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THURSDAY, March 11, 2021

Habitat breaks ground on new development in Northeast Winston

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

Last week Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County broke ground in the Stone Terrace neighborhood, where they plan to build more than 70 homes over the next few years.

Located near the Ogburn Station community, Stone Terrace was started in 2006 by a private developer who was unable to keep building during the housing crisis. Habitat was able to acquire the property last year and has plans to build 75 homes over the next five to seven years.

During the groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, March 5, Executive Director Mike Campbell said he was proud to be a part of a team that’s dedicated to bringing affordable housing to Forsyth County.

“Habitat for Humanity Forsyth is committed to making an impact in this city in affordable housing and its economic mobility and creating safe communities,” Campbell said.

Habitat serves families earning between 35% - 80% of the area me-

dian income. Families accepted into the program attend a series of classes on home ownership and financial literacy. Families are also required to spend time working on other homes and help build their own homes.

Participants then purchase the home through a lowinterest mortgage from Habitat. Monthly costs for the mortgage payment and utilities average only $400-$500 a month.

According to a city housing assessment, Winston-Salem will need an additional 14,000 housing units by 2027. In addition to Stone Terrace, Habitat plans to continue building and repairing homes in the Bowen Park, Dreamland, and Boston-Thurmond communities to help the city reach that goal.

Mayor Allen Joines applauded Habitat for their continued efforts to bring affordable housing to the area.

“The City of WinstonSalem and Habitat has had an extraordinary partnership for decades.

“I understand that here in Winston-Salem, Habitat has built over 500 homes.

Last week representatives of Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County, the City of home owners broke ground on a new development in Northeast Winston.

That’s 500 homes, right you introduce homeowners for helping to increase the … but think about how it into those neighborhoods. housing supply in order to has impacted and changed So Habitat does more than close the current gap.

“This is a great investthe lives of 500 families,” provide homes, they’re reJoines said. “We’ve found ally making a huge social ment in our community, so today we celebrate, esas we’ve come in and impact on our city.”

City Councilwoman pecially in the Northeast worked in neighborhoods, we turned neighborhoods Barbara Burke, who rep- Ward.”

Jeanette Brown, who around, we turned fami- resents the Northeast Ward lies around, we’ve seen where Stone Terrace is will be one of the first the kids do much better in located, thanked Habitat homeowners in Stone Terschool, there’s less crime as well. She said, “Today race, said she’s completed in those neighborhoods as we are grateful to Habitat all the hours needed to

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Winston-Salem and future complete the program and she’s excited to be a homeowner.

“It feels good to have something of my own and not have to rent. I have something now I can leave my kids and my grandkids.”

Black Empowerment Network to focus on promoting economic mobility in minority communities Winston-Salem native Algenon Cash has launched a new initiative geared toward educating Black communities and families on public policies that promote economic mobility.

Cash, who is an investment banker with Wharton Gladden, said he started the Black Empowerment Network (BEN) after having a conversation with former U.S. Congressman Mark Walker, following the murder of George Floyd. Cash said Walker reached out and asked if there were any policies he would recommend to ad-

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Algenon Cash speaks during the Black Empowerment Network’s launch event held last month at J&S Cafeteria dress some of the disparities in the Black community.

“To be honest, I wasn’t sure what to suggest or recommend to him,” Cash continued. “I tend to be more of a centrist in terms of how I think about policymaking and there’s not a lot of centrist research policy groups that are out here. So we just kept talking over the summer and eventually we came up with the idea for the Black Empowerment Network.”

According to Cash, BEN has already identified several areas that are most impacting to the Black and other minority communities, including police re-

form, home ownership, entrepreneurship, and health care, just to name a few.

He said although BEN will be doing some research, the network will be more about action.

“We want to research those areas, but we also don’t want to get too bogged down with just researching it because I feel like we’ve done a lot, that we know what the issues are, we know what the ideas are, we just need to put some of the solutions into action and actually do something about it. We want to build a network where we can act on these issues,” Cash said.

Although Cash is a Re-

publican, BEN will be a bi-partisan effort. The initiative has already gained support from former Winston-Salem City Councilman and State Representative Derwin Montgomery, a well-known Democrat, and Rev. Odell Cleveland, who will both serve on the BEN Leadership Committee.

“Quite frankly, I don’t think the Republicans or the Democrats have a monopoly on good ideas, so we believe we need to be diverse on how we approach these things, so I wanted to build a diverse leadership committee,” said Cash while discussing

BEN leadership.

“I wanted it to be diverse across the state, so hopefully by bringing us together, the best ideas will bubble to the top.”

During the launch event for the Black Empowerment Network held last month at J&S Cafeteria in High Point, the keynote address was delivered by Clarence Henderson. Henderson, who also serves on the BEN Leadership Committee, participated in the Greensboro sit-in movement that led to the integration of lunch counters across the South in 1960. He said in any situation, you have to have

a strategy, and moving forward, the Black community has to find a strategy for economic mobility.

“The next civil rights movement is economic empowerment for the Black community and you have to understand how that works,” Henderson continued. “It’s understanding the free market and capitalist system which doesn’t care who owns it.”

For more information, visit the Black Empowerment Network Facebook page or contact Algenon Cash at acash@whartongladden.com.

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The catalyst that is spurring the success of Atkins CDC

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

In 2001 Carol Davis was chosen to lead an up-and-coming community development cooperation that was geared toward pumping new life into the neighborhoods that border Winston-Salem State University, the S.G. Atkins Community Development Corporation. While a lot has changed over the years, the mission of S.G. Atkins CDC has remained the same and Davis has been the catalyst behind it.

Davis said before taking the reins of the CDC, she and her husband ran an organization called COBI (Coalition of Black Investors), where they traveled the country hosting financial literacy conferences. She said the goal of the organization was to teach minority communities how to invest.

“My husband is a financial planner so through his work we got excited about helping people save and invest,” Davis said.

“We held a conference in D.C. and we had a lot of the big investors come and talk and it was really exciting, so we started doing more. We went to Atlanta, Houston … we did one in Chicago, Milwaukee. I really enjoyed doing it and we were able to get the support of mutual fund companies and some publically traded companies who wanted to get the word out.”

After hearing about the success of COBI, Bill Turner, who was serving as the CEO of S.G.

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Atkins at that time, reached out to Davis and asked if she would be interested in the position. A few weeks later Turner introduced Davis to former WSSU Chancellor Dr. Harold Martin and the rest is history. “I was interim at first until they finished the search and I was chosen to stay,” David continued.

“We immediately started working on a strategic plan and laying the groundwork for what we have today. And the first money we got was to build houses on Excelsior Street near Union Station. We built four new homes on that street and rehabbed three on that street, and all for homeownership.”

In 2005, Davis led the way for homes to be built on 10th Street. Just before the housing crisis in 2008, they were able

to invest in Ridgewood Place, where they have built nearly 30 homes. When all 130 lots are completed, Ridgewood Place is expected to generate a yearly property tax of $500,000.

Davis was also the catalyst for The Enterprise Center, which offers start-up and emerging companies office space and exceptional level of support from the business professionals and organizations, as well as faculty from WSSU. Today the Enterprise Center is home to S.G. Atkins’ Center for Home Ownership, the Shared Use Kitchen, community gardening space, and more than 40 minority-owned businesses.

The Enterprise Center also has space that can be rented to host events and programs.

Davis said at times it has been hard, but helping people reach their homeownership and entrepreneurial goals has been worth the risk and time investment.

“I’ve come to realize this type of work takes time because everything has to align just right before something happens,” she said. “It’s hard sometimes to take the risks. You just have to be aggressive, step out and take some chances.”

She said just the possibility of being able to help someone reach their goals keeps her coming back every day. “That is motivating enough … trying to close the gap on those disparities is what motivates me.

“As I’ve said before, when

you ride downtown you can see where investment has come. You ride through old neighborhoods like Ardmore, an old neighborhood, but the houses are in good shape and it’s all about that money flowing through and I just love the challenge of trying to do that work in our communities as well.”

When discussing the future of S.G. Atkins, Davis said they are currently laying the groundwork for several new projects including the construction of

Center at a cheaper rate than the private offices.

“We’re trying to listen, be responsive, and try to attract investment,” Davis said. “Five years from now we’d love to see some storefronts and possibly revamp the East Winston Shopping Center with local businesses and investors. I’d like to see more local ownership of the properties in East Winston rather than have outside investors owning so much of the neighborhood, because then they’re not

new homes in the East Winston community near Forsyth Seafood, expansion of the mixed use Shared Use Kitchen, new business education courses, and a new co-working space that will allow business owners to rent space inside the Enterprise

responsive and they don’t have the same commitment.”

For more information on the S.G. Atkins Community Development Cooperation visit http:// www.sgacdc.org/about.html.

NFL hires first Black woman referee Maia Chaka knows well that Women’s History Month is all about commemorating, observing, and celebrating the vital role of the fairer sex in American folklore.

She just didn’t know she would become a part of that history.

After years of officiating games in the Pac-12, Conference USA, and the NFL’s Officiating Development Program, Chaka will head to the NFL in the fall.

When she takes the field in September, the Norfolk State University graduate and health and physical education teacher will do so as the first Black woman to work as a referee in the NFL.

thought I was being punked because I didn’t believe it at the time. But it was true,” she remarked.

Troy Vincent, an African American and the NFL’s second-in-command behind Commissioner Roger Goodell, celebrated Chaka’s appointment.

“Maia’s years of hard work, dedication, and perseverance – including as par to the NFL Officiating Development Program – have earned her a position as an NFL official,” Vincent declared. “As we celebrate Women’s History Month, Maia is a trailblazer as the first Black female official and inspires us toward normalizing women on the football field,” Vincent concluded.

Chaka told NNPA Newswire that she expects coaches and players to treat her the same as any other official.

“I think the coaches just want a good official who is going to get the play right,” Chaka stated. “And I think

She’ll also be just the second woman to wear the zebra stripes. Sarah Thomas, who worked last month’s Super Bowl, is the other.

“This is a funny thing. I was actually at home and I was playing NBA2K with my nephew online because that’s what I like to do at night,” Chaka told NNPA Newswire just hours after an appearance on NBC’s “Today” show.

“Then, I received a phone call at around 9:15 p.m.

[March 4], and I just dropped everything I was doing.

The next thing I know, I’m getting told ‘Welcome to the National Football League,’” Chaka exclaimed.

Did she think it was for real?

“I just jumped up and threw everything off my lap. I

they just want consistency. I hope they do not hold us to a different standard [than men] because we are all officials at the end of the day. It does not matter what gender we are. We are all wearing the same uniform.”

The importance of her historic promotion isn’t lost on Chaka.

“It’s an honor to join the National Football League,” commented Chaka, who works with at-risk girls in Virginia. “I just want young girls of color – young women – to know that if you have a drive for something, don’t let anything hold you back just because you think something may give you some limitations. Work hard and follow your dreams.”

Her promotion to the big league also demonstrates

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to women of color that they can work and succeed in a male-dominated field, Chaka said.

“As long as you put in the work and you are fundamentally sound in anything that you do, you know you will reach your goal,” Chaka offered.

“I think it’s important that they see the representation in these fields.”

Asked if she would switch from playing NBA2K with her nephew and challenge him to Madden Football, Chaka demurred.

“No, he couldn’t handle me on Madden,” she retorted.

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21/90 Hip-Hop moves from outdoor workouts to indoor classes New studio offers classes for all ages

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

Last summer Louis Lowery III set out on a journey to provide a pandemic-friendly fitness program that combined aerobics and hip-hop dance moves. From humble beginnings teaching classes outside at Griffith Park, in less than six months 21/90 Hip-Hop Step has grown tremendously. Now Lowery has his own studio that offers boxing workouts, a new toning and sculpting class, and several classes for kids.

When The Chronicle sat down with Lowery last June, he said his goal was to help the community make lifestyle changes and that it all begins with working out and leading a healthy lifestyle. That’s how he came up with the name, using the old saying: “It takes 21 days to form a habit and 90 days to make a lifestyle change.”

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The staff of 21/90 Hip-Hop. 21/90 now offers new classes at the new studio located at 4140 N. Patterson Ave. Because gyms were closed 21/90 officially moved “It feels good to look and when he started, Lowery to its new home, 4140 N. see how far we’ve come held his hip-hop aerobic Patterson Ave., earlier this in such a short period of classes outside, but when year. Lowery said although time,” Lowery said. it started to get cold, he they had lofty goals when “From being outside to knew he had to find a he started 21/90, he didn’t be able to progress and ofspace to offer classes year expect to grow so fast. fer more is a blessing. It’s round. After doing a lot of research, things just fell in place.

a blessing just to be able to help … that’s the main thing, being able to give back to the community.”

Nicole Lowery, Louis’ older sister and business manager, said, “When things are right, they connect fast and that’s been our story.

“We’re not perfect, we’re still learning as we go, but we’ve had strong support from the community and it’s just been awesome to witness that.”

In addition to the hiphop step aerobics classes led by Lowery, 21/90 now offers boxing workouts for kids and adults led by Ralph Saunders, dance and toning classes led by Tiffany Jackson, and kids dance and step aerobics led by Ashley Stallings. Lowery said, “We’re branching out to offer something for the whole family.

“Some people may not

feel comfortable stepping, so now you can do boxing or dance … we wanted to offer something for everybody.”

Following a boxing workout last Saturday morning, Iyo Powell, who joined 21/90 last summer, said when she came across the class, she was looking for something different from the average workout routine. She said she joined Lowery in the park a few days later and she’s been coming back ever since.

“I started coming when we were in Griffith Park and I remember when we first came and saw the studio, everyone was really excited … It’s great to see how far it’s come.”

For more information and a detailed schedule of classes, search “21/90 HipHop Studio” on Facebook.

Course graduates forging new business culture for changing world

BY JOHN RAILEY

Logan Lash knows the old ways will not work anymore in Winston-Salem. “We used to live off tobacco and banks and Krispy Kreme, and their headquarters aren’t located in Winston-Salem anymore,” she said recently.

Lash and three cohorts are making their own new Submitted photos way, thanks to a program Dustin Sellers Tate Consulting of Wines entrepreneurship in the ston-Salem has created East Winston neighborcalled “Maestro, the Playhoods beyond the campus book 2.0!” a follow-up walls as demonstrated by to their Playbook for Enresearch programs such trepreneurial Excellence as CSEM Fellow Charclass. ity Griffin’s YouthRise, which Chisolm helped run.

The pandemic has underscored inequities and the inefficiency of old approaches. The four-weeklong Maestro program, taught in Zoom until COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, teaches strategies for leadership style, career Logan Lash development for women, and harnessing the power in executive assessments.

Lash, Dexter Perkins, It emphasizes that openTyler Chisolm and Dustin mindedness and inclusion Sellers graduated from are not only right; they the original program last are also practical, needed spring. Recently, they for businesses to resolve graduated from the new interior problems and adprogram.

The Maestro program’s sponsor, WSSU’s Center for the Study of Economic Mobility (CSEM), believes the program is suited for business veterans like Lash looking to up their game, as well as newcomers like Perkins, Chisolm and Sellers. The latter three are Winston-State University Tyler Chisolm students, and their parvance. ticipation in the program Dr. Antwain Goode provided real-time data and Andrea Goode lead on the benefits of entreTate Consulting and creatpreneurial instruction for ed the classes. “Our gradstudents. uates understand the costs “Equipping students associated with conflict with the knowledge and management and engageskills associated with an ment. This means that entrepreneurial mindset they have strategies to reor thinking improves their move destructive thoughts motivation to succeed in and how to reframe team whatever pathway they conversations,” Antwain choose for their future,” Goode said. “This cohort said CSEM Associate Diclearly demonstrated that rector Alvin Atkinson.

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Shalanda Young getting strong, bipartisan support for top OMB post

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Shalanda Young, a native of Baton Rouge, La., who serves as clerk and staff director for the House Appropriations Committee, appears the likely choice to replace Neera Tanden as President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

Reportedly, multiple Congressional Black Caucus members are pushing for the experienced Young to get the job. Several Republicans, who have otherwise shredded, demeaned, and denigrated some of the president’s minority picks, have indicated they would confirm Young. As staff director, Young already oversees $1.3 trillion in annual appropriations bills.

She moved to Washington 20 years ago to serve as a Presidential Management Fellow at the National Institute of Health. Young, who holds a master’s degree from Tulane University and a bachelor of arts degree from Loyola University New Orleans, had voiced support for Tanden.

Tanden came under repeated fire over controversial tweets she’s posted in the past.

“You saw Neera Tanden apologize profusely about the tweets. I think what you also saw is an expansive knowledge of various policy areas,” Young told lawmakers. “I do think we both bring some skill sets in different areas where we’d make a great team if both of us were confirmed,” she continued.

During Young’s confirmation hearing as OMB deputy director, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) vowed his support.

“You’ll get my support. Maybe for both jobs,” Sen. Graham declared.

“I think our country would be served well by Shalanda Young,” offered Congresswoman Rashida Talib (D-Michigan).

After removing Tanden from consideration, the White House said the president was still considering his options.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) have thrown their support behind Young for OMB’s top job. In a joint statement, Pelosi and Clyburn noted that they take great pride in recommending Young as OMB director as longtime members of the Appropriations Committee.

“We have worked closely with her for several years and highly recommend her for her intellect, her deep expertise on the federal budget, and her determination to ensure that our budget reflects our values as a nation,” the pair wrote. “Her legislative prowess, extensive knowledge of federal agencies, incisive strategic mind, and proven track record will be a tremendous asset to the Biden-Harris administration.”

The statement continued: “Her leadership at OMB would be historic and would send a strong message that this administration is eager to work in close coordination with Members of Congress to craft budgets that meet the challenges of our time and can secure broad, bipartisan support.”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Time for a non-discrimination ordinance To The Editor: We often say we want equality (and equity) for all … but do our communities truly provide for this? Not if members of our community can still be discriminated against for being LGBTQ, wearing a natural hair style, being pregnant, having a disability, and more.

This is why Winston-Salem needs to provide expanded protection by issuing a non-discrimination ordinance. Many other municipalities in North Carolina have already done so … and more are working on theirs as we speak. The sunset of HB142 (which replaced the infamous “Bathroom Bill”) late last year has now created opportunities for local communities to pass ordinances

to provide protections that the state government would not previously allow. But we need to make sure that our city, as it considers an ordinance, thinks about protecting ALL groups who currently fall through the cracks under existing laws and ordinances.

Let’s push our council to not only adopt this quickly … but use this opportunity to protect from discrimination the LGBTQ community and many others who face discrimination every day through employment, healthcare, and other public accommodations. Winston-Salem is an inclusive city … and our non-discrimination ordinance should be inclusive too.

I encourage everyone to learn more about what’s being proposed at ndocoalition.com.

Angela Levine Winston-Salem

The biggest lie ment culture.

And there were those who said, “This is not who Blayton we are,” when predominantly white insurrectionGuest ists invaded the U.S. CapiColumnist tol to disrupt democracy in the United States by voidThe American news ing the free and fair elecmedia constantly reminds tion of Joe Biden as the us that the false narrative 46th President of this naby Donald Trump and his tion. supporters claiming that How much more murJoe Biden did not fairly der, mayhem and raw hawin the 2020 presiden- tred must be put on full tial election is “The Big display before Americans Lie.” But The Biggest Lie, finally admit this IS who which much of the Ameri- we are? can news media continues As much as Amerto perpetuate, is “This is ica tries to sugarnot who we are,” when- coat its shameful history, ever the notion of white the truth of our history supremacy produces a hor- has been written in indelrific act of violence or de- ible bloodstains over many struction. centuries and from sea to There were those sea. Before America was who said, “This is not even America, the exterwho we are,” when neo- mination of Native AmeriNazis marched through cans by European settlers Charlottesville, Va., set the tone for the destrucwith tiki torches, spewing tion of people and land in vile racist and anti-Semitic the name of civilization chants. and progress.

There were those who This has always been said, “This is not who we a civilization backed up are,” when armed white by lethal force, under the rioters stormed the Michi- guise of law and order, gan state capitol while that punishes and executes white supremacists plotted anyone who appears to to abduct and possibly ex- be a threat to white suecute that state’s governor. premacy. In the minds There are those who of many whites, because continue to say, “This is Black people were brought not who we are,” each time here to build and maintain another unarmed person of a white Christian country, color is murdered by a po- we are allowed to remain lice officer intoxicated by here only as long as we a militarist law enforce- serve their needs.

Oscar H.

To claim that this characterization is far-fetched is to deny the bones of our ancestors at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and scattered across every inch of this land. This nation was founded upon rape and murder and there are those who wish it to continue this way. The death of George Floyd speaks clearly to this point.

Every murdered innocent testifies to the fact that this is who we are. Every individual of the First Nations who dies for lack of proper health care testifies to the fact that this is who we are. Donald Trump could not have gotten away with locking children in cages if this despicable display of inhumanity was not cheered on by millions of supportive bigots.

Franklin Roosevelt could not have gotten away with herding innocent and loyal Japanese Americans into concentration camps without the tacit approval of the majority of Americans, including those of Italian and German ancestry.

There are many white Americans who know this country’s major problems are all about race. A large portion of America’s white people have a maniacal fear of people of color, who they deem to be “the other,” and who they believe want to deprive white people of what they have.

But what does the poorest

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and least educated white person have besides his whiteness? Abandoned by the wealthy elitist of their race, these wretched of the earth are positioned as pawns to barricade the doors to opportunity against people of color.

These loyalists of white supremacy diligently carry out their charge without realizing that the only way they can carry out this mission is to remain outside the doors themselves.

Many of the first Europeans who populated this land were from the prisons of England. There are estimates that approximately 10% of migrants to America between 1718 and 1775 were British convicts.

The character of the American people is not so saintly as to warrant a blind faith in our goodness in the face of racial hatred and race-based violence and murder on display every day. Many Europeans who came to America’s shores were fine people, but the proof is in the pudding – and we need to put an end to the biggest lie and stop denying that this is who we are.

Oscar H. Blayton is a former Marine Corps combat pilot and human rights activist who practices law in Virginia.

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Good news about the COVID-19 relief bill and the new vaccine Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.

Guest Columnist

“All night long” are some lyrics used in a song

by Lionel Richie some years ago. These lyrics still ring true today.

This is how long it took the Senate to pass the 1.9 trillion-dollar COVID-19 Relief Bill. It was tweaked by them and now goes back to the House for approval.

The president is expected to sign the bill this week. The passage of this bill will give Americans hope for a better day. Our country has been suffering,

so new life is just around the corner. Because of this bill, 85% of Americans will receive $1,400 stimulus checks. This is a muchneeded upgrade from the money given by the previous administration.

President Joe Biden said, “We have heard the voice of the American people.”

The COVID-19 Relief Bill has been the cornerstone of the president’s plan to rebuild. Since day one in office, he has been talking about it and planning for it. He coined the expression, “Build back better.” This bill will allow the country to build back better.

Included in the bill will be an additional $300 boost for unemployment benefits through Sept. 6. It will provide food, clothing

and shelter.

We are a land of plenty, so no family should go to bed hungry and without a roof over their heads.

What we are seeing play out with President Biden and Vice President Harris is called compassion and empathy. These attributes were missing 90 days ago.

They were not to be found.

It is my opinion that as America gets better, that more people will see that President Biden is the right person to lead us.

Schools and colleges also will benefit as $170 billion will be set aside for them. School leaders at all levels want schools to re-open. The same can be said for colleges and universities across the country. Businesses will get additional monies that will help them to open and to

serve more people. Going out to eat is an American tradition.

Having to stay inside our homes or to get takeout has not been easy.

Meanwhile, we have three vaccines now; Johnson and Johnson is the newest. So, we must take whatever vaccine is available in our area. Now is not the time to be selective.

When your name is called, go and get vaccinated.

Reports say that 116,355,405 vaccines have been distributed and 87,912,323 have been administered.

President Biden says that everyone who wants a vaccine will get a vaccine by the end of May. However, there are still some problems with distribution. Reports last week said that several states have backlogs.

If you live in one of those states, hold on, it is coming.

We must realize this distribution initiative is a massive and logistical undertaking. This pandemic is unprecedented. Hopefully, it will not happen again in my lifetime.

Herd immunity will, in my opinion, happen prior to October. Does that mean we will not be wearing masks or practice being apart (social distance)?

I think we will be wearing masks and using the other CDC protocols for the much of this year. Currently, medical personnel are saying that small family gatherings can be held when all parties have been vaccinated. That means we can hug our family members.

America is coming

back and we cannot hide our elation. Let us continue to do our part. Texas and Mississippi have reopened. We will see if that was the right decision.

The administration is on the right track and so is vaccine distribution. The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter.

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

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

Reflections on the end of the death penalty Jack PaydenTravers Guest Columnist In 1984, my wife secured a church position in Richmond, Va., and our family of four moved from Manhattan in New York City to south of the Mason-Dixon line. That same year, Anne Holden and her husband, Tim Kaine, moved from Massachusetts back to the Commonwealth.

Tim and I met one Sunday at the Friends Meeting of Richmond. He would convince me to move forward with the prosecution of four youths who had thrown a brick through the front window of our house in the Fan District.

His reasoning was that if I didn’t press charges, he might well end up defending one of them years later when the boy ended up on death row facing execution

because there had been no consequences for earlier errant behavior. I did prosecute and Tim and I became friends. Neither of us knew what the future would hold.

Within weeks of us relocating to Virginia, I was sad to see that Linwood Briley was the second man to be executed in the modern era of the death penalty in Virginia. A friend at the Richmond Peace Education Center where I was volunteering invited me to attend the vigil to be held outside the gates.

Across the boulevard hundreds of people had gathered to support the killing of Linwood. Their signs read “Chicken Fried Briley” and “Fry Briley Fry.” It was my first time as an adult to stand watch at a death house, but would not be my last. I don’t know if Tim Kaine was at that vigil, but in the years to come, he would be the pro bono counsel for a number of men on death row.

In 2002 I became the director of Virginians for Alternatives to the Death

Penalty (VADP) when Tim Kaine was the lieutenant governor (2002-2006). He went on to serve as governor of the Commonwealth (2006-2010). Under his watch, 11 men were executed. The day of each execution, I would attend a noon hour vigil in Charlottesville and then drive to Richmond for a vigil outside the Office of the Governor and leave a personal note asking Gov. Kaine to commute the sentence of death to life in prison without parole, before driving on to Jarratt, Va., to conduct a nighttime vigil outside the Greensville Correctional Center where the Death House is located.

After I left VADP to work for the Capital Punishment Project of the ACLU, I would drive back to Jarratt to vigil at the executions. The Commonwealth has executed 1,390 men, women and children since 1608, including 113 since 1977. I lived in Virginia for 112 of those executions.

I have watched as the number of states that no

longer have capital punishment has grown over the last two decades, from 15 to 22. In the next few weeks, the Commonwealth of Virginia will make that 23. The historic significance of Virginia abolishing the death penalty is that she will become the first member of the former Confederate States of America to do so. Of all places for a state legislature to kill the death penalty, Richmond, Va., the capital of the Confederacy, is a monumental move.

My home in Richmond was one block from the boulevard of Monument Avenue. Statues of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, Jeb Stuart, and Matthew Fontaine Maury all celebrated the “late great unpleasantness,” or the “War of Northern Aggression,” as some here in the South still refer to the Civil War. Is it just a coincidence that these monuments to enslavement are being removed at the same time that a jurisdiction that has executed more people than any other state in the na-

tion is ending the death penalty? I don’t believe so.

We are living in a time of great upheaval. “Change is always painful, being as it is a goodbye,” is one of my favorite lines of poetry.

Virginia may be the first state in the South to abolish capital punishment, but she will not be the last. The era of executions is coming to an end and we should celebrate the end of legalized lynching known as the death penalty, not only in Virginia, but throughout this nation.

As I relocated to Winston-Salem three years ago to live near my grandchildren, I am aware that Confederate monuments to slavery’s Lost Cause are also coming down in the Tar Heel state. Let us commit ourselves to ending capital punishment across this country.

My friend, Tim Kaine, is now a United States senator from Virginia and co-sponsor of the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act of 2021. In announcing his sponsorship of this bicameral legislation, he said: “I have long

been morally opposed to the death penalty and believe murder of any sort is wrong. Capital punishment in the United States is disproportionally applied to people of color. We cannot continue to make claims for a more perfect union while condoning outdated, inhumane, and unjust practices. As a former civil rights lawyer, I am proud to reintroduce this bill to eliminate the use of capital punishment at the federal level once and for all.”

children. Many of them suffocated or burned to death as the temperature in the bunker became unimaginable.

Not to worry, though.

Thirty years on, a U.S. general, discussing the bombing with Aljazeera said the bunker was thought to be a military command center, explaining: “Civilian casualties happened, this was a legitimate military target, it was hit precisely, it was destroyed and put out of business — and there was very little collateral damage.”

You know, only 400plus civilians.

Kelly wrote: “I wish President Joe Biden could meet the Pope there and ask him to hear his confession.”

This would be the beginning of peace, that is to say, the dawn of national awareness. We, by which I mean all of humanity, face enormous dangers in the coming years, particularly related to climate change; they must be addressed.

But no, we should not start nuking hurricanes. Our real threats will not be solved, but they will certainly be amplified, by militarism.

However, lacking Kathy Kelly’s imagined scenario in Baghdad, how do we begin transcending

the nation’s military mindset … and the cash-flow loop that makes it continually profitable to those in power?

As Lindsay Koshgarian writes: “The U.S. military reaches around the globe, with approximately 800 foreign military installations in nearly half the world’s countries, and takes up more than half the discretionary budget that Congress allocates each year. Every decade or two, there is a new rationale for all this, with a new threat.”

Is Biden the president with the will and courage to begin standing up to this? We, the people, must challenge him to be that president, channeling the voices of those who would do so if they could — the ones who died, at Amiriyah and countless other targeted sites, including the Murrah Federal Building.

Jack Payden-Travers lives in Winston-Salem where he and his wife have held a daily Black Lives Matter vigil at a South Main Street intersection since June 4, 2020. Since his college days he has been active in movements for social change and has worked as a college professor, middle school teacher, daycare provider, and director of a nonprofit.

For five years he directed Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty and subsequently became the Public

Taking war personally Robert C. Koehler

Guest Columnist “For Washington, it seems that whatever the problem is, the answer is bombing.”

In the wake of Joe Biden’s first act of murder as president … excuse me, his first act of defensive military action, bombing a border post in Syria last week, killing 22 of our enemies. This action, of course, will quickly be forgotten. “The United States has bombed Syria more than 20,000 times over the past eight years,” Zunes notes, adding: “The United States began bombing these ancient lands 30 years ago, at the start of the Gulf War. The U.S. has continued bombing Iraq and neighboring countries on and off ever since.

Each time, we have been told that doing so would protect American interests and help bring peace and stability to the region. Yet each period of airstrikes has brought more suffering, more violence, less security and greater insta-

bility.”

It’s called — usually with a shrug — endless war. When I ponder this phenomenon as an American citizen, for God’s sake, I’m endlessly stunned and instantly immobilized. I have no say in this matter and neither do you.

This is just how it is.

We devote a trillion or so dollars a year to militarism. The God of War is our ruler, and the job of the guy we elect as president is to slather our every act of war in sophisticated justification, a.k.a., public relations. George W. Bush gave us citizens our marching orders two decades ago: Go shopping.

For most Americans, war has simply been converted into a quiet abstraction, with the deaths of civilians conveniently shunted aside as collateral damage. War has nothing to do with us.

Except, of course, it does, at least in one way. The nature of war is to beget war: to magnify trouble, to make matters worse. War always comes home.

And suddenly I find myself thinking of Sgt. Timothy McVeigh, an American soldier who served with distinction in the initial Gulf War, launched by George H.W. Bush in 1991. Four years

later, outraged over various governmental actions, McVeigh went to war against his home country, blowing up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City with a fertilizerand-racing-fuel bomb. He and his accomplices killed 168 people, including 19 children. But he famously was able to protect himself from any remorse over these deaths by describing them in military terms.

They were collateral damage.

How dare I bring up McVeigh’s horrific legacy!

I do so in anguish, feeling that the only way to interrupt the psychological and (of course) financial grip the God of War has on the American government and much of its population is to shatter war’s protective abstractions. Good violence is no better than bad violence. Our violence is no better than theirs. Murder is murder.

Before we can talk about peace — release it from its simplistic abstraction (“can’t we all just get along?”) and begin envisioning it, both individually and collectively, in all its overwhelming complexity — I believe we have to see acts of war for what they are, which is to say, see them the way the victims

see them. We have to take them personally.

This is not the normal way of our media. So I reach beyond the normal, quoting friend and longtime peace activist Kathy Kelly, who bleeds from the heart as she writes about 30 years of America-inflicted hell in the Middle East, from the Highway of Death to the shock-andawe bombing of Iraq to …

Reflecting on the fact that Pope Francis visited Iraq this month — the firstever papal visit to Iraq — she writes: “But knowing of his eloquent and authentic plea to end wars and stop the pernicious weapons trade, I wish he could kneel and kiss the ground at the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad.”

Oh my God, Amiriyah — another act of collateral damage, transcending McVeigh, conducted not by loner terrorists but by the U.S. military on Valentine’s Day 1991, during the first Gulf War. Amiriyah was a Baghdad bunker to which hundreds of people had fled for safety during a U.S. bombing raid.

What happened was, two of our smart bombs went through a ventilation shaft in the bunker, destroying it and killing more than 400 people, mostly women and

Robert Koehler (koehlercw@gmail.com), syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Chicago award-winning journalist and editor.

He is the author of “Courage Grows Strong at the Wound.”

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American Idol and Sunday Best contestant, live in concert, with a few of her friends

BY BUSTA BROWN FOR THE CHRONICLE

“When I was a child, I really struggled in school.

I felt as if I wasn’t smart enough and got the spirit of don’t care, and I just gave up,” said Tequila Devae Wilson. “I was put back in the second grade due to some behavior problems. The principal and teachers felt I needed to be on Ritalin, because I was just horrible,” continued Tequila.

Tequila was raised by her grandparents, who had an unwavering faith, was God fearing, and went to church regularly. “I was raised in a good home, but we didn’t know what was going on with me at the time. I was seven, with a lot of family issues as well, but my grandmother believed in me and never gave up hope. She said I had a spirit in me that needed to be cast out.

“She got in touch with Bishop Lowery of St. Mathews and he laid hands on me, and the power of God broke that spirit and I was able to be normal again,” said Tequila. After struggling in high school, she received support from her middle school teachers and guidance counselor.

They refused to allow her to quit and it proved to be successful. Wilson enrolled into the Brittain Academy Program in Winston-Salem and received her high school diploma in 2018.

I’m sure you’ve read or heard the scripture, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper.” That proved to be true with Tequila’s gift to sing. The attack that came against her as a child had no impact on her God-given gift to sing.

The Winston-Salem native sang her first solo at age seven and it became her passion. As an adult, she developed into a dynamic singer and performer. Tequila’s grandmother instilled in her a solid foundation of prayer and an unwavering love for God. Tequila began using her gift to win souls to God, which didn’t go unnoticed. Wilson is now the praise and worship leader at Shekinah Glory Christian Church in Winston-

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they have a roadmap to apply these concepts as they develop their companies and continue to grow educationally.”

Andrea Goode said, “We wanted to create a design that improves small business scalability. A key component was understanding emotional intelligence. Kindness can be a catalyst to help strengthen organizational culture. We know that culture often is formed below the surface, with unwritten laws.

These entrepreneurs have the tools to onboard selfreflective middle managers who are open-minded from the beginning.”

Lash, a Winston-Salem native and graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Penn-

i did it.

You can, too.

Jessica Blackburn, Criminal Studies and Sociology Major

When I thought about going back to school and getting a degree, Submitted photo

Tequila Devae Wilson, Gospel artist and Praise and Worship leader at Shekinah Glory Christian Church.

Salem. “I love when I help those that come to church feeling defeated and beat down by life. And as a praise and worship leader, I enjoy lifting them up and witness them leaving feeling inspired and not leaving the way they came,” said Tequila.

She doesn’t look over her shoulder waiting on a blessing for what she does, yet the melodies started raining down from Heaven. Tequila Wilson was blessed to work with some of the superstars in gospel music, such as Dorinda Clark-Cole, James Hall, Ricky Dillard, Mary L. Haynie, Monique Walker, Isaac Caree, and even R&B singer Joe. Wilson was also blessed to compete on FOX’s American Idol Season 13, and BET’s Sunday’s Best Season 7 and Season 8 All-Star Competition. Tequila is featured on Ricky Dillard’s “My All” on his latest album “10.”

March is a very special month for the Twin City superstar. She celebrated her birthday on Tuesday, March 9, and next Friday you are invited to come celebrate the release of her debut single, “You Are.” The song was produced by Terrence “Terry Bogart” Walker and written by both Wilson and Walker. Joining Tequila

live in concert will be Korey Mickie, Chris Parker and Dion Owen and Renaissance. It’s all happening March 19 at 7 p.m. at Shekinah Glory Christian Church, 5095 Lansing Drive, Winston-Salem.

“We are aware of the COVID-19 pandemic, so we’ll make sure people are safe, with following the CDC guidelines. But if you feel the Holy Spirit, let God have his way. The purpose of the concert is not only the release of my single, but to give people some healing and let them know it’s going to be all right. This is a time for all the churches and communities in Winston-Salem and surrounding areas to come together to lift up the name of God and fellowship as one body. It’s important to do something like this in the middle of all hell breaking loose. We’re not going to allow the enemy to shut up the mouth of God’s people, nor disturb the flow of God,” she shared.

Tickets for the concert can be purchased at www. sg4u.org.

My phenomenal Person of the Week isTequila Wilson. “I have no clue what God has up his sleeve, so I will just sit back and let him lead the way.”

sylvania, rose up through the marketing ranks in respected companies before forming her own business, StepUP Your Game, LLC, which prepares HBCU students for careers in the service industry.

Perkins, Sellers and Chisolm are balancing the business start-up game with applying to graduate schools. Chisolm, a senior from Henderson majoring in psychology, has started Life Shop, LLC, a pop-up shop that will provide resources and techniques for people dealing with mental and physical health problems. He wants to pursue a master’s in public health and, one day, a doctorate.

Perkins, a senior from Kannapolis majoring in exercise science, wants to become a doctor of internal medicine. His company, Better Health Research,

will teach good health practices to the community, including healthier eating plans. Sellers is starting a medical research lab company.

Chisolm, a senior from Anson County majoring in exercise physiology, wants to become a physiatrist.

His business, the Mad Scientist Research Lab, mentors and will assist and develop future leaders.

They all value what they have learned in the Maestro program.

“To share with others what we’ve learned at such an influential moment, such an influential time, is important,” Sellers said.

“We are grabbing the tiger by the tail.”

John Railey, raileyjb@ gmail.com, is the writer-inresidence for CSEM, www. wssu.edu/csem.

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I was wrong on Luka and Zion Before I retire, I would love to become a scout for an NFL or NBA franchise. I pride myself on the ability to gauge how well a college player will fare as a professional and most often I am right. But sometimes I’m not. When it comes to Zion Williamson and Luka Dončić, it appears I missed the mark on both.

When it comes to recent NBA draft classes, I have been right about several players that I felt would transition well to the league, like Ja Morant, Coby White, Darius Garland, Trae Young, Collin Sexton and Jayson Tatum.

I have also picked certain players who were either drafted too early or would not live up to their predraft hype, like Markelle Fultz, Josh Jackson, Frank Ntilikina and Mo Bamba.

That leads me to the players that I felt were too overhyped coming into the draft and would not pan out but did, and then surpassed expectations.

The two most glaring examples of this would be Williamson and Dončić.

When it comes to Dončić, who was drafted third overall in the 2018 NBA draft, I didn’t think he was athletic enough to transition to the league the way he has. Admittedly, I See Zion on B3

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BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Due to awkward scheduling, West Forsyth and Reynolds varsity

men’s soccer teams played twice last week. To make it even more odd, both games ended with identical 2-1 scores won by the Titans. The two wins for the Titans extends their 10 game unbeaten streak.

Black-owned apparel company aims to make splash in world of sports

Player of the Week

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

Nike, Reebok, Adidas and Under Armor aren’t the only games in town when it comes to team sports apparel. MOTTO Athletics can not only outfit your team with uniforms, they can also fulfill all your team’s accessory needs with sleeves, headbands, backpacks and more.

MOTTO Athletics stands for Motivation Overcomes the Toughest Obstacles. The company was started

by Mike James, a Winston-Salem native and 2007 graduate of R.J. Reynolds High School. He began MOTTO in 2012 while he was in school at Livingstone College.

“I was actually working at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, but that wasn’t my ultimate goal, so I always tried to envision what my career path was going to be,” said James.

James stated he took a semester off from school to figure out what his next move was going to be and during that time inspiration hit him.

While playing a video game, a friend commented that a person spends more time outfitting their avatar than they do playing the game. That was where the idea for starting the sports clothing line came from.

Soon after getting the idea for the company, James began doing his research on similar companies and finalizing the details for what he wanted his business to be.

“From there I started thinking of logos and actually what I wanted for a name,” he said. “So, then I went

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Mike James, left, and Ameer Watkins are hoping to expand the MOTTO Athletics brand. off of Nike, their name was short.

Adidas stands for All Day I Dream About Sports, so I took that acronym and thought about what sports meant to me and I said ‘motivation.’

“Then the word MOTTO came and then the other words in the acronym came soon afterwards. So that’s how I came up with MOTTO.” James says he was having a tough time coming up with a logo for the company after figuring out the name. He started thinking about ways of creating a logo using the letter M because it was the first letter in the name, but once again inspiration hit him at the right time.

“I was watching the Under Armor Combine and I had the remote control in my hand, and I couldn’t

come up with a logo,” he continued.

“I was sitting there drawing Ms and trying to figure out what the logo was going to be and then I thought about when my coach used to say, ‘Are you going to turn it on today?’

“I had the remote in my hand and I saw the power button and the Under Armor uniforms had little rings around their logo on their clothes that day, so I took the rings and put it around the power button and said ‘that’s it.’

MOTTO Athletics was not an overnight success for James. He began by selling T-shirts to his friends and turned a small profit from those sales. He went back to studying largSee Apparel on B5

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Points For 1. Glenn (2-0) 2. Reidsville (1-0) 3. West Forsyth (2-0) 4. Dudley (2-0) 5. Mt. Tabor (2-0) 6. Grimsley (2-0) 7. Davie County (2-0) 8. Western Alamance (2-0) 9. Northern Guilford (2-0) 10. Walkertown (2-0) 11. North Forsyth (2-0) 12. Eastern Alamance (2-0) 13. Winston-Salem Prep (2-0) 14. NW Guilford (2-0) 15. Randleman (1-0)

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er companies once again and figured out a better sales strategy.

While doing his homework on other companies, James came across Russell Athletics. He says he remembers having to wear the Russell Athletics in college and having to hide the emblems from other brands because they were prohibited from wearing them and if caught, they were fined.

“I really wanted to make a brand for the CIAA,” he continued.

“You know, something for the Black colleges and Black players.”

Through his research, James noticed that Russell Athletic was making a lot of their profits through bulk order uniforms. He adopted a similar model to fit his business and has continued to build the company in that way.

“That’s when MOTTO really became what it is today; we do uniforms and that’s our niche,” he said.

“I am not doing T-shirts anymore and we are not just a printing company, we are a brand company, but we specialize in uniforms.”

James bet on himself by making the move to bulk jersey sales. He took all his previous profits and

to get the consumer to believe it enough.”

Ameer Watkins is the sales manager for MOTTO Athletics. As a veteran salesman with more than two decades of experience, he connected with James while James was coaching at North Forsyth High School several years ago. Watkins was eager to jump on board with James to bring his expertise in sales to the business.

“It was just his passion of what he was talking about and how he developed it from scratch,” said Watkins about why he connected with James.

“With my sales background, I can kind of see how I can direct some things and put some stuff on the forefront.

“Since we have coached together, we already have a like mindset.

It’s about competition, it’s about having fun, it’s about entertainment, but at the end of the day, how can you make this pay for what you’re doing?”

One of the ways Watkins thought he would be able to bring more attention to the business was to partner with The Chronicle. For the remainder of the football season, MOTTO sports will sponsor the Player of the Week section of the sports page.

Each week, The Chronicle will select a

The journey continues for Mt. Tabor’s Fernanders

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

The Chronicle has followed young O’Shae Fernanders throughout his freshman year as he transitioned from middle school to high school basketball.

Now that he has concluded his first season on the varsity level, he shared his thoughts on the new level of competition.

Fernanders gained some valuable experience playing his first full season on the varsity level, he said. He knew there was going to be a learning curve, but wanted to take full advantage of every opportunity he was afforded.

“I did expect to go in and have to buy in on defense and I expected a lot of yelling from Coach (Andy) Muse, but it was all for the good,” said Fernanders. “I just braced myself for all of that and I also just went in with a positive mindset.

“I just thought to myself that I am one of Coach Muse’s strongest sophomores, so I have to go in and play like I have been here for three years. I knew that I had to buy in on defense, because the scoring is going to come.”

Fernanders had a stellar freshman season for the Spartans. He was named to the 2019 Lash/Chronicle All-Tournament Team, along with being voted The Chronicle’s 2019-20 JV Player of the Year. Fernanders set a few goals for this season and worked tirelessly to accomplish them.

“I just wanted to be more physical and applying myself outside of playing basketball,” he said about his goals for sophomore year. “I wanted to play a step up from the level I played last year and wanted to buy into Coach Muse’s system.”

To prepare for this season, Fernanders worked out several times per week to build up his strength and stamina. Because of the pandemic, the amount of practice time leading up to the season was cut short, so Fernanders made sure his body was in shape for the rigors of playing against bigger and stronger players.

“I was working out

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O’Shae Fernanders stands with his mother, Nakeeba Orr, in their Mt. Tabor hoodies. every morning and then I transitioned to the Central Y (YMCA) to work out,” he said. “It was mostly working on my footwork and agility and not really basketball. It was just me working on myself. I also had to work on my muscle mass, too.”

Fernanders says he didn’t want to go out on the court like a deer in headlights. As a young player, his goal was to play beyond his years and stay composed at all times when his number was called by Coach Muse.

“I had to play like I’ve been there,” he said. “I got a taste of varsity last year when I got moved up. I already knew I was going to have a strong spot on the team, so I had to tell myself every game that I couldn’t go out there and underachieve.”

Fernanders had to make an adjustment this year moving up to varsity.

On the JV team, he was one of the main players that was looked upon to do a multitude of things, including much of the scoring load. Fernanders logged a lot of minutes on JV; however, on the varsity level he had to make the best of the minutes he was given.

“I can’t really say it was hard, it was just an adjustment that I was ready for,” he said about his new role on the varsity team.

“I’m used to somewhat being a role player on certain teams, so it’s nothing new to me. I just went out there and gave my team all I could. I didn’t try to be a hero, but I did want to step up when coach needed me.”

Fernanders’ parents, Chad Fernanders and Nakeeba Orr, were excited to see their son compete on the next level. There were a lot of nerves for Orr due to her worrying how her son was going to transition playing against the best the area has to offer.

“This has been a struggle for me, because transitioning from being one of the star players to being a role player and having a coach that’s verbal was different,” said Orr. “Looking at it as a mother did a lot to me, but I had to realize that this will make him stronger on the next level. I had to put the mom in me to the side and say to myself, ‘Coachable players make for more employable adults.’

“I know Coach Muse has been doing this a long time and he knows what he is doing and I know he loves these kids, but out there it’s a business and everyone has to play their role. I think this is making him mentally stronger.”

Orr stated the pandemic made it difficult to enjoy the football season.

Because parents were not allowed to attend many games, Orr and Fernanders had to stream many of the games on television. Once parents could attend, they had to alternate who would go to the game because of the limited number of people allowed.

Mr. Fernanders felt O’Shae began the season well, but thought more playing time would have bode well for him in his development as a player.

“It was a trial season for him and my expectations were for him to score

around 9 or 10 points a game and to pick up his defense and rebound, basically become a complete player,” said Mr. Fernanders. “He had a couple of mishaps and had some growing pains.

“He had a couple of good games where he started to get going, but for the most part, I am just glad he kept his composure and didn’t allow the growing pains to get him down. All in all, I think this year made O’Shae a better player because he knows he has to keep working hard.”

Fernanders and his father both agree that he can become a little more aggressive on the court and not just when it comes to scoring.

“I am always on him about it, because basketball is supposed to be fun even with the ups and downs,” Mr. Fernanders said about his son. “This is a part of life in general, so I want him to always stay aggressive and like I always tell him, ‘We don’t have to get ready, if we are always ready.’

“O’Shae has to do what he has to do and do whatever it takes to stay on the court. He saw what he went through this year.

Coach Muse is not going to change, O’Shae has to change, so it’s all on him.”

Fernanders says he knows there are things he needs to work on this summer, namely his defense and his footwork, to become a better player. He feels his role will enhance next season if he does the necessary things in the offseason.

“I am going to make sure that my head is wrapped around the fact that I will have a huge role next year,” Fernanders continued. “I’m also doing AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) ball, so that will also allow me to be more comfortable going out there and playing how I know how to play.”

Fernanders is also playing football during the offseason to help him work on his toughness. He hasn’t played organized football in nearly seven years, but enjoys the physicality of the sport.

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MOTTO Athletics is a Black-owned sports apparel company located right here in Winston-Salem. invested in himself. He said there was no question what direction he wanted to move, so he dove headfirst into his new venture with no apprehension.

“I didn’t really have any second thoughts,” he stated. “I am not worried about anyone else; it’s a hundred people that make uniforms. I am in my own lane, but I am not worried about the next man. It’s enough income for everybody to eat off of. If I’m worried about someone else, I’m never going to make it.

“Nike makes shoes and it’s a hundred other people that makes shoes.

You think Nike is going to stop because someone else is making shoes?”

James was able to grow his brand to this level by staying close to the game. He played semi-pro football and has coached for several high schools around the area.

“Whatever I do, I am involved in every sport, so that’s how I’m getting in there,” he said. “I’ve been establishing this business since 2012, so if somebody thinks they can do something like this, they have to put the work in.”

For the last few years, James has set up shop at his storefront on Hanes Mall Blvd. He explained that the store was not because his business was getting too large, but rather because he wanted his customers to believe in dreams as much as he did.

“I never got so big that I needed this,” he said about the store. “I made it real enough that you believe it, because I already believed it. Whatever I did with MOTTO Athletics is

player from the game of the week that was the catalyst in leading their team to victory. MOTTO will also sponsor the Top Ten teams in the area in the section as well. Watkins says he wanted to connect with The Chronicle because of the neighborhood ties the paper has.

“When it comes to sales, it’s all about driving traffic here,” said Watkins. “With me growing up here, The Chronicle always had a great sports page. I just thought we could get ourselves in the face of this and kind of bring back what they used to do in the day as far as player of the week.

“We are also giving gratitude to the kids that are playing and putting them in the paper and they are going to be looking at it online and the physical paper. We are also driving traffic here at the same time.”

Watkins also came up with the idea of giving MOTTO apparel to the player of the week. He figured that would be a physical reminder to show the players and coaches what the store has to offer. Included with the apparel is a discount coupon for the coaches as well.

As a Black entrepreneur, James also wants to give back to those who have the entrepreneurial spirit. He has a program where young people can work with him as salesmen to learn how to own your own business.

MOTTO Athletics is located at 680 Hanes Mall Blvd. Their phone number is 336-912-3333.

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School Lesson

Joshua: Prophet of Conquest Scriptures: Joshua 5:13 – 6:5, 15-16, 20 By the end of this lesson, we will: *Explain how Joshua acted obediently to the vision from God; *Reflect on our inefficiencies when challenges overwhelm us; *Commit to obeying God, especially in challenging times.

Background: Joshua was a brilliant soldier, one of the most extraordinary military commanders of all times. Joshua was also God’s man. Joshua was commissioned by God to possess the Word of God. He was to know God’s Word, talk about God’s Word, meditate on God’s Word and obey God’s Word in its entirety. “Be careful to obey all the laws my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go” (Joshua 1:7). Joshua was obedient and Joshua was successful.

Lesson: Israel’s crossing the Jordan gave other people’s knowledge of the Lord’s power, but they were not yet prepared to possess the land promised them. God did, however, give instructions for the people for final preparations for the people and for Joshua that consisted of two rituals: Circumcision and Passover (Joshua 5:212).

Joshua is prepared unexpectedly by meeting with the Lord’s military commander. As he was walking near Jericho “He looked up and saw a man standing before him, drawn sword in hand. … Are you for us or for our enemies?” The response was negative. “Neither.” – “I am neither for you nor for your enemies. I am here to command the Lord’s armies.” It seems it was not for Joshua to claim the allegiance of God for His cause, however right it was, but rather for God to claim Joshua.

In other words, God was in charge – they would fight together, but Joshua would be following the lead of the commander of the armies of the Lord in his cause and battles. When the man identified himself as the commander of the army of the Lord, Joshua immediately fell down on his face and worshipped him, not knowing him to be the divine warrior messenger from God (some say he was Jesus himself). Joshua asks, “What does my Lord command his servant?” Joshua was told, as was Moses, “Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy” (verses 13-15).

Jericho was the first obstacle to the possession of Canaan. It was a military fortress built to defend the eastern approach to Canaan, its walls were high and its position advantageous. The taking of Jericho was paramount if Joshua were to possess the promised land. Not to worry, Joshua’s concerns are allayed when the Lord tells him, “See, I will deliver Jericho and her king (and her) warriors into your hands” (verse 2). The Lord then gave specific instructions involving groups of seven: seven days to march, seven priests, seven rams’ horns and seven circuits of the city. Seven being the number of completions denotes the totality of the possession of the land (Joshua 6:1-5).

The people followed the commands of the Lord and their hearts were prepared in the process of silence, obedience and obedience to the very end. “On the seventh round, as the priests blew the horns, Joshua commanded

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Three members of the First Waughtown Baptist Church Teens of Purpose (ToP) College/Career Preparatory Ministry were among 12 scholarship recipients in the 20th annual Martin Luther King Social Action Committee Oratorical Contest held on Feb. 28. The Teens won a total

lished in 1963.

Kabari Walker, a junior at East Forsyth High School, received the $1,500 Ebony Alpha Ebony Scholarship. He is the son of Min. Carmenita Frazier. Kabari hopes to return to the oratorical contest next year to earn the first-place award, currently a $3,000 scholarship.

tend either Howard or North Carolina Central University, where she will pursue a double major in pre-medicine and Spanish.

West Forsyth senior JaQuez Williams received the $800 Skeen Family Scholarship. He is the son of Mrs. Sheri Fryer.

JaQuez plans to attend North Carolina Central University in the fall and

Sunday services are being conducted virtually at www.facebook.com/FirstWaughtown and www. firstwaughtown.org.

Dr. George B. Jackson, president of United Cornerstone University in Thomasville, is founder and chairman of the MLKSAC, Inc. Dr. Pamela Jackson, vice president for academic affairs at the

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Kabari Walker, Aniyah Pope and JaQuez Williams with their awards. of $3,700 in the COVID19-safe presentation set in Thomasville.

The contest theme “The Ultimate Measure of a Man” - was taken from “Strength to Love,” a collection of Dr. King’s sermons and speeches pub-

Aniyah Pope, a senior at Parkland High School, received the $1,000 James H. Bloomfield Scholarship and the $400 Delta Sigma Theta Video Innovation Award. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pope. Aniyah plans to at-

he will pursue a degree in sports medicine.

Pastor Dennis W. Bishop is the senior pastor of First Waughtown Baptist Church, located at 838 Moravia Street.

In observance of COVID-19 recommendations,

university, is the MLK dean of students for the oratorical competition. Since the contest began, the organization has awarded $177,000 in scholarships to high school juniors and seniors.

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

or Dial-In: 1 301 715 8592 ID Mtg. #: 84789021891.

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

All are welcome to join us for Zoom (virtual) Bible Study on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Our Pastor, Dr. Hunt, will be the teacher. The Zoom Link: https://us02web. zoom.us/j/89195349778 or Dial-In Mtg #: 1 301 715 8592 ID#: 89195349778#.

For additional information, please call 336-6993583 or visitwww.newbirthworshipcenter.org or visit our Facebook page.

Sundays Virtual worship services Green Street United Methodist Church, 639 S. Green St., invites you to join online worship services on Sundays at 11 a.m. The service, which is available via Facebook and YouTube, is a celebration of the diversity of the human family. Online viewers will discover a nofrills service that is thoughtful, personal, and deeply spiritual. Green Street practices the radical welcome of Jesus Christ. Individuals of every denomination, sexual orientation, gender identity, and race/ethnicity are welcomed and encouraged to attend. Visit www.greenstreetumc.org or email admin@greenstreetumc.org for more information.

Mar. 13 GriefCare St. Paul United Methodist Church sponsors “GriefCare”, a support group for persons experiencing grief due to the death of someone close to them. The sessions feature biblical teaching on grief and recovery topics.

The sessions are designed to give encouragement and support to persons on their journey from “Mourning to Joy”. Sessions are free; each is self-contained, meaning one does not have to attend the sessions in sequence.

“HEAVEN” is the topic on Saturday, March 13 at 10 a.m. For information about how to participate in this virtual GriefCare session, please call 336-723-4531 before March 13.

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

Mar. 14 First Waughtown Baptist Church live stream First Waughtown Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, will live stream its service at 10 a.m. Sunday at www. facebook.com/FirstWaughtown and on its website, www.firstwaughtown.org, click on the virtual messag-

es link on the homepage. Senior Pastor Dr. Dennis W. Bishop will deliver the message.

Mar. 20-21 Women’s Day celebration Emmanuel Baptist Church invites the public to join our free virtual Women’s Day celebration, March 20 21 beginning at 10 a.m. each day. The theme, “Choose To Challenge Gender Bias & Inequity,” will surely bless all souls attending. On March 20, activities begin with a Wellness Day for Women Zoom session. Register at www.tinyurl.com/yc67xm4y to receive the link and dial in information.

Rev. Dr. Renita J. Weems, Ph.D. will be the Guest Speaker for the March 21 at 10 a.m. Worship Service, which can be viewed at https://www.youtube. com/channel/UCd6PAd6gOuKPa3IyoUyPRIg. For additional information access Emmanuel’s website: http://www.emmanuelbaptistws.com/ or Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Emmanuel-BaptistChurch-228894687164517.

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the people, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city” (verses 15-16).

Jericho was destroyed and only Rehab and her family were spared. Joshua goes on to lead Israel through a seven-year campaign to possess all the land. (The UMI Annual Commentary 2020-2021, The Jewish Study Bible, The Mod-

ern Life Study Bible, and Joshua James Montgomery Boice).

For Your Consideration: Do you think we as Christians have a tendency to always want to solicit God for our causes, rather than simply following where He leads?

Application: Joshua is an example for obedience and preparation. His ability to be successful can be ours too. We have to look

T he C hronicle at our own lives and take time to know God. Read the Word of God and take it personally. Use silence to hear God speak, be obedient to His instruction, and be obedient to the very end. “Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer … be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life” (Revelation 2:10).

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If you are interested in volunteering, visit www. volunteercentertriad. org, click COVID-19 Response and search volunteer opportunities available.

Now – May 31 Textile art display Delta Arts Center is exhibiting “Raw Edges Textile Art,” a display of quilts and other textile pieces made by local African American quilters, now through May 31. Delta Arts Center is located at 2611 New Walkertown Road. Call 336-722-2625 to arrange an appointment to view the exhibit.

Each Wednesday Marketing outside of the box HUSTLE WinstonSalem is hosting Marketing Outside the Box: The Art of Visual Networking.

COVID-19 has impacted networking in a big way; you can still make this tool work for you. Enjoy virtual and hybrid marketing techniques to keep your business on your customer’s mind! Virtual sessions happen every Wednesday from 12:30-1:30 p.m. You can register for the zoom link by going to: https:// www.hustlews.org/eventsprograms. Contact hustlewsinfo@gmail.com for questions.

different insurance options available, including “Original Medicare,” Medicare prescription drug programs, Medicare supplements and Medicare Advantage plans.

The session will be held on Monday, March 22, from 3 - 4:30 p.m. through computer and telephone access.

The session is designed to explain and clarify the Medicare sign-up process and educate attendees on how to make smart choices.

Trained Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) counselors will be available to answer general questions.

The session is provided at no cost. Because space is limited, reservations are required. Contact the Shepherd’s Center at 336-748-0217 or Info@ shepherdscenter.org for more information or to reserve a seat.

March 25 Interactive music and dementia care On Thursday, March 25, from 1:30-2:30 p.m., the It’s All About You Caregiver Support Program will offer a fun and engaging virtual presentation by Dr. Allison Gagnon from the UNC School of the Arts music faculty.

She will share information and demonstrate how caregivers can use music in the home to assist with caring for someone with dementia. For more information or to register, call 336-748-0217 or contact Carol Ann Harris, charris@shepherdscenter.org.

March 18 Virtual storytelling event The Willingham Story Slam @ MUSE WinstonSalem will host a virtual storytelling event on March 18 at 7 p.m., with the theme “Never Saw it Coming.” Guests are invited to tell their best stories about the unexpected, surprise, anticipation, rethinking, or their personal interpretation of the prompt.

Advanced registration for our free community event is required for storytellers and observers. Donations are welcome. Further details are available at: https://www.eventbrite. com/e/willingham-storyslammuse-winston-salemnever-saw-it-coming-tickets-141366020573.

April 21 Charity golf tournament Jim Shaw’s ACE Academy Annual Charity Golf Tournament will be held Wednesday, April 21.

Registration/Brunch will be from 9:30 – 10:30 am; shotgun start at 11 a.m.

The tournament will be held at Maple Chase Golf & Country Club, 5475 Germanton Road.

The cost is $125 per player or $375 per team which includes: green fees, cart, range balls, and a pro shop gift card.

There will be door prizes for the longest drive, closest to the pin, and prizes for a “hole in one.” For more information about the golf tournament, aviation summer camps, or sponsorship opportunities please contact Jim Shaw’s ACE Aviation Academy at 336-306-8145 or by email at ShawAceAcademy@ gmail.com.

March 22 Medicare workshop The Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem is offering a virtual workshop for individuals turning 65 (as well as those who already have Medicare) to learn about the

May 28 & 29 Kidswrite 2021 Burning Coal Theatre Company is pleased to announce Kidswrite 2021, a collection of short plays written by young playwrights, selected from submissions solicited

from Wake and 13 surrounding counties. Performance dates are Friday and Saturday, May 28th and 29th at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 each and may be obtained at the door.

More information at 919834-4001 or at www.burningcoal.org. NOTE: if the Coronavirus situation has not cleared by these dates, we will present the performances livestreamed.

Jul 12-16, 19-23 Aviation summer camps Jim Shaw’s ACE Academy will again be offering aviation-related summer camps for middle and high school students this summer. There will be two aviation summer camps offered for 2021.

July 12–16 will be for middle school students and July 19–23 for high school students. The cost of the weeklong summer camp is $130 per student, which includes meals.

Both aviation camps will be located at Smith-Reynolds airport.

For more information about the golf tournament or aviation summer camps please can contact Jim Shaw’s ACE Aviation Academy at 336-3068145 or by email at ShawAceAcademy@gmail. com.

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was not able to see much film on Luke outside of the highlight reels on the Internet that showcased his flashy handle and ability to finish at the rim.

Being such a young player when drafted, coupled with the fact he was coming over from Europe and the lack of top shelf athleticism, I thought he would be a good player that would be a good role player and stay in the league for a decade or more. He was also not a great threepoint shooter, which I also thought would hinder him in the league.

Boy, was I way off on that assessment! Not only has Luka established himself as one of the top five or six players in the game, he is looking like a perennial MVP candidate that could win multiple championships if put in the right position.

The thing that impresses me the most about the kid is that he is not afraid of any moment that is presented to him. He is not afraid to take the big shot in the final moments of the game, nor is he afraid to play against the best of the best in the league.

As a rookie, Dončić showed me that he was ready for primetime and made me eat my words.

He averaged 21 ppg., 7.8 rbs., and 6 ast. Those are some impressive numbers, especially coming from a 19-year-old foreign player.

He showed me that he did not need elite speed, athleticism or shooting to be a good player in the league.

Over the past season and a half, he has just

March 11, 2021 continued to progress his game. His numbers have increased every season in almost every statistical category. It’s hard to believe that Dončić just turned 22 on Feb. 28. He is not even close to reaching his full potential and that should scare the rest of the NBA. Recently, I heard Stephen A. Smith say that Dončić reminds him of Larry Bird. I would have to disagree with that statement. While parts of their games are similar, Dončić reminds me more of Paul Pierce than Bird. I think Dončić has a higher ceiling than Pierce and when his career is over, he could be one of the all-time greats.

Williamson was an internet sensation years before he even put on an NBA jersey. His monstrous dunks were all across the internet while he was still in high school.

The talk began then about what type of player he would be in the NBA. His one year of college at Duke, which was cut short due to injury, did nothing but give even more hype to Williamson.

Of course, he was taken number one overall in the 2019 NBA draft. He did not start the season playing as he was recovering from injury and the New Orleans Pelicans wanted to make sure he was 100 percent healthy before entering him into the starting lineup.

He drew comparisons to Charles Barkley, Shawn Kemp, Blake Griffin and Dominique Wilkins. The thing about Zion is that he is similar to those players, yet something about his

B5 game is different as well.

I think he can, and will, become more than just a dunker.

Williamson only played in 24 games as a rookie, although he made an immediate splash once he arrived. I anticipated he would put up good numbers as a rookie solely based on his superhuman athleticism, leaping ability and quickness for his size. What I didn’t expect was how easy the game came to him. He averaged 22.5 ppg and 6.3 ast. in his rookie season.

Zion has improved this year to average 25.5 ppg and 7.2 ast. so far this year and earned his first All-Star appearance. Like Dončić, Williamson is not even entering his prime and is already one of the best players in the league.

The only concern I have about Williamson is if his body can hold up year after year at that size.

At 6’7 and 284 lbs., Williamson is one of the biggest players in the league.

He has the weight of a seven-footer, but is not as tall. If he remains healthy, the sky’s the limit.

I will never be correct on all my predictions, but those were two of the most misguided assessments I have made recently. I am man enough to admit when I am wrong and when it comes to these two players, I am glad I was because they are a joy to watch. I can’t wait to see how both players develop their games and add to their offensive repertoire. Five years from now, they will be the faces of the NBA, along with a few others.

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