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IN ALL HONESTY UNCSA alum Lady Jess gets candid about the worth of her words

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Marcus Deon Smith’s death ruled a homicide, again PAGE 7

Pandemic learning loss hurts students of color PAGE 4

The Derek Chauvin verdict offers brief relief PAGE 2

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My wife was in the school pick-up line, pinned to WFDD’s live coverage. I was in my barber’s parking lot, refreshing Twitter.

My barber was texting me, telling me not to bother coming in until the Derek Chauvin verdict had dropped.

Even the president stopped what he was doing so he could catch the decision in real time.

Rebuffed by my barber, I drove to the office where I found Jordan Green monitoring a white-supremacist livestream as they discussed the murder of George Floyd, certain the white cop would prevail.

After being banned from mainstream communications apps like Twitter, YouTube and the like, after the implosion of Parler and whatever it is the pillow guy is doing, the most hardened white supremacists are using video-game streaming channels to communicate. This one here is the bottom of the barrel, the ones booted from Twitch for using the N-word, awaiting the verdict like everyone else.

Like we had done so many times before — election results, trials, procedural votes, autopsy reports, official announcements — Jordan and I waited around for the thing to happen with more than our usual uneasiness. Because no matter the preponderance of evidence, no matter the testimony, no matter the clear decision between right and wrong, we had both seen such things go sideways before.

Most of the results we’d awaited together had not gravitated towards the light — so many opportunities to do the right thing squandered.

We both knew that if the Chauvin trial followed all historical precedent, there would be no real consequences for the cop or the department in which he operated. Just like every other time, everywhere.

When it happened — guilty charges on all three felony counts — we felt the release that had been building up since Chauvin murdered Floyd in May 2020, since long before that, really, since just about forever.

And still: cynicism, hard earned.

One verdict is not change. One verdict does not correct a flawed system. One verdict is not justice, or accountability.

One verdict like this one is an outlier, just waiting to be overturned.

But still.

Something different happened this time. And there’s hope in that for all of us.

Even the president stopped what he was doing so he could catch the decision in real time.

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Lady Jess, aka Jessica McJunkins, is done being quiet.

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April 22-28, 2021

CITY LIFE April 22-25

by Michaela Ratliff

Coronavirus in the Triad: (As of Wednesday, April 21)

Documented COVID-19 diagnoses NC 952,529 (+13,745) Forsyth 34,651 (+450) Guilford County

44,017 (+798)

COVID-19 deaths

NC

12,480 (+155)

Forsyth

369 (+2)

Guilford

599 (+15)

Documented recoveries NC

911,719 (+11,545)

Forsyth

32,846 (as of 4/10)

Guilford

41,608 (+588)

Current cases NC

28,330 (+2,045)

Forsyth

*no data*

Guilford

1,809 (+195)

Hospitalizations (right now) NC

1,168 (+123)

Forsyth

*no data*

Guilford

49 (-4)

Vaccinations NC First Dose

3,141,738 (+337,255)

Fully vaccinated

2,436,471 (23.2%, +216,260)

Forsyth First Dose

121,590 (+19,017)

Fully vaccinated

97,075 (25.4%, +7,832)

Guilford First dose

175,783 (+12,586)

Fully vaccinated

141,238 (26.3%, +16,331)

THURSDAY April 22

Spartan New Musicals @ UNCG School of Theatre (GSO) Online UNCG School of Theater is excited to present the Spartan New Musicals: Flatbush Avenue and Radio: A Musical Ghost Story available for streaming until Saturday. Learn more and purchase tickets online at www.uncgtheatre.com, in person at the box office, or call 336.334.4392.

INTI HOUSE Bolivian Coffee Pop-up @ Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (W-S) 10 a.m.

Start your morning off at SECCA’s sculpture deck with a hot cup of Bolivian coffee from INTI HOUSE. Visit SECCA’s website for more events happening this day.

Gipsy Danger @ One Thirteen Brewhouse & Rooftop Bar (GSO) 8 p.m.

Earth Day Beehive Canvas @ Distractions (HP) 6:30 p.m.

This bee-based Earth Day event is perfect for children ages 6 and up as they’ll be using fingerprints and bubble wrap to get creative. For just $25, you’ll receive all the materials you’ll need and a lesson about bees’ importance to the planet. Visit Distractions’ website to register.

FRIDAY April 23

Urban Street Grill Food Truck @ Bailey Park (W-S) 11:30 a.m.

Stop by Bailey Park in the Innovation Quarter where Urban Street Grill is prepared to serve you delicious Korean barbeque in the form of rice bowls, burritos and more! Check out the full menu on their website.

Head to One Thirteen, the city’s 4-story entertainment venue in the heart of downtown, to enjoy the toe-tapping, folk-rock sounds of Gipsy Danger. Visit the event page on Facebook for more info.

SUNDAY April 25

Go Green Annual Plant & Garden Sale @ Greensboro Farmers Curb Market (GSO) 9 a.m.

Garden enthusiasts are invited to the Go Green Garden Show to purchase herbs, flowers, shrubs and more.

For more info, visit the event page on Facebook.

Inaugural Market @ etc.gso (GSO) 12 p.m.

Friendly Art Yard Grand Opening @ Ben & Jerry’s (GSO) 12 p.m.

The Friendly Art Yard between Ben & Jerry’s and Harris Teeter is becoming a gallery as art panels by local artist Gina Franco are revealed. There’s free ice cream in it for the first 75 guests! Find more information on the event page on Facebook.

SATURDAY April 24

Great American Cleanup @ Pinnacle Financial (HP) 9 a.m.

During the largest cleanup of the year, the city of High Point needs your help keeping it beautiful. There will also be a food drive where each donation is an entry in a drawing to win one of five $100 gift cards. Visit HighPointNC.Gov to register.

Etc.GSO is pleased to open with this backyard inaugural market, featuring items from local vendors like Multifaceted, Riley Till Art and more! More information is on the event page on Facebook.

Pop Up Craft: Pint Glass Etching @ Bull City Ciderworks (GSO) 1 p.m.

Back by popular demand! Decorate your own etched pint glass with dinosaurs, llamas and more for just $10. Supplies sold out in an hour and a half last week, so be sure to get there early!

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As schools reopen, students of color are forced to play catch-up

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aylor Smith isn’t returning to school just yet.

While most schools in Guilford County reopened this week on a four-day, inperson schedule, Smith, a junior at High Point Central High School, has elected to continue learning at home because she lives with her grandmother who is in an at-risk population. Neither Smith nor her grandmother have been vaccinated yet.

As it turns out, Smith could be in an at-risk population as well — not as it relates to COVID-19, but in terms of her education.

Historically, Smith said, she’s been a great student. She studies hard, knows when to ask for help and excels in her classes.

“I’ve always been a more hands-on student and being online has really made things a lot harder,” Smith said. “My grades started dropping and teachers would help as much as possible, but I got to a point where I wanted to give up.”

Smith said she’s had a hard time keeping up with her classes; the lack of face time with her teachers has really started to affect her plans for the future.

“This whole experience has made me question my career goals to be a cardiologist,” she said. “With my grades dropping and not being able to do any extracurriculars this year, now I’m considering going into the Navy first.”

Smith, a mixed-race student, is not

alone. Black and Brown children in Guilford County and Forsyth County schools have been the main victims of learning loss related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In March 2020, when schools, teachers, parents and students had to make the abrupt switch to online learning, everyone was on edge with uncertainty.

More than a year later, as many students have returned to inperson learning, schools as a whole must address the catch-up game that so many students will have to play in order to perform at grade level.

According to Guilford County Schools’ MAP Growth assessments in math and reading administered to K-10 students this winter, white and Asian students outperformed Black, Hispanic and other students in both subjects.

That goes for both in-person and remote learning. In fact, the achievement gap for Black and Brown students has widened during COVID-19.

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools recorded a similar trend, with both Latinx and students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds underperforming compared to other demographics.

“Our data mirrors the state, which shows that students are struggling in math and science more, and our Latino

population and population of low socioeconomic status are most affected,” said Nicolette Grant, WSFCS chief academic officer. “But as we’ve all seen, everyone has been impacted.”

In Guilford County, students seemed to be less proficient in math, while still not at average or above in reading either. Statewide and nationally, research shows that the trends are mostly the same.

According to national data analyzed by McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm, students of all backgrounds were negatively impacted by the pandemic, but students of color fared much worse. The report predicted that students of color will see a loss of 11 months or 12 months of learning, compared to seven months to eight months for white students.

The achievement gap for Black and brown students has widened during COVID-19.

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s the pandemic persisted, school administrators learned and adapted to what the students and teachers needed.

Both school systems in Guilford and Forsyth counties set up meal distribution sites for students to address the basic issue of child hunger.

WSFCS developed their CARES

team that reaches out to students who were disengaging from their schoolwork, providing resources for the student and family. WSFCS also deployed internet hotspots, Chromebooks and Wi-Fi buses to help address internet access for students at home.

Bruce Blackwell, a social studies teacher at High Point Central, said that GCS did a great job addressing the basic needs of food and internet access, but some things were out of the system’s control.

“Every child is different, so I’ve got a few students who have flourished in the remote setting, but some really need that face to face,” he said. “Some were really missing that social aspect and others don’t do anything either way. Some kids would rather work than go to school and others needed to work because they’re now the breadwinners of their family.”

Although her daughter attends a private charter school, Aiesha Greer, a single mother working in healthcare, faced many of the problems the school systems tried to address. “[My daughter] had a hard time staying focused at home and would do a lot better in the structure of the classroom setting,” she said. “I changed my work schedule, so I had to time to work with her, but I’m not a teacher. She does so much better when she has that face-toface time with her teacher.”

Greer said that, in the beginning, there was a lot of independent work and

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oth WSFCS and GCS have made plans for summer programs this

year to help mitigate some of the learning loss. Earlier this month, Gov. Roy Cooper signed the “Summer Learning Choice for NC Families” law, which requires school districts to offer K-12 students at least 150 hours or 30 days of in-person summer instruction, as well as enrichment activities in the arts and athletics. The programs are also open to charter, private and home-school students.

Both school systems intend to reach out to the most at-risk students for their

summer programs. GCS and WSFCS will use targeted tutoring for middle and high school students while small-group instruction will be used for elementary and middle school students in reading and math. There will also be learning and program opportunities for students with special needs, students who are incarcerated, and enrichment programs for English learners.

Blackwell and Grant both said that they hope the needs exacerbated during the pandemic will push schools to make

beneficial changes.

“We’re educators so we are constantly teaching and learning, reflecting and changing,” Grant said. “It has been a very challenging year and loss and death have effected our community. We have to constantly evolve and make adjustments for what will be better for our students and teachers.”

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it was difficult for them to stay on top of. Because of the change in the mode of instruction, schools decreased the amount of instructional time to balance screen time.

“We’ve had our fair share of challenges and she’s really ready to go back,” Greer said.

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National data has predicted that students of color have lost about 11 to 12 months of learning, compared to 7 or 8 months for white students.

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Activists call for accountability in Marcus Deon Smith case as second expert confirms death as homicide

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for its defense.

During the press conference on Tuesday, activists called for accountability.

“We are standing here in Greensboro with the same hurt and pain for over two years,” said Rev. Wesley Morris of Faith Community Church. “And anywhere justice is delayed, that is justice being denied.”

The activists also tied the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year to Smith’s case from 2018.

“The city council who would never say that George Floyd’s death wasn’t caused by the Minneapolis police are bending over backwards to avoid accountability for Marcus Smith’s death and I have to ask, why?” said activist Casey Thomas.

“I think the answer is power. I think it

is that the narrative of George Floyd’s death has more political power than the narrative of Marcus Smith’s death here, because they believe that the people who care that the police killed Marcus Smith do not have the power to unelect them.”

The press conference also comes in the wake of a revelation that one of the police officers who was involved in Smith’s death, Douglas Strader, has been hired by the Graham Police Department. In response to Strader’s hiring, two civil rights complaints have been filed with the state department of justice as well as the federal department of justice.

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state of Georgia in the new report. “I concur that the manner of death should be classified as a homicide.”

In 2018, Smith was killed by police officers after he was found wandering in and out of traffic during the Folk Festival in downtown Greensboro. During the interaction, Smith was hogtied and forced onto the ground for several minutes, chest first. A subsequent report by the state medical examiner at the time found Smith’s death to be a homicide due to prone restraint. This prompted the Smith family to file a federal civil rights lawsuit against city including the officers and paramedical staff involved. The lawsuit has been ongoing for more than two years and has resulted in the city spending more than half-million dollars

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s the world awaited the outcome of the Derek Chauvin trial, dozens of activists gathered at the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro on Tuesday to advocate for justice for Marcus Deon Smith, who was killed by Greensboro police in 2018. During the press conference, community members brought forth a new report that re-confirmed Smith’s death as a homicide.

“It is my opinion… that Marcus Smith died as the direct consequence of being forcibly restrained in the prone position after a period of intense physical activity and furthermore hog-tied to such an extent that his respiratory ability was compromised,” writes Dr. Kris L. Sperry, a retired chief medical examiner for the

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HB 311: Where immigrants must drive, give them licenses

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hen it comes to our treatment of immigrants in North Carolina, we most often fall far short of

gencies. But without licenses, they cannot be insured or even properly register their vehicles.

This denial of reality causes all sorts decency. of problems out there on the actual Here in the Triad, housing conditions road. for recent immigrants can be dangerous HB 311, filed in March by Rep. Pricey and otherwise inadequate. Healthcare Harrison (D-Guilford) and Rep. Ricky for immigrants is notoriously substanHurtado (D-Alamance), addresses this dard. Our schools are not optimized situation directly. for immigrant children — children in It simply authorizes the DMV to issue Guilford County schools alone speak restrictive drivers licenses to immimore than 100 different languages. And grants, regardless of immigration status, local law enforcement agencies rarely as long as they can provide some basic speak anything other than English, ID — Faith Action ID counts here — often poorly at that. and pass the written and Rooted in fear and road tests.

This denial of xenophobia, our misThe licenses will have treatment of newcomers a different design than reality causes ignores the fact that the the state Real ID, and will all sorts of bulk of our agricultural expire in two years. As state’s economy is built written into the law, the problems out almost entirely on the lainformation gathered for there on the bor of recent immigrants. these cannot be used in They’re the ones who pick criminal or immigration actual road. the tobacco and strawberproceedings, nor can the ries, process the chickens applications be used to and hogs. initiate immigration investigations.

It ignores another reality about This is a great law, addressing problife in North Carolina as well: Life is lems that affect everyone who drives on exceedingly difficult here without a our roads, which is all of us. It acknowlcar, especially outside of our cities and edges reality, and offers an actual, workthe corridors of public transportation. able solution so simple that it could be Undocumented immigrants are denied implemented almost immediately. drivers licenses in NC. But that does Within a day of its filing last month, not mean that they don’t drive. They HB 311 went off to committee, where must drive, just like the rest of us — to bills often go to die. But interest in the get to work, to run errands, for emerbill hasn’t waned. It just needs the votes.

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On Trade Street, almost normal again

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The Silver Moon, as always, simply exists.

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didn’t happen. Some nights, regulars People come; people go. When it’s I haven’t seen in 12 months sidle up to busy — today’s version of busy — some the bar like they were here just the night stick around but most make their way to before and ask for their usual. And like another place. It’s like they have to go to a drink-serving automaton, the order all the hot spots they’ve missed out on. they last placed more than a year ago But the important thing is that they stop conjures itself out of the smoky depths by, even if it’s to feel a sense of camaraof my memory. derie with strangers who also have real“Mark likes a Jameson and a PBR.” ized that they might just be coming into My old muscle memory asserts itself, the ass-end of this thing. as does theirs. Feels almost normal.

To feel the relief, the literal weight, Almost. lifting off as they realize they’re vacThere’s a distance, despite the yearncinated and that they can go out again! ing to touch, to hug, to Like before. feel someone, anyone.

There is happiness.

‘It’s dead out,’ he Instead, fist-bumps have But there are nights, says, like I haven’t become the preferred especially on the slow method of greeting bebeen chain-smoking ones like tonight, where tween old friends.

I look at an empty seat on the patio and JR comes back in. An and think about who unofficial caretaker, he’s watching the lack of should be sitting there. been wandering to neighI think about all of the activity all night. boring bars and checking stories that I’ll never in on the bartenders, hear. surveying the scene, seeWe’ve collectively ing who’s out. been put through a generational flux.

“It’s dead out,” he says, like I haven’t This is ours; this is our “infamy” mobeen chain-smoking on the patio and ment. I expect there’s going to be a time watching the lack of activity since 10 not too far from now where we will see a o’clock. true catharsis, and the aftereffects of the The night before, I actually had a quick past year will become apparent — good hour where it felt like real bartending. and bad. But, I have no idea. None of us A steady stream of orders, one after do. We all have to jump in, eyes closed, another, no time to dwell. Order, Serve, and hope for the best.

Repeat. Check IDs. Clean. Change the I hear a knock on the window and look music. Cut someone off. up. Bubs is back. I smile, grab my smokes But most of the time, it’s quiet. and walk outside.

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ubs walks by.

He’s one of the old crowd from “before.” Thirteen months later, his habit of stopping

by James Douglas by to see if we need help sweeping up after a busy night remains.

We don’t. Not yet, at least.

Bubs would clean up on busy nights and not just trash. After the bartenders tipped him out a few bucks, he’d go around the patio like an usher at church, gladhanding each congregate until he received his tithe.

“We’re not there yet,” I tell him, giving him a slice of pizza that JR brought over earlier. Right now, it’s just me and Bubs and a couple out back. Capacity isn’t back to normal, but it’s improving. I tell him to check back on a busy night. Bubs shuffles off, working the street, like he did before. Shit, it’s almost comforting to see him.

I hear laughter on the bar patio across the street, and if I turn off the George Jones in here, I’d hear the mournful echo of Del Shannon playing from the speakers of the radio station that churns out late-night oldies half a block away.

It’s quiet after dark. Late night is strictly for professionals now.

People who do come out, come early.

And they come in like the past year

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UNCSA alum Lady Jess asserts the worth of her words

essica McJunkins is tired.

She’s tired of talking about the violin. She’s tired of advocating for representation in the arts. She’s tired of seeing Black and brown people get killed by police. She’s.

Just. So. Damn. Tired.

“Being in this skin in 2021 asks so much of us,” she says.

McJunkins, otherwise known as Lady Jess, is a freelance violinist, contractor and artistic director for the Urban Playground Orchestra whose mission is to prioritize the music of Black composers and to showcase historically marginalized voices. She attended UNC School of the Arts from 2004-09, developing the skills that would land her gigs with artists like Beyoncé, Stevie Wonder and the Roots. More recently, she served as concertmaster for Judas and the Black Messiah, which has been nominated for six Academy Awards this year, including Best Picture. For the gig, she handselected each of the musicians for the orchestra, mostly women and people of color.

But McJunkins doesn’t really want to talk about all of that. Instead, she wants to talk about the value of her words.

At Triad City Beat, we don’t pay for interviews. We never have and I’m not sure we ever will. Paying for interviews is a huge violation of one of journalism’s most longstanding tenets, right up there with plagiarizing and outing sources.

There’s even a name for it: checkbook journalism. Creating a financial relationship between the journalist and source muddies the waters of transparency and honesty. It corrupts the fact-gathering process. And, for some of us, it’s financially untenable.

But McJunkins, who arrives at our video call dressed up with carefully applied makeup, sees the interview is a kind of transaction between two parties, one in which she feels like she should be compensated for her time and for her words.

As we talk through her childhood in Charlotte and her time living in New York, McJunkins’ well-rehearsed story of her life begins to fall away. The smooth cadence of her words slows down and her smile turns into a frown.

“Can I be honest with you for a minute?” she asks.

She then divulges how she expected the topic of pay to be breached before our meeting by either myself or the con-

Jessica McJunkins, aka Lady Jess, attended UNCSA from 2004-09 where she developed her skills as a violinist.

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tact at UNCSA through whom I arranged the interview. I told reached out to by multiple organizations to share their experiher it had never even crossed my mind. ences. But the shallow, empty gestures of “allyship” that she’s Therein, McJunkins says, lies the continued to see from historically problem. white-owned institutions aren’t going “As Black artists, especially Black to cut it, she says.

To learn more about Lady Jess, women, we know our worth,” she “Black and brown people, especially follow her on Instagram at @ says. “Last spring, collectively, we women and the queer community, ladyjessmusic and on her website decided to be assertive to the point of have said again and again that the being blunt about being paid to share way to show assertive allyship is to at ladyjessmusic.com. The Oscars our stories. This is unprecedented, avoid the performative and stick to air this Sunday at 8 p.m. yes. But that is exactly the point. If we the fiscal,” she says. “Support us by don’t advocate for a new standard, finding ways to compensate us in a who will?” space that traditionally does not.

Since the killing of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor last Everything else rings false to us.” year, McJunkins says she and her Black colleagues have been And McJunkins is right to be angry.

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Data consistently shows that Black women are paid just 63 cents on the dollar for the same labor compared to white men; the effects of the pandemic have made things worse.

According to findings analyzed by US News & World Report, Black and Latinx women have been hit the hardest in the last year, with unemployment rates for the two

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“As Black artists, especially Black women, we know our worth,” McJunkins says.

groups measuring higher than all other demographics. And these realities make it tough to focus on work, especially when it comes to making music, McJunkins says.

“Monthly, weekly, when people are being killed by the police and when you think about music and what it takes, the tediousness of it, the writing and the practicing — that combined with people dying from the pandemic — if I’m not using this for an immediate good or for something that can be built for the future for the culture, why am I doing it?” she asks. “It’s challenging me in the best possible way.”

As she continues to express her frustrations, it’s clear that McJunkins isn’t alone in this exhaustion that stems from living in a world that wasn’t created for her.

In the past year, I’ve had countless conversations with Black creatives about the ways in which institutions like ours can right the wrongs that have been enacted upon historically marginalized people. Some of these conversations have made it to print; many others haven’t.

It’s clear that Black people, particularly Black creatives, are collectively tired. They’re tired of waiting for spaces that welcome and uplift them rather than exploiting them for profit or using them as pawns for diversity quotas.

They’re tired of being pigeonholed into creating work that exclusively talks about Black pain because people still aren’t listening. They’re tired of advocating for their worth when the country they live in was founded on the notion of their worthlessness.

ZACH HYMAN So, at Triad City Beat, we’re working to answer some of these questions while sticking to our values in the process.

And McJunkins says she understands.

“I am passionate about speaking up for things that I believe could change and should be re-examined for the generation that comes after me, as it was done by my older Black colleagues before me,” she says. “I always want to pay it forward.”

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23 Speculates 60 Intro to a certain cipher that resembles the 24 Tarot deck grouping angle in the SE corner 25 Where to find the letter that looks like the 66 Homer Simpson outburst angle in the SW corner 67 Ferret’s cousin 26 Surrounds 68 Word before ringer or tired 27 Antarctic penguin 69 Music with confessional lyrics 30 Adrenaline rush 70 “Interview With the Vampire” vampire 31 Mara of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” 71 Birds with dark green eggs 32 Late “Crocodile Hunter” Steve 34 Cheese in some bagels Down 35 Ted of “Mr. Mayor” 40 Pinky ___ 1 Dog’s foot 45 “Hamlet” courtier who oversees a duel 2 William McKinley’s First Lady 51 Push away 3 “Que ___?” (“How’s it going?”)

53 Pole on a battery 4 Cause laughter 54 1993 hitmaker with “No Ordinary Love” 5 Like most restaurant orders, lately 55 Dance with a lot of rentals 6 “Put a sock ___!”

56 Roasting stick 7 Website for craftwork 57 “Girls” creator Dunham 8 Word usually put in brackets 58 Perform without ___ 9 Actress Thurman 61 Vexation 10 Drink with a red, white, and blue logo 62 Ball club VIPs 11 On a calculator, it looks like the angle in the 63 On the left, for short NE corner 64 It might be free at a French restaurant 12 Manufacturer’s target 65 Mobile game interruptions 13 Exclamation after a big finish 18 Region conquered by Alexander the Great

April 22-28, 2021

CROSSWORD ‘Knowing the Angles’—when it’s all right. SUDOKU

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