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THURSDAY, July 16, 2020

Officers, nurse charged in Neville case Demonstrators take to the streets to demand justice

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

Five officers and a nurse are being charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection to the death of John Neville, a Black man who died from asphyxia after being restrained by officers in the Forsyth County Jail after telling officers several times “I can’t breathe.”

Around 3:24 a.m. on Dec. 2, Neville suffered an “unknown medical condition” while he was asleep and fell from the top bunk in his cell on the concrete floor. After seeing him lying on the floor shaking as if he was having a seizure, Neville’s cellmate pushed a panic button and shortly after that, detention officers and the oncall nurse arrived. They found Neville “disoriented and confused” and decided to move Neville into an observation cell so the on-duty nurse could determine what was wrong.

While he was in the observation cell, officers used a prone restraint to try to get Neville to calm down. According to Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neil, what transpired over the next 45 minutes led to Neville’s death two days later in the hospital. Neville told of-

ficers at least 10 times “I can’t breathe,” but they told him otherwise and unsuccessfully tried to remove his handcuffs.

“The decision was made to move Mr. Neville to an observation cell to try and determine what was causing his distress. It was over the next approximately 45 minutes that Mr. Neville would sustain injuries that would eventually cause him to lose his life,” O’Neil said.

On Dec. 5, 2019, at the request of Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough, the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) was brought in to investigate the circumstances of Neville’s death. O’Neil said the findings in that investigation, including a video, were turned over to his office in April. The autopsy conducted by Dr. Patrick Lantz of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows Neville died from “complications of HypoxicIschemic brain injury due to cardiopulmonary arrest due to positional and compressional asphyxia sustained during the prone restraint.”

During a press conference last week, O’Neil announced that the five officers involved in the incident, Sarah Poole, Cpl. Edward Roussel, Lovette

Photos by Tevin Stinson

More than a dozen demonstrators gathered outside the Forsyth County Jail earlier this week demanding justice for John Neville. Neville died from asphyxia after being restrained by officers with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office.

Williams, Christopher Stamper and Antonio Woodley, have been arrested and charged. They have since been released on $15,000 unsecured bonds. At the time of publication, the on-call nurse, Michelle Heughins, had not been arrested but there is a warrant for her arrest.

After giving a brief

Demonstrators walk through the lobby of the Forsyth County Jail on Monday, July 13. Many of the demonstrators were there demanding justice for John Neville.

overview of the SBI findings, O’Neil said Neville’s death could have been avoided. “We have all been witnesses to the unrest that has gripped our world over the last several weeks. As it relates specifically to Mr. Neville, his death was avoidable and that is a tragic, singular fact. Consequently, charges have been brought forth,” he said.

Sheriff Kimbrough said good men and women made bad decisions that day and the result is a good man lost his life. He said while at the Magistrate’s office, the officers told him to tell the Neville family that they didn’t mean him any harm. “We’re sorry that the mistakes were made that day. I take responsibility for that as the sheriff,” he said.

“What I will tell you is that we will still give you the best of us. We still serve the people regardless of what comes our way and we will always stand on the truth and what is right and what is transparent.”

Attorney Mike Grace, who has been hired to handle Neville’s estate, said although the family is still grieving, early in the process he asked Kimbrough not to release the video showing what happened to Neville to allow the legal process to play out and he has kept his word. However, Neville’s family has seen the video.

“He accepted and he kept his word and did not make that available. It has not leaked out and no one has seen it except the people who ought to see it,” Grace continued. “The family has seen it and they’re quite devastated by it as are all who have seen it, but we are grateful the DA’s office and to the sheriff for keeping their word.

“I am happy that we followed the DA’s advice and let the process work itself out. There could’ve been leaks in this thing and half information given to the public and misinformation given to the public which would’ve been a disservice to the Neville

family and to the process.

I can tell you that although the family is grieving, they are satisfied that the process is working. We would ask that the public and the press allow them some additional space to grieve.

We would ask that no acts be committed in John Neville’s name that would not honor his life and the manner of his passing.”

Since the press conference last week, demonstrators locally and across the state have been demanding justice for Neville and that the manslaughter charge be upgraded. On Monday, July 13, more than a dozen supporters of Black Lives Matter Winston-Salem held a rally outside the Forsyth County Jail. Although the demonstration did stay peaceful, during past demonstrations some people have been arrested for allegedly blocking a public street.

The five detention officers are scheduled to appear in Forsyth County District Court on Thursday, July 23.

Gov. Cooper announces that schools will reopen under Plan B School districts will have the option to continue remote learning

Public schools will reopen this fall with several restrictions, but students across the state will have the option to continue remote learning. Dur-

ing a press conference on Tuesday, July 14, Gov. Roy Cooper announced that K-12 public schools across the state will open under Plan B, which calls for schools to limit the capacity in school facilities and on transportation vehicles and includes a mask requirement.

“After working with health experts, school superintendents, teachers and more, we plan to put those protections in place and open our schools in a careful way,” Cooper continued. “Today we announced that North Carolina schools will open for both in person and remote learning with key safety precautions to protect the

health of our students, teachers, staff and families.”

Cooper describes Plan B as a “measured balanced approach” that will allow students the opportunity for face-to-face learning while still providing safety protocols such as fewer children in classrooms, social distancing, face coverings, symptom screening, frequent hand washing, and cleaning. According to Cooper, individual districts will have the power to make adjustments to the plan to ensure they are meeting the requirements brought forth by the state.

“Schools will be required to limit the total number of people in the

Gov. Roy Cooper building so that six feet of distancing is possible.

For example, when stu-

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dents are seated or in a line,” Cooper said. “Districts and schools can use

a plan that works for them, whether it’s alternating days or weeks or some other strategy.”

Under proposal made

by Dr. Angela Hairston, superintendent of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, students grades K-6 will attend school daily (Monday-Friday).

All EC (Exceptional Children), Self-Contained Students, OSC (Occupational Course of Study) students, and students who attend special needs schools will attend school Monday-Friday as well. Students who attend school daily will be split between elementary and middle schools See Cooper on A3

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Reparations: reality or fantasy?

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

The topic of reparations has been on the minds of African Americans since we were promised 40 acres and a mule in 1865. Since African Americans did not receive what was promised due to President Andrew Johnson reversing and annulling proclamations such as Special Field Orders No. 15 and the Freedmen’s Bureau bills, which were ordered under Abraham Lincoln, many are wondering when or if African Americans will ever receive any form of reparations.

Apologies have been made from the U.S. House of Representatives and from the Senate, but there has not been a joint bill passed from both houses of Congress. I know an apology at this point is more symbolic than anything else, but I think it is a step in the right direction.

I know it would be hard to quantify what would be an appropriate reparations package for descendants of slaves. I have heard a lot of suggestions such as a large monetary settlement, land distribution, free student tuition to college, low interest business loans, and more.

We have made a step in the right direction with H.R. 40, which is a commission to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans Act. This act was sponsored by Sheila Jackson Lee, Representative for Texas’ 18th Congressional district, but I am not very confident in what the final results will be, following this study.

I am curious why it has taken these United States so long to come to some sort of consensus about reparations. It’s not like the country has not admitted fault in the past and paid reparations for it.

History of Reparations America paid $20,000 and issued a letter of apology for the internment of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during WW II. Those checks were first issued under the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, a historic law that offered monetary redress to over 80,000 people.

The nation also paid Native Americans reparations for unjustly sized land. In 1946, President Harry S. Truman signed a bill providing for the establishment of the Indian Claims Commission. The commission was designed to hear historic grievances and compensate tribes for lost territories. From its research, the commission ended up awarding about $1.3 billion to 176 tribes and bands.

The country has also given reparations to Native Hawaiians and survivors of the Tuskegee Experiments. Although in both cases the reparations were not even close to the cost of the actual crimes committed by the leaders of this country, but they at least did admit fault in both instances. Why has it taken so long for the descendants of slaves to be afforded the same right?

Reparations Options When I was younger, I felt that an appropriate reparations package from the country would have to include a substantial cash payment to every Black person in the nation. After careful consideration,

I no longer feel that way. I think we have all seen the skit from the Dave Chappelle show where he parodied Black people receiving reparations and in turn, they chose to spend the money on material objects. Yes, it was a funny premise for the show, but I don’t think giving Black people a large sum of money would be the best way to give reparations. I only feel that way because so many of us are not fiscally responsible enough to use that money in the correct way, due to the fact many Black people were not taught about money management at a young age.

I think a nice start to a reparations package would be a small monetary award to families, free college or trade school tuition for Black high school seniors, interest free business loans, land grants and no federal taxes for Black Americans as well. Of course, the college tuition and no federal taxes would only last for an agreed upon time, say 50 years or so.

I feel one of the places the Black community has gone wrong is pushing college upon all the Black youth as they did in the 90s and 2000s. I agree that education is a key factor in alleviating some of the woes in our community, but college is not for everyone. Some people are skilled laborers, electricians, contractors, plumbers or mechanics. Many individuals learn these skills at a young age and may not need a four-year bachelor’s degree.

Having the option to attend college or a trade/ technical school free of cost would greatly benefit the Black community. It would also eliminate the costly student loans that plague many of us, even 20 years after we have graduated.

Having the ability to obtain interest free business loans would also be a plus. The black dollar only circulates in the Black community for about six hours, which is a disgrace. With interest free business loans, many Black people would have the opportunity to open a business that would serve our own communities with the goods and services we need. That would also keep the black dollar circulating longer in the community.

Owning land has and always will be one of the most lucrative assets to have. If you have land, you can build on it, lease it or cultivate crops, just to name a few options. Black people were promised 40 acres and a mule, but that promise never came to fruition. If Black people were landowners, I don’t think we would have the generational poverty issues that many Blacks face today.

I think it is only fair that Black people be exempt from Federal taxes for an extended period of time. Our ancestors endured backbreaking labor, free of charge, for over 200 years, so exempting Black people from paying taxes would be another great starting point.

Perspectives of White People When I began writing this article, it dawned on me that it would be interesting to get a white person’s perspective on the issue as well, to see if our thoughts on reparations were similar. The first white person I spoke with was a former co-worker

who gave an interesting perspective. He did not want to disclose his name for privacy reasons.

“I actually had to look up reparations to make sure I had a grasp of what it meant,” he said. “I feel like there are some kind of reparations that are necessary. A lot of people automatically go to money as reparations, but I don’t know how you would put a dollar figure on that. How can you even quantify that? You can’t.

“The word reparations needs to be paired with reconciliation and healing and those things in turn need to be paired with intense selfreflection and repentance,” he continued. “I am talking about white people, because I know a lot of my white friends take a defensive stance about this issue. They say, ‘I never enslaved anybody’ or ‘I’ve never really oppressed anybody’ and in my opinion that is an absolute copout. Reparations absolutely need to happen.”

The gentleman went on to talk about how he researched his family background and found out that some of his ancestors had engaged in some “shameful behavior” and he feels this is an issue he cannot just “leave alone.” He said reparations would be a good start for repairing the relationship between Black and white people, but on the other hand, he is afraid of a potential backlash from white people for reparations being given to Black people. He feels that H.R. 40 is a great step in the right direction, but thinks that is just “dipping your toe in the water, when you need to just dive in.”

I spoke with another white person about reparations and what she said was a sincere eye opener. She also was not willing to give her name for privacy reasons, but said she chose to reach out to me after seeing my post on social media.

She stated her intentions for reaching out were twofold. She wanted to give her opinion on the topic of reparations, but also wanted some clarity on certain topics that she was interested in.

“I think we as a country need to stop telling Black people to forget about the past,” she said. “Black people have been done wrong and something needs to be done about it. This is a great time to learn about one another and especially ourselves.”

She said she did not have a deep knowledge of Black history because of the area she grew up in and currently lives. She said she was raised in the suburbs and became a housewife early on in life, so her circle of friends was very limited and the topics they discussed were limited to say the least. She gave an example by saying she did not know what Juneteenth was until she saw my article on our mutual friend’s timeline on social media.

She continued to touch on the embarrassment of her lack of knowledge about the struggle Black people have had to endure from the time we stepped foot onto American soil. She says she knew about slavery, the Civil Rights era and Dr. King, but very little outside of that. She said she will research more about reparations, while also trying to educate herself and her friends.

From speaking with those two individuals, I think that’s where a lot of misconceptions rest for both races. I think if people will stop and have an honest conversation about life, they will see where the other party is coming from.

Perspectives of Black People I did not want to stop speaking with white people, but I wanted to get other Black people’s views on the topic as well.

The first Black person I spoke with was Kelvin Davis. It was somewhat eerie that he reached out to the paper from New Port News, Virginia, and wanted to speak with someone about the topic of reparations, along with his bid for president of the United States as an Independent candidate.

“We need economic empowerment; we need reparations,” said Davis. “I am realizing the powers that be don’t want us to have reparations.”

He spoke about how he was pleased to see the movement to empower the Black community, but was unsettled by how the movement has been hijacked by certain individuals from outside the Black community that look to taint what the movement is about by looting and rioting. Davis said after seeing a documentary on “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Okla., and the devastation that occurred during that massacre, is what really pushed him toward the cause of reparations.

“I have to take a stand and use my run for the presidency as a platform to push for reparations,” he said. “They could never pay us back what we deserve, but we must receive something.”

Davis has been coordinating with several other individuals to formulate a reparations package. He said they have been working for months to come up with a tangible plan that will improve the lives of the Black community.

“We have been concentrating on a campaign plan, because this reparations bill is just like running a political campaign, and we have been strategizing different ideas of how we can reach out to the people,” he went on to say. “The second thing we have worked on is a concrete monetary request. We don’t need any more long studies on repa-

rations, what we need is a good plan and hopefully we can put our brains together to implement something that is great.

“We know there are three areas we need improvement in. We know there are some people that will totally agree with it and some people who say it’s not enough, but what we want to do is have a $200,000 grant to every Black family in America that will include

a $100,000 land grant.”

Davis said the other $100,000 would go to business and education grants. He said if they can come up with money for the stimulus package, then they can come up with the funds for a reparations package. He also thinks fiscal responsibility classes are needed before any reparations are dispersed.

The last person I spoke See Reparations on A3

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BOE to vote on early voting sites, scheduling

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

The Forsyth County Board of Elections is considering adding two “Super Sites” to the list of early voting sites this fall.

During a special called meeting last week, board members discussed adding mega sites at Hanes Mall and in the East Winston Community.

To account for the possibility of gathering restrictions still being in place this fall, election officials are considering condensing some of the smaller early voting precincts for larger sites that can accommodate more voters in a safer environment. Susan Campbell, chair of the Forsyth County Board of Elections (FCBOE), said the board is considering consolidating early voting sites at Carver Hill Commons and Miller Park Recreation Center for vacant space in the mall.

“Hanes Mall is a new addition and most of us like the idea because it does satisfy the need to spread out,” Campbell said.

County elections director Tim Tsujii said his team is finalizing an agreement to use the vacant space left

by Sears or Macy’s.

The proposed super site in East Winston will likely be at Winston Lake YMCA, but election officials are also looking for other venues that could be considered a super site in the area. The Y is a voting precinct on Election Day, but historically it hasn’t been listed as an early voting site. Tsujii said they can request to use a larger space than normal.

“The room that we would be able to utilize is the same voting space that we use on Election Day,” Tsujii said. “There is a divider wall that separates or partitions a portion of that room. We can certainly speak to some representatives there to ensure the full use and access of the entire room. If you look at that space in its entirety, it’s well over 9,000 square feet, large enough certainly to accommodate what you would call a super site if need be.”

Right now the only other option for a super site in East Winston is vacant space in the East Winston Shopping Center. Tsujii said his staff has visited the site but hasn’t been able to find a contact person for the space. “Besides that, there is nothing else in that part of town comparable to the space at Hanes Mall,” Tsujii said.

Board member Robert Durrah said he wants to make sure they do a thor-

Cooper From page A1

throughout the district.

Hairston said the original plan was to have face-toface learning for students grades K-8, but the district doesn’t have enough facilities to make that happen.

Grades 7-9 would be split into two cohorts, Cohort A and B, and assigned to a high school campus in the district. Cohort A will learn the old-fashioned way, in a classroom, on Monday and Tuesday, and Cohort B will have in-person lessons on Thursday and Friday. Wednesday is scheduled as a remote learning day for all students.

Although students will only physically be in the classroom twice a week, they will still be expected to “attend” school five days a week. On days they aren’t in the classroom, students will be expected to participate in remote learning.

When discussing the proposed plan during a

ough search for locations in East Winston. He mentioned Galilee Missionary Baptist Church, but several board members expressed issues with availability and security when discussing using churches.

“I think we should take another look and see what we can find in East Winston ... and if we can find something, try to secure it.

I think that might be useful,” he said.

The board is also considering adding the Dash ballpark (Truist Stadium) to the list of early voting sites. FCBOE deputy chair Michelle Bobadilla said the site could be used to cut down on some of the traffic at Forsyth County Government Center. The stadium is one mile from the government center located on North Chestnut Street.

“They have a great room, easy access, it’s one level. Great parking, great curbside, but it will probably be the best option if the board was trying to add a site,” Bobadilla continued. “It would not be an option for a mega site just because space is not enough to consolidate or move a big site to that site.”

Board member Catherine Jourdan said she thought adding the ballpark would be a good idea. She also mentioned that because the stadium is owned by the city, they wouldn’t have to pay to use the facility. “I think a lot of people would be excited about voting there and would consider it a novelty,” she said. “I think it would have a lot of value.”

Stuart Russell and John Loughridge said they didn’t think the ballpark should be added.

Loughridge said adding the stadium isn’t, “worth the money, time or effort.”

Here’s a list of other proposed early voting precincts: Forsyth County Government Center, 201 N. Chestnut St., WinstonSalem Brown Douglas Recreation Center, 4725 Indiana Ave., Winston-Salem Clemmons Library, 3554 Clemmons Road, Clemmons Kernersville Senior Center, 130 East Mountain St., Kernersville Lewisville Library, 6490 Shallowford Road, Lewisville Maize Woodruff Center, 4905 Lansing Dr., Winston-Salem Old Town Recreation Center, 4550 Shattalon Dr., Winston-Salem Polo Park Recreation Center, 1850 Polo Road, special called board meeting last week, Hairston said although the proposed plan isn’t perfect, it’s what the district can afford with more funding from the state. In order to meet every guideline outlined in Plan B, Hairston said Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools would need about $45 million in additional funding.

“It would take between $40 and $45 million to execute all aspects of the plan. We realize we don’t have those types of dollars, so we really had to look at our resources and bring to you a plan that we can execute without those additional resources,” Hairston said. “We realize this is not a perfect plan, but it is a plan that is affordable to us.”

Now the WinstonSalem/Forsyth County School’s Board of Education will have the decision to either approve Plan B or district wide remote learning. Notice of a meeting to vote on those options will occur within the next few days.

Winston-Salem WSSU-Anderson Center, 601 South Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., WinstonSalem Rural Hall Library, 7125 Broad St., Rural Hall Sedge Garden Recreation Center, 401 Robbins Road, Winston-Salem Southside Library, 3185 Buchanan St., Winston-Salem Walkertown Library, 2969 Main St., Walkertown Sprague Street Recreation Center, 1350 East Sprague St., Winston-Salem The Forsyth County Board of Elections is expected to make a final decision on early voting sites and the schedule for early voting during a telemeeting on Thursday, June 16. For more information visit https://www.forsyth. cc/Elections/.

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with was a young Black woman who wanted to give her thoughts on the subject. Lanette King feels that reparations are long overdue for Black people.

“The first time I remember even talking about reparations was 1997, when I was in high school,” King said. “As far as I am concerned, it is something that is needed to boost the Black community. The reason that it is needed is because we have worked for it, time and time again.

“When you deal with things of the past, it wasn’t good for us; it was good for the economy, it was good for white people and those who were born with silver spoons in their mouths. It was good for them, but what about us and when we did try to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, there was still a foot on our neck.”

King stated that reparations should include free education for Black youth

J uly 16, 2020 in any trade they choose, but doesn’t feel comfortable with a lump sum of money being distributed either.

“We don’t have the mindset as a group, as a collective whole, to financially do what we are supposed to do with that money, even if we did get the equivalent to 40 acres and a mule today,” she went on to say. “A lot of people will just ball out, because they don’t have the right mindset. It should start with education, but also needs to be a combination of things.”

If the financial disparity between Black and white families was brought closer together, King feels the nation would be better for it, but is not so sure about the racial division between the races.

“Money is not going to be the answer to close the racial divide,” said King. “In order for us to move forward, there are some things that need to be said, acknowledged and done. We have been sitting back and going with

A3 the flow and every so often there is an uprising, but this one is a little different than all of the previous ones. We are here and we are not going anywhere, but is it just because the nation has time to listen because we are in a pandemic? So, when this pandemic is over, then what? Is it something we are working towards? That’s my only concern.”

Symbolic Gestures or Policy Changes?

I know this is only a small sample size, but if we are honest with ourselves, reparations need to happen. I am not impressed by symbolic gestures of painting streets or bringing down statues, I need to see actual policy changes. My hope is that something tangible does result from H.B. 40 and a reparations package is issued, but it must be done in the right way. If we are set up for success, imagine how much we can accomplish, especially considering how well we have done when the deck has been stacked against us.

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Guest Editorial

History of a Crime In 1906, Upton Sinclair’s book “The Jungle” ignited a firestorm in the United States. A fictionalized account of the life of immigrant workers in the meatpacking industry in Chicago, it painted a sensationally accurate picture of conditions in the plants. Theodore Roosevelt “hit the White House roof” and invited Sinclair to come to Washington. The first food and drug laws were immediately passed, and the Food and Drug Administration soon followed.

The first commissioner of the FDA was Harvey Wiley, the head of the Department of Chemistry. Even before he took office, the food and drug manufacturers were trying to get rid of him. Their campaign failed to derail his appointment, but they continued their opposition, inventing scandals and undercutting him in every way possible. Ultimately, Wiley left the agency and went across the street to “Good Housekeeping” magazine. There he created the “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval,” which became the trusted gold standard for testing food and drug products for American consumers.

In 1929, Wiley wrote a memoir he called “The History of a Crime Against the Food Law: The Amazing Story of the National Food and Drugs Law Intended to Protect the Health of the People, Perverted to Protect Adulteration of Foods.”

Theodore Roosevelt, who appointed Wiley, was a Progressive and a conservationist. He championed a “Square Deal” for regular Americans and an end to the Gilded Age’s unfettered capitalism. The establishment of the regulatory system was one of the most important and lasting accomplishments of his presidency.

From its very beginning it was being undermined.

In 1982 George Stigler won the Nobel Prize in Economics, in large part for his work on “Regulatory Capture,” the phenomenon described by Wiley in his memoir, written more than 50 years before.

Today, under this “leadership,” virtually every regulatory agency is now headed by an individual who opposes its mission and has spent a good portion of their career trying to undermine its work.

And the conditions Sinclair described in “The Jungle” are being exposed again in the meatpacking plants as centers for the spread of COVID19, and the health threats to the “essential” but low paid workers trapped inside these horrific centers of contagion are once again sources of outrage for the American public.

When we talk about “systemic problems,” whether about race, economics, the environment or anything else, this is what we are referring to. After more than one hundred years of trying to “reform” predatory capitalism, it is clear that this is an impossible task. The problems have only become deeper and wider, and the need for systemic change more obvious.

This is no time for half measures, symbolic gestures, commissions or investigations.

The time for action is now.

Abraham Entin is a life-long activist for nonviolent social change, beginning in 1962 with the Civil Rights Movement. His memoir, “Living on the Fringe,” was published by Steiner in 2018.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Vote for LeGrand to expand Medicaid To the Editor: If the North Carolina General Assembly would expand Medicaid, more than 200,000 low income people would receive health care coverage and millions of job-creating dollars would flow into North Carolina.

Unfortunately, the Republicans running the show in Raleigh have put ideology ahead of health care and foolishly refuse to expand Medicaid. Fortunately, the chance of voting them out of office in November was increased when the North Carolina Supreme Court ordered that state legislative districts be modified to undo the Republicans’ unfair partisan gerrymandering.

Before redistricting, the 31st State Senate District

was staunchly Republican, but after redistricting, it is much more competitive. Now 34% of voters in the district are registered Democrats, 30% are unaffiliated and 36% are Republican.

The 31st State Senate District now covers eastern and southern Forsyth County and all of Davie County.

It includes Walkertown, Kernersville, Rural Hall, and most of Forsyth County east of US 52 and south of I-40.

Terri LeGrand is running as a Democrat to unseat the incumbent do-nothing Republican state senator.

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‘Da 5 Bloods’ and America abroad Oscar H. Blayton Guest Columnist I get an ache in my heart every time someone who learns that I am a Vietnam veteran, says “Thank you for your service.”

Even before I returned to the United States from my combat tour in Vietnam, I had decided that we were fighting an unjust war. More than 50 years later, watching Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods” set off my internal alarm bells, warning against African Americans blindly participating in U.S. foreign policy.

Lee’s latest movie is an excellent commentary on some of the complexities of the Vietnam War for African Americans, which he boils down to a single line spoken by a central character: “We fought in an immoral war that wasn’t ours … for rights that wasn’t ours.”

I am a big fan of Spike Lee, and “Da 5 Bloods” is among his best work, but the film points out how Black folk were victims of America’s foreign policy while understating our complicity in it. I do not fault Lee for this because this war was too broad in its social and political ramifications to fit into a single movie. But it omits two lessons Black folk should have learned from this painful bloodbath.

First, the American War in Vietnam was an attempt to maintain white supremacy in Southeast Asia. U.S. involvement in

that part of the world did not ramp up until after the Vietnamese had forced out their former colonial masters – the French.

Having abandoned Vietnam to Japanese invaders during World War II, France returned at the end of that war and demanded – with an outrageous sense of entitlement borne of white supremacy – that it be allowed to continue its rule. The bloodied and proud Vietnamese, who had engineered their own resistance to the Japanese, were having none of it.

After the Vietnamese rid themselves of the French in 1954 at the cost of many more lives, the United States – in its role as the Chicken Little of anti-communism – raised the alarm that the sky was falling. Self-proclaimed “foreign policy experts” in the United States warned that Southeast Asian countries would fall like dominos if communists were allowed to gain control of all of Vietnam. North Korea had securely established itself as a communist nation a decade earlier and foreign policy advisors in Washington reasoned that preventing the spread of communism was in America’s national interest.

When we make a critical examination of Vietnam today, we see a trading partner of the United States and a respected member of the global community. We see economic and social progress under a communist government that exposes the lies of American demagogues who, foaming at the mouth, protested the rise of communism.

In the late 1950s and

early 1960, with Blacks being murdered with impunity and denied basic constitutional rights in America, the U.S. government chose instead to focus on the “rights” of people half a world away. But “freedom” was not what Washington was seeking to establish in Southeast Asia; it was “compliance.”

The United States wanted to bend that part of the world to its will – a world order based upon white supremacy.

If one ignores the rhetoric and examines America’s actions toward Africa, Asia and South America, the evidence is clear that white supremacy has driven U.S. foreign policy throughout its post-World War II history.

Secondly, African Americans have been complicit in U.S. aggressions toward people of color around the world. Handicapped by the blindfold of anti-communist rhetoric, Black folk have too often been enablers in America’s efforts to keep whiteness perched upon its global pedestal. Even those of us who knew that Washington’s anti-Communist zeal made no sense, particularly as it related to Africa and South America, did not make the connection between U.S. foreign policy and white supremacy.

It was not the rise of communism that these demagogues feared; it was the loss of white privilege around the world. In the 1960s, the newly emergent African nations were being successfully oppressed by a network of political, economic and military resources that put a lid on any threat to white

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supremacy from the “Dark Continent.” But with the rise of the People’s Republic of China and the defeat of the French in Vietnam, the white supremacy lid was coming off of Asia.

Revisiting the American War in Vietnam, we see one aspect of America’s attempt to maintain global domination by white supremacy and we see our complicity in this effort. It is not enough for Black folk to plead innocence as draftees just trying to make it back to the “World” alive. We must own our part in the oppression of others.

Attempts to deny our complicity in spreading misery around the globe in support of white supremacy is not unlike Confederate sympathizers refusing to acknowledge that the underlying cause of the Civil War was the preservation of slavery, not the noble South.

As Confederate statues finally come tumbling down, African Americans are asking, “Why has it taken so long? There was no just cause. There was no noble South.” By that same measure, we must ask ourselves, “What was the true cause and where was the nobility of America’s involvement in Vietnam?”

Not only must we ask ourselves these questions about Vietnam, we must continue to ask these types of questions about all of America’s foreign policies.

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

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It’s time for America to talk about our racial issues Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.

Guest Columnist

I grew up in a neighborhood where we talked about a lot of things.

Sometimes it became uncomfortable, but we got through it.

We got through it because we cared about each other. We loved and respected the people on our block and in our community.

Now America is in an uncomfortable position.

Why? Because we must communicate, open up and be honest about the racial climate in the United

States of America.

Race is a sensitive topic and we cannot hide from it. It is staring us in the face. We must unsilence our voices. Not to do so will only make the problem worse.

As citizens, we have been wading in racial waters for a long time, in fact too long. Prior to even the Civil Rights Movement, Blacks and whites have had dialogues about race.

With time being an ally, they started, sometimes continued and sometimes were postponed.

Those involved did their best to give hope to our country.

In the meantime, racism did not stop. It was like a wound exposed with no doctor in sight. It just festered. We lamented the fact that racism was still exploding in all facets of

American life.

Then came the tragic killing of George Floyd in front of our very eyes.

Our sense of fairness and equality was shaken. Only this time, it hit rock bottom.

The inescapable truth is that much of America is still separate and woefully unequal. Wherever we look, this nation’s systems have fallen short. Equal protection under the law is an axiom that has little meaning to Black people.

These are words on paper without equal application.

Now, there seems to be an awakening of some kind.

People who do not look like me have come out of their shells. For example, CBS network recently televised the BET Awards in prime time no less.

When I initially saw

it advertised, I thought it was just my imagination running away with me. As a major enterprise, CBS could no longer remain silent. The executives there had to act. Let us see what else they do.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, donated $120 million to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Hastings said, “It made us realize that our part of this, to have America be the country we all want it to be, was to focus on education.”

This gift was the largest gift given to Black schools. Reports say that 20% of Black people 25 years and older have a bachelor’s degree. This compares to 40% of white people with a bachelor’s degree.

Silence is no longer an option. If you have been on mute about race, you must un-mute yourself and speak up and speak out.

All of us must begin to talk more to each other. It is only then that we can get to the healing part of our long racial suffering.

Conversations about race must happen more often and be more intentional and comprehensive.

Apprehension must give way to participation; fear must give way to faith and reticence must give way to respect.

These conversations must begin in our workplaces, classrooms, places of worship and in our homes. These dialogues at times will be all Black, all white, and sometimes Black and white.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Our lives begin to end when we become silent about things that matter.” Those sentiments were true then and they are true now.

There is a hard reality facing us. We may never have this type of opportunity again. We must seize this moment. We have a chance to change. We cannot go back.

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 allconference for four years.

He is a retired college administrator. He can be reached at ewers.jr56@ yahoo.com

Organized crime vs. disorganized criminals Dr. Tom H. Hastings

Guest Columnist

During the uprising following the brutal filmed murder of George Floyd

by Minneapolis police, Trump called some of the rioters thugs and tweeted that “when the looting starts the shooting starts.”

Yes, those pikers broke some windows and stole some diapers, some got detergent, one man had a carton of eggs and a young man stole a backpack.

These rioters were very

disorganized criminals.

Meanwhile, organized crime carried on as usual, figuring out how to use punked legislators to enrich the wealthy even more at the direct expense of everyone who pays taxes.

The coronavirus bailout funds went in dribs and drabs to some average Americans. I was lucky enough to get $800 and many people I know have gotten nothing. Meanwhile, Trump’s family businesses and his close associates received more than $21 million and many other wealthy people got huge checks from the “CARES” Act. This is organized crime.

Part of the reason Trump was elected in the

first place was a scam by Trump crony Roger Stone and Wikileaks and the Russian intelligence operations to steal and make a big “Lock her up!” deal about Hillary Clinton’s emails. Of course that was ultimately a series of false claims, a nothingburger that continues to be quashed in courts when it reappears in rightwing zombie acts of endless harassment.

As a result of his actions, Stone was convicted in court of seven felonies, all of which related to helping Trump steal the 2016 election.

Stealing the U.S. presidency? Now that is organized crime.

Getting a big assist from the real crime lords

at the Russian GRU intelligence agency, getting the cooperation of the sloppy data thieves at Wikileaks, that is a planned master criminal enterprise.

With the mob boss in the White House wielding a pardon pen, the circle is complete as Trump commutes the Stone sentences and pardons Flynn. Sorry, Mafia, you guys are amateurs compared to Trump, Stone, Flynn, Mitch McConnell, and the crew at the top. Gangsters and thieves everywhere should be taking notes.

During the workup to the Republican tax cut bill back when Trump had all branches of government doing his bidding, we heard lots of empty promises about lowered taxes,

no impact on the deficit, and increased investment in U.S. manufacturing.

Yeah, no.

The House Budget Committee assessed the losses to the American workers and middle class alongside the massive gains for the wealthy as the tax law went into effect and really, that is seriously organized crime, looting from the taxes collected from working Americans at stunning levels.

Is this what America wants? Thugs in the White House and Senate? Because that is who are in those places now. A catalog of crimes committed

by Trump and associates is thick and growing by the day. It’s governance by gaslighting and ruling by

lawlessness.

I hope we can get just and correctional about all this in November. Instead of “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” I hope we can vote in much better. “When the stealing ends, the healing mends,” feels like a better model.

Breaking windows and ripping off cleaning products is beyond stupid but, after all, we only see such riots every 40 or 50 years, while the real looters, the ones in charge, are ripping you off every damned day.

Dr. Tom H. Hastings is PeaceVoice director and on occasion an expert witness for the defense in court.

People in poverty want some joy, too John Ralley Guest Columnist For Winston-Salem State University psychology professor Michele Lewis, two recent news stories were jarring, one about officials shutting down The Wharf, a popular outside seafood market in Washington, D.C., because patrons were not practicing social distancing, another about Los Angeles police breaking up a backyard birthday party for a child in a modest neighborhood.

Both photos showed large numbers of African Americans. Those continuing to gather include some of low financial resources.

Online commenters on the news stories said how bad it was that the people were not following the health rules. While Lewis felt this was troubling from a health perspective,

she also felt that the photos showed people experiencing joy by coming together, an experience that may be especially important to them now as pressures of living in poverty mount even more during the pandemic. Black people, she said, are of collectivist cultures, meaning “I am because we are.”

“I think a lot of people forget people in poverty want to feel good, too,” she said. “People outside might want to judge and say, ‘They don’t care about the virus.’ It’s not that. You want to feel some joy, whether you have $20 in your pocket or $2. People are doing things that bring a boost of pleasure to the brain, and being together brings pleasure at minimal financial expense.”

Lewis, an associate professor in the department of psychological sciences, studies the biopsycho-social effects of poverty. As a 2017-18 Fellow at WSSU’s Center for the Study of Economic

Mobility (CSEM), she explored whether optimal decision-making and motivation are compromised by poverty. During the summer of 2018, she and student researchers met weekly with 11 Black women experiencing poverty, most of whom were residents of East Winston.

Regarding the women, Lewis highlighted just how intense the pressures of decision-making are in poverty. The pandemic has increased those pressures.

Anecdotally, Lewis said, she knows of African Americans gathering for family cookouts, birthdays and other events during COVID. “There’s psychological and spiritual healing that comes from this being together as one,” Lewis said. “People in poverty are no different from anyone else in wanting to experience joy, but they do it in a way that is affordable and familiar to them. Instead of harshly judging these decisions, this should be understood.

“Frontline workers who are African American are driving buses [in the pandemic]. They’re still cleaning buildings.

They’re still cooking. If you’re collectivist in your cultural inclination, being with your closest friends and family is going to remain important. This is social selectivity rather than social distancing.”

She hopes to build on the work she started with the women in East Winston. “For the women, their family and their children, in particular, were ongoing sources of motivation and wellness for them. Repeatedly, the women referred to their strength coming from their children. They wanted to do things to benefit their community, and the kids coming after them.”

The sense of collectivism is a source of strength in dealing with the pressures of poverty. As one example, Lewis said the women she worked with “were very irritated by

folks commenting on why they would want to have an iPhone if they are challenged by poverty.”

“What is it about living in poverty that reduces other people’s ability to see them as human and wanting technologies that others enjoy?” she asked.

The women strategized daily about how to stretch their limited dollars. “It’s very taxing on the brain,” Lewis said. “Everyone has to make decisions daily involving money. But depending on your social class, the way you do it is different.” For example, she said, parents might want to give their child a birthday party, even if that cost means a late payment on a bill. The priority is on bringing joy to the child, the same as upper-middleclass parents want to do.

“COVID has added yet another layer of stress to the brain’s decision-making and executive-functioning,” she said. “Just imagine what is happening to families of low resourc-

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es who’ve already been stressed out, who don’t have the luxury of working from home … The way we people of different social classes strategize about money is different.

It shouldn’t be regarded as better or worse. It should be regarded as just different.”

The pandemic has underscored inequities in transportation, childcare and education. Lewis believes that policymakers should support policies and programs that bring assistance in the area of psycho-spiritual wellness, so that healthy-togetherness initiatives can be funded as important forms of coping.

It is also, she said, “very important not to dehumanize, in our minds, people in poverty.”

John Railey is the writer-in-residence at CSEM. He can reached at raileyjb@gmail.com. To learn more about CSEM, go to www.wssu.edu/csem.

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Tabitha Brown is ‘America’s Mom’ and the face of the vegan community

BY BUSTA BROWN FOR THE CHRONICLE

By now, everyone in America is singing the praises of America’s new mom and the face of the vegan community, Tabitha Brown. America adores Tabitha’s Southern hospitality, delicious recipes, and her cooking show whose slogan is “Hey honey! Come on in the room.”

Tabitha Brown was born and raised in Eden, N.C., but later moved to Los Angeles, Calif., to pursue an acting career.

Within a year, she and her husband Chance moved back to North Carolina.

She’s an actress, YouTube and TikTok sensation, and the number one vegan influencer in America.

So, how did she become America’s mom and the “new” Claire Huxtable?

Her journey began when she and Chance returned from California and her dream of becoming an actress had faded.

One morning she had an encounter with God. That encounter kicked off a true testament of unwavering faith and patience.

“I’ve done interview after interview, and I’ve told the same story for the last three years. Busta, you are the biggest part of my beginning. The Busta Brown TV Show is literally what God woke me up to. My husband and I lived in California in 1998, and he said, this doesn’t make any sense to stay here. This lady is robbing us of our money and we’re nowhere near Hollywood. We need to go back to North Carolina for a year so we can save up some money and then move to Los Ange-

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Tabitha Brown, actress and number one vegan influencer in America. les, so you can pursue your acting,” said Tabitha.

That one year turned into five years. “We had a baby, got married, we started working, and a lot of new responsibilities came along. I forgot to dream. I literally convinced myself that I had to give up my dreams. It was that small-town mentality. I remember one morning God shook my bed and woke me up. When I woke up, I heard a voice that sounded like thunder!

And it said, ‘This is not the life I planned for you.’

It scared me! I had never heard that voice before, and I got on my knees and begin to pray. I asked God, if this is you speaking to me, please show me a sign today, because if not, I think I’m going crazy,” the famous mom said.

She shared this experience with her husband Chance “and he thought I was crazy. And then later that day we go the mall.

And while we’re in the car, you came on the radio and said, ‘Hey ya’ll, this

is Busta Brown and I have a new TV show and I’m looking for a female cohost.’ And I almost tore the inside of my car up. And then I told Chance, ‘That’s my sign.’ I asked God to show me a sign today and then you came on the radio and said that. And I knew I had to go to the audition,” she said with excitement.

I remember that day myself, very well! At that point in my radio and TV career, I had interviewed everyone from Luther Vandross, Magic Johnson, TLC, Jay-Z, Beyonce’, P Diddy, Biggie and more. So, I wanted to teach someone else how to do celebrity interviews and then pass the torch to them. I lost that excitement doing backstage interviews because after hosting the concerts, I was burned out. The day of the auditions, Tabitha walked into the restaurant where we taped the show and the entire staff were blown away by her vibe and natural beauty. We knew right away she was the one!

Tabitha shared her story of how that moment changed her life: “I remember coming to the audition, I saw all these girls and was like … oh, man! I had never done an audition for anything. The fact that I booked that, you became a part of a moment that God said ‘It’s OK to dream again. This is what you need.’ You taught me how to produce my own segments and I was like this is crazy … I’m interviewing LL Cool J! Just months prior, I couldn’t have fathomed any of that, but you woke something up inside me. You are a large part of my story, and my life would not be the same without Busta Brown. I get emotional when I tell that story, because there is no journey of mine without you in it, and I love you, Busta,” she said while crying.

I cried as well, and then shared with her how I had recently lost my confidence and love for radio.

I didn’t have the strength or confidence to even do a podcast. I felt like no one wanted to hear Busta Brown if I’m not on 102 Jamz or 97.1. Then one night I texted Tabitha to congratulate her on all of the amazing things that were happening for her.

Ellen Degeneres’ digital network picked up her super popular YouTube and Facebook cooking show, “A Taste with Tab.” After I congratulated Tab, I shared my battle with depression and loss of confidence. She gave me one of Tabitha Brown’s sweet and powerful words of encouragement that her nearly 5 million followers on TikTok and YouTube tune in

to see daily. It changed my life! I now have a podcast on Spotify, Anchor and YouTube called Positive Vibes with Busta Brown.

I told Tabitha how much I appreciate and love her a ton.

The world is becoming a much better place because of Tabitha Brown.

The hate and division in our world today cause so much unbalance spiritually, physically and even financially. I truly believe that God has sent Tabitha Brown to be the balance of love and peace that’s needed in the world today, because love and peace are the only ways to equalize and mend this broken and unbalanced world.

Tabitha’s road to becoming America’s mom, a successful actress and the number one world renown vegan influencer, wasn’t a smooth ride. Her mother lost her battle with ALS at 51, and her 68-year-old father is the oldest male alive in her family. I asked Tabitha what memory of her mom gives her strength during her time of need?

“When my mom was sick, we had her hospital bed put into her bedroom. During her last year, she was on a ventilator. When I would stay with her, I slept in her regular bed, which was at the foot of the hospital bed. I had to wake her up to check her suction and make sure everything was OK. I remember I woke up at 3 a.m. and my mom was glowing and crying. And she had the biggest smile on her face.”

The social media superstar has the sweetest, softest, Southern accent, and it’ll put you in a trance as she speaks. It reminds

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me of Lena Horne. I love it! She continued, “I said ‘Mama, it’s 3 a.m., what in the world are you doing up?’ She said, ‘God just showed me what he’s going to do in your life. It is going to be amazing.’”

What her mom said next took Tabitha by storm, because she and her husband hadn’t planned for it. She also shared her personal battle with a headache that had lasted a year and seven months for which doctors couldn’t find a cure. “It caused some serious nerve damage and shut down my lady parts. The doctors gave me all kinds of medicines that didn’t work.

They made things worse.

One day I saw the documentary ‘What the health.’

When they mentioned that all diseases aren’t hereditary, that was like a light bulb to me,” said Tabitha.

Then she shared the common denominator that connected her family to all the different diseases.

You can see the rest of my interview with America’s new mom on my YouTube channel, “Positive Vibes with Busta Brown,” or you can listen on Spotify, Soundcloud and Anchor. Tabitha Brown also shares her battle with depression, the magic of a successful, healthy and happy marriage, life as a famous mom and wife, and what cure saved and changed her life forever.

It was wonderful catching up and reminiscing with my dear friend and phenomenal Person of the Week. For more info or to contact Tabitha, visit iamtabithabrowm.com.

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NFL will play Black National Anthem at games

BY STACY M. BROWN NNPA NEWSWIRE SENIOR

Sports Columnist

Redskins name under attack Over the last decade there have been several instances where the Washington Redskins have been called out for their alleged insensitive name. Majority owner Dan Snyder has held steadfast throughout that time that he would not change the name of the team. Fast forward to the summer of 2020 and now a name change seems imminent.

The debate over the Redskins’ name has been around since the 1960s.

With the social climate of the country becoming more and more politically correct, this was the perfect storm for those who oppose the Redskins name to push for a change. Admittedly this is a touchy subject for me, because I have been a diehard Redskins fan since I was a child.

But the writing is on the wall now that sponsors have started to pull sponsorships, along with stores and websites pulling the Washington merchandise off their shelves and sites. I guess once the bottom line starts to become affected, then change begins to happen.

Being an African American male, I can see where people are coming from when they say the name Redskins is offensive. I know for a fact I would be against any team being called the brownskins, whiteskins or yellowskins, so I understand where the Native American community is coming from.

Earlier this month Washington announced the franchise will review the team’s name. There was no timetable for findings from the review, but head coach Ron Rivera said it “would be awesome” if the name change came before the 2020 season. Up to this point, Native American groups say they have not heard from the team.

The negative press has gotten so bad that the minority owners of the team are looking to sell their stakes in the team. Snyder has fought this fight long enough and now I think he realizes he does not have any other option now.

The thing that has me torn about the name change is the opposing views from different Native American groups. Some of the groups feel that the name is racist, while others think the name represents the Native American culture. But I guess if it’s offensive to even a small minority of the population, that should be enough to change the name, even if the majority of that group does not See Redskins on B5

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When Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the playing of the national anthem to bring awareness to social and other injustices faced regularly by Black and brown individuals in America, the National Football League, President Donald Trump, and others wrongly associated the quarterback’s actions as a protest against the U.S. flag and the nation’s military.

In the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd, protests and demonstrations have awakened America and most of the world to the plight of African Americans who long have suffered injustice, inequality, and an overall lack of understanding.

The NFL remains at the forefront of the new understanding and now they’ve taken that knowledge and, in an unprecedented decision, the league announced it would play “Lift Every Voice and Sing” – the

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Black National Anthem – before every opening day game this year.

The performance of the song will occur before “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the NFL said. The league’s season opener is scheduled for Sept.

10, with the Kansas City Chiefs hosting the Houston Texans.

“The league taking the opportunity to play “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (the Black national anthem) is sweet. It’s a great way to honor those who started this movement years and years ago,” tweeted Jack-

sonville Jaguars wide receiver Chris Conley.

“For those who aren’t familiar with it, this song seeks to remind us of our past as a country and to strive to be better. It speaks to all of us, not just Black people, even tho it became a rallying cry for Blacks in the Jim Crow era. It is a beautiful message birthed from pain,” Conley added.

“To those claiming the song is derisive, I ask, which part? Much like America the Beautiful is played to honor, this song is the same. It isn’t for “just Black people,” it’s

for all who acknowledge the past and press toward a better future.”

As noted in Sports Illustrated, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has an extensive history since its first inception as a poem in 1899.

According to the NAACP, its lyrics were penned by writer and NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (a Jacksonville native). It was eventually adopted for music by his brother, John Rosamond Johnson. Years later, it was adopted by the NAACP as the organization’s official song.

According to the

NAACP, the song was first performed in Jacksonville at a school where James Weldon Johnson was the principal. As part of a celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday on February 12, 1900, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was publicly performed by 500 school children at the Stanton School.

The NFL has recently acknowledged it was wrong in how it handled Kaepernick, who has mostly been blackballed from the game. Commissioner Roger Goodell has said he would now encourage teams to sign the former Super Bowl quarterback.

Because Goodell has reversed course and said he would allow kneeling, the league came under enormous criticism from President Donald Trump, who now is calling for a boycott of the NFL. Sen. Ted Cruz called the decision to play the Black National Anthem “asinine,” further fueling racial tensions that have already boiled over since the Floyd killing.

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On June 24, the Piedmont University Board of Trustees voted to change the university’s name from Piedmont International University to Carolina University. “[The name] Carolina University is compelling for several reasons,” shared President Dr. Petitt. “First, it just beautifully rolls off the tongue, and the more you say it, the sweeter it sounds. Second, it is a big, powerful, bold name that feels truly aspirational. It is not a name to grow out of but a name that the university is growing into with strong enrollment growth, numerous new degree programs, etc. Third, Carolina plays very well in marketing and recruiting across the country and around the world. Market research across several countries on multiple continents yielded

the same results. ‘Carolina’ and ‘North Carolina’ evoke affirmative connotations, and many reference the same three positive things when they hear it: Michael Jordan, First in Flight, and quality higher education.

That is why over 20 colleges and universities include Carolina in their names. Of the most significant names that PIU leaders tested over the past year, the only one that unanimously resonated in every single market

was Carolina University.”

With the university’s name change, athletics will keep the Bruins as our current mascot. Over the next year, the university will transition into our new name by rebranding our

facilities, uniforms, and equipment.

If you would like to assist the Carolina Bruins financially during this transition, please visit piubruinclub.com.

A&T Aggie baseball team named MEAC best team by D1Baseball EAST GREENSBORO – The North Carolina A&T Aggie baseball team has been named the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s (MEAC) best team by D1Baseball. The Aggies

were 7-10 when the season was cut short due to the coronavirus outbreak.

After starting off 2-7, the Aggies won five of their final eight games, including a 3-0 homes-

tand with two huge wins over Power-5 foe Boston College and another over Fairfield. The BC victories marked the second-straight season A&T has taken down a Power-5 opponent

after beating South Carolina in Columbia, S.C., last March, 2-0.

The Aggies were arguably the most consistent team in the conference ranking third in team batting average (.251), third in team earned run average (4.60), and first in team fielding (.979). The Aggies were the only team in the top three of each category.

A&T committed just 13 errors over the course of the season. Delaware State was the only team with less (10), but played five fewer games than the Aggies.

A&T was in the top tier of the conference individually as well. Senior outfielder Camden Williamson had one of the highest batting averages in the league at .328. The senior was also fifth in total hits (20), including his 16-game hitting streak that Submitted photo was still active at season’s Outfielder Camden Williamson had one of the highest batting averages in the league end. Williamson also came at .328. in fifth in total bases with

29. Fellow senior Dustin Baber was second in the league in runs batted in (RBI) with 14.

The Aggie pitching staff shined yet again.

Seniors Ethan Chavis (2.70) and Michael Johnson (2.77) were sixth and seventh in the conference in ERA, respectively.

Chavis was also fourth in the league with 25 strikeouts, tied with the Aggies’ senior closer Evan Gates.

Chavis earned MEAC Pitcher of the Week honors after his opening weekend start against George Mason where he tossed five scoreless innings, allowing just four hits with four strikeouts, earning the win.

All the above-mentioned players and more will be returning for the Aggies in 2021 since the NCAA ruled that spring sport seniors may retain their final year of eligibility due to the shortened 2020 season.

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“Always Rejoice!” theme for Jehovah’s Witnesses convention to be held via streaming platform July in-person events in Winston-Salem were cancelled in April

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Sunday School Lesson

The Wisdom of Jesus Scriptures: Mark 6:1-6 By the end of this lesson, we will: *Identify the reason or reasons the people of Nazareth could not accept the wisdom of Jesus; *Repent of the occasions when Jesus’ words made us feel offended instead of accepting them as wisdom; *Commit to accepting the words of Jesus even when they challenge us.

Background: The Book of Mark gets to the fundamental facts about Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. In the lesson it is worth noting that Jesus has been away from Nazareth for at least a year. His last visit ended with him being evicted from the synagogue and thrown out of the city (Luke 4:16-30). The lesson this week, though not noted as such, is an act of grace – a second chance for Nazareth to hear and believe.

Lesson: Jesus has been teaching and healing, chapter five of Mark alone tells of demons cast out of swine, the daughter of Jairus raised from the dead, and the woman with the issue of blood being healed. Following this string of events and others, Jesus decides to return to Nazareth, not on a family visit, but for ministry.

Jesus doesn’t just start teaching in the streets, he waits and teaches on the Sabbath in the synagogue. Those in attendance were truly amazed at his teaching, but still there were critical remarks and skepticism. The people had evidently already heard of his healing and teaching and miracles judging by their questions. “Where did this man get these things? … What is this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing?” Amazement seeded with doubt “… was this really of God?” (verses 1-2). To them this was the same Jesus who grew up with them, the carpenter’s son, an ordinary person just like them. They referred to him as “Mary’s son” rather than the “son of Joseph.”

This reference has two possible implications: the more charitable one of the two is that Joseph has already died, so “Mary’s son.” The less charitable one implies that Joseph was not really his father. To add to their argument, they referred to Jesus’ brothers and sisters “ … the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” Making the point that they were certainly ordinary and they too did not recognize Jesus as being the Messiah or a prophet. (Though later James is converted and pens the Book of James and his brother Judas is the author of the Book of Jude). But here in Nazareth, at this moment in time, the people not only don’t believe in him, but are offended at Jesus being touted as this great teacher. They knew his background to be just ordinary. He had limited formal education and he did not have an officially sanctioned religious position (verse 3). Jesus’ response was, all you see is the carpenter’s son. “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.” Rejection again! Though Jesus laid hands on a few sick people and they were healed, He was amazed at the unbelief of the people even when they knew of his works. “He could do no miracles there.” This is Jesus’ decision and a clear example of where there is no faith, miracles cannot occur. Jesus of course had the power to do more miracles, but not the will, because they rejected him. Miracles belonged among those who were ready to believe. Nazareth was not there yet. Faith should have been their response in Nazareth. How do you know all about Jesus and reject him? (verse 6). Jesus left Nazareth and made visits teaching in other villages in Galilee.

(The Modern Life Study Bible, The MacArthur Study Bible, The Jesus Bible, The Oxford Bible Commentary and the UMI Annual Commentary 2019 -2020).

For Your Consideration: Do you believe that unbelief is a hindrance of miracles?

Application: How can we reject the Savior? Oh, you don’t? What about when you are offended by the message (His Word) from your pastor - that convicting message, or perhaps the spouse who confronts lovingly, or maybe the friend who challenges us or holds us accountable? God’s Word in these instances are sometimes rejected, when what we should do is embrace God’s Word, recognizing that the source is actually a vessel that God is using. The people of Nazareth could not or did not accept God’s Word, but we are much more informed now.

We have access to God’s Word in many forms – read it, pray and seek Him. Rejection is really not an option, not when it comes to the Word of God and redemption.

In a world where achieving a state of sustained joy may seem elusive—even impossible—for many, millions of Jehovah’s Witnesses and their invited guests in some 240 lands will “attend” a global convention this summer with the theme “Always Rejoice!”

For the first time in their history of holding conventions, Jehovah’s Witnesses have moved this highly anticipated annual event to a streaming platform. Congregations, families, and guests will view the program during July and August 2020. Typically, these conventions are held in stadiums, arenas, conference halls, and smaller gathering places around the world.

Locally, the convention was scheduled to be held July 10-12 & July 17-19 at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winton-Salem, where 18,000 were expected to attend. The convention was cancelled in April 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Our worship is centered on our mutual love for our God and for each other, irrespective of where we are physically,” said Robert Hendriks, U.S. spokesman for Jehovah’s Witnesses. “This year’s convention program underscores the unity of our international family and the joy that people can have against a backdrop of stress and despair.”

The two Christian principles guiding the Witnesses’ historic decision are respect for the sanctity of life and love of neigh-

bor. “As much as we long to meet together, life is far too precious to put at risk,” said Hendriks. “The virtual meetings we have held over the past four months have proved to all of us that it’s not about where we are physically, it’s about where we are spiritually. In many ways we are closer as a spiritual family than ever before.”

The program is to be released in six installments, each corresponding to a morning or afternoon session of what would have been three successive convention days. Many congregations and families viewed the first convention session during the weekend of July 11-12. The final weekend of the virtual

event is scheduled for August 29-30.

The program explores questions like: What contributes to finding and sustaining joy? How can you cultivate joy in the family?

How can you remain joyful in difficult times? A key feature will be a Biblebased drama that considers the life of Nehemiah and how he helped the ancient nation of Israel find joy in their worship of God. Those interested in viewing the convention can contact their local congregation or access the program on jw.org, available under the “Library” tab. There is no charge for viewing the convention.

A highlight of the annual convention of Jeho-

vah’s Witnesses is the live baptism that usually happens during the Saturday program. In 2020, local arrangements will be made to baptize all candidates in a dignified and safe environment, streaming it live to family friends.

Each year many who are not Jehovah’s Witnesses attend the annual conventions. There are more than 8.6 million active Witnesses worldwide, yet the 2019 conventions had a peak attendance of more than 14 million. With the program available online in hundreds of languages, this may be the most attended convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses to date.

The Return: Global Day of Repentance and Prayer to be held on Sept. 26 SUBMITTED ARTICLE

Many people around the nation believe that America has been given a critical window of opportunity to repent and return to God. Especially now, millions worldwide have turned to prayer during one of the most challenging times in recent history.

To that end, thousands will gather on the Washington Mall to participate in a movement called “The Return” set for Sept. 26 in Washington, D.C., to pray for the sake of our nation and its people.

For more information, visit www.thereturn.org.

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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 Tuesday and Thursday from noon until 1 p.m. at the church’s location. For more information, call 336-7229841.

Now – July 31 Virtual summer program Guiding Institute for Developmental Education (GIDE) and other community partners are hosting a free, virtual Summer Scholars Program. This FREE online program can help the children (ages K-12) improve their

reading skills and simultaneously learn about Black history and culture. From July 1 through July 31, twice a week, participants will read culturally affirming books such as “Skin Like Mine” and “I, Too Am America” with WSFCS teachers, teaching assistants and trained college interns.

Not only is this online program FREE, but each student will receive weekly gift card prizes for participation! The only requirement is that students have a laptop or desktop with Internet access. There is space for 500 to 1000 students to participate and registration is taking place now. For more information or to register go to guidinginstitute.org or call 336-549-5164.

July 19 First Waughtown Baptist Church - Live Stream Senior Pastor Dr. Dennis W. Bishop will deliver a message on putting God’s grace on display through evangelism at 10 a.m. Sunday, July 19. He will be preaching

and teaching from Luke 5. Please join us on Facebook Live, https://www.facebook.com/FirstWaughtown/ or the First Waughtown website, https://www.firstwaughtown.org and click on MEDIA. July 19 Live Stream services Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4055 Robinhood Road, will live stream its 10:30 a.m. Sunday service at https://uufws.org/virtual-Sunday-service. Reverend Valerie Freedman, from First Universalist Church in Southold, NY, will speak about communicating well with one another. All visitors welcome. The 8:45 a.m. Forum will live stream at https://uufws.org/virtual-forum. Norma Jean Wilkes, daughter of inventor Donald Wilkes, will describe her father’s creative process and its impact on her creativity. For information about the UU Fellowship and events during the week, please visit uufws.org.

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Community Calendar Please call ahead to make sure your event is still happening. We will post cancellations/postponements announcements when received.

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

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

NOW – Girl Scouts on Facebook Live Every Monday through Friday at 11 a.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. and on Saturdays at 11 a.m., Girl Scouts and anyone who is interested can tune into Facebook Live workshops with topics ranging anywhere from STEM and gardening to life skills and family game night. They even host a weekly campfire on Thursday evenings.

To receive information for these newly forming troops, families can visit www.BeAGirlScout.org/ connect. There will be specific troop times for each girl grade level.

For more information about virtual Girl Scout opportunities or to learn more about Girl Scouting in your community, please visit www.girlscoutsp2p. org. Questions about virtual programming can also be directed to info@ girlscoutsp2p.org or 800672-2148.

July 23 – Medicare workshop The Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem

is offering an online workshop for individuals turning 65 (as well as those who already have Medicare) to learn about the different insurance options available.

The session will be held on Thursday, July 23, from 3 - 4:30 p.m. through computer and telephone access. The session is provided at no cost. Because space is limited, reservations are required. Contact the Shepherd’s Center at 336-748-0217 or Info@ shepherdscenter.org for more information or to reserve a “seat.”

July 30 – “It’s All About You” It’s All About You! Family caregivers are invited to join other caregivers for a Virtual Ice Cream Social on July 30 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Grab a bowl of ice cream, meet other caregivers online, learn about the littleknown health benefits of this favorite summer treat, and enjoy some informal conversation and reminiscing. The first 10 caregivers who sign up and attend will receive a gift certificate from a local ice cream shop. Deadline for registration is July 27. For more information or to register, call 336748-0217. Sponsored by The Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem, ComForCare Home Care, and Trinity Presbyterian Church.

Here are online Bookmarks events for the month of July Contact: info@bookmarksnc.org URL for info on all events: https://www.

bookmarksnc.org/calendar

a virtual event.

July 16 at 7 p.m.

Reader Meet Writer: “All the Songs We Sing” This is a series sponsored and run by SIBA - the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance.

Bookmarks is hosting this particular event with Lenard Moore and the contributors for “All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective” for free. To register, email info@bookmarksnc. org. This is a virtual event.

July 18 at 10:30 a.m.

Bookmarks presents Yoga Storytime Join us for children’s storytime with Stephany McMillan from Rise and Flow Yoga as she flows with us through story.

Please email youth@ bookmarksnc.org to register for this virtual free event. This is a Summer Reading Program event recommended for kids ages 3-10.

July 19 at 4 p.m.

LGBTQ Book Club Join us to discuss Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett. All are welcome. Email info@ bookmarksnc.org to register.

July 21 at 5 p.m.

Reader Meet Writer: Kristin Harmel This is a series sponsored and run by SIBA - the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance.

Bookmarks is hosting this particular event with Kristin Harmel for free.

To register, email info@ bookmarksnc.org. This is

July 22 at 6 p.m.

Well-Read Black Girl Book Club Our Well-Read Black Girl Book Club discussions will always be hosted by women of color, but people of all colors and genders who would like to reflect upon the reading and writing of women of color are welcome. This month, we will be discussing “So We Can Glow” a short story collection by Leesa Cross-Smith. Visit bookmarksnc.org/wrbg for details.

July 23 at 6:30 p.m.

Romance Book Club Join us to discuss “A Sweet Mess” by Jayci Lee. The author will be participating in the event! All are welcome. This club is currently meeting virtually. Register by e-mailing beth@bookmarksnc.org.

July 27 at 7 p.m.

Book Trivia Join us for our monthly book trivia with Caleb!

Email caleb@bookmarksnc.org to register.

July 28 at 5 p.m.

Reader Meet Writer: S. A. Cosby This is a series sponsored and run by SIBA - the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance.

Bookmarks is hosting this particular event with S. A. Cosby and his book Black Top Wasteland for free.

To register, email info@ bookmarksnc.org. This is a virtual event.

July 28 at 6:30 p.m.

Bookmarks Book Club Join us to discuss

“Normal People” by Sally Rooney. All are welcome.

Questions: email Jamie@ bookmarksnc.org.

This club is currently meeting virtually.

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July 29 at 7 p.m.

Murder & Margari-

Join us for a fun new mystery series: Murder & Margaritas. Each event will feature a mystery author in conversation with another author to discuss their new book. Esme Addison’s new novel is “A Spell for Trouble.” For details and to register: https:// www.bookmarksnc.org/ event/murder-margaritasesme-addison July 31 at 7 p.m.

Harry Potter Trivia Join us as we celebrate Harry Potter’s birthday with a special trivia game to be held on youtube live. All are welcome, but please note questions will be aimed at ages 12+.

To register, please email info@bookmarksnc.org.

Canceled events: Aug. 27-29 – Used book sale - Canceled The Shepherd’s Center of Greater WinstonSalem’s 33rd Annual Used Book Sale scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 27, and Friday, Aug. 28, and Saturday, Aug. 29, at the fairgrounds has been canceled.

2020 Summer Music Series - Canceled The Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership has canceled the 2020 Summer Music Series that consists of Downtown Jazz on Friday nights and

Summer on Liberty on Saturday nights. We plan on returning to the event in the summer of 2021.

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Notice to All Historically underutilized businesses, i.e. minorities, Disabled persons and women owned and operated businesses BID INVITATION FOR Lewisville Community Center Lewisville, NC Hickory Construction Company, Hickory, NC is seeking subcontractors for Selective Site Demolition, Concrete, Unit Masonry, Metals, Thermal & Moisture Protection, Openings, Finishes, Specialties, Projection Screens, Faux Wood Blinds, Window Shades Quartz Countertops, Fire Suppression, Plumbing, HVAC, Electrical, Earthwork, Exteriror Improvements and Utilities divisions of work on Wednesday, July, 29, 2020 prior to the 2:00 PM bid opening.

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Chief Kenneth Branham of the Monacan Indian Nation has been one of the individuals that has been hoping to get the name changed for years.

“Would you ever put up with a team being the Chicago Sambos?” Branham said in an interview with the Richmond TimesDispatch. “Or the Chicago Blackskins? The Philadelphia Jews?”

Other Native Americans, like Chief Walt “Red Hawk” Brown of the Cheroenhaka Tribe, don’t find the name offensive.

“This is a strong symbol that represents my people, my culture, my traditions,” Brown said in the same article. Redskins.

Because we are Redskins.

That’s what we are.”

For Brown, he said people who are opposed to the name change don’t understand its historical roots. He sees the removal of native imagery and references as essentially an attempt to whitewash history.

“We used red paint for healing,” Brown continued. “We used it when we went to war. Our skins were red – red from the sun

Winston-Salem has a lot of untapped talent when it comes to hiphop. Whether it be producing, rapping or even directing, the talent pool is unmistakable. Davon Moore Jr., also known as Yung Rackz, is one of the local artists who is looking to make a name for himself not only in the city, but also nationwide.

Yung Rackz is a native of Winston-Salem and recently signed a marketing and distribution deal with Bentley Records. He has released two studio albums, “Prophet of the Streets” and “By All Means.” His third project was just released today entitled “Trapademic” and he is hoping that his new deal will allow his music to reach more listeners.

“It is definitely something that I thought could help me and that’s why I did it,” said Rackz about signing with Bentley Records. “It wasn’t like I was giving my rights away or anything, it really was just about helping me get my music out to a bigger audience.

“They are distributing it worldwide now, so the music that I release will be going to different countries. This is definitely a good opportunity; I am just trying to make the best out of it.”

Yung Rackz said he was inspired to get into the music business by his father, Davon Moore Sr. Moore Sr., who would take Jr. to the studio with him.

“He would go into the studio and had me engineering at first and making beats, but I really didn’t like the artists’ music we were recording, so I just

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Local artist Yung Rackz recently signed a marketing and distribution deal with record company. ended up writing my own music and getting into the studio myself and started rapping,” Rackz said about his introduction to the music game.

“I have just been networking with other people in the industry and my album next week is going to be hosted by Jadakiss.”

Rackz has a digital billboard on Hwy. 52 N., right next to the Liberty street exit. That is another way he is attempting to get his music out to the city.

Throughout his journey, Rackz said he has been inspired by artists such as Gucci Mane, Young Jeezy, Master P, Jay-Z and Future. He already owns his own record label Team Rackz Entertainment, so he has the entrepreneurial aspect of the game in hand.

With all of the local talent in the area, Yung Rackz suggests for artists who want to expand their brand, they need to get outside the Winston-Salem area for others to hear their music.

“The music industry is bigger than Winston-Sa-

lem,” he said. “You can’t just limit yourself to just Winston-Salem, because there is a lot going on out there.”

Rackz spoke fondly about his first two albums and thinks this new project shows how he has grown as an artist over time.

“One of them has no features on it and it’s just more about getting to know me and my life, versus the other one is about what’s going on with the times now,” he said about his album.

Some of the shortterm goals for Rackz is to have the opportunity to discover other artists and give them their shot in the industry, along with having millions of dollars in the bank, he said. He also said if he could collaborate with anyone, dead or alive, it would be with Michael Jackson.

For more information on Yung Rackz, please visit his Instagram or Twitter page @Yung_Rackz.

Forsyth County hires Family Justice Center director SUBMITTED ARTICLE

Forsyth County Government has hired DeWanna Thomas Hamlin as the director of the county’s Family Justice Center.

Family Justice Center will be a one-stop location designed to serve those impacted by interpersonal violence including intimate partner violence, sexual assault, child abuse, elder or dependent adult abuse, and human trafficking. The county is currently transitioning the Safe on

20 and will be a part of the planning and implementation of the center, which is scheduled to open in late 2020 or early 2021.

“The Family Justice Center reflects the strength of Forsyth County’s community partnerships and collaborative spirit,” said Hamlin. “I am honored and excited to serve alongside community members that align with the vision of establishing the center, a place of healing and hope. This center, tailored to the unique needs of For-

stakeholders’ meetings that have included Forsyth County Government, Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, Family Services, the District Attorney’s Office, the clerk of Court’s Office, the Superior Court District 21 Office, Winston-Salem Police Department, Kernersville Police Department, the Children’s Law Center, Parenting Path, Legal Aid, and survivors.

The Family Justice Center will be a county department with five fulltime positions. In addition

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and red from the particular root that we used to put the red paint on our faces, on our arms and on our legs.”

Others such as Chief Lynette Allston of the Nottoway Indian Tribe looks at the name differently. When she hears the name Redskins, she thinks not of her people’s culture and traditions, but of the historical oppression they have faced for generations, she said in the same article.

There are just so many viewpoints on the name, so anyone who has an opinion on the topic can easily find a Native American tribe that agrees with their narrative.

When I first heard that the team was reviewing a name change, I was initially stunned. But then I began to think, ‘Is this how white people feel when Black people say something is offensive to them?’

I had to stop being a fan and start looking at this through the lens of how I feel when our community expresses frustration. Throughout my life I can remember things that the Black community has expressed that racist and mainstream America did not agree. I guess some of the Native Americans feel the same way about the name as most Black people

B5 feel about the Confederate flag and Confederate statues that have recently come under attack, finally.

I am at the point now that there is no sense in fighting the name change, because obviously it does offend enough people to matter. And I am referring to only the Native American people who take offense to the name, not “other groups” who tend to hijack any and every cause.

There are several names that have been discussed as possible replacements: Warriors, Redtails, Redwolves and others. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Washington is planning to have no Native American imagery, per a league source, but they plan on keeping the burgundy and gold colors “as of now.”

I will continue to be a fan of the Washington franchise, no matter what the name change turns out to be. I understand that some people have decades long ties to the team and don’t want to see it changed, but have a heart, people, and understand that if it matters to some, it should matter to us all, plain and simple.

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It will be located in the same location as Safe on Seven, which is at 725 Highland Avenue. Safe on Seven is open from 8 a.m.5 p.m. Monday-Friday, offering services for those experiencing domestic violence, and can be reached at 336-776-3255. The 24-Hour Family Services Domestic Violence Crisis Line is 336-723-8125.

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Arts Council names 6 2020-2021 ArtPop Winners ‘Street Gallery’ billboard art soon to be displayed in 12-county region

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The Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County has announced the winners in its 2020-2021 ArtPop Street Gallery competition. ArtPop fosters collaborations between arts organizations, such as The Arts Council, and the private sector to promote the work of local artists on available media space, such as billboards. The traveling public enjoys engaging public art, and ArtPop artists receive visibility that affirms their considerable talent and often boosts their careers.

More than 60 artists submitted entries for this year’s competition. There are six winners -- five adult artists and one high-school senior artist who will be attending college for visual arts studies in the fall.

Lamar Advertising of Greensboro, one of the largest billboard companies in the world, is partnering with ArtPop by providing space on six static vinyl billboards over a 12-county region (Forsyth, Alamance, Caswell, Davie, Davidson, Guilford, Montgomery, Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, and Yadkin).

Adams Outdoor Advertising is also a partner and will be providing space on five digital billboards within Forsyth County.

Installations of the winning entries are expected to be made by the week of July 20 and will rotate over the course of the next year.

This is the fourth collaborative partnership between ArtPop, the Triad billboard industry and The Arts Council. Since 2016, a total of 15 artists have benefited through increased exposure and sales for their artwork.

“This collaboration with the billboard industry is one of The Arts Council’s most rewarding projects,” said Randy Eaddy, Arts Council president and CEO. “It recognizes the talent of extraordinary visual artists in our region and places their work squarely in the public eye along our highways. In fact, it creates a ‘Street Gallery’ with countless numbers of viewers each year.”

All works submitted for the ArtPop competition are original works of art. ArtPop (Art+ Public Outdoor Project = ArtPop) Street Gallery started in 2016 and has grown each year. During the coming year, ArtPop will result in the provision of more than $300,000 of billboard space from Lamar Advertising and Adams Outdoor Advertising. Billboard locations can be anywhere in the 12

Triad photographer joins nationwide effort to create 10,000 free professional headshots for unemployed GREENSBORO - Nothing says “I’m ready to work” more than a freshly pressed suit, an updated resume, and a professional headshot.

Regardless of profession, COVID-19 sent millions of Americans to the unemployment line without warning.

That is why local photographer Shelli Craig of Greensboro Headshots is participating with Headshot Booker and Brookfield Properties in the largest, single-day photo initiative that will provide 10,000 unemployed Americans nationwide with a complimentary, professional headshot to include with their resumes and post to job sites such as LinkedIn. Shelli Craig will be producing the complimentary headshots on Wednesday, July 22, from 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. at the Brookfield property located at Four Seasons Town Centre, 410 Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro. The free headshots are open to anyone currently unemployed, but participants are asked to visit HeadshotBooker.com for details and schedule a time to be photographed. More than 200 photographers will participate across all 50 states, creating pop-up studios at nearly every Brookfield retail location nationwide. Headshots will be provided to participants on site through event photo sharing platform SpotMyPhotos.

“Our community, like so many others, was hit hard

by COVID-19 and we were looking for ways to help our neighbors get back on their feet,” said Shelli Craig, who noted that, according to LinkedIn, people who include headshots receive 21 times more profile views and 9 times more ‘connection’ requests. “We heard about what Headshot Booker and Brookfield Properties were doing across the country and wanted to be a part of it. We are excited and grateful to be able to contribute to such a great initiative.”

10,000 Headshots is the brainchild of Tony Taafe, who co-founded Headshot Booker with renowned portrait photographer Peter Hurley and national event photographer Lauren Lieberman. Taafe recalled the struggles his dad had with unemployment and the impact it had on his entire family. “I know firsthand that the effects of unemployment extend well beyond an individual,” he explains. “My dad was the hardest working person I ever met. He was in construction so the work wasn’t consistent and he had almost zero job security. Unemployment impacts everyone and everything associated with that person,” Taafe continued.

“Headshot Booker is in a unique position to provide out-of-work Americans with an important element of the job search process – a great, professional headshot. And thanks to our partners who share a similar vision, we will be able to help thousands of unemployed Americans put their best foot forward and help them get back to work.”

“We are proud and excited to host the 10,000 Headshots initiative across our portfolio,” said Brookfield Properties Chief Marketing Officer Michelle Snyder.

“As we continue to welcome guests back to our centers, we are grateful for this opportunity to help the members of our communities that have been negatively impacted by the pandemic.” Snyder emphasized that safety for all participants is a core focus, and each photographer will follow specific protocols to ensure safe distancing and hygiene practices throughout the day.

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For more information, contact Shelli Craig at Shelli Craig Photography/Greensboro Headshots at 336-554-3987 or email shelli@shellicraig.com.

counties for any length of time during the year.

Winners of the 2020-2021 ArtPop Street Gallery regional competition: Latisha Coleman. 3-dimensional painter and freelance graphic designer.

Title of Work- Bantu Medium- Mixed City/County- Winston Salem, Forsyth Website/Social Media: www.tishthebrand.com, Instagram @tish.the.brand Jaden Cooke. High School student category winner.

Graduate of Weaver Academy who plans to attend Maryland Institute College of the Arts this fall.

Title of work- Dinner Medium – Digital City/County – Greensboro, Guilford Social Media- Instagram: @jackie_fungal_the_artist Lance Crumley. Eclectic artistic style that includes contemporary realism, abstract, wildlife, landscape, plain air, floral and figure paintings.

Title of Work- Wondrous Apparition Provided by Magician Medium- Oil on board City/County- Winston Salem, Forsyth Website/Social Media: www.lancesfineart.com

Kara Hammond. Multi-media artist who responds to contemporary issues with a historical perspective.

Title of Work- Sow Justice Grow Peace Medium- Water Color & Colored Pencil City/County- Pfafftown, Forsyth Website/Social Media: www.karahammondart. com, www.facebook.com/karahammondart Jessica Singerman. Multi-media artist, including watercolors, oils and drawings.

Title of work – I must love you very much Medium- Oil on canvas City/County – Winston Salem, Forsyth Website/Social Media: www.JessicaSingerman.com, Instagram: @jessicasingermanfineart Jessica Tefft. Artist, professional photographer and photojournalist based in Winston-Salem.

Title of Work- Toy House Medium- Photogram City/County- Winston Salem, Forsyth Website: www.jessicatefft.com For more information on ArtPop Triad, visit www.intothearts.org/artpop. See all of the ArtPop winners across the country by visiting www.ArtPopStreetGallery.com.

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