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Hazel Mack’s passion for justice started with the Black Panther Party

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

The name Hazel Mack is well known throughout the city of Winston-Salem and across the state for many things: her work as an attorney with Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC), a statewide nonprofit that provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income people; founding Carter G. Woodson School; serving as director of outreach of Wake Forest School of Law; and a host of other accomplishments. When discussing her journey through life, Mack said everything she’s achieved in life was set in motion in the summer of 1969 when decided to join the Winston-Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP).

The Summer of 1969 On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tenn. Mack, who was 17 years old at time, said that day is still a vivid memory.

“These people killed Dr. King,” Mack said.

“These people killed Dr. King and it’s just as poignant in my mind today as it was then. I was just too through at that point as a young person, I was mentally ready for something

else ... I felt like if they could kill a beautiful human being like that, then we had to do something else, that’s where my head was.”

The following summer, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C.) held a peaceful protest and march here in Winston-Salem and Mack skipped school to be there and that’s where she met a member of the Black Panther Party.

Before that day, Mack said she didn’t even know what the Black Panther Party was. She said she was inspired by the Party’s dedication to help those in need. “This brother had on a button with a panther on it and I didn’t know what it was, so I asked him and he started telling me about the Panther Party.

“He told me about Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and how the party started. That’s when I started to look up information on the Party. But at the same time, the party was developing here. I just didn’t know it.”

The Winston-Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party was officially established a few months later and Mack started attending P.E. (Political Education) classes shortly after that. To become a member of the Black Panther Party, prospects had

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Hazel Mack, retired attorney and former member of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther Party. to attend a number of P.E. classes.

Becoming a Panther “You couldn’t just walk up and say you’re going to be a member of the party, it just didn’t work like that,” said Mack while discussing the process of becoming a member of the BPP. The BPP’s Political Education classes were held in various locations throughout the city and were centered around assigned readings that focused on the fight against oppression in different parts of the world.

Mack said the P.E. classes really opened her eyes. She said she enjoyed reading before she decided

to join the party, but the P.E. classes introduced her to books she probably never would’ve read. “One of the first books I remember was Frantz Fanon’s ‘The Wretched of the Earth, Black Skin White Mask.’

We read ‘Little Red Book’

by Mao Tse-tung ... we read about people all over the world, all the people who had struggles against the powers that be and oppression. Those classes really opened my mind to a whole new universe,” she said.

Not everybody who made it through the P.E. classes went on to become members of the Party.

Mack said being a member of the Black Panther Party

meant dedicating your life to the cause.

“There was a requirement in the Party that you had to be able to do it 24/7 and not many people could qualify to do that, like if you have a family to feed or a job to go to,” Mack said. “We lived communally and we shared what we had. We were able to accomplish a lot because of the labor we put in.”

The local Black Panther Party hosted several initiatives called “Survival Programs,” including a free breakfast program for children, pest control, clothes and shoes giveaway, sickle cell anemia screening, and registering people to vote. The Win-

ston-Salem BPP is also the only one in the country that offered a free, aroundthe-clock ambulance service. The Joseph Waddell People’s Free Ambulance Service provided service throughout the city for those who couldn’t afford to pay the county fee to use the public ambulance.

Mack said after she became a member, most of the meetings focused on those programs. The Panthers raised money for the various initiatives by hitchhiking and selling newspapers in different cities across the state that talked about the programs offered by the Party.

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‘Quality food for a good price’ It has always been Lee Price’s dream to own his own restaurant. When he was in the sixth grade, he was given an assignment to write about what he wanted to be when he grew up. “I said I wanted to manage and run my own restaurant … when I read it out loud to the class, a few people laughed. But I didn’t care, that’s what I wanted to do,” he said.

Last week Price’s dream became real-

ity when Papa Lee’s Grill opened at 2600 New Walkertown Road.

Price, 52, started cooking when he was only eight years old and has more than 30 years of experience working in fast food at McDonald’s and Bojangles. Although he retired in 2017, Price said when he was presented with the opportunity to open his own restaurant, he couldn’t pass it up. He said although he had his doubts in the beginning, after receiving encouraging words from several close friends, including his pastor, Bishop Willie David Sr., he decided to follow his dream.

He reached out to Goler Community Development Corporation about the property on New Walkertown Road and things just started to fall in place.

“My pastor really encouraged me. He said, ‘You can do this, you know the business and you can handle it.’” Price continued, “So me and my wife sat down, counted up the cost and it was really

more than we had, but we still decided to do it. We worked by faith … faith is the substance of things hoped for - Hebrews 11:1.

And I live by that and that’s how we got to where we are today.”

Papa Lee’s Grill officially opened on Monday, March 15, and has seen a steady flow of customers since the grand opening. The first customer

Price and his team served was Winston-Salem City Councilwoman Annette Scippio, who represents the East Ward where the restaurant is located.

“Councilwoman Scippio was the first person to walk through my door and she doesn’t know how good that made me feel.

Just knowing that I have her support means a lot,” Price said.

Price said he wants Papa Lee’s to be the go-to restaurant in the East Ward and for families across the city. “I want this to be a restaurant in the East Winston community that people are proud to come to,” he said.

Some of the favorites on the menu so far are the chicken wings and Papa Lee’s Big Bubba Cheeseburger, a half-pound double cheeseburger with the works.

The menu also includes a host of other burgers, turkey burgers, a barbecue sandwich, hot dogs, chicken tenders, salads, tacos, ice cream cones, sundaes, a kid’s menu, and more, all for a reasonable price.

Price also mentioned plans to add a breakfast menu in the near future.

“We’re trying to give people good quality food for a good price. I think our prices are a good value for what you’re getting,” Price continued. “I’ve had some people tell me my prices were too low, but I told them they aren’t too

low because I want to support the community and I want the community to support me.”

When asked what sets Papa Lee’s apart from other restaurants in the area, Price said, “Our customer service is above and beyond any customer service you will find anywhere in this city or outside this city.

“I’ve worked in Tennessee, South Carolina, and in Virginia, and given talks on customer service when I was with Bojangles and it’s something that has to be in you. So when I interview my employees, I look for those skills in people. When a customer walks into Papa Lee’s, the community can expect to receive quality food and excellent customer service.”

Papa Lee’s Grill is open for dine-in and takeout Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. For more information or to see a full menu, visit “Papa Lee’s Grill” on Facebook.

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The Life of a Panther On June 15, 1969, J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) declared “the Black Panther Party without question, represents the greatest threat to internal security of the country.”

That same year 19 members from different BPP chapters across the country were killed. And BPP chapters became one of the FBI’s biggest targets. Hoover’s plot to dismantle the BPP was part of a program called COINTELPRO, a series of illegal projects that started in the 1950s and was aimed at infiltrating and dismantling American political organizations.

“At the time when we were formulating and joining, we were in the middle of the onslaught by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI to destroy the party,” Mack continued. “But it wasn’t just the Party, they did the same thing to any organization or person that was about the business of moving our people forward.

They were about killing and there was no doubt about it.”

Mack said it wasn’t a secret that they were being watched by the FBI and at times agents would go out of their way to let members know.

“I remember vividly walking down Liberty Street with Larry (Little) one day when the guy who was assigned to watch us rode down the street and made finger gestures as if he was going to shoot us,” Mack said. “There was always this game of intimidation.”

There were also times when the FBI used real guns and live ammo to try to send their message.

Mack recalled one summer when the FBI and members of the WinstonSalem Police Department shot into a home on 23rd Street where several Panthers lived. Before the raid, Mack said law enforcement tried to frame members of the Party for stealing a truck full of meat.

“They sent a Black man with a meat truck to the house where people were living and who said he was donating meat to the program. He parked the truck there and left it so they said we stole that truck and they used that as pretense to shoot into that house on 23rd Street. They tore that house up with bullets; they shot in there to kill,” she said.

Luckily there weren’t many people in the house that day and no one was injured. Mack said there

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were only two people in the house, an older gentleman they called “Papa Doc” and a teenager who law enforcement let go.

Although he wasn’t there at the time, the president of the local chapter, Larry Little, was arrested and charged, along with Papa Doc. “They ended up charging Larry, Papa Doc and somebody else who wasn’t even there,” Mack chuckled. “The funny part is, Papa Doc couldn’t even drive. So the man that they charged with driving the truck never drove, never had his license, and everybody knew he couldn’t drive. So it was funny in some ways, but we had to go through a trial for that.”

Another time law enforcement was openly violent. They targeted the local BPP headquarters when it was on 14th Street and Jackson Avenue. According to Mack, the headquarters on 14th Street was fortified and nearly impossible to overrun. “That was not a house that they were going to run up on because there was no way to get in, so they fire-bombed the house,” Mack said.

At the time of the bombing, most of the members were in Philadelphia attending a conference hosted by the National BPP and no one was injured.

Mack said members of the Party had an understanding that they had a target on their backs and probably wouldn’t live past the age of 30, but that was a sacrifice they were all willing to make.

“At that moment, to Hoover and the FBI we were the most dangerous organization in the country, which is why they had to kill certain people … and they did have to kill us because we weren’t going to stop,” Mack continued. “Our goal was to stop the oppression of our people on a daily basis and nothing was going to stop that.”

Life after the Party The Winston-Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party stayed active in the community until 1978, but that didn’t stop Mack and other members of the Party from continuing fighting against oppression.

Mack decided to take her fight to the courtroom and in 1980 she graduated from Temple University School of Law. In 1986 Mack started working for Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC) were she worked for more than 30 years before retiring in 2016. While with LANC, Mack served as regional managing attorney and project director of the

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A marker honoring the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther Party, the first chapter in the South.

Home Defense Project.

“In my mind I was going to law school to better serve people and when I graduated law school I still wanted to serve the people, so I went into legal services first in Philadelphia, then I came back home,” she said.

In fall of 1997, with the help of a group of determined people in Forsyth County, Mack opened Carter G. Woodson School, a public charter school that adheres to basic curriculum requirements of the state, but has several advantages, such as new and innovative approaches to improve on standard education practices.

Mack said she started looking into alternative learning options a few years before the school actually opened. She wasn’t happy with the way her daughter was being treated in public school and she wanted to try something new. “My baby girl was not doing well in school and as I tried to get more involved, I realized it wasn’t that easy. I was in the building a lot and I saw how children were being treated and I wasn’t happy,” she said. After home schooling her daughter for a few years, Mack said she saw other parents having the same issues and started laying the foundation for the school.

“I saw an opportunity,” Mack said. “I put an announcement on a local radio station that basically asked parents to meet me at the East Winston Library on a Saturday morning and when I got there, it was standing room only and I knew I wasn’t alone.”

Today Carter G. Woodson serves students in grades K-12 and offers free tuition and bus transportation to and from many neighborhoods throughout the city.

Although she has officially retired, Mack is still working to uplift the community. She is the owner

of Other Suns, a multi-use business space where entrepreneurs can rent space to sell their own products and services.

For her dedication to uplift those in need, in 2016 Mack was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at The Chronicle’s Annual Community Ser-

vice Awards.

When thinking back on her journey through life and her accomplishments, Mack said, “The best training I ever had for life was in the Black Panther Party. The best education I received in life was the years I spent in the Black Panther Party because it

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taught me that I could do anything that I put my mind to,” Mack continued.

“My experiences in life, with the help of Almighty God, have always been, take what you have and make what you want with it, and it all started with the Party.”

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5 tips for 2021 graduates to prepare for a fiercely competitive job market

BY KRISTA WIGNALL

Colleges may return to normalcy in a few months as the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines continues. Meanwhile, in sharp contrast to that positive news, millions of college students will graduate this spring facing bleak employment prospects.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused unemployment to soar in 2020 and is expected to affect the job market for graduates again this year. Some labor analysts see the pandemic perhaps having this ripple effect on graduates for years to come. These sobering trends are why students should expand their preparation for the job market and know what action steps they need to take, says Vince Thompson (www.meltatl.com), founder and CEO of the marketing agency MELT and author of ”Building Brand You: How To Use Your College Experience To Find And Win Your First Job.” “Thanks to COVID-19, if you’re in college right now or recently graduated, you’re facing the toughest job market in our lifetime,” Thompson says. “With so many people unemployed and displaced, people will be willing to take a lesser job for a lesser salary just to get back in the market.

“To use a fishing analogy, it’s going to take a lot of casts to get a few bites for interviews and ultimately land the job. But don’t let that discourage you. Instead, let it inspire you to grow and learn what you need to know to set yourself apart from other candidates. It’s all about positioning yourself by building your resume, brand, and your network.

And being enthusiastic about the process.”

Thompson suggests the following tips for soon-to-be graduates as they prepare for a fiercely

competitive job market: *Build your brand. The job market is so competitive that companies are looking for far more than candidates with a high GPA. “Hiring managers often seek wellrounded young people who can communicate, collaborate and create,” Thompson says. “They’re looking for people who have been active outside the classroom as well – in clubs, the community, volunteer work, etc. All of these aspects are part of your brand. Also, the new litmus test in the job market will be, ‘What did you do to improve yourself and others during COVID? Or did you do nothing and feel sorry for yourself?’

Employers are going to be looking for those intangibles.” *Organize your marketing playbook. “Utilizing a complete marketing playbook means leveraging your abilities and interests on social media platforms,” Thompson says.

“This is where you display your public brand. Your profile, posts, photos, and videos reflect what you’re about. It’s key that your presentation and message are consistent on each platform that you use.” *Expand your networking. “Today, about 75% of new hires happen through networking,” Thompson says. “Build a target list of people to contact at companies that are hiring. Join discussion groups on LinkedIn that can expand your contacts and your knowledge. Connect with thought leaders and ask them questions to gain insight.” *Upskill. “Companies want young people who are versatile and able to learn new skills quickly,” Thompson says. “Research skills required in fields that you’re pursuing and get credentialed through online training programs. If opportunities

are far fewer in your chosen field, research where your best skills apply in other industries.” *Prepare for virtual interviewing. “When you interview in person, your body language, enthusiasm, handshake and small talk help build a connection with the interviewer,” Thompson says. “Being interviewed on a screen demands that you be fully engaged, establish a rapport, have continual eye contact and express yourself clearly.

“How you stand out from the crowd has always been the differentiator in hiring,” Thompson says.

“It’s a much bigger crowd now for fewer jobs, so the importance of preparation in all facets has never been more important.”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Pass the For The People Act now To The Editor: I am a lifelong human rights advocate concerned about the rights of all people at every life stage. Therefore, I am appealing to Senators Richard Burr and Thom Tillis to do “the right thing” and do whatever it takes to get the For The People Act passed in the Senate and signed into law.

The House is about to vote in support of the For The People Act (HR1/S1) - which represents a once-in-ageneration opportunity to strengthen our democracy by putting more power in the hands of everyday people by strengthening our voting, elections, campaign finance, and ethics laws. Then it will be up to the Senate to pass the bill to get this life-changing bill on President Biden’s desk for his signature.

Reforms in the For The People Act are democracy tested, and have taken hold across our great nation.

Everyday people (voters) have spoken. Reforms have passed in red, blue, and purple states and localities.

More often than not, with bipartisan support.

Unfortunately, anti-democratic and authoritarian factions are on the rise in the United States. As a result, an increasing number of people are being discounted and/ or left out of the political process as a result of racist voter suppression laws and barriers to participation.

Congress must take bold and lasting action to build our democracy. Solutions that have already been implemented and effected in states and municipalities across our great country, must be activated nationwide.

Absolutely nothing, including the filibuster, which is a relic of the Jim Crow era and subverts the basic notion of majority rule in our democracy, should stop Congress from passing comprehensive democracy reform to strengthen our elections like the For The People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Althea Taylor Jones, Ph.D. Kernersville, N.C.

10 tips to use your stimulus funds or tax refund wisely

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Whether you were financially impacted by the pandemic or not, the luxury of receiving a stimulus check or tax refund can be quite enticing. Spring is a perfect time to create new, healthy financial habits. Here are a few tips to consider before cashing that check or swiping your debit card. *Put a plan on paper before you receive your funds or spend any of your stimulus check. Make an itemized list of how you intend to use your funds so that you are aware of how much you will have left. Planning can help you get the most out of your money. Think about needs over wants! *Do you have a savings account? Do you have funds set aside for an emergency? Start one immediately or increase your current savings. Peace of mind is priceless, but a flat tire or brake job is not! Check out www.AmericaSaves.org for tips and take a personal pledge to save. * Negotiate past due bills. You may have fallen behind on basic living expenses due to loss of income because of COVID-19. Prioritize a list and calculate the total amounts past due to make them current. Is there room to negotiate if you can’t pay it all at once? Can you make payment arrangements for the remaining balance? * Pay down debt. Look at any debt you owe and prioritize based on either highest interest rates or lowest balances and pay down your debt. *Invest. This lump sum is an opportunity to invest in your future or your children’s future – savings, education, investments, etc. Do your research. Find someone who can give you sound advice. * Check your credit report for accuracy and dispute errors. About 85% of credit reports have inaccuracies.

Having available funds is also a prime time to pay off or negotiate collection or charged-off accounts to work toward improving your credit. You can check your credit for free every 12 months at www.annualcreditreport. com. * Establish credit. Consider setting aside $500. You can contact a local bank or credit union if you are ready to reestablish credit by opening a secured credit card. *Asset maintenance – car and home. Will it be cheaper to fix the car you have instead of using a lump sum like this stimulus payment to buy a car with payments? Will you be able to afford full coverage insurance, maintenance, and payments with a new car loan term? Have you had to skip over HVAC service or other common house-

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hold repairs? Consider home or car repairs to get more life from your current assets. * Donate to charity. You may be in a position to make a charitable contribution to an organization that is important to you. There could be future tax deduction benefits if you make this choice. In addition, studies show that donating to a special cause brings increased happiness, improved self-worth, and changes lives for the better!

If you are not sure what to do or where to start, just pause. Save it. Sit on it. If you would like to meet with a counselor to help you with goal setting and prioritizing your finances, contact Financial Pathways of the Piedmont: 336-896-1191 or email info@financialpaths.org.

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Pain and suffering in the Asian American community affect us all Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.

Guest Columnist

What does it mean to be our brother’s and sister’s keeper? Is that an expression that sounds good but has little to no meaning?

Are we so caught up these days in “me” that we cannot see someone else?

While some may think it strange, I believe we are responsible for each other.

We should want what is best for each other in every way every day. This time-honored expression in my opinion has been stretched to the limits. We say it proudly, but we do

not practice it.

If you are Black like me, your mind immediately goes to Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. Both were killed by the police.

If cooler heads had prevailed, their deaths could have been avoided.

Now another group in our beloved community is experiencing pain and death. Asian Americans are now the targets of violence and intolerance.

Sadly, there is a link to this violence with the coronavirus. Reports say that since the pandemic, there has been a 150% increase in crimes against Asian Americans.

Unfortunately, some Americans have been calling the coronavirus the China virus. Some of this distasteful and inflammatory rhetoric started with the previous administra-

tion. If you recall in his press conferences, Mr. T referred to the coronavirus as such.

This dangerous assertion has caught on and now Asian Americans are in physical danger. And even more so, they are afraid. They are afraid to go out and to be seen.

Last week eight women of Asian descent were killed at three spas in the Atlanta area. These were senseless and mindless killings and did not have to happen.

The shooter was identified as Robert Aaron Long.

He is 21 years of age. Long was arrested and reports say he was on the way to Florida to commit more killings. Robert Long is young and white.

There is growing speculation that this was a hate crime. Long counters and

said he has a sex addition and that therefore was the reason for the killings.

Experts disagree with his statements.

Dr. Douglas Weiss, psychologist and president of the American Association for Sex Addiction therapy said, “Most sex addicts are not murderers or thieves or embezzlers or criminal types.” He added, “There is a difference between addiction and these types of behaviors.”

The sadness felt by these families is unspeakable. Hearts are broken and families are broken up.

These killings show us just how fragile and tenuous life is. We wake up and start our day, not knowing what lies ahead. These victims left their homes but did not return.

America, this is sad and tragic.

People come to this country filled with hope and enthusiasm. The axiom is that if you work hard and do what is right, then good things will happen for you.

What is the psyche of people who hate other people because of looks, national origin and religion?

Maybe Robert Aaron Long can answer that question.

It is my opinion this was a crime of hate. Now, how does the nation pick up the shattered pieces again?

President Biden and Vice President Harris were in Atlanta last week.

President Biden said, “The conversation we had today with the (Asian American and Pacific Islander) leaders, and that we’re hearing across the country is that hate and violence often hide in plain sight. It’s of-

ten met with silence.”

America, we can no longer look the other way.

This is us and we need to fix us.

Hate will not help us to be a better country, only love will. We cannot give in to hate.

Let us give in to love.

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

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

Where are the ‘other’ white men?

Rob Okun Guest Columnist Years ago, the pork industry ran a campaign touting its product as the “other white meat.” It was angling to ally itself with the “chicken-is-healthierthan-red-meat” crowd.

Most people saw it for what it was: a cynical ploy.

Today, when it comes to white men, the sound and fury is all coming from the red meat crowd—riot-endorsers Sens. Josh Hawley and flyin’ Ted Cruz, and Cong. Louie Gohmert, to name a few. (No, Tucker Carlson, this is not an assault on hamburgers.)

So where are the “other” white men? Those who wear masks, believe in gender equality (and science), raise their children, don’t “babysit” them; workingmen volunteering in their

communities? There are plenty of them below the media’s radar, and many like them are in BIPOC communities. For anyone who knows men like these, support them! No one can afford to remain silent about the dangers posed by white supremacist men who dominate the news.

Especially in light of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, we need to hear from the “other” white men and their allies. Now. Consider: Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson describes the primarily white male supremacist rioters as “patriots” and says he was never afraid, conveniently ignoring their violent attack on Capitol police, including murdering officer Brian Sicknick.

How is it possible that once again—just as in mass shootings—few commentators state the obvious: virtually all the white supremacists in the spotlight are men, ultraright foot soldiers pledging allegiance to the United

States of White America?

Since Joe Biden’s inauguration, the Trumpublicans haven’t gone away; nor have the Proud Boys, Three Percenters, Boogaloo Boys, and Oath Keepers, among others.

We cannot ignore a flashing caution light, especially one that turned blood red on January 6.

Until or unless we acknowledge the connection between those violent men and their establishment counterparts—co-conspirators like Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsay Graham—it will be harder for the “other” white men to join President Biden’s battle for the soul of America. Without men of peace modeling an alternative, insurrection supporters—including those in states passing new laws to suppress the vote—will continue to feel emboldened to seek fresh recruits.

It may be imprecise cultural shorthand to describe the “former guy”

and President Biden as examples of old and new expressions of masculinity, especially since at 78, Biden is an unlikely poster boy for a kinder, gentler manhood. Nevertheless, he is a good choice, providing cover for white men—and BIPOC allies—to stand behind a platform promoting a new masculinity.

In the political world, insurrection lovers Hawley and Cruz are jockeying for pole position in the 2024 presidential race, allying themselves with the former guy’s base and its expression of manhood emphasizing toughness, aggression, and violence.

The “other” white men and their allies have an opportunity to expose how extreme that posture is.

To remain silent would be morally inexcusable. With COVID-19 finally being responsibly managed, there is space for another kind of treatment focused on youth, particularly boys and young men.

There may not yet be

a schedule for vaccinating youth, but by embodying compassion and empathy, men can be inoculated against the Trumpublican virus of callousness, abuse, and violence. It’s on us to prepare youth for “transformation of masculinity” treatments, urging parents, educators, coaches, and faith leaders to develop programs to nurture young men’s emotional growth.

I’ve long advocated that the CDC pilot a program at Head Start for preschool teachers to cultivate boys’ emotional intelligence. Perhaps now, with the contrast between the brands of masculinity so stark, Congress will enact a bipartisan supported bill, the Healthy Boys Initiative. It won’t be easy. Nevertheless, there are hopeful developments.

Even within the narrow world of electoral politics, the number of women winning elective office—and being confirmed as cabinet secretaries—is a powerful antidote to patriarchy’s

poison. They are a corrective to four years of misogynist rants, still audible from Trumpublicans with smaller bullhorns.

Still, empowered womanhood is suspect, branded as feminist. Despite feminism simply denoting “a belief in the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes,” chauvinists denigrate it as a virulent virus. Now, with Kamala Harris as vice president, and early trials of a Biden healthy masculinity vaccine showing promise, conditions are ripe for men to begin receiving feminism antibodies, an essential treatment in combating the white male supremacy pandemic.

Rob Okun (rob@voicemalemagazine.org), syndicated by PeaceVoice, writes about politics and culture. He is editor-publisher of Voice Male magazine.

After 30 years of war against Iraq, Americans must make reparations Jared Keyel

Guest Columnist

March 20 was the 18th anniversary of the United States invasion of Iraq.

However, the American war against that country did not begin in 2003.

The U.S. has been fighting a war against Iraq since 1991. Thirty years of conflict has killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and injured many times more.

Millions of people have been displaced directly by American bombing and invasion and indirectly by the rise of militia and paramilitary groups that

flourished after the U.S. dismantled the Iraqi state.

Extensive bombardment has destroyed thousands of homes, mosques, schools, and hospitals. The use of weapons such as cluster bombs and depleted uranium has contaminated the landscape with dangerous and toxic unexploded munitions and heavy metals. Bombing, battles, and careless military occupation have damaged and destroyed an unknown number of priceless artifacts and world-historical monuments.

Americans must also remember—or learn for the first time—that their CIA helped the Iraqi Ba’ath Party come to power in the 1960s. This set in motion the events that led to Saddam Hussein’s rise

to the presidency in 1979.

Despite, or perhaps because of, his brutality, the U.S. allied with Saddam in his war against Iran in the 1980s. It supported and enabled his use of internationally banned chemical weapons. American companies supplied the technologies to build those weapons.

It was only after Saddam’s usefulness had been exhausted that George H.W. Bush turned on his former ally and launched the war that continues to this day. Six American presidents—George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and now Joe Biden—have continued this conflict.

Americans owe a debt to the people of Iraq that

can never be repaid in full.

However, it is incumbent and imperative that we try.

First and foremost, Biden must end the American war against Iraq without precondition or caveat. This means withdrawing all of the troops, stopping the bombing, and dismantling the structures of permanent occupation. Second, we must bring the leaders and participants in this devastating war to account.

Starting with the bombing of Iraq in 1991 that United Nations investigators called “near apocalyptic,” the U.S. has continued to commit atrocities and war crimes for three decades.

We must bring the planners and perpetrators of these crimes to some measure of justice.

Third, the United

States must vastly expand its financial support for refugee resettlement.

Those still leaving Iraq because of instability and violence should have the option to resettle in the United States or elsewhere as they so choose, and the U.S. should facilitate those processes.

Fourth, reparation funding must be allocated to provide individual Iraqis with monetary compensation for the extreme pain and suffering we have caused them and to (re) build their lives however they see fit. The U.S. must also dedicate resources for rebuilding infrastructure and environmental remediation. The toxic remains of weapons such as depleted uranium need to be safely cleaned up.

No amount of money can ever fully heal the physical and psychic wounds that the American war against Iraq has caused. But, on the inauspicious 30th anniversary of this conflict, Americans can demonstrate contrition, and work to ameliorate, if only partially, the suffering their government and military have caused by making that government make reparations to the people of Iraq.

Jared Keyel, Ph.D., syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a scholar of war and displacement based in Virginia. His work focuses on Iraqi refugees’ resettlement in the United States after the 2003 American invasion.

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From prison to prosperity. Lynch Hunt is a male modern-day Harriet Tubman

BY BUSTA BROWN FOR THE CHRONICLE

“The definition of a shackle is something that restricts your movement, right? So, when you take that definition and turn it into something that holds people back, you’ll realize there are so many things that actually restrict our movements. These are the mental shackles and prisons that keep us from moving forward. And I shed light on how to release you from them,” said Lynch Hunt.

Lynch said he’s the modern-day Harriet Tubman. “She said, ‘I freed a thousand slaves, I could have freed a thousand more if they knew they were slaves.’ I’m shedding light on people with shackles,” he said.

Congressman Mark Walker is in the process of creating a bill in honor of Lynch Hunt’s Prison to Prosperity movement. It’s a program that will give prisoners apprenticeships before they’re released from prison. U.S. Senator Tim Scott is also working with Hunt to help Prison to Prosperity become a national movement.

The author, fitness expert and transformation coach has firsthand experience on going from prison to prosperity. In 2003, Lynch went to prison for selling drugs. “I grew up in poverty, surrounded by drugs and violence. The best thing my mother did was put my brother and I in sports. And that taught us teamwork and other characteristics to set us up to be successful.

“But when I went to college, I was trying to be in the streets and college at the same time, so my grades fell. I dropped too

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Lynch Hunt, author, transformation coach, and fitness expert many classes and then I prison, Lynch wasn’t sure lost my housing, and after how long that season in I lost that, I got kicked off his life would last, so he campus. So, I went back used the time as a moment to the streets and started of growth. He’s brilliant, selling drugs. I became the mentally and physically best of the bad guys and I strong, yet he has an exran a multi-million-dollar tremely gentle side as well. drug ring in a matter of He understands there’s three or four years. I used also strength in softness, my academic and positive which is why women are knowledge to grow my also able to relate to his street business. I wasn’t message. doing the right things, but When Lynch Hunt was I always did the bad things released from prison, he right. hit the ground running. It “When I got locked up, wasn’t long before he beI said, this is not me, this gan to establish a reputais not what I was meant to tion as a well-respected be, and this is not how I’m fitness trainer and transgoing to be remembered. formation coach. “I turned I called that my SEE mo- my time in prison into a ment - a Significant Emo- college course, a master tional Event. You have to class, and into something see it before you see it, or that will educate, motiyou will never see it. When vate and empower my I was locked up, the shack- mind and body. I learned les and handcuffs were that we speak what we see on my wrists and ankles, and then become what we but after my SEE mo- speak. When people ask ment, they came off of my me how I’m doing, I say, mind,” he shared. great. Society has taught us During his time in to say it’s a good morning.

I’ve learned that successful people use the language of determinism. Life is in the power of the tongue, so if you speak what you see, you can see what you said,” shared Hunt.

One of his favorite quotes is, “The world will change their opinion of you the day after you do.”

“Life is all about transformation, so when I’m going through something, I put myself back in prison. I create a situation that I gotta fight and think my way out of. And I gotta do it mentally, physically and spiritually. You see, that box reminds me of when I was in solitary confinement. While I was in, I had to become, and I became light. And that’s what allowed me to tap into the God power and God mind.

I got closer to the creator,” said Lynch.

He literally went from “prison to prosperity.” He’s one of the most soughtafter celebrity trainers and fitness coaches. Lynch is also the resident fitness expert on WFMY News 2.

He owns a gym in Greensboro, is a nationally known transformation coach and author. He helped hun-

dreds of people go from the block to the board room with his movement and book, “Prison to Prosperity.”

Lynch Hunt has a real passion for sharing his testimony. “The creator transformed me and now I’m transforming others. What I do for my clients is much bigger than just the Triad. I need to share this with the world, Busta.”

Although he owns one of the most talked about gyms in the Triad, like most gym owners, COVID-19 sucker-punched Lynch as well. “I made my gym a prison cell, so I can find a way to make it into something bigger.

When COVID hit and my gym closed, it was time to adapt or die. I had to pivot. I consciously choose to adapt to the changes in my life, because if I don’t, life would’ve punched me in the face and I’d lay down. But I figured out how to fight back, because I refused to get punched again,” said Lynch.

He pivoted from a gym made of brick and mortar, to successful online training sessions in just seven days. I’ve seen some of his

clients and they’re getting huge results physically, mentally, and financially.

He said repetition is a form of transformation, so you get what you repeat. I dig that!

“While I was in prison, I developed a super hero mentality. It taught me that I can persevere through anything. So, I teach my clients the characteristics of a super hero concept, which gives you an identity not to fall in the face of adversity, because you’re here to save the day,” he shared.

In his book “Prison to Prosperity,” he shares seven levels of discipline. I’ll share a few that connected with me. Thoughts lead to feelings, feelings lead to beliefs, beliefs lead to actions, actions lead to habits, habits lead to character, and character leads to destiny. His positive energy is contagious, and ladies, he’s a true gentleman and a warrior.

My phenomenal Person of the Week is Lynch Hunt. For more info, visit Iamcoachlynch.com or follow Lynch Hunt on all social media platforms.

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

March Madness 2021 I know it’s only been two years, but having the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament back is one of the biggest joys for me, not only as a sportswriter, but also as a fan of college basketball.

2020 was a bad year when it comes to sports due to the pandemic. COVID-19 caused the cancellation of many sporting events and the tournament was one of those casualties. When I heard the news that it was going to be canceled last year, it just didn’t feel right, so to have it back is great news.

The NCAA tournament is arguably the biggest sporting event of the year for American sports fans. The Super Bowl is the only other event that I can think of that is on par with the NCAA tournament.

Even non-basketball fans tune in to watch the NCAA tournament. Many of them watch because of the tournament brackets.

Almost every job where I have worked has had some sort of tournament bracket challenge. They are also popular among friends, family and the multitude of places to play online.

With college basketball being so unpredictable, even the most casual fan has a great chance to win their tournament pool.

That was all taken away from us in 2020. I don’t think anyone knew how hard and fast the pandemic was going to sweep across the nation. I assumed, like many other fans, that sports would be the last thing to be canSee Madness on B6

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Coming off of two blowout victories

against R.J. Reynolds and Western Guilford High School, Mt. Tabor knew it would have their hands full with Dudley. The game lived up to its billing as both defenses were stout all

Davie County edges Reagan in unforgettable battle

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Bryson Canty did everything he could to push the Reagan Raiders over the hump against Davie County last week. Canty and the Raiders fell just short, losing 49-40 against a tough and rugged War Eagle squad.

Canty had an unbelievable stat line against Davie County, rushing for 347 yards and five touchdowns on just 23 carries. If not for leg cramps in the third quarter, he quite possibly would have accounted for more.

“This is how he is every week,” said Josh McGee, Reagan head coach.

“He is the best player in the city, and I will back that up with everything that I have. We know what he is capable of doing and tonight he showed it. He has shown it all year long, but unfortunately, he went through that third quarter spell where he was out every other play. He is just special.”

The War Eagles were led by the tandem of quarterback Alex Summers and running back Tate Carney.

Summers threw for 343 yards and three touchdown passes. Carney, reminiscent of the running backs

of old, ran for 243 yards and four touchdowns on 47 carries. Carney also added six receptions for an additional 55 yards.

“Anytime you see a running back doing that, it starts with the five guys blocking really well up front and then he is just really good,” McGee said about War Eagle running back Tate Carney. “When you play those guys, you know exactly what you’re going to get. You are going to get him (Carney) 30 to 40 times a game and he is so physical.

“You’ll make contact at the line of scrimmage and he is going to carry you for three or four more.

So, I don’t know if it was anything special they did, it was just they were a little more physical than us.”

Reagan quarterback Kam Hill put Reagan on the scoreboard first with an early touchdown pass.

A missed extra point, that would later prove important, gave the Raiders the early lead. The War Eagles quickly answered with a score of their own when Carney collected his first touchdown run of the evening. Davie County converted the extra point to take the lead.

To begin the second quarter, Hill hit Canty for

a bomb down the sideline that set up the Raider offense inside the 5-yard line. Canty punched it in on the next play. Another missed extra point by Reagan gave them a 12-7 lead.

Davie County scored on back-to-back drives and looked to seize control of the game until Canty struck again late in the half. With the Raiders down 21-12 and less than 2 minutes on the clock, Canty made three big runs with the last being a 25-yard touchdown with 17 seconds left in the half, closing the deficit to 21-19.

Canty didn’t waste any time coming out of halftime to make his presence felt. On the second play from scrimmage, he took the handoff from Hill and went right up the gut for an 80-yard touchdown run.

The War Eagles quickly answered once again with back-to-back scores of their own, taking advantage of the leg cramps from Canty that contributed to the offensive woes for the Raiders in the third quarter.

“We got the ball to start the half and we went right down, and we scored,” said McGee. “And then the next drive, he (Canty) starts cramping up and that’s when we kind of

went through the entire third quarter piecing it together, wondering who’s the next guy, and it kind of got us out of rhythm a little bit.

“We are at our best when we are able to run the football; that’s who we are, and we weren’t able to do that while he was over here on the sideline.

Luckily, he was able to get it back in the fourth quarter and when we revved it back up, he started running the football.”

The War Eagles built the lead to 42-27 early in the fourth quarter. The Raiders didn’t hang their heads for long. On the next possession, Hill connected with Canty for another long pass inside the red zone. A few plays later, Canty scored once again.

On the first play of the next possession, Canty runs for another touchdown, this time for 70 yards, making it a two-point game at 42-40. A miscue on the two-point conversion prevented a tie by the Raiders.

Davie County converted a fourth down into a touchdown that finally put the game out of reach.

The Raiders showed a lot of fight throughout the game, but came up short.

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(RB, WR) Reagan High School Even though the Reagan Raiders lost in a thriller against Davie County on Saturday evening, Raider running back/wide receiver Bryson Canty put on a show for the home fans. Every time Reagan needed a big play, Canty was right there to oblige. In total, Canty accounted for five touchdowns on Saturday as the Raiders came up just short of the victory losing 49-40 to the War Eagles.

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Points For Points Against 1. Reidsville (4-0) 139 14 2. Mt. Tabor (4-0) 150 27 3. West Forsyth (2-0) 89 21 4. Grimsley (4-0) 151 25 5. Davie County (4-0) 188 104 6. Western Alamance (4-0) 188 42 7. Walkertown (3-0) 121 36 8. Eastern Alamance (3-0) 98

42 9. Randleman (4-0) 169 39 10. Dudley (3-1) 136 35 11. Glenn (2-1) 77

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R. J. Reynolds’ Martin reflects on his coaching career

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Billy Martin led the varsity boy’s basketball team at R. J. Reynolds all the way to the third round of the 4A state playoffs last season. Martin has been the head coach for the Demons since 2005 and following a 13-2 record this past year, he is hoping for even more success next year.

Growing up in the central region of the state, basketball has been a part of Martin’s life for as long as he can remember.

Martin played throughout his high school career, as well as during his college days at UNC-Wilmington (UNCW). Following his graduation from UNCW, Martin wanted to stay close to the game of basketball and was then introduced to the world of coaching in his home area of Montgomery County, N.C. “My first coaching job was back at home in Montgomery County,” said Martin. “I started out as the JV coach for one year and the following year I got a varsity job at the high school where I attended, East Montgomery High School, and I stayed there for 17 years.

“That’s where I really started learning the coaching profession, being as young as I was. It’s not easy to be in your hometown and coaching there, because you know everybody and you’re trying to build a program. It wasn’t an easy task, but it was manageable.”

Martin stated that during his tenure at Montgomery County High he had some good teams. In 1989 his team finished the year as state runner-up. At that time, he had no idea that coaching was going to be a career path for him.

“I didn’t think that was going to be my career, I was just doing it because I liked the sport of basketball,” he continued. “The more I did it, the more I liked being involved in young people’s lives and being able to help shape their lives.

“You had to learn how to be adaptable and learn to coach different styles because in high school basketball, you have to coach what kids come to you, you don’t get to go out and get the kids. You have to be ready to change

to the different kids you have and the different levels of talent you have and that’s the difficult part.”

After his 17 years at Montgomery County, Martin made the move to the collegiate level and began coaching as an assistant at the University of Delaware. He spent five years at Delaware, learning valuable experience that he still carries with him today.

“When you are going from high school to college, first of all you have to learn how to build relationships to be able to recruit,” said Martin. “Leaving North Carolina and going to the northeast was kind of hard, because I didn’t know anyone. Recruiting is all about relationships, then you have to sell the program and get these parents to believe in you enough to get their kids to come and spend four years of their life with you.

“That was kind of different and that wasn’t easy, especially being a southern guy moving up to the northeast.”

Martin says he enjoyed his time coaching at the collegiate level; however, after spending 17 years on the high school level, he was ready to go back to his roots.

“I liked the experience and would not trade it for anything else, because it was valuable to me in the coaching world,” he said.

“I was able to do something totally different; I was actually able to go out and recruit kids to come and play the game of basketball.

“At the college level, it’s 24/7 basketball as compared to high school, but I was more comfortable in high school because now I am able to take kids and develop them a little more than you do at the college level. You also have a different impact on their lives, because they’re trying to get to the college level, and I know what it’s like and what it takes to get to that level.”

Martin landed in Winston-Salem at Reynolds in 2005 after his time at the University of Delaware.

One of his former college teammates was the principal at the time and thought Martin would be a good fit for the position.

“We were ready to get back home, to get back to North Carolina,” Martin said about the feelings he

and his wife had about him taking the Reynolds job.

“She lost her father one week and I lost my father the next week, so we were just ready to get back and get closer to home. It was just great timing for us.”

The Demons already had good tradition when it comes to basketball and Martin wanted to continue the legacy that had already been built. Former Reynolds head coach Howard West collected a couple of state titles before his departure from the school, so Martin knew he had some big shoes to fill.

“Coach West had done a great job and won a couple of state championships here and they already had a winning tradition,” Martin said about West. “Coming in, my first couple of years were tough because when I came, we had some talent, but this is a tough league and tough area. We got off to a slow start and it took a little while to get things settled. Once we did that, we started winning, everything started taking care of itself.”

There have been some fond memories for Martin during his tenure at Reynolds. He says the kids that have come through his program over the years have made coaching there worthwhile.

“The good thing that I like about here is these kids have a passion for the game of basketball and they are such great kids to coach,” he went on to say.

“They are great kids and they work hard; that comes from solid families.”

Spending time on the college level gave Martin a firsthand look at what college coaches look for in players to recruit for the next level. He feels it helped him coach once he returned to the high school level, especially for situational coaching.

“It definitely helps with the little things that someone who hasn’t been on that level wouldn’t know,” he said. “You can be on the practice floor or in a game and you can go and say something to a kid about what is and isn’t acceptable on the next level.

And you can tell them things to work on away from practice as well.”

Martin says this was one of the most unique years he has been through in his coaching career.

With all the uncertainty and rescheduling of the

season, it was a challenge to get ready for the year.

“It was difficult in the aspect of not knowing who you were going to have at practice, who you were going to have at the game, or even if you were going to play the game,” Martin said about his preparation for the season. “In our coach’s meeting in the preseason, the one thing we took a look at was instead of having 12 kids on the roster, we would put more kids on the roster because you may have kids miss practice.”

In this shortened season, the Demons had a tremendous year. Martin did not really know what to expect, but knew his squad had the talent to do very well if everything came together.

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Jones dedicates court in honor of her late grandparents Elder Richard Wayne Wood Sunday School Lesson

Elijah: Prophet of Courage Scriptures: 1 Kings 18:5-18 By the end of this lesson, we will: *Compare Elijah’s response to speak to Ahab to that of Obadiah’s response to report back to Ahab; *Gain a sense of Obidiah’s concern when reporting Elijah’s message to Ahab; *Act in boldness when speaking the Word of God. Background: Elijah first appears in 1Kings when God has had enough of Ahab, the most rebellious king in Israel’s history, and Jezebel, who worshipped Baal and influenced and killed God’s prophets. Baal was, according to Canaanite religion, the storm god responsible for rain and fertility. Now, just as God sent Moses to Pharaoh with ten plagues that defeated the ten Egyptian gods and goddesses to show Egypt who the one true God was – He does again through Elijah to show the people that Baal is a false god. Elijah calls for a threeyear drought; God stops the rain for three years.

Lesson: The first two verses of chapter 18 God informing Elijah that the drought is about to end and since he announced its start to Ahab, he would also tell him of its end (verses 1-2). Meanwhile, Ahab is concerned for the health of his horses and his own safety and calls Obadiah so that the two may go separately to look for grass (verse 5). Obadiah is identified as a faithful worshipper of God in a responsible position of trust under Ahab. He has hidden 100 prophets to keep Jezebel from killing them (verse 4). In verse 7 God’s servants meet.

Obadiah, whose name means “worshipper of Yahweh,” and Elijah, whose name means “My God is Yahweh.”

Their difference in status with God is made clear when Obadiah fell on his face in fear and respect and said, “Is this you Elijah, my master?” “It is I,” was Elijah’s response. But his instruction to Obadiah in his response caused Obadiah to fear for his life. Obadiah knew that Ahab had been seeking Elijah and that he had disappeared from sight (17:3-5). Obadiah said “When I leave you that the Spirit of the Lord will carry you where I do not know ...” He goes on to tell him of the 100 prophets he protected and his worshipping God since his youth.

Elijah acknowledges his fear and dedication and assures Obadiah that he will indeed show up for his meeting with Ahab. “As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today” (verse 15). Elijah had previously hidden at God’s instruction and would now reveal himself at God’s instruction.

Comforted by Elijah’s words, Obadiah reports to Ahab (verse 16).

Seeing Elijah, Ahab immediately casts blame for Israel’s troubles on Elijah. “Is this you, you troubler of Israel?” (Note: a troubler is one who brought misfortune on a community by breaking an oath or by making an oath that’s foolish). Elijah informs Ahab that it’s actually the reverse – “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house have ...” Israel was suffering because of failed leadership. Ahab’s family had in the past integrated idolatry into the worship system of God’s people.

Now Jezebel had persuaded Ahab – “because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and have followed the Baals” (verse 18). Elijah has shown up for a showdown on Mt. Carmel, “God or Baal” (continue reading). (The UMI Annual Commentary 2020-2021, The Jewish Study Bible, The Modern Life Study Bible, See Elijah on B6

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Porsche Jones is one of the most recognizable names in the game of basketball in the Triad area.

Her brand, Team B.O.N.D. (Building on New Development), is one of the best AAU basketball programs in the area, sending many of their players on to play college basketball. Jones has also connected with a local church to renovate their gymnasium and the court was recently renamed in the honor of her late grandparents, Robert and Dr. Manderline Scales.

The former Carver High School and Wake Forest University star has continued to be a mover and shaker since hanging up her basketball sneakers.

Her BOND events, which is a basketball tournament played in several locations around the city, attracts teams from several states on the east coast.

Jones partnered with Shekinah Glory Christian Church to add some life to their gym. The court dedication was held on March

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A plaque with Robert and Dr. Manderline Scales hangs above the opening to the court of the church.

“I want to make sure everybody understands what excellence means and to operate in excellence, and this gym, this area, this building, will be a place in East Winston where we will operate in excellence.

I wanted the ideals from my grandparents, that live through me, to be able to pass down to the next future kings and queens of Winston-Salem.”

It was intentional for Jones to make this happen in the Northeast Ward

Porsche Jones recently dedicated the court in the gymnasium at Shekinah Glory Christian Church to her grandparents.

14 with a small gathering of close family and friends and was also live-streamed on Zoom. State Senator Rev. Paul Lowe, the Honorable Judge Denise Hartfield, Councilmember Barbara Burke, and Mayor Allen Joines were also in attendance. Jones dedicated the court to her grandparents because of the major role they played in her life.

“It’s kind of the first step that I’ve always talked about doing and just kind of making sure their legacy stayed alive,” Jones said about the court dedication. “It means the world to me; so many things that I’ve learned from a young child to now as an adult woman.

of the city because that is where she is from. She grew up in the area and wants to make the gym a hub for young men and women to come to for many things and not just basketball.

“I grew up off Carver School Road and we typically went to Carl Russell Recreation Center or different YMCAs,” she said.

“We wanted to create our own opportunities and feel like a recreation center, but this is somewhere where we are going to do much more.

“There is no other place I would rather be. I pray for more opportunities, but for right now, this is where I was born and raised, and this is where I want to lay my first foun-

dation.

Shekinah Glory reached out to Jones last year and the two parties spoke about different opportunities they could explore and in what direction they were headed.

“As we continue to work, we both have very similar visions in what we want to do as far as impacting the city of Winston-Salem,” she said about the partnership with the church. “We both understand that sports can be a platform to bring people in, but obviously, we want to create future leaders, and so they have been a great partner so far and I am very excited to see how we can continue to grow and work together.”

The Scales were a vital part of the East Winston community for years. The kind words and memorable stories shared prior to the ribbon cutting brought back some great memories for Jones.

“I am going to be honest; yesterday I just buried my aunt who was tragically murdered last Saturday, and so I have a ball of emotions and I think once I go home and sit down, it will probably hit me a little differently,” Jones said about what she was feeling at the time. “Today is my grandmother’s birthday, so I have to go lay some flowers at her plot as well, so there’s so many emotions that I have.

“I’ve heard those stories about my grandparents all my life and so I don’t expect anything less. One of the things my grandmother taught me was to always keep a straight face and never show all your feelings at one time.

When it’s time for business, it’s time for business, and when I can kick back and relax and think about

all the many blessings that God has blessed me with, then I’ll probably be overwhelmed with tears of joy.”

Jones has a three-year plan for the gymnasium.

She says with the pandemic currently in full swing, it has thrown somewhat of a monkey wrench in her plans.

“This is an opportunity where we want to build leaders and we want to create an opportunity for student athletes,” she said.

“Obviously, we have the courts here, but we want to do training, we want to do mentorship, we want to do leadership and development.

“In the past, with the girls we’ve coached, we have done SAT prep. Now with COVID and kids struggling with school, we want to be able to have a safe haven for them to come here and get whatever resources they obviously need.”

Jones stated the vision is to make the gym more like a community center for the kids in the area.

Over the next few years, her goal is to make the location a “go-to place” for young people.

Through Team B.O.N.D., Jones has sent over 20 girls to college through her AAU program.

She says the focus now will be to do the same for the young men in the area.

With her BOND Events, she wants to continue having a quality product and not grow too quickly.

She says God will let her know when it is time to expand, but until then she will continue to do what she can for the people of Winston-Salem.

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

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

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

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

All are welcome to join us for Zoom (virtual) Bible

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

March 25 “Mandate to Collaborate for the Common Good” “A Mandate to Collaborate for the Common Good” will be presented on Zoom on Thursday, March 25, at noon by Elder Tembila Covington, President, Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem & Vicinity and program director for Strengthening Neighborhoods, Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods. The event is sponsored by the Faith and Justice Committee of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. To register, please email kathyausen@gmail. com.

March 28 First Waughtown Baptist Church live stream First Waughtown Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, will live stream its service at 10 a.m. Sunday, March 28, at www.facebook.com/FirstWaughtown and on its website, www.firstwaughtown.org, click on the virtual messages link on the homepage. Senior Pastor Dr. Dennis W. Bishop will deliver the Palm Sunday sermon, continuing the series “Suggestions for How to Survive a Storm” with reference scriptures Acts 27: 29-32, 42-44.

March 28 Forsyth County missionary union The Forsyth County Missionary Union meeting will be held virtually on Sunday, March 28, at 3 p.m. The host church will be St. Mark Baptist. Rev. Dr. James Fullwood is pastor. The agenda will be sent out soon.

April 26-29 Baptist Training Institute The Forsyth County Baptist Training Institute will be held this year on Monday, April 26, thru Thursday, April 29. The text this year is “God’s Power to Help Hurting People.” There will be classes for the following unions: pastors and ministers, deacons, missionaries, Sunday school, nurses, trustees and youth and young adults. All classes will be held virtually. More details will follow in the coming weeks.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to the requirements of Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes of North Carolina, that the City Council of the City of Winston-Salem will hold a virtual public hearing at 7:00 p.m. on April 5, 2021, on the following proposed amendments to the Official Zoning Map of the City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina:

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1. Zoning petition of National Investors of the Triad LLC, United Metropolitan Baptist Church, First Calvary Baptist Church of Winston-Salem, and City of WinstonSalem, to amend and change from RM18 and RMU to PB-S (Banking and Financial Services; Combined Use; Food or Drug Store; Offices; Restaurant (without drivethrough service); Retail Store; Services, A; Residential Building, Duplex; Residential Building, Multifamily; Residential Building, Townhouse; Residential Building, Twin Home): the zoning classification and Official Zoning map of the property generally bounded by East Third Street, Woodland Avenue, East Fifth Street, and Metropolitan Drive; property consists of ± 7.22 acres and is PINs 6835-57-4589, 6835-57-1297, 6835-57-8605, , 6835-578477, 6835-57-8504, 6835-57-5247,683557-8256, and a portion of 6835-67-1523 as shown on the Forsyth County Tax Maps and on a site plan on file in the office of the City-County Planning Board (Zoning Docket W-3463).

TAKE NOTICE that a Juvenile Petition seeking relief against you have been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is an adjudication of Termination of your Parental Rights with respect to the above-referenced child pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111.

2. An amendment to the Unified Development Ordinances proposed by Planning and Development Services staff modifying Section 4.8.3, pertaining to the Mixed Use-Special Use (MU-S) District; modifying Table 5.1.1: Principal Use Table to add Cottage Court as a use; adding Section 5.2.26.1, pertaining to Cottage Courts; amending Table 6.1.2: Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Parking Space Requirements to add standards for the Cottage Court use; and modifying Table 11.2.2: Definitions to include definitions for Planned Unit Development and Cottage Court (UDOCC8).

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

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

The hearing on the Petition alleging to Terminate Parental Rights is scheduled for 10:30 a.m., on Friday, May 28, 2021 in Courtroom 1-D of the Hall of Justice in Winston-Salem, North Carolina or as soon thereafter as the Court can hear the said case.

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Hoops 4 L.Y.F.E. holds STEM event for kids Brittany Ward and the Hoops 4 L.Y.F.E. (H4L) nonprofit organization has continued to make their presence felt in the community. Ward, founder of H4L, has expanded the scope of what the organization has been involved with and recently held a STEM event for the kids in the program.

Ward has wanted to incorporate a STEM program into her foundation for some time now. Once she received the funding and necessary materials, she put together an event that she felt would be fun and educational for the kids.

“Last year around this time, we received a grant from the Black Philanthropy Initiative and at the same time we were running a Lego drive to help build our STEM program,” said Ward. “For about a year and a half we have been teaching with Legos about STEM.” On Saturday, March 13, H4L held a STEM workshop for elementary and middle school students. The elementary students worked with the Legos and the middle school students learned about robotics.

“The little kids did a free build and then a skill build and they also created a town, while identifying everything that goes in the town, which has real world applications,” she said. “The older kids had

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For Your Consideration: Where is the difference in Obadiah and Elijah in their serving God? Is it in the names?

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from the standpoint of where we finished up,” he said. “I knew we could, and we came together and played well. When you play well, play hard and play unselfish, things like this can happen and that’s what we looked at and that’s what we tell our kids.”

Getting kids to the next level is the biggest thrill Martin gets out of coaching. He says as a high

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celed. When I found out the tournament was going to be canceled last year, it really put a damper on my sports year.

The college basketball team that I root for is the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With the Tar Heels having a down season in 2019-20, there was a great chance they were not going to make the tournament.

Even so, I still planned on tuning in to see what team would cut down the nets to become national champions.

Once again, my Tar Heels are not a favorite to win the national championship, but there are so many other storylines that can play out. For instance, with Gonzaga, the No. 1 overall seed, they come into the tournament undefeated. They are attempt-

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McGee was pleased with the effort, but knows there is room for improvement.

“We talked all week about focusing on doing the little things well and we didn’t really do that for 48 minutes,” he said.

“The two missed extra points in the first half got

the task of putting together a robot.”

Ward stated that her kids already had a love for Legos, so incorporating the STEM program into her organization seemed like a logical step, especially because she believes more minority students should be exposed to STEM. “The curriculum that I developed is personalized, so that was just a common thread that my kids gravitated to and that’s why we developed the program that we did,” she continued.

Ward stated the parents of the kids in the workshop were appreciative to the organization for introducing their kids to STEM activities, as well as for allowing the kids to congregate with one another in a COVID-19 protocol safe environment.

“I got great feedback from the parents, especially during these times when they are out of school and many of them are isoare we more like Obadiah, covertly honoring God? Obadiah was a worshipper of God, but he did not openly challenge wicked and evil authority. He served without attracting attention, yet he wanted credit. Elijah, on the other hand, was overt - he openly honored God, He was God’s man openly and rested in the assur-

ance of God’s presence and protection in his life.

Are we overt or convert?

Or is it important? “Also I say unto you, whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God” (Luke 12:8-9).

school coach, that should be the main goal for all the players that have the talent to do so.

“That’s what I think coaching high school basketball is all about,” he said. “You want to win state championships, you want to win games, but I think that’s the ultimate prize, helping kids move on to play at the next level.

I think that’s what your goal should be.”

Martin has been coaching for over 30 years and knows he can’t coach forever. He says he hasn’t

thought about retiring yet, but has had conversations with his wife about what’s next for them once he decides to hang it up.

“I don’t know, and I get that question almost every day now,” Martin answered about when he would retire. “As long as I am enjoying what I am doing, I’ll continue. But I know one day it will come to an end and be time to move on. I’ll just know when that time comes.”

ing to become the first team since 1976 to finish the season undefeated.

The Bulldogs are also the first team to go wireto-wire as the AP poll’s No. 1 team since Kentucky in 2014-15. Gonzaga head coach, Mark Few, has had some talented teams in the past, but this may be his best chance to win a national championship and if he accomplishes it, I’ll be happy for him.

The Michigan Wolverines are another interesting team. First year head coach, Juwan Howard, has put his team in position for a deep run in the tournament. Howard is a former Wolverine and was part of the famed “Fab 5” team of the early 90s. It would be a storybook ending for Michigan if they can take home the title, especially since Howard was twice a runner-up in his career with the Wolverines.

One of the biggest things about this year’s

tournament is the absence of both Duke and Kentucky. Both schools are two of the “blue blood” programs in the country and it is weird not having at least one of those programs in the tournament field. This was a down year for both teams, so no one was expecting them to win it all; however, it shows you how popular the tournament is that it still draws a lot of viewers without two of the sport’s most popular teams.

For me, it’s the one and done aspect that draws me in every year. It gives us fans something almost no other sport does. College football does have a playoff, but that’s only with four teams. March Madness has 68 teams, so it gives so many teams the same opportunity to be crowned champions.

I can’t wait to see who’s going to win it all.

us behind, then you start chasing points. It’s a good football team we played, and Carney is great, but I really like the fight I saw in our guys and we never gave up. It’s just tough to bounce back when you’re giving up a lot of points.”

McGee says his team must continue to keep working to get better and his team will really have

a chance to see what they are made of after coming off a tough loss like this one. The Raiders will face East Forsyth tomorrow night.

“It doesn’t get any easier, you just have to keep moving and I’m excited to get in here on Monday and get ready for the next one,” he stated.

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The kids in the workshop used Legos to build small towns and learned how to build a robot.

lated from their friends,” she stated. “They were able to come together and build and learn. I called it a power hour of learning with Legos and robotics.”

With STEM being involved in some way with many of the new jobs that are becoming available in the area, Ward says it’s imperative that her kids are introduced to that industry.

“There are a lot of companies involved in bio tech and engineering and this is preparing them for those jobs in those fields,” Ward said about the workshop. “It’s just introducing them to what they could be doing in the future.

“I think we should have more programs building up our kids going towards those job fields since they have created those businesses in the Innovation Quarter.”

H4L will be hosting another STEM workshop on March 20 and the event is open to the public. To register for the workshop, visit H4L on all social media platforms or call 336231-7968. The organization will also hold an Intro to Coding class on March 20.

H4L is also celebrating their 7-year anniversary on March 26. Ward said they will have a challenge to raise funds for the organization that will go toward improving the resources of the organization to allow them to assist more people throughout the year. They will hold a celebration for the occasion on March 27 at 4219 N. Liberty St.

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