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‘Transit Talk’ brings conversation on gun violence to the people

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

Over the past few months there have been several meetings and press conferences about the rise in gun violence and other violent crimes in WinstonSalem. Earlier this week, Assistant Chief William Penn with the WinstonSalem Police Department (WSPD) brought the meeting to the people with his “Transit Talk.”

Penn, who is a native of Winston-Salem, said he got the idea for Transit Talks one day while thinking about ways the department could improve community engagement. “I thought about the times of community meetings and city council meetings and I said, wow, people using public transportation and going back and forth from work, I can see how they could miss those opportunities to be heard. So I said, let’s take the conversation on the bus,” Penn said.

On Monday evening, Penn used Route 87 to bring the conversation on gun violence to the people. As the bus traveled through the city, Penn talked about what the WSPD is doing to stop the violence and asked passengers what they thought the department should be doing. There were recommendations for a Scared Straight program as a means of deterring juvenile crime, a gun buy-back program, more programs for young people, community engagement programs

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Last week Assistant Chief William Penn with the Winston-Salem Police Department used public transportation to talk to citizens about the rise in gun violence and get suggestions on what the police should do to combat the issue. and several other sugges- mation as we take our next in violence here in Win- lems exploding on us,” we have to come together tions. steps,” Penn said. ston-Salem and across the Penn said. as a community, we have “We just want to let the There have been 17 country, Penn said the rise “COVID didn’t create to work through this. people know what the po- homicides in Winston- in violence is a result of a this issue, but it exposed “We have to talk, we lice department is doing, Salem this year, more than lot of social issues coming it. We have folks frustrat- have to be engaged, and have the discussion and 60 aggravated assaults, to a head. ed and choosing to resolve get all stakeholders to the based on what they tell us, and hundreds of shootings.

“What you’re looking their conflicts with weap- table and find a way to we’ll take that back to the agency and use that infor- When discussing the rise at is a lot of social prob- ons and violent acts. So combat this,” he said.

New park honors Nelson L. Malloy Jr. Local elected officials made Nelson L. Malloy Jr. Park official last week when they came together for a ribbon cutting ceremony for the 4-acre park located on Bethabara Road. The park is named in honor of Nelson Malloy Jr., who served on the Winston-Salem City Council for 20 years.

The park is designed for individuals with disabilities and also includes a dog park, a splash pool, and a picnic area. The ribbon cutting was scheduled Nelson L. Malloy Jr. Park designed for easy access for the disabled. to be held last summer, but due to the pandemic it was postponed. During the ceremony held last Wednesday morning, Malloy, who is one of the original members of the local chapter of the Black Panther Party, said he was humbled by the naming of the park in his honor.

“It’s a humbling experience and I’m deeply grateful to be honored with my name on the park,”

Malloy said.

Mayor Pro Tem “DD” Adams, who is also the representative for the North Ward, recommended that the park be named after Malloy. She said as an elected official and as a member of the Black Panther Party, Malloy always stood for what was right.

In her letter of recommendation, Adams credited Malloy for drawing the

ordinance for big box development, strengthening the city’s housing code, and advocating for African Americans to be put in positions of power in city government.

“He always stood for what’s right and what’s just. Even when everybody else was against it, he was for it and he would fight for it,” Adams said.

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Adams said in the planning phases for the park, she went to staff with the parks and recreation department and talked about the importance of making sure the park was accessible for everyone.

She said, “This park is a testament to Nelson Malloy and others like Nelson Malloy.” Malloy has been in a wheelchair since the late 1970s, after a shooting

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Councilmember Kevin Mundy, who represents the Southwest Ward, said we will soon see similar parks in other wards. He said since the construction of Nelson Malloy Park, several citizens have requested that their neighborhood parks include playground equipment that is accessible by individuals with disabilities.

“Word has gotten out about this wonderful park in the Southwest Ward and other places and we now have requests for similar playground equipment in playgrounds around the city,” Mundy continued.

“Thanks to this prototype, we know how to do it now, so I think we’re going to see throughout the city more accessibility for anyone in a wheelchair and that is something we should be grateful for.”

According to city officials, Nelson L. Malloy Jr. Park isn’t complete but it is open to the public. The park is located at 2619 Bethabara Road.

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New study reveals depth of police violence and its effect on communities of color

BY STACY M. BROWN

A new investigation by the nonprofit The Marshall Project and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal the depth of police brutality and unpunished violence that continues to rock the nation, particularly communities of color.

Since 2015, more than 400,000 people have been treated in emergency rooms because of a violent interaction with police or security guards, according to the report that The Marshall Project published in conjunction with NBC News. “But there’s almost no nationwide data on the nature or circumstances of their injuries,” the report’s authors wrote.

“Many of the country’s roughly 18,000 law enforcement agencies don’t tally or make public the number of people who need medical care after officers break their arms, bruise their faces, or shock them with Tasers.”

The researchers noted the national conversation about policing over the past year, where public attention has focused on those like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tamir Rice, who die at the hands of officers.

“Few know that tens

of thousands of people like Eliel Paulino end up in emergency rooms after run-ins with police,” the researchers penned in the study.

Paulino was less than a block from his apartment complex late one night in 2015 when “red police lights flashed in his SUV’s rearview mirror,” the researchers continued.

Officers told Paulino that lights on his license plate were out and “within minutes, a routine traffic stop became a beat down.”

An emergency room doctor needed four staples to close the wounds in Paulino’s battered right arm after officers mercilessly slammed him to the ground and viciously beat him with their batons.

The officers claimed

that Paulino resisted arrest, but video from a security camera proved them wrong. The city of San Jose, California, paid Paulino a $700,000 civil settlement after a jury found the cops violated his constitutional rights.

According to a 2020 analysis, when police use force, more than half of the incidents end with a suspect or civilian getting hurt. The report authors also noted that “most experts agree that injuries at the hands of cops remain underreported.”

“This data depends on the discretion of police, who get to decide who is worthy or unworthy of an ambulance,” Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, an associate professor of sociology at Brown University who

has researched the Chicago Police Department, told researchers.

“It is absolutely an undercount.”

In an email to the Black Press of America, Tulane University professor Andrea Boyles said police officers are the most visible arm of the government.

Officers are protectors of state, representing and enforcing immense state power, added Dr. Boyles, who is a sociologist and criminologist in the university’s Africana Studies Program.

“This includes violence, which in turn, becomes akin to professional or occupational hazards,” asserted Dr. Boyles, who also serves on the faculty of Tulane’s Violence Prevention Institute.

“And since law enforcement acts as their master status, police violence is treated as inherently warranted and undeserving of prosecution regardless of exchanges across time and places.”

Dr. Boyles continued: “The bigger concern is the number of unreported and uncharged violent crimes committed by police daily. I argue that violent crimes committed by the police largely are not occurring as one-offs or in insolation. Rather, many are happening as build-ups of problems that manifest as dangerous and anticipatorily vindicated escalations. Thus, they become lead-ins to the more serious cases like murder.”

San Jose, which has just over one million residents, tracks injuries and hospitalizations as part of reducing violent interactions between residents and the police. However, researchers noted that about 1,300 people over the three years ending in 2020 still landed in the emergency room after an altercation with police.

Most of the ER visits involved officers using their hands on people, the analysis found.

“Control holds” — twisting arms or holding people down — played

a role in 60% of the cases, The Marshall Project found.

Almost 20% of people who went to the ER were shot with stun guns.

Police hit 10% with an “impact weapon” such as a baton.

“In those four years, city data shows, encounters with San Jose police left 72 people ‘seriously injured,’ which includes broken bones, dog bites, and internal injuries. Nine more people died, all from gunshot wounds,” the researchers continued.

They said rough arrests had cost the city more than $26 million in lawsuit payouts for civil rights violations since 2010.

The Marshall Project found that police in San Jose, Denver, and Chicago has strict rules about seeking medical attention when someone complains of an injury.

“If [the victim] is not complaining of an injury,” Chicago Police spokesman Sgt. Rocco Alioto told researchers, “and there’s no visible sign of injury, then there’s nothing that says that we have to call or take them to the hospital for clearance.”

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

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Let them suck Sikorskys, let them eat pork The temperature in my historically cool and temperate city, Portland Ore., is projected to be a historic 114 degrees today. Can we agree with pretty much the entire rational universe that a radical reduction in fossil fuel consumption is a paramount priority? Like, now?

Sadly, the rational universe does not include Republican elected officials.

They are outraged that Biden is tying a bipartisan infrastructure bill that only does standard roads and bridges to a larger bill that will include several aspects of the fossil fuel consumption reduction essential to the survival of the economy and ecology. They claim to be fiscally prudent.

Yeah, no. They never met a weapons system they didn’t like, and that fiscal outlay dwarfs the infrastructure outlays because the Pentagon gets more every year than the one-time infrastructure bill.

The Pentagon consumes more fossil fuel than any other entity on Earth. They consume more taxpayer dollars than any country ever has, much more than all U.S. adversaries combined (plus a few allies).

Look at just one blip in that ocean of your money grabbed by the Dept of Defense. Here is just one of the many contracts announced every day, this one from June 25: Sikorsky Aircraft Corp, a Lockheed Martin Co., Stratford, Connecticut, is awarded a $735,903,127 modification (P00004) to previously awarded firmfixed-price contract N00019-20-C-0047. This modification increases the scope for nine Lot Five low rate initial production CH-53K heavy-lift aircraft and associated aircraft, programmatic and logistical support. Work will be performed in Stratford, Connecticut (36.71%); Wichita, Kansas (9.86%); Salt Lake City, Utah (6.19%); St. Louis, Missouri (4.30%); Bridgeport, West Virginia (3.19%); Redmond, Washington (1.91%); Quebec, Canada (1.66%); Kent, Washington (1.63%); Rochester, United Kingdom (1.59%); Cudahy, Wisconsin (1.39%); Fort Walton Beach, Florida (1.19%); Jupiter, Florida (1.01%); various locations within the continental U.S. (CONUS) (27.37%); and various locations outside CONUS (2%), and is expected to be completed in December 2024.

You see how they carefully tell you where portions of the work will be done, which of course translates into pork in the barrels of politicians representing those areas. Other weapons systems reward other congressional districts like the perfect bribery system. As Reagan’s ultimately disillusioned head of his Office of Management and Budget David Stockman wrote about this way back then: “The hogs are really feeding now.”

This three-quarters of a billion dollars to Lockheed Martin is just an add-on to a much larger contract. So much for “firm-fixed-price.” So much for the climate.

You drive a vehicle that gets a certain number of miles per gallon, mpg. That is reversed for military vehicles, to gallons per mile, gpm. Sikorsky “King Stallion” helicopters burn up nearly six gallons of fuel to go one nautical mile.

Thanks, Congress. Thanks, senators. With temperatures like 114 in Portland and 120 degrees in Los Angeles, why change anything? The climate chaos freight train is accelerating even as the track is about to warp and twist from the heat.

Your grandchildren are already cursing you, Congressmembers. Why try to fix anything now?

Dr. Tom H. Hastings is coördinator of conflict resolution BA/BS degree programs and certificates at Portland State University, PeaceVoice senior editor, and on occasion an expert witness for the defense of civil resisters in court.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Senate needs to pass For The People Act To The Editor: Senators Burr and Tillis must do whatever it takes to get the For the People Act passed in the Senate and signed into law.

The House has passed the The For the People Act (HR1/S1) - which represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to strengthen our democracy by putting more power in the hands of everyday people by strengthening our voting, elections, campaign finance, and ethics laws.

Now, it is up to the Senate to pass the bill to get this game-changing bill on President Biden’s desk.

Reforms in the For the People Act are tried and true - and have taken hold across the nation. Driven by everyday voters, reforms have passed in red, blue, and

purple states and localities, often with bipartisan support.

With anti-democratic and authoritarian forces on the rise in the United States, and more and more people are being shut out of the political process through racist voter suppression laws and barriers to participation, now is the time for Congress to take bold action to build a democracy that is for the people with solutions that have already been tried and tested in states and municipalities across the country.

Nothing, including the filibuster, which is a relic of the Jim Crow era and subverts the basic notion of majority rule in our democracy, should stop Congress from passing comprehensive democracy reform to strengthen our elections like the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Phyllis White Kernersville

Has Rudy Giuliani come to the end of his road?

Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.

Guest Columnist

“Be careful about the company you keep.”

I have heard that expression multiple times as I was coming of age. What my parents told me stuck with me.

This advice has been a staple of my life.

I have lived long enough to have been around many different people. Some have been sinister and sly. My interactions with them were minimal. I saw quickly they were up to no good.

The scenario that happened to me probably happened to you, too. We learned our lesson for our momentary insanity and bad judgment.

Rudy Giuliani was around a slick dude, Donald Trump, and believed in the Kool-Ade he was serving. Now, he has paid a dear price. Last week, Giuliani was suspended from practicing law by an appellate court in New York State.

The court wrote, “Giuliani’s conduct immediately threatens the public interest and warrants interim suspension from the practice of law.”

Arguably, Rudy Giuliani went from the hall of fame to the hall of shame.

His conduct in recent years has been deplorable and desperate.

He was a man unhinged and unethical. Giuliani was once the Manhattan U.S. attorney. Now, he is a suspended lawyer.

Of course, many Americans remember him as the mayor of New York City during the 9/11 tragedy. He was hailed for his strength and wisdom during this time. Some people called him America’s Mayor.

Now, he is simply a fractured figure, a mere shadow of his former self.

What happened to him? It is my opinion that one man happened to him and that man was Donald Trump.

One man - Rudy Giuliani - spent most of his life upholding the law. The other man - Donald Trump - spent his life breaking the law.

Mr. T convinced him to be his personal lawyer.

Giuliani, once a reasonable man with principles, became unreasoned with

no principles. This is what happens when you get hooked up with a crook.

His behavior rubbed off on Rudy; Giuliani became Trump’s mouthpiece. He spewed out lies and innuendos about the election.

He bought lock, stock and barrel Trump’s Big Lie. Months before and after the election, Giuliani became a Pied Piper for evil. He even looked the part as he sweated his way into trying to convince us that Trump was king of the world.

He continued his assault on democracy in the role he played in the January 6th nightmare.

He never thought there would be consequences to his actions. He must have thought that Mr. T would save him.

The former president had no intention of throwing him a lifeline. He left him in the dark and in the cold. Giuliani got caught in the Trump vortex and could not get out.

Well-known attorney Ronald Minkoff said, “This is about the integrity of the bar, and that’s really the issue here. It’s really unfortunate that somebody of Rudy Giuliani’s stature should have this happen to them. But his actions and the evidence show that his

actions warranted this.”

Yet, some have come to his defense.

Former New York Police Department Commissioner Bernard Kerik is leading a GoFundMe account for him. He said, “We have created the Rudy Giuliani Freedom Fund.

This is the official defense fund for this American Patriot.”

The question at the inquiry bench is whether the former president will be contributing to the fund.

Does Trump have any real money to contribute and if so, would Giuliani’s legal team accept it?

It is both laughable and pathetic at the same time.

This is only the beginning of this saga. It has the elements of a soap opera.

Let us call it the Rise and Fall of Rudy.

Stay tuned for weekly episodes.

James B. Ewers Jr., Ed.D., is a former tennis champion at Atkins High School in Winston-Salem and played college tennis at Johnson C. Smith University, where he was all-conference for four years. He is a retired college administrator. He can be reached at overtimefergie.2020@yahoo.com.

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BUSTA’S ORGANIZATION OF THE WEEK

Lit City sponsoring The Freedom School summer program

BY BUSTA BROWN FOR THE CHRONICLE

“If you noticed, Busta, a lot of times organizations will go into the community to do something for the people and not with the people. We want to build with young Black and brown people,” said Miranda Jones. “We view our young people as promise youth, not at-risk youth.

We see the best in our Black and brown youth, so we continue to come back and invest in them, their communities, and schools,” said Jones.

Jones is speaking about Lit City, a nonprofit organization in WinstonSalem, started by Terrance Hawkins in 2011.

Their youth development initiatives seek to build in solidarity with underserved Winston-Salem teens from the “classroom to the corner, from the court to the concert.” They seek to accomplish this through leadership development, mentoring/advocacy, sports/fitness, and urban artistic expression.

Lit City currently partners with Carver High School and WinstonSalem Street School to lead after-school groups that help students explore questions of identity, purpose, destiny, and social consciousness.

This summer, Lit City is sponsoring The Freedom School, where Miranda Jones serves as the project director. I asked her to share some of things youth will learn this summer.

“Honoring the ancestors, cultural heritage, teach-

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Terrance Hawkins, founder and executive director, Miranda Jones, project director, and E. J. Chandler, site coordinator. For Lit City. ing youth to look at themselves and their ancestors from a positive prospect.

Looking at Black and brown people as an asset prospective, and not a deficit prospective. So, we’re going to take them on field trips to visit historically Black sites and successful Black businesses. That enrichment is a big thing!”

shared Miranda.

This Friday they are taking youth to see The Freedman’s Vine at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), which is an exhibit of guitars made out of trees from which Black men were hung. The youth will also visit Winston-Salem State University, which

will balance the dark side of Black history by seeing how accomplished we are today.

Jones invited me to participate in the Integrated Reading Curriculum.

What I love about this program is that although all of the books are developmentally appropriate, they do address the tough is-

sues that Black and brown youth face each day. After the invited guest reads with the youth, they will discuss what happened in the books and suggest solutions.

Terrance Hawkins’ vision for Lit City and The Freedom School is to create activist scholars. Miranda believes that the

Integrated Reading Curriculum creates a love for reading. And I’m claiming that it will, because I really dig what they’re doing with our youth.

As I think about what’s happening daily in our Black and brown communities, Lit City and The Freedom School is very necessary and right on time. “We need financial support, Busta. We feed our youth weekly and take them on field trips every Friday, so I’m hoping this article will tap into the hearts of the Black church, because we are a faith-based group, sponsored by Love Out Loud.

So, we need help to get all of these children to The Freedom School. Some of their parents don’t work or don’t have transportation.

If there are any institutions that would love to donate, we welcome your support as well,” shared Miranda.

They also give stipends to selected youth. They also offer poetry and music workshops taught by professional poets, musicians and music producers. They offer a resume workshop as well, “… because a lot of our high school students will need resumes, right?

We’re doing this with parents and youth.”

The Freedom School is open from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. through July 30 at Zion Memorial Baptist Church in Winston-Salem. For more information, contact Project Director Miranda Jones at 336-306-0162, Terrance Hawkins at 336345-5419, or via email at litcityws@gmail.com.

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BY JA’NET ADAMS

Many speak of the racial massacre by white mobs that murdered over 300 Black men, women, and children in Tulsa, Okla., but many don’t focus on the awesomeness of their Black Wall Street.

The Genius of O.W. Gurley Black Wall Street started when the genius O.W. Gurley bought a large tract of land in Tulsa. Gurley was a businessman before going to Tulsa, having run a successful general store for 10 years. He accelerated his business mindset when he reached Tulsa.

Gurley knew that Blacks would soon head toward Tulsa for a new life away from Jim Crow and to get in on the oil fields, so he decided to prepare a place for them.

He first built a grocery store because people would need to buy food and then he started to divide the land he bought into lots that could either be used for homes or businesses.

His preparation and hard work helped turn Greenwood (Black Wall Street) into one of the wealthiest areas for Black people in the country. With the assistance of J.B. Stratford, who was also a successful businessman, Black Wall Street soon became the center of Black wealth, intelligence, ingenuity, prosperity, and upward mobility.

Pictures on the internet that show Black Wall Street depict a small slice of life there, a few buildings or people with fur coats riding in a car, but Black Wall Street was much more, composed of 35 blocks of enterprising society.

Stick with me here as I share everything Greenwood had in their possession.

They had hotels, restaurants, grocery stores, doctors’ offices, law offices, luxury stores, jewelry shops, barber shops, beauty salons, airport, bank, hospital, post office, schools, taxi service, movie theaters, dentist offices, YMCA, brick company, roller rink, funeral homes, auto shops, buses, churches, newspaper, transportation system, and MUCH MORE! The growth of Black Wall Street was not only seen in the buildings, but also in the population which grew to more than 10,000 people. The residents made every dollar they earned work for them and for Black Wall Street.

Their dollar would circulate 30 times within Greenwood before it would leave, compared to today where the Black dollar circulates for six hours before it leaves.

Take a look at Winston-Salem Not all of Winston-Salem, just East Winston, where I was born and raised. East Winston reminds me of Black Wall Street as it has a similar foundation of being a Black Wall Street.

Many in the city of Winston-Salem tend to dismiss East Winston because all they see is Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Even though MLK Jr. drive has a Black-owned bank (Mechanics and Farmer Bank) and one of the best higher education institutions in the country for upward mobility (Winston Salem State University), all outsiders can see is a small portion of the street and attribute it to all of East Winston.

If you look past MLK and go down the road a bit, you will find the people who make up the “real” East Winston. The people who everyone else in Winston-Salem does not see. Like Black Wall Street, there are bankers, teachers, principals, doctors, dentists, human resource directors, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, postal service workers, artists, and many others from all walks of life. Many have lived here for decades and have built wealth.

There are many similarities between Greenwood and East Winston, but there are also differences.

Let’s look at the similarities first.

Businesses: Entrepreneurship was the foundation of Black Wall Street. It is what built the wealth there. East Winston has a plethora of Black-owned businesses, some that have been in business for decades and others for just a few years. But each and every one of them serves their community and now that service extends to the world at large, thanks to global commerce. Here are just a few: Restaurants: We all love good food and East Winston is home to great restaurants. There is Taste Of The Triad, Forsyth Seafood, Ackingna’s, and the newest one, Papa Lee’s. Food is a work of delicious art in East Winston and has always been. In addition to the privately owned restaurants, there are also international franchises like a McDonald’s that is Black owned, as well as a variety of food trucks.

Healthcare: Today you see doctors being taken over by hospital systems because the cost of running a private practice has shot up, and so has the student loans it takes to become a doctor. It was not always this way and there was a time when doctors owned their thriving practices.

I remember one doctor in particular, my pediatrician, Dr. Kennedy. His pediatric office has probably seen over 90% of the children in East Winston. Dr. Charlie Kennedy was the first Black resident at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the first Black pediatrician in Winston-Salem. He used his influence to raise millions of dollars for the United Negro College Fund to continue the legacy of sending African American students to college.

In addition to medical doctors, there are also dentists in East Winston who serve those that others may not accept as patients. It is fortunate to have dentists like Dr. Warren and Dr. Jeffries in East Winston.

Retail Stores: One of the most well-known Black-

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owned shops is Body and Soul. Owner Dana Suggs has a variety of items to choose from, such as clothes, jewelry, books by African American authors, skincare, aromatherapy, and much more. And a shopper can be local or on another continent and can conveniently shop from their website, bodyandsoulncstore.com.

Beauty Salons and Barber Shops: This is a nobrainer that since East Winston is probably 99.9% Black, it has numerous beauty salons and barbershops. There are barbershops with barbers who have been cutting the same person’s head for over 35 years. Like Black Wall Street, salons and shops will always be needed in an area where African Americans are the majority because if it is one thing we take pride in, it is our hair!

Funeral Homes: During a time when Black people were seen as less than, Greenwood made sure they were in a position to honor the lives of those who lived there.

They owned their own funeral homes and in the same fashion, East Winston has multiple funeral homes. For decades Russell’s, Hooper, Clark S. Brown, Gilmore, and Douthit have served grieving families in the community and helped ease the loss of a loved one. These funeral homes are Black-owned businesses that are creating generational wealth.

There are real estate companies, auto shops, clothing shops, Black-owned gas stations of the past and much more. In addition to all the Black-owned businesses, there are resources just outside of East Winston to help those businesses grow. There is the Forsyth Tech Small Business Center under the leadership of Allan Younger, Access Winston Salem, Hustle, and Piedmont Business Capital under Director Wilson Lester. All have been instrumental to helping businesses start and grow to the next level.

The Arts: Black Wall Street had the Dreamland Theater built by John and Loula Williams and it was the main theater for those who lived there. The arts are also in full display in East Winston and take up more than one theater. The Arts are so big that they overflow into the rest of the city and the WORLD!

Let’s start with the most popular arts event that brings over 60,000 people from around the world to WinstonSalem: The National Black Theater Festival. Started by the late Larry Leon Hamlin, the festival continues on today by Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin and it has brought in tens of millions of dollars to Winston Salem for decades.

Legendary African American actors have graced stages across the city and brought to life the stories of Mahalia Jackson, Billie Holiday, Paul Robeson, Sammy Davis Jr, Marvin Gaye and many more. There are parades, acting classes for young people, a top notch vendors marketplace, gala, and African American culture bursting throughout Winston-Salem. It is so big they can only do it every two years, but I pray one day it will be every year!

There is also arts year ‘round in East Winston, thanks to the Delta Arts Center and Diggs Gallery on the campus of Winston Salem State University. Both locations display the artwork of local, national, and international African American artists.

In addition to the stage and the canvas, the arts are also displayed in dance as well. The younger generation has begun to take the reins with Greater Vision Dance Company and is leading the way. Under the leadership of Wayne Jones, young girls and boys are learning various dance techniques and performing all over the city.

Education: Segregation has filled Winston-Salem’s history when it comes to education, just as it did in Greenwood. The children had no other option but to go to school with others that had the same skin color as them.

In Greenwood, children were taught by the best teachers and at Booker T. Washington High School they learned algebra, geometry, Latin, trigonometry, chemistry, economics, art, music, and real life trade skills that could be used to make money. Black Wall Street valued education so much that they put their money where their mouth was and teachers were some, if not the most highly paid professionals in the city.

East Winston had all Black high schools in the past and has predominantly Black high schools today. These schools have and are educating future CEO’s, engineers, teachers, principals, senators, presidents, lawyers, nurses, doctors, and any other imaginable profession in this world. Carver High School is known for a legend that is close to me, David L. Lash. Coach Lash was my first tennis coach and is the main reason I was able to get a full ride college scholarship in tennis. Schools like Anderson, Paisley, Atkins, Carver, QEA, and Winston Salem Preparatory worked hard then and are working hard now, each and every day, to give students the best future possible.

The education doesn’t stop at a high school degree.

If students want to take it to the next level, they have the

option of attending one of the best colleges in the country. Winston-Salem State University, which sits in East Winston, brings thousands of students from around the world to Winston-Salem. Students seek out WSSU’s top programs, especially their nursing program, which has continuously been at the top for many years. In addition to preparing students for their career, WSSU contributes to the local economy, estimated to be around $500 million annually, and produces 8,400 jobs. In addition to contributing to the city financially, WSSU also contributes information to the community through its Black owned radio station 90.5. WSNC 90.5, which plays music by African American artists in the genres of jazz and gospel, as well as covering topics that are important to those who live in East Winston.

Recreation: All work and no play makes a dull life.

Black Wall Street knew that it was important to have fun places for their residents to relax. They had a YMCA, skating rink, and playgrounds for children and adults to have fun when they were not at work or at school. Just like Greenwood, East Winston has plenty of places to have fun! East Winston has its own YMCA that we affectionately call the Winston Lake Y. There is Carl Russel Recreation Center, Rupert Bell Park, and numerous playgrounds for children to play on.

The most exciting addition to East Winston, at least for children, is the water park, which stays full on a daily basis in the summer. I can’t forget the fun for the adults at the Winston Lake Golf Course, which is also full to capacity when the weather cooperates.

News: “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” - Derek Bok Having knowledge of the world around you is extremely important. The local, national, and international news keeps you ahead of the game and makes sure that you are not taken advantage of. Or you at least are in a better position to put up a fight. This knowledge is best acquired through the news, and in the early 1900s that only meant the newspaper, not TV, radio, or social media like we have today.

Black Wall Street had two newspapers, but the most popular one was the “Tulsa Star.” It was founded by A.J. Smitherman, who was also a lawyer. He used the paper to inform the citizens of bills that, if passed into law, could be detrimental to African Americans. His newspaper stressed the importance of African Americans arming themselves with guns to protect themselves from those who hated them for their skin color. Smitherman also made it a point to push self-reliance so that those who lived in Greenwood could provide for themselves and help others to also achieve self-reliance. I loved his mindset of we are all stronger together.

East Winston is home to a Black-owned newspaper as well, The award-winning Winston Salem Chronicle.

The Chronicle started in 1974 and is still going strong today. Publisher James Taylor and the phenomenal team at The Chronicle keep the African American community and Winston-Salem as a whole up to date with news that is important to the advancement of Black people. The Chronicle writes the important stories and reports on the news that affects the Black community in the same way that A.J. Smitherman did.

For example, other newspapers in the city may not talk about the debt cancellation for Black farmers that was included in the latest stimulus bill, but The Chronicle will because it directly affects the financial wellbeing of its readers. The Chronicle is “our voice,” not only to this city, but thanks to its digital platform, it is also “our voice” to the state, nation, and the world.

Churches: The church is the cornerstone of many African American communities and that was evident in Greenwood. Vernon AME church was at the center of Black Wall Street and is still in existence today. I can just imagine families, especially the little girls, getting dressed to go to service on Sunday morning and probably in the evening as well. The singing, the Word being preached, the fellowship every Sunday is what everyone needed to start the week off right.

East Winston has numerous churches. There has been a running joke since I was a little girl; “Don’t ever say you can’t find a church to go to in Winston-Salem, because I know you’re lying!” (As a little girl I could not say the word “lying,” so let’s go with “telling a story.”)

There are African American churches in East Winston and Winston-Salem in general that have been around for more than a century. For example, Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church under the leadership of Bishop Sherwood T. Davis has been standing strong for more than 129 years! Faith has been and will continue to be a cornerstone in the African American community.

Politics: “If you don’t have a seat at the table, then you are on the menu.”- Ann Richards City Council: The Winston-Salem City Council has two major responsibilities that affect all city residents, but definitely affects African Americans. Those responsibilities are approving the city budget and setting property taxes. Historically across the United States, the home values of African Americans have been undervalued when compared to the same type of home of a white American. Although you may look at this as “Well, African Americans will have lower property taxes, so that is good.” That is true if you only look at it on the surface.

Lower home values make it harder for African Americans to build wealth. It was hard enough for African Americans to get homes because of redlining, but it is a slap in the face to finally get a home, only to have it’s value decreased. When you look at the power to approve city budgets, it is vital that there are line items in the budget that benefit all and not just the majority. Line items that bring the same amount of money and opportunity to the African American part of the city. Just looking at these two major responsibilities, you can see how important it is for African Americans to be represented on the city council. Four out of eight seats on the Winston Salem’s City Council are occupied by African Americans. Those council members are: James Taylor, Barbara H. Burke, Annette Scippio, and Denise D. (DD) Adams, who also serves as the Mayor Pro Tempore.

School Board: The school board has a long list of responsibilities and duties. They are in charge of approving the budget put forth by the superintendent. They approve the hiring of principals, teachers, and administrators, as well as set the timing of the opening and closing of the school year. African American representation on the school board will ensure that schools that are predominantly Black will receive the same funding and resources as schools that are not predominantly Black. In some instances, the board makes sure the schools receive more in funding because they don’t have the outside sources that See Black Wall Street on A6

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other schools have such as booster clubs or financially well-off family members who give money to the school.

Winston-Salem is not where it needs to be when it comes to African American representation on the school board. The one bright side is that the chair is an African American, Shai Woodbury, and up until recently there was also an African American superintendent. There definitely needs to be improvement in this area to make sure that children, especially those in East Winston, are receiving equity in education.

Law Enforcement: Greenwood had their own law enforcement and they handled their own affairs. O.W. Gurley, who started Greenwood, was also the sheriff’s deputy and he worked with the white sheriff of Tulsa whenever needed.

That working relationship successfully coexisted until white policemen wrongfully imprisoned a Black man from Black Wall Street for assaulting a white woman (which was a lie).

Winston-Salem currently is living history when it comes to law enforcement.

The police department is led by an African American woman, Chief Catrina Thompson, and the sheriff’s department is being led by an African American man, Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough, Jr. In addition to Chief Thompson and Sheriff Kimbrough, there is Sergeant Dwayne Little, who oversees community outreach. Through the community outreach initiative, there have been multiple winter coat giveaways and community events for East Winston and surrounding areas.

Those in Greenwood trusted their law enforcement because they knew that they were there to truly serve and protect. It is vital to have African American representation in law enforcement in order to have a chance at building trust within the African American community.

A Look at the Opportunities: Although East Winston has a lot of similarities to Black Wall Street, there are still some opportunities that can be taken advantage of going forward. These opportunities could help strengthen East Winston even more and put it in a more independent state similar to Greenwood.

Some of those opportunities are: education, e-commerce, ownership, replication, and transportation.

African American men in the classroom is growing the numbers are still not there, so having male students come in to work with the students could be the visual and encouragement students need to go to the next level academically.

The last idea that I will leave you with comes directly from Black Wall Street itself. That idea is to pay teachers a higher salary. Greenwood understood that teachers are educating the future and that is a heavy load to carry, so they paid them for it. Also, these students were not just learning math and science, but they were also learning trade skills. Trade skills that complemented what they learned in science and English. Skills need to be taught to all children, once again because we have arrived at a point that adults don’t know how to change a tire, grow food, or even cook a basic meal seven days a week. Greenwood was about a complete education in both academics, as well as life and I believe that is the cheat code for the elementary schools in East Winston.

E-Commerce: Today business is global and if your business doesn’t have an e-commerce component, then you are working with one hand tied behind your back. E-commerce allows you to serve your local customers and community, as well as customers around the world. Some of the businesses I mentioned earlier, like Body and Soul that are located in East Winston, have a website that people can order from at any time of the day. There are even businesses like Cam’s Coffee that are completely e-commerce and have customers around the world.

Almost any business can have an ecommerce side. A restaurant can ship its signature sauce. A beauty salon could sell his hair growing oil to women on the other side of the ocean. There are infopreneurs that are selling their brain from the comfort of their home. Although I speak around the world about financial literacy, I still make thousands of dollars selling my books and online courses through ecommerce. So many opportunities can be taken advantage of with the use of e-commerce. I believe if more business owners in East Winston would take advantage of e-commerce, they would be able to grow their businesses substantially.

Ownership: “Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”- Toni Morrison Ms. Morrison was saying a word there! O.W. Gurley and everyone who

Education: Education in Greenwood and even when I was growing up was nonnegotiable. African Americans throughout history understood how important education was because having knowledge kept people from taking advantage of you. It was even more important to our great grandparents and grandparents because it was such an effort by racists to keep education from African Americans because those racists knew an educated people is an empowered people. Earlier I discussed how serious Black Wall Street was about educating their children, even to the point that they would make sure that teachers were highly paid. How can that type of thirst for education be achieved today in East Winston, as well as other predominantly African American communities around the country? It takes money, of course, but also collaboration to make sure that money has a 100-fold return on its investment. There are various ways that this can be achieved, but I want to just share a few.

The first idea is already being achieved in a city in Ohio. The I Promise School in Akron, Ohio, is the brainchild of Lebron James. He and his team understand what numerous studies have said about the future success of children is determined in the early years of their education. The school was started to help children of families of limited income in Akron go to a school that was heavily resourced with materials and teachers who care. In addition to that, these children are learning in a beautiful state-of-the-art building that causes imaginations to soar! The school not only teaches core subjects, it also has wellness programs for the students, teachers, and parents because, let’s be real, children deal with a lot before they even come to school. So if their mental/emotional concerns can be eased, then learning has a better chance of happening.

On top of all of this, when the students graduate from high school they have the opportunity for a full ride scholarship to the University of Akron!

My suggestion for elementary schools in East Winston is to attempt to follow the same model and even take it up a notch.

There are multimillionaires and foundations in Winston-Salem that could put the amount of money needed toward a Winston-Salem type “I Promise School.”

Money to improve the current facilities, provide all materials needed, especially physical books for every subject, wellness programs, and a tutoring program. Not just any tutoring program, but a paid tutoring program that is in partnership with the education majors at Winston Salem State University. Each semester, education majors in various subjects who have a passion to work in elementary education can be assigned to tutor at the elementary schools. It is a win win situation. The college students get real-world application of what they have been taught in the classroom and the elementary students get representation. Although the number of

came to Greenwood knew they were free, but also knew they needed to do something with that freedom. Everyone got to work as soon as they arrived to Black Wall Street and they built their lives from scratch there, as well as their wealth. They knew that idle hands were poor hands.

They understood ownership at its highest level and operated at that level from the beginning. They owned their hotels, their professional offices, their airport, their buses, their schools, their town!

Most importantly, they owned their homes. Home ownership in this country is the fastest way to wealth, if it is done right. I don’t want to talk about buying a home as much as I want to speak about keeping the homes that have already been purchased. To build generational wealth with real estate as a part of it, African Americans must make sure to keep every home in the family.

Back to East Winston. There are many homes in East Winston that have been around for decades and have been owned by the same person. Unfortunately, at some point that owner will age to the point of having to go into a nursing home facility or they may pass away. Here is where generational wealth can be built or lost. If family members don’t have money to pay the mortgage or pay the mortgage off altogether, then the house will have to be sold and all that value and money disappears.

The goal is to be in position to financially keep the house in the family. Not only that house, but every house to be kept in a family real estate portfolio. This doesn’t mean that you are sharing the value in the houses, but what it means is that if you are in the McWillis family, we keep our houses around here and don’t sell it to outsiders. For those who own homes in East Winston and other predominantly Black communities across the country, you can help your family out in this process.

How you ask? By having adequate insurance. Insurance that if something happens to you, there is enough money to pay for your funeral and pay off your home and any other debts. I will not tell you what insurance to get, but I will tell you not to get whole life (cash value). Insurance is for protection, it is not an investment vehicle.

Now let’s talk about investing. Before we get started, I am not a financial advisor so this is not advice. I just know what I am talking about and want to share that knowledge with you. Investing is one of the most powerful tools that can make your money grow fast. I am talking about real investing that is done with an investment firm, not investing by way of one of your family members telling you to DM them on social media for an amazing opportunity (insert rolled eyes).

Gone are the days of pensions and you cannot depend on Social Security, so you need to be saving for your retirement on your own. Work with a licensed financial

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advisor who can walk you through your options. You can look into an IRA, Roth IRA, Roth 401K (your job), 401K (your job), 403b (your job), 529 (for college savings), and ETF. You will notice that I did not mention crypto, life insurance, individual stocks, forex, or NFT, and that is because I want you to keep it simple.

Mutual funds are simple.

Investing allows you to build wealth that can be used in retirement and also passed down in an inheritance to your children. Speaking of children, a 529 plan can help create generational wealth as well. African American women are the most educated group in America, but also have the most student loan debt. That debt keeps us from buying homes, investing, and participating in the American dream of building wealth. To truly participate in ownership, you can’t have tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt hanging over your head. So here is what I suggest the families in East Winston and the African American community in general do to start their adult lives off on the right foot financially. You may have not gone to college or maybe you graduated from college with a lot of debt that you are still paying off. If you have children or nieces and nephews, they don’t have to follow the same path. I speak to over 10,000 high school and college students a year about financial literacy. I show them how I paid off $50,000 of debt in two years. But I also show them how they can financially afford college.

Here are three tips that you can use: 1. Apply for scholarships non-stop.

There are scholarships for six year olds, so children are never too young to get free money for college. As long as you are in school, you should be going after free money. Scholly is a Black-owned app that helps students find scholarships and has found millions of dollars for students to go to school.

2. Go to a school you can afford. I always hear students say they want to go to their dream college, but don’t have no dream college money. Outside of a house, college is the most expensive decision you will make in life,, so you can’t go into it lightly. It is fine if you want to go to your dream school for $40,000 a year, but you need to find $40K a year in scholarships. If you don’t, you will come out of college owing $200,000 and making $50,000 a year. I promise you that will never get paid off and it will keep you from financially living your dreams.

3. Build connections while in college.

I’m sure you have heard the saying “It is not what you know, but who you know.”

It is actually “who knows you!” Getting a degree is one thing, knowing someone on the inside of a company that can get your resume to the hiring manager is game, set, match!

Bonus Tip: For students in East Winston and predominantly Black communities around the country, consider attending a HBCU (Historically Black College & University). I went to South Carolina State University and I can tell you personally that at a HBCU, you will find a family atmosphere. I would not be where I am today if it wasn’t for the award-winning Belcher Hall School of Business!

There are two areas of ownership that East Winston could work on to look more like Greenwood. Black Wall Street had its own airport that was used to get citizens back and forth to Greenwood. There is an airport in East Winston that does mostly private chartered flights, but it is not Black owned and that is an opportunity that should be looked into going forward.

Lastly, health is wealth. Therefore it is important that a community, especially one that is African American, have control over the food that is sold to them.

O.W. Gurley built the first grocery store in Greenwood and so the food was coming from someone who looked like everyone else in the town. Right now in East Winston, there are no Black-owned grocery stores and that means that any type of food could be coming in. African Americans lead in heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure, so we can’t afford not to have our food in our control.

I spoke briefly in the education section about the necessity of children learning how to grow their own food and the reason I mentioned that strategy is so that if they can’t find nutritious food in their community, they can grow it themselves.

The good thing is that there are a few Black farmers who are in the middle of neighborhoods throughout East Winston who grow food and sell the food to those in the community. It would be great if these farmers could teach others how to grow their own food, then an entire community could be fed!

Replication: There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Look at what has worked in the past and adjust it for the present day. I want to discuss the most important characteristic of Black Wall Street that I think can and SHOULD be replicated today. That characteristic was the circulation of the Black dollar. The Black dollar today only circulates six hours within the Black community before going out. In Black Wall Street, the Black dollar circulated THIRTY TIMES before it left!

African Americans would go into Tulsa and work for white people, get paid and bring that money back to Greenwood and spend it among those who respected them. They understood you never spend your money with people who don’t respect you as a human being. That same energy should still exist today, no matter the company. By doing this simple strategy it helped Greenwood grow into Black Wall Street.

So how can this be replicated today in an integrated world?

We all are working either for ourselves or for other people, but the disconnect from Black Wall Street is that we are not being intentional with our money.

We are not spending it with Black-owned businesses, nonprofits, and Black politicians (who have our best interest at heart).

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“A rising tide lifts all boats.”- John F. Kennedy East Winston and other Black communities cannot rise to Black Wall Street status without putting more money back into the community. Those who live in East Winston and even the African Americans who don’t live there, must pour their money and other resources back into the area if we want to see the generational wealth of Greenwood. You can do this Black Wall Street strategy on a local level as well as on a global level and that circulation of thirty times may jump to 60 times or more!

Let me show you how.

A few months ago I took some time and really thought about how I spend my money and if I spent money with Black owned businesses and nonprofits.

This is what I found.

Locally I spend money with Body and Soul, Sweet Potatoes, Miss Oras, Lizzie’s All Natural Products (Skincare) , Jodi Brim Photography, Bond Basketball tournaments, Cam’s Coffee, Lean Back Soulfood, The Geek In Heels, Taste Of The Triad, Forsyth Seafood, Bygood Coffee, Twin City Fitness, Evette P. (hair dresser), James (lawn), JJ’s Plumbing, Lei Lei’s Bakery, Ta’Nisha Cupcakes, Brunswick Candle, CoCo By Nature, and Tennis For Life.

Globally my money goes to Women Ceo Project (Business Coaching), Lead Book Tax, Mielle, Butter Bar Skincare, Able Office, Six Figure Chick, Take Me Away Essentials, Cedric Brown Collections, Copper and Brass, and many more!

I send my money to local and global Black-run non-profits as well. Those non-profits are Lead Girls Of NC, I Am A Queen, Beautiful Butterflies, Polished Pebbles, Winston Salem Urban League, South Carolina State University and more. Other than non-profits, I also contribute to political campaigns of African American candidates who have a platform I agree with. This list alone is over thirty. Just imagine if they did the same on their end - East Winston and African American communities across the country would flourish year after year.

Transportation: The last opportunity I will touch on is transportation and how it is vital for upward economic mobility.

Black Wall Street had a transportation system that helped their citizens get from place to place. Having a reliable transportation system could mean the difference between working a $10-an-hour job or a $20-an-hour job. Winston-Salem’s transportation system needs improvement and those who would benefit the most from that improvement are the ones suffering now, those in East Winston who have to ride the bus to get around.

I have heard many people say that they have not been able to take higher paying jobs because those jobs were not on the bus route. If they were able to get to the job, they would be able to make enough money to buy a car and get off the bus for good.

Another downside is the amount of time it takes to get where you need to go on the bus. A transportation study was done locally and the amount of time taken out of the life of bus riders each year just to get 15 minutes across town is horrendous!

My idea comes directly from Black Wall Street. Build a transportation system that gets your citizens to the opportunities that are available. I know of at least two high paying companies fifteen minutes from East Winston that the bus system does not come to. If it did, it would result in limited income individuals moving into a higher tax bracket. That is upward economic mobility solved with one new bus route.

This could also be an opportunity for an entrepreneur to solve a problem and create a transportation service that runs routes between East Winston and those jobs on a daily basis. Or those companies that are hungry for workers could create their own van service to go back and forth to East Winston.

The solution is really that simple.

I could go on and on about Black Wall Street, East Winston, and their similarities. I am extremely passionate about closing the wealth gap and the racial wealth gap. What I have shared in the piece is only the tip of the iceberg of what it will take to close the gap. Greenwood showed African Americans what is possible with determination and unity.

People who built Black Wall Street were one generation removed from slavery and even some had been freed from slavery. They had NOTHING, but because they, their parents, and grandparents had built this country for free, they knew they had the ability to use those same skills and intelligence to build a place of their own.

They built a Mecca of Black wealth and they did it in fifteen years. Fifteen years! Can you imagine how East Winston could look in fifteen years if the community hyper-focused on growth and building wealth?

Can you imagine if that focus was inside each and every African American community across the country?

All it takes is focus and determination.

Are we focused?

Are we determined?

Greenwood gave us the roadmap.

Now it is time to execute and I promise you this time no one is going to burn nothing down. No one.

Ja’Net Adams is a professional international speaker, author, and the CEO of EMACK Consulting. When she was in college she let money rule her life. She graduated from South Carolina State University with a bachelor of science degree in marketing and nearly $50,000 in debt. She dug herself out of the debt in two years by following the principles that she now speaks around the world about to audiences, including corporations, universities, and high schools, sharing her knowledge of financial literacy.

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Date Night is a great time to explore the local restaurant scene

BY ALGENON CASH

I love a great date night!

I’m a romantic at heart and my amorous side perks up when I’m carefully planning small details and playing host to my date.

The fact I relish date night is perhaps the reason I’ve never been married.

So when a close friend decided to make a special birthday visit from Atlanta, I just had to pull out all the stops. My initial reaction was to cook and plan a quiet evening at home. But then it dawned on me: let’s use this as an opportunity to take her on a culinary adventure, sampling the local restaurant offerings.

I had considered choosing just one restaurant to visit for this special date, but it was impossible to single out just one or even

two among the many great dining establishments in Winston-Salem. I decided to visit several restaurants, taking the smorgasbord approach to dining.

Planning our evening’s itinerary made my mouth salivate in anticipation.

We started the evening at Willow’s Bistro at 300 South Liberty Street, located in the historic railroad building between downtown and Old Salem.

I noticed a couple seats available at the bar, the best seats in the house because they give you a front row seat to a tiny kitchen where the magic is being made. Executive Chef Niki Farrington paused to come over and personally greet us, even though it was going to be a busy evening for the kitchen staff. Farrington has a strong local following, is a pro when it

Firecracker shrimp with pimento cheese grits from Springhouse Restaurant

comes to whipping up creative dishes, and loves to “pickle” everything.

My date and I agreed that it would be important to “pace” ourselves and since this was our first stop, we decided to order small plates. Flash fried calamari kicked off the night with house pickled peppers, Niki’s Pickles purple onion, and aioli.

The calamari was fried crisp and a perfect size for sharing. Then we noticed the hickory smoked pork ribs, and that was the end of our pact mandating small plates. They were delicious! There are so many tempting dishes on Willow’s menu that we nearly abandoned the rest of the evening’s food tour.

I’m a personal fan of Chef Tim Grandinetti, so a stop at Spring House Restaurant, Kitchen and Bar at 450 N. Spring Street had to be the next stop on our tour. If you’re a Southerner, then you probably love shrimp and grits – but you also most likely adore pimento cheese. Grandinetti gave us a unique spin on the popular dish – firecracker shrimp with pimento cheese grits with Dr. Brownstone’s Hot! Honey Sriracha Elixir.

Chef Grandinetti, who is the new president of the local chapter of the American Culinary Federation, brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and relationships to the culinary scene. He confirmed his wildly popular Dr. Brownstone’s Sweet Summer Luv Luv Festival is returning Aug.11-14 and will feature four whole days of amazing cuisine.

After sampling the cuisine at Spring House,

Flash fried calamari from Willow’s Bistro our next stop was 6th and Vine at 209 W. 6th Street in the heart of the Arts District downtown. Kathleen Barnes, the owner, recently brought in Executive Chef Ebony Warfield to lead her kitchen. Barnes could not have found a better and more talented person to lead the next phase for her restaurant. Warfield’s fingerprints can be found inside kitchens all over the city – A Noble Grille, Sweet Potatoes, The Katharine, and Sir Winston.

Warfield also served in the army where she learned to cook by providing thousands of hungry soldiers with hot meals.

I was excited to introduce my friend to Chef

Warfield’s white wine mushroom chicken with roasted fingerling potatoes and mixed veggies. We split the plate and I seriously considered ordering a second one to take home for another meal.

My date assured me that her culinary adventure was a birthday she wouldn’t soon forget. And I enjoyed sharing her special day with her.

In Winston-Salem and the Triad, we are incredibly blessed to have a treasure trove of culinary talent in the region and they all offer such a wide array of savory, flavorful, and innovative menus. I encourage you to explore and engage with the many

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locally-owned restaurants that are in your own backyard.

You don’t have to wait for a special date night to sample the culinary delights they offer. But I will say, from personal experience, it sure makes it better. There is nothing like sharing a meal with friends or family. To me, food is love.

Algenon Cash is a nationally recognized speaker and director of Triad Food & Beverage Coalition. Cash is also the host of Eat Drink Triad, which is available on Apple, Spotify, and Pandora. Reach him at acash@whartongladden.com.

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Timothy Ramsey Sports Columnist

What’s the future for Ben Simmons?

Philadelphia 76ers guard Ben Simmons has had a bad playoff run that showed he was a major liability during crunch time.

Simmons and the 76ers’ season just ended in the Eastern Conference Semifinal round against the Atlanta Hawks and Simmons was a virtual non-factor offensively throughout.

His lack of progression in his offensive skill set has left many wondering if Philly wants to trade him or not.

It’s hard to imagine a player of Simmons’ caliber being talked about this way, but his lack of offense and lack of productivity at the free throw line was appalling to say the least. He has many people wondering if he has reached his ceiling, not because of his talent level, but because of his unwillingness to develop his offensive game.

Coming into the league, Simmons did not have a consistent jump shot, but because of his talent level, many thought his jumper would develop over time; it hasn’t. Simmons had a foot injury that took away his first season in the league. I figured that would be the perfect time to work on shot, he didn’t.

Now we are at the end of year five for Simmons and he is essentially the same player he was coming into the league. He is an elite defender, however his inability to get better on the offensive end and the free throw line limits what he can do.

For most players of Simmons’ caliber, they add something to their game each off-season to make them a better player.

We have seen good players develop their games over their first few years in the league to make them all-star, borderline superstar-level players.

Some good examples in recent memory would be Jimmy Butler, Julius Randle, Paul George and Giannis Antetokounmpo.

None of the aforementioned players came into the league as all-star level players, but continued to work on their games to become one. Simmons is already a three-time AllStar, which baffles my mind as to why he has not added to his offensive arsenal at all during his time in the league.

Against Atlanta, Simmons only averaged 9.9 points, 8.6 assists and 6.3 rebounds. He shot 60% from the field; however, his 33% free throw percentage was historically bad and caused head coach Doc Rivers to rouSee Ben on B6

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The Little League baseball season is in full

swing. Young players all across the Triad are doing everything they can to make their team the best in the area. Here is a look at some ac-

tion between two local teams.

Local athlete tapped for coaching position at Anderson University

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Coaching is a calling that is not meant for everyone. Jazmine Charles fought the call to coach for years, but after her playing career ended, she seemed to be on a collision course to coach and has now landed her first position as an assistant coach for the women’s team at Anderson University.

Through connections she has made over the years, the opportunity to coach at Anderson presented itself and Charles jumped at the chance. The Winston native has been around the game for years as a player and trainer, so coaching will give her the chance to get back on the court and immersed in the game she loves.

“Honestly this came through a lot of networking,” Charles said. “The basketball world is so small. “ Charles followed in the footsteps of her father by gravitating toward the sport of basketball. By being around the game, it

“I could say that sophomore year in high school is when I was like, I really have a chance to play in college, and really being able to do something with the game,” said Charles.

Charles played college basketball at Lenoir-Rhyne University. During her four years there, she continued to develop her game.

“When I got to college, I strictly was able to play the guard position and honestly, it was like I really had to take my game to the next level,” she continued. “I really didn’t grow up with a trainer like they have nowadays.

So, the shooting, ballhandling, and the shooting off the dribble, and the being able to do a lot of the one-on-one moves, and even shooting behind the arc, I feel like I had to desubmitted photo Winston-Salem native Jazmine Charles will begin her coaching career at Anderson velop that a lot in college, because in high school, I University. was only natural for her to ally one of the first sports I few years for her skills to could do those things here play. tried after soccer and soft- catch up with her drive. and there, but not at a con“My dad played, and ball, but it seemed to come Charles says she was not sistent high-level basis.

“Gradually, every year, he used to play in three-on- naturally when it comes to very good when she first off-season is really when three tournaments and stuff understanding the game.” started; however, through I took it a lot more serilike that and so as a little The drive to play the hard work she became girl, I was already around game was there early quite good during her high See Anderson on B6 it,” she said. “It was actu- for Charles, but it took a school years.

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Griffin, W-S native, preparing for Olympic Games

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U.S. speedskater and Winston-Salem native Kimani Griffin is gearing up for a run at his second Olympic Games. With the Olympic trials just over six months away, Griffin and his coach Derrick Speas are heading to Utah to fine-tune his final months of training.

Griffin, a R.J. Reynolds’ graduate, competed in the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, as a member of the 7-man Winter Olympic roster. Griffin finished 26th overall in 2018 in the 500m race.

Skating became a part of Griffin’s life after attending a school party at Skate Haven. He observed a local speed team practicing and told his mother that was something he wanted to try.

“I told my mom that it looked pretty cool and I wanted to go fast too, so I got me a pair of skates and it kind of snowballed after that,” said Griffin.

“I started doing practices full time and ended up going to High Point and that led to junior world championships and competing around the country, and in 2010 I moved to Salt Lake full time to do long track.”

Speedskating is not the only thing that Griffin excels in. He is also an award-winning classical guitarist. At the age of 17,

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

The object of this new segment in the paper is for me to obtain the thoughts of area coaches on certain sports topics related to the Triad area and beyond.

So far, the responses have been helpful and educational.

Over the last few weeks, I have received answers from not only coaches, but also parents, players, and those who are close to the game. Those responses have been very informative and I wanted to begin including some of those answers, along with the coaches, because I feel it does give a different perspective.

This week, my question to coaches was: Are kids too entitled in youth sports and if so, who’s to blame? I asked this question because I have written a column about my observations as a reporter, referee and parent and was curious about how others felt. Here are some of the responses that I received.

Brandon Moore, basketball coach “Absolutely. For the ones with elite-level talent, they hold programs’ and schools’ hostage trying to hold onto them.

School systems ignore their own rules on dis-

Griffin played a solo concert at Carnegie Hall and soon afterward accepted a full scholarship to Columbus State University for classical guitar.

Griffin was at the top of his game in guitar and skating at the time. In 2010, as he was watching the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, Griffin saw many of his contemporaries competing at the games and his competitive spirit began to rise.

He hung up the guitar and concentrated solely on speedskating.

“I saw a lot of kids that I grew up practicing with and competing against at the games and I missed the world of sports,” he said.

“I missed the grind and that dog mentality.”

Making it to the Olympics is no easy task in any discipline. It involves years of dedication and training that many individuals are not built for.

“The actual work being put in is six days a week with two a day from May 1 until the middle of March, so it’s really like 10 months out of the year,” Griffin said about his training schedule. “Our competitive season is from October through March and on top of that, it’s eat, sleep, breathe your craft.”

Griffin fondly remembers his first Olympic experience back in 2018. All of the training and working his way up the international ranks had paid off

for him. Griffin says he did feel nervous, but instead was ready to capitalize on the moment because he knew he had done everything he could to prepare for this chance.

“Between guitar and skating and performing, I’ve never really been the nervous type, I kind of like always soaked in that moment and kind of thrived off that energy,” he said. “But honestly, making the team was the first time I felt that what I have been doing my whole life wasn’t necessarily in vain and the world recognized me as being a top tier athlete.

“The most exciting thing was team processing and getting all your gear and fitted for your Olympic ring. And walking out for opening ceremonies was pretty dope.”

While he was on the

starting line for his first Olympic race, Griffin says he had the thought that it didn’t feel like the Olympics for him.

“I was just telling someone recently that whenever I perform guitar, no matter how big the show was, I always felt like I was in my living room practicing,” he continued. “I just felt like I had that tunnel vision and was honed in on what I was doing, and it was the same thing when I was warming up; I wasn’t thinking I am at the Olympics. It was kind of second nature.”

The next Winter Olympics will take place in February 2022 in Beijing, China. Griffin had been with the U.S. National Speedskating team for the last six years, but chose to work with Speas full time in preparation for Beijing.

tricting in order to allow certain students to attend certain schools to maintain those schools’ athletic prowess. Then, once you factor in the parent politics into the equation, you’ve got a clusterf*** of compromises all across the board.”

Dewarski Odom, track and field coach and former professional athlete “Absolutely, but you can spread the blame around. The problem is nobody wants to keep it real with these kids. They cater to their needs. That’s why most of them don’t do well in college. They go to college and only be on the team for the year, then they want to enter the transfer portal and then they find out nobody really wants them. I’m straight up with my athletes; I kiss no ass bro. I know what the other level looks like and if you don’t step up, you will be back home looking for a new school. I tell my athletes all the time, it’s nothing wrong just being a college student. Everybody is not meant to be a collegiate athlete.”

Milton Parker Jr., youth baseball coach “Yes, they are, even down to the select/travel/ AAU levels. Who’s to blame? Everyone, including coaches. Parents

pay money and coaches are willing to receive the money.”

Anonymous coach “Yeah, I’d have to say that kids definitely are.

Who’s to blame is the tougher question. There are several reasons why kids are the way they are now. Parents, coaches, and this era of inclusion are all to blame if you ask me.

Many parents baby their kids and make them feel like the team or sport is all about them, when it’s really not. The parents act entitled themselves, which trickles down to their kids, so it’s natural for them to act that way. There are too many unqualified coaches who only care about wins and titles instead of teaching the kids the right way to play the game.

Tracey Fulp, local sports fan I’m not a coach, but I wanted to drop my 2 ½ cents. Yes, they are and the parents are to blame.

Everybody wants their kid to win, even though they don’t play well. They want their kid playing the whole game when the kid doesn’t even show up for practice. They want a trophy even though they did nothing to earn it. If all you gonna do is show up, sit in the stands. It would mean more. Maybe Jimmy wants to be on the chess

team, but momma wants Jimmy to buy her a house when he graduates high school, instead of nurturing his natural talent.

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Kimani Griffin Speas and Griffin have had an unbreakable bond for nearly 20 years and Griffin looks to Speas as a father figure.

Griffin still feels he has a lot to accomplish in and out of the rink. His approach to taking it one day at a time keeps things in perspective for him.

“I am definitely humbled and grateful for the things that I have done in

and out of the sport,” Griffin said about his career.

“Honestly, I just take life day by day and try to be better than I was yesterday.

And if I can achieve and accomplish more, not only just with the accolades or teams, but as a human, that to me is success.”

In the next Olympic Games, Griffin has hopes of performing better than he did in 2018. His personal goal for the Olympic trials is to become the national champion in the 500- and 1000-meter races.

“Obviously, a medal is something that I am striving for, but honestly, I’d be stoked if I finished top 5,” he said jokingly.

Griffin has had to endure some turbulence in his personal life and he is proud of himself for making it through that journey. He feels the things he learned during his journey will last him well beyond his career.

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Elder Richard Wayne Wood Sunday School Lesson

An Attitude of Gratitude Scriptures: Leviticus 13:45-46; Luke 17:11-19 By the end of this lesson, we will: *Explore reasons why only one of the ten healed lepers turned back to Jesus in thanksgiving; *Sense the need in our lives for increased expressions of gratitude to God; *Develop a plan for showing thanksgiving to God and others on a daily basis.

Background: Leprosy during biblical times was not the leprosy of today known as Hansen’s Disease. Leprosy then covered a variety of contagious skin diseases.

The role of the priest was to determine if the symptoms presented deemed a person pure or unpure. There was a seven-day quarantine if symptoms were inconclusive and a second period quarantine if the symptoms of swelling, rash and a discoloration appeared – to allow the skin to heal or the disease to spread. The intent for the priests was not to heal the disease or to stop its spread, but rather to contain the spread of an intolerable amount of severe impurity in case leprosy is present. For a more detailed description of symptoms, read the entire thirteenth chapter of Leviticus.

Lesson: Leviticus 13:45-46 gives the detailed behavior required for a person found to have a type of leprosy from the moment they are diagnosed until he or she is cured. The hair is disheveled and the clothes are torn as a sign of mourning which indicates a person diagnosed with a disease equivalent to death itself. Even more explicit is the covered upper lip and the shouting “Unclean! Unclean!” Lastly, for the safety of others, they were separated from the community. “Being unclean, He shall dwell apart; his dwelling shall be outside camp” (verses 45-46).

In Luke’s story there are ten lepers who ask for healing, acknowledging Jesus as a worker of miracles, a healer of disease, and as master. Because only one is described as a Samaritan, we assume the others to be Jews, but they could all be Samaritan due to the location. The real point here, however, is that all ten of them in verse 13 said “… Jesus, master, have mercy on us.”

It’s notable that Jesus did not touch the lepers, but spoke after seeing their condition saying, “Go and show yourselves to the priest.” Without saying you are healed or made clean, Jesus just gives the directive to show the priest the results of your brief encounter and request for mercy. Jesus did in an instant what fourteen days of quarantine and an unknown period since had failed to do “… as they went, they were cleansed” (verse 14).

Important here is the fact that there was a cultural tension between Jews and Samaritans. It was unlawful for Jews to associate with foreigners. Jesus in His usual fashion acknowledged the thankful heart of the Samaritan and ignored the law. Again, only one of the lepers is identified as Samaritan or “foreigner,” it was possible that the other nine were Jews driven from their own communities because of their disease.

If that were indeed the case, then their ingratitude was inexcusable. “But where are the nine?” There was See Gratitude on B5

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Christian ministries looking to engage post-COVID generation through online video and live-chats CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Christian ministries and nonprofits are eager to “ramp up the conversation” with the post-COVID generation, a new survey suggests.

They’re looking to increase their online video and live-chat offerings to

matterresearch.com) - was presented at Christian Leadership Alliance’s The Outcomes Conference in Orlando, Fla., held on June 16.

The survey report is available at https:// inchristcommunication. com/cla-research-report.

are among their top priorities in the quest to connect with the post-COVID generation and “create a dynamic platform for real relationships, two-way conversations, and genuine community,” Lonsdale said.

“Post-COVID, peo-

ICC founder and CEO. “Right now, many Christian organizations are drowning in the ‘sea of sameness,’” Holt said.

“They’re failing to show how they’re different, and why people should have a heart-tug toward their cause and engage with

engage people who want “real relationships and genuine community” in the post-COVID world.

The survey of Christian leaders - conducted last month - also finds ministries and nonprofits want to charge-up their communications with more emotional and inspirational content, as people exit COVID looking for connections that speak to their heart.

Key findings from the survey Enormous Expectations, Explosive Engagements: Communications Priorities for Faith-Based Organizations in a PostCOVID World, conducted

by InChrist Communications (ICC, www.inchristcommunications.com) and Grey Matter Research & Consulting (www.grey-

“After months of social distancing, shuttered churches, and lockdowns, people are desperate to connect with others and right now ministries want to ramp up the conversation and find the best ways to engage with them,” said Diane Lonsdale, ICC’s chief communications strategist.

Christian leaders believe communications that pack a powerful emotional and inspirational punch will trigger the biggest response and engagement post-COVID, according to the survey.

“Nonprofit and ministry leaders want to engage their audiences and supporters, not merely inform them,” said Lonsdale.

Increasing online video and live-chat capabilities

ple are craving personal connections,” she said.

“They’re looking to have real-time conversations and they’re increasingly turning to online live-chat platforms to initiate those engaging conversations.”

“The rules of engagement have clearly changed,” said Ron Sellers, president of Grey Matter Research & Consulting. “Ministry leaders and communicators are anxious to increase their emotional engagement with their audiences. They want more two-way relationships with donors and constituents.”

Many Christian ministries and nonprofits, though, are “struggling to make this crucial emotional and relational connection,” said Palmer Holt,

them.”

Sellers said: “Many ministry leaders struggle with what branding really is and how it can make an organization stand out.

Simply emphasizing the work they do or their commitment to the cause does not lead to a unique, meaningful brand.”

The survey findings, Holt says, indicate many leaders are ready to “reengage” and develop a post-COVID communications strategy that’s relationship-driven and emotionally-charged. “As we emerge from the pandemic, now is the time for ministries and nonprofits to recalibrate their brand and messaging,” he said.

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

Sundays Virtual worship services Green Street United Methodist Church, 639 S. Green St., invites you to join online worship services on Sundays at 11 a.m. The service, which is available via Facebook and YouTube, is a celebration of the diversity of the human family. Visit www.greenstreetumc.org or email admin@greenstreetumc.org for more information.

NOW Zoom services New Birth Worship Center (NBWC) in East Bend

has gone virtual. Please join Dr. James L. E. Hunt, Senior Pastor on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. on Zoom webinar. The link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84789021891 or Dial-In: 1 301 715 8592 ID Mtg. #: 84789021891.

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

All are welcome to join us for Zoom (virtual) Bible Study on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Our Pastor, Dr. Hunt, will be the teacher. The Zoom Link: https://us02web. zoom.us/j/89195349778 or Dial-In Mtg #: 1 301 715 8592 ID#: 89195349778#.For additional information, please call 336-699-3583 or visitwww.newbirthworshipcenter.org or visit our Facebook page.

July 4 First Waughtown Baptist Church (FWBC) live stream Senior Pastor Dr. Dennis W. Bishop will deliver the Communion message and lead worshippers in partaking of the Lord’s Supper. Everyone is encouraged to

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Community Calendar NOW – Oct. 15 Liberty Street Urban Farmers Market Open The Liberty Street Urban Farmers Market, 1551 N. Liberty St., is now open from 4 to 6 p.m. every first and third Fridays of the month through October 15. The market accepts SNAP EBT cards for purchases. Applications to sell at the market are still being accepted, and there is no cost to apply. Urban farmers and community gardeners are encouraged to apply. Prospective sellers can pick up an application at the market or find the application online at CityofWS.org/2720.

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Jul 23 Application deadline The city is accepting applications for the next class of City of WinstonSalem University, to be held for 11 weeks starting Aug. 26, 2021. This free, in-person program gives citizens a better understanding of city government, including the responsibilities of various city departments and the city’s role in the community.

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to return to give thanks for their healing physically and missed out on their spiritual blessing. “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.” The one who returned received a spiritual healing that the other nine would never enjoy. (The UMI Annual Commentary 2020-2021, The MacArthur Study Bible, The Modern Life Study Bible, The Jewish Study Bible and The Oxford Bible Commentary).

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no ethnic wall between them and Jesus. In light of their healing, they had every reason to come in faith to Jesus instead of turning away. The irony of this situation is that the one man identified had every reason to flee from Jesus, yet instead he returned and praised God (verses 1518).

Jesus was dismayed that the nine others failed

ation: Why do you suppose gratitude makes a difference in our relationship with God? How do we take God’s blessings for granted?

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tinely take Simmons out of the lineup late in games.

To make matters worse, Simmons only scored a combined 19 points in the final three games against the Hawks.

“Obviously, he struggled from the free-throw line and that became a factor in the series, there’s no doubt about that,” said Rivers Simmons even acknowledged his shortcomings after the 76ers’ game 7 loss. “Offensively, I wasn’t there. I didn’t do enough for my teammates. ,,, There’s a lot of things that I need to work on.”

His lack of offensive development is very surprising, given how gifted he was coming out of LSU. At 6’11 and 240 lbs.

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ously, as far as hitting the weights and really being conditioned to where I just was a better player. I think I got better every year, on and off the court. I stayed in the gym and I stayed working out.”

While at LenoirRhyne, Charles led the Bears to a South Atlantic Conference championship in her junior season and accumulated several other awards and honors during her time there.

Playing professional basketball became a possibility following Charles’ stellar junior season. She says there were very few women she knew who

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Simmons was touted as a perfect mixture between LeBron James and Magic Johnson. Over four healthy NBA seasons, the Sixers have waited for his game to develop offensively to better pair with superstar center Joel Embiid. I am not sure how much longer they can wait.

If Philly is attempting to move Simmons, they are being tight-lipped right now. I’m assuming they are trying to either maximize Simmons’ trade value, or they actually do want to keep the all-star guard. Klutch Sports CEO and Simmons’ agent Rich Paul recently met with Sixers’ president of basketball operations Daryl Morey and general manager Elton Brand at the predraft combine to discuss Simmons’ future with the team, sources said.

Morey spoke with reporters at his postseason news conference last Tuesday and declined to make any definitive statements about the long-term future of Simmons.

“We have a very strong group we believe in,” said Morey. “None of us can predict the future of what’s going to happen in any, in any place. We love what Ben brings, we love what Joel brings, we love what Tobias [Harris] brings.

In terms of what’s next, we’re going to do what’s best for the 76ers to give us the best chance to win the championship with every single player on the roster.”

Later in the interview he added, “I think it’s pretty straightforward what certain players need to improve. We need to be a better offensive team. …

Frankly if we’re squeaking by the second round, that just tells me we’re unfortunately not good enough … to win the title, so we need to get better.”

I think the Sixers have seen everything they need to see from Simmons at this point. His inability and unwillingness to even shoot the basketball at times shows he is not the right pairing for Embiid.

There have been several rumors of trade suitors around the league. ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith thinks the Golden State Warriors are very interested in trading for Simmons.

“In the end, Philadelphia is trying to claim that Philadelphia is not interested in moving Ben Simmons,” Smith said on Friday’s episode of First Take. “Let me tell y’all something: that’s a damn

lie. That’s a damn lie.

“Okay, it’s just that they’re not interested in getting trash back for him.

You make a solid, bona fide offer, the Philadelphia 76ers are going to consider it. I believe the Golden State Warriors are going to make a push for Ben Simmons. Okay, so, keep your ears tuned, stay tuned. Ben Simmons, it’s possible Ben Simmons can end up in Golden State with Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green.

I’m not saying it’s going to happen. Alright, but calls have already been made, things are percolating, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all, if something like that ended up going down. This notion that Ben Simmons, ain’t no way Philadelphia is moving him? Hell yeah.

They’ll move him, if it’s

the right offer. They won’t move up for garbage, they won’t move him for something that’s not a good offer, but I’m telling you, I know a lot of people in Philly, as y’all both know, but let them get the right offer? Ben’s gone.”

I’m not sure if the Warriors have the right pieces or draft capital in tow to trade for Simmons. And with Simmons and Green on the roster at the same time doesn’t quite make a lot of sense. It’s evident that Simmons needs to address the holes in his game to make him the player everyone expected him to be, or he will just be a good, but not great, player.

Hopefully this is the wake-up call he needs to really work on developing that much-needed jump shot that will take his game to the next level.

went overseas to play professional basketball, especially from the Division II level, but knew she had the talent to do so.

Charles played two seasons overseas in England and Romania, respectively, and obtained her master’s degree while there. She said playing with European players was an eyeopener for her and allowed her to see the game being played in a different way.

“Seeing what European basketball was like was totally different,” she said about her time overseas.

“It was competitive in a different sense, but I think it definitely allowed me to grow my knowledge of the game a lot more, because

you have to think differently. I don’t know how to explain it, but it’s just completely different playing against Europeans than it is playing Americans, so how you think and how you create to score and even play defense is completely different.”

Before leaving for Europe, Charles was a trainer at the Chris Paul Academy. Upon returning to the United States, she returned to CP3 and continued to do player development for the next two years, as well as other roles.

Charles was hoping for another opportunity to play overseas, but says the politics of women’s basketball overseas was too much to handle. While

working in her player development role, Charles was able to see the game in a different light.

After her time with the CP3 Academy, Charles joined the staff at Liberty University as the video coordinator. It was a different role for her to now be “behind the scene,” instead of being on the floor as a player or trainer.

“I feel like I’ve gotten my hands and my mind into the game in a lot of different aspects after playing,” she said.

Charles still had a yearning to get back out on the court, so through her connections, she was able to meet with Anderson University head coach Jonathon Barbaree. After a

phone and in-person interview, she was offered the assistant coaching position.

Charles knows the world of coaching is totally different than anything she has experienced thus far. Her goal is to get acclimated to recruiting as quickly as possible, because she knows that is a major part of college athletics.

“Being able to build the relationships and networks in the recruiting side of things is a big expectation for me, because that’s completely new,” Charles continued. “For the players that I have, I am just excited to get on the court with them.”

The fact that she has

seen the game from many different aspects will benefit her in the new role as assistant coach, said Charles. She feels her ability to build relationships is one of the greatest impacts she can bring as a coach.

“I truly care about them as a person and so I want to see them grow over the years,” she said.

“I think just instilling that good relationship as mentor and mentee has always been important.”

Emotionally, Charles thinks she will have a mix of emotions for her first game as a coach. The fact Anderson University is in the same conference as Lenoir-Rhyne makes it feel like she has come full circle in her career.

Anderson Alumni Association donates check to Crossnore Children’s Home

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Patricia Sadler, Quilla Smith, Theodis Foster, Rudy Hill, and Beverly Williams with Maribeth Robinson (center), executive director Triad Region.

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Members of the A. H. Anderson Alumni Association recently presented a donation to the Crossnore Children’s School and Home Summer Camp Fund in the amount of $500. The donation will sponsor children of the home to participate in an enriching and fun summer camp program. The Anderson Alumni chose to contribute to this project to impact the lives of children who have experienced abuse or trauma in their young lives.

The A. H. Anderson High School Alumni Association’s mission is to preserve the legacy of the historically Black high school and provide services that improve the quality of life. Anderson High School graduated it’s first class in 1962

and the last class in 1970 when schools were integrated.

An exemplary educational institution for African American students, Anderson was named for an outstanding educator, Mr. Albert H. Anderson, and was managed by superior administrators and staffed by exceptional instructors who demanded academic excellence. The high school produced outstanding graduates who have made tremendous contributions to this city, state, and country.

Theodis Foster, association president, said, “In the Anderson Alumni tradition of service, we take pride in making a difference in a child’s life and enabling children to have an exciting and enjoyable summer camp experience this year.”

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