TCB April 6, 2023 — Give 'em Hel's

CITY LIFE

FRIDAY APRIL 7

Black Mountain College: Seedbed of American Art @ Reynolda House (W-S) 9:30 a.m.

This exhibition opened on March 10 at Reynolda House Museum of American Art and will be on display until June 25 and pays homage to Black Mountain College, a liberal arts college that emphasized holistic learning. Plan your visit at reynolda.org

Taking Flight @ North Trade Street Arts (W-S) 7 p.m.

Artist Holli Conger’s 5th annual solo bird show highlights her found object style through whimsical and quirky birds. The show opens during the DADA 1st Friday Gallery Hop. Visit northtradestreetarts.com for more information.

by MICHAELA RATLIFF

SATURDAY APRIL 8

APRIL 7-9

Who’s Bad: The Ultimate Michael Jackson Experience @ Carolina Theatre (GSO) 6 p.m.

Who’s Bad is known for being the longest-running Michael Jackson tribute band, and for being founded before the legend’s passing in 2009. Join them for what’s described as a “musical mustsee” as they perform your favorite hits by the King of Pop. Purchase tickets at whosbadmusic.com or carolinatheatre.com

Hamil-Kerr Challenge Bike/Run/ Walk @ High Point City Lake Park (HP) 8 a.m.

Hamil-Kerr Challenge is a Jamestown-based nonprofit that aims to ease the financial burden of those suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Do your part to help by participating in a 10K, 5K run or family walk in the park. Register at hamilkerrchallenge.com

Repticon @ Winston-Salem Fair grounds & Annex (W-S) 10 a.m.

Repticon is your chance to enjoy all things rep tiles! See and purchase pets and pet products from around the world and learn more about reptiles and exotic animals directly from experts. Purchase tickets at repticon.com

SUNDAY APRIL 9

Hellzapoppin: Circus Sideshow 2023 @ Arizona Pete’s (GSO) 8 p.m. Ever heard of a circus with a rock ‘n’ roll twist? Join half-man Short E. Dangerously, the most tattooed man in the world, The Lizard Man, and

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The kids are alright

Icould hear the echoes of their chants from my office window.

struck with how resilient, how strong, how courageous they are, and also how angry they are with the world today. And it was all on display as I watched from the sidelines this afternoon.

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The new co-owners of Hel’s, Allison Cambra and Morgan Masencup, are excited to welcome the public to their new, inclusive bar on Trade Street.

Photo by Madison Roland Design by Aiden Siobhan

by Sayaka Matsuoka

I was late so I jumped in my car and drove around the block where I hit Josephine Boyd Blvd. Immediately, I was met with the sight of hundreds of high school students standing outside on Grimsley High School’s campus; there was a sea of them.

Today is National School Walkout Day. Started in 2018, the event culminates in students and staff from schools around the country taking time to protest against gun violence. And on Wednesday afternoon, a mass of Grimsley’s student body made their voices heard.

“What do we want?”

“Change!”

“When do we want it?”

“Now!”

As I tried to run onto campus, I was stopped by a member of the school district’s security team; I was to watch the protest from afar.

At first, I was frustrated at being told that I had to watch the students from afar. I couldn’t take any decent photos of the crowd and I certainly couldn’t interview anywhere from where I was. But watching the students’ backs, listening to their chants, I was struck with the notion that this is how change is made.

I’m still young, sure, in the grand scheme of things. I only turned 30 last year, but lately I’ve been grappling with my age. I’ve been interacting more with kids who are 16, 17 and 18 years olds and I’m

Because progress and change really is made by the next generation isn’t it?

Sure, we as Millennials did our fair share. We protested in the streets, we ran for office, we pushed for change. But it’s becoming increasingly clear to me that the mantle is being slowly but surely taken up by the next generation, by Gen Z.

Last week, hundreds of members of the next generation packed the state Capitol in Tennessee to protest Republicans’ inaction on gun legislation. And it gives me hope.

Because when adults, especially older generations, can get out of the way, that’s when the real change happens. Because democracy is all of ours to fight for. But the real changemakers, the ones for whom the fight will have lasting impacts, are the kids. Like the ones who gathered on the grassy lawn on Grimsley’s campus today and shouted, demanded for change.

“We’re fed up!” they yelled over and over again.

So when they insisted, “Show me what democracy looks like!,” and they answered, “This is what democracy looks like!,” it wasn’t just their physical appearance outside of the campus that answered the question. Their generation is what democracy looks like.

And I’m happy to support them from wherever I can.

To suggest story ideas or send tips to TCB, email sayaka@triad-city-beat.com

Progress and change really is made by the next generation isn’t it?

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“The wonderful thing about being young is you don’t know you can’t do something.”

-Dr. Deborah Barnes, pg. 12

Greensboro to convert old buses to create free trolley service

by Gale Melcher

This July, there will be a new way to get around Greensboro. During a city council work session on March 28, council members and transit officials came together to discuss plans for a trolley pilot program in the city.

The program shifted into gear in 2019 when it received funding as a participatory budgeting project — a process where members of the community vote on how a portion of the city’s budget will be spent. The project accumulated $18,000 from each of the five districts for a grand total of $90,000.

“Then COVID hit and the project went dormant,” said city Transit Planner Gray Johnston

Johnston added that the project was reignited after City Manager Taiwo Jaiyeoba was instated.

An additional $1 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding will also be used for the project after the council passed a resolution authorizing funding for ARPA-enabled projects in January.

Jaiyeoba mentioned that this funding would help the project go beyond what could originally be done with just the initial $90,000.

“Thanks to y’all, there’s a bigger budget to actually figure out what we could do with this project,” Johnston noted during the presentation.

The pilot program will utilize retired buses that otherwise would have been sold. Instead of getting rid of them, the old buses will be retrofitted with new engines and repurposed as trolleys. The trolley service will be free, and will

use four dedicated buses.

Johnston said that in order to make the buses look like old trolleys, modifications such as new seat covers and LED lights will also be added. They will differ from trolleybuses because they will not be powered by overhead power lines.

In mock-ups for how the trolleys will look, the vehicles are emblazoned with the moniker Gate City Trolley, however Johnston said this will not necessarily be the name of the trolley, adding that the team has considered doing a “public naming campaign so that the citizens can vote on the actual name of the service.”

Where might the trolleys run?

Johnston presented councilmembers with three route options, all beginning downtown at South Elm Street. The first route serves downtown, connecting South Elm Street to North Elm Street with 5-7 minute wait times, while the second route would have 7-10 minute wait times and take riders to Moses Cone Hospital and other healthcare access points. The third option would connect downtown to Revolution Mill, with fewer stops and wait times increasing to 15-20 minutes.

“Each of these options has its pros and cons, and kind of changes the feel of what we’re going after,” Johnston said.

Johnston also mentioned that a few city bus routes already service these areas, such as Route 3 along Church Street, Route 6 along Summit Avenue and Route 15 along Yanceyville Street.

“Ultimately, we just wanted to have you all give us feedback about what you think the goals of this trolley are,” Johnston said to the council.

District 5 representative Tammi Thurm shared her thoughts, leaning toward the shortest route. “We can always expand the service if we’ve got great results and the citizens love it,” she said.

Thurm noted that if wait times for a trolley are around 20 minutes, “people are gonna start getting impatient and want to take their cars anyway.”

“In terms of downtown, you know, a 5-7 minute connection makes sense,” she said. Thurm added that as far as a pilot goes, the closer times are together, the better.

“Otherwise the trolley becomes a bus,” Mayor Nancy Vaughan noted, to which Thurm added:

“A free bus.”

While public trolleys aren’t that common in North Carolina, there are trolleybuses in operation around the country. Typical trolleybuses, trains and streetcars differ from the Greensboro proposal because they usually draw power from overhead power lines and drive on rails.

In Charlotte, wait times for trains and streetcars range between 15-30 minutes, depending on the time of day and day of the week.

This piece is part of our CityBeat that covers Greensboro and Winston-Salem city council business, made possible by a grant from the NC Local News Lab Fund, available to republish for free by any news outlet who cares to use it. To learn how, visit triad-city-beat.com/republish.

A screenshot from the city’s presentation shows examples of what the new trolleys could look like.

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Featuring R.E.M.’s MIKE MILLS and solo violinist ROBERT MCDUFFIE

Mike Mills performs R.E.M.’s greatest hits in fresh, new arrangements for full orchestra, plus Mills’s own Concerto for Violin, Rock Band, and Orchestra with returning guest violinist, Robert McDuffie!

APR 15 | 7:30 PM

Reynolds Auditorium

Tickets: wssymphony.org

Sheriffs around the state are signing a letter opposing bills that would require them to cooperate with ICE. And while one Triad sheriff has signed on, the other has not.

HB 10, otherwise known as “Require Sheriffs to Cooperate with ICE” and SB 50, called “Require Cooperation with ICE 2.0,” were both filed by state lawmakers in January. Written and sponsored by Republicans — including local state Rep. John Faircloth (R-Guilford), House Whip Jon Hardister (R-Guilford) and Rep. Kyle Hall (R-Forsyth) and Sen. Joyce Krawiec (R-Forsyth) — the bills would require sheriffs and jails to comply with all immigration detainer requests made by the US Dept. of Homeland Security. The bills also prohibit jails from releasing individuals on bail even if they are eligible for release under North Carolina law based on a “request, approval, or other instruction” from the federal government.

On March 28, HB 10 passed its second reading in the House, with all Republican representatives and three Democrats, including Guilford County Rep. Cecil Brockman, voting in favor of the bill. SB 50 remains stalled in committee as of Feb. 1.

These types of bills are not new. For the past few years, Republican lawmakers have attempted to pass similar bills that require sheriffs to enforce federal immigration laws. However, none have been signed into law; Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed two in the last four years. However, with a new Republican supermajority in the state Senate, members of the GOP hope to override future vetoes by the governor.

Which sheriffs are opposed to the bills?

In response, a group of NC sheriffs signed onto a letter on March 1 stating their opposition to the bills.

“As Sheriffs of North Carolina, elected by our constituents to provide for the public safety of our counties, we write to ask that you oppose HB 10 and SB 50,” the letter begins. “For the third time in four years, these bills have been filed in the NC

General Assembly to require that elected sheriffs enforce federal immigration laws. The role of the sheriff has historically focused on enforcing local laws in our jurisdictions, maintaining and operating jails, properly serving civil process papers, and providing security for North Carolina’s courtrooms. However, these bills set a precedent requiring that we prioritize voluntary immigration enforcement at the expense of local law enforcement priorities.”

Thus far, 11 NC sheriffs have signed onto the letter, including Guilford County Sheriff Danny Rogers. Rogers, a Democrat, won re-election in November 2022. He has been in office since first winning the seat in 2018, beating longtime incumbent BJ Barnes. Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough, also a Democrat, has not yet signed on to the letter.

When asked if Kimbrough had any plans to do so, Christina Howell, the public information officer for the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, told TCB that she was “not aware of any plans to join this effort at this time.” When pressed for an explanation as to why, TCB did not receive a response.

Bria Evans, the public information officer for the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department told TCB in an email that Sheriff Rogers couldn’t comment on why he signed the letter “due to the status of the bill being proposed legislation as opposed to law.”

In the past, both Rogers and Kimbrough have been pressed by immigrant activists to oppose cooperation with ICE.

In 2019, community members pressed Rogers to oppose HB 370, a similar bill that originally included penalties for sheriffs who didn’t cooperate with ICE. However, Rogers noted that he was in support of the bill after an amendment was proposed by the NC Sheriff’s Association. The bill was ultimately vetoed by Gov. Cooper.

Similarly, Sheriff Kimbrough, who also won re-election last year and has been in office since 2018, has been pushed by activists to not cooperate with ICE. After taking over the department in 2019, Kimbrough initially said he would let a contract between his office and the US Marshals Service expire, which would stop the lease of county jail beds to ICE. However, later on,

As Republicans try to pass ICE-cooperation bills, some sheriffs, including one in the Triad, sign letter in opposition

by Sayaka Matsuoka

Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough and Guilford County Sheriff Danny Rogers have both been in office since 2018. Both won re-election in 2022.

FILE PHOTO

Kimbrough walked back his statements, stating that if he is bound by legal contracts, he has to comply.

In addition to Sheriff Rogers, sheriffs in Wake, Mecklenburg, Buncombe, Wilson, Orange Durham, Vance, Pitt, Cumberland and Granville Counties have signed the letter.

TA history of ICE cooperation and its effects his time around, the sheriffs who have signed on to the letter say that the new bills “add substantial administrative burdens” to their staff, make the counties “less safe,” and “raise significant Fourth Amendment concerns by requiring sheriffs and jails to comply with all immigration detainer requests made by the US Department of Homeland Security.”

According to reporting by the Charlotte Observer, “[E]xisting state law requires sheriffs to notify immigration authorities if they can’t determine the citizenship status of someone in custody charged with a felony or impaired driving offense. The law doesn’t require sheriffs to detain an undocumented person if they are otherwise eligible for release.”

However, if HB 10 and SB 50 are passed, they would require sheriffs to “detain an undocumented person if ICE has issued an administrative or detainer warrant for them, and it expands the list of charges that would trigger ICE notification.”

The expanded list of charges includes felony drug crimes, homicide, rape and other sex offenses, kidnapping, human trafficking, gang-related crimes, assaults and violations of a valid protective order.

These new bills build off of a voluntary national program known as 287g, wherein local law enforcement agencies can choose to disclose the immigration status of detained people to federal immigration authorities. Currently 15 counties in North Carolina have signed on to participate in the 287g program Guilford and Forsyth County have not signed up.

The letter by the sheriffs notes that studies have shown that “mandatory immigration enforcement makes people less likely to trust government authorities without improving public safety.”

According to a 2021 fact sheet by the American Immigration Council, there have been negative effects caused by the 287g program including widespread racial profiling and an increase in arrests of individuals with minor criminal histories.

“The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) conducted a comprehensive analysis of the 287(g) program in 2011, at a time when the task force model was in more common use, and found that it did not target individuals with serious criminal convictions,” the fact sheet states. “Half of all detainers issued through the program were for people who had committed misdemeanors and traffic offenses.”

The fact sheet notes that the agreements also threaten community safety. In 2019, the Major Cities Chiefs Association, a group made up of police chiefs from 78 large police departments in the US and Canada, found that “without assurances that contact with the police would not result in purely civil immigration enforcement action, the hard-won trust, communication and cooperation from the immigrant community would disappear.”

Concerns about constitutional rights being violated is also included in the letter signed by sheriffs.

“Despite including a provision limiting state and civil liability, these bills do not address the potential liability sheriffs will face due to constitutional violations,” the letter reads. “As Sheriffs, we take seriously our duties and our responsibilities to the people of North Carolina and we must be permitted to set local law enforcement priorities. We respectfully ask that you let us do just that.”

Trump’s first indictment won’t be his last

We can all agree that the indictment by a New York Grand Jury of former President Donald Trump was a terrible day in American history. Whether you view this as a weaponization of the justice system by Soros-backed operatives (it’s not) or, more likely, a final comeuppance for a man who has spent his entire career avoiding accountability through abuse of the courts, we should all agree that this is the nadir for the office of the presidency.

Barring a few sparse footnotes, this is the first time a president — former or sitting — has ever been charged with a crime — though that was almost certainly coming for Richard Nixon before he resigned. Trump is also the first without any government or military experience, the first to be impeached twice, the first to fill moving trucks with documents and artifacts as he left the White House.

Like those things, the indictment has stretched the restraints of our system of checks and balances and pushed us into entirely new territory.

In New York on Tuesday, Trump was indicted on 34 felony counts of business fraud. It’s important to note that an indictment by a Grand Jury is not a guilty conviction — it means only that there is enough evidence to bring him to trial.

If you believe the New York Times — which, sometimes, we do — Trump’s guilt could be difficult to establish in court. And if you believe Trump supporters, he didn’t do anything wrong, and he never did and he never will. Though they likely thought differently when John Edwards stood trial for doing the same exact thing: using campaign funds to silence an extracurricular lover.

It seems Trump was worth indicting. With more than 30 counts of fraud, certainly this bears looking into. And by submitting Trump’s case to the Grand Jury, prosecutors in New York’s Southern District have effectively shattered a presidential norm behind which Trump has been hiding for years, namely that a president cannot be charged with a crime.

Plenty of Trump supporters echoed that refrain while he was in office and under investigation for everything from extorting the Ukraine for weapons to inciting a crowd to riot on Jan. 6. But not as many are saying it now that he has left office. And since he’s already been indicted and will be formally arrested this week, that seal has been broken.

Because Trump has several other investigations running right now. Besides this criminal case in Manhattan, there is also a civil case pending against the former president, accusing him of lying about his net worth in order to obtain substantial loans. There is a criminal case pending in Georgia over whether he tried to interfere with the 2020 election. He is being investigated by a House committee over his actions on Jan. 6. He is being investigated by the Justice Department over his handling of classified documents.

He is also being sued for defamation by the writer E. Jean Carroll, who has accused him of raping her. Though this is not a criminal case, Trump’s defense is the same as it is for all of the other charges: A president can do what he wants, and no one can file charges against a sitting president.

As to whether a former president can be arrested, as of Tuesday, that question has been answered.

New kid on the block: Hel’s owners bring their inclusive bar to Trade Street

by James Douglas

There’s a wrought-iron gate on Trade St. in Winston-Salem. The wide alleyway it protects has been vacant for well over a decade. As of March 31, that golden gate is wide open, the newly painted, hot-pink entrance leading to a shaded patio surrounded by fresh murals and leftover graffiti.

Hel’s, named after the Norse Goddess of the Underworld, is the most recent addition to Trade Street, owned and operated by longtime downtown fixtures Allison Cambra and Morgan Masencup. Both have tended bar at numerous downtown locations during the past decade.

“When I turned 21 I started going to Single Brothers,” Cambra explains. “I was just there as a customer and then eventually I got hired on.”

As with most bar jobs, the test for initial hires is as a barback on a busy shift. You take out trash, refill the ice, and constantly stock the coolers and fill up the mixers. Before long you start to remember recipes and how to work more efficiently while dodging the other bartenders.

“Morgan and I ended up working really well together and we became really fast friends,” Cambra says.

Upon entering the alleyway at Hel’s, the patio tables await afternoon regulars and weekend tourists. Sunscreens stretch across the open alley, waving lazily in the spring breeze, a cool respite on a hot day. A pale soft glow emanates from the open door that enters into the building beside the patio. The barroom is dark and unassuming, the black ceilings interspersed with painted over ductwork and pipes. The walls are a sharp purple and maroon, the lighting arranged to complement and adjust the mood. The deep colors align with the mood lighting and reveal cozy nooks with seats and bar tables straight out of 1977. The black tables in the rear seating area would be at home in Studio 54’s heyday. The soft, purple glow from a string of wall

mounted LEDs illuminates the entire bar area, but the focal point is the bar itself. The sanded, exotic hardwood stretches down the side of the room, with enough space to accommodate multiple patrons. A wide range of alcohol from Amaros to standards is displayed on the black shelves behind the bar.

Another feature that sets Hel’s apart in the landscape of bars in the city is its mission.

“Inclusivity,” Cambra says. “A lot of people I think have this misconception that we’re like a female-only bar or like a queer bar…. We are just who we are. We’re here for you to just be authentic and be genuine and you know… treat others the way that you want to be treated.” She continues, “[We] find a lot of inspiration from the queer community because I think there’s a lot of authenticity there. It takes a very brave person to accept themselves, and that’s something that the queer community has down pat.”

The idea of inclusivity isn’t relegated to just marginalized people either.

Hel’s will have standard fare like Negronis and Old Fashioneds but the drink menu includes plenty of options for non-drinkers as well — a full range of non-alcoholic selections from mixed drinks to beers to even non-alcoholic spirits.

Cambra is a non-drinker who sees the need for others like her to have a social outlet that feels comfortable for them, too. But the avoidance of bars by many non-drinkers is something she empathizes with.

“Because I’m a bartender, I feel comfortable moving in and out of [bars],” she says.

In addition to its inclusive mission, Hel’s plans to host collaborative events like bar crawls and charity fundraisers to add to the camaraderie for which many of the bars downtown are known. They also plan to hold events of their own. Besides the usual staples of trivia and the occasional DJ, Cambra and Masencup are planning regular events like drag shows and some live music.

“Marcus is doing European house music for us on Thursdays, but then the next day, you can have a hardcore show,” Cambra says. “And it’s that adaptable nature that Winston really needs.”

Harking back to the 00’s era of Downtown Winston-Salem where self-starters who know the terrain pursued passions over focus groups, Cambra and Masencup have poured their creativity into Hel’s. It’s a place that offers the perfect blend of what Winston-Salem used to be, while offering a glimpse of the future.

Hel’s is located at 545 Trade St. in Winston-Salem. They are open daily from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Follow them on Instagram at @helswsnc

Hel’s in Winston-Salem aims to be an inclusive bar on Trade Street where everyone can be authentically themselves.

PHOTO BY MADISON ROLAND

UNCG students imagine spaces of justice by reckoning with GSO’s sole lynching victim

by Sayaka Matsuoka

Visitors walk through the darkened space, weaving in and out of the rows of statues. Some are brown, others are Black, a few are white. But each Black statue has a piece of its body missing — a lost calf, an omitted arm. And that’s because the statues depict a sample of the more than 100 people who were lynched in North Carolina between 1877 and 1950. And while not all of the victims of racial terror were Black, the ones who were often had body parts torn away from them as prizes after their murders.

In the center of the room, visitors make their way down a small hallway lined with mirrors only to find themselves at a dead end, at which protruding white hands point at them as sounds of a mob play in the background. It’s uncomfortable; it’s uneasy. But that’s the way Sahd Bayor, an interior architecture student at UNCG, envisioned his museum Bayor is one of seven students who created museum concepts that are now on display at the International Civil Rights Museum in downtown Greensboro. The inciting prompt for the designs was Greensboro’s only recorded lynching victim, Eugene Hairston.

According to a poster on display as part of the exhibit, Hairston was a 17-year-old boy who was lynched in 1887 in Greensboro after being accused of assaulting a white woman in Colfax. Hairston maintained his innocence but was arrested and brought to a jail in Greensboro where a mob eventually kidnapped him, hung him and shot at his corpse.

Bringing Hairston’s story to light has been an ongoing effort by the Guilford County Community Remembrance Project, which has been working with the Equal Justice Initiative to spread awareness about Hairston’s story. The Equal Justice Initiative, which was founded and is run by lawyer Bryan Stevenson of Just Mercy fame, is based in Montgomery, Ala. The organization opened the Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice to commemorate victims of lynchings in the US in 2018. Eugene Hairston is one of the monuments that hangs in the memorial.

This new exhibit in Greensboro, featuring the college students’ works, is a

continuation of the remembrance project’s overarching goal.

“The ultimate goal is to have all of these discussions in the community about racial terror and justice and that sort of thing,” says Dr. Deborah Barnes. “Focusing specifically on the monument is like going to graduate school to get the cap and gown. That’s part of it and that’s how you accomplish the thing, but the point is to bring people together into these difficult kinds of conversations so that people can understand what is really at risk.”

Barnes, a research fellow at the International Civil Rights Museum and an adjunct African-American Diaspora studies professor at UNCG, partnered with Dr. Asha Kutty, an interior architecture professor and Dr. Noelle Morrisette, the chair of the African-American Diaspora studies program at UNCG, to put this project together. The goal was simple: To bring students from different disciplines together and have them imagine a physical space that could tell Hairston’s story.

“African-American studies is by definition an interdisciplinary discipline,” Barnes says. “It’s not like African-American history or African-American literature. It’s all of those things and how they work together to critique and reify, like life.”

In several of the students’ works, a large tree makes an appearance in the landscape. Others invite visitors to envision the kind of person Eugene Hairston was, as well as the life he could have lived had it not been cut short.

In her project, Ruth Hullette, whose work is titled, “Guilford County’s Child,” places Hairston’s mother on a front porch where she talks to visitors about her son.

“This is the attempt to bring back Eugene’s humanity,” Hullette says in her video describing her project. “A lot of times we can focus so much on violence that we forget that the victim is human. Eugene Hairston had a favorite color, he had funny little sayings he would say, he had food that he didn’t like, he had memories where he had fallen and scraped his knee. All these things that made him human and we can so easily forget about.”

Will Harris, the principal scholar at the museum, said that staff had been asked by visitors where the museums the students designed were located in real life.

“They think these things actually exist,” Harris says. “They didn’t realize that we were speculating images. But the thing about younger people is that they understand that one of the crucial ways of communicating is essentially to create images of what it would look like if it were real…. So the fact that you can visually walk into these spaces is a big step toward communicating to our public what it would be like to be in a larger world where these sorts of things were taken seriously.”

And that’s the power of this exhibit, Barnes argues. Even though these spaces don’t exist yet, the mere creation of these ideas by the students can act as a ripple effect throughout the larger community.

“We know that the ways we have been addressing it don’t work; We’ve still got the same problems we had 100 years ago,” Barnes says. “So let’s ask another generation what they think. Who aren’t already consumed by the things that stop us and make us think, We can’t get it right, or We can’t change anything. The wonderful thing about being young is you don’t know you can’t do something.”

The exhibit will be on display at the International Civil Rights Museum for a few more months. Learn more at sitinmovement.org.

The exhibit at the Civil Rights Museum displays imaginary spaces created by UNCG students.

PHOTO BY WILL HARRIS

SHOT IN THE TRIAD

BY CAROLYN DE BERRY

Chestnut Street, Greensboro

Wisteria takeover.

CROSSWORD SUDOKU

by Matt Jones

Across

1. Skip levels, in early video games

5. Blasts with a ray gun

9. Part of a pasture

13. Standoffish

15. Fitzgerald of songdom

16. Sought damages in court

17. It’s now just ... a bowl of hot water with roses and daisies (look to the right!)

19. Cribbage score markers

20. Jot stuff down

21. Bushy maze barrier

22. Early color TVs

23. Lowly, as a task

24. Mattress’s place

27. “Where’ve you ___?”

29. Early 8-bit game console

30. Say with certainty

31. Philanthropic providers

33. They’re now just ... bread and lettuce meals (look above!)

39. Julius Caesar’s assassin

40. Comedian Kondabolu

41. Sat ___ (GPS system)

44. Iowa State’s town

45. Encouraged, with “up”

47. Elite squads

49. “___ & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming”

50. System of principles

51. Recreational noodle?

56. “Bus Stop” dramatist William

57. It’s now just ... a tree in your texts (look to the left!)

58. Wet weather

59. Ballet jump

60. Senegal’s capital

61. Winter transportation

62. Get snippy with

63. Ceremonial flames

Down

1. Be carried on a breeze

2. “It was ___ dream”

3. Kasparov piece

4. Hostile takeover

5. Outer parts of peels

6. Succulent leaf plant

7. Favorable factor

8. Sugarhouse stuff

9. “Trembling” tree

10. Caught up to speed

11. Singer Carly ___ Jepsen

12. Ford fiascoes

14. Boundary marker

18. Type of show or warrior

21. Painter Matisse

23. Cat comment

24. Certain college degs.

25. Green of “Casino Royale”

26. Toothpaste form

27. Paycheck booster

28. Terminal points

31. Invitation info

32. It may help you find your classes on the first day

34. Playhouse offering

35. Adds up

36. Barn bale

37. “... ___ he drove out of sight”

38. “Science Kid” of PBS

41. Lowest points

42. Discordant, as music

43. Compete (for)

45. Lightning flash

46. Like a hungry pet, probably

48. Change, as a document

49. Skeleton parts

51. Legal appeal

52. Cheerios ingredients

53. Adjective that the Addams family are “altogether”

54. Slightly opened

55. Spare in the trunk

57. Late-night wear

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS:

‘On the Hunt’ — they’ve been relocated.

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