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Aug. 15 marks ONE MONTH of the Triad Abolition Project’s occupation of Bailey Park in Winston-Salem. The organization wants their four demands to be met, and all their questions regarding John Neville answered by Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill and Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough.
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Having enjoyed success with its July screenings of “LATE NIGHT SHORTS” and the documentary feature Navigating Thru, the RiverRun International Film Festival is going back to the drive-in this month. 5 By all accounts, COVID-19 has DEVASTATED SMALL BUSINESSES, especially those owned by minorities, said Ohio Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, who testified at a Diversity and Inclusion hearing last month. “Small businesses have experienced a 22% closure rate as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic from February to April, but the closure rate for minority-owned businesses is significantly higher…with 41% of Black-owned businesses closed over the same period.” 6 On Aug. 4, KIMBROUGH HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE at which Neville’s son Sean and Neville family attorney Michael Grace were present. As reported by the New York Times, Sheriff Kimbrough said, “I apologize again for what took place on that day, apologize to you and your family.”In accepting Sheriff Kimbrough’s apology, Neville family attorney Grace said:
“We wanted to take the opportunity to thank him for acknowledging the truth of this matter. In so many of these instances, the truth is tamped down, it’s hidden, it’s kept secret, but the sheriff has acknowledged that mistakes were made, and that means a lot to the family.” 7 “Print this article and hand it to frightened mask-wearers who have believed the alarmist media, politicians, and Technocrats in white coats,” stated a public post on the Facebook page of Dr. Bruce Lantelme, founder of ROBINHOOD INTEGRATED HEALTH in Winston-Salem. 12 Although true labor unions were scarce and largely unsuccessful before the 1880s, WYATT OUTLAW can be seen not only as a Unionist, in the political terms that defined the Civil War, but also a union organizer in the modern sense. 14 THE HISTORIC MAGNOLIA HOUSE in Greensboro continues blending the past and the future with “Porch Sessions: a Dine-in, Drive-in and Virtual Music Experience,” live from its front porch on Aug. 15.
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Back to the drive-in for RiverRun – and Birdcage lands there, too
aving enjoyed success with its July screenings of “Late Night Shorts” and the documentary feature Navigating Thru, the RiverRun International Film Mark Burger Festival is going back to the drive-in this month. Contributor “RiverRun at Marketplace” will present the acclaimed comedy-drama before/during/ after, which will be screened Thursday, Aug. 20, followed by the feature documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble on Thursday, Aug. 27 at the Marketplace Cinemas drive-in facility, located in Winston-Salem at 2095 Peters Creek Pkwy. Gates will open at 7:30 p.m. for each presentation, with the screening begin-
ning at dusk (around 8:45 p.m.). Tickets are $20 per car, $30 for VIP parking. Tickets for before/during/after can be purchased at www.mpcwsdrivein.simpletix.com/e/56570?aff=HomePageLink. Tickets for John Lewis: Good Trouble at www.mpcwsdrivein.simpletix.com/ e/56864?aff=HomePageLink. Tickets for each screening can also be purchased at www.riverrunfilm.com/drive-in/. Leading lady Finnerty Steeves (Orange Is the New Black), makes her feature debut as writer and producer before/during/after, a bittersweet comedy-drama in which she portrays a middle-aged actress whose world comes undone when she catches her husband cheating on her. Steeves is scheduled to attend the Aug. 20 screening, and to welcome the audience and offer her thoughts on the film, its origins, and its production. “We are so thrilled that we are getting to share before/during/after with our drive-in audience,” said Rob Davis, RiverRun executive director. “Finnerty’s film is
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delightfully done, and she has been a joy to work with in making this screening a reality. Not having her in person for the (originally planned) festival was, of course, a disappointment – but we are so excited that Finnerty will be able to join us on Aug. 20 for the drive-in screening!” The April festival would have marked the film’s world premiere, but this screening stands as before/during/after’s Southeastern premiere. “(Finnerty) was very disappointed we had to cancel this year’s festival, but we’ve remained in touch over the intervening months,” Davis said. “Just as festivals have had to retool to get films to our audiences, so too have filmmakers had to retool to get their films out to audiences with traditional theaters closed. We’re thrilled she’ll be with us.” As the title implies, John Lewis: Good Trouble is an in-depth look at the life of John Lewis, the esteemed politician and social activist whose name is synonymous with the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, having been one of the principal organizers of the March on Washington in 1963. Produced and directed by Emmynominee and Sundance award-winner Dawn Porter, the film is a timely and relevant tribute to Lewis, who died last month at age 80. “Although its final completion date wasn’t in time for inclusion in this year’s RiverRun International Film Festival, we are delighted and honored to be able to present John Lewis: Good Trouble on the big screen at Marketplace Drive-In,” Davis said. “Filmmaker Dawn Porter is unique in her ability to work seamlessly across both the narrative and documentary film formats and has an exemplary track record in both. In this documentary, she has combined interviews and rare archival footage to chronicle the amazing 60-year career of social activism and legislative action accomplished by John Lewis. We look forward to sharing this powerful and inspiring film on the big screen.” Taking note of Marketplace’s ongoing success with drive-in screenings, the OUT at the Movies outdoor screening of the blockbuster 1996 comedy The Birdcage – which had twice been scheduled (and twice postponed due to COVID-19 concerns) as an outdoor event at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) – will now take place Friday, Aug. 28, at Marketplace Cinemas. “The third time’s the charm,” quipped
Rex Welton, director of the OUT at the Movies festival and screening series. “After two postponements of our lakeside screening at SECCA, we are excited that The Birdcage will definitely screen on Friday, Aug. 28, at the Marketplace Cinemas drive-in!” Once again, gates will open at 7:30 p.m., and the film is scheduled to begin at dusk. If those who previously purchased tickets are unable to attend this screening, they can request a refund, a credit for future screening, or allow OUT at the Movies to keep the payment as a donation. An email will be sent to ticket buyers by Aug. 17 requesting the height of their vehicles so that they can be assigned an appropriate parking space for the screening. For further information, call (336) 918-0902 or email rex@outatthemovies.org. In addition, Welton said, “I am actually very excited about OUT at the Movies beginning a partnership with Marketplace Cinemas. We are planning for our 2020 festival (Oct. 1-4) to be a hybrid one, with a combination of digital and outdoor screenings. More news to follow!” The official Marketplace Cinemas website is www.mpcws.com/. The official RiverRun website is www.riverrunfilm.com/. The official OUT at the Movies website is www.outatthemovies.org/. ! See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2020, Mark Burger.
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Triad Minority Business Expo goes virtual
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y all accounts, COVID-19 has devastated small businesses, especially those owned by minorities, said Ohio Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, who Jim Longworth testified at a Diversity Longworth and Inclusion hearing at Large last month. “Small businesses have experienced a 22% closure rate as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic from February to April, but the closure rate for minority-owned businesses is significantly higher…with 41% of Blackowned businesses closed over the same period.” That’s why this month’s Triad Minority and Women’s Business Expo couldn’t be more timely. I asked expo director Reginal McCaskill, president and CEO of Maximum Enterprises, how his event can help counter the trend toward closures. “Most minority-owned businesses don’t have the revenue to market themselves like larger companies, so the opportunity for them to participate in the expo brings them to a wider audience, and allows them to network across industries.” This is the seventh year for the Triad Minority and Women’s Business Expo, which takes place on Saturday, Aug. 29, from noon until 4 p.m. But the big change from last year’s event is the venue. As a precaution against the spread of COVID-19, this year’s expo will be virtual, via Zoom. I wondered if that would discourage participation—just the opposite, McCaskill told me. “We just opened up our registration a week ago, and believe it or not, we already have 75 businesses that have registered for this virtual expo. We’re excited about the opportunity and the platform. It’s going to be extraordinary!” In addition to giving Triad area businesses an opportunity to showcase their products and services, the expo also helps to nurture the next generation of entrepreneurs. That’s because proceeds from the expo go to support the “Kids Biz Training Program,” which helps students in grades 6-12 learn how to start their own businesses. “The Kids Biz entrepreneur program has WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
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BARTENDER: Casey Clanton BAR: 1618 Midtown AGE: 30 WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Savannah, Georgia allowed youth to get involved and get an early start,” McCaskill said. “It’s a real priority for us because it allows them to develop a business mindset at a young age, and introduces them to an audience of customers they may otherwise not reach.” The Triad Minority and Women’s Business Expo is being sponsored by Truliant Federal Credit Union, a company that is involved in community activities on many levels, including awarding scholarships to students, and financial education grants to teachers. I asked Sherri Thomas, Chief Human Resources Officer, why Truliant wanted to be involved with the expo. “Community is very important to Truliant, so much so that it’s actually one of the core values that our employees pledge to uphold each and every day. We’re proud to be a partner of an event of this magnitude that celebrates and recognizes minority businesses, and what they do for the community, and for the services they provide.” “Truliant has been a corporate sponsor for this expo since its inception, and we’re really excited about their continuous partnership,” McCaskill said. The Triad Minority and Women’s Business Expo occurs each year during Black Business Month, which gives the event a particular significance. “We view the expo as a celebration of minority businesses, and the exposure we give them is second to none,” McCaskill said. For more information, or to register, visit www.triadminoritybusinessexpo.com. !
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BARTENDING? 9 years HOW DID YOU BECOME A BARTENDER? The ever amazing and infamous Sarah Poole—when I was a server at Print Works Bistro, she asked me if I would be interested in bartending. My reply was: “Sarah, you realize I don’t know anything about liquor or bartending— do you really think that’s a good idea?” To which she said: “I believe in you, and you’ll be amazing.” And the rest is history. WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? Creating an experience for my guests; hospitality is key when it comes to bartending. At the end of the day, no one will really care if I can make them a “perfect” cocktail unless I was able to make them feel like a guest in my home— that’s what really counts. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO MAKE? Tiki-style cocktails are definitely the most fun— time-consuming for sure, but fun. Also, any cocktail that my guests are craving at the moment and will make them smile.
WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? Underberg; or my usual suspect, Fernet Branca. WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING? Two-grown men almost starting a physical fight over a glass of rosé, but to give them a small bit of credit, it was a really great rosé. WHAT’S THE BEST TIP YOU’VE EVER GOTTEN? I’ll go with the best tip for this one: never stop learning. This is an industry that is forever changing and evolving. There will always be new techniques, education, and business/social practices for us to take advantage of, and we always should.
WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO DRINK? Rye Whiskey Old Fashioned
JIM LONGWORTH is the host of Triad Today, airing on Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on ABC45 (cable channel 7) and Sundays at 11 a.m. on WMYV (cable channel 15).
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Marcus Smith’s mother reacts to Sheriff Kimbrough’s apology for John Neville’s death
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he death of John Neville in the Forsyth County jail last December has received national coverage. The fatal hogtying of Marcus Deon Smith by eight Ian McDowell Greensboro police officers during the 2018 North Carolina Folk Contributor Festival has not. Both men were handcuffed and held face-down in prone restraint, causing death from asphyxiation or cardiac arrest. Smith’s ankles were attached to his handcuffs by a hobble restraint applied by police officers who bore him to the pavement and sat on him in the middle of Church Street. Neville’s legs were held by two correctional officers while two more held his arms and a third sat on him, pressing him onto the floor of the single-person cell to which they’d transferred him during a medical crisis. The police body camera videos of Marcus Smith’s death were released on Nov. 30, 2018, within hours of the state medical examiner ruling that death a homicide, and were introduced with a video statement by Chief Scott that included inaccurate descriptions of what the videos depicted. Two videos of John Neville’s death were released on Aug. 5, but unlike former Greensboro’s Chief Wayne Scott, Forsyth County’s Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough did not wait until videos were released to make a statement. On Aug. 4, Kimbrough held a press conference at which Neville’s son Sean and Neville family attorney Michael Grace were present. As reported by the New York Times, Sheriff Kimbrough said, “I apologize again for what took place on that day, apologize to you and your family.” In accepting Sheriff Kimbrough’s apology, Neville family attorney Grace said: “We wanted to take the opportunity to thank him for acknowledging the truth of this matter. In so many of these instances, the truth is tamped down, it’s hidden, it’s kept secret, but the sheriff has acknowledged that mistakes were made, and that means a lot to the family.” After watching video of that press YES! WEEKLY
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conference, Marcus Smith’s mother Mary Smith reached out to YES! Weekly and asked to make a statement, which is reproduced below. The Smith family applauds Sheriff Kimbrough for coming forth and easing the pain of the family of John Neville, who died in the Forsyth County jail just like Marcus Smith died hogtied by the Greensboro police almost two years ago. We applaud that charges were brought against the correction officers who held Mr. Neville down and the nurse who stood there and watched him die, just like the Greensboro police officers who held my son down and the two EMTs who stood there and watched him die. What’s not similar is what happened afterward. From the beginning, all the Smith family heard were lies and more lies, and all we got was disrespect after disrespect. Former Greensboro police Chief Wayne Scott never apologized. Instead, he said my son was combative and collapsed in the street. Marcus came to those officers for help, and they threw him down and hogtied him and left him face-down to die. Wayne Scott never mentioned the hogtie, never mentioned that they’d even touched him, until the video was released. That video I can’t make myself watch, which almost killed my husband when he watched it. Wayne Scott never apologized for his men killing my son. Mayor Nancy Vaughan never apologized for those police killing my son. She said the chief lied, when she was in front of a crowd and they were shouting at her and she was scared, but she later took that back, like she realized she said something that made her city look bad. She took it back and said the police who killed my son had done nothing wrong. Think about that: Marcus Smith dying like George Floyd died, like John Neville died, that was nothing wrong? The Greensboro City Council never apologized. Instead, they lied, too. [Atlarge representative] Marikay Abuzuaiter said the police had to do it because my son had superhuman strength. [District 2 representative] Goldie Wells said maybe it was Marcus’s time to die. The council and the mayor could have told the city manager to fire Wayne Scott, but instead let him retire with a pension, and eight officers that killed my son never even got a reprimand.
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Mary Smith holds a photo of her son, Marcus Deon Smith, who died after being hogtied by police during the 2018 N.C. Folk Festival. Mary Smith closed with a reference to Greensboro city attorney Chuck Watts, who as previously reported, has been criticized for claiming that a retired white civil rights attorney, rather than Black clergy and Democratic party officials, was responsible for recent protests, and for incorrectly referring to that attorney as part of the “Marcus Smith legal team.” Now they say they can’t talk about it because the Smith family is suing them, while their city attorney tells lies and acts like he doesn’t even know who our lawyers are. The new police chief says he can’t talk
about it because of the lawsuit, even though the men who killed my son are still on his force. Rather than admit what their police did and punish the officers for doing it, they’re paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to their lawyers to keep them form having to admit any wrongdoing. I call that being accomplices after the fact in my son’s death. ! IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.
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Calling masks ‘ineffective,’ Winston-Salem MD shares article from conspiracy website
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Print this article and hand it to frightened mask-wearers who have believed the alarmist media, politicians, and Technocrats in white coats,” stated a public post Ian McDowell on the Facebook page of Dr. Bruce Lantelme, founder Contributor of Robinhood Integrated Health in Winston-Salem. “Masks are proven ineffective against coronavirus and potentially harmful to ordinary people and those with pre-existing conditions.” The July 26 post included a link to “Masks are Neither Effective nor Safe: A Summary of the Science,” a July 14 article on the website Technocracy.News credited to “Colleen Huber NMD.” The acronym stands for “Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine.” On July 16, two days after Huber’s article was posted at Technocracy.News, David Kyle Johnson replied to it in the Psychology Today article “Masks (Still) Work: Debunking (More) Pseudoscience,” in which Jonson stated that “Huber cites 42 articles in total, and none I (or my colleague) looked at support her position in the way she describes.” Huber’s article is preceded by a twoparagraph statement attributed to “TN Editor,” the first paragraph of which consists of the same text that Dr. Lantelme posted with the link. The text has subsequently been deleted from Dr. Lantelme’s post, which now consists only of the link to the Technocracy.News article. Technocracy.News was founded in 2015 by Patrick Wood. The site’s “About Us” page lists Wood as Editor-in-Chief and describes him as “a leading expert on the elitist Trilateral Commission, their policies and achievements in creating their selfproclaimed ‘New International Economic Order’ which is the essence of Sustainable Development on a global scale.” It also states that, “Wood maintains a Biblical world view and has deep historical insights into the modern attacks on sovereignty, property rights and personal freedom.” The website Media Bias/Fact Check calls Technocracy.News “a conWWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
spiracy and pseudoscience website that reports on technology and its supposed dangers that lead to government control.” Dr. Lantelme’s Facebook page includes a preview video for “Vaxxed: From CoverUp to Catastrophe,” a pseudoscientific 2016 documentary that alleged vaccines cause autism. In March 2019, Business Insider reported that Amazon Prime had removed the documentary due to it’s “being based on junk science that’s been debunked for years.” Dr. Lantelme’s Facebook page is not the only way he shared the Technocracy. News article. Former patient Heidi Scheer told YES! Weekly that she was appalled by a message from Dr. Lantelme, which included not only a link to Huber’s article, but the following statement: “In our state we are being mandated to do something contra to good health. There are few instances where marks are helpful. Even in an operating room, it has not been shown to make a difference on post-surgical infections.” Scheer provided YES! Weekly with a screenshot of that message. Scheer stated that she has been a patient at Robinhood Integrative Health for five years, and that while her primary physician there was another doctor, she has also received care from Dr. Lantelme. Scheer said she logged onto the RIH portal on Monday morning and saw a message from Dr. Lantelme in her inbox. It had the heading “comprehensive analysis of masks” and consisted of the link and statement described above. Scheer stated that, after reading this message, she messaged her primary physician that, “I am very disappointed that your practice is sharing information disseminated through a known conspiracy theory website and further, promoting unsafe advice in the middle of pandemic.” Scheer called that advice “contrary to all guidelines coming from public health advisers.” Scheer said that she is now searching for a new medical provider, and that she has contacted the Medical Board and filed a complaint about what she alleged are dangerous claims by Dr. Lantelme. Both the website and Facebook page for Robinhood Integrative Health (RIH) advertise a wide variety of vitamin supplements and other products bearing the logo “Health as It Ought to Be.” The “About Us” page at that company’s website states, “The team at Health as it Ought to Be consists of Dr. Weston
Doctors Bruce Lantelme and Wiggy Sanders in video on Robinhood Integrated Health website. (Wiggy) Sanders and Dr. Bruce Lantelme.” On July 27, YES! Weekly reached out to Doug Allred, external communications manager at Cone Health, for a response to Dr. Lantelme’s claims that masks are ineffective in combating COVID-19. The next day, Allred called back and put this writer on a conference call with Dr. Cynthia Snider, infectious disease specialist at Cone Health. “We have multiple examples of face masks as an intervention working to prevent the spread of SARS CoV-2 [the virus that causes COVID-19],” Dr. Snider said. “The use of face masks plus social distancing and hand hygiene are great measures in mitigating this epidemic.” Dr. Snider cited as “a great example of how face mask implementation reduced the risk of secondary infections,” the case of the two Missouri hair stylists who became infected while working at the same salon, and who saw 140 clients over the course of a month while both stylists were symptomatic. “The state had mandated face coverings for both employees and clients in that business, and no other cases were identified, even though both of the infected stylists here were working in close contact with a number of clients for more than 15 minutes each. That’s a very powerful example.” She also addressed Dr. Lantelme’s claim
that masks “have not been shown to make a difference on post-surgical infections.” “It’s very important for surgeons to wear masks while evaluating surgical wounds,” Snider said. “Not only because there’s a risk of spreading bacteria from the surgeon’s s mouth onto a sterile wound, but because there have been outbreaks associated with Streptococcus that resulted from the surgeon not wearing a mask.” Snider emphasized that the data “absolutely supports” that masks help prevent or reduce outbreaks of influenza as well as COVID-19. “It’s a very simple intervention to do. We just need a lot of people to do it consistently. Even if you look at the states of Florida, Texas and Arizona, you’ll see that, when they started to mandate face masks, their rates of outbreak decreased.” YES! Weekly has made multiple attempts to contact Dr. Lantelme for a statement, via phone calls, Facebook messages and emails. On July 31, a receptionist at Robinhood Integrated Health said, “he got your message,” but declined to give further information. ! IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of. AUGUST 12-18, 2020 YES! WEEKLY
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A July 29 headline in the Ken-Ton Bee in Kenmore, New York, caught the attention of The Buffalo News: “Leprechaun spotted looting Chuck Shepherd cars on Hamilton Boulevard.” Kenmore Police Capt. A.J. Kiefer told The News a white male with orange hair and wearing a green shirt (and “possibly plaid pants”) was reported to be looting vehicles on the street July 23. Police arrested the 36-yearold, who measured 5 feet 11 inches and had someone else’s debit card, but no pot of gold, according to Kiefer. He was charged with petit larceny.
p.m., vandalizing offices and setting fires, because of the large tattoo of his last name clearly visible across his shoulders on surveillance images, according to court documents. Schinzing, who was on probation at the time for domestic violence assault, is being held at the Justice Center. — Pueblo, Colorado, police were intrigued to find a young man sleeping in a car parked behind a motel on Aug. 2, “since motels have rooms, with beds, that you can sleep in,” said Capt. Tom Rummel in a tweet. Upon running the car’s license plate, he continued, the officers found it had been stolen in an armed carjacking, and “there on the front seat was a sawed-off shotgun, just like the victim said was used yesterday!” KKTV reported the sleepy thief, a juvenile, was taken into custody and the car was returned to its owner.
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About 176 Rhode Island taxpayers waiting for their refund checks got a surprise when the checks they received in late July arrived bearing the signatures of “Mickey Mouse” and “Walt Disney” instead of state officials. State Department of Revenue chief of staff Jade Borgeson told WPRI that the division of taxation uses the signatures on dummy checks for internal testing, and the test image files were mistakenly added to real checks. “Corrected checks will be reissued to impacted taxpayers within one week,” Borgeson said.
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Domino’s pizza restaurants in New Zealand were forced to end a promotion to give free pizza to women named Karen “that aren’t, well, Karens,” the promotion announcement read. United Press International reported that customers named Karen were invited to fill out an application for one of 100 free pizzas, but people objected online, suggesting the chain offer food to minorities or people who have been impacted by COVID-19. “We wanted to bring a smile to customers who are doing the right thing — Karen the nurse, Karen the teacher,” the company posted on Facebook, but “people interpreted this in a different way.”
LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS
— Edward Thomas Schinzing, 32, was charged July 28 with arson for allegedly setting fires inside the Justice Center in Portland, Oregon, on May 29, beginning two months of protest in that city. The Oregonian reported the shirtless Schinzing stood out among about 30 people who broke into the building around 10:59
A 26-year-old man in Plymouth, England, was detained on July 9 after officers working nearby heard a commotion and looked up to see the man struggling with a seagull and biting it. “He sunk his teeth into it before throwing it to the floor,” a police spokesperson told Plymouth Live. The man told police the seagull had attacked him, trying to get his McDonald’s meal, and also “volunteered ... that he was under the influence of drugs ... The seagull was clearly injured by the incident but flew off before we were able to check on its welfare,” police said. The man was taken to a hospital for treatment.
CAN’T TAKE A JOKE
After pub owner Steve Cotten jokingly announced in July that the beer garden at the Poltimore Arms in Devon, England, would become the Yarde Down International Airport for the summer, offering sightseeing flights, he was surprised to receive an official letter from Exmoor National Park Authority’s planning officer expressing concern about the change: “We have a duty to look into such matters to understand if there is a breach, and if so, whether any action is necessary.” Devon Live reported Cotten responded promptly in a social media post, saying, “All long haul flights have been suspended forthwith ... We apologise for any delays, and remind you that the departure lounge facilities are still open.” The park authority replied with good humor, and the taps remain open. !
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Community leaders call for ban on prone restraint after release of videos relating to John Neville’s death
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ug. 15 marks one month of the Triad Abolition Project’s occupation of Bailey Park in WinstonSalem. The organization wants their four demands to be Katie Murawski met, and all their questions regarding the death of John Editor Neville answered by Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill and Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough. Last December, after spending approximately 24 hours at the Forsyth County Detention Center, Neville fell from the top bunk of his bed after reportedly having a seizure. Officers responded by placing Neville in a prone restraint position by kneeling on him and pushing his legs toward his handcuffs for almost 20 minutes. According to the autopsy report, Neville died two days later from lack of oxygen to his brain caused by “complications of positional and compressional asphyxia during prone restraint.” On July 8, the five detention officers and one Wellpath nurse involved were charged with involuntary manslaughter. Sheriff Kimbrough has since apologized and taken responsibility for their actions. Last Wednesday, two videos depicting these events were released to the public. The same day, TAP’s #OccupyWSNC movement hosted a support rally/march for Neville’s family outside the Forsyth County Courthouse, where according to a press release, 300 gathered and then marched to the jail and Public Safety Center. (The press release also noted the significant increase in police presence during this peaceful protest than at previous marches. Readers can view this demonstration on YES! Weekly’s Facebook page under the “videos” tab.) After the march, the group convened in Bailey Park and staged a diein for 9 minutes in observation of Neville and George Floyd—the man who died under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer that inspired nationwide protests for law enforcement reforms. That evening, TAP reported that 200 people gathered in Bailey Park for a vigil that included a libation, songs, dance, spoken word performances by two of Neville’s children: Brienne Neville and Tre Stubbs; along with speeches by Rev. Willard Bass, Bushi Yamato, and YES! WEEKLY
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Occupiers and Tre Stubbs, Neville’s son, lay on the sidewalk of Bailey Park for a 9-minute “die-in” demonstration following the Aug. 5 support rally/march in remembrance of John Neville and George Floyd—whose death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer sparked nationwide protests calling for law enforcement reforms
Terrance Hawkins of the Drum Major’s Alliance. The evening closed with Jelina Sheppard singing “Amazing Grace,” the hymn that in a Fox 8 interview, Natasha Martin, Neville’s daughter, said she heard inmates sing at the end of the footage as her father was transported from the jail. Last week, the ACLU of N.C., in collaboration with TAP, released a petition to the public amplifying TAP’s demands that have garnered over 650 signatures so far. ACLU of N.C. field manager Angaza Laughinghouse called the content of the videos released both “infuriating and heartbreaking” in an email on Aug. 7. “John Neville pleaded with the officers as he was being held face-down,” Laughinghouse wrote. “He repeatedly told them that he couldn’t breathe and asked to be taken off of his stomach. They disregarded his pleas, allowing their desire for physical control to take precedence over his safety and life.” Laughinghouse said the ACLU continues to support and echo the TAP’s “demands for a ban of the prone restraint, and for greater community accountability and transparency.”
Assistant professor of sociology at Wake Forest Univesity and Triad Abolition Project co-organizer Brittany Battle, Ph.D., leads the march to the Forsyth County Detention Center on Aug. 7, on Day 24 of the #OccupyWSNC movement “We are prepared to be out here for as long as it takes to reach the demands,” said TAP co-organizer Bailey Pittenger on the 26th day of the occupation. “We have not heard from Sheriff Kimbrough or the D.A., but we are also seeing more community leaders standing for similar demands as ours since the video was released.” James Perry, president and CEO of the Winston-Salem Urban League, wrote in a statement that he was “angry and heartbroken” at the “utterly inhumane and callous manner” the five officers and one nurse “took the life of Mr. John Neville.” In
Perry’s statement, he called on the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office to “commit to a policy of full transparency by informing the public about deaths in sheriff’s custody within 24 hours, end the use of the prone restraint/hogtie maneuver, end the use of knee-to-neck maneuvers, commit that all sheriff deputies have a duty to intervene, commit to anti-racist police training for all deputies and jail facility management within six months, terminate the contract with medical provider Wellpath; revise the sheriff’s annual report to include race, ethnicity sex, sexual identification, and native
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Occupiers and members of John Neville’s family gather at the edge of Bailey Park to listen to a spoken word poem by Brienne Neville following the Triad Abolition Project’s support rally/march on Aug. 5—the same day the footage of the events leading to Neville’s death was released to the public language data for each reporting subject; and to establish an independent citizens review committee that would conduct annual audits of jail procedures.” Perry also called on state legislation to reverse state laws that prevent the public from viewing police videos without a court order. Finally, Perry applauded the work of TAP and others “whose advocacy and sacrifice brought the light of day to this matter.” Kathy Manning, the 6th Congressional District Democratic candidate, also made a statement regarding “the horrifying images of Mr. Neville being hogtied and asphyxiated.” In her statement she called for a ban on the use of hogtying by law enforcement, mentioning that “sadly, this isn’t the first time the use of this position has taken the life of a Triad resident in law enforcement custody.” Manning was referring to Marcus Deon Smith, who died after being hogtied by Greensboro police officers after asking for their help during the 2018 North Carolina Folk Festival. “I support the Justice in Policing Act, passed by the U.S. House earlier this year because it takes critical steps to reform policing and outlaw tactics such as the chokehold,” Manning’s statement reads. “To keep our communities safe, we must go further and ban the use of hogtying as well. We must continue to fight for structural change that will put an end to the disparate use of police violence against members of the Black community and other forms of systemic racism.” Mayor Pro Tempore and North Ward Representative Denise D. Adams made a statement via the City of Winston-Salem’s Facebook page on Saturday, asserting that Neville’s life mattered. “Instead of being treated with compassion and immediate medical care, he was treated like a dangerous animal,” Adams stated. “Before dying, Neville told the officers 29 times that he could not breathe. Twenty-nine times. Like you, I am exhausted by this madness. Like you, I am angry about this abuse of power. Like WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
John Neville’s children Tre Stubbs, Kris Neville, Natasha Martin, and Brienne Neville and other family members are surrounded by occupiers extending their arms in prayer at the end of the Aug. 5 vigil in Bailey Park—the same day the footage of the events leading to Neville’s death was released to the public you, I am sickened by this suffering. Like you, I sometimes feel helpless in the face of so many incidents of Black death. We can never allow ourselves to stop feeling horror and grief when confronted with the agony and needless deaths of Black people. We can never cease demanding and creating change.” Adams promised not to turn away from the “painful realities” in Winston-Salem, and she pledged to listen carefully to suggestions for change, and she called on finding “meaningful, swift, and lasting solutions to protect Black lives and to end state violence.” “We cannot change biased or hateful attitudes with the stroke of a pen, but we can change policy, rules, and consequences,” she stated in the Facebook post. “We can and we must. We must implement real and lasting reforms to the system of detention and incarceration. We must not allow people and companies to make money by providing ‘training’ that does not stem violence or change behavior. We will not rest because there are cameras recording deaths, but not stopping them. We will accept nothing less than transparency,
accountability, real change, and justice.” The release of the video has caught the attention of several national news outlets such as The New York Times, CNN, The Daily Beast, and CBS News. Pittenger said TAP would be reaching out to those outlets as well as others to keep Neville’s name in headlines. “We are working on continuing to push in a peaceful, direct way,” she said. “Since the Neville information is getting more widely publicized, we are getting more support, in terms of occupiers and different organizations reaching out to stand in solidarity.” Last Friday, almost 100 people gathered at Bailey Park for “Breaking Down Systems of Inequality in Winston-Salem,” which included dinner from Delicious By Shereen and a variety of speakers from other local grassroots social justice organizations such as Hate Out of Winston, Housing Justice Now, Action For Equity, Triad Restorative Justice and the Prisoner Outreach Initiative. Following the event, about 50-75 marched to the detention center, which was met with another significant increase of police presence for a peaceful march. Despite Sheriff Kimbrough’s pledge
to stand with Neville’s family, he has not yet banned the use of the prone restraint entirely. As previously reported, Neville’s children have supported the ban on this controversial policy. According to documents obtained by the Winston-Salem Journal on July 9, the policies regarding the use of the prone restraint were modified but not banned completely. These specific policy changes were not reported directly to the public unlike the sheriff’s offer to rename the “4 South Housing Unit” of the detention center to the “John E. Neville Housing Unit,” which was announced during a press conference and published on the FCSO’s Facebook page on Aug. 4. When asked what the next call to action would be for supporters of the #OccupyWSNC movement, Pittenger said TAP would be increasing its involvement in the upcoming city council and commissioner meetings. The next Winston-Salem City Council meeting on Aug. 17 at 7 p.m. will be virtual and will allow 30 minutes for public comment. To speak during this time, call (336) 727-2224 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. before the meeting, and keep comments to 3 minutes. The next Forsyth County Commissioners Meetings on Aug. 20 (special meeting) and Aug. 27 (public hearing) at 2 p.m. will be held virtually and will allow for public comment. To speak, call (336) 422-1200 by 1:45 p.m. on the day of the meeting. (Note, due to the influx of calls for past virtual meetings, be sure to call early enough to make your voice heard.) Both meetings will be streamed on WSTV Channel 13 or on Vimeo (Commissioners) and Zoom (City Council, instructions to view will be added to the website). ! KATIE MURAWSKI is the editor of YES! Weekly. She is from Mooresville, North Carolina and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in film studies from Appalachian State University in 2017. AUGUST 12-18, 2020 YES! WEEKLY
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Wyatt Outlaw and the white men who put a monument where they lynched him There is no record of how Wyatt Outlaw reacted when Klansmen broke into his home on Feb. 26, 1870, the night he was lynched in front of the Alamance County courthouse. Court Ian McDowell records describe how his attackers beat and hanged him, but Contributor don’t mention if he fought back. His mother, Jemima Phillips, did. She later described being awakened that night by masked white men who smashed open the door of the Graham home she shared with her widowed son and three grandchildren. They burst into her bedroom with torches, swords and pistols. One shouted, “where is Wyatt?” as he yanked the blanket off her. Others yelled, “Cut her head off!” and “Blow her brains out!” in an attempt to frighten her into telling them where to find her son. The trial at which she testified was not that of the 18 former Confederates indicted for her son’s murder (between 50 and 100 are believed to have taken part). All charges against those men were dropped before their cases reached court. Instead, Phillips testified in defense of William W. Holden, the North Carolina governor, who ordered the arrest of Wyatt Outlaw’s murderers. For arresting Klansmen, Holden was impeached. Soon, the county’s Black citizens would lose almost every right they’d gained since Sherman rolled through North Carolina after his Atlanta bonfire. Holden’s impeachment trial was held in Raleigh 10 months later. In Graham on the night of Feb. 26, all Jemima Phillips knew was that these armed white men in robes and masks were looking for her son. Her son had risen to a position of authority that she, a former slave, never dreamed possible when he was born and had fought against the Confederate government that wrote slavery into its constitution. Her son, who defied terrorists seeking to revive that heritage of brutal white supremacy, and whose efforts as a political organizer threatened the economic interests of the rich white men who owned the county’s tobacco farms and railroad yards. YES! WEEKLY
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Not finding their prey, the Klansmen stormed back out into the hall. From another room, Phillips heard her youngest grandson screaming, “Daddy, oh, Daddy!” Running to the source of the sound, the 73-year-old woman found Klansmen piled on top of her 50-year-old son, whom they’d overwhelmed as he was pulling on his pants. In the Raleigh courtroom, she said, “I got a stick and laid away as hard as I could.” Three men threw her down and stomped on her. “I arose three times, and they knocked me down, and then I hollered for murder, and they went off with him.” She limped outside and saw her son, wearing only his underwear bottoms, being force-marched down Graham’s North Main Street by the torch-bearing mob. That was the last time she saw him alive. There was nothing she could do. There were far more Klansmen in the street than the 20 or so she was lucky to have survived attacking, and it was no good yelling for Graham’s five constables. Her son was one of those constables, and the others had fled. All she could do was get the children away from this. Over the course of America’s violent history, some men killed by mobs knelt and begged rather than struggled. This writer would like to think that Wyatt Outlaw resisted, that he struck out before being overwhelmed. It would have been in his nature to fight. He was a Union veteran who fought Confederates in Virginia and Texas and fired on masked former Confederates in 1869 when he and other constables drove off a marauding party of Klansmen out to terrorize Graham’s Black citizens. This was cited by his killers as a justification for his murder, even though he was a police officer lawfully firing his weapon at terrorists. (Some later claimed that another constable fired on the Klansmen, but that may have been an unsuccessful ploy by Holden’s defense team on the theory that, if Outlaw never fired on white men, the governor was more justified in ordering Outlaw’s killers arrested.) Outlaw’s home was at 224 N. Main St. (the site of the present-day First Baptist Church of Graham), about 350 yards from the county courthouse. While his mother protected his children, Outlaw was dragged about 340 of those yards, kicked and beaten every step of the way. Before he was hanged from the tree that stood where the county’s Confeder-
ate monument was erected 44 years later, one former Confederate drew a knife and slashed Outlaw’s mouth. This was a symbolic gesture; one of his killers would later say he was punished for being “mouthy.” Also symbolic was the limb they chose to hang him from. It pointed towards the courthouse, the municipal authority that had allowed a Black man to shoot at Confederate veterans. Like many Black southerners, Wyatt Outlaw was also a child of the Confederacy, born to a Black woman raped by her white owner. “Raped” doesn’t necessarily mean physically forced (although many Black women were), but that there is no
consent when you’re owned. Wyatt’s father was Chesley Farrar Faucett, one of the wealthiest men in the county. At some point, Farrar gave or sold Wyatt to another white family named Outlaw. The 1860 census lists Nancy Outlaw, by then a widow, as owning a 40-year-old slave of mixed ancestry, who was described as a “mechanic,” a general term for a craftsman. The 1870 census included Wyatt Outlaw by name, but rather than recording service as a constable and council member, simply listed him as a 50-year-old “mulatto cabinet maker.” Currently, the most information on Wyatt Outlaw’s life can be found Carole
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Watterson Troxler’s “To look more closely at the man”: Wyatt Outlaw, Nexus of National, Local and Personal History, in North Carolina Historical Review Vol. 77, No. 4 (October 2000). By 1863, Outlaw had either been freed or escaped, for he ended up in Union-held coastal North Carolina, where he joined the Second Regiment of the United States Colored Troops (the forerunners of the famous Buffalo Soldiers) and fought in several engagements in Virginia in 1864, then was sent to Texas, where he was mustered out in February of 1866. He is documented as having returned to Alamance County by April of that year, when he opened a woodworking business in his home on Graham’s North Main Street, where he made coffins for paupers (charging the county $4 each) and repaired wagons. His shop also sold liquor, which made it a gathering place for both Black and white tradesmen. In September 1866, Outlaw attended the Raleigh convention of the Equal Rights League, where he was elected to the convention’s board. The board coordinated statewide committees of “colored people” (“colored” could mean Native American as well as Black or biracial), who reported “cruelties and outrages” to both the organization and the press. In Raleigh, Outlaw met former-provisional Gov. William W. Holden, one of the few white politicians to attend. After attending the convention, Outlaw organized the Alamance County Loyal Republican League, a political organization of Black and white working men. At Holden’s 1870 trial, the governor’s support of the league was cited as evidence for his impeachment. In July 1867, Outlaw accepted a commission in the Union League from Holden, who was attempting to unite scattered Republican forces in North Carolina and push back against the Democrats who resisted Reconstruction and opposed Black suffrage. (Some contemporary Republicans like to cite their party’s history of Abolitionism and support for the Civil Rights Act, and the Democratic Party’s identification with White Supremacy from the 19th century until the late 1960s while ignoring the post-’60s seismic shifts that tilted Republicans towards the South and conservatism, and Democrats in the opposite social and geographic directions.) In 1869, newly elected Gov. Holden appointed Outlaw as a town commissioner in Graham. In response to Klan attacks on the town, the commission organized an armed night patrol. One of its three Black members was Outlaw. Witnesses at later (and unsuccessful) attempts at prosecuting the Klan WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
described Outlaw as “mouthy.” One Klansman testified, “Outlaw was hung because he was a politician” who “had been a leader of the Negroes.” The attacks on the town were inspired by Joshua Turner, who denounced “Graham radicals” in his Raleigh newspaper, The Weekly Sentinel, and luridly described alleged Black-on-white crimes. The head of the Klan in North Carolina, Turner, was also director of the North Carolina Railroad Company, which feared alliances between Black and white railway workers. Turner’s rhetoric united Alamance County planters with railroad owners and managers, who also needed Black labor but refused to treat those laborers fairly, despite attempts by the Freedman’s Bureau to enforce the use of equitable contracts. Former slaveowners expected Blacks to work 10 hours a day year-round, every day but Sunday, and to be “paid” in corn and wheat. Although true labor unions were scarce and largely unsuccessful before the 1880s, Wyatt Outlaw can be seen not only as a Unionist, in the political terms that defined the Civil War, but also a union organizer in the modern sense—and was another reason why he was killed. But there was also his association with what the word “Union” still meant for most people in 1870s North Carolina. As I’ve written, the Tarheel state was an often-unwilling member of the Confederacy. Early in the war, support for the Union was less strong in Alamance than in neighboring Guilford and Randolph Counties, where Quaker influence created resistance to the draft even before the Richmond government sent troops to drag Tarheels as young as 15 and as old as 50 off to the killing fields of Gettysburg. But once the age of conscription was lowered, some young white men in Alamance fled to the coast and enlisted in the Union army, on the theory that, if military service were unavoidable, at least the Yankees would treat them better. While pro-Union sentiment grew stronger in the southern and central-western parts of Alamance County, it remained a minority position in the northern part. That’s where, in the first decade after the war, the Ku Klux Klan was most active. The Confederate monument that currently stands on the site of Wyatt Outlaw’s murder is one of many erected across North Carolina in the first decades of the 20th century. The movement to do so was led by Henry London and his wife Bettie Jackson London, President of North Carolina’s United Daughters of the Confederacy. Although he preferred being addressed as “Major,” Henry London never held that
rank in the Confederate army. He had avoided most of the war by being a student at Chapel Hill, but was drafted after graduation, and served for six months as a private before Lee’s surrender. After the war, London championed white supremacy in his newspaper, The Chatham Record, and campaigned for the 1900 Amendment to the North Carolina Constitution, which required voters to pay a poll tax and pass a literacy test if they were not descended from men registered before 1867 (meaning white men). The April 2, 1900, issue of the Greensboro Telegraph printed a speech in which London said: “Remember that the amendment will diminish the Negro vote by about 80,000. And this means that the votes of 80,000 white men, which are now killed by negro voters, will then count to swell the majority for white supremacy.” Fourteen years later, London gave the dedication speech for Alamance County’s Confederate Monument. The Master of Ceremonies who introduced him, and also spoke, was Jacob Long. In 1868, when the Ku Klux Klan was introduced into Alamance from Guilford County, Long was named “Chief of Camp Number One.” He then expanded that initial Klan “camp” into 10, inducting many of the county’s leading citizens, as well as some from Chatham. He was not only the founder but the sole and undisputed leader of the Klan in Alamance County, where his major objective was to remove armed Blacks (meaning constables) from the streets of Graham. Like Henry London, Jacob Long opposed educating Black people, ordering his men to burn down a schoolhouse “to put a stop to the n***** school” (quoted in Shuttle and Plow: a history of Alamance County, North Carolina, by Carole W. Troxler, William M. Vincent, p. 327). In late 1870, Long was arrested and indicted for being an accessory to the murder of Wyatt Outlaw. On Dec. 21, 1871, after Gov. Holden was driven impeached
and exiled from North Carolina, all charges against Long were dismissed. Long’s Master of Ceremonies speech at the 1914 ceremony dedicating Alamance County’s Confederate memorial included the following paragraph: “It is well for us now and then to turn aside from the duties of everyday life, and together celebrate some great event in which we all have a common interest; to recall the achievements of the great and good of our own race and blood, and speak some word or perform some act, or direct some memorial which will keep fresh in our memories services, sacrifices, and events that ought not to be forgotten.” The statue he was dedicating— a generic depiction of a Confederate soldier identical to others mass-produced by the McNeel Marble Company of Marietta, Georgia, and sold throughout the South— still stands. The home of the man lynched on that spot, by the masked minions of the Klan leader who gave that speech, does not. There is currently no monument to Wyatt Outlaw anywhere in the county where he was born, served and murdered. ! IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of. ADDENDUM: I’d like to thank Mike Scott, whose extensive citations for his June 12, 2020, Medium article “The Confederate Monument standing where the Klan killed Wyatt Outlaw”, proved invaluable. Scott’s article is subtitled “An open letter regarding Alamance County, North Carolina’s Confederate monument” and is addressed “Dear Commissioners of Alamance County.” I recently asked Scott if he ever received a response from those commissioners. He replied, “I’ve had extended and disappointing discussions with Commission Chair Amy Galey, to whom I’m related.”
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he Historic Magnolia House in Greensboro continues blending the past and the future with “Porch Sessions: a Dine-in, Drive-in and Virtual Music Experience,” live from its front porch on Aug. 15. The fundraising event for “the House that Soul built” was announced with an endorsement from Katei Cranford Grammy award-winner and MacArthur Fellow, Rhiannon Giddens, and is presented with local partnerships, Contributor in alignment with Black August 2020 events across the country. “Our upcoming Porch Session has been made possible by the Magnolia House Foundation, Elsewhere, and the Black Artists Voices Group,” said Historic Site Manager and Curator Melissa Knapp. “We began working on the event in July, and are so grateful for the collaboration that has made this event a possibility.” Scheduled artists include Brooke Stokes, Charlie Hunter, Debbie the Artist, Demeanor, J Timber, Molly McGinn, and Sam Fribush. The ticketing structure features three tiers: two inperson options complete with a “shoebox dinner” include socially-distanced lawn seating for $15, or a $30 drive-in option for folks in cars. The event will be streamed live for those who purchase $10 online tickets to watch along from their homes. “For the event, we’ll be serving shoe box-inspired meals, with a chicken, burger, and vegetarian option,” Knapp explained. “During the Jim Crow era, Black women frequently packed food in shoeboxes that could be easily eaten in the car or on a train. This prevented black travelers from having to stop in an area without a safe Green Book restaurant.” The Magnolia House itself was a nationally-acclaimed Green Book destination. Appearing in six editions of the Negro Travelers Guide, it was repeatedly denoted as a highly recommended stay for Black travelers during the Jim Crow era; and remains one of the featured spots of North Carolina’s Green Book sites--one of only a handful left in the state. “Today, the Magnolia House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and identified as a ‘Distinctive Destination’ by the National Trust for Historic Preservation,” noted April Parker, event organizer and Creative Catalyst Fellow with Elsewhere. “Out of more than 300 Green Book sites to have operated in the state of North Carolina, the Magnolia House is one of four sites still in existence.” The Porch Session fundraiser will support structural repairs needed to reopen the house as a functional bedand-breakfast and event center with an on-site museum, as well as the extra equipment to safely host events under pandemic conditions. “We are incredibly excited for this event and incredibly thankful for the support the community has shown us so far,” Knapp said, “the money raised will be instrumental in helping us reach these goals and reopen safely to the community.” YES! WEEKLY
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A concert fundraiser is a natural choice for the house as music, and the Magnolia go hand-in-hand. “Jazz Brunch Sunday” has been a staple event since the Pass family reopened the Magnolia to the public in 2017. The Miles Davis trumpet on display at the UNCG School of Music came from Buddy Gist, whose parents owned and operated the Magnolia during its Green Book days. As a hotel, the grand Victorian-style house welcomed guests like Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Ike and Tina Turner, and Ray Charles. Sam Pass, co-owner and President of the Magnolia House Foundation, remembers chatting up Joe Tex on the same porch that will act as center stage for the Porch Session fundraiser. James Brown played ball with kids on the same streets that attendees will use to arrive. While things have been quiet for the past few months because of COVID-19, the Magnolia’s operators intend the Porch Session as a means of picking up momentum where they left off. Before the coronavirus, the house held a steady stream of events ranging from bridal parties to fashion shows, and even a few techno-house parties presented by Strictly Social’s Alvin Shavers and DJ Real. “We’re still planning on partnering with the UNCG Jazz program, and are excited to hopefully have our Jazz Brunch series return on either Aug 23 or 30,” Knapp said, noting they’re currently open for bookings for the next year for private events, including bridal experiences and holiday parties.
Organizers are hopeful the Porch Session becomes a series itself. But first, they’re inviting folks to join the upcoming event, “for a joyful celebration of this important history, from the comfort of your own car, as you enjoy delicious food from Magnolia House itself, and listen to great music from its very own front porch.“ ! KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report, a radio show on hiatus until tours return.
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I’m a 30-year-old gay man with a new boyfriend. He is a total social butterfly: the kind of person who shows up to a bar on a random Amy Alkon Friday night and just happens to know 10 people there. I, Advice on the other hand, Goddess don’t love being super social. It’s not that I’m shy. I just find socializing exhausting. I really like him, and we mostly hang out one-on-one. However, the times we are with a lot of other people, even when they’re a bunch of his friends, I feel a little overwhelmed. I’m worried he’ll find me boring because of this, and I’d rather know sooner than later if my being a wallflower will be the death of the relationship. —Introvert There are great parties and introverts’ version of great parties: the ones they arrive at on the wrong day and find a locked, dark house. What is introversion? Good question, and, annoyingly, one that researchers have yet to agree upon an answer to. So, best I can generalize from quarrying through the research: Introversion is most correctly summed up as the other end of the spectrum from extroversion, with extroversion as “outgoingness” and introversion as “ingoingness.” In the middle are “ambiverts,” those who, depending on their mood and the situation, are sometimes a social butterfly and sometimes a social bug in amber.
An extrovert thrives on human contact and is motivated to pursue “novelty” (experiences they’ve yet to have) and excitement. An introvert, on the other hand, is more focused on (and comfortable in) the world in their thoughts than they are in the world of people, loud noises, and buzzing activity. Introversion gets confused with shyness. But shyness is a psychological problem to overcome — a fear- and shame-driven reluctance to engage with others — whereas introversion is merely a preference for quieter, less populous environments. In other words, introverts aren’t dysfunctional. They’re differently functional. Extroverts and introverts’ differing social preferences (essentially, “I love a parade!” versus “I love a cave”) seem to result from differences in the ways their brains process “stimulus” and “reward.” In psychology, a stimulus is something that happens in the environment around a person (like a horn honking or a spider legging it across their pillow) that’s registered by their senses and then their brain, motivating a response. Cognitive scientist Debra L. Johnson used brain imaging to explore differences in stimulus processing in introverts and extroverts. In introverts, sensory input input from their senses — led to increased blood flow in the brain (playing out as their being socked with increased stimulation). In extroverts, the same sensory input led to less overall blood flow, which plays out as less sensitivity to external stimulation, likely leading to a need for more of it. Input from the senses also takes off down different paths in the brains of introverts and extroverts, “thinky” (in in-
troverts) versus “feely” (in extroverts). For example, in introverts, it led to activity in frontal lobe “higher reasoning” areas used for problem-solving, remembering, and making plans. In extroverts, rear areas of the brain that process sensory experience (like seeing, watching, and touching) were activated, making an extrovert’s brain optimal for managing environmental stimuli (like from a big raging party) that can lead to sensory overload in an introvert. Extroverts also get encouragement to be social (in neurochemical form) from increased activity in their brain’s “reward network,” according to research by psychologist Richard Depue, among others. The neurochemical more active in extroverts’ brains is dopamine, which motivates seeking and wanting. It energizes them to pursue social connection, and there’s a memory component, too, like pop-up ads on a browser, reminding them of all the previous awesomeness they experienced while being swarmed by people. (Introvert: I’d rather be swarmed by angry bees.) Relationships can work between an introvert and extrovert — like my boyfriend and me. I’m the extrovert. If you’re human
and not dead, I want to talk to you. My introvert boyfriend, on the other hand, says things like, “I enjoy interesting conversation, even if it involves talking to people.” I take him to parties when necessary, but I will often leave him home, which leaves him overjoyed. Explain the science to your boyfriend, along with your fears that he’ll come to long for the sort of partner who swings from the chandelier while throwing back martinis and exchanging witty banter with those below. Sure, he might realize he needs a partner who is his social doppelganger, but he also might tell you he finds your introspectiveness refreshing and even quietly sexy. If so, you could make your relationship work by being mindful of each other’s differing needs and figuring out ways for each of you to get yours met with a minimum of hellish discomfort for the other — or, as you might put it, “Till party do us death.” ! GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2020 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.
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