business.

Ensuring just policing and a fair justice system are part of the same value proposition. Many police officers and grand juries already act this way. But when they lose sight of these principles, it’s bad for

“We should call our local, state and federal officials and tell them we want to see solutions.”

-MaryAnne Howland

residents, bad for the police themselves and bad for the community.

It gets in the way of the mutual trust and respect we need in order to get along with each other and do business with one another.

It doesn’t help our employees bring their best selves to work if they live in constant fear that they or their children or partner will be singled out for state-sanctioned violence and an unfair justice system for no reason other

than the color of their skin.

I run a small business in Nashville, Tenn. I do everything I can to run a fair and just workplace, one in which everyone is judged according to their contribution and not how they look. I believe my workplace is better off because of this commitment. I serve on the board of a national business organization, the American Sustainable Business Council, which seeks to bring these principles of

justice and opportunity to the economy as a whole.

As business owners, we have a special obligation to stand up at times like these.

It’s time to stop holding our collective breath.

We need to push for the course corrections necessary to stop racial injustice.

We must demand change that will help create resilient communities in which everyone can succeed and thrive.

We should call our local, state and federal offi-

cials and tell them we want to see solutions. We should engage with others in our communities, such as faith leaders and social service agencies, to push for change. And we should start by letting our employees know that we are committed to making a difference.

We also should support organizations that are working to uplift black and brown men and women.

Even better: Employ them, train them and, most important, stand behind them. If the police knew there was a businessman or woman behind the individual they are about to attack, surely they would think twice.

The American business community is the most powerful economic force in the country. We are its leaders. We have power. We can make a difference. So, let’s make it.

MaryAnne Howland is president and CEO of Ibis Communications in Nashville, Tenn., and a board member of the American Sustainable Business Council.

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Historic enslaved potter Peter Oliver of Old Salem has an enduring legacy Peter Oliver learns pottery in Old Salem’s “Between Two Masters” video.

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Peter Oliver’s dramatic story of being a local slave who Moravian learned pottery and purchased his own freedom is still remembered today, by historical experts and his descendants.

Oliver’s skill and contributions to history were noted in “Peter Oliver: Life of a Black Moravian Craftsman” by historian Jon Sensbach.

“Moravian pottery is today regarded as among the best in late eighteenthnineteenth-century and America, a legacy in which Peter Oliver played a substantial part,” wrote Sensbach, a University of Florida history professor.

Many Forsyth County natives can trace their lineage to Oliver, including basketball star Chris Paul.

One of Oliver’s descendants is Raymond Oliver, a retired local dentist. He said a decade ago he was contacted by Mel White, a historian with Old Salem, who had traced Peter Oliver’s lineage to his modern descendants.

Meetings were held, and 50 descendants attended and were given genealogical information about their connection to Peter Oliver.

Reunions of descendants are still regularly held.

Raymond Oliver said he didn’t waste any time producing a play in 2005 on his noted ancestor, “The Peter Oliver Story,” which drew a full house.

“If he could accomplish all he did under the time and circumstances that he found himself, we should be encouraged to do more, since we have so many opportunities available to us now,” he said.

Peter Oliver is also remembered at Old Salem Museums & Gardens, which features the restored historic town of Salem, where he spent many years of his life. In 2010, Old Salem held a service for the 200th anniversary of his death. He’s featured during the African American Heritage Tour at Old Salem and is even featured in the tour’s video “Between Two Masters.”

Cheryl Harry, Old

Peter cleans up in Old Salem’s “Between Two Masters” video.

Salem’s director of African-American programing, said that Peter Oliver was an example of the many educated and skilled artisans who were slaves. She said he was well regarded in the church, too.

“He was a beloved member of the Moravian community,” she said.

Peter Oliver was born on May 10, 1766, in Virginia. During his early years he was simply known as “Oliver.” He came to Wachovia as an enslaved adolescent. In July 1785, the Single Brother House in Salem, where unmarried Moravian men stayed, took over his lease. He worked in the house’s kitchen, garden and craft shop. The house purchased him in 1786 and he was baptized and given the Christian name “Peter.”

Slaves at the time worshiped alongside their white brethren in the Moravian Church and were addressed as “brother” and “sister.” The Moravian Church expected slaves to be obedient and, in exchange, masters were expected to treat them humanely.

“During that time, when Peter Oliver joined the church, Moravians

believed that everybody was equal spiritually, so once you joined the church you were a full- fledged member of the congregation,” Harry said.

Slaves like Oliver would learn to write and read both English and German. Slaves would use the church’s rules to have more say in how they were bought a n d sold, allowi n g Oliver t o negotiate h o w he was sold R. Oliver and to whom.

In 1788, he moved to Bethabara when he was purchased by Moravian master potter Rudolph Christ, who taught him the trade.

When Christ moved back to Salem, Oliver remained in Bethabara with a new master, potter Gottlob Krause. He worked there until 1796, when he returned to Salem to work for Christ again.

Moravian records showed his pottery skills made his value as a slave

increase.

He purchased his own freedom by 1800. In 1802, he married a free mulatto woman working in Salem named Christina Bass, and they had six children.

He rented a four- acre plot of land just north of town.

Because of the fear of a slave revolt, stipulations were put on him that no one other than his family could live in the house, and that he report any conspiracy involving blacks against citizens or the county.

Oliver continued to be a potter, supporting his family through the sale of pottery and farming.

He died of illness on Sept. 28, 1810.

He was buried in God’s Acre with a men’s choir.

He was the last AfricanAmerican buried there.

Over the next decade, the Moravian church started to have blacks worship separately, leading to the creation of St Phillips Moravian Church in 1822, which had its own graveyard for AfricanAmericans.

While Moravian pottery from the era has survived, which specific pieces Peter Oliver did has never been determined.

Since this is Black History Month, we celebrate the achievements made by African Americans such as: Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Benneker, Richard Allen, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Maggie Lena Walker, Madame C.J. Walker, A. Phillip Randolph, Paul Roberson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles Drew, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and Colin Powell and many others that are too numerous to name.

While we acknowledge the above individuals, we sometimes forget that a number of African-Americans from North Carolina should also be recognized.

They include the following: Simon Green Atkins was born in Haywood in 1863 and graduated from St. Augustine Normal Institute (now St. Augustine College) in Raleigh. In 1892 he founded the Slater Industrial Academy (now Winston-Salem State University) and he became its first president. In 1925, Winston-Salem Teachers College, now WSSU, became the first African-American institution in the United States to grant degrees for teaching in the elementary grades.

In 1881 Israel Clement was elected to the Winston (now Winston-Salem) town Commission. Although Clement was the first African-American town commissioner, at least eight other Blacks were also elected to that body.

John Chavis was born free in Oxford in 1763 and became an educator and minister. He also fought in the American Revolution War. Between 1808 and 1835 he owned and operated a private school in Raleigh for both African-Americans and Whites.

After Nat Turner’s Rebellion in 1831, AfricanAmericans were prohibited from being taught how to read or write. Rev. Chavis did, however, continue to teach White children. Several of the White students were from prominent families. North Carolina’s Chief Justice Henderson’s two sons, Archibald and John, as well as Willie P. Mangum, who later became a U.S. senator, and Charles Manley, who later became governor of North Carolina, were among the students at Chavis’s school.

John Stanly was born a slave in 1775 in New Bern.

After being a slave for 23 years, he was freed by an act of legislation in 1798. Stanly was a barber, land owner, businessman and slave owner. Through wise investments in property and other business ventures, it was said that he was one of the wealthiest men in Craven County, AfricanAmerican or White. Over the year he freed at least 23 slaves, including his wife and children.

Lunsford Lane was a slave from Raleigh, born in 1803. He made a special type of blend of smoking tobacco during the early 1830s. Lane also invented a type of pipe for his special blend of tobacco. In 1835 Lane had earned enough money to purchase his freedom. He later became an abolitionist.

Harriet Ann Jacobs was a slave born in 1813 in Edenton. She escaped to freedom in 1842. In 1861 she published a book under the pseudonym Linda Brent. It was titled, “Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl.” This was the first autobiographical narrative written by a female slave from North Carolina.

James Walker Hood was born free in 1831, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. In 1863, Hood came to North Carolina as a missionary and it was said that during his stay, over 500 churches were erected under his supervision. In 1869, he became the first African- American assistant superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of North Carolina. Rev. Hood was consecrated a Bishop of the A.M.E. Zion Church in 1872. In 1884, he edited “The Negro in The Christian Pulpit,” the first book of sermons published by an African-American Methodist Minister.

Harde Spears was born in Snow Hill and was the first known African-American in North Carolina to receive a patent for his invention. In 1870 he was given a patent for an “Improvement in Portable Shields for Infantry and Artillery.” This invention was the forerunner of our modern-day tank.

Warren Clay Coleman was born a slave in 1849 in Concord. After slavery he opened a barbershop and a general store. In a matter of years, he acquired substantial property in Cabarrus County and became one of the wealthiest men, African American or White, in the area and in the South.

There are hundreds of notable African-Americans in North Carolina that are not mentioned in this article due to limitation of space. I must, however, list some of them because they had a major impact on society: Elreta M. Alexander, Romare Bearden, Daniel Blue, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Robert J. Brown, Selma Burke, Julius L. Chambers, John C. Dancy, Thomas Day, Helen G. Edmonds, Henry Evans, Henry D. Frye, Harvey Gantt, Annie Wealtly Holland, Larry Womble, Charles H. Hunter, Edward A. Johnson, George Black, Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, Howard Lee, Clarence E. Lightner, John Merrick, Henry (Mickey) Michaux,Jr., Aaron M. Moore, Berry O’Kelly, William G. Pearson, Lawson A. Scruggs, James F. Shober, Asa T. Spaulding, Charles C. Spaudling, David Walker, Leroy T. Walker, William J. Walls, John H. Wheeler, James Young, Clarence “Big House Gaines, Roland Hayes and many more.

During Black History Month, we celebrate the achievements and accomplishments of AfricanAmericans all across the United States, let us also acknowledge the contributions that African Americans from North Carolina have made to society.

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to Liberty CDC. The resolution allows the agency to purchase the combined 0.83 acre property, currently valued at $97,800, for a proposed $22,500, at least four times less than its appraised value.

Council requested that the new building be of a similar aesthetic design and quality as the building at the southeast corner of Liberty and 14th streets.

Failure to meet that stipulation would cause the property to return to the city.

A source that wishes to remain anonymous confirmed that this was the property that will be sold, at more than the price purchased, to help clear the agency’s debt.

The city purchased the property in 2005 as part of the Liberty Street revitalization effort. According to records, the city aggressively marketed the property for redevelopment, but was unsuccessful. In 2009, the city partnered with Liberty CDC to find a developer.

While Northwest Child Development Center showed interest it later decided on another location, and Liberty CDC has continued its quest to look for developers.

Mayor Pro Tempore Vivian H. Burke said that residents should not be concerned about the dissolution of the CDC. “I believe that the area will continue to move forward,” she said. “We will continue to look out for the area.”

Senft said that he hopes that the needs of the community can continue to be met. Vickery said that she feels it’s the next best move for the community.

“In lieu, of going through the search for different director or moving the CDC in a different direction, in might be better for the community to channel those resources into other areas, and by other areas I mean other organizations,” she said.

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had through the WinstonSalem Foundation because they help the CDCs so much in the city,” Vickery said. “Ultimately it wasn’t going to work for a multitude of reasons, but it was one of the first things we did.”

In August 2014, Shaw told The Chronicle that some of the reasons he was resigning was due to some of the issues and lack of support the board has had from Winston-Salem City Council members; though he declined to give details.

During the 2013-2014 fiscal year, Liberty CDC was given $8,820 by the city for operating expenses, which has been done for the past 10 years, in its annual budget of $140,000.

The agency was given the same amount in the 20142015 fiscal budget.

Senft said that a large amount of the organization’s funding went to pay the executive director, and that was unacceptable.

“We will not make a request for additional monies,” Senft said. “You have to justify how that money will be used. We could no longer justify it.”

The money that was given provided salary support and rent for the building that Liberty CDC is housed in. “It was only those two items. The salary is gone, we have no salary requirements, so there’s no need,” he said.

Senft said that he is going to make it his business to finish one project.

“There is a parcel of land that we are trying to buy and sell, so we are pursuing that,” he said. “I want to complete that effort.”

He wouldn’t say where the land was but did say it was on Liberty Street.

However, City Council passed a resolution in May 2014 authorizing the sale of city-owned property at the corner of Liberty Street and Northwest Boulevard

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The celebration will culminate with Senior Night on Friday, Feb.27, where all seniors will be acknowledged and recognized as they near the end of their high school careers.

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There’s no denying that the CIAA Basketball Tournament ranks among the marquee events in all of college sports. Last year’s tournament generated an economic impact of $47 million for the host city Charlotte.

This week-long mix of basketball, step shows, concerts, after-parties and c l a s s reunions, is expected to attract nearly 200,000 people. The tournament started on Tuesday and will end on Saturday.

In recent years, die-hard basketball aficionados have come to believe that the games are no longer the tournament’s centerpiece. Some would argue that it’s now stage right or stage left, or maybe it’s no longer on the stage at all.

To address those schools of thought, Photo by Craig T. Greenlee SportsWeek called on a panel of experts who WyKevin Bazemore (22) protects the ball after grabbing a rebound against are very familiar with the background and inner Joshua Linson of Johnson C. Smith. workings of the tournament. All are involved “The best players at HBCUs back then were like the top with media outlets that provide nationwide coverage of black players you see today in the ACC and other major-college black college sports.

Lut Williams, editor/publisher of the syndicated Black programs,” he said. “The quality of competition was very rivetCollege Sports Page, remembers attending the 1968 tournament ing. But give credit to the CIAA for understanding where the when North Carolina A&T played Norfolk State in front of a revenue comes from and how to make the best of their situasold-out crowd of 20,000-plus at the Greensboro Coliseum. He tion.” also recalled that 5,000 were turned away.

W-S Prep called county’s No. 1 JV basketball team

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This is the first of two season-ending articles on junior varsity basketball in Forsyth County. Here’s the season wrap-up for schools in Classes 1-A, 2-A and 3-A.

Winston-Salem Prep’s junior varsity ran the table in dominant fashion. The end result was an undefeated season (20-0, 14-0 Northwest Conference) and acknowledgement as the county’s No. 1 JV basketball team.

The Phoenix is stocked with an abundance of quick athletes with rangy builds who play multiple positions. Pressure defense is a staple and no JV team does it better than Prep, who has won three of the last four Lash-Chronicle Holiday Classic championships.

At the end of the season four members of the JV team got the call to move up. Caleb Burgess, Davier Dixon, Justin Carter and Keith Watson joined the varsity team in its quest to win a fourth straight Class 1-A state championship.

“Everyone played together and nobody cared who got the credit,” said Coach Bill Tibbs. “The hardest part was keeping everybody focused and grounded.”

Prep was equally impressive on offense. Six players – Brandon Palmer, Anthony Williams, Burgess, Watson, Carter and Dixon averaged between 9 and 14 points per game.

“With the people we had this season, we were

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Rams Drop Season Finale To Livingstone Rams lose, 86-83, still earn southern division crown

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SALISBURY, NC – The WinstonSalem State Rams had four players to score in double figures, but it wasn’t enough, as the Livingstone Blue Bears fought back from a 19 point deficit to overtake the Rams 86-83 in the CIAA regular season finale.

Despite the loss, Winston-Salem State will grab the No.1 seed from the Southern Division based on point differential between the two games against Livingstone this season. WSSU defeated the Blue Bears won 89-80 in Winston-Salem on Jan. 31, and the Blue Bears won 83-80 in Salisbury, thus giving the Rams the edge.

This was a heavyweight battle that lived up to all the hype, as the Rams were able to take control of the game early, jumping out to a 7-2 lead, before the Blue Bears would fight back to cut into the WSSU lead.

WSSU led the contest until two Hakeem Jackson free throws with 11 minutes to play in the first half, gave Livingstone their first lead of the night at 22-20.

The game would go back and forth the

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confident that we’d get 65 points every game,” said Tibbs. “It didn’t matter if one player had a bad shooting night. There were others who would always pick up the scoring.”

Atkins Coach David Prim believes that Atkins (6-15) has started to turn the corner. That’s because the Camels nearly broke even in Northwest Conference play (6-7) and they tripled their win total from the previous season.

“They bought in to what we had been teaching,” said Prim, whose team won five of its last eight games. “Towards the end, they turned things around and made it a meaningful season. We can’t go anywhere but up.”

During their season-ending run, the Camels got strong performances from Syrus Sadler, Justin Noland, Montel Twyman and D.J. Williams.

2-A Carver With a roster comprised mostly of 9th-grade players, Carver took its lumps. The Yellowjackets finished 3-17 overall and 2-8 in the Western Piedmont Conference.

Quinn Baker, Quan Jackson and Russell Bradley were Carver’s top performers.

“We had a lot of players who went through a tough adjustment in their first season of playing at Photo by Charles E. Leftwich the high school level,” said Coach Jamie Foster. “To Davier Dixon of Winston-Salem Prep is one of four JV players who were moved up to varsity.

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progress,” said Turner. “Things are going according to plan. The athletes come together and they push themselves. When I looked at Inez Turner wasn’t surprised when the improvements everyone had made in Winston-Salem State’s women won the team recent weeks, I liked our chances.” title at the CIAA Indoor Turner ’s Track and Field grand design Championships at JDL involves coming Fast Track last week. In up with the right her mind, winning the mix of training conference crown wasand confidence n’t a case of happenbuilding which stance, nor was it a case is tailored to fit of the stars being the needs and aligned properly. attributes of Turner, the WSSU each athlete. women’s track head Everyone does coach, envisioned victhe core work tory when cross-counwhich builds try practice started last Inez Turner, WSSU women's track coach strength and August. Based on weekstamina.

But ly evaluations of practices and competitions, that’s not all. The coaching staff plays a crucial she was confident that the Lady Rams had as role in making the correct on-going adjustgood a chance as any to unseat St. Augustine’s, ments in training to help produce the desired Photos by Craig T. Greenlee winners of back-to-back indoor titles. results.

Lady Rams' Raven Covington (in red) has Division II's second-fastest time “Overall, I’m very pleased with our See Turner on B2 in the 60-meter dash.

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undefeated for most of the season, but ended up forfeiting 18 games because their best player, Kyra Crosby, was ruled ineligible.

Livingstone, which would have been a No. 1 The vast majority of people who seed, was dropped to No. 3 after the forfeits were come to the tournament, Williams factored in. Even though Crosby is out, the Lady explained, do so for reasons other than Blue Bears are still capable watching basketball. He estimates that of winning the CIAA and 75 percent of those CIAA visitors will advancing to Division II’s not attend a game because they know national tournament. But little or nothing about the players or the doesn’t make that teams.

Livingstone a lock to bag “You’re far more likely to have a the title. packed house at one of the non-basketTop-seed Shaw could ball venues,” he said. “Over the years, pose problems. The Lady the CIAA Tournament has evolved.

Bears only league losses From a basketball standpoint, it has lost came at the hands of some of its luster. On the other hand, it’s Livingstone. Johnson C. Williams gained considerable luster as a social Smith shouldn’t be overevent. Go on the tournament website looked either. It was the Lady Golden Bulls who and you’re inundated with info about all handed Livingstone its only on-the-court loss of the extra-curricular events. When it the season. comes to finding info about basketball, “Looking at how the regular season turned it’s not so easy.” out, there’s an air of unpredictability in Charlotte Photo by Craig T. Greenlee The CIAA for this week,” said Eric Moore, managing editor has taken steps to WSSU's Shaquira Palmer (red band) gets ready to shoot. The Lady Rams of the Onnidan.com website. “Being the No. 1 seed establish a long- played Tuesday in the tournament's opening round against Chowan. doesn’t guarantee anything. Sometimes, top-seedterm relationship ed teams are rusty in the first round. They’ve had you have to do other things to generate income,” said with Charlotte, which has hosted time off with a first-round bye and Steven J. Gaither, creator of the HBCU GameDay webthe tournament since 2006. A new could be prone for an upset as a site.

“Building attendance is an on-going process.

The contract has been signed that will result.

CIAA is headed in the right direction.

It’s a matter of findkeep the tournament in the Queen Another factor to consider is City for another six years. Aside ing the right balance between basketball and entertainthe arena itself. CIAA teams don’t ment.

With the headquarters moving to Charlotte, it gives from that, the Hampton, Va.-based play in large venues like the one in conference will move its headquar- the conference more opportunities to cultivate year-round Charlotte. When playing in big areGaither ters to Charlotte in 2016. These support from all segments of the community.” nas, depth perception can be an Basketball-wise, the men’s and women’s tournaments developments should bode well for issue, especially for 3-point shootbe wide open.

On the men’s side, the top four teams could the tournament’s future. ing. The teams that make the right Still, there are challenges. Building a large enough fan in the North and South divisions finished the season tied adjustments from one half to the for first and third place. base to fill most of the 20,200 seats in Time Warner Cable next and from one game to the next As for the women, the North Division’s top four finArena (home of the Charlotte Hornets) is no easy task.

Moore will be the teams that win.” ishers were separated by one game. In the South, all eyes be on Livingstone’s Lady Blue Bears, who were will “As a Division II conference playing in an NBA arena,

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their credit, they played hard and never gave up.

With every game and with every practice, they took a step forward and continued to show improvement.”

3-A North Forsyth North Forsyth proved to be one of the JV elites this season. The Vikings (15-6) ended up sharing the Mid-Piedmont Conference regular season title with Asheboro. During the season, both teams split in their two games and posted identical 11-1 records in conference play “Our season was efficient and productive,” said Coach Jefferey Moore. “The players learned how to execute in game situations and that made a huge difference. They did a good job of changing over from having a ‘me’ mentality to having a team mentality.”

Over the course of the season, three JV players were promoted to varsity. Deante Petree moved up after the first two weeks of the season.

David Payne joined Petree in early February and Cameron King was called up at the end of the JV season.

Caleb Pettigrew, an agile 6-foot-2-inches, 290 pounds post player, developed as a formidable factor in the paint. His emergence didn’t happen right away. It took Pettigrew, a JV football fullback, several weeks to get fully acclimated to basketball.

“Once Caleb got in basketball shape, his confidence grew and he became a big playmaker,” said Moore. “Coming down the stretch, he played his best ball of the season.”

Next week: JV season wrap-up for Class 4-A schools.

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Camels guard D.J. Williams (2) elevated his level of play over the final weeks of the season.

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“The ultimate goal is to keep everybody healthy and gear the training so that they peak at the right time,” said Turner. “We put a lot of emphasis on the mental approach.

They’ve come to understand that they’ve done the necessary work to be at their best. So, when it’s time to compete, it’s all about trusting in themselves and trusting that the training will put them in the best position to be successful.”

While winning the CIAA is noteworthy, it’s not a climax. The winter season isn’t over. The Lady Rams travel to Virginia for the Mason Last Chance Meet on Sunday.

It’s their final regular-season competition prior to the NCAA Division II Indoor National Championships scheduled for mid-March in Birmingham, Ala. The Mason gives WSSU’s provisional qualifiers one final opportunity

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Caleb Burgess was the top scorer for the Phoenix at 14 points per game.

to bolster their chances to make the cut for nationals.

Winston-Salem State will send at least two athletes to Alabama. CIAA triple jump champ Tajanel McNeill won with a leap of 40-feet, 11 ¾ inches to guarantee her spot as an automatic qualifier (No. 5 nationally).

Raven Covington is .05 seconds shy of automatic qualifying in the 60-meter dash. Covington, though, won the conference title with a time of 7.47 seconds, which is the second-fastest time in Division II. Ada Nudaya of New Haven (7.33 seconds) is the only runner who has met the auto qualifying standard for that event. Given Covington’s lofty ranking among provisional qualifiers (tied for No. 1), she’ll be in the championship field for the 60.

Turner understands what it takes to compete at the highest levels. The former world-class middle-distance runner from Jamaica ran in the 1996 Olympics (800, 4x400 relay), brought home the gold (800) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, then won a bronze medal for Jamaica in the 4x400 relay at the 1997 World Championships.

As a collegian at Texas State in the mid-1990s, Turner was a two-time NCAA outdoor champ in the 800.

Prior to that, she won back-to-back NJCAA outdoor titles in the 800 at Barton Community College.

The philosophy that Turner preaches to her athletes is to let performance speak for itself. It’s a mantra that she continuously reinforces.

“I make a habit to remind them that they’ve done the work,” she said. “Based on their own performances, they know they can compete against anybody. There’s no reason to fear anyone. Just stay focused, and the good things will come.”

Covington, a junior who has been hampered by hamstring injuries during her first two seasons, fully embraces Turner’s methods. The training and mindset adjustment, she explained, has laid the foundation for her to experience her best college season so far.

WSSU sprinter Raven Covington

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“The workouts aren’t hard if your mind is straight,” said Covington. “You learn to push past discomfort. The pain is only temporary. When you succeed, you don’t forget about the pain you went through. What matters most is having the willingness to do what needs to be done. That’s what enables you to accomplish whatever it Ty-Leah Hampton of WSSU is a provisional qualifier for the indoor nationals in the 60-meter dash and 4x400 is that you desire.” relay.

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Charlotte, NC – The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) announced its men's and women's basketball coaches of the year at its basketball tip-off awards luncheon, Monday. The luncheon brought together CIAA players, coaches, administrators and sponsors to recognize superlative performers through its AllRookie Teams, All-CIAA Teams and Coaches of the Year.

This year's women's coach of the year is Jessica Kern, head Lincoln The at coach University. Coach Kern led her team to an overall 19-7 record and Co-Northern Division title.

Last year the Lady Lions finished sixth in the division but

enter this year's tournament as the number one seed in the North.

The men's coach of the year is Darrell Brooks of Bowie Coach State University.

Brooks' Bulldogs were also CoDivision Northern Champions and finished the regular season at 21-7, the only CIAA men's team to surpass 20 overall wins. BSU successfully defended its division title from last year and enters this year's tournament as the top seed in the Northern Division.

Kern and Brooks will be formally recognized at the annual Coach of the Year Awards Luncheon held in the Spring.

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Food Lion Day at the CIAA Women's Tournament presented by Food Lion Session E Semifinal 1 – 1 p.m.

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Men's Tournament - Session F ASPiRE TV Live Semifinal 3 - 7 p.m.

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QEA Pride!

QEA teams win and lose against Carter G. Woodson

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On Tuesday evening, Feb. 10, Quality Education Academy’s high school gymnasium was filled with energy and excitement as the Mighty Seraphim (middle school boys basketball team) and the Pharaohs (high school JV basketball team) hosted rival Carter G. Woodson.

Although both QEA teams played skillfully, only one team was victorious.

The Mighty Seraphim’s win against Carter G. Woodson (45-18) wrapped up their season with a 9-3 record.

The excitement continued as the Fighting Pharaohs (varsity basketball team) dominated the court over Prominence Academy with yet another victory (87-41).

QEA’s Fighting Pharaohs traveled to Mouth of Wilson, Virginia on Thursday night to battle long-time rival Oak Hill Academy. The Fighting Pharaohs held true to their name and fought until the bitter end.

Although the scoreboard did not reflect a victory for QEA, the Fighting Pharaohs received a greeting of kings: chants, cheers and a standing ovation from staff and students alike on Friday morning.

Winton-Salem’s team winds down their season with two away games in Charlotte (Feb.18) and Durham, Virginia (Feb. 20).

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rest of the first half, before WyKevin Bazemore would break away from the pack and finish at the rim with a driving layup at the buzzer to give Winston-Salem State a 37-36 lead to take into the locker room at the half.

The second half began just as the first half ended with both teams scrapping and clawing until the 12:13 mark, when the Rams would seize control of the game.

With the game tied at 54-54, WSSU ramped up its defensive pressure and offensively got hot, as the Rams would use an incredible 19-0 run to go up 73-54.

During the run, WSSU got three pointers from Terrell Leach, Donta Harper and three three’s from Marquez Jones and a breakaway dunk from CJ Ford as the Rams seemed to have the game in complete control.

But the last seven minutes were the polar opposite, as WSSU went cold from the field and committed several costly turnovers to allow the Blue Bears to gain the momentum, and get back into the game.

Livingstone would finish the game on a 30-8 run, as Winston-Salem State last desperate attempts to tie the game on three pointers came up short, and the Blue Bears would hold on for an 86-83 win.

With the loss, WSSU falls to 16-9 overall, 9-7 in the CIAA and 7-3 in the Southern Division, while Livingstone improves to 16-9 overall, 10-6 in the CIAA and 7-3 in the Southern Division.

Winston-Salem State was led offensively by Donta Harper who finished with 22 points, six rebounds, three assists and two blocked shots, while Marquez Jones added 21 points, two rebounds, one assist and one steal. WyKevin Bazemore added 16 points, 10 rebounds, three assists and a steal. Javan Wells chipped in 10 points and four rebounds. CJ Ford and Terrell Leach each dropped in six points, with Ford also dishing out three assists and Leach adding two assists and two steals.

Livingstone was led by Hakeem Jackson who scored 21 points and four rebounds, while Eric Mayo added 19 points and 14 rebounds. Ty Newman also scored 19 points to go with six rebounds, and Eric Dubose chipped in 14 points.

Winston-Salem State will now regroup as they will get a first round bye in the CIAA Tournament, as they will face either Virginia Union, Shaw or Johnson C. Smith on Thursday night in the last quarterfinal of the day at the CIAA Tournament in Charlotte.

This is the first time the WSSU Rams have earned the Southern Division’s top seed since 2010, the first WSSU got back into the CIAA after its transition from going to Division I.

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Proclamation Today (Thursday, Feb. 26) at noon, Mayor Allen Joines will read a proclamation about the "5" Royales, the R&B group that will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on April 18, at the Hanesbrands Theatre, 209 N. Spruce St. (next to the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts) in downtown Winston-Salem. A reception will follow. Family members of the band’s original members are scheduled to attend. The "5" Royales is WinstonSalem’s homegrown, oncefamous band that helped shaped that unique genre of American music called R&B.

on such issues as race, religion and cultural differences. The theme of this year’s banquet is “Celebrating 35 Years of Youth in Service.” The speaker at this year’s banquet will be Amy Patano, a fifth-grade teacher at Kernersville Elementary School and the 2014-2015 Teacher of the Year for the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.

Entertainment will be provided by students from Speas Global Elementary School, who will present their international flag parade. The closing speaker will be the Rev. Darryl Aaron of First Baptist Church. Call CityLink 311 for ticket information.

Awards banquet A student from each public school in WinstonSalem and Forsyth County, as well as from some private schools, will be honored today, (Thursday, Feb. 26) at 6:30 p.m. at the Embassy Suites, 460 N. Cherry St. during the 35th annual Human Relations Student Awards Banquet. The Human Relations Commission partners with the WinstonCounty Salem/Forsyth Schools to hold the banquet, which honors students who exemplify positive human relations in their dealings with others

Downtown street study Transportation planners will hold a drop-in session today (Thursday, Feb. 26) to solicit public feedback on proposed changes in downtown streets that would take effect when Business I-40 is rebuilt.

The session will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Old Salem Visitor's Center, 900 Old Salem Road.

The study is assessing the effects of the potential conversion of Liberty, Main, First and Second streets to two-way traffic,

Neighborhood meeting East/Northeast The Neighborhood Association will hold its monthly meeting at 14th St. Recreation Center on today, (Thursday, Feb. 26) at 6 p.m. Invited guests are Parks & Recreation, City Of Winston Salem's assistant managers and Services Community Department. Please come and bring your neighbors.

Contact person is Marva Reid at 336-831-7816.

Rezoning meeting Council Member James Taylor Jr. will meet with constituents today (Thursday, Feb. 26) to discuss the requested rezoning of a lot on the southwest corner of Waughtown and Cline streets. The meeting will be at 6 p.m. at the Sprague Street Community Center, 1350 E. Sprague St. The lot is currently zoned for residential use and is proposed for pedestrian business use. For more contact information, Vanessa Smith at 336-4088618 or vanessas@cityofws.org.

and improvements that the conversion might require relating to parking, pedestrians, bicycles, business access, signs and more.

There will be no formal presentation. Residents may drop in any time.

Planners will be available to explain the proposed changes and answer questions. For more information call CityLink 311.

Health & Safety Workshop Forsyth Tech will host a Farm Health and Safety Institute workshop on Saturday, Feb. 28 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Forsyth Tech Stokes County Center, 1165 Dodgetown Road in Walnut Cove. This event is free and open to area farmers or anyone involved in agriculture and includes lunch, free safety kits, door prizes and vendor displays.

The one-day workshop will feature sessions on large animal safety, emergency preparedness, personal protection (hearing, sight, skin), and farm equipment safety, including a dramatic demonstration of a controlled tractor roll-over (between 2:30 – 4 pm).

Health screenings will also be available.

Preregistration is required by calling 336-593-5402.

Lecture series Dr. Tony Atala, director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and chair of the Urology Department at Wake Forest University, will speak at Forsyth Tech on Friday, Feb. 27 at 11 a.m. on the main campus at 2100 Silas Creek Pkwy as part of the college’s SciTech Lecture series. The topic of his address is: “Regenerative Medicine: Current Concepts and Changing Trends.”

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Happening Now Quarterly Assembly the first-quarter meeting for the north carolina Area of the northwestern District Quarterly Assembly of the holiness church of God inc. will convene Feb. 24 through March 1 at God’s United house of Grace and Mercy in high point, where the host pastor is ruling elder carolyn lazenby. the weeknight sessions will begin at 7:30 p.m. nightly and the Sunday service begins at 4 p.m. A Bible discussion and business meeting is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 28, starting at noon, at Bethlehem holiness church, Winston-Salem. All churches are to submit their reports before this business meeting. the scheduled churches and speakers are as follows: tuesday- elder calvin Smith of Miracle temple holiness church (high point); Wednesdayoverseer roy Alston (Graham, nc); thursdayruling elder Wardlow Frasier of Mount calvary holiness church, Friday- Bishop James ijames of Mount Zion holiness church (Mocksville) and Sunday- overseer eugene Kirby of Bethlehem holiness church. on Sunday, March 1, the designated church choir will render the nightly music. presiding overseer eugene Kirby, Jr. invite all members of the ncAnW District, friends and the public to come and worship.

Feb. 27

Job fair love community Development corp. will sponsor a job fair on Friday, Feb. 27, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the love community site, 3980 n. liberty St. Several employers have committed to be on hand for the job fair, such as novant health, lowe's home improvement, Bradley personnel, city of WinstonSalem, Goodwill and AAc communication. Anyone who needs help in creating or updating a resume should go to the corporation's Job link from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. interested people should sign up at the front desk at the love community site.

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transcendentalism the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Winston-Salem, 4055 robinhood road, will hear the rev. lisa Schwartz speak on “Walking on our own Feet: the heritage of transcendentalism” at 9 and 11 a.m. Sunday, March 1. At the 9:15 a.m. Forum, himanshu Gopalan and Smeet Souza-roy will present a travelogue on their trip through northern india. the fellowship is at. Visitors are welcome. More information at www.uufws.org.

Beginning March 5 Anniversary Ministry For christ church, 2341 n. patterson, will be celebrating Bishop Andrea nash’s 47 years in the ministry and 27 years as pastor of Ministry For christ church. this celebration will be March 5-8.

Speakers are: Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m., Senior pastor essie Mccullough of new Directional cathedral; thursday night at 7:30 p.m., Bishop Jerry Wise of Macedonia Apostolic church; Friday night at 6 p.m. at lone Star restaurant, 110 creekshire Way off hanes Mall Blvd., Senior pastor Beverly Alexander of open Door community church. closing the celebration Sunday will be the rev. Sam cornelius with the Devine connection Gospel group at 6 p.m. at Ministry For christ church.

March 6

World Day of prayer church Women United will celebrate World Day of prayer on Friday, March 6 at Salemtowne, 1000 Salemtowne Dr. registration begins at 11 a.m. and the service will begin at 11:30 a.m. parking is limited, and it will be marked where you can park. the program is written by cWU’s Bahamian sisters. the Bible study (John 13:1-17) "Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet,” will be led by chaplain linda Browne. Membership dues are $10 for individuals and $25 for church groups and will be collected at this meeting. Also an offering during worship service will be taken. lunch will be provided by Salemtowne after the service. contact Jamezenna Sudler at 336-722-0542. All are welcome.

March 7

Grow your church Mt. Zion Baptist church, 950 File St., and Mechanics and Farmers Bank will sponsor a “lunch and learn” series from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 7. it is called “Grow Your church” and is designed especially for faith-based and nonprofit organizations. learn about best practices in compensation, sustainability and succession planning, the importance of financial statements, and how to use remote deposit capture to Patterson your benefit. the event is free and will be held at the church. registration starts at 9:30 a.m. the workshop will be presented in partnership with Barry leonard, cpA, MBA and attorney Wayne patterson. rSVp by Friday, Feb. 27, with Wendy Morgan Butterfield Williamson at 336-722-0200, ext. 22 or by email at wendy.morgan@mfbonline.com.

March 10

Community dialogue on tuesday, March 10 at 6:30 p.m., the Freedom tree at iDr will convene a second community dialogue at the S.G. Atkins cDc, enterprise center, 1922 South MlK Drive, to explore faith community pathways to a just and flourishing Winston-Salem. events in Ferguson, Missouri; Staten island;

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Unitarians hold ‘Conversation About Race’

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on Saturday, Feb. 21, the UUth GrUUp of the Universalist Unitarian Fellowship of WinstonSalem had its first UUth ForUM, titled, “lets have a conversation About race.” the forum was designed to provide space for a candid conversation about race relations in the United States post-Ferguson, Miss. the panelists included, rev. Willard Bass, associate pastor of Green Street United Methodist church; principal travis taylor of carver high Submitted photo School; Marcus lane, president of Young professionals The UUTH GRUUP of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Winston-Salem of the Winston-Salem Urban had its first UUTH FORUM, titled, “Lets Have a Conversation About Race.” league; and Steve Virgil, about their experiences with race-inequality as Africanprofessor of law at Wake Forest University.

Americans. the panelists provided profound insight into the many, “the forum has set the stage for authentic conversaoften subtle, ways racial inequality can be seen in the tions addressing the issue of racial inequality,” says United States.

Sherine thomas, youth director at Unitarian Universalist panelists offered suggestions for ways that faith com- Fellowship and event organizer. munities can better address issues of racial injustice.

Members of the audience shared personal narratives

Ministry awards scholarship

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Khaliyah ingram received a monetary scholarship from the Forsyth county Deacon Union Ministry recently at red Bank Baptist church for her essay “Why i Wanted to Attend college.”

She is a freshman at north carolina A&t State University, majoring in criminal Justice. She says college is one of many dreams that she wants to accomplish and to be the

first to graduate in her immediate family. ingram said she refuses to be another statistic that says African-American women are not smart enough to attend college, and she wants to change the way the world looks at African American women. the recent verdict in Ferguson, Miss. means she has plenty of work to keep Submitted photo her striving for her goals as a Deacon William Harris and Evalena Clybourne, criminal justice major, president of the Forsyth County Deacon Union ingram said.

Ministry, with Khaliyah Ingram.

Author to Behold the Lamb share son’s woes with schizophrenia Scripture: John 1: 29-34

By the end of this lesson, we should • Understand that each believer must declare who Jesus is • recognize that Jesus is the paschal lamb • Appreciate God’s love for his entire creation

Background: the Gospel of John was penned by the apostle who was a part of Jesus’ inner circle. John and his brother, James were the ones who asked to sit on the right and left sides of Jesus. not a Synoptic Gospel, John focused on the Saviour’s ministry in Judea (Judah) and the city of Jerusalem. this book didn’t waste any time presenting Jesus as God incarnate (term not in Scripture). he was both human and divine at the same time. the trinity, also not in Scripture, is used for the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost (holy Spirit) as one entity.

Word about John the Baptist’s ministry spread quickly, so crowds would gather to hear him. his testimony was simple and clear – repent and prepare for the coming of the lord! he was very clear about his role. the Jewish hierarchy decided to investigate. read verses 19-28. here again the Baptist identifies himself.

Lesson: As the Baptist is baptizing, he sees Jesus approaching and declares to the people, “Behold the lamb.” Jews know the significance of a lamb. thousands of years before, their ancestors were saved because of that animal. their sacrifices covered sin therefore; they had to be

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repeated over and over. the Baptist’s declaration indicated that this lamb is different! this will be the final sacrifice for all people. Jesus is greater than the forerunner and was present in the beginning. As John speaks to the crowd, he acknowledges what happened earlier when he baptized Jesus (Matthew 3:13-17, Mark 1:9-11, luke 3:21-22). not only is Jesus baptized with water but his anointing is also with/by the holy Spirit (the dove) permanently.

Life’s Application: how do you feel when you see evidence of Jesus’ presence? Are you in awe or do you hide? When faced with life’s choices, what do you do? We attend worship, join ministries and pay our tithes. however the time will come when each believer must boldly declare who Jesus is. his sacrifice is the greatest gift of all times! he fulfilled the law and the prophets. no one took his life; he gave it freely. the lamb not only changed the status quo but he transformed believers from the inside out. if we recognize the lamb our lives would be more positive than negative. We would be filled with love not hate. We would respect all people as part of God’s creation. Behold the lamb.

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Fuquay-Varina-based poet and author Sonia Usatch-Kuhn will talk about her chapbook, “regarding My Son,” on thursday, March 5 at the Green Street United Methodist church, 639 S. Green St. (A chapbook is a small booklet or pamphlet.) her presentation, sponsored by the Mental health Association in Forsyth county, will be from 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. it is free and open to the pubic. the book, expressed through poetry, follows the story of her son’s diagnosis with paranoid schizophrenia 35 years ago. the north carolina Writer’s network calls the chapbook, “a journey in poetry about her son’s diagnosis of schizophrenia through his recovery and colKuhn lege graduation in 2012. the poems deal with issues of her observations of the hospital wards, the pain, hopelessness, stigma, hope, fear, wonder, frustration, doubt, and the process toward recovery she and her son took hand-in-hand.” “i am excited to have Sonia UsatchKuhn come to Winston-Salem to share her experiences (with her son’s permission), to talk openly, candidly and emotionally of what it is like to have someone you love dearly – your son, your daughter, your child – live with severe mental illness like schizophrenia,” said Andy hagler, executive director of the Mental health Association in Forsyth county. “the more we talk openly, candidly about mental illness the better we come to understand that mental illness – such as schizophrenia – is a disorder of the brain and not the result of a character flaw, bad parenting or the like.”

According to the national institute of Mental health, schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder that affects slightly over 1 percent of the American population.

For more information about Sonia Usatch-Kuhn’s March 5 talk, contact the Mental Health Association in Forsyth County at 336-768-3880.

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Columbia; and other places urgently press questions of social justice into public conversation. The conversation is a continuation to relate the national conversation about these issues to the future of our city. In particular, the dialogue will address three questions: What does a vision of the future our city in which all communities flourish look like? What are the obstacles for realizing this vision? How will we negotiate these obstacles successfully? The event is open to the public. Panelists include will include various members of the clergy.

Beginning March 17

Spring Revival Phillips Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, 132 W Glenn Ave., will hold its Spring Revival Tuesday through Thursday, March 17-19 at 7 p.m. nightly. The speakers will be Pastor James R. Clyburn of Red Bank Baptist Church, Germanton, on Tuesday; Dr. Darryl Aaron of First Baptist Church, Highland Ave. on Wednesday; and Dr. Lester Boyd of Friendship Baptist Church on Thursday. The theme for the revival is “Igniting Passion for Spiritual Transformation.”

Transportation will be provided.

You may contact the church office Aaron for more information or to schedule a pick up at 336-723-9451. The Rev. Chad R. Armstrong is senior pastor.

Ongoing

Sunday service Trinity Chapel Church, 4670 N. Patterson Ave. in Hidden Valley Business Park, invites the public to attend its services every Sunday. Sunday School is from 9:45–10:45 a.m. and morning worship service is at 11 a.m. Call 336-723-4626 or 336-978-0801 for more information. The host pastors are Rev. James E. Gaskins and First Lady Donese Gaskins.

Clothing closet SJ Boutique, which is housed at St. James AME Church, 1501 N. Patterson Ave., will be open every second, fourth and fifth Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The free clothes boutique is open to the public. The church’s pastor is Steven L. Lyons.

Opportunities The Faith in Action Care Program provides services to adults age 60 and over in the greater Winston-Salem

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area. Shepherd's Center volunteers provide transportation for medical appointments and groceries shopping, assist with minor home repairs, visit homebound older adults and provide respite for caregivers. Anyone wishing to assist with these needs or provide meaningful, heartfelt support to an isolated older adult may call 336748-0217 or visit the agency website at www.shepherdscenter.org for more information.

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Fellowship Calvary Hill Church of Greater Deliverance Inc., 4951 Manning St., invites the public to the Bethesda Center once a month on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. for fellowship. Great preaching and teaching. Contact Elder Tammy Miles for information at 336-744-3012.

‘Prayers of the People’ Centenary United Methodist Church, 646 West Fifth Street, has a new ministry titled “Prayers of the People.” Anyone who would like to visit Centenary for a time of individual silent prayer and reflection between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. every Monday is welcome. Participants do not need to attend or be members of Centenary and are encouraged to take part in this sacred time. This is intended to be a time open to all members of the community. Visitors are advised to use the 4 ½ Street entrance to the church upon arrival. There will be a sign-in notebook available for anyone desiring to list specific prayer requests or receive more information regarding “Prayers of the People” via email. The chapel will be available for prayer time as short or as long as each individual cares to take. For more information, contact Judy Jones at 336-397-1361.

Bible study St. James A.M.E. Church, 1501 N. Patterson Ave holds Bible study from 7-8 p.m. on Monday evenings. The fellowship meal is 6-7 p.m. All are invited.

Macedonia Holiness Church Of God Of The Apostolic Faith, Inc.

Sunday Services Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:45 a.m.

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Wednesday Services Prayer & Bible Study . . . . . . . 7:30 p.m.

4111 Whitfield Drive Phone: 336-767-3700 Fax: 336-767-7006

JERVAY Evelyn Rev. Harrison Jervay passed away Saturday, February 21, 2015 in Henderson, N.C. at the Maria P a r h a m Medical Center from complications due to her ongoing battle with a stroke. She was 69.

Rev. Evelyn was on born 7, March in 1945 Macon, N.C. to the late John A. Harrison and Somerville Sallie Harrison She gave her life to Christ at a young age at Macon Second Baptist Church. She R. John attended Hawkins High School in Warrenton, N.C. She was married to the late Roy Dunston of Embro, N.C., and they went on to make their home in New York.

While in New York she obtained her N.Y. State General Education Diploma. She pursued a career in banking, and as a result garnered numerous certificates in her chosen field. From her years in banking she later pursued a career as an insurance agent, where once again she secured additional certifications to accomplish her goals.

In the mid-70’s Evelyn relocated to Raleigh, North Carolina, going to work as an NCR Operator at Wachovia Bank. She held several positions managerial before she founded NayKel Education Center, an organization addressing the problems of at risk and court involved youth.

It was during her leadership at Nay-Kel that she met Paul R. Jervay, Jr. The couple wed in 1988, and they began their life pursuing their respective careers in Human Services and African-American The Newpapers, Carolinian and Carolina Call.

The couple became the owners of The Carolinian in 1997, and Evelyn’s duties were expanded to those of coThe of publisher Carolinian and publisher of Carolina Call. Both posts she retained until her retirement in Dec. 2010.

Their careers contin-

ued to have a close association with one another, as Evelyn and Paul were in contact with people from all walks of life.

So, it was a natural spiritual movefor ment to Evelyn Dr. meet J o s e p h Paige, who encouraged her aspirations to the m i n i s t r y.

Evelyn had a l r e a d y attended at classes University Shaw Divinity School, and was a willing candidate for the ministry.

On Dec. 23, 2001 she was ordained into the Baptist Ministry at Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church in Bunn, N.C. She began her ministerial mission by establishing the Nay-Kel Center Baptist Church, a young people’s church in Raleigh and Warrenton, N.C. Rev. Evelyn Harrison Jervay was preceded in death by her brother, “Boochee” Alfred Harrison.

She is survived by her loving husband, Paul R. Jervay, Jr., Children: Dunston, Sylvia Sharon Warrenton; (Andrew), Alston Kerry Warrenton; Dunston, New York; Sonya Murphy (Joe), Shenay Georgia; (Uyless), Dewberry Kansas; Kelvin Dunston Jervay, Raleigh; Jeneea Jervay-Bush (Hobert), Durham; Adria Jervay (Rodney), Charlotte; 14 grandchildren; and 5 grandchildren; great S. Sallie Mother: Harrison, A Brother, Harrison D. John Sisters, (Paulette); HarrisonDeborah McKevie (James); JoAnn Harrison, A Special Cousin, Annie Banks; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks you donate to: Nay-Kel Center Baptist Church, 133 NayKel Lane, Warrenton, NC 27589

of Letters Remembrance may be sent to: Boyd’s Funeral Service 149 Holland Bland Rd., Warrenton, NC 27589

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Sealed bids will be received by the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education at Maintenance Department Conference Room 4897 Lansing Drive, Winston-Salem up to 3:00 p.m. March 18, 2015 for General Construction Bids (Single Prime) and immediately thereafter publicly opened and read for the furnishing of labor, material and equipment entering into the construction of Renovations to LewisvilleElementary School Kitchen located at Lewisville, NC. Bids will be received for General Construction (Single Prime). All proposals shall be lump sum.

A mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held for all interested bidders and vendors on March 4, 2015, 3:30 p.m. at the Kitchen of Lewisville Elementary School, 150 Lucy Lane, Lewisville, NC. Project specific questions, bidding procedures, perfered brand alternates, performance specifications and HUB information will be addressed for this project.

Complete plans, specifications and contract documents will be open for inspection in the offices of the Architect.

Minority participation questions should be directed to the Architect or WS/FCS Maintenance Department.

Qualified General Contractors may obtain one DVD of the Bidding Documents after February 24, 2015 in the office of Peterson/Gordon Architects, 3508 Vest Mill Rd., Winston Salem, NC.

Subcontractors and Prime bidders desiring more sets of documents may purchase additional sets of construction documents upon payment for cost of reproduction, shipping, and handling directly from Sharpe Images, Tel. (336) 724-2871.

Bidders shall use complete sets of Bidding Documents in preparing bids; neither the Owner nor Architect assumes responsibility for errors or misinterperetations resulting from the use of incomplete sets of Bidding Documents.

All contractors are hereby notified that they must have proper license as required under the state laws governing their respective trades.

The bidder shall identify, on the bid proposal, minority business participation it will use on the project.

Forms are included within the Proposal Form in the bid documents. Failure to complete these forms is grounds for rejection of the bid. (GS143-128.2c- Effective 1/1/2002.)

Each proposal shall be accompanied by a cash deposit or a certified check drawn on a bank or trust company, insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, of an amount equal to not less than five percent (5%) of the proposal, or in lieu thereof a bidder may offer a bid bond of five percent (5%) of the bid executed by a surety company licensed under the laws of North Carolina to execute the contract in accordance with the bid bond. Said deposit shall be retained by the owner as liquidated damages in event of failure of the successful bidder to execute the contract within ten days after the award or to give satisfactory surety as required by law.

A performance bond and a payment bond will be required for one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price.

Payment will be made based on NC General Statute 143.134.1 or ninety percent (90%) of monthly estimates and final payment made upon completion and acceptance of work.

No bid may be withdrawn after the scheduled closing time for the receipt of bids for a period of 40 days.

The owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive informalities.

Designer: Peterson/Gordon Architects, PA 3508 Vest Mill Rd. Winston-Salem, NC Tel. (336) 760-1411

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS WAKE FOREST INNOVATION QUARTER (WFIQ) RAIL TRAIL NORTH GREENWAY PROJECT

Pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes (NCGS) 143-128 and 143-129, sealed Bids for the construction of the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter (WFIQ) Rail Trail North Greenway project will be received by the City/County Purchasing Department, Room 16, City Hall Building, 101 North Main Street, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101 until 2:00 PM local time on March 18, 2015, at which time, all Bids that have been duly received will be publically opened and read aloud. Bidders are hereby notified that they must be properly licensed as required by Chapter 87 of the North Carolina General Statutes.

Bidders are required to be prequalified with NCDOT for their specific discipline.

Contractors wishing to become prequalified may obtain information through the NCDOT website at: http://www.ncdot.gov/business/.

A Mandatory pre-bid conference will be held at 10:00 AM local time on March 4, 2015 at the City Hall Building Room 16, 101 North Main St, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101, to discuss scope of work, schedule, and the DBE goals as it relates to construction of the project.

The Wake Forest Innovation Quarter (WFIQ) Rail Trail North Greenway is a pedestrian and bicycle transportation improvement project that utilizes an existing NCDOT/PART railroad corridor, currently not in service. The existing rail line will remain and the trail will be constructed along the west side of the rail. The trail is approximately 0.5 miles long and will extend from Fogle Street to Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The work will include grading, drainage, paving, pedestrian bridges, retaining walls, stairs, lighting, telecommunication, landscaping and pedestrian/bicycle amenities.

Plans and Specifications will be provided electronically by request after Tuesday, February 24, 2015, by contacting Jerry Bates at jerryjb@cityofws.org or 336-7476939.

Bidding Documents may be examined at the following locations:

A. Office of the City/County Purchasing Department, Room 324, City Hall Building, 101 North Main Street, WinstonSalem, North Carolina 27101, Monday through Friday, (336) 727-2983.

B. ISqFt Plan Room, 4500 W. Lake Forest Drive, Suite 502, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (800) 364-2059.

Compliance with the City of WinstonSalem’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program is required on this project.

Please refer to the Special Instructions to Bidders contained in the Bidding Documents.

Instructions for submitting bids may be obtained by contacting Jerry Bates, City/County Purchasing Department, Room 324, City Hall Building, 101 North Main Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, (336) 747-6939 or email (preferred): jerryjb@cityofws.org

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Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of Mary Alice Patterson, deceased, of Forsyth County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the Estate of Mary Alice Patterson, to present said claims to the undersigned, in the care of Renita Thompkins Linville, P. O. Box 20802, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 271200802, on or before the 5th day of May 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.

All persons, firms, and corporations indebted to the said Estate will please make immediate payment.

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CASSANDRA PATTERSON-BROWN EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF MARY ALICE PATTERSON Renita Thompkins Linville Attorney at Law 205 West Third Street P. O. Box 20802 Winston-Salem, NC 27120-0802 (336) 725-0998 (Office) (336) 725-1980 (Fax)

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You are required to make a written answer to the Petition alleging to Terminate Parental Rights within forty (40) days after the date of this notice; and upon your failure to make a defense to the Petitions within the 40 day period specified herein or to attend the hearing on the said Petition, the Petitioner will apply to the Court for terminating your parental rights to the above-referenced juveniles.

Any counsel appointed previously to represent you and not released by the Court shall continue to represent you.

If you are indigent and not already represented by appointed counsel, you are entitled to appointed counsel and provisional counsel has been appointed upon your request subject to the Courts review at the first hearing after this service.

The hearing on the Petition alleging to Terminate Parental Rights is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on Monday, April 6, 2015 in Courtroom 4-J of the Hall of Justice in Winston-Salem, North Carolina or as soon thereafter as the Court can hear the said case.

This the 23rd day of February, 2015

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on thursday, Feb. 19, United Way of Forsyth county celebrated the end of the 2014 community campaign with a total raised of $16.93 million, $430,000 over the goal of $16.5 million. the community campaign represents the largest part of the $20.8 million total resource development goal which also includes grants, foundation donations, and major gifts.

“We won’t receive numbers from the other parts of resource development for a few months,” says Mark Uren, Vice president of resource Development. “however we are on track to achieve our goal and the success of our community campaign brings us one step closer.” cantey alexander, triad regional president of BB&t and 2014 campaign chair, welcomed a crowd of over a 100 volunteers, partners, and community members who came to the celebratory lunch-

Forsyth county receives highest number of Spirit of nc awards

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the United Way of north carolina recognized companies and organizations from across the state that have demonstrated commitment and support to their community through local United Way involvement. of the 42 Spirit of north carolina awards, Forsyth county organizations received the highest number of awards for the second year in a row, with 11 awards, at the annual meeting and awards luncheon on Friday, Feb. 13.

Businesses, professional and nonprofit organizations, governmental entities, healthcare and educational institutions – large and small – are nominated to receive a Spirit of north carolina award because they are champions of change, raise their voices to share the story of their communities, volunteer their time and expertise, and invest resources.

Forsyth county awardwinners are aladdin travel and Meeting planners, BB&t, city of WinstonSalem, Deere-hitachi, First community Bank, First tennessee Bank, hanesBrands inc., pepsico, reynolds american inc., Wake Forest Baptist

struggling to meet their goals and have trouble finding campaign chairs, we have companies and donors who understand the value of investing in the community, and people like cantey and tommy who are excited about serving as campaign chairs,” said Gordineer.

“We are so thankful to have the kind of support to allow us to focus on the critical issues of education, financial stability, and health and be a catalyst for long-term impact.” the United Way of Forsyth county focuses on improving student success and the high school graduation rate, increasing financial stability among lower-income individuals and families, broadening access to health care and prescription medications to the un- and under-insured and providing short-term assistance to stabilize those facing immediate crisis.

place.” alexander then introduced tommy payne, president of niconovum USa inc., an rai subsidiary, as the 2 0 1 5 community campaign chair and the passed traditional dollar first donated to payne. c i n d y Gordineer, president and Submitted photo of Tommy Payne and Cantey Alexander, Triad Regional President of BB&T and ceo United Way 2014 Campaign Chair speak at the UWFC campaign finale. of Forsyth eon despite the bitter cold this kind of commitment by county, wrapped up the event weather. businesses, nonprofits, and by thanking alexander as well “this is all because of volunteers to educate our chil- as volunteers and agencies and you,” alexander told the dren, build financially stable by remarking on how great crowd. “We couldn’t have families, and ensure the health Forsyth county is. raised so much without all the of our citizens is what makes “While many other United work of dedicated volunteers. Forsyth county a truly special Ways across the country are

Medical center, and Wake Forest University were all recognized for their valuable community involvement and their support of United Way of Forsyth county. in a special recognition, reynolds american won the state excellence in community Spirit award, an award given to a single company who demonstrates the most outstanding community support based on year-round commitment through leadership and advocacy for community change, building a culture of volunteerism, and investing resources to improve quality of life for all.

“We are so proud of all of our Spirit award winners and all of the great organizations who support Forsyth county. We live in a great place where businesses, government and non-profits all come together to build a strong community,” says cindy Gordineer, president and ceo of United Way of Forsyth county. “For Forsyth county to receive the most awards two years in a row and for reynolds american to win the top award in the state shows how much support there is for making this a wonderful place to live and work.”

RiverRun will spotlight black films

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the 17th riverrun international Film Festival, which will run april 16-26, will present a six-film Spotlight on Black american cinema from 1971-1991. the featured films are: Shaft (1971); Killer of Sheep (1979); She’s Gotta have it (1986); hollywood Shuffle (1987); Daughters of the Dust (1991); Boyz n the hood (1991). riverrun’s popular ticket Samplers, which include 10 film vouchers for the price of nine, are now on sale at the Stevens center Box office. riverrun members may also purchase advance tickets on March 18, before public sales. General tickets go on sale March 19, 2015, at the Stevens center Box office, via www.riverrunfilm.com or over the phone at (336) 721-1945.

Thank You The family of the Late George S. Redd Jr. would like to extend our sincere thanks for all acts of kindness during the passing of our loved one.

He loved the people of Winston-Salem and we The Redd Family are grateful to have shared his legacy with so many.

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Contributors Ernest H. Pitt, Publisher Donna Rogers, Managing Editor Elaine Pitt, Business Manager LinTaylor Marketing Group, Graphics Angela Daniels, Senior Account Manager, Advertising and Sales

Content Contributors Sen. Paul Lowe Jr. Cheryl Harry Rev. Willard Bass

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e movie “Selma” has fueled Black History Month 2015 into one that has made us look at Th the past to see that it is mirroring the future.

The movie has sparked a national movement to make sure young people see what happened regarding the Selma-to-Montgomery Marches and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. There is a movement of sorts today to slowly erode voting rights. More Black History is being made as history continues.

It should not be surprising that people are learning Black History through the arts and media. Newspapers, television and radio reported what we call Black History today. One of the reasons the Selma-to-Montgomery Marches made such an impact is the fact that the media covered the marches. The world could see history in the making, including young people. The coverage led to the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. ow an entertainment venue, the movie, has brought history to a new generation of young N people. Books, plays and poetry have also presented Black History in various ways. As I think back on it, that was how I learned much of my Black History until I went to college.

The Chronicle’s Black History Month special section is designed to provide information and suggest resources to spur your interest in discovering the Black History you didn’t know and refresh your mind about the Black History you knew but might have forgotten.

We hope you will interact with us and share your thoughts about this special section and Black History in general via the way that’s best for you: email, Twitter, Facebook or our website. You can also deliver your written message to our office.

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Dr. Paul Arthur Lowe, Jr. Pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church, WinstonSalem, N.C. Newly elected to fill the seat for Senate District 32 in the North Carolina General Assembly.

What is the movie or TV mini-series linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

“A Raisin in the Sun” What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

This movie teaches life lessons about character and the struggles of African Americans in this country “within” an “without.” This movie continues to show me that amid broken dreams, there is still hope.

What is the book linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

“Where Do We Go From Here,” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This book was written shortly before Dr. King’s assassination. It was timely in 1967 and still relevant in 2015. The thing that is most ironic is that we are trying work through the same issues almost 50 years later. I am moved emotionally and intellectually every time I read through this book. The struggle for the poor, people of color, women and the disenfranchised is an ongoing event in America.

What is the play or musical linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

“Jitney”

The play that has been the most moving for me has been August Wilson’s “Jitney” because it reminds me of some of the places I hung out in the early to mid-‘70s. During my high school days we would listen to middle aged and old black men share their stories and wisdom with all of us eager to listen.

The musicals that I always enjoyed watching for their amazing mix of talent and musicality are: “Stormy Weather” starring Lena Horne and Bill Bojangles Robinson. Also, “Cabin in the sky” starring Ethel Waters and Duke Ellington. The talent of these folks, who could act as well as execute extraordinary musicianship, they paved the way for so many.

What is the song linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” The lyrics of this song seem capture all of the hopes, dreams, and aspirations, and the struggles of African-American people.

What is the poem linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

“Mothers Words to a Son” This poem reminded me of things that my mother would say about continuing to try against the odds.

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Earline Parmon and Paul Lowe at Forsyth DNC Headquarters.

Dr. Lowe Bio Dr. Paul Arthur Lowe Jr. is a native of Seattle, Washington and part of a family line of clergy. For more than two decades, he has served as pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C. He serves on a number of boards and commissions in Winston-Salem.

In January, he was sworn in at the North Carolina General Assembly to fill the seat for Senate District 32, which was vacated

by Sen. Earline Parmon.

Lowe is married to the former LaGail Crews, retired Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. and Salem Lodge 139 Prince Hall Affiliation.

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Rev. Willard Bass Jr., Assistant Pastor of Green Street United Methodist Church and Director of IDR Inc. What is the movie or TV mini-series linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

The movie “12 Years a Slave” is a reminder of the horrific nature of slavery in the US and what our ancestors endured to just do life during that period of history. It also gives hope in the midst of oppression because it affirms what determination to live can result at the end of a horrible encounter.

What is the book linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

The Book Marks festival book “I Didn’t Know What I Didn’t Know” by Dorothy Hampton Marcus and Kaypri. The biography is “a southern white woman’s story about race” and the realization that race is a crazy mix of socializations and experiences that when unchecked create a whole of privilege and oppression. But, when one consciously steps into the madness can make a tremendous difference in how just life can be for the oppressor and the oppressed. Dorothy is said to have been “…a leading force in the fight for integration and racial equality.”

What is the play or musical linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

The Black Theater Festival’s “Black Nativity” is always a production that lifts out the emotions of belief in a God that transcends the heavens and earth to love and bring justice to all!

What is the song linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

Marvin Gaye’s, “What’s Going On” is a classic on the reality life in the US. He calls us to “find ways to love to reality” in the midst of turmoil and pain.

There is a higher call for family, parents, children and neighbors alike.

What is the poem linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

Maya Angelou’s “I know Why the Cage Bird Sings,” speaks to the plight of women everywhere who struggle to just do life without pain and hurt.

The Chronicle was founded in 1974.

What news story linked to Black History in The Chronicle has had the greatest impact on your life and why? Or, what news story linked to Black History in general has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

The Chronicle has been and still is the stalwart of truth in media for our community. It has tried to present the news in unbiased manner for the most part. The most recent story linked to Black History is the MLK Breakfast challenge to the “Racism as America’s Berlin Wall.” I believe the courage to call out systemic racism and offer a solution that evolves the whole community was and is visionary for the future of our city. Kudos to The Chronicle!

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Rev Bass Bio Rev. Willard Bass Jr., M. Div. is an ordained minister whose vocation is centered on building authentic communities of equity across racial and ethnic divides in all sectors of the community. He director of the Institute for Dismantling Racism and Assistant Pastor of Green Street United Methodist Church. He has been able to engage the broader community in the work of long-term institutional transformation for social change.

As the Assistant Pastor of Outreach for Green Street United Methodist Church, Bass is currently engaged in a broad range of civic and church activities all focused, in various ways, on building and enhancing community through dismantling racism and other injustices.

Bass founded the Institute for Dismantling Racism (IDR, Inc.) in 2004 as a collaborative with a focus on addressing institutional racism. Bass has had major careers in industry, construction, and as an independent business owner. He turned to higher education, theology and church leadership with a vision of creating an anti-racist multicultural diverse community.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Fayetteville State University, one of the historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) located in North Carolina.

He has held board positions with several community and religious organizations.

Bass has been married to Shirley Lewis Bass for 33 years. They have three children: Kenya, Willard III and Fumisho.

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Cheryl Harry, Director of African American Programming, Old Salem Museums & Gardens What is the movie or TV miniseries linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

“Selma” – Because the film concentrated on one experience, I saw Dr. King as a Warrior and not as the “dreamer” that is so commonly used to describe him. He was gallant, strategic and spiritual all rolled into one.

What is the poem linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

All of Dr. Angelou‘s poetry speak to my passion.

The poem that has had the greatest impact on my life is a collection of poems by Nikki Giovanni Blues: For All the Changes: New Poems. It was after reading this collection of poems that I decided to resurrect the Juneteenth celebration in 2005.

What is the book linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

The Chronicle was founded in 1974. What news story linked to “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” by Dr. Black History in The Chronicle has Maya Angelou. The story was identifiable to me had the greatest impact on your as a junior high school student and relatable to life and why? Or, what news story my personality. I felt such a sense of pride after I linked to Black History in general has had the greatest impact on completed the book. your life and why?

Lift Every Voice and Sing – The lyrical metaphors are piercing to the soul and the charge and the challenge are timeless.

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The special tabloids that The Chronicle produces commemorating significant events in African American history, i.e., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday and Dr. Maya Angelou’s birthday and passing, National Black Theatre Festival, Black History Month, and the upcoming 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation (Juneteenth) are keepsakes.

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Cheryl Harry accepts her award from the N.C. Black Repertory Company’s Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin (right).

Ms. Harry Bio The Chronicle’s 2013 Community Service Award Curator of the Arts Honoree If Cheryl Harry has her way, every local man, woman or child will learn to embrace the richness of beauty of African American culture.

Cheryl has made it her mission to educate and enlighten. Through innovative and creative means, she engages the masses in black history. A lifelong educator, Harry created the nonprofit Triad Cultural Arts to preserve and promote African American culture and art. The organization sponsors the city’s popular Juneteenth and Kwanzaa celebrations.

Through her Coming Eventz web site and e-newsletter, she keeps the community abreast of concerts, exhibitions, forums and other area happenings. Old Salem Museum and Gardens made the right call last year when it brought Harry on as its director of African American programming. Cheryl has vastly broadened the museum’s offering and put a fresh focus on Old Salem’s rich black history.

Earlier this year, Cheryl realized a longtime dream with the release of her local black history book.

“Winston-Salem’s African American Legacy” is a rich pictorial collection that takes readers on a decades-long journey. The book fills a void that has been left empty for far too long.

For embracing a mission to bring the past to the present, The Chronicle and the community are proud to proclaim Cheryl Harry as a Curator of the African American Arts.

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Donna Rogers, Managing Editor, The Chronicle What is the movie or TV mini-series linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

“Eyes on the Prize” mini-series on PBS. I saw so much news throughout the mini-series that it made the past come to life. It made me think about what people were going through back then so that I could have the rights I have today. It made me realize the responsibility media workers have to the world at large.

What is the book linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

“The Black Press,” by Roland Edgar Wolseley. This was used in an African-American history class I took. I found out a great deal about the history of the Black Press. I found out that even they had to fight injustices just to get papers out. It helped me understand that part Black History.

What is the play or musical linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

“Crowns.” I saw it in Atlanta. It made me think of my late mother, who wore hats, like her mother and sisters. It helped me understand how those “crowns” can hold a lot of history if we look at them introspectly.

What is the song linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

“Lift Every Voice and Sing.” When I sing that song or hear it sung, I feel a sense of pride, that we as a people have overcome so many obstacles to get to where we are.

What is the poem linked to Black History that has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

“I, Too, Sing America,” by Langston Hughes.

This short poem says a lot about the relationship between white America and black Americans. It makes me determined to overcome.

The Chronicle was founded in 1974.

What news story linked to Black History in The Chronicle has had the greatest impact on your life and why? Or, what news story linked to Black History in general has had the greatest impact on your life and why?

The Kerner Commission report, because it showed me how I was able to break into the newspaper business as a black woman. The U.S. riots of 1967 fueled the call for more black men and women in the media to cover news stories such as the riots.

Donna Rogers

Ms. Rogers Bio Donna Rogers has been working as a journalist since high school. She started her professional career as a copy editor more than 30 years ago. Over the years she has worked in writing, reporting, editing and production positions in metro news, features and business divisions of the newsroom.

She also has been in charge of a 24-hour newsroom on the Internet that specialized in breaking news.

Rogers has been the editor of award-winning reporters and has worked with awardwinning teams. She has worked in leadership roles for several newspapers, in the South and the Midwest. Before coming to WinstonSalem, she helped Georgia, Virginia and South Carolina nonprofits and businesses with public relations and marketing, which included producing a newsletter and leading major marketing campaigns. She also spoken to groups about writing.

Rogers is a native of South Carolina.

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By Crystal D. Holland, MSLS, Forsyth County Public Library- Kernersville Branch

Compiling a list of must-read books by African-American authors is a daunting task. There are so many titles to consider, both old and new.

The genres are as varied as the authors themselves. Time and space therefore were my deciding factors.

I am grateful for my co-workers’ suggestions, the Forsyth County Public Library’s African American Literature NextReads newsletter (http://tiny.cc/yb27tx), the 2010 brochure, African American History & Culture, also produced by FCPL, Williamsburg (VA) Pubic Libraries list of 100+ African-American Writers (http://tiny.cc/ae27tx) and various must read lists available from Goodreads.

These titles represent a collection of Black thought and experience that spans time, class and political affiliation.

There are short and long reads; funny and profoundly sad reads.

Each title or collection of titles illuminates a moment in time whether fictionalized or not, that will speak to all races.

As always, please contact your local library or log on to our site at www.forsythlibrary.org for additional titles, special Black History Month programming, and excellent resources for pleasure reading as well as research.

Following are lists of various kinds of books linked to Black History.

Black History / Biographies • “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” by Maya Angelou (see review page 13) • “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” by Alex Haley • “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” by Harriet A. Jacobs • “12 Years a Slave,” by Solomon Northup • “Dreams from My father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,”

by President Barack Obama • “Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family,”

by Condoleezza Rice • “Black Boy,” by Richard Wright • “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,”

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Gwendolyn Brooks Paul Lawrence Dunbar Nikki Giovanni Langston Hughes Maya Angelou

Review: 1969 A literary superstar was born with the publication of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”

This seminal autobiographical novel

by Maya Angelou has been a best seller around the globe and cherished by generations. After hearing tales of her bittersweet upbringing in tiny Stamps, Ark., friends convinced Angelou to put pen to paper and tell her story. And she did so gloriously.

Angelou was also inspired to write the book following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was killed on her birthday, April 4 in 1968.

The story is one of triumph and tragedy.

Angelou tells how she and her brother, Bailey, are abandoned by their parents and shipped off to live with their paternal grandmother and an uncle in Stamps.

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Cambridge, Mass., could have been the home of a woman considered one of the world’s best wordsmiths.

Maya Angelou told a crowd of more than 200 on Feb. 19, 2006 at the Central Library that when she was looking to make a fresh start in the early 1980s, she considered relocating to only two places: Cambridge and Winston-Salem.

Angelou, known globally for her prose, had visited Winston-Salem a decade earlier. The city left an immediate impression, she said.

People here said “hello” in grocery stores, she recalled, and while residents were impressed to meet a renowned poet and writer, folks here were never overly star-struck. She was also fond of Cambridge, a Boston suburb that boasts two of the world’s pre-eminent institutions of higher learning – MIT and Harvard.

In the end, climate tipped the scale in Winston-Salem’s favor.

“I don’t do snow with any grace,” Angelou said, “so I chose Winston-Salem.”

Her appearance at the library was billed as a Black History Month program, but Angelou made it much more than that. She shared stories from her life – some of which are included in her series of best-selling autobiographies – and fused them with poetry, some of her own as well as poems of others.

She credited poetry, with its messages of hope, redemption and love, with black people’s survival and resilience in a country that has often been hostile and crude.

“We are still here,” she said to the racially mixed crowd. “Still the last hired and the first fired, still the butt of many white liberals’ jokes, but we are still here.”

Angelou said she called Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin, the director of the library, to volunteer her services for the program.

Libraries and the knowledge they hold have a special place in Angelou’s heart. As a child, literature and poetry piqued her interest. She began writing at an early age; some of her childhood writings are archived at Wake Forest University, where Angelou is the Reynolds Professor of American Studies.

She recited poems written by James Weldon Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Nikki Giovanni, even Edgar Allan Poe. She recited all the poems from memory. Angelou encouraged the crowd to store literature and any bits of knowledge that they could in their minds, which she called the original computer.

“Have something in this,” she said, pointing to her head.

Sunday’s program had many light moments. Angelou shared several humorous episodes from her storied past, including the hostile encounter she had with a waitress at a health food restaurant after Angelou attempted to light a cigarette in the eatery. The poet gave up smoking years ago but that encounter lives on in “The Health-Food Diner,” the pro-meat poem she penned about the incident.

She called laughter the best medicine. Laugh as much as possible, she said.

“I don’t trust people who don’t laugh,” she added.

Angelou, who despite her fame called herself an “artist in progress, took questions from the audience and stayed behind after the event to sign books and programs for attendees.

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Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘Fore I Die, 1971 Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well, 1975 And Still I Rise, 1978 Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing, 1983 Now Sheba Sings the Song, 1987 I Shall Not Be Moved, 1990 On the Pulse of Morning, 1993 The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou, 1994 Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems for Women, 1995 A Brave and Startling Truth, 1995 From a Black Woman to a Black Man, 1995 Amazing Peace, 2005 Mother, a Cradle to Hold Me, 2006 Celebrations, Rituals of Peace and Prayer, 2006 Poetry for Young People, 2007 We Had Him, 2009 His Day is Done, 2012 continued on page 14

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Black History / Other Nonfiction • “The Souls of Black Folk” by W. E. B. Du Bois • “Up from Slavery” by Booker T. Washington • “(modern classic) The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,” by Isabel Wilkerson

“The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,” by Isabel Wilkerson In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. This title was the Forsyth County Public Library’s On the Same Page community read selection in 2012.

Black migration author draws large crowd POSTED ON 24 OCT 2012

By Layla Garms, The Chronicle Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson came to town this week.

She addressed audiences at Reynolda House on Sunday and at the Central Library on Monday. Her book, “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Elnora Gore Story of America’s Great Migration,” was the featured book for Forsyth County Public Library’s popular On the Same Page community reading program. Her talk before a packed house of more than 150 in the library auditorium Monday served as the culmination for the program, which began in September.

Wilkerson, a former bureau chief for The New York Times, spent 15 years conducting interviews with more than 1,200 Americans about the 55-year period known as the Great Migration, when millions of African Americans fled abhorrent racial conditions in the South to start new lives in the North and West. A critically acclaimed national bestseller, “The Warmth of Other Suns” is said to be the most comprehensive work on the movement, which extended from 1915-1970.

“This is a story that had not fully been told in part because the people themselves did not feel safe to tell it, because the people themselves had endured such

pain that they did not want to burden their children or anyone else with it,” she said. “I just view it as a healing experience. This is a way of allowing their voices to be heard.”

Wilkerson, a Washington, D.C. native who serves as a journalism professor and director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University, said she was inspired to write the book because her own parents were part of the Great Migration, but were closed-lipped about their experiences.

“My parents never talked about it,” she related.

“Wherever it would come up, my mother would just say, ‘I left that place a long time ago. I didn’t look back.’”

The experience of writing the book and sharing what she learned from others who were a part of the movement with her mother allowed her to establish a closer connection with her family’s story, Wilkerson revealed.

“I learned things that I didn’t know about my own family through the process,” she explained. “It was a way that she (my mother) could begin to process what she had been through … it made it safe for her to talk about, and it kind of validated it. That’s the value of being able to create a safe space for discussion, which is the goal of all of this.”

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On the Same Page co-coordinators (from left): Michael Ackerman, Crystal Holland and Terri Bonow.

Isabel Wilkerson (center) poses with fans Robert Smith and Carol Vogler.

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to a family ordeal. She said she was hopeful the book and the conversations it sparked would help those who lived in the time of the migration and their descendants alike to find closure.

“It’s almost as if we’ve had a trauma to our family that has gone unresolved, and no one’s talking about it,” she stated. “We’re afraid of what will happen if we talk about it, but it turns out that when we do, the air gets clearer. That’s the goal of this experience, to actually validate the lives of those who lived it.”

Wilkerson’s talk attracted a diverse audience of readers and fans, ranging in age from teenagers to senior citizens. Benjamin Harris, director of the high school at Carter G. Woodson School of Challenge, brought a contingent of students in the school’s advanced placement government and English IV courses to hear from the Atlanta resident, who has been on tour since “The Warmth of Other Suns” was released in September 2010.

“Our AP classes are expanding and I felt that the instructors could use this text as part of their curriculum. That’s the reason I wanted to bring them here,” explained Harris, a former attorney. “(I want them to see) literature is a lived experience. It’s not just reading a book, but it’s engaging with the authors, it’s engaging with other readers. Literature is a way of life.”

Hillsborough native Elnora Gore said she has participated in several On the Same Page and On the Same Poem programs at the library. After hearing Wilkerson’s talk, the retired educator said she was eager to delve into “The Warmth of Other Suns.”

“It encourages me to read the books for one thing, and just to come together as a group and experience what other people are saying,” the Clemmons resident said of On the Same Page. “It’s inspiring. I haven’t read the book, so I’m looking forward to reading it.”

Crystal Holland, co-chair of the On the Same Page program, which is now in its 11th year, said more than 1,000 Forsyth County residents participated in the initiative, which was themed “It’s All About the Journey!”

The program attracted the most intergenerational audience she has seen to date, Holland said.

“We’ve had such a wonderful time presenting this book to the community.

The conversations that have been sparked by it have been incredible,” related Holland, who said her family was also a part of the Great Migration. “…I am absolutely blown away by how many people have come together from so many different parts of the community.”

After her talk, Wilkerson spent more than an hour signing copies of her book for dozens of readers, many of whom told her how reading it had touched their lives.

“It took a long time because everyone had a story they wanted to share.

Wherever I have gone, generally it takes awhile because everybody has a story, and they all want to tell it,” she explained. “…The reason why people have embraced the book is because it really is their story. It’s everybody’s story.”

“The Warmth of Other Suns” retails for $16.95 for the trade paperback or $30 for the hardcover edition and is available at www.randomhouse.com. For more information about Wilkerson, www.isabelwilkerson.com.

Link to story: www.wschronicle.com/2012/10/black-migration-authordraws-large-crowd/

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Black History / Fiction

Black History / Plays

• “Parable of the Sower,” by Octavia Butler • “What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day,”

by Pearl Cleage • “Invisible Man,” by Ralph Ellison • “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston • “Middle Passage,” by Charles Johnson • “The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison • “The Color Purple,” by Alice Walker • “Native Son,” by Richard Wright • (new release!) “Driving the King,” by Ravi Howard

• “A Raisin in the Sun,” by Lorraine Hansberry • “For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf,” by Ntozake Shange • “Fences,” by August Wilson

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This 2015 novel is told from the perspective of Nat Weary, a contemporar y of Nat King Cole, who faces tragedy when he goes to see his former schoolmate perform. Weary witnesses a man attempting to attack Nat King Cole and rushes to his defense. In the year before the Civil Rights Movement, it is unfathomable that a black man would raise a hand to a white, even in self-defense. Weary serves ten years in prison. Nat King Cole has not forgotten him and gives him a job as his driver. Check out Ravi Howard’s All Things NPR interview from Considered January 24, 2015: www.npr.org/2015/01/24/379632112/drivingthe-king-a-story-long-in-the-works

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PBS premiered "American Masters – August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand," nationwide on Friday, Feb. 20 in honor of the 70th anniversary of Wilson's birth, 10th anniversary of his death and Black History Month.

The special is now available on DVD from PBS Distribution. Go to www.pbs.org/wnet/ americanmasters/ for more information.

Directed by Emmy and Peabody-winner Sam Pollard ("If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise"; "When the Levees Broke"; "Slavery by Another Name"), this new documentary explores the life and legacy of Tony- and Pulitzer-winning playwright August Wilson ("Fences," "The Piano Lesson") – the man some call America's Shakespeare – from his roots as a Pittsburgh activist and poet to his indelible mark on Broadway.

In the special, Phylicia Rashad, Rosalyn Coleman and others perform exclusive, original dramatic readings from August Wilson's 10-play "Century Cycle ," including "Gem of the Ocean," "Fences," and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."

August Wilson and his sisters Freda Ellis and Linda Jean recall his youth, when Wilson showed an early love of language and learning, but suffered racist insults in school.

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Carver Library African-American Read-In Book List

By Melanie Watkins

Forsyth County Public Library Carver School Road Branch

• “Empire State of Mind,” Biography on Jay-Z by Zack O' Malley Greenburg • “You Can Get There >From Here,” autobiography

by Bob Knowling • “The Black Experience,” by Bob Rees and Marika Sherwood • “A Kid's Guide to African American History/More Than an Activities Book,” by Nancy Sanders • “African Americans in Winston Salem/Forsyth County a Pictorial History,”

by Lenwood Davis • “YA book Yo' Little Brother,” by Anthony Davis and Jeffrey Johnson • “Black Count,” biography about Alex Dumas by Tom Reiss • “Wrapped In Rainbows The Life of Zora Neale Hurston,” by Valerie Boyd

Magazine For Black Women, by Edward Lewis

• “Princess Noire The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone,” by Nadine Cohodas

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During the month of February, schools, churches, libraries, bookstores, community and professional organizations, and interested citizens are urged to make literacy a significant part of Black History Month by hosting an African American Read-In. Hosting an event can be as simple as bringing together friends to share a book, or as elaborate as arranging public readings and media presentations that feature professional African American writers.

The Read-In is a way to highlight the diversity of African-American writers through public readings of their work. 2015 marks the 26th year for this national event.

Several selections will be read which highlight this theme. Participants can signup to read or just come and listen. There will be brochures and other handouts for all ages celebrating literacy and the contributions of African-American writers. For more information, go to www.ncte.org/aari.

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We have an African American Read-In, which is a program to promote literacy. Here are some titles that I thought were pretty interesting, since being here at Carver Library:

Piedmont Arts to hold Read-in Piedmont Arts will celebrate African-American authors as the museum participates in the 26th National African American Read-In, sponsored by the Black Caucus of National Council of Teachers of English and the National Council of Teachers of English on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2 – 4 p.m. at 215 Starling Ave., Martinsville, VA. Community members are invited to read excerpts from books, stories and poems by their favorite African American authors. Everyone is invited to participate. Just bring a book. Admission is free.

All children will receive a free book to take home, while supplies last.

Complimentary refreshments available. For more information, go to www.PiedmontArts.org.

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Angelou the Actress

Angelou provides the opening narration for the film, which stars Jason Patric and British beauty Thandie Newton.

Angelou’s words tee up the tale, which revolves around a white man’s relationship with a black female slave that he helps escape.

Angelou is among the LIONSGATE PHOTO talented ladies who showed filmgoers “How to Make an American Quilt” in 1995. The film, based on a Whitney Otto novel, centers around the stories of several women in a quilting group.

Angelou plays Anna, who recalls her youth when she became entangled in an affair with the son of the white man who employed her as a domestic. She became pregnant and was shipped off by her family.

The film’s all-star cast also includes Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Alfre Woodard, Kate Capshaw and Kate Nelligan.

Wisecracking Tyler Perry recruited Angelou to appear in his 2006 film, “Madea’s Family Reunion.” Angelou plays May, one of the matriarchs of a large Southern African-American family that gathers on a warm summer day for an eventful reunion. In a memorable scene, Angelou recites one of her poems.

The film was a box-office giant, opening at number one during its first weekend of release. It would go on to make more than $63 million.

The film’s cast also includes Perry, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Boris Kodjoe, Keke Palmer and Cicely Tyson.

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Maya Angelou has stage and screen credits. Here is a look at some of her television and film work.

In 1977, Maya Angelou flexed her acting muscle in the landmark television miniseries, “Roots.”

Based on the African roots of Alex Haley’s family tree, “Roots” captivated the nation when it aired for a week on ABC. Angelou portrayed Nyo Boto, the grandmother of Kunta Kinte, the story’s WARNER BROTHER’S PHOTO central character.

The cast also included the likes of John Amos, Cicely Tyson, Louis Gossett Jr., Ben Vereen, Richard Roundtree, Levar Burton and Leslie Uggams. “Roots” remains the third-highest rated television event in American history.

Without Angleou’s brilliance, there would have been little poetic about the 1993 film, “Poetic Justice.” It is Angelou’s poems that the movie’s lead character, Justice (played by Janet Jackson), recites throughout the film, including the poet’s classic, “Phenomenal Woman.”

Angelou also appears in the John Singletondirected film. She plays one of the “calendar sisters,” three sage siblings that Jackson and the film’s other main players (Tupac Shakur, Regina King and Joe Torry) encounter at a family reunion. Angelou plays Aunt June, arguably the most opinionated among her other two sisters – Aunt May and Aunt April.

Angelou did not appear in the 1995 film, “The Journey of August King,” but her voice did. The film is based on a novel by John Ehle, who, like Angelou, has deep connections to Winston-Salem.

Ehle was born in Asheville and was instrumental in the founding of Winston-Salem-based North Carolina School of the Arts.

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Black Movie Classics Seven black movie classics under the radar, from http://classicfilm.about.com/ od/movielistsbygenre/tp/African_American_Classics2.htm

One of the few African-American silent films still accessible today, and actor Paul Robeson's first film.

'Body and Soul' features Robeson in dual roles as an escaped convict posing as a minister, and his saintly brother. The director, Oscar Micheaux, was the first African-American to produce a feature-length film; he encountered a host of budgetary and censorship problems that are partly to blame for this film's haphazard conclusion. Nevertheless, Robeson's screen presence and Micheaux's sheer ambition make Body and Soul worth watching.

2. “Stormy Weather” – 1943

4. “Carmen Jones” – 1954 Otto Preminger directs this Oscar Hammerstein musical that saw its star, Dorothy Dandridge, become the first black woman ever nominated for the Best Actress Oscar. An adaptation/modernization of Bizet’s opera “Carmen,” Dandridge portrays a “hot bundle” civilian who sets her sights on an engaged army officer (Harry Belafonte).

5. “Killer of Sheep” – 1977 In sharp contrast to the popular "blaxploitation" films of the early ‘70s, this superb thesis film by Charles Burnett (made while pursuing his Master’s at UCLA) depicts the everyday struggles of an African-American family man living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Because of challenges securing rights to the music, it was not released in theaters until 2007. An example of independent cinema at its most moving.

6. “Imitation of Life” – 1959 Douglas Sirk's three-hankie melodrama is based on the novel by Fannie Hurst (which was in turn inspired by the racism she encountered while traveling the country with Zora Neale Hurston.)

Two single mothers-one white (Lana Turner) and one black (Juanita Moore) both encounter heartache at the hands of their daughters. Susan Kohner was nominated for an Oscar (along with Moore, who played her mother) for her archetypical portrayal of the "tragic mulatto" who passes for white. A 1934 version of the movie starring Claudette Colbert was a commercial success but failed to leave as indelible a mark on the annals of cinematic history.

7. “A Raisin in the Sun” – 1961 This film adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s acclaimed stage play finds most of the Broadway actors reprising their roles, including Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, and Ruby Dee. When the family matriarch receives a sizable insurance check after her husband’s death, each member of the household has a different agenda on how to spend it. The film adeptly explores its theme of “dreams deferred” against the backdrop of 1950s Chicago.

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20th Century Fox produced this musical as a love letter to African-Americans contributions to the world of entertainment. Loosely based on the life of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, the film plays like a "Who's Who" of black entertainers of the 1940s, featuring performances by Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Ada Brown, and the great Lena Horne. One of the very first pictures to boast an all-black cast.

James Earl Jones is larger than life in this uncompromising, thinly-veiled biopic of the first African-American heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson. Not unlike his eventual successor Muhammad Ali, Johnson refused to acquiesce to the often racist social mores of his time. Jones is brilliant as "Jack Jefferson," a proud and assertive black man who battles publicly (in the ring) as well as in his personal life.

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3. “The Great White Hope” – 1970

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While some bygone performances by the likes of Sidney Poitier and Hattie McDaniel have drawn mainstream recognition that persists today, other classics showcasing African-Americans have begun to fade from memory over time. Here are six classic African-American classic movies you may not know.

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