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Charleston reforms draw scrutiny as department hopes to make policing more equitable

BY HEATH ELLISON

Protests over George Floyd’s death hit Charleston on the weekend of May 30. A wave of unrest traveled across the nation after Floyd, a black man, was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer. The protests have given renewed energy to the way the nation views systemic power and racism. Locally, activists and the police have started analyzing the way the Charleston Police Department has treated the black community.

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‘Everybody’s paying attention now’

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Conducted in 2019, Charleston Police Department’s racial bias audit assessed several areas of police work, including use of force and traffic stops.

Among the findings, racial disparities were noted in the rate of traffic stops and search decisions during stops where a warning was issued. Data on the use of force was also found to be missing along with statistics like officer details, time of incident and reason for use of force. Each finding has a recommendation from CNA, the company overseeing the audit.

Wendy Stiver, CPD’s director of procedural justice, said one of the “key elements” is to improve CPD’s work with the Citizen Police Advisory Council. “The last meeting they had was in January [because of the pandemic] and we’ve been struggling to get that on track,” she told the City Paper at a June 4 protest. “But, I think everybody’s paying attention now.”

“There were areas in our department that we know we can do better [in],” Chief Luther Reynolds said.

Reynolds wants to go beyond metrics and create a learning organization that is “constantly auditing itself” and “constantly transparent and accountable to the communities.”

“I’ve said from the beginning that this is going to give us the resources and attention, the partnerships that we need,” he said. “The things that are being demanded, it’s in the pages and in the content of this audit.”

“Instead of saying, ‘Hey, we’re doing a great job, our tickets are up,’ we’re trying to be thoughtful and look at the data analytics, looking at where we’re writing tickets, who we’re writing tickets to, what are the outcomes.”

Reynolds believes the audit will give clear directives for the police department to follow.

The racial bias audit contained almost 50 recommendations, which will be used to inform the police’s five-year strategic plan, currently in development.

Confronting a bias Racial disparities in policing have been noted in the Lowcountry for years. In 2014 and 2015, black youth arrest rates led over rates for whites by more than 50 percent in Charleston and nearly 70 percent in North Charleston, according to a report from the Avery Research Center. With other insights like an American Civil Liberties Union study on racial disparities in marijuana arrests, advocates believe police unfairly target the black community.

Frank Knaack, executive director of ACLU of South Carolina, applauds the city for committing to the audit, but believes it does not get to core issues like the “ever-expanding role of law enforcement.”

“They can have great policies in place, but that’s actually not going to make sure another black man is not murdered by law enforcement,” Knaack said. “Just like what happened with Mr. Floyd in Minneapolis. That officer violated department policy when he had his knee on George Floyd’s neck and all those officers standing next to him for those 8 minutes and 43 seconds also violated policy by not intervening.”

Knaack added that we should rethink the role of public safety and what it means. He also believes that a five-year plan is “way too slow and the goal is way too small.”

In South Carolina, police have come under scrutiny for tactics used on protesters, which have been described as militaristic by some.

On May 31, the day after riots struck downtown, police in riot gear met protesters congregating in Marion Square with tear gas and pepper balls. That same day, they marched into a downtown housing area, firing projectiles and deploying smoke. A CPD spokesperson said officers were protecting nearby firefighters and used “crowd control munitions” when residents threw unidentified objects at officers.

Some protesters in the local chapter of

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Black Lives Matter began coordinating their efforts with CPD after the weekend of unrest.

Tamika Gadsden of Charleston Activist Network believes the city moved quickly to protect its “crown jewel,” the tourist district.

Gadsden, who has been outspoken about the Charleston protests on social media, points to incidents on the Eastside and in Marion Square as reinforcement that the “city is not serious about reformation.” Gadsden believes the racial bias audit is “incomplete,” GADSDEN because of missing information.

“I think that it deserves scrutiny for who conducted the audit,” she added. “It was conducted by former law enforcement officials.”

Defunding or defending?

Depending on who you talk to, “defunding” police can mean a ground-up reconstitution of local law enforcement or more-modest budget shuffling. Knaack said the ACLU

believes in “divesting from police,” instead putting money in youth programs, job training and mobile mental health crisis centers.

“We need to just socially reduce the number of police we have in society and reduce their role in society,” Knaack said. “We don’t think there can be equitable policing really ever the way they’re currently structured because right now we’ve turned police into society’s solution for drug use, kids misbehaving in school, people experiencing a mental health crisis, things police don’t have the training or tools to deal with.”

Reynolds said that scrutinizing budgets and accountability is a good idea. “I would say that there are agencies that need to be very closely scrutinized,” he said. “The topic of defunding is an important discussion.”

Stiver recognizes that racial equity in policing is an issue that stretches across multiple fields, adding that police should make partnerships with other organizations.

“When we talk about the racial inequity in policing, we have to also talk about the racial inequity ... across our entire system. If we fix just policing alone, we’re not going to fix policing because those other systems are going to contribute to this.”

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“Go get tested. Don’t come to a protest until you get tested.”

—Lawrence Nathaniel, a Columbia protest organizer, urged those who took part in recent protests to be tested for COVID-19. Source: Facebook

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PANDEMIC MORE CLOSELY RELATED TO POLLUTION THAN YOU MAY REALIZE

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The coronavirus pandemic has been most people’s focus for the past few months, but with businesses closing and reopening, and many of us relying on takeout meals, single-use containers have started reappearing in some places.

Charleston bans on single-use plastics went into effect early this year, but they are currently lifted temporarily due to the pandemic.

Staying green may seem like an afterthought as many people fight for their own health, but the two aren’t as unrelated as they might seem.

“There’s a lot of time a lot of us have now to spend outside, considering we aren’t going to as many places as we were before,” said Coastal Conservation League’s Land, Water and Wildlife Program Director, Emily Cedzo.

“The more time we are spending outside, the more time we are connecting with the environment, but more than that, using that time to do something important and doing your part is so important.”

For years, experts have claimed that reusable alternatives to single-use plastics were havens for germs, according to Cedzo. But today, many of those reusables are washable, and if there’s anything the world has learned during this pandemic, it’s safety in hygiene.

This rings especially true to the unavoidable nature of plastic, as even most reusables, like grocery bags and water bottles are plastic-based.

Some places may even prohibit visitors from bringing their reusables inside.

Not only this, but when dining out, or getting food to-go, many places have been falling back to plastic and foam containers, as the cheaper options made it easier for them to deal with the sheer volume of to-go orders they have been getting since the onset of quarantine.

But, that doesn’t mean that the options aren’t available.

“There are a lot of things for anyone who finds themselves in a position where they can prioritize lowering their plastic consumption,” Cedzo suggested. “Lots of people are making assumptions, and we aren’t necessarily getting the full story of these policies.

Everyone is doing it differently, but we don’t know until we ask.”

“What this requires of us is a lot of creativity, and it’s certainly a revolving strategy,” she said. “The same thing goes for restaurants, some may allow you to even bring in your own containers from home. But even when we go to these places that may be using single-use materials, you can ask them to minimize the amount of single-use items given to you.”

—Skyler Baldwin

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CHARLESTON OFFICIALS VOW TO REMOVE CALHOUN MONUMENT

Charleston officials stood at the foot of the Calhoun monument on June 17 and vowed that the city will take steps to remove the statue to the Confederate forefather next week. The move could set up a challenge to the state’s Heritage Act, which protects war and civil rights memorials.

Mayor John Tecklenburg’s announcement came on the fifth anniversary of the white supremacist attack one block away at Emanuel AME Church that claimed nine lives.

“At this point, it’s important for our citizens to know,” Tecklenburg said, “That we are taking this action only after careful consideration of the facts of Mr. Calhoun’s life, the explicit duty of care that our city assumed when it formally accepted ownership of the statue in July of 1898, and the state law known as the Heritage Act, which forbids the removal of war-related markers in South Carolina.”

Charleston City Council was slated to consider the measure at their June 23 meeting. The resolution appeared to have near-unanimous support.

For years, politicians have theorized that the state’s Heritage Act protected the monument to Calhoun, who died 10 years before the Civil War, but whose racist pro-slavery rhetoric laid the groundwork for secession in his home state of South Carolina. Nonetheless, Tecklenburg says the current efforts are backed up by city records.

“And with that legal and historical research now complete, we are confident that, because the statue belongs to the city and rests on ground owned by a private entity, our council has full authority to order its relocation to a setting where it can be placed in its full historic context.

We are also confident that it is simply the right thing to do.”

Any resolution before council would not carry the force of law, but Tecklenburg said it would be considered to establish

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“the solidarity of our City Council.”

Under the Heritage Act, a two-thirds majority of both the state House and Senate are required to make changes to monuments. But under the governance principal of Home Rule, Tecklenburg said, “We should have the right on the local level to make those decisions.” It’s up to lawmakers who have challenged the constitutionality of the law the make changes, he said.

Councilman William Dudley Gregorie is co-chairman of the city’s new Special Commission on Equity, Inclusion and Racial Conciliation, set to evaluate and make recommendations to root out structural racism within the city’s purview.

“No longer will this council have its head in the sand while our children bear the brunt of this evil,” Gregorie said at the press conference Wednesday. “The removal of this statue is just the beginning … This commission will attack racism with a vengeance unprecedented in the City of Charleston,” Gregorie said.

Tecklenburg did not give a timetable for the statue’s removal. —Sam Spence

FOUR-FIFTHS OF 2020 LAWMAKERS HAVEN’T VOTED ON SC’S HERITAGE ACT

Only 30 of the state’s 170 legislators cast votes 20 years ago on whether the state should protect monuments from removal.

That means more than two-thirds of the members of the General Assembly have yet to weigh in on the controversial Heritage Act that effectively prevents any changes to public memorials.

The Heritage Act, put into law in 2000 as part of a compromise to move the Confederate flag off the Statehouse dome, has made recent headlines as protests around the nation seek to address systemic racism and police brutality. For protesters, monuments of Civil War soldiers, slavery proponents and others that fill courthouse squares and parks are visible reminders of the so-called “lost cause” of the Confederacy.

“Let’s take that statue down,” Charleston Democratic Rep. Wendell Gilliard said of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue earlier this month in response to national protests.

On June 17, the fifth anniversary of the slaying of nine worshippers at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston by a white nationalist, the city’s mayor, John Tecklenberg, and officials vowed to remove Calhoun’s statue from land owned by a militia organization with state appointees.

The Heritage Act moved the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse dome to a memorial on the capitol grounds, removed three battle flags from inside the Statehouse; created an African American monument at the Statehouse and mandated that future decisions regarding memorials on public property must be decided by a two-thirds vote by the House and Senate.

The two-thirds vote mandate has been used only once in 20 years. Five years ago, after a white supremacist gunned down nine black people in a Charleston church, the legislature gave into a groundswell seeking to remove the remaining Confederate flag on the Statehouse grounds.

House Speaker Jay Lucas, R-Hartsville, said in 2015 he would not make any further considerations under the act during his tenure. Lucas also voted to approve the original Heritage Act. Of the 30 who cast votes in 2000 and remain in the legislature, 17 voted for it and 13 voted against it. Twelve of those dissenting votes come from current House members.

The original bill was sponsored by former Charleston Democratic Sen. Robert Ford, a longtime civil rights activist. The flag went up on the Statehouse dome in 1962, as a commemoration of the Civil War’s centennial.

Democrats in the House, who battled the bill on the Statehouse floor, still believe it is a problematic law.

“It was clearly problematic at the time, and we know you cannot bind future assemblies and that’s exactly what the Heritage Act sought to do,” House Minority Leader Todd Rutherford, D-Columbia, said. “I thought it ignored history and what we know about South Carolina’s history.” —Lindsay Street

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Let’s get Batman on the case.

The Blotter is taken from reports filed with Charleston Police Department between May 9 and May 16. No one described in this section has been found guilty, just unlucky.

One firearm was stolen from a man’s vehicle after he left the rear passenger door open when entering his residence.

One man was busted for marijuana possession when a patrolling officer saw him turn south onto Logan Street, a one-way street that runs south to north.

That would have been tough for anyone to get away with.

A “large, incomplete” swastika was observed drawn on a church parking lot in West Ashley. The complainants believe three juveniles who were caught riding a dirt bike in the parking lot are to blame.

A kid was shot with a Roman candle by a group of unidentified juveniles on a downtown street.

Police didn’t notice any burn marks on the victim’s shoulder, where he was hit, but he requested EMS. We want to call this an overreaction, but medics should be on stand-by for any Roman candle fight.

Pesos in the amount of $190 were found in a wallet downtown. The wallet had a Greenville driver’s license in it. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, large quantities of foreign currency are just found on the street.

A downtown man’s Jeep Cherokee was stolen after he had left it unlocked with a spare key inside.

The victim believes his vehicle was targeted because “the front driver’s door has the illusion of being open even when completely closed.” Don’t overthink it, dude. You left it unlocked with a key inside.

How angry can someone get when Redbox runs out of copies of Transformers 3? Pretty pissed, apparently. A Redbox screen was destroyed overnight in West Ashley.

According to police, the screen looked like it was punched or hit with an object. The total cost of damage is $700.

In a scene that we are all but positive we’ve seen in a cartoon, security footage shows a man entering a building from the front porch and leaving with a stolen flat-screen TV minutes before a worker steps out of the building and onto the front porch for a smoke break. A few seconds after the worker returns to the building, the thief also enters, and exits once more with a bunch of stolen tools.

Aw shoot, you just missed him.

After a traffic stop for suspected driving under the influence, the driver told officers that he had only consumed “one beer.” Soon after, he stumbled out of the car, blaming the wind and the fact that he was wearing flip flops. What a lightweight.

A downtown bar was pilfered for $1,755.20 worth of alcohol and a cash drawer containing $500. With a whopping total of 53 bottles taken, we get the feeling it wasn’t just one person with big hands.

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y the time you drink your morning coffee Wednesday, a work crew may have removed the controversial statue of John C. Calhoun from atop a 110-foot pedestal in Marion Square.

As we sent this issue of the newspaper to the printer on Tuesday afternoon, Charleston City Council was on the verge of passing a resolution by Mayor John Tecklenburg to remove the statue. Tecklenburg seemed to have enough votes to win barring some unforeseen action or interference, Marion Square looks a little different Wednesday morning.

It’s about time. For too long, the statue has been a vivid reminder of a white elite that built Charleston’s antebellum wealth on the backs of enslaved Africans.

As vice president (1825-1832), cabinet official and U.S. senator (1832-43; 1845-50), Calhoun is widely recognized as the most brilliant political mind of his day.

But an ardent slavery supporter, he used his brainpower to develop the political theory of nullification — which holds that states can nullify federal laws — to buttress the institution of slavery. Some say he is largely responsible for the national fissure that led to the Civil War. Calhoun’s haughty glare over our city has been a toovisible symbol of the establishment’s arrogance. The statue should be relegated to an institution — a museum or university — that can keep it as a learning tool about our stained history. Or it can gather dust in a warehouse until there’s a clear plan to deal with it.

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Meanwhile, there’s more work to do. Of immediate concern are two things: What happens to the soaring pedestal on which the Calhoun statue has been resting and what happens to the scores of monuments to the Confederacy that stretch across South Carolina?

Leave the pedestal for now. There’s been talk of removing the 110-foot base on which the Calhoun statue rested for years. A better idea may be to leave it where it is, empty as the rhetoric of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. Perhaps it can be a visible display that no one should really be “put up on a pedestal.”

Repeal the state’s Heritage Act. Only 30 of the state’s current 170 legislators were in Columbia in 2000 when the General Assembly passed the Heritage Act, which prevents memorials on public property (Marion Square is owned privately) from being removed. State lawmakers meet this week to talk about public money. They should also repeal the Heritage Act. The time for repeal has come as thousands protest the institutional racism that lingers in the Palmetto State more than 150 years after the end of the Civil War. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, South Carolina has 193 public symbols of the Confederacy. In Charleston County, we have 12, including the Calhoun statue. Now let’s deal with the other 11, including the names of nine roads, one park, the Confederate Defenders of Charleston statue in White Point Gardens and a memorial honoring Confederate General Wade Hampton.

We can do more. Let’s get to work.

Andy Brack

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Harness This Energy What part do you play in this movement?

The murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Walter Scott, Michael Brown, Ariane McCree, Sean Reed, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner and 74 other black men and boys in recent years have become too regular in our news cycle and social media feeds. Police brutality, hate and superiority caused these lives to end far too soon. It is not lost on me that my encounter with law enforcement, neighborhoods I’ve jogged, or affluent communities I’ve walked could have resulted in my name being on this list. The reality is my sons and I are profiled. We must go beyond following orders and be extra careful in hopes to stay alive.

The uproar that has forced everyone to take notice must be more than a hashtag. It will take a movement for tangible changes to occur and committed people to see it through. Such a sacrifice will require those accustomed to being in control and those that have adapted to confront the harsh reality that business as usual can be no more.

Good law enforcement must stop bad law enforcement.

Sentencing guidelines that favor those who are guilty, but wealthy more than those that are poor and innocent must change. It will take more than holding hands and singing “We Shall Overcome” for meaningful change to happen. It will take more than situational empathy to correct systemic injustices. Such a movement requires bold

legislative action, swift executive action and sustained economic and educational solutions at every level.

Delayed implementation in the results of a police audit, not allowing a transparent police audit and not sharing and reporting data on police officers’ behaviors and disciplinarian actions cannot be acceptable any longer. Having more inclusion in diversity and inclusion means having conscious black people involved in the decision-making process. We can’t reverse gentrification, but we can provide equitable pathways for persistent poverty communities and individuals to better their trajectory now. Having a new agenda calls for well-intentioned people that have been spectators to sacrifice their comfort, status and membership to level the playing field by eliminating the barriers, changing the laws, and denouncing racist and bias policies and sentiments that have aided and abetted a culture and system that has brought us pain, anger and despair.

I am under no illusion that police reform, criminal justice reform and the mindset that my complexion is a threat to some will change in short order. The civil rights movement, by some accounts, lasted 14 years and we continue to march on the long road to freedom. Yet, the journey of a thousand steps still begins with one.

My steps are to correct injustice where I sit and seek to

stand, lift the voices of those that can’t be heard and press upon mediocre thinkers that a street name, park, holiday and title are not the mountain tops. Fight and demand for systemic changes in the root causes of problems. Stand guard to prevent Jim Crow and Willie Lynch great-grandchildren from making America great again. And instill in my children that they too have a responsibility to make this a more perfect union.

What will your steps be, and what will our collective actions be? This goes beyond more training. How many more recordings are needed? How many more people living in poverty need to exist until they have affordable and accessible health care? How many kids need to fall behind in learning until all homes have affordable internet? What more is needed to acknowledge that a reckless president of the United States has caused a restless and polarized society? By answering these questions for yourself, I hope you do something meaningful in solidarity. As for me and my house, my steps are ordered and choice clear. This is personal because my life, the life of my two boys, the life of family members and dear friends depends on it.

Clay Middleton, of Charleston, has held various seniorlevel positions in government and politics.

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ermaine Jenkins and Fresh Future Farm have a long-term vision to expand beyond their home in North Charleston, but first they must buy the farm.

That’s a task easier said than done for an upstart minority-and-female-led nonprofit, Jenkins said.

With tens of thousands of dollars in the bank from hundreds of supporters nationwide, Fresh Future Farm is still waiting to strike a deal.

Jenkins said the group’s work to own the ground where they’ve put down roots would be symbolic, a point of pride in the lowincome Chicora-Cherokee neighborhood where access to fresh food is scarce.

“I started with the goal that it’s a model that can be replicated in other spaces. In North Charleston there’s 11 other spaces that experience food apartheid,” Jenkins said.

“Food apartheid” describes disparities between communities that border on injustice — the people who sign petitions for a new Whole Foods and the others forced to settle for another Family Dollar.

“They all should be able to access food and pay people that live in that community to sell it to them,” she said.

But before all that, Fresh Future Farm has to buy their land.

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On the land Fresh Future Farm has leased its property from the City of North Charleston since 2014. Beginning in 2017, Jenkins said she started discussions to permanently remain on the current 0.8-acre plot a block off Rivers and Reynolds avenues at the southern end of the city. Jenkins said she initially discussed terms with the city that would give her group control of the Fresh Future Farm property for up to 99 years, but no progress came from those discussions. Eventually, Jenkins said

GERMAINE JENKINS AND FRESH FUTURE FARM RAISED OVER $72,000 IN 2019 TO BUY THEIR FARM Ruta Smith

the city directed FFF to work with Metanoia, First Lady Michelle Obama, filmmaker Ava a community development nonprofit, which DuVernay and journalist Nikole Hannahhad plans for major investment to rehab Jones, recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize for adjacent properties, including the abandoned her work on the Times’ 1619 Project. historic Chicora Elementary School.

“It’s easier to give positions of power and The current plan has Metanoia buying wealth to someone that looks like you, that the school property and nearby parcels thinks the same way you would and that that include the farm’s property, and then would continue to maintain what the status subdividing and selling the farm to Jenkins’ quo already is,” said Kennae Miller, a Fresh group. Delays and a fire at the old school in Future Farm board member.

February have pushed back the group’s purchase, now tentatively slated for late July.

Back to the board A spokesman for the City of North Charleston did not respond to questions Before founding Fresh Future Farm, Jenkins about why Fresh Future Farm was not offered served on the Metanoia board and bought her a chance to buy the property outright rather home as part of the group’s project to provide than through Metanoia. attainable housing in a changing area of North But with $72,500 in the bank from a Charleston. She also managed Metanoia’s comsuccessful Kickstarter campaign last year, munity garden. But in recent years, both parties Jenkins is now concerned Metanoia’s terms agree their relationship has hit a rough patch.

File photo/provided for the sale could suppress Fresh Future Stanfield said he is hopeful that details can Farm’s expansion and dash any hope she had THE FRESH FUTURE FARM’S STORE be worked out to have Fresh Future Farm for true ownership. According to both parOPERATES IN AN AREA OF NORTH remain on Success Street. Work to shore ties, discussed terms would sell the property CHARLESTON CLASSIFIED AS up the old school building and the deal to to Fresh Future for about $45,000, but limit A FOOD DESERT buy that property has required a “colossal” the use of the land and give Metanoia a first rethinking, he said. right of refusal to buy the property at 110 showed black-led groups have smaller bud“If we’re able to get this across the finish percent of what Fresh Future Farm pays for gets, more restrictions on assets and less cash line, while I don’t know that our board can it, plus the value of any improvements. in emergency reserves. The study described do everything that the farm may wish it “My worry is that we won’t own it. That access to unrestricted assets as a “holy grail” to do, the board’s goal is to have the farm we’ll pay good, backer money for land that’s for groups like Fresh Future Farm. remain. And we’ll work with the farm to essentially like heirs property,” Jenkins “The unrestricted net assets of the blackfigure out how that might happen,” Stanfield said, referring to the system of land transfer led organizations are 76 percent smaller than told the City Paper on June 11. between generations of black families that their white-led counterparts,” the study Attorney Ayesha Washington of often involves clouded questions about ownfound. “The stark disparity in unrestricted Charleston is the former board chair for ership. Other concerns include the impact of assets is particularly startling as such funding Metanoia and heads up a committee hanthe restrictions on Fresh Future Farm’s ability often represents a proxy for trust.” dling the sale to Fresh Future Farm. to borrow money and grow.

“We’re still hopeful,” Jenkins said Metanoia has Washington said during a been “exploitative” of her March interview. “Once group’s work over the years we get past this fire at and that she feels like she’s the school and we do take getting the runaround. control of the property, we “We get to a point where are still willing to work with —Germaine Jenkins, Fresh Future Farm founder and chief farm officer we have an opportunity to them.” buy the land. We’re given “I’m a black business what the conditions are — how much it Vanessa Daniel described her experience owner and I’m a woman. There’s no way I’m would cost — we raised the money. And working with community groups seekgoing to be on the side of championing somethere’s just more hurdles, one after the next ing financial backing as the leader of the one to beat down another woman of color at every single step,” Jenkins said.

California-based Groundswell foundation in and a business owner. I’m not going to do Bill Stanfield, CEO a New York Times op-ed last November. that,” said Washington. of Metanoia, said his “I’ve seen repeatedly that it’s far easier for Fresh Future Farm’s group’s board wanted a young affluent white man who has studied current lease with “some level of control” poverty at Harvard to land a $1 million grant the city runs through over what might happen with a concept pitch than it is for a 40-some- September. Under a if Fresh Future Farm was thing black woman with a decades-long “worst case scenario,” ever to relocate. “We have record of wins in the impoverished comif the two parties can’t tried” to maintain a good munity where she works to get a grant for reach a deal before then, relationship, Stanfield $20,000,” Daniel wrote. “She reads as risky, Stanfield said Metanoia said, pointing to financial small, marginal. He reads as a sound investhas “zero intent to do contributions and collabo- STANFIELD ment, scalable, mainstream.” anything other” than WASHINGTON ration since the farm broke Jenkins said she has felt that kind of discrim- continue negotiations to ground in 2014. ination here in the Lowcountry, but has had keep the farm where it is.

Still, improvements at the school that could success working with national organizations But with more than 500 Kickstarter potentially bring hundreds of people into the and generous locals for support in recent years. backers along with financial supporters neighborhood could present an opportunity “It’s happened over and over and over nationwide awaiting a resolution from Fresh for the farm, Jenkins said, but they are comagain that we’ve been tokenized by domiFuture Farm, Jenkins said she can’t help but mitted to remain in Chicora-Cherokee. nant-culture philanthropy in Charleston,” see opportunities pass by as they hash out the Jenkins said. deal almost a year later.

“Outside of the state, people celebrate our “It’s just frustrating,” Jenkins said, Disparities persist work, it’s ‘groundbreaking,’ nobody’s doing “Because we could do so much more if we Fresh Future Farm’s challenges mirror roadwhat we’re doing,” Jenkins said, pointing to had an asset that would help us turn some blocks experienced by black female nonprofit her spot among Essence magazine’s “Woke of these ideas into programs that could leaders nationwide, Jenkins said. A study 100” last year. “And here I can’t get $2,000 be funded that create positions that keep published in May by The Bridgespan Group without signing my life away.” people in that neighborhood that’s gentrifythat looked at nonprofit racial disparities The Essence list also included former ing at the speed of light right now.”

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The Miller Gallery presents a new collaborative exhibit from local artists Kate Hooray Osmond and Laura Dargan: Stop, Listen. Dargan and Osmond created the works for this series by “allowing their emotional process to speak for them.” The title reflects their artistic process: stop and listen. The artists worked through their own realities — and the realities of an international pandemic as well as national civil unrest — on shared surfaces, using each other’s styles as jumping off points for their different ways of creating. Miller Gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday, 12-4 p.m. with a max capacity of 12 people in the gallery at one time. Masks and hand sanitizer are available at the door.

Tuesday-Saturday, 12-4 p.m. Free to attend. Millery Gallery, 149 1/2 East Bay St. Downtown. millergallerychs.com

While Theatre 99, the city’s home for improv comedy, is currently physically closed, you can still get your laughs via Theatre 99’s livestream shows.

Depending on the day, you’ll hear from some of this city’s funniest improvisors, including Theatre 99 co-founders Greg Tavares and Brandy Sullivan. In addition to the comedy, the theater features guest interviews with local actors and comedians.

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Bard in Quarantine Flowertown Players presents a Facebook Live event, Bard in Quarantine, featuring performances from local actors and improvisers. You’ll see folks like Josh Bates, Olivia Gainey, Kay Thorn, Rebecca Weatherby, Jason Olson and more act out scenes from Shakespeare, all from the comfort of your own home.

June 26 at 8 p.m. Free to attend. facebook.com/theflowertownplayers

Catch flicks on the big screen outside at Patriots Point’s Holy City Drive In. This Friday the drive-in experience screens Midway, a 2019 film about the Battle of Midway. Drinks and food area available for purchase and you can reserve tickets by calling (843) 4214408. Some walk up tickets will also be available.

June 26 at 7:30 p.m. $10/adults, $8/military and senior citizens, $5/kids.

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Holy City Farmers Market Head to Holy City Brewing for a socially distant outdoor farmers market every Wednesday, 3-7 p.m. Shoppers are asked to wear masks and vendor booths will be spaced at least 6 feet apart. Current vendors include Malted Mutts, Palmetto Kettle Corn, Holy Smoke Olive Oil, Vital Mission Farm and more. The taproom will be open for normal business hours with food and beverage service.

Wednesdays, 3-7 p.m. Free to attend.

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Message Received Redux artists create work in response to the country’s current turmoil

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Cara Leepson, the executive director of Redux Contemporary Art Center, laughs when we refer to the upcoming Creative Corridors: The Annual Studio Artist Exhibition collection as “her baby.” But regardless of how you say it, Leepson is the one who created Creative Corridors, a collection of work from Redux’s resident artists based around a certain theme or prompt.

When Leepson started at Redux as executive director three years ago, it was one of the first projects she launched. The idea was to shine the spotlight on the artists who have studio space at Redux, showcasing their collective work in the front gallery.

“Initially I wanted it to be a mediumspecific, focused show for the studio artists,” Leepson said. “So the first year that I was here in the spring of 2018, we did photography. It was all our photographers and that was really beautiful.”

In the second year, Leepson made some changes, allowing different forms of art into the exhibition and centering it around a theme.

“There wasn’t really a specific prompt the first year,” she said, “and then the next year, I thought we would start having a different prompt that artists would be asked to respond to, whether it’s in their work already or whether they wanted to create something new. So last year, we talked about how your surroundings influence the work that you make. It could be Redux, it could be Charleston, or it could be your home life.

There are a lot of different ways to consider your environment.”

Leepson swears that she created this year’s prompt back in January, but it sure does sound like something that the last three months could have spawned. For the 2020 version of Creative Corridors, she asked more than 20 Redux resident artists to consider the power of art and its ability to send messages, rally communities, and advocate for many different causes.

On Redux’s website, the exhibition description reads, “Throughout history, art has served as a conduit for social change as seen in installations, murals, performances, signage, videos and sound. Art has a persuasive nature, declaring impactful statements, dictated by the artist, to address issues and encourage community engagement and activism.”

That sure does sound like a commentary on our turbulent times, when a pandemic is still raging and protesters demanding the end of systemic racism are still marching in the streets.

It helps to remember, though, that just because things seem bad right now doesn’t

Comedian, actor and artist Deshawn Mason recently created a design with the intention of printing it on a T-shirt and donating proceeds from the sale of the shirts to Black Lives Matter.

The design is a reimagining of an American flag featuring the words “Red White And Black” and images of raised black fists against a red, white and black backdrop.

Now, he’s partnered with local artist and screen printer, Kate Ritchie, to make those T-shirts a reality. Head to Ritchie’s website to purchase a shirt — unisex crew neck in five adult sizes — for $25. You can also purchase a poster ($12) and a sticker ($4).

Deducting the cost of shipping and materials, all money raised from the shirts will be donated to Black Lives Matter.

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ARTIST JAQUAN HICKS WANTS TO SHAKE UP THE SCENE

mean they weren’t already bad back in January when Leepson began thinking about this.

“I was thinking about how everything was in turmoil at that point,” she said. “But it’s been really interesting to see the artists and the work that they’ve created in response to the way that times have changed in just a few short months. I was really interested in challenging the artists to think about art sending a message, generally speaking.”

And while many of the pieces do reference things like the Black Lives Matter movement or the environmental destruction of the Lowcountry, not all of them are necessarily about social justice.

“I talked about it with the artists to help them workshop their way through it,” Leepson said. “I told them, ‘You can talk about systemic racism, or your reaction to our president or the elections or whatever.

But also you can talk about how you want to advocate for avocados, or how you think that children should be able to have access to any toys they want, or that there’s no TV allowed after dinner. Literally whatever you want the message to be, art is this tool and conduit to be able to have a discussion about an idea.’”

Despite that disclaimer, Leepson said she’s been thrilled to see many of Redux’s artists reaching beyond their comfort zones to address issues that are important to them.

“A lot of them went outside of their normal subject matter and gave me something really unique and interesting to display,” she said.

“There’s Katie Libby, whose work is typically portraiture and Lowcountry landscapes, and she did several portraits, almost in collage format, of Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement.”

Leepson is both excited and relieved that Creative Corridors is the first exhibition to

Photos by Karson Photography

MANY OF THE PIECES IN CREATIVE CORRIDORS ADDRESS ISSUES OF SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

be shown after Redux reopened on June 15.

“I definitely was a little worried that it wasn’t going to happen,” she said. “We had to cancel two shows and rework basically the whole summer. And I really wanted to give the artists this opportunity. The way we stay alive really is through our resident artists, so it’s a really important show for us to have. I think that I would’ve felt like I wasn’t honoring them or supporting them in the way that I should or that Redux should as an organization without having the show.”

Redux is open Mondays and Wednesdays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and Fridays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

All visitors are required to wear masks.

When JaQuan Hicks graduated from high school in 2018 he had to make a decision about what he wanted to do with his life.

He says that he surprised some friends and family when he enrolled in Trident Technical College and chose to major in graphic design.

His reasoning was simple: “I thought about what I’d be happy doing the rest of my life.”

While graphic design is one outlet of Hicks’ creative expression, his art has a life of its own, drawing on inspiration from the schools of abstract and neo-expressionist art.

“Everything I do has an African theme,” says Hicks. “My grandpa is Jamaican and he has a lot of influence on my life. I grew up with American culture, but also with his culture.”

Hicks wants to see a change in Charleston’s art scene — one traditionally cluttered with sunset landscapes and peaceful beach scenes.

Hicks creates clothing out of a desire to wear something that doesn’t look like anyone else’s style. He started cutting up clothes and making collages on his pants and shirts in high school, finding pieces at Goodwill rather than online in massproduced stores.

You can find Hicks’ clothing on Instagram (@weird_illvisions). His most recent T-shirt design started out as a small painting featuring a man raising his fist next to the word “Black” repeated three times.

Earlier this month, Hicks re-released an earlier T-shirt design featuring the words “hi I’m human,” with 100 percent of the proceeds donated to both the Minnesota Freedom Fund and a Charleston protester fund.

Hicks gets his T-shirts printed at Summerville’s Photographik print, copy and business center.

Learn more about Hicks’ art online at weirdillusion.com. —Connelly Hardaway

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Jestine’s Kitchen has been a mainstay on Meeting Street for 24 years, serving classic Southern fare to downtown Charleston.

On Thursday, owner Dana Berlin Strange announced on Facebook that the eatery would permanently close.

“With tears, smiles and a heavy heart I must announce the closing of Jestine’s Kitchen,” she wrote. “Your friendship will stay with me forever and I know would have made Jestine so very proud.”

The restaurant’s namesake Jestine Matthews died in 1997 at the age of 112, but Strange aimed to honor her legacy.

Jestine’s had been operating with limited hours since reopening on May 20, but Strange wrote that it wasn’t enough to keep the business afloat.

“While I will miss those who have come in expecting Southern food with lots of soul, truthfully it is my team who always made me look good. They too have become my family and gave you their best on every single dish.” —Parker Milner

Void Baking Co. rises out of quarantine with fresh bread and baked treats

CHARLESTON CITY PAPER 06.24.2020

BY PARKER MILNER

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The quarantine provided former Jackrabbit Filly chef Colin Perkinson with extra time — hours he spent developing the blueprint for Void Baking Co., turning out bread, pastries and a new full-time job.

“After COVID, I started baking immediately and within a week I posted a menu,” said Perkinson. “I really expected to make a couple loaves of bread here and there for friends and it really took off from there. It kind of grew into something I wasn’t expecting and was super happy to see.”

Initially, Perkinson was mainly baking sourdough and focaccia, both of which are made with fresh-milled flour. He later added milk bread, sesame seed buns and several desserts to his menu, which he posts on Instagram.

But it’s the sourdough that really challenges the chef, offering him a chance to “nerd out about flour and yeast.” By definition, this type of bread begins with a sourdough starter, a flour and water solution that allows the bread to develop wild yeast and gives it a distinct flavor.

“For my sourdough, I [experiment] with hydration, which affects texture, and the percentage of whole wheat relative to white flour,” he said. “Currently, it’s somewhere around 40 percent whole wheat, a little bit of rye and then the rest is white flour. You can view the different flours as flavorings to bring different elements to it.”

For the sourdough especially, he needed the spare time. “From start to finish for a loaf of bread, I’ll feed the starter at say noon on one day, and that loaf from that starter won’t be ready to bake until 10 a.m. the next day,” he said. “So it’s more or less a 24-hour process to make a single loaf of bread.”

Perkinson first worked with naturally leavened dough in the kitchen at Edmund’s Oast Brewing Co., where they use a sourdough starter for their wood-fired pizzas.

Since then, his experimentations have even wandered into dessert territory.

At first, Void sold miso brown sugar buttermilk pie, an occasional special at

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Photos by Ruta Smith

COLIN PERKINSON STARTED VOID BAKING CO. IN HIS APARTMENT AT THE ONSET OF THE PANDEMIC

Jackrabbit Filly. Then it was rye millet brownies and miso dark chocolate chip cookies made with Geechie Boy Mill cornmeal.

Now, he’s adding seasonal touches, like his peach and blueberry mini-galettes using local fruit from Schuler Peach Company. All of Perkinson’s desserts are elevated versions of familiar treats.

“I liked the idea of adding the whole grains,” he said. “Like the millet in the brownie. It adds this kind of weird, nutty crunch that people might not be expecting.

I always want an element to be different or special in everything I make.”

Local restaurants have taken notice.

Brooks Reitz, whose portfolio includes Leon’s Oyster Shop, Little Jack’s Tavern, Melfi’s and Monza Pizza Bar, used Void Baking Co. sesame milk buns during Instagram recipe videos that caught the eye of quarantine home cooks. Perkinson’s bread also appeared

at Nikko Cagalanan’s Filipino Workshop stall Mansueta’s, starring in a dessert toast with ube meringue.

“It’s been awesome to see the support from others in the industry,” Perkinson said. “I’m super grateful that the people I respect and look up to have been loving it as well.”

With all the buzz, Void Baking Co. is now Perkinson’s full-time gig. Still, the process of improving his product never ends.

“That’s what I love about bread. It’s intensely complex for something that at the end of the day is just flour and water. And that’s also why I’m truly happy doing this project, because it gives me the opportunity to feed the community with a product that I care deeply about.”

Find weekly selections and place orders on Instagram (@voidbakingco) or email voidbakingco@gmail.com.

Emmy-nominated Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi visited Charleston to examine Gullah cuisine in the fourth episode of her new original series Taste the Nation, which is now available on Hulu. Charleston was one stop on Lakshmi’s culinary road trip from New Jersey to Hawaii, with stops in Milwaukee, Las Vegas and others along the way.

The episode, titled “The Gullah Way,” took Lakshmi on a journey around the Lowcountry, spending time with James Beard Award-winning writer Michael Twitty, Gullah Geechee cuisine expert chef BJ Dennis and father-son crabbing team Keith Smiley and Jerrel Brown, among others.

“I had been to Charleston with Top Chef three years ago and I made a lot of nice friendships,” Lakshmi said. “If I was doing a show on American food, I couldn’t not include Gullah Geechee cuisine.”

During the episode, Lakshmi discussed the countless Gullah Geechee contributions to modern-day cuisine with Twitty while they made red rice, a dish the culinary historian has been making his entire life. Later, Dennis taught Lakshmi how he does a crab boil using local crab seasoning and fresh Charleston cayenne sauce.

The episode taught Lakshmi a lot about Charleston cuisine.

“My biggest takeaway was that this is a culture built on living off the land and that culture can really be a benefit to modern day Charleston,” she said. “That deserves attention because that’s going to save our environment. To me, that part of Charleston’s food culture is really interesting and distinguished.” —PM

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By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, heretofore granted in the case of The Lakes Master Association, Inc., Plaintiff v. Yvonne Singleton, Defendant.

I, the undersigned Master-inEquity for Charleston County, will sell on August 4, 2020 at 11:00 o’clock a.m., at the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit: ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Summerville, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as LOT 456, PHASE 111-D, LAKES OF SUMMERVILLE, as shown on that certain plat of Southeastern Surveying of Charleston, Inc., entitled, “A FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT A PORTION OF PHASE III-D, THE LAKES OF SUMMERVILLE, OWNED BY LAKES OF SUMMERVILLE, LLC, LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF SUMMERVILLE, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA,” dated April 21, 2010 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book L10, at Page 0165 on June 15, 2010. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear.

SUBJECT to any and all applicable easements, restrictions, conditions, right-of-ways and setbacks of record and as may be shown on the above-referenced plat.

BEING a portion of the property conveyed to Yvonne Singleton by deed of Lakes of Summerville, LLC dated April 25, 2011 and recorded April 28, 2011 in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book 0184 at Page 464.

SUBJECT, to any and all applicable easements, restrictions and reservations of record as set forth in Exhibit A of said deed recorded on April 28, 2011 in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book 0184, at Page 464.

TMS No.: 388-13-00-721 Property Address: 209 Salkahatchie Street, Summerville, SC 29485 TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH: The Master-in-Equity will require a deposit of five (5%) per cent of the amount of bid (in cash or equivalent), same to be applied on the purchase price only upon compliance with the bid, but in case of non-compliance within thirty (3) days after the date of the sale, same to be forfeited and applied to costs and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder.

The sale shall be subject to taxes, to existing easements and restrictions of record, and to homeowners association assessments accruing subsequent to the date of the deed issued to the purchaser [Purchaser to pay interest on his bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance at the rate of 6.875% per annum].

Purchaser shall pay for all costs of recording the deed.

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of the sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Mikell R. Scarborough Master-in-Equity for Charleston County Attorney for the Plaintiff Derek F. Dean Simons & Dean 147 Wappoo Creek Drive, Suite 604 Charleston, SC 29412

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA CHARLESTON DIVISION Case No.: 2:18-cv-03052-BHH RH Fund XX, LLC, Plaintiff, v.

Joyce T. Hyatt as Personal Representative of the Estate of L. Dean Hyatt a/k/a Lyndon Dean Hyatt, Defendant.

Notice of Sale of Foreclosure At the suit of RH Fund XX, LLC, I, the undersigned United States Marshal for the District of South Carolina, will offer for sale at public auction before the door of the Charleston County Judicial Center, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina, at 11:00 A.M. on June 30, 2020, the following real property, record title to which is in the name of Lyndon Dean Hyatt: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, with the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being on Edisto Island in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as “KENNETH RENKEN TRACT” containing 15.28 acres, more or less, on a plat entitled “PLAT SHOWING THE READJUSTMENT OF PROPERTY LINE BETWEEN TRACT ‘A’ AND KENNETH RENKEN TRACT, S.C.” prepared by George A.Z. Johnson, Jr., Inc., dated November 21, 1980, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book AR Page 113. Said tract having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and bounding as by reference to said plat will more fully and at large appear.

Save and excepting a fifty-foot wide strip of land used as a drainage ditch conveyed to Eva W. Seabrook to Charleston County by deed dated March 12, 1930 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book G36 Page 17, which strip is shown more particularly on a plat recorded in Plat Book AR Page 113.

PARCEL 2: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, with the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being on Edisto Island in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, 2.82 acres, more or less, on a plat entitled “PLAT OF TRACT B & C – 18.10 ACRES, TRACT A & B OWNED

BY WOODMAN C & CYNTHIA B KAPP TRACT C OWNED BY HELEN M. SUMERSETT, TRACT B ABOUT TO BE CONVEYED TO HELEN M SUMERSETT, TRACTS B & C BEING COMBINED AS ONE TRACT, EDISTO ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SC” prepared

by Hager E. Metts, RLS, dated September 3, 1986, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book BK Page 95. Said tract having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and bounding as by reference to said plat will more fully and at large appear. Save and excepting a fifty-foot wide strip of land used as a drainage ditch conveyed to Eva W. Seabrook to Charleston County by deed dated March 12, 1930 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book G36 Page 17, which strip is shown more particularly on a plat recorded in Plat Book AR Page 113. This being the identical property conveyed to Lyndon Dean Hyatt by deed of Jeanne W. Applegate, et al dated August 17, 2012, and recorded in Book 0273 page 369 on 08/24/12, in the Office of the Charleston County ROD. Tax Map No. 029-00-00-041. THE PROPERTY SHALL BE SOLD SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES, IF ANY. The sale shall be for cash, and the highest bid received shall be accepted. The highest bidder shall be required to make a cash deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid as earnest money and as evidence of good faith. If the plaintiff is the successful bidder, the plaintiff may, after paying the costs of the sale, apply the debt

due upon its mortgage against its bid in lieu of cash. Should the person making the highest bid fail to comply with the terms of his/ her bid by depositing the said five percent (5%) in cash, then the property shall be sold at the risk of such bidder on the same sales date or some subsequent date as the selling officer may find convenient and advantageous. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the terms of his/her bid within fifteen (15) days of the final acceptance of his/her bid, then the selling officer shall re-advertise and resell the property on the same terms on a subsequent date at the risk of said bidder.

Since the Plaintiff has not waived its right to a deficiency judgment, the bidding shall remain open for thirty (30) days following the date of sale as required by S.C. Code § 15-39-720 (1976). However, Plaintiff shall have the right to waive deficiency up to the time of the sale. Persons submitting additional bids after the initial sale shall deposit five percent (5%) of their bids in cash as prescribed above. The Marshal shall promptly return all deposits except the deposit securing the highest bid.

Thomas M. Griffin, Jr. United States Marshal

Master’s Sale Case No.: 2018CP1004595 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Specialized Loan Servicing LLC, PLAINTIFF VERSUS Marlon D. Brabham; Malachi K. J., a minor; Hidden River on the Ashley Homeowners Association, Inc.; Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (Sioux Falls, SD); South Carolina Federal Credit Union; Hills Machinery Company, LLC; The Park Recreation Development; , DEFENDANTS. Upon authority of a Decree dated the 15th day of November, 2019, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the Front Entrance of CHARLESTON COUNTY CHAMBERS, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 7th day of July, 2020 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and being shown as Lot 114, Hidden River Townhomes on a plat by Empire Engineering, LLC, dated October 4, 2005 and entitled: “FINAL PLAT LOTS 41-49, 61-115 & 131-168, THE PARK AT RIVERS EDGE MULTI-FAMILY PHASE 1B, CITY OF NORTH CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA FOR CTM III, LLC” and duly recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book EJ at Pages 714-716.

SUBJECT to assessments, Charleston Ad Valorem Taxes, any and all restrictions, easements, covenants and rights-of-way of record, and any other senior encumbrances.

This being the same property conveyed to Shavontee S. James

by Deed of Martin Henry Investments, Inc. dated June 29, 2007 and recorded in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County on July 9, 2007 in Book N-631, at Page 074. Subsequently, Shavontee Shanell James-Brabham died intestate on June 4, 2015, leaving the subject property to her heirs namely, Marlon D. Brabham and Malachi K. J., a minor, as is more fully preserved in the Probate records for Charleston County, in Case No. 2015-ES-10-1213; also by Deed of Distribution dated September 12, 2016 and recorded September 14, 2016 in

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by Deed of Distribution dated November 9, 2016 and recorded December 7, 2016 in Deed Book 601 at Page 772.

TMS # 404-02-00-198 Case#: 2018CP1004595 Current Property Address: 7878 Park Gate Drive #B11 North Charleston, SC 29418-3686 No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder.

The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, certified funds in the amount of five per cent (5%) of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

CHARLESTON CITY PAPER 06.24.2020

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY John J. Hearn (803) 744-4444 016831-00172 2018CP1004595 FOR INSERTION 06/17/2020, 06/24/2020 and 07/01/2020 Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

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female child born in Sumter, South Carolina on September 5, 2017.

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that within thirty (30) days of receiving this Notice, you shall respond in writing by filing with the Charleston County Family Court notice and reasons to contest, intervene or otherwise respond in the pending adoption action; YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED the Court must be informed of your current address and of any changes in address during the adoption proceeding; and YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the Plaintiffs are not named for the purpose of confidentiality; however, the Court knows the true identity of the Plaintiffs and in responding to this Notice, you are required to use the number 2020-DR-10-1118.

EMILY M. BARRETT, ESQ. Attorney for Plaintiffs 44-B Markfield Drive Charleston, SC 29407 (843) 723‑1688 June 9, 2020 Charleston, South Carolina

SUMMONS STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DOCKET NO. 2019-CP-10-06496 Yevgeniy M. Gelfand, Plaintiff vs.

Jonathan Lamar Williams, Defendant.

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Case No. 2020-DR‑10‑1118

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 1704 Main Street, Post Office Box 58, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof. Your answer must be in writing and signed by you or by your attorney and must state your address or the address of your attorney, if signed by your attorney.

JOHN ROE and MARY ROE, Plaintiffs,

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JANE DOE (DOB: 9-5-17), a minor under the age of seven (7) years KRISTEN NOELLE BLACKMON and DWAYNE ROBINSON Defendants.

McDONALD, McKENZIE, RUBIN, MILLER AND LYBRAND, L.L.P. Post Office Box 58 Columbia, South Carolina 29202 (803) 252-0500 John F. McKenzie Attorney for the Plaintiff December 17, 2019

AMENDED SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADOPTION

TO THE DEFENDANTS, KRISTEN NOELLE BLACKMON and DWAYNE ROBINSON: YOU ARE HEREBY Summoned and Required to Answer the Complaint in the above-entitled matter, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer with the Charleston County Family Court, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29401, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint on the subscribed at their office at 44-B Markfield Drive, Charleston, South Carolina 29407 within thirty (30) days from the service hereof; exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to Answer the Complaint, appear and defend or otherwise move in this action within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in this Complaint, and further, failure to respond constitutes consent to the adoption of the child and forfeiture of all of your rights and obligations with respect to the child.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED pursuant to the provisions of South Carolina Code Ann. Sec. 63-9-730(B), that the Plaintiffs filed this adoption action on May 4, 2020 with the Charleston County Family Court and seek to adopt the minor Defendant, who is an African American/Caucasian

NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT JONATHAN LAMAR WILLIAMS: Notice is hereby given that the Complaint in the foregoing action, together with the Summons, of which the foregoing is a copy, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the 17th day of December, 2019.

McDONALD, McKENZIE, RUBIN, MILLER AND LYBRAND, L.L.P. Post Office Box 58 Columbia, South Carolina 29202 (803) 252-0500 John F. McKenzie Attorney for the Plaintiff June 10, 2020

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2020-CP-10-01557 Wading Heron, LLC, Plaintiff vs.

John R. Mungin, and also Jane Doe and John Doe, fictitious names representing unknown heirs and distributees or devisees of any of the Defendants who may be deceased, and also representing any unknown persons claiming any rights, title or interest in or lien upon the real estate

the subject hereof, Richard Roe and Sarah Roe, fictitious names representing unknown persons who may claim an interest therein as may be infants, incompetents, in the military service and persons entitled to protection under the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act of 1940, Defendants.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, a copy of which is herewith served upon you and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint on the Plaintiff or its attorney, Jennifer S. Smith, Esquire, P.C., at the below-indicated address, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for relief demanded in the Complaint and a judgment by default shall be demanded.

Plaintiff’s Counsel Jennifer S Smith, Esq 843-819-6581 Bar 69599 Guardian Ad Litem Edward A Bertele 843-471-2082.

June 24, 2020

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371ES with Irvin G. Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred.

Estate of: JORDAN BLACKBURN MILLS 2020-ES-10-0368 DOD: 01/17/20 Pers. Rep: MORGAN MARIE VANCE MILLS 1117 WAYFARER LN. CHARLESTON, SC 29412 Atty: ANDREW W. CHANDLER, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ************************ Estate of: ROBERT V. PEELE 2020-ES-10-0692 DOD: 03/04/20 Pers. Rep: DELILAH P. BEASLEY 108 BILMONT DR., IRMO, SC 29063 Atty: SHIRRESE B. BROCKINGTON, ESQ. PO BOX 31312 CHARLESTON, SC 29417 ************************ Estate of: LEILANI H. DEMUTH 2020-ES-10-0721 DOD: 04/21/20 Pers. Rep: EMILY A. BRADLEY 22 NORMA’S WAY BOLTON, CT 06043 Atty: DAVID H. KUNES, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ************************ Estate of: VICTORIA P. REAGAN 2020-ES-10-0732 DOD: 03/20/20 Pers. Rep: KERRI REAGAN 4920 W. LIBERTY PARK CIR. NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29405 ************************ Estate of: DELPHINA PRINCE GLASGOW AKA DELL P. GLASGOW 2020-ES-10-0744 DOD: 04/30/20 Pers. Rep: LINDY G. WILLIAMSON 774 RUTLEDGE AVE. CHARLESTON, SC 29403 Atty: MICHELLE J. WEIL, ESQ. 201 SIGMA DR., #300 SUMMERVILLE, SC 29486

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371ES with Irvin G. Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred.

Estate of: ANNIE LEE COX 2020-ES-10-0496 DOD: 01/25/20 Pers. Rep: VERNON DANA COX 3708 GAINS MILL DR. NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29420 Atty: SABRINA C. CALL, ESQ. 201 SIGMA DR., #300 SUMMERVILLE, SC 29486 ************ Estate of: DANIEL BOYD BYERS 2020-ES-10-0616 DOD: 04/16/20 Pers. Rep: FRED ANTHONY BYERS 27 YACHT HARBOR CT. ISLE OF PALMS, SC 29451 Atty: EVAN A. SMITH, ESQ. PO BOX 976 CHARLESTON, SC 29402 ************ Estate of: LAVERNE SIMMONS 2020-ES-10-0659 DOD: 03/07/20 Pers. Rep: CHYMIKA ALLEN 2728 MARTHA DR. NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29405 ************ Estate of: GLENN ARNOLD SURRETTE 2020-ES-10-0668 DOD: 04/18/20 Pers. Rep: CHARLOTTE M. MARLEY 1065 TRADITIONS DR., #111 FORT MILL, SC 29715 ************ Estate of: WILLIAM HOIL BUSSIE, JR. 2020-ES-10-0683 DOD: 01/20/20 Pers. Rep: WILLIAM H. BUSSIE, III 636 LONG POINT RD., UNIT G, PMB 128 MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464 Atty: WILLIAM E. HOPKINS, JR., ESQ. PO BOX 1885 PAWLEYS ISLAND, SC 29585

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Docket No. 20-DR-10-1216 Shana Jonelle Bailey Seabrook Plaintiff, vs.

Trevor Lamar Wilder; In Re TCW a minor child.

Defendant.

SUMMONS TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVENAMED: Trevor Lamar Wilder YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and notified that an action has been filed against you in this court. Within thirty (30) days of the day you receive the Summons, you must respond in writing to this Complaint by filing an Answer with this court. You must also serve a copy of your Answer to this Complaint upon the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff’s Attorney at the address shown below. If you fail to answer the Complaint, judgement by default could be rendered against you for the relief requested for the Complaint.

Attorney for Plaintiff Guy J. Vitetta 602 Rutledge Avenue Charleston, South Carolina 29403 843.302.2050 (telephone) guy@vitettalawgroup.com Date: June 10, 2020 Charleston, S.C.

Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19): In addition to being a magnificent storyteller, Aries author Barbara Kingsolver raises chickens at her home. “There are days when I am envious of my hens,” she writes, “when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.” Do you ever experience that delightful rush of assurance, Aries? I suspect that you’re likely to do so on multiple occasions in the coming weeks. And if you are indeed visited by visions of a perfect and sure purpose, your next task will be to initiate practical action to manifest it in the real world.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Nobel Prize-winning Taurus physicist Richard Feynman got his undergraduate degree from prestigious MIT and his PhD from prestigious Princeton University. Later he taught at prestigious Caltech. But his approach to education had a maverick quality. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible,” he advised his students. I think his strategy will work well for you in the coming weeks, which will be a favorable time to gather valuable information and polish your existing aptitudes.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re entering a phase when you’ll have the potential to upgrade and fine-tune your relationship with money. In the hope of encouraging that prospect, I offer you the counsel of author Katharine Butler Hathaway. “To me, money is alive,” she wrote. “It is almost human. If you treat it with real sympathy and kindness and consideration, it will be a good servant and work hard for you, and stay with you and take care of you.” I hope you’ll consider cultivating that approach, dear Gemini: expressing benevolence and love toward money, and pledging to be benevolent and loving as you use the money you acquire.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant?” Author Diane Ackerman asks her readers that question, and now I pose the same inquiry to you — just in time for your Season of Transformation. “We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors,” Ackerman says. I will add that you Cancerians now have the potential to be exceptional shape-shifters and magical reinventors. What new amazements might you incorporate into your life? What dazzling twists and twinkles would you like to add to your character? What will the Future You be like?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Qabalistic teacher Ann Davies asked, “If you stick your finger in the fire, do you then complain that it is unfair when your finger gets burned? Do you call the fire bad?” I offer you this caution, Leo, because I want to encourage you not to stick your fingers or toes or any other parts of you into the fire during the coming weeks. And I’m happy to inform you that there are better approaches to finding out what’s important to learn about the fire. The preferred way is to watch the fire keenly and patiently from a modest distance. If you do so long enough, you’ll get all you need.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In accordance with upcoming astrological portents, I urge you to engage in a vigorous redefinition of the term “miracle.”

That will open you up to the full range of miraculous phenomena that are potentially available in the coming weeks. For inspiration, read this passage

by Faith Baldwin: “Miracles are everyday things. Not only sudden great fortune wafting in on a new wind.

They are almost routine, yet miracles just the same.

Every time something hard becomes easier; every time you adjust to a situation which, last week, you didn’t know existed; every time a kindness falls as softly as the dew; or someone you love who was ill grows better; every time a blessing comes, not with trumpet and fanfare, but silently as night, you have witnessed a miracle.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When Libras become authoritative enough to wield clout in their own sphere of influence, it’s often due to three factors: 1. the attractive force of their empathy; 2. their abilities to listen well and ask good questions, which help enable them to accurately read people’s emotional energy; 3. their knack for knowing specific tricks that promote harmony and a common sense of purpose. If you possess any of these talents,

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dear Libra, the next eight weeks will be a favorable time to employ them with maximum intensity and ingenuity and integrity. You’re primed to acquire and wield more leverage.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There is only one kind of erotic intimacy between consenting adults that can truly be called “unnatural”: an act that is physically impossible to perform. Everything else is potentially vitalizing and holy. No one knows this better than you Scorpios. You’re the champions of exotic pleasure; the connoisseurs of blissful marvels; the masters of curious delight and extraordinary exultation. And from an astrological perspective, the coming weeks will be a time when these aspects of your character could be especially vivid.

But wait a minute. What about the pandemic? What about social-distancing? What about being cautious in seeking intimate connection? If anyone can work around these constraints so as to have sexual fun, it’s your tribe. Use your imagination!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When he was 22 years old, Sagittarian-born Werner Heisenberg received his doctorate in physics and mathematics from a German university — even though he got a grade of C on his final exams. Nine years later, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics because of his pioneering work on quantum mechanics. What happened in between? One key development: He was mentored by physicists Niels Bohr and Max Born, both of whom also garnered Nobel Prizes.

Another factor in his success was his association with other brilliant colleagues working in his field. I hope this story inspires you Sagittarians to be on the lookout for catalytic teachers and colleagues who can expedite your evolution. The planetary omens are favorable for such an eventuality.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You Capricorns aren’t renowned for causing controversy. For the most part you’re skillful at managing your reputation and keeping it orderly. But there may soon be a departure from this norm. A bit of a hubbub could arise in regards to the impressions you’re making and the effects you’re generating. I’m reminded of Capricorn author J. D. Salinger, whose book Catcher in the Rye was for a time widely taught in American schools but also widely banned because of its allegedly controversial elements. These days the book is regarded as a beloved classic, and I suspect you will weather your commotion with similar panache.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Novelist Tom Robbins articulated a vision of what it means to be bold and brave. He said, “Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness.” I’m hoping you will make that formula your keynote in the coming weeks. The time is right for you to summon extra amounts of fortitude, determination, and audacity. What new possibilities are you ready to flesh out in ways that might prod you to revise your beliefs and welcome transformation and expand your awareness?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Joan of Arc performed her heroic and magical feats in 1430 and 1431. But she wasn’t canonized as a saint until 1920 — almost five centuries later. It took a while to garner the full appreciation she deserved. I’m sure you won’t have to wait as long to be acknowledged for your good deeds and fine creations, Pisces. In fact, from what I can tell, there’ll be a significant honor, enhancement, or reward coming your way sometime in the next four months. Start visualizing what you’d like it to be, and set your intention to claim it.

Homework: What’s one thing you could do to enhance the well-being of a person or people you don’t know? FreeWillAstrology.com.

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9 Before, palindromically 10 2011 Oscar winner for Best Picture

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25 Dead-end service gig, slangily 26 Mild cigar 27 Stretchy thing from the past?

29 Pleased 30 Nearly alphabetically last country 32 New Orleans sandwich, informally 33 Idyllic spots 35 Like some dryer sheets or detergent 37 “___ Excited” (Pointer Sisters song) 40 Webmaster’s concern 44 Literary twist of sorts 46 Proud ___ peacock 48 The slightest degree 51 Luxury hotel accommodations 53 Visible gas 54 “We Three Kings” kings 55 “Match Game” host Baldwin 57 Card game with no cards below seven 58 Doris Day lyric repeated after “Que” 59 Food truck fare 60 Actress Miranda 61 Greek letters that look like P’s 63 Reusable grocery item

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Across 1 Account execs 5 Common writing 10 Melting period 14 Tabriz’s country 15 Patty and Selma’s brother-in-law 16 Saintly symbol 17 Credit for a newspaper story on a Magritte work?

19 Musk who named one of his kids X AE A-XII 20 Topics during a job interview 21 Robotic “Doctor Who” nemesis 22 Rush singer Geddy 23 City’s outer fringe 25 CXV x X 28 Nervous 31 Confirm, as a password 34 Cumulonimbus, for one 36 Carrie Fisher 6-Down 38 Device with earbuds 39 Rolling Stone co-founder Wenner 40 One of the Rat Pack 41 “Quién ___?” (“Who knows?” en español) 42 Common interest gps.

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54 ___ cum laude 56 Markey, Merkley, or Murkowski, e.g.

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64 Drummer Krupa 65 Company that had a breakout with Breakout 66 Prefix meaning “eight” 67 Like some coffee 68 Insinuate 69 Aussie hoppers

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‘The Last Water Fountain’ Black classical music series fights persistent funding disparities

CHARLESTON CITY PAPER 06.24.2020

BY ALEX PEEPLES

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Black classical music may be a foreign concept to many people. It’s not that there aren’t a number of notable black classical composers over the centuries (George Bridgetower, Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges), but according to Lee Pringle, skilled black classical musicians across America are often not presented with the same opportunities to make a career of their music or the chance to play with other black performers.

That is why he founded Charleston’s Colour of Music Festival (COMF) eight years ago. Usually, it’s held at various venues in the city each October, but this year’s festival has been postponed to Feb. 3, 2021. The festival consists of an all-black orchestra, as well as guest appearances from other classically trained black performers. The event seeks to highlight the historical and contemporary role black artists played in classical music.

Prior to founding the festival, Pringle produced concerts for the Charleston Symphony Orchestra for over a decade, including their annual Gospel Christmas and Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial concerts. Pringle had always noticed the lack of representation in the CSO’s efforts, though he acknowledged that they have made improvements on that front since his departure in 2013.

“I suggested some ideas that didn’t get picked up,” Pringle said about his attempts to bring black musicians and compositions to the CSO. “That was when I decided ‘I know so many people who went to conservatory and are now just waiting tables in New York or playing weddings and these are people with master’s degrees in classical music.’ That was how the Colour of Music got started. Of 2,000 orchestras in the United States that started to show up around the 1940s, all of whom get support from state and federal institutions, a large portion comes from white philanthropy.

With 2,000 orchestras, less than 2 percent of the members on those stages are of

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African ancestry. It is truly the last water fountain for black people to drink from.”

In 2014, there were 1,224 orchestras in the U.S., according to a study conducted by the League of American Orchestras.

Since its inception, the festival has hosted events in Pittsburgh, Nashville and New Orleans. “We’ve had to go to other cities to foster the appreciation of what our bold statement was,” Pringle said. But being able to stay afloat and securing opportunities are very different. Like other black institutions in America, funding and exposure with help from the city and state are almost nonex-

istent. White-operated organizations and festivals often rest easy knowing that rich Charlestonians and city officials can swoop in with open wallets if money becomes an issue.

Financial problems black classical music organizations face mirrors the funding disparities and beneficial resources that are withheld from black Americans. “The government funds these organizations,” Pringle said. “If you think about black folks not having the wealth against every matrix, 10 to 1 in economic income, a huge disparity in education access, HBCUs getting none of the funding that wellestablished white institutions get, Harvard has like a $40 billion endowment, that’s just an example of how the system was set up so that a Colour of Music couldn’t exist. The average white orchestra fears that Colour of Music will shine a huge light on the fact that while you can’t put black musicians onstage, this guy in Charleston goes out and finds 89 who are willing to play and have master’s degrees from the same institutions as the white kids.

All we’re asking is the money that America has been giving to over 2,000 orchestras in this country should fund an organization like Colour of Music.”

“Black lives may matter now, but there’s still a lot of people sitting on their hands,” Pringle said. “I often say, ‘If you want to do something to change how society views black Americans, support black causes.’ You benchmark black institutions against white institutions, when in fact the black institutions have been kept away from being able to implement the standards that you put in place.”

These black causes, Pringle stresses, are often at a disadvantage economically. A large, ambitious festival like Colour of Music is building a stage for marginalized black artists, and needs significant support, just as a whiteled event of its scale would. If black voices are to be heard and black art is to be expressed, Pringle hopes to drive home that they must have the same resources as white artists.

At noon on Juneteenth, Native Son premiered Restoration: A Concert Film with a streamed concert performance in collaboration with the Acres of Ancestry Initiative and Black Agrarian Fund.

Native Son, the duo of rapper Benny Starr and the Four20s’ Rodrick Cliche, recorded the film in just nine days. “We wanted to bring into focus land justice and Restoration is a combination of these live musical performances by us — Native Son — and also these interviews that are interspersed throughout the film that helps to tell these southern stories of land justice,” Starr said.

“This is a point where we need to also bring [land justice] into the conversation when we talk about justice, we are railing for justice on all fronts. Not just simply criminal justice, it’s not simply environmental justice, we are railing for justice on all fronts because we have never seen it. We have yet to see it,” Starr said.

“This is part of [artists’] role that we have in this fight is to be storytellers, to score and illuminate these issues using our medium. So I’m really proud of what we were able to accomplish in nine days,” he said.

Restoration will be available on YouTube next week if you missed the live-stream.

The concert was originally filmed at the Charleston Music Hall on June 10 by Love Yours Productions. It features live performances and interviews with Starr and black farmers on the struggle for land justice. The poster was designed by Belove Belogn.

—Lauren Hurlock

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Live music is back in a new way with the social distanced Safe Sounds at Firefly series. The seven-week summer concert series will be made up of seven different shows featuring local musicians on Saturday nights.

Tickets are available at citypapertickets. com. (Disclosure: Charleston City Paper is an organizing partner.)

Safe Sounds at Firefly is supported by REV Federal Credit Union in partnership with Ear for Music. Shows will begin at 7 p.m., with doors at 6 p.m.

Tickets for the event are limited to 500 and are purchased in sets of four. Each set of four tickets will secure a spot in a 10-by10 square, separated on all sides by 8 feet.

Guests are encouraged to bring blankets and chairs to enjoy the concert, but please leave your dogs, children and outside food and drink at home.

“We’re lucky to have plenty of space,” Scott Newitt, co-owner of Firefly said in a press release. —LH Have some special news, contact Heath Ellison at heath@charlestoncitypaper.com.

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Songs like “Excusez Moi” and “Let’s Just See What Happens” are filled to the brim with a shifting flow and brilliantly strange metaphors you would expect from an early 2000s underground rapper. The duo consistently breaks from traditional hip-hop structures, though.

“Velvet Swells” portrays a Lou Reed influence (it’s right in the title) and “Science is Stupid” is a calm indie backdrop for the quick rhymes. Even the band’s backstory has entertainment baked into it. Retired Astronauts are composed of Tobagun and Laika, a duo who “happen upon experimental music as a way to further ensure the protection of our planet,” after a distinguished career as astronauts. What more can we say? Head over to bandcamp.com or charlestoncitypaper.com to check out Retired Astronauts. —Heath Ellison

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