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Homegrown attorney returns to W-S to help community

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Parents tell their children they can be whatever they want to be when they grow up, including being a doctor or lawyer. As you age, you realize how difficult it is to actually become one of those professionals.

Brian Thompson accepted the challenge and is now a practicing attorney right here in his hometown of Winston-Salem.

Thompson attended Parkland High School and Carver High School and graduated from Parkland in 2009. He attended UNC Pembroke on a wrestling scholarship and initially wanted to get into real estate as a profession. It wasn’t until after graduation that being an attorney became a goal.

“When I graduated from Pembroke, a lot of people from Winston would go to Charlotte looking for work and I was out there working for about a year and actually took one intro to law class at UNC Charlotte and I met a professor there and he told me that I should try out law school,” Thompson said about how the idea of becoming an attorney came about.

“I thought about it and said I don’t know if law school is for me. But I thought about it, prayed about it, and talked to some family and friends and I gave it a shot. I actually ended up going to law school and when I was in law school, I started reading and watching Johnnie Cochran. He was the man and he inspired me so much and it was so cool to watch a Black lawyer to see what he could do, and it gave me confidence because I really didn’t know any Black attorneys growing up.”

Thompson attended Nova Southeastern University for law school and quickly realized this was the profession for him. As an athlete, Thompson always enjoys a challenge and law school was exactly that.

“Being an athlete, you always have that competitive nature in you and being in a job that didn’t challenge me didn’t quite sit right with me,” he said.

“The law, on the other hand, is so fascinating and is such a powerful tool and learning how to yield that tool can make huge differences and so that was something that really intrigued me.”

Jumping into the world of law was tough for Thompson, but he still managed to do very well in his classes his first semester. That was the momentum he needed to show himself that he was up for the task.

“It was very challenging … I think I was in the top 10% of my class and that gave me some confidence,” he said about his first semester in law school.

For Thompson, being in law school reminded him of when he wrestled.

He says in law school he felt somewhat isolated because of the nature of the courses. His family and friends provided the necessary support when he needed it.

“During law school it kind of felt like wrestling.

You have your team but it’s a one-on-one sport. If you don’t put in the time, if you don’t put in the work, you’re not going to survive,” he went on to say.

“Being able to call back home - and I grew up in the church so being away from home and your church was tough - calling home to

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Brian Thompson, attorney-at-law, comes home to help his community. the family for their support because sometimes you feel overwhelmed but having that support system is always helpful.”

Graduating from law school was just the first step for Thompson. He says passing the bar exam in 2018 was the true test for him. Thompson passed the bar exam on his first attempt and scored so highly on the test he can become licensed in any uniform bar state.

After passing the bar, Thompson started working for a law firm in Charlotte. He decided to focus on personal injury after interning for several firms while in law school because he enjoyed that area the most.

“As a PI (personal injury) attorney down in

Charlotte, I was working at a huge firm and they let me try cases right away,” he said. “Once I got licensed, a couple months after that I was trying three or four civil jury trials for personal injury cases. Getting in there and getting that trial experience and seeing how much of a challenge it is made it an easy call for me compared to other areas of law.

“Business is good in those other areas. You get to negotiate and be in those fancy conference rooms and stuff, but there is nothing like getting out there in front of that jury and arguing that case.”

Thompson made his way back to WinstonSalem earlier this year to open up his own law office. He says there was al-

ways an internal push for him to return home and he finally listened.

“There was always something in me that was calling me to come back home,” he stated. “I had a really good job at a big firm making some good money down there and that was tough to leave, but the biggest thing was down there I was doing really well, but most of my clients were people that I really didn’t know.

“Coming back home, I would be helping a lot of friends, family and the community people that I know. So, being able to come back home and help the community that basically helped me rise up and helped me get in this position, to be able to help them is a great and reward-

ing thing for me.”

Since arriving back in Winston, Thompson says he has been flooded with cases, which has exceeded his expectations. He also has received a lot of business from individuals who knew him and his family growing up.

One of the biggest advantages for being back in Winston-Salem for Thompson is the fact that he can inspire other young Black boys and girls to follow their dreams and let them know they can become a lawyer if they choose to do so.

He doesn’t look upon himself as a role model, so to speak, but knows that he can encourage young people to be whatever they want to be.

New exhibit at Reynolda House offers a step back in time Who couldn’t use a little nostalgia right now.

Walk into the new exhibit space at Reynolda House and step back into the 1970s where the family station wagon was the favored mode of transportation and a night on the town meant burgers at the local drive-in. That’s the

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“American” by Robert Bechtle is one of the paintings on display in the “Chrome Dreams and Infinite Reflections” exhibit at Reynolda House Museum of American Art. feeling you’ll have when of the look and feel of will see that these strikyou visit “Chrome Dreams America in the 1970s. ing photo-like images and Infinite Reflections: But don’t come expect- are paintings created to American Photorealism” ing to see photographs of mimic photographs. This at Reynolda House Mu- the era – you may believe artistic genre began back seum of American Art. All that in the beginning, in the 1960s by a small the pieces are reminiscent but look closer and you group of artists who took

the idea of reproducing a photo on canvas with such precision and fine detail that it appears to be an actual photograph. Often, the artist will focus on commonplace objects, such as jewelry, a store window or awning, or a part of an automobile, rather than the entire photograph, making the viewer question whether this should be considered as fine art or a take-off of Andy Warhol’s “soup can” art.

According to Allison Slaby, the exhibitor’s curator, this exhibit has been over two years in the making. The paintings in the exhibit are from local collectors as well as other museums of art, such as the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the High in Atlanta, and the Birmingham Museum of Art. The exhibition includes the work of the pioneers of the style: Robert Cottingham, Robert Bechtle, Richard Estes, Jack Mendenhall, Richard

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After working two years on the exhibit, Slaby said she is “thrilled it’s here. It was delayed by the pandemic for two years, so I’m happy it’s finally here.”

When asked about her favorite piece in the exhibit, Slaby was quick to point out “American” by Robert Bechtle. “It shows the American tradition of a landscape photo and the family vacation.” When you view this painting, you feel like you’re watching a mother and two children who have just gotten out of their car to look at the landscape at a scenic overlook. You can even see the detail in the son’s t-shirt with a dirt bike logo, very reflective of the time when SeeExhibit on A2 6 89076 32439 7

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Crossnore Communities for Children announces the receipt of a $258,060 grant SUBMITTED ARTICLE

Crossnore Communities for Children is pleased to announce the receipt of a grant from the Kate B. Reynolds Foundation for $258,060. This grant will continue to support the efforts of the Center for Trauma Resilient Communities (CTRC) to create a Trauma Resilient Winston-Salem/Forsyth County. CTRC is a division of Crossnore Communities for Children and supports organizations as they embed and embody the science of trauma resilience.

“Creating a traumaresilient Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County is an ongoing process to create a profound paradigm shift in knowledge, perspective, attitudes, and skills that deepens over time,” said Brett Loftis, co-founder of the CTRC. “The Center has been working in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County since the spring of 2020, and this grant award will continue the planning process and knowledge development of trauma resilience here.”

The overall goal of the project is to reduce the occurrences and impact of adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress among young children.

The systemic change necessary to do this will require an ongoing process to strengthen organizations, the community, and

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family vacations included road trips to state parks.

Slaby was also excited to point out the most recent purchase by Reynolda House, Richard Estes’s “Hubcap.” Estes is a preeminent 90-year-old artist who painted this piece just

“Hubcap” by Richard Estes. last year. This piece is of a shiny new Volkswagen Beetle’s fender that is reflecting a scene of coastal Maine. This is also part of the photorealism exhibit and will become part of the museum’s permanent collection. The acquisition of Hubcap was made possible by a generous contribution from David and Scottie Neill.

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the impact of systems by integrating trauma resilience into programs, structures, and culture.

“Becoming traumainformed and trauma resilient is a process, an ongoing journey. The community and its organizations are constantly under pressure and are part of stressful systems, so becoming trauma resilient needs to become part of daily practices, policies, culture, and climate,” Loftis continued. “We start by creating shared knowledge, shared language, and shared understanding across systems and community because that ensures children and families presenting with significant trauma histories are appropriately and consistently treated and supported at every point of service.”

CTRC will work in partnership with many organizations in the community. CTRC brings a trauma-informed lens to this work providing clarity and consistency for the collective and collaborative work throughout the county. These partnerships will facilitate conversations and create the next steps for creation and implementation of a Trauma Resilient Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County.

For more than 100 years, Crossnore Communities for Children has worked to help each child find their way home.

Infinite Reflections will be on exhibit until Dec. 31. Tickets are available at www.reynolda.org. Free passes are available at all branches of the Forsyth County Public Library.

Passes can be checked out at the circulation desk and returned after your visit.

Reynolda House also hosts Community Day events with free admission

Crossnore serves children and families in western North Carolina through foster care and adoptions, outpatient and schoolbased therapy services, family preservation, and Youth Independent Living. For more information about Crossnore Communities for Children, please visit www.crossnore.org.

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to the exhibit and tours of the historic house, along with other activities. The next Community Day is Aug. 25 from 3 to 7 p.m. and a fall event will be held on Oct. 15 from 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Reynolda House Museum of Amerian Art is located at 2250 Reynolda Road. For more information, visit www. reynolda.org.

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Mississippi team uncovers arrest warrant for white woman who lied about Emmett Till

His name is George Floyd

BY STACY M. BROWN

A search team has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in the 1955 kidnapping of Emmett Till.

The Associated Press reported that the team searched a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the African American teenager’s lynching, and now relatives of the victim want authorities to finally arrest the woman nearly 70 years later.

A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham identified as “Mrs. Roy Bryant” on the document - was discovered last week by searchers inside a file folder that had been placed in a box, Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill told The Associated Press. Stockstill told the outlet that documents are kept inside boxes by decade, but there was nothing else to indicate where the warrant, dated Aug. 29, 1955, might have been.

“They narrowed it down between the ’50s and ’60s and got lucky,” said Stockstill, who certified the warrant as genuine.

In March, President Joe Biden signed into law the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act of 2022, which makes lynching a federal hate crime. Earlier, the bipartisan measure passed both chambers of Congress.

Named after Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American savagely murdered by a group of white men in Mississippi, the legislation received pushback from three Republicans – Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and Chip Roy of Texas. Each were the lone votes against the bill.

Emmett Till’s murder sparked the civil rights movement which ultimately led to bills like the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other social justice laws.

“I could not have been prouder to stand behind President Biden as he signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law,” National Urban League President Marc Morial stated. “The act of lynching is a weapon of racial terror that has been used for decades, and our communities are still impacted by these hate crimes to this day,” Morial continued.

“This bill is long overdue, and I applaud President Biden and members of Congress for their leadership in honoring Emmett Till and other lynching victims by passing this significant piece of legislation.”

According to the bill’s text, “Whoever conspires to commit any offense … shall (A) if death results from the offense, be imprisoned for any term of years or for life. (B) In any other case, be subjected to the same penalties as the penalties prescribed for the offense of the commission of which was the object of the conspiracy.”

Specifically, the legislation makes lynching a federal hate crime, punishable by up to life in prison.

The measure had faced defeat for more than 100 years, with lawmakers attempting to pass the legislation more than 200 times. The House finally passed the bill on a 422-3 vote.

It passed unanimously in the Senate.

The Mississippi search group included members of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation and two Till relatives: cousin Deborah Watts, head of the foundation; and her daughter, Teri Watts, the Associated Press reported.

Further, the report stated that relatives want authorities to use the warrant to arrest Donham, who at the time of the slaying was married to one of two white men tried and acquitted just weeks after Till was abducted from a relative’s home, killed and dumped into a river.

“Serve it and charge her,” Teri Watts told the AP in an interview.

Stacy M. Brown is the NNPA Newswire senior national correspondent. Reach him at @StacyBrownMedia.

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Guest Columnist George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer just over two years ago. His killing sparked a movement to end unjustified police killings and racist law enforcement practices. Sadly, the killings have not stopped. The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act was blocked

by Senate Republicans last year. The struggle continues in communities large and small.

During racial justice protests that sprung up after video of Floyd’s murder spread around the world, millions of people spoke his name as they demanded accountability and justice. Now, a remarkable book examines Floyd’s life and death in the context of our history and what one of the authors calls the “complex, tangled web” created by racism in this country.

“His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice” was written by Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa. It draws on the reporting of their colleagues and on intimate interviews with Floyd’s family, romantic partners, and circle of friends.

At a time when politicians are making it illegal

for educators to acknowledge that systemic racism exists, Samuels and Olorunnipa document in painful detail the ways in which racially discriminatory policies on housing, education, health care, addiction, policing and more contributed to “a life in which Floyd repeatedly found his dreams diminished, deferred, and derailed - in no small part because of the color of his skin.”

“For example,” Samuels says, “you could not disentangle police departments’ disproportionate use of force against African Americans from the junk science that is still taught about Black people being more resistant to pain. We could not ignore that those same instincts led to the inadequate mental health treatment in George Floyd’s life, nor could we separate that society both encouraged George Floyd to bulk up to pursue his athletic dreams and then stereotyped him as dangerous when he was off the field.”

The book doesn’t try to make Floyd a saint. It doesn’t have to. He was a human being. He did nothing to deserve being murdered on the street by an abusive police officer who shouldn’t have been wearing a badge.

“His Name Is George Floyd” is worth reading for many reasons. It gives us a fuller picture of the person George Floyd was. It introduces us to many people

who loved him and sought a measure of justice for his murder. And it points to some important facts about policing in this country.

One is the need for accountability. Chauvin had a record of violent behavior. When abusive cops are not held accountable, more people will be subjected to their violence.

Another point is that policing is a local issue requiring local solutions.

National policies, like those in the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, can help. But holding violent cops accountable, getting them off the streets, or better yet, preventing them from getting hired in the first place, all require change at the local level.

People For the American Way spent the two years since Floyd’s murder developing a road map for transforming public safety.

We looked at the research.

We talked to criminologists, public officials, clergy and other community activists, and members of law enforcement. “All Safe: Transforming Public Safety” is a guide for public officials and community activists seeking to make their communities safer.

Among the essential steps to make policing more just and more effective at the same time: improving recruiting to weed out potentially dangerous cops, holding violent officers accountable, and getting unfit officers off the force. Also, importantly,

restructuring public safety systems to reduce the unnecessary involvement of armed officers in situations where they are not needed and for which they are not trained is good for cops as well as communities.

The authors of “His Name Is George Floyd” describe optimism in the face of our history as both a defense mechanism and a means of survival. I am optimistic that we can end unjust police killings. I am optimistic that we can build the uncomfortably large coalitions it will take.

“Our book makes the argument that if we can demonstrate step-by-step how this country’s history with racism continues to shape people today, then we can continue the good work of dismantling systemic racism,” Samuels told me in an email. “We have to connect the theory with the practice.”

That job belongs to all of us. We know what kind of changes will make our communities safer. Let’s organize, city by city and town by town, to make it happen.

Ben Jealous serves as president of People For the American Way and Professor of the Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. A New York Times best-selling author, his next book, “Never Forget Our People Were Always Free,” will be published

by Harper Collins in December 2022.

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Did social media influence the participants in the January 6th Insurrection at the Capitol?

Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.

Guest Columnist

The term “social media” is not a back-in-the-day term.

It’s a today term.

We simply did not have it.

Computers, emails and passwords did not exist. Certainly, there was no Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or TikTok. So, it begs the question: what did we have?

How did we get the word out about events and happenings?

If you are a member of the 4th quarter trying to get to overtime, you can answer that question. If not, here it is. I know the strategies that we used will sound a bit

old-fashioned if you are a part of this generation.

Black communities back in the day were very active from a news perspective. If, for example, you wanted an event to be marketed, you would just let a few neighbors know about it.

They, in turn, would let others know and before you knew it, you would have the expected crowd and more.

If it was a protest or march of any kind, the Black church was the meeting place. Leaders would decide what church and off we went to protest the injustices of the day - and there were plenty of them.

Of course, the telephone and flyers of all kinds were also ways to let people know what was happening or about to happen.

During the early days, some people in my Winston-Salem neighborhood had party lines.

You may be asking now, what was a party line? It was a tele-

phone line that allowed you to speak to more than one person at a time. Usually, you knew the other folks on the party line. Ask your grandparents or an older relative about them and I am sure you will get some good stories that will make you laugh.

As technology has increased, so has our ability to communicate with each other. Some people use technology for bad reasons and intentions. Last week, the January 6th hearings committee had as one of its witnesses, Stephen Ayres. Mr. Ayres is from Ohio and self-described as hardworking and a family man. He was one of hundreds who stormed the Capitol on January 6th. He said he was “pretty hardcore into social media.”

The former president sent out on social media a message to “Stop the Steal Rally.” Mr. Ayres said, “I was hanging on every word he was saying.” Sadly, he like thousands of others were

duped and hoodwinked and participated in this embarrassing and shameful moment in the history of our country.

In the hearing Ayers said, “I felt like I had, like horse blinders on” when he was following Trump. He added, “The biggest thing to me is, to take the blinders off. Make sure you step back and see what’s going on before it’s too late.”

Now, Mr. Ayres finds himself in a precarious and life-altering position. He has lost his job as a supervisor and has had to sell his house. His sentencing will be in September.

There have been over 840 rioters who have been charged, with more to come, I suspect. Is Trump with his false and inflammatory rhetoric going to help rioter Ayres? Will he help him to get a new job or buy a new home?

The answer to these questions is a hurtful and sad no.

I feel sorry for this guy and others who succumbed to this lie. There are still others who believe Mr. T. What will it take to convince them?

Are there lessons to be learned from Stephen Ayres, who has lost everything?

I believe there are. Stephen Ayres and others who got caught up in The Big Lie would probably tell you to take off the horse blinders.

That’s good advice.

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

21st century citizenship: Four civic skills we need to keep our democracy Melinda Burrell Guest Columnist

As primaries roll out around the country, we’re tracking voter turnout. Raised on Schoolhouse Rock’s cartoon civics lessons, I know that being a good American means voting.

Those 1970’s cartoons weren’t wrong. Voting is the most fundamental act of democratic citizenship. That’s why it has been fiercely contested throughout our history.

But now we’re in the 21st century, deluged by information, increasingly divided, with few models of bipartisanship.

Democracy now requires much more than voting. What should a 21st century School-

house Rocks teach?

Finding information. Most fundamentally, we need to be skilled seekers of information. In this era of deep fakes, bots, and fragmenting media platforms, the ability to access and evaluate information is key. Algorithms push us ever more deeply into one point of view. To address multifaceted 21st century issues, we need to deliberately seek a variety of information, including backstories about controversial events from differing sources, to construct the whole picture.

Understanding our own biases. We must process information skillfully, getting around our inherent neurobiological biases. For example, we naturally lap up information that confirms what we already think but ignore information that challenges our world view. We also are wired for double standards: we attribute another person’s bad behavior to their personality (“she’s late because she’s disrespectful”)

while giving ourselves a pass for the same behavior (“I’m late because traffic was bad”). Understanding these natural biases lets us challenge ourselves to explore issues more fully.

Having conversations – not arguments – across divides. Understanding biases promotes a third democratic skill: truly talking with one another. Research, including my own, shows that liberals and conservatives alike often experience cross-divide conversations as an assault on their values. Yet most people also believe these conversations are important and would like to have them to feel connected and informed.

Constructive conversations require listening and asking good questions. Political scientist Andrew Dobson describes listening as our “democratic deficit.” We rarely listen closely to the other side. This undermines our ability to create policy which is seen as a legitimate outcome

of democratic debate. Nor do we ask enough genuinely curious questions to learn why others think what they do to help find common ground. As Steve Benjamin, former head of the National Conference of Mayors, noted, “We all suffer from some degree of experiential blindness and need to become experts at learning about others’ perspectives.”

Having complicated relationships. Perhaps the most important – and most difficult -- 21st century citizenship skill is maintaining relationships with people who think differently.

For a democracy to function, we need not only a robust marketplace of ideas, but also the ability to work together for policy that meets widespread needs. A conservative interviewee in my study remarked, “Everybody is so comfortable being polarized – they are not happy unless they’re mad.”

It’s challenging to hold con-

flicting feelings about people, appreciating their good qualities while disagreeing on politics.

But perhaps we make it harder than it is.

Research shows we overestimate both how much the other party dislikes us as well as how much they disagree with us about policy. Asking genuinely curious questions and remembering what we appreciate just might help us find that we have more in common than we think. Our 21st century democracy needs us to develop these skills.

Melinda Burrell, Ph.D, @ MelindaCBurrell, syndicated by PeaceVoice, was a humanitarian aid worker and now trains on the neuroscience of communication and conflict. She is on the board of the National Association for Community Mediation, which offers resources on cross-divide engagement.

Joe Biden needs to go Oscar H. Blayton

Guest Columnist If we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.

On July 30, 1864, more than 16,500 Union soldiers were aligned against only 9,500 Confederate seditionists in Petersburg, Virginia. In addition to its greater numbers, the Union had the element of surprise on its side. For weeks, Union forces had been tunneling under the Confederate line and finally filled the hole with explosives.

On the day of the battle, a fuse was lit, and four tons of gunpowder exploded, breaching a hole in the Confederate defenses by destroying one of their artillery batteries and obliterating an infantry regiment. What was left was a hole in the ground 170 long, 60 feet wide and 30 feet deep. The path to a victory was clear for the Union soldiers, before they were forced to retreat.

In what Gen. Ulysses S. Grant termed “the saddest affair I have witnessed in this war,” the Union officers led their troops directly at the Confederate line, a path that took them down into

the 30-foot hole. Once in this hole, the Union soldiers found it extremely difficult to climb up 30 feet of loose soil to reach the enemy line. In the meantime, the dazed Confederate troops regained their composure and reinforcements were rushed to the breach to stop the Union advance. At this point, it became a turkey shoot. Union soldiers desperately trying to scramble out of the hole were slaughtered

by Confederates firing down on them.

Encyclopedia Virginia reports that 3,800 Union soldiers were killed, wounded and captured in that battle. But of that number, 1,327 were from the 4,300 soldiers of the United States Colored Troops, many of whom were killed after their capture.

This story teaches us that when you are in for a vicious fight, you need competent leadership.

To that point, if the Democratic Party pins its hopes on Joe Biden to win the White House in 2024, it will bring down a plague of conservatism on America that will be Biblical in its proportion.

The promise of a better 2024 presidential candidate is also crucial for getting more Democratic-leaning voters to the polls in 2022.

It is ignorantly hubristic for the calcified Democratic Party

leadership to assume that their performance during the past two years is viewed as anything other than abysmal by young voters who they hope will charge to their rescue during the November midterm elections.

It is not enough for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and President Joe Biden to ask Americans to let them figure out what to do after the 2022 elections. The leadership must show a willingness now to make a course correction and stop merely covering up in a defensive position while radical Republicans have us pinned against the ropes as they deliver devastating body blows.

The current Democratic Party leadership has lost its ability to convince the American public that it is worth the effort to vote for them. Drastic action is needed now. Years of timid halfstepping to appease moderate Republicans who have lost control of their party have brought us to the brink of constitutional disaster. By seeking “peace in our time” with the current batch of Republicans holding national office, the current Democratic leadership has ignored the painful lessons taught us in the 20th century. You cannot appease zealots, nor can you reason with them. As we look into the political abyss of authoritarianism,

and possibly totalitarianism, we must make a decision. We must decide whether we will allow the current Democratic Party leadership to drive our bus over a cliff, or whether we demand better drivers or be allowed to disembark.

Voters disgusted with Donald Trump are also more than annoyed with both the continued silence from Merrick Garland’s Justice Department that appears to be uninterested in investigating Trump’s actions, as well as the slow pace with which Democrats in the House of Representatives have conducted the January 6th hearings.

The question that needs to be answered is this: Is the Democratic contingent in the House so fractured and hobbled by the conservatives in its ranks that it cannot move forward in making Trump answer for his transgressions? We know the answer to that question when applied to the U.S. Senate. Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have put the Senate majority in chains, preventing them from advancing the most commonsense demands for legislation by the people who put them in office.

The dithering by the Democratic leadership in both the Congress and the White House is not only an existential threat to the Democratic Party, it is

also an existential threat to democracy in America. Democratic politicians in office tell the American public that the answer to this dilemma is to go out and vote for them, but a vote for an inert politician is a wasted vote.

It makes no sense to put power into the hands of someone who will not use it.

Charles Blow, a New York Times opinion writer, recently wrote that if Biden chooses to run for the White House in 2024, “he becomes a last line of defense. His shortcomings become secondary. Helping to ensure his re-election becomes an act of self preservation.” Strategically speaking, this assumes that we allow ourselves to be led onto indefensible ground. We know that we are in for vicious political fights both in 2022 and in 2024. We should not let the leadership of the Democratic Party, who have proven themselves to be lacking in ability, choose our field of battle. We must prepare our position on the high ground now, and not let poor leadership send us into a massacre.

Oscar H. Blayton is a former Marine Corps combat pilot and human rights activist who practices law in Virginia. His earlier commentaries may be found at https://oblayton1.medium.com/.

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Now in its second year, the Gilead COMPASS Initiative Faith Coordinating Center at Wake Forest University School of Divinity recently awarded 14 organizations and four artists with grant funding to address HIV stigma in faith communities across the South. The grant recipients are based in eight different states with projects that will reach faith communities across the southern region.

The grant awards range from $25,000 to $150,000 for a one-year grant cycle beginning in July of 2022.

Organizations were awarded in one of three different grant areas: faith capacity building, faith action, and transformative. All grantees will participate

in virtual training on topics related to faith and HIV as they work concurrently toward their project goals.

This year’s Faith Capacity Building grant has been awarded to Interfaith America in Illinois; Selma AIR in Alabama; Inspiration and Change Inc. in Florida; and Vision Community Foundation in Georgia. Interfaith America, who will be engag-

Ida B Wells Fund expands to include filmmaking, visual arts and creative placemaking A T L A N T A , Ga. – chromatic black™ launches season two of the Ida B. Wells Fund and calls for entries in short filmmaking and two new categories – visual arts and creative placemaking. This season the fund expands to offer awards ranging from $1,000 to $25,000 in all three categories.

Ida B Wells Fund competition is open to storytellers whose original work explores the spirit of exploration and deepens our collective literacy. Here are key dates for the fund: *The Short Film Fund applications will support five Black filmmakers with $15,000 each (a total of $75.000). Short form film applications open on July 16 and the deadline for submission is Aug. 27, 2022. Short Film winners will be announced on Sept. 23, 2022. *The Visual Art Fund will support 12 visual artists at $1,000 each (a total of $12,000). Visual arts applications launch on Aug. 1 and the deadline for submission is Aug. 31, 2022. Visual arts winners will be announced on Sept.

23, 2022. *The Creative Placemaking Fund will support four creative placemakers at $25,000. Creative placemaking applications open on Oct. 1 and the deadline for submission is Dec. 1.Winners will be announced on Feb. 14, 2023.

The Ida B. Wells Fund partners with artistactivists across a spectrum of creative disciplines. This year the fund has two new developments – a new curatorial leadership of chromatic black’s Artistic Director Jessica Green and three categories - short-form filmmaking, creative placemaking and visual arts.

“We are equity architects. We are building cultural power by partnering with dope artists, creative teams and communities.

For impact investors, we tie up the messy middle, connecting folks to the next wave of Black smarts, creativity, vision, grit, and determination,” says Angela Harmon, co-founder

and an Emmy-nominated storyteller, filmmaker, and creative director for chromatic black.

Ida B. Wells Fund Short Film Competition: The award recipients will be chosen by an interdisciplinary panel composed of expert curators, filmmakers, producers, other arts professionals, scholars and winners from last year in a thorough, multi-step review process.

“Ida B Wells Fund enables filmmakers to take disruptive risks with new original works,” says Aunjanue Ellis, Oscar nominee, actress, and writer.

The fund will invest in five projects that critique dominant social and historical narratives and embody artistic attributes: commitment, communal meaning, disruption, cultural integrity, emotional experience, risk-taking, coherence, openness, stickiness, and resourcefulness.

Winners of last year’s film fund at $10,000 each include Lamard W CherAime’s “Captain Zero: The Animated Series,” which speaks to the importance of mental health awareness in the Black communities, and Christine Swanson’s “Sunflower: The Fannie Lou Hamer Story,” staring Academy Award nominee Aunjanue Ellis.

In addition, the Ida B. Wells Fund will expand to visual arts and creative placemaking.

“Not only are artists producers of aesthetic objects and creators of experiences, they help to make places healthier, more equitable, and sustainable,” said Artistic Director Jessica Green. “The expansion of the fund to include creative placemaking is an acknowledgment of creativity as a radical act of resistance.”

Black placemaking is a reclamation of space rooted in remembrance. The fund acknowledges this praxis of remembrance, reclamation, and renewal as a creative act of resistance. The fund will partner with cultural bearers fortifying our participation in the public commons.

Visit the Ida B Wells Fund website to apply and for additional updates.

ing faith and HIV through HBCU campuses, and Vision Community Foundation, who will continue to expand in their work of cultivating inclusive faith spaces for people living with HIV. Five organizations received a Transformative grant of up to $100,000 from the center for 18 months. Recipients of the

grant for this year include Metropolitan Charities in Tampa, Florida; the Resource Center for Women & Ministry in the South in North Carolina; Together for Hope in Mississippi; Foundations for Living in Georgia; and Relationship Unleashed in Tennessee.

The Transformative grant focuses on collaboration with Christian and interfaith partners in order to impact how these communities respond to HIV/ AIDS in the future.

Other organizations received a Faith Action grant of up to $25,000. These grants fund projects centered around faith to help reduce stigma, engage in spiritually integrated trauma-informed care, and aid in changing the perception of HIV/AIDs in the South.

This year’s recipients include Texas Health Action in Texas; Health Awareness for Life Foundation in Florida; Southern Regional Area Health Education Center in North Carolina; Compassionate Atlanta in Georgia; and Intervarsity Christian Fellowship’s Black Campus Ministries in Tennessee.

In addition to its organizational grant awards, the Faith Coordinating Center also awarded fiscally-sponsored artists with $25,000 to $40,000 in grant funding and membership in a first-of-itskind Learning It Together Artist Cohort. This cohort will be trained in faith and HIV as it relates to the creation of varying art projects. The cohort will be led by coaches Dasan

Ahanu, a well-established North Carolinian artist, poet, and creative curator; and Rev. Demi ‘Day’ McCoy, who serves as the Creative Program manager at the Faith Coordinating Center, while also championing the arts through web design and music recording. The artist grant recipients include Lauryn Whitney of Authentic Voices Global in Texas; Ashon Crawley in Virginia and Louisiana; and Tarik Daniels of WhatsintheMirror? in Texas. The cohort also features Emilio AponteSierraParetti of Florida, who will serve as the Faith Coordinating Center’s ArtistIn-Residence for 30 days at Wake Forest University.

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Founder makes history with first ever all-in-one mobile app for Black businesses NATIONWIDE Kyle D. Amaker, founder and CEO of Go Black Own, LLC, which specializes in Internet-related services and products for Black-owned businesses, has made history with the launch of an all-in-one mobile app to help support and foster Black entrepreneurship.

The native app provides supporters and Black-owned business owners nationwide with a centralized platform that easily enables them to do business together. The app can be downloaded for free from the Apple IOS App Store and Google Play Store.

“This is a platform built for us, empowered by us,” says Kyle. “No other platform on the market offers this combination of features. It is simply different.”

On the Go Black Own mobile app, supporters have the ability to search for Black-owned business-

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Kyle D. Amaker, the founder and CEO of Go Black Own, LLC es, restaurants, hotels, and upcoming Black events relative to their location.

They can also stay up to date with trending news and shop via the marketplace.

“The marketplace is the first of its kind. Blackowned businesses now have a platform where they can sell directly to supporters, from selling their products and/or services, restaurants selling their menu items, to selling tickets to Black-owned events. Our platform is a game-changer,” Kyle adds.

Via the app, supporters will have the ability to

chat directly with Black business owners with their unique two-way messaging system, bookmark their favorite businesses, and create a wish list for products in the marketplace. They will also be able to read real reviews and share their own experiences.

The app already has over 7,700 Black-owned businesses listed with new businesses being added daily.

To learn more, visit GoBlackOwn.com.

Old Salem hosting career fair for part- and full-time positions Interpreters, craftspeople, educators needed

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Old Salem Museum & Gardens and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) will host a career fair on Wednesday, July 27, for people interested in full- or part-time positions as educators, interpreters and craftspeople, working with youth and adult visitors to Old Salem. Old Salem is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive staff and strongly encourages applications from minority and bilingual candidates, veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

The career fair will take place from

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, July 27, in the Gray Auditorium of the Old Salem Visitor Center. No pre-registration is necessary.

Applicants should have a passion for history and enjoy working with the public.

Proficiency in another language and skills in crafts such as woodworking or pottery are welcomed, but not required. Certified teachers can apply for positions specializing in creating content for Old Salem’s online and in-person education programs for K-12 and adult tour groups.

For questions, contact Nicole Blalock at nblalock@oldsalem.org.

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ATTENTION TO THE PUBLIC OF WINSTON-SALEM, NC This public notice is to inform you that the Bless the Children/Family Urban Agricultural Community Garden plans have been discontinued at the location of 1712 NE 25th Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27105 until further notice. Numerous attempts have been presented to the immediate neighborhood and communities to provide a profitable health, nutrition and wellness program to the overall city of Winston-Salem. Here are the reasons that this unpleasant decision has been made: *Too expensive/demands for maintenance and upkeep *Continuous theft and vandalism *Not enough community support *Too many traffic violations/safety measures for the children, families, and individuals that we serve *Too much littering on and around site

until December 31, 2022, if there are no positive results by then, we will have no choice but to cancel our entire plans at this present location. This lot will be up for lease or sale.

Thank you for your prayers, moral and financial support, and your interest for the ongoing vision. We are asking the public to volunteer for this citywide garden site.

Volunteer dates are as follows: Saturday, July 23, 7-11 a.m.

For more information please call (336) 509-5353 or write to 550 N Liberty Street, Suite 351, WinstonSalem, NC 27101

Yours Truly, Mr. and Mrs. Jahnel and Debra Hunter c/o Bless the Children Program of Winston-Salem, NC and Bless the Family Outreach Ministry of North Carolina, We are asking for pub- Inc. lic help as our last hope to successfully complete this sustainable garden and training outreach. This public appeal is in effect

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Livingstone College to offer first master’s degree in history of the college, paving the way for ‘Livingstone University’ SALISBURY - Livingstone College President Dr. Jimmy R. Jenkins, Sr., has announced that for the first time in the college’s history, Livingstone will offer graduate programs as it positions itself to transition to university status.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) approved Livingstone College’s membership at Level III to offer the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. The announcement was made at the SACSCOC Board of Trustees’ June meeting.

To earn approval to initiate degrees at a more advanced degree level, an institution must complete a Level Change Application demonstrating compliance with various policy and procedure standards contained in the SACSCOC “Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement.”

SACSCOC’s approval of the application ensures that for the first time in the history of the college, Livingstone will offer its inaugural graduate degree program – the MBA – beginning January 1, 2023.

The graduate business degree is specifically designed for students and professionals who desire to advance their careers in business, excel as business executives or become successful entrepreneurs.

Upon completion of the MBA program, students

will have increased their business knowledge; grown their professional network; and boosted their career and salary prospects.

“We are excited about the elevation of this institution to a Level III category. SACSCOC’s approval paves the way for Livingstone College to officially transition to Livingstone University,” said Livingstone President Dr. Jimmy R. Jenkins, Sr. “The new name would mark a significant milestone in the evolution of the 143-yearold institution’s history, reflecting the expansion of its purview of academic offerings.”

Jenkins plans to notify SACSCOC of the institution’s name change from college to university. In

doing so, he will work with key stakeholders of the campus community to strategically plan the shift to university status.

Dr. Kelli V. Randall, Livingstone’s vice president for Academic Affairs and SACSCOC accreditation liaison; along with Laverne Macon-Jamison, director of Assessment, Institutional Effectiveness and Research; Dr. R.D. Sharma, dean of the George E. Battle Jr. Business School, and business department faculty worked together on the Herculean task to submit the Level Change Application on behalf of the college.

The extensive work on the level change application began on the heels of the college’s decennial reaffirmation process, in

BPI announces recent grant recipients and requests video proposals for Impact grants The Black Philanthropy Initiative (BPI) announces $151,000 in Advancing Equity in Education grants, more than double the funding awarded through this grant program in 2021.

This grant cycle focused on BPI’s goal of advancing equity in education so that Black students and graduates can gain access, advance, and have the support needed to thrive. BPI prioritized Black-led organizations,

practices by providing training in peer mediation, restorative practices, and implicit bias for students and teachers *Christ Kingdom Building Worship Center: $5,000 to provide food and supplies for a local summer Freedom School site *Grace Presbyterian Church, USA: $11,000 for a summer enrichment camp incorporating a multi-generational approach to youth mentorship *Kimberley Park El-

gramming to increase academic achievement and build leadership skills, confidence, and high selfesteem in Black children *TCJ Motivations: $15,000 for a Black male mentorship, tutoring, and academic coaching program *Winston-Salem Freedom Schools: $5,000 to support strategic planning and evaluation for a collective of nine Freedom School sites BPI’s grants are possible thanks to the collective pooling of resources

public schools with a high population of Black students, and organizations and programs that invest directly in predominantly Black schools and/or neighborhoods.

Grants were awarded to: *Action4Equity: $15,000 to support a mentorship program for middle school boys of color using integrated and holistic behavioral and mental health components *Big 4 of Forsyth County: $15,000 to provide peer support groups, discussions, cultural activities, and education for students attending historically Black high schools *Carver High School: $15,000 to create constructive alternatives to exclusionary discipline

ementary School: $10,000 to engage retired teachers in weekly literacy interventions to improve student outcomes in kindergarten and first grade *LEAD Girls of North Carolina: $15,000 to support 40 girls in a yearround leadership and personal development program *Paisley IB Magnet School: $15,000 to launch a student-to-student mentoring program to build literacy skills *Read, Empower, and Distinguish (READ): $15,000 to train, equip, and empower parents with literacy skills to teach their children and prevent learning loss for Black and brown students *Sherman Academy: $15,000 to support pro-

from Forsyth County community members. In 2022, BPI has already provided $161,500 in grants to local programs and initiatives, investing 100% of those funds into Black-led organizations or schools supporting the local Black community.

BPI currently offers three grant programs: Impact grants, Advancing Equity in Education grants, and Building an Inclusive Economy grants.

BPI is accepting video applications for its Impact grants program through Tuesday, Aug. 2. To learn more about these grant programs and to find ways to contribute to this work, visit bpiws.org.

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which Livingstone was reaffirmed through 2031 without any recommendations.

After the implementation of the MBA program, the college plans to submit a prospectus for a master’s degree in Sport Management, and endeavors to expand its offerings as it develops a School of Graduate Studies.

The new MBA program is officially enrolling students for the spring 2023 semester. Interested students can apply and get more information by calling the Office of Admissions at 704-216-6001.

The first cohort of MBA graduates will receive their degrees during the May 2024 commencement.

The MBA program will be offered on the main

campus of Livingstone College at 701 W. Monroe Street in Salisbury.

Instruction will be a 100 percent traditional face-toface format. To accommodate family responsibilities and employment, graduate students will have the flexibility to take classes during the evenings (Monday through Thursday) with some classes also being offered on Saturday. The MBA is a 36-credit hour degree program. Students must maintain a minimum 3.0 GPA to meet graduation requirements.

Graduating seniors who majored in Business Administration have expressed interest in continuing their graduate studies at Livingstone College, Randall said. The MBA program is also designed to attract older working adults who have already earned a degree in business, accounting, finance or another closely-related field.

The addition of the MBA degree to Livingstone’s roster of program offerings aligns with the college’s mission to provide “quality instruction, academic and student success.” Moreover, the MBA program will play a key role in advancing the first goal of the college’s 2021-2026 Strategic Plan: “Implement academic excellence and global education programs that reflect learning in a holistic environment.”

Jenkins said he is proud

of the determination and acumen of the SACSCOC liaison team in completing this history-making endeavor. Initiated and approved under Jenkins’ leadership, this new status will add to the legacy of Jenkins, who announced his retirement in February effective upon the naming of his successor by the Board of Trustees.

SACSCOC is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states.

Livingstone College is accredited by SACSCOC to award certificates, associate, baccalaureate and master’s degrees.

Livingstone College is a private historically Black college that is secured by a strong commitment to quality instruction, academic excellence and student success. Through a Christian-based environment suitable for holistic learning, Livingstone provides excellent business, liberal arts, STEAM, teacher education and workforce development programs for students from all ethnic backgrounds designed to promote lifelong learning, and to develop student potential for leadership and service to a global community. For more information, visit www.livingstone.edu.

Lexington City Schools get proactive with updated safety measures district-wide LEXINGTON - In light of recent security compromises happening around the nation within public schools, Lexington City Schools (LCS) has enhanced the clear bag policy to be proactive in maintaining safety measures for all.

During the July 2022 Board Of Education (BOE) meeting, members voted “to employ a clear/ transparent bag policy for LCS schools for everyone entering the buildings.“ This policy will go into effect at the start of the 2022 - 2023 school year.

“As we continue our efforts to minimize safety concerns in our schools, this new policy is an extension of the clear bag policy implemented last school year at athletic events.

LCS wants to ensure that we have left no stone unturned as we provide students and staff with security measures that make our schools less vulnerable,” said Dr. Anitra Wells, superintendent.

More details surrounding the specifics of the

policy will be released following the August 2022 BOE meeting.

We would like to thank

everyone, in advance, for their support and compliance with our new safety measures.

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Also Religion, Community News, and Classifieds Timothy Ramsey Sports Columnist

This might be the end of the Tiger Woods we know Tiger Woods missed the cut at The Open last week when he finished the second round at three over par, leaving him at nine over after 36 holes.

The three-time winner of The Open, two of which were won at St. Andrews, just didn’t have it this week and didn’t look like the Tiger of old. I am not sure we will ever see that Tiger again.

It’s a miracle that Woods is actually playing this well, honestly.

Just 16 months ago he was involved in a serious car accident that nearly took his life and later almost his leg. He has rods and screws in his leg, so it’s understandable that he can’t strike the ball the same way he used to.

Woods stated he didn’t know when he would play in another tournament, which is another signal that he knows his time on the course as a serious competitor might be coming to a swift end.

“I have nothing, nothing planned. Zero,” Woods said. “Maybe something next year. I don’t know.

But nothing in the near future. This is it. I was just hoping to play this one event this year. And I was lucky enough, again, [to get] three events in, and they’re all majors. So, I feel very fortunate to have had things happen this way after the struggles I’ve been through to get to this point.”

What stood out to me most was the body language and verbiage used

by Woods after he missed the cut. It seems that he realizes that he can’t push his body to do the same things as before and that this was probably the last time he would play The Open at St. Andrews.

They rotate the courses for The Open and probably won’t play at St. Andrews again until 2029.

“I’m not one who gets very teary-eyed very often about anything,” said Woods. “But when it comes to the game and the passing on, just the transition, I was lucky enough in ’95 to watch Arnold [Palmer] hit his first tee shot in the second round as I was going to the range.

“And I could hear Jack [Nicklaus] playing his last one [in 2005]. I was probably about four holes behind him. But just to hear the ovations getting louder and louder and louder, I felt that as I was coming in. The people See Tiger on B6

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Some of the best players in the state gathered together earlier this month for the NCCA East – West All-Star Game. The game featured some of the top talent from around the state and several players from

around the county participated in the event. Will Montgomery (CB, East Forsyth), David Eldridge (DT, West Forsyth), Evan Rhodes (LB, Reynolds), Zion Dixon (CB, Glenn), Elijah Ellis (DE, North Forsyth), were the local kids who played in the game. Mt. Tabor head coach Tieshaun Brown also served as an assistant on the team.

Area nonprofit uses physical activity to help kids

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During the pandemic, Desmond Thomas and Shakurya Michaux developed the idea for the Winston-Salem Skippers Jump Rope Academy (WSSJRA). With Michaux’s background in jumping rope and Thomas’ passion for helping kids, they felt together they could give kids something constructive to do, while also having fun.

“When I was in school, I always wanted to work with children and I met her (Michaux) and she was already in a jump rope team growing up, so together we decided that I can help the children and she could teach them to jump rope,” said Thomas of the idea for the nonprofit.

“So we went in with it as an idea like a boys club, or nonprofit organization where we can keep the children safe. It was God’s timing that we came into this together.”

The Skippers meet at the Carl Russell Community Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Michaux and Thomas are just trying to get their program’s name out to the public, so there is no charge for kids to join the Skippers up front.

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Shakurya Michaux and Desmond Thomas founded the Winston-Salem Skippers Jump Rope Academy to help neighborhood kids. jumping rope and wants to participate in the competitions that the organization plans to enter.

Michaux is the coach for the jump rope team.

She says a new child routinely shows up to the program each week and she enjoys showing them the basics of the sport and seeing the kids progress as the weeks pass.

“A lot of kids don’t know how to jump rope, so nearly every practice I will have to start over,” said Michaux. “We started with three or four kids from two years ago and those kids

picked it up real quick, so many times they will lead stretches and help out the other kids.

“I teach the class two or three tricks and we will split the kids up into groups. The younger group will practice on just regular jumps to work on their form and the older kids will practice on their tricks. And for the last 30 minutes we are doing double dutch.”

The Skippers are training their young jumpers to prepare them for future competitions. One of their main goals is to train some

of the best athletes in the city because having good footwork translates to many other sports. They currently have 15 kids that consistently come to the center to participate.

For Michaux and Thomas, their ultimate goal is to have their own recreation center. The jumping rope is just a part of the organization as they also want to mentor and give kids’ guidance.

“We really want to do our own thing you know … for us by us,” said Thomas.

“Our main focus is not just sports; we are an academy.

We are trying to save our children and be community activists. When we can change a few in the community, then we can change the community.”

Using jump ropes to bring kids in to hopefully change their lives for the better gives Michaux and Thomas great pleasure.

They don’t want to be one of those organizations that talks a good game but never sees anything tangible happen. For them, action is necessary for change.

“This is my life, honestly, and I feel like that’s what I was put on earth for,” Michaux says about helping kids. “I am not saying this to boast, but the way kids look at me and the way I look at kids is nothing but love both ways. Every time we see each other, the kids know that I have their back no matter what goes down.”

“It’s wonderful, man, and this is what we do,” added Thomas. “We treat these kids like our own and we love them.”

For more information on the Winston-Salem Skippers Jump Rope Academy, please email them at wssjra@gmail.com and follow on Facebook at Winston-Salem Skippers Jump Rope Academy.

They will also hold another interest meeting soon for parents that they will announce on their social media pages.

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Coach and player come full circle

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Marcus Ingram is the head basketball coach for the Forsyth Country Day School boys sixth grade basketball team. When he was a youth, he played AAU basketball under Alvin Robinson, who taught him a lot about the game of basketball. Many years later, Robinson is now the assistant coach for Ingram.

Ingram is entering his second season as the Furies coach and led them to a 9-1 record last year.

When thinking of assistants for his staff, Ingram quickly thought of Robinson because he remembers the lessons Robinson taught him as a youth and figured his players could benefit from those lessons as well.

“When I first started playing basketball, I was probably 12, so I was way behind the eight ball, but he [Robinson] believed in me,” said Ingram. “The head coach was Charette Guthrie and they both took me under their wing and they always told me I could do it. I used to be down on myself and he always was behind me.

“Even when I got to high school and college, he was like, ‘you got it, you got the special talent.’

I never believed in myself until I started seeing it when it came to fruition.”

One of the major reasons for Ingram bringing Robinson onto his staff was to impart his years of coaching wisdom on the players.

“To keep me grounded in knowing what he did and learning all the steps that he took because he has been doing this for 30 plus years,” said Ingram about Robinson.

“He taught me to always respect everybody,

always show love, always be professional in everything that you do. That’s what we are trying to teach the kids, respect each other and human decency.

It doesn’t matter if your mother has a Lamborghini or your mom has a Honda, all of us are the same and we all have the same goal.”

Before coaching with the Furies, Ingram was on Josh Howard’s staff at Piedmont International University, now Carolina University. He says coaching on the collegiate level is similar to coaching at FCD because of the atmosphere of the school.

Robinson remembers his time coaching Ingram Marcus Ingram played under Alvin Robinson and now very fondly. After coach- coach. ing for three decades, paramount for Robinson. say is ‘job well done son,’” when he was approached Being at Forsyth Country Robinson continued. “I with this opportunity, RobDay School gives him the have been following Marinson jumped at the idea to chance to coach a different cus from over there with be on Ingram’s staff. crop of kids.

Josh at PIU. “Put it like this, I “My wife always said wouldn’t want to be under that I love all kids,” Robanyone I coached and be inson continued. “I am not their assistant other than a perfect X and O man, but Coach Ingram because I I love all kids, so she said remember he played hard you’ve always brought the and would give the kids all best out of kids. Working he has,” said Robinson. in this environment is the Robinson stated that ideal environment because he never thought he would it’s diversified enough that be coaching as an assistant I could be around all kids under any of his former and reach out to them.” players. He says it’s a very Robinson says he enunique situation that he is joys seeing the progress proud to be a part of and is of the young players. His thankful for the opportugoal is to assist the young nity from FCD. players in their develop“I love it! Coach Doug ment as they get ready for [Esleeck] and Kevin the next level.

[Westwood] gave me a Robinson also enjoys chance. They heard I was watching one of his fora coach, they asked me mer players develop into did I want to coach, and a quality coach. He says I take my hat off to Forit feels good to see that syth Country Day because years later, his players nobody could see what I have retained the lessons could do in the city,” Robhe taught them years ago. inson said.

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Robinson is his assistant

“I made the call when they were asking who was best for the job here and I said Marcus. That was the first person that came to

my mind was Marcus. He always respected me. He called me coach, but he looked at me differently, more like a respectful figure in the community.”

Robinson feels he can coach for another 10 or 20 years as an assistant. He doesn’t have any aspirations of becoming a head coach because he feels he fills the assistant coach role perfectly. He says there are life lessons he can give to the players that go beyond the court.

“I want them to always believe in themselves and to play hard,” Robinson said. “If you are up by 20, play hard. If you are down by 20, play hard. Always give it all you can on the court, because you never know who’s watching you.”

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Elder Richard Wayne Wood Sunday School Lesson

The Word Saves Scriptures: John 12:44-50 By the end of this lesson, we will: *Recognize that Jesus is God; *Desire a closer relationship with God through choosing to follow Christ; *Share with others the opportunity to come into the Light of Christ.

Background: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1). John states that Jesus is and always has been God. That Jesus is God’s spoken Word, the physical manifestation of God the Father. “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, …” (John 1:14). The lesson this week is essentially a summary of Jesus’ teaching that concludes His public ministry and leaves the believer to decide whether to believe in His claims of deity or not. John has shown Jesus is His life, His ministry, His miracles, His message and His desire to save lost sinners.

Lesson: Believing and Seeing Jesus (John 12:4445). “Then Jesus cried out and said … ” Jesus speaks in a loud voice. “He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me.” (verse 44). Jesus emphasizes His unity with God. “And he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me.” (verse 45). To believe in Jesus was to put faith in “Him who sent” Jesus, even more than it was to put faith in Jesus Himself. Jesus stresses this more in John 14:7-9.

Jesus Is Light in Darkness (verse 46). “I have come as a light into the world …” (verse 46 a.) “That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.” (verse 1:9). Jesus stresses His own truthfulness and the need man has to follow Him. “… that whosoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness” (verse 46 b), Those who believe in Jesus are now assured that they will not remain in the darkness.

Jesus the Rejected Savior (verses 47-48). “And if anyone hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him …” (verse 47). Jesus did not come to judge, He came to save. If Jesus had come only to judge, then there was no need for incarnation. He became flesh, a sin offering, to rescue humanity. “He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, … the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.” (verse 48). The sinner is actually passing judgment on himself, not Jesus. The warning is there – there are inescapable consequences for rejecting Jesus.

Jesus Speaks as the Father Speaks (verses 49-50).

“For I have not spoken on My own authority …” (verse 49a). Jesus lived under His Father’s authority and stressed His submission to Him. “And I know that His command is everlasting life … just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.” (verse 50). Jesus faithfully represented God to the world and stressed that what He says comes from the Father and is the way to eternal life. (The UMI Annual Commentary 2021-2022, The King James Study Bible, The Modern Life Study Bible, The Wiersbe Study Bible, The New Interpreters Study Bible, and The Oxford Bible Commentary).

For Your Consideration: In what areas of your life See Word on B6

BY BOB TOPPER

A good friend who heads a leading law firm once explained that when a lawyer’s case is weak, he argues precedent. He relies on historical findings in similar cases to razzledazzle the judge and jury.

But when a lawyer is in command of his case, understands how and why his position is fair and just, he doesn’t sway the court with arcane case law. He presents the facts logically, in plain language, so that everyone, including the opposing attorney, will see and agree that the verdict he seeks is fair and just.

As I read Justice Alito’s decision on Dobbs v.

Jackson Women’s Health Organization, my friend’s explanation came to mind.

Why would anyone need 65 pages citing law back to the 1600s to explain that Roe and Casey were “egregiously wrong from the start.” Something so “conspicuously bad” should have been obvious to everyone.

But Alito’s case is weak, and so his decision is an obfuscation. It is a legalistic tap dance justifying subjective personal belief in the face of the rational decisions of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. What is more, his argument denies religious freedom to nonChristians.

Christians believe that men and women have a body, and a soul. The soul makes humans uniquely different from other animals. Many Christians claim a third division - between the soul and spirit.

And Christians debate when the soul-spirit enters the body. Some say at birth, some at conception, some at quickening or other gestation marker.

But there is no factual evidence that a soul or spirit exists. And so, these religious debates have gone on for centuries and are unlikely ever to end. Without evidence, there can be no rational conclusion.

One of the things that made America great is that it didn’t take sides in this kind of debate. Until Roe was overturned, Americans had always been at liberty, free, to believe whatever they chose to believe. Our secular Constitution guaranteed this freedom of choice.

Humankind’s ability to reason is the foundation of our Republic. Reason is the basis of our laws and judicial system. When the founders wrote our Dec-

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Bob Topper laration of Independence and our Constitution, they were inspired. Their inspiration came from the Enlightenment philosophy of the 17th century, the Age of Reason, from people like Hobbs, Rosseau, Spinoza and Locke, who rejected Christian revelation as a foundation for government and law and replaced it with reason. Despite the founder’s faith in humankind’s reasoning ability, Alito takes the opposite view; he chooses Christian belief over reason.

Roe and Casey understood that laws banning abortion, like the Mississippi law at hand, are a violation of women’s rights.

The Roe and Casey courts appreciated that any decision regarding when or if a fetus becomes a human life must be subjective. So only a woman can decide whether or not she should terminate her pregnancy.

Neither the courts, nor the state nor anyone else had any right to interfere with that liberty.

Taking a different path, Alito decides that this woman’s liberty, her right to choose, must be “ordered,” which is to say restricted. Inherently, this says that women are lesser beings, incapable of self-determination and attempts to diminish them as equals.

Consider this arcane paragraph: “Ordered liberty sets limits and defines the boundary between competing interests. Roe and Casey each struck a particular balance between the interests of a woman who wants an abortion and the interests of what they termed “potential life.”

Roe, 410 U. S., at 150; Casey, 505 U. S., at 852.

But the people of the vari-

ous States may evaluate those interests differently.

In some States, voters may believe that the abortion right should be even more extensive than the right that Roe and Casey recognized. Voters in other States may wish to impose tight restrictions based on their belief that abortion destroys an “unborn human being.” Miss. Code Ann. §41–41–191(4)(b).

Our Nation’s historical understanding of ordered liberty does not prevent the people’s elected representatives from deciding how abortion should be regulated.”

The competing interests of Ordered Liberty are freedom and societal order.

Fifty years have shown that the freedom Roe v.

Wade insures has had no impact on societal “order.”

Hence, with this “ordered liberty” argument, Alito takes us down a rabbit hole with no explanation of how Roe or his decision affects “ordered liberty.”

More importantly, both Roe and Casey determined that a women’s right to choose is fundamental, the right of all women, everywhere. Such rights are not arbitrary, nor are they a matter of “ordered liberty” and so cannot be left to the states any more than the right to inter-racial marriage can be.

He asserts, “Voters in other states may wish to impose tight restrictions based on their belief.” Belief is the key word. Alito claims this fundamental right is arbitrary and does not depend on truth or fact but on what most people wish to believe. A lack of factual evidence is of no concern. Here he endorses Christian belief, for this is a Mississippi case, where 83% of voters are

Christian, and this is what Christians believe.

So, the law that Alito defends requires everyone in Mississippi to abide by a Christian belief, which denies religious freedom to anyone who believes differently.

The separation of church and state applies to our Nation as a whole. In that context, one can see why his position is so terribly wrong. By his logic, the Christian majority in Mississippi could impose other restrictions, like outlawing non-Christian religions or requiring attendance at Christian Sunday services.

Moreover, this judgment jeopardizes other hard-won rights, including birth control, interracial marriage, gay marriage, and other LBGT rights.

The irrational framework of Dobbs could just as well be applied to those cases, as Justice Thomas has already suggested should be done.

The founders were concerned that a “tyranny of the majority” would deny individual rights, as this Mississippi law has done. They added The Bill of Rights to our Constitution to protect against this very injustice. Majorities can’t impose subjective beliefs on the United States.

Look at slavery. In 1865, the belief that slavery was acceptable was firmly and ultimately rejected; at the end of the Civil War, the Confederacy, including Mississippi, surrendered their state slavery laws.

Sure, some will believe that Alito’s argument is “fair and just,” but most Americans will instead apply those attributes to this compelling excerpt from Casey, in plain language that everyone can understand: “Men and women of good conscience can disagree, and we suppose some always shall disagree, about the profound moral and spiritual implications of terminating a pregnancy, even in its earliest stage. Some of us as individuals find abortion offensive to our most basic principles of morality, but that cannot control our decision. Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code.”

Bob Topper is a retired engineer and is syndicated

by PeaceVoice.

RELIGION CALENDAR

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

Each Sunday Sunday service Transformation Ministries will have service every Sunday at 10 a.m. We are located at 4880 Burnette Drive. Masks are required.

3rd Friday of each month Women’s fellowship The Antioch Baptist Church (ABC) Women, 5061 Lansing Dr., cordially invites all women to join us the third Friday of each month at 7 p.m. for conversation as we share and embrace each other in these challenging times. Join us via conference call. Dial in: 267-807-9601 Access Code:189545592#. Rev. Frederick L. Barnes, Jr. is the senior pastor. For more information, call 336-9923751.

July 24 First Waughtown Baptist Church (FWBC) Dr. Dennis W. Bishop, Senior Pastor of First Waugh-

town Baptist Church (FWBC), will continue the message on Characteristics of the Holy Spirit with a focus on Maintenance Mentality in the Church (scriptural reference -Acts 13:1-5, 9-12). Front doors open at 9:15 a.m. for screening, devotion, and announcements prior to the 10 a.m. service. Completed waiver forms and masks that cover the nose and mouth are required. The form can be submitted electronically on the FWBC website – www.firstwaughtown.org -- RE-ENTRY 2022 link, and printed copies will be available in the lobby prior to service. Other in-person protocols and information about 6 p.m. virtual Sunday School are accessible via the FWBC homepage RE-ENTRY link. Persons who prefer to worship virtually can find the service on YouTube, https:// www.youtube.com (First Waughtown); Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/FirstWaughtown/; and the First Waughtown website, https://www.firstwaughtown. org. (NOTE: Services are posted on a one-week delay.)

July 24-27 138th Annual Session We will not have our regular Forsyth County Missionary Union Meeting on the 4th Sunday of this month.

Our Hybrid 138th Annual Session will be Virtual and in person will be held on Sunday, July 24, thru Wednesday, July 27. The host church will be Galilee Missionary Baptist Church of Winston-Salem. The host pastor is Dr. Nathan E. Scovens. There will be an option to dial-in or use the video platform. For more information,

ask your Union or Missionary President or call 919-8217466.

July 25-27 Woman’s Baptist Home & Foreign Missionary Convention The Woman’s Baptist Home and Foreign Missionary Convention of North Carolina, Inc. announces its 138th Annual Session to be held July 25-27, 2022. The host church will be Cedar Grove Missionary Baptist Church located at 1229 Cedar Grove Road, SW, Supply NC 28462. Our host pastor is the Reverend Jaymus D. Stanley, and the First Lady is Mrs. Karla Glass Stanley who also serves as 2nd vice president of the convention.

You may register via this link https://www.reservationcounter.com/holiday-inn/bolivia or call 910-2539100 to book. For more information, please email the Convention office at womansbaptiststateconventionnc@ gmail.com.

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Community Calendar July 22 Happy Hill Cemetery cleanup There’s on-going work to be done at the cemetery.

The next Clean-up Session is Saturday, July 22 from 8:30 - 10:30 am. Notice the time adjustment. Also, mark your calendar for the 2nd and 4th Saturday, August 13th & 27th at the same time. We’re seeking groups with willing hands (perhaps Pan Hellenic initiates) or come out because you have discovered that you or a friend have a Happy Hill ancestor or a veteran buried there.

Bring gloves, wear sturdy shoes and dress appropriate for the weather. If you have clippers, please bring them. The address is 888 Willow Street 27127 (off Free Street; at the intersection of Pitts and Willow Street). For additional information, call, Mrs. Maurice Johnson 336- 9782866.

July 25-26 Auditions 40 Plus Stage Company will be holding auditions for the play Rhonda’s Rites of Passage on Monday, July 25, and Tuesday, July 26, from 7-9 p.m. at SECCA, 750 Marguerite Drive. For more information, please see our website: https://40plusstage. com/auditions-for-theplay-rhondas-rites-of-passage-to-begin-july-25.

Aug. 6 Celebration of cultures Join Historic Bethabara Park as we explore the connections between Indigenous peoples and the early Moravians on Saturday, August 6, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. A park guide will lead two informative tours regarding Indigenous peoples to 1800; and the Felt and Soul Puppet Theater will perform throughout the day. Admission is free. For more information, please visit historicbethabara.org or call (336) 924-8191.

Aug. 10 & 20 Movie in the park series Recreation and Parks will offer a free showing of “Luca” on Wednesday, Aug. 10, at Bolton Pool, 1590 Bolton St. The movie series is being sponsored

by Recreation and Parks, Community Development and the Winston-Salem Fire & Police departments. For more informa-

tion send an email to WePLAYevents@cityofws. org.

Also, the WePLAY Movies in the Park series will show “Sing 2” on Aug. 20 at Crawford Park, 4226 Oak Ridge Drive.

Aug. 19, Sept. 2, 14 Cinema Under the Stars Reynolda House Museum of American Art is excited to announce the line-up for the 2022 season of Cinema Under the Stars. The films showcased this season have been curated by a/perture cinema and evoke the imagery and expression of Reynolda’s fall exhibition, Chrome Dreams and Infinite Reflections: American Photorealism.

Cinema Under the Stars kicks off Friday, August 19, with Spike Lee’s “Crooklyn,” the semiautobiographical film that follows the joys and heartbreaks of Troy Carmichael and her family as they navigate life in Brooklyn, New York during the summer of 1973. On Friday, September 2, the spotlighted film is “The Apartment,” the 1960 romantic comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.

The season concludes on Friday, September 14, with “La La Land.” Released in 2016, this colorful, whimsical and musical film chronicles the highs and lows of struggling artists in Los Angeles.

Beer and wine will be available for purchase on the grounds beginning at 7:30 p.m. and the movie will begin at sunset, around 8:30 p.m. Guests are encouraged to bring their own chair and/or blanket. In case of inclement weather, the showing will move indoors with limited seating.

Aug. 26-27 10-Minute Play Contest Winners Winston-Salem Writers is pleased to announce the winning entries in its 2022 10-Minute Play competition. The following six plays have been selected for performance: “Clearing the Air” by Lynn Hall and “The Short Timers” by Ed Robson, both of WinstonSalem; “The Cleansing Act” by Jonathan Stephens of Greensboro; “Baling Wire and Desperation” by Larry Bliss of Raleigh; “The Brooch” by Lawson Caldwell of Charlotte; and “Dick and Jane Get Old”

by Lela Chesson of Rocky Mount.

Performances are scheduled for Friday and Saturday, August 26 and 27, at 7:30 p.m. in The Mountcastle Forum in the Milton Rhodes Center, 251 N. Spruce Street, WinstonSalem.

Oct. 1 Oktoberfest Historic Körner’s Folly, 413 South Main Street, presents the Kernersville Oktoberfest, Saturday, October 1, from 3-6 p.m. This year will be the 12th annual fundraising event in the spirit of a German Oktoberfest, featuring tastings of local beers and foodie favorites. Tickets went on sale July 20!

Tickets include selfguided tour of the house, beer, wine, and food samples, as well as a Körner’s Folly souvenir tasting glass. Early Bird Tickets are $35 and will be sold through September 2; After September 2, Ticket price will increase to $40.

For more information, visit www.kornersfolly.org or call (336) 996-7922.

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Local chapter of National Women of Achievement awards scholarship

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The Winston-Salem chapter of the National Women of Achievement, Inc. (NWOA) awarded a scholarship on Wednesday, July 13, in the Dudley Room at the Forsyth County Central Library.

The $500 scholarship was awarded to Ms. Callie Whicker, a recent graduate of Simon G. Atkins Academic & Technology High School, who will be attending American University in the fall, majoring in political science and computer science.

The program began with prayer led by Achiever Jeannette Porter. The president, Achiever Shelley Noisette, introduced the occasion and Achiever Cassaundra ElAmin introduced the scholarship recipient. Ms. Whicker read the essay that she submitted with the scholarship application.

Following the reading, Achiever Valeria Edwards presented a certificate and a check to Ms. Whicker. Youth Achiever

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Ms. Callie Whicker was awarded the $500 scholarship, presented by the Winston-Salem chapter of the National Women of Achievement, Inc. (NWOA).

CJ Emmanuel Rice read a poetry tribute. Achiever Evelyn Durham made final comments.

The Winston-Salem chapter plans to continue providing scholarships to qualified graduates every year. Their goal is to address the National Women of Achievement’s mission of supporting youth and young adults and eliminating illiteracy.

Rho Zeta Chapter awards scholarship SUBMITTED ARTICLE

Rho Zeta Chapter awarded this year's scholarship to Jordin Daniels, a rising senior from Kernersville. Jordan is majoring in exercise science and a dean's list honoree with a 3.2 GPA. Jordin's future educational goals include applying to graduate school to pursue a degree in occupational therapy.

Jordin expressed her appreciation to the scholarship committee for her selection. She said, "One day I hope to be able to create a scholarship to help another young, bright individual with their schooling. I also would like to thank the Pauling family. Mrs. Pauling was a wonderful, hardworking woman, and I wish I would have had the opportunity to meet her."

Mrs. Rosetta Jackson Pauling was born on Nov. 21, 1939, in Dobson, North Carolina. Soror Pauling was raised in Winston-Salem and attended the local schools. Upon graduation from high school, she enrolled at North Carolina Central University in Durham where she received her bachelor’s degree in education. At NCCU, she became a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. in 1960

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knew that I wasn’t going to make the cut at the number I was. But the ovations got louder as I was coming home. And that to me was – it felt, just the respect.

I’ve always respected this event. I’ve always respected the traditions of the game.”

As a fan of Woods, it hurts to see a sports legend that I respect so much not be able to play up to his high standard he has set over the years. He is three major wins away from catching Nicklaus, but after this performance, I am almost certain he will never get to 18 major wins.

He was asked if he will be able to play more events in the future that could better prepare him to compete in the major tournaments.

“I understand being more battle-hardened, but it’s hard just to walk and play 18 holes,” Woods said. “People have no idea what I have to go through and the hours of the work on the body, pre- and post[round], each and every single day, to do what I just did. That’s what people don’t understand – they don’t see. And then you think about playing more events on top of that,

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does darkness permeate and the light of Christ need to dwell? Why do you think Jesus stressed that He did not come to judge?

Application: In the early part of John 12, Jesus was bothered by the continued unbelief of those

through the Gamma Gamma chapter.

When she graduated from college, Mrs. Pauling returned to Winston-Salem, where she joined the Rho Zeta chapter and pursued a career in teaching. She enjoyed a fulfilling teaching career of more than 30 years that expanded to many states and impacted the lives of thousands of junior and high school students.

Mrs. Pauling is remembered fondly in the chapter as one who personified the principles of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. In continuation of her devotion to education, her support of the chapter’s annual scholarship fundraising efforts was phenomenal. Many students’ dreams of a college education have been fulfilled through these scholarships.

Mrs. Pauling passed away on September 7, 2021. Her commitment to education lives on through the designation of the Rho Zeta Chapter as a recipient of donations to our scholarship fund. Mrs. Pauling's family requested that in lieu of flowers, donations should be sent to this fund. These charitable donations allowed the chapter to present an initial award to a member of our sponsored undergraduate chapter at Winston-Salem State University, Jordan Daniels.

it’s hard enough just to do what I did.”

Woods makes a very valid point with that statement. I think people, me included, have become so accustomed to him playing at such a high level, they can’t fathom why he can’t play more events. I had to really think about the injuries he suffered and the effort it takes just for him to get up and play 18 holes for a tournament.

The stress that must put on his body after the injuries he suffered must take an enormous amount of fortitude and will. The fact that he is still performing at such a high level while dealing with all of the injuries he suffered from the car accident is mind boggling. And you can’t forget about the mental toughness that goes into that as well.

After Woods won The Masters in 2019, which was his first major championship in eleven years and 15th major championship overall, there was hope that Woods still had a chance to catch the Golden Bear.

After the accident, my entire thoughts on Woods catching Nicklaus changed. I was just happy that he was able to walk normally again. For him

to be able to get back out there on the course is a miracle.

Matt Fitzpatrick and Max Homa were playing with Woods during the second round. As they approached the 18th tee, the crowd was cheering so loudly for Woods. Everyone could feel the emotion and they let Woods have his moment as they lagged behind.

“It was amazing. It gave me goosebumps,” said Fitzpatrick, who won his first major championship last month at the U.S. Open. “Just looking around, seeing everyone stood up, and giving him a standing ovation coming down 18. It was incredible.

It’s something that will live with me forever.

“It’s thoroughly deserved, and I think toward the end of it, you could see he was a little bit emotional as well. Yeah, it was a big deal.”

It was nice to see the players and the fans give Woods that much respect.

As the greatest player of this generation and possibly of all time, Woods deserved all of the ovations and cheers. I just hope this isn’t the last we will see of Tiger competing at a high level at a major championship.

around Him. We should share that same concern for those around us. As individual believers, we should share testimonies with unbelieving family members, friends and neighbors. Pray for opportunities to share testimonies with unbelievers.

Commit yourself to individual evangelism. (UMI)

FYI: Forsyth County Sunday School Union will meet “virtually” every third Sunday, at 3 p.m. with teaching and programs. You may join using the following “Zoom” credentials: ID 819 7872 9662, Passcode 787444, Phone: 1-301-715-8592.