WWW.TRIANGLE TRIBUNE.COM Hayti app aggregates news content from Black publishers THE TRIANGLE’S CHOICE FOR THE BLACK VOICE By Megan Sayles "Celebrating Our 23rd Year" AFRO BUSINESS WRITER When Cary Wheelous heard that the Carolina Times would close as a result of publisher’s Kenneth Edmonds’ untimely VOLUME 23 NO. 33 WEEK OF AUGUST 15, 2021 $1.00 death in May 2020, he was astounded that yet another Black newspaper was going out of business. Wheelous, who lives near the publication’s location in Durham, discerned that he needed to do something to protect members of the Black press. “I said to myself, ‘Somebody has to help these Black publishers Southern great Harold and these Black newspapers,” he said. The result was Hayti, a mobile app for Apple and Android that aggregates articles, vi- Carmichael finally gets deos and podcasts from Black publishers both nationally and his due. internationally. The app derives its name from the Hayti community in Dur- ham, where Black-owned businesses and Black wealth flour- ished during the early 1900s. The district was a Black Wall Street in North Carolina, and its name honored the country of Haiti, the first free Black republic in the world. Wheelous said the only reason Hayti was able to come into Please see HAYTI/2A Can Eviction students Carrboro unveils new reprieve handle Truth Plaque not the The official unveiling of the Town of Carrboro Truth Plaque for the Freedman School was held racism? Monday at the town’s right-of-way next to St. Paul’s AME Church on Merritt Mill Road. The goal of final the truth plaques is to recognize Carrboro’s history while uplifting the truth and acknowledging By Greg Childress an unjust past. The first plaque, located at Carrboro Town Hall, explains Julian S. Carr’s ties to ra- THE POLICY WATCH cial segregation. answer House Bill 324, a contro- In 1866, freedmen Benjamin Craig and Green Cordal bought a plot of land near the current in- versial legislation to re- tersection of West Franklin Street and Merritt Mill Road, and donated a portion of it to the Quakers By Charlene Crowell strict what students can for the establishment of a school for freedmen. The remaining portion was donated to create a SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE learn about America’s ra- place for the present-day St. Paul AME Church. By 1868, the Quaker school had begun operations cial past, was the main at- as a private school. In 1890, the school expanded to serve Black children in grades one to seven, On Aug. 4, an estimated 11 traction last week at a with the Orange County school system providing teachers and supplies. By 1910, about 130 stu- million Americans facing im- virtual forum hosted by dents were enrolled. Learn more about the history at https://openorangenc.org/buildings/quaker- minent evictions gained a Public School Forum NC. freedmens-school. short-term reprieve, thanks But a group of former to an eviction moratorium Wake County high school extension ordered by the students stole the show Centers for Disease Control with razor-sharp insights and Prevention. The Con- about why North Caro- sumer Financial Protection lina’s 1.5 million school- Bureau has an online Rental children must be taught Assistance Finder at hard truths about the na- www.consumerfinance.gov/ tion’s history. renthelp, designed to con- Abby Rogers graduated nect renters and landlords last year from Middle with state and local pro- Creek High School in Ra- grams distributing federal leigh. She told attendees emergency rental assistance that she benefited im- nationwide. mensely from an African It is critical for states and American literature course localities to turn their atten- and an African American tion to distributing ERA history class. “As a white funds more quickly. Program student specifically, taking administrators can and those classes allowed me should utilize the flexibilities to understand perspec- the U.S. Treasury Depart- tives that I otherwise ment provided, and ensure would have never been ex- that programs’ barriers – like posed to,” said Rogers, burdensome documentation who will attend UNC requirements – are mini- Chapel-Hill in the fall. “For mized. me, it was my first time “The emergence of the being in a class where I delta variant has led to a was not a member of the rapid acceleration of com- COURTESY majority.” munity transmission in the If HB 324 is approved, The newly installed Truth Plague at St. Paul’s AME Church. United States, putting more Rogers said it will limit Americans at increased risk, what students can be especially if they are unvac- taught about the nation’s cinated,” said CDC Director historic injustices and Rochelle Walensky. “This make them less empa- moratorium is the right thing thetic to the plight of those to do to keep people in their who continue to suffer as a homes and out of congregate result of those past settings where COVID-19 wrongs. HB 324 has gar- spreads.” nered lots of support in The action came on the conservative strongholds heels of a “sleep-in” protest across the state. Repub- on the steps of the Capitol, lican leaders contend the led by freshman legislator bill would help to prevent Rep. Cori Bush. Representing teachers from indoctrinat- St. Louis and adjoining areas, ing students with liberal Bush herself was once a ideology. The House has homeless single mother, and approved HB 324. A re- vowed that the peaceful pro- vised version of the bill test would continue until ac- has been taken up by a tions were taken to protect Senate education commit- renters. She is also a reg- tee. The Senate version istered nurse, ordained pas- added six banned concepts tor, and the Deputy Whip for to the seven approved by the Congressional Progres- the House. sive Caucus. Her activism Parents and GOP law- first gained public attention makers often share stories following the death of Mi- about white children emo- chael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, tionally damaged after Missouri. Schoolchildren in the 1920s. learning the truth about Please see EVICTION/2A Plase see STUDENTS/2A How can you stay safe as the delta variant spreads? A doctor answers 5 questions By Lilly Cheng tious disease specialist Dr. their survival. Over the sifies variants into three Immergluck Lilly Cheng Immergluck of course of the pandemic, categories: Morehouse School of Med- SARS-CoV-2, the novel co- – Variant of Interest (VOI) THE CONVERSATION icine answers some com- ronavirus that causes have features that may re- With the delta variant mon questions about COVID-19, has mutated duce your immune sys- making up over 93% of variants and what you can enough to change both its tem’s ability to prevent COVID-19 cases in the U.S. do to best protect your- ability to spread through infection. at the end of July, ques- self. the population and its – Variant of Concern tions arise about how to 1. What are variants ability to infect people. (VOC) are less responsive stay protected against and how do they These new strains are to treatments or vaccines evolving forms of the emerge? Viruses mutate called variants. The U.S. and more likely to evade SARS-CoV-2 virus. 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Johnson Suite 200-G Managing Editor/Sports Editor: Bonitta Best 1A 5A News Religion Durham, NC 27713 Advertising: Linda Johnson 4A 6A Classifieds Sports (919) 688-9408 [email protected] 8A Focus © 2021 The Triangle Tribune www.triangletribune.com 2A NEWS/The Triangle Tribune Sunday, August 15, 2021 CDC ‘s rental eviction reprieve offers no permanent solution Continued from page 1A Chism again lost her job. greedy, they ignore the ev- Only a few days earlier Her legal aid attorney tried eryday person doing ev- on July 27, the House Se- to negotiate repayments erything they can to lect Subcommittee on the with the landlord over sev- survive.” Coronavirus Crisis, led by eral weeks, including an Twenty-two percent of South Carolina Congress- updated proposal with Black renters and 17% of man Jim Clyburn, heard higher numbers when Latinx renters are in debt from another single another month’s rent was to their landlords, com- mother, Katrina Chism of due. But by mid-April, the pared to 15% overall and metro Atlanta, who tes- landlord rejected the pro- 11% of white renters. tified to her lengthy and posal and issued notice Rental debt is also chal- ongoing struggle to keep a that the lease set to expire lenging for renters with roof over her family’s in mid-May would not be children, with 19% unable head. renewed. The alternative to make payments. “The fear of homeless- housing for herself and her But neither the extension ness became a reality for son prevented the family nor CDC remarks explain Can students handle the me,” testified Chism. “I had from becoming homeless, why emergency rental as- never faced this type of but the rent charged with sistance sent to state and stress before, and I had no the new landlord rose by local jurisdictions is taking truth about America’s idea what I was going to be $355 each month. so long to reach con- able to do with little in- “I felt expendable, and sumers who desperately come and no home…. In they showed me I was,” needed help. With no end May, I ended up moving to said Chism. “I was not in sight for the global pan- racial past? another county further given any consideration as demic, Congress and the outside Atlanta, where I a long-term tenant with no White House still bear the Keaton said HB 324 themselves, another group Continued from page 1A felt forced into a lease evictions on my record onus of developing more would maintain the status of students at the very the evils of slavery and Jim where my rent increased ever. I felt as if I had permanent solutions to the quo. “The status quo is least can have a conver- Crow laws. The children by several hundred dollars broken the law somehow nation’s housing crisis. centering white students, sation about it,” he said. are left with feelings of per month. I went from while we were in the mid- white parents and their “The concept that discom- guilt and shame, they say. paying $1,245 to $1,600. It dle of a pandemic…. There feelings,” Keaton said. fort should be removed HB 324 would ban discus- was really expensive to are so many people in this Charlene Crowell is a sen- “There’s nothing new. It’s from the educational pro- sion of concepts that move. I had to pay for situation, and it is unfair. ior fellow with the Center just doubling down on cess, to me, that is the mo- would make students “feel (movers, a U-Haul junk There is assistance out for Responsible Lending. what already occurs in ment where the most discomfort, guilt, anguish remover, a large deposit, there to help relieve every- She can be reached at North Carolina’s schools.” educational growth or any other form of psy- application fees, etc.).” one of financial burden, Charlene.crowell@respon- Grear Webb, a Sanderson happens.” chological distress.” A month later in March, but when corporations are siblelending.org. KaLa Keaton, a recent High School graduate now Rodney Pierce, a Nash Middle Creek graduate at- attending UNC-Chapel Hill, County Public Schools so- tending Yale University in noted that North Carolina cial studies teacher who the fall, wondered why is a diverse state. “It’s im- served on the committee such a bill wasn’t passed portant that we have all of that drafted the state’s new years earlier to protect stu- these perspectives and social studies standards, dents of color enduring take the histories of all of asked if HB 324 would pro- racist remarks made by these people and include hibit him from discussing white classmates. “When I them in our daily lives,” the 1861 Cornerstone first read these words [in Webb said. Speech delivered by Alex- HB 324], the first thought I State Rep. John Torbett, ander Stephens, the vice had in my head was which the Gaston County Repub- president of the Confeder- students are at the center lican who sponsored HB ate States of America. of this concern,” Keaton 324, attended the event Stephens defended slavery said. “We could have al- along with dozens of state in the speech, using racial ready had an HB 324 when and local politicians and rhetoric to paint Blacks as I was in elementary school educators. Torbett invited inferior. He also laid out and a classmate screamed the students to meet with reasons for what he that he hated Black people him to discuss the bill and termed a “revolution.” A on the playground.” other issues before they few weeks later, Confeder- Keaton listed a series of head to college. He also ate forces fired on Fort similar racial incidents she urged attendees to read the Sumter to start a long and witnessed while attending bill, which he contends al- bloody civil war. schools in Wake County. lows the “good” and “bad “So, when you say con- Some of them received parts” of history to be cepts that promote one substantial media atten- taught. person feeling inferior to tion. None, however, in- Matt Scialdone, a Middle another person based spired lawmakers to write Creek English teacher, said upon their race or their a bill to alleviate the dis- HB 324 is a solution in gender or things of that na- comfort, anguish or psy- search of a problem. The ture, then I think that chological distress concepts it would prohibit maybe I can’t talk about students of color experi- aren’t being taught by the Cornerstone speech, enced, she said. “It’s been North Carolina’s teachers, maybe I can’t give people going on for years and he said. Scialdone said that the real reason, straight years and years,” Keaton if children of color can ex- from the horse’s mouth, said. “Oftentimes students perience racism, then for the Civil War being are belittled, ignored and white students are strong fought, for the Confeder- COURTESY gaslighted into believing enough to learn about it. acy being formed,” he said. The COVID-19 pandemic and seeing the demise of many Black news publica- “If one set of students is that they [racial incidents] tions inspired Cary Wheelous to launch Hayti, a mobile app that supplies users are not real issues.” having to go through it with access to content from over 200 Black publishers. Hayti app aggregates news How can you stay safe as content from publishers Continued from page 1A that include entertainment, maintain their businesses, the delta variant spreads? fruition was because of food, sports, politics, busi- users are taken directly to COVID-19. He is the pres- ness and HBCU news. Hayti the news site when they Older adults and those Continued from page 1A ations across the country. ident of College Health TV, is also the first black- click on content rather with immunocompromis- tend to be more transmis- As of July 31, the CDC es- a leading streaming chan- owned mobile app to en- than having the content ing conditions may be at sible or contagious, and timated that the alpha nel that provides health ables users to store available to them inside of increased risk to have result in more severe in- variant represented over and wellness programming content in custom folders Hayti. This allows pub- these breakthrough infec- fections. 3% of cases identified in a at colleges and universities and to offer videos, articles lishers to generate more tions. Thankfully, fully – Variant of High Con- region of eight states that across the country. When and podcasts on one plat- advertising revenue. vaccinated individuals sequence are significantly includes Georgia, Florida the pandemic hit, cam- form. Wheelous hopes that generally experience less responsive to existing and Tennessee, compared puses stopped playing his One of the prime features Hayti makes it easier for milder COVID infections. diagnostic, prevention and with less than 1% in the re- channels, which severely is its “Today in Black His- people to find and con- 5. How can I stay safe? treatment options. They gion that includes Iowa, affected his business. He tory” section, in which sume news and infor- How cautious you should also result in more severe Kansas, Missouri and Ne- found himself with free Wheelous documented 365 mation directly from the be depends on a number infections and hospitaliza- braska. The CDC tracks time so he dedicated him- days of unique facts rang- Black press, and he also of individual and external tions. variants in cooperation self to creating the app, ing in subjects from Black hopes that he can help pre- factors. One factor is 2. Are variants always with state health depart- and after eight months of inventions to the civil vent established Black whether you’re fully vacci- more harmful? A variant ments and other public work, it was ready to rights movement. publications from collaps- nated. Nearly all of COVID- may be more or less dan- health agencies. COVID-19 launch in May. “Black history has always ing. 19 deaths in the U.S. over gerous than other strains infection samples from ac- “Nobody has aggregated been important to me,” “The app is for every- the past few months were depending on the muta- ross the country are ge- all of the Black press and said Wheelous. It’s been, body because everybody among unvaccinated tions in its genetic code. netically sequenced each all of the Black media,” said basically, a sort of support wants to know what’s people. The most recent Mutations can affect at- week to identify existing Wheelous. “It was my goal system to me knowing going on in the Black com- CDC guidelines rec- tributes like how con- and new variants. And to do that as a company.” what my ancestors did to munity,” he said. “For the ommend that everyone tagious a viral variant is, new variants will likely The app has compiled be able to bring me this very first time, everybody wear a mask in areas of how it interacts with the continue to appear as the news content from over far.” can find out what’s hap- substantial or high trans- immune system or the virus evolves. Delta plus, 200 publishers in the Because he developed pening and what’s taking mission, regardless of severity of the symptoms for instance, is a sub-lin- United States, Africa and the app with the intention place in the Black com- whether or not they’re it triggers. The delta vari- eage of delta. The effects Caribbean. It covers topics of helping Black publishers munity.” ant is reported to be of this subvariant are yet vaccinated. More caution nearly twice as contagious to be determined. should especially be taken as previous strains and 4. How are vaccines if you aren’t fully vacci- may cause even more se- holding up against vari- nated or have a weakened vere disease among those ants? Researchers are immune system. BUSINESS BRIEFS working to figure out how Another factor to con- who are unvaccinated. 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But there are regional vari- 3A NEWS/The Triangle Tribune Sunday, August 15, 2021 Black women with children Programs aid families excluded from federal cash with dementia relatives By Mona Dougani assistance program N.C. HEALTH NEWS Orange County Sheriff By Ariana Figueroa Deputy Daniel Roberson THE POLICY WATCH still recalls a case a couple WASHINGTON — A new of years ago when a 75- research paper reviewed year-old woman with de- how each state imple- mentia wandered from her mented a federal program home. The incident that has provided cash as- launched a multi-day sistance to low income search. Two days passed families over the last 25 before investigators from wander off, helps us locate cated in Chapel Hill. Evans years and found that Black the sheriff’s office and them for one, but also said she accepted and women with children re- other rescue crews found gives the caretakers a little asked for help from others peatedly were excluded. the woman in a drainage bit more peace of mind, in and was thankful she did. On a call with reporters, ditch, thankfully alive. case they get caught up in What she wasn’t expecting policies, the paper found. creased the amount of cash policy experts at the Center In July, the same sheriff’s day-to-day activity.” was how close she would For example, a predeces- benefits for families. on Budget and Policy Prior- office was awarded an To qualify for the free become to people she met sor program created by the “These differences shed a ities outlined how states $8,050 grant for a program service, the sheriff’s office in the support group. New Deal in 1935, Aid to light on the underlying rac- can remove restrictive re- to assist people with cogni- conducts interviews and “I don’t consider myself a Dependent Children, ism of the program, and quirements placed on tive impairments such as assesses the diagnosis and group kind of person, but I aimed to provide states why, in the end, it doesn’t Black families to receive dementia and their fam- sometimes meets with the don’t know if I could have with federal funding to as- serve any families well,” cash assistance for food, ilies. Roberson and others family at their own homes. gotten through it without sist single mothers. South- she said. bills or rent. The experts jumped at the opportunity Consent is typically given the support group, without ern members of Congress There are no federal rules also detailed ways the to purchase more equip- by the caregiver in most hospice, without the adult pushed to give local and that determine how much Temporary Assistance for ment allowing them to cases, and the transmitter daycare, and without state governments the in TANF benefits are paid Needy Families program, serve more people. Orange bracelet is then attached to someone just giving me power to control ADC to families — that amount or TANF, can recenter its County is home to roughly either the individual’s arm, some free time to exercise, benefit levels and eligibil- is solely determined by programs to help Black 30,000 seniors, 10% of ankle or wrist. Twice a to walk,” Evans said. “What ity, which led to the exclu- states. There are currently women with children who whom suffer from cogni- month somebody from the was so wonderful about sion of Black women with 17 states that either pro- have historically been shut tive impairments, accord- department helps change the care group is they were children. States created vide the same amount of out from federal aid cash ing to Kim the battery. really the only people that “suitable home” laws that benefits as when the pro- programs due to sexist and Lamon-Loperfido, aging For Sheila Evans, a truly understood what you targeted Black mothers by gram was started or less racist policies. transitions administrator Carrboro resident whose were going through.” barring them from receiv- compared to 25 years ago. “Recognizing the ways in for the county’s Depart- husband was diagnosed Program director Bobbi ing ADC benefits if they Pavetti said when taking in- which racist views of Black ment of Aging. with frontotemporal de- Matchar is touched by the were unmarried. Some of flation into consideration women [influence] the Project Lifetrack is a pro- mentia in 2008, the pro- support groups, especially those states that passed ,along with the rise in basic design of the current gram that uses ankle and gram brought her great one group that continued those laws included Ten- housing and rent prices, TANF program is the first wrist monitors that issue a rewards. Before they joined to meet even after some nessee, Michigan, Lou- “those benefits in those step to redesigning TANF” radio frequency that helps the program, Evans’ hus- members finished their isiana, Virginia, Florida and states have lost 40% or to be anti-racist, said Ife to locate individuals who band had wandered from caretaking duties. “Know- Georgia, among others. more of their purchasing Floyd, one of the report re- go missing. The project home a couple times, trou- ing that you’re not alone is In Louisiana alone, this power.” searchers and the director also provides a tracker bling her so much she enormously helpful for cut off benefits to 6,000 The program also of TANF research and anal- which admits a radio called the police and had families,” Matchar said. “I Black children, according reaches few families, de- ysis with the Center on frequency specific to that Silver Alerts put out on know families who have to the report. But how pending on states. In Lou- Budget and Policy Prior- one tracker. The Orange both occasions. ended up connecting with much help a family re- isiana, Kansas, Florida, ities, a left-leaning think County Sheriff’s Office es- “The policeman found each other outside of our ceives today is still tied to Georgia, Arizona and North tank. timates that they get a call him both times, very, very programs. You know, the state of residence. The Carolina, among others, Floyd said it’s important a week “about an individ- quickly,” Evans said. “He they’ve gone to a support federal government gives states reach at most 10 to understand that many of ual wandering off.” Project wasn’t gone for hours and group together for weeks states about $16.5 billion a families per 100 of those the TANF requirements put Lifetrack had been mon- hours or anything like that, or months or even years, year for TANF, and states living in poverty. “A theme in place when it was itoring 46 people before but it’s scary. It was scary. and have formed relation- are required to provide at that emerged is that Black enacted in 1996 were the grant came in. Now It was really scary. So, I ships with each other, and least $10.3 billion a year as families are likelier than based on racist ideas about they can bring in 20 more love that program. I just can support each other part of maintenance-of-ef- white families to live in Black families that had people with additional wish I had known about it outside of our formal pro- fort, which means they states with the weakest long been in place in other equipment. even earlier.” grams.” must continue to spend programs,” Pavetti said, federal policies. Histori- “We are proud to offer [a In addition to gaining Evans, who has been try- some of their own dollars adding that those states cally, Black women with program] that helps care- peace of mind by enrolling ing to raise awareness as well. have the lowest benefits. children have been kicked takers, family members in the Lifetrack program, about the challenge of car- LaDonna Pavetti, the vice “They serve the fewest off of federal social assis- and gives them an extra Evans also received emo- ing for someone with de- president for family in- families, and they spend tance programs for rea- peace of mind,” Roberson tional support through a mentia for years, thinks come support policy at the the least of their TANF sons such as being said. “Nothing’s 100%, but caregiver support group tracking programs and Center on Budget and Pol- funds to help families meet unmarried and working in at least this program and held at the Seymour other services that Orange icy Priorities, said only a their basic needs.” domestic or agricultural having that tracker on their Center, the senior center of County provides are crucial handful of states have in- fields, among other racist loved one, in case they do Orange County facility lo- for the future.

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She shares Xulon Press/Salem favor, even when it seems how even when they strug- By Joe McKeever Media Group that he hasn’t heard our gled with trusting God, He BAPTIST PRESS prayers. showed up powerfully in JACKSON, Miss. – And The disruption and diffi- “We get disappointed their lives and provided when your children shall culties of 2020 also up- with God because our ex- victorious outcomes. say, ‘What does this rite rooted our time with the pectations of what He “You Can TRUST Him” mean to you?’ you shall Lord when churches closed should have done when we brings the Bible alive and say…. (Exodus 12:26) their doors and our daily prayed is not what He ac- aims to help us trust His Parents, you’d better be routines changed dramati- tually did,” Murray said Word, trust His timing and prepared. That day will cally. Many people lost during a recent interview trust that He will help us come. More than likely, the their jobs or lost their with Prayer on Purpose. navigate through the pain- way children will ask this loved ones, “We have to recognize that ful seasons of life. question will not be with despite delays are not denials. upraised hand and respect- praying dili- They’re simply holding ABOUT THE AUTHOR: ful tone. They will sound gently for patterns while God is work- Murray is the founder and more like: “Why do we different ing on the situations in our CEO of Joan Murray Mini- have to do this? It’s so bor- outcomes. lives.” stries and Seeds of Hope ing! I don’t get anything tend. And yes, he can han- size seven.” As we ad- “You Can TRUST Him” Worldwide Missions. She is out of it!” The word griping dle knowing that. That night as the family just to a takes an in-depth journey an international Bible comes to mind. Anyone After establishing a par- gathered for prayer, little new nor- into inspirational, personal teacher, pastor, speaker heard that from your little ent’s credibility, nothing Kevin said, “And Mom, mal, now is and Biblical stories that re- and missionary who loves ones? Count on it. They convinces a child of the re- don’t forget to pray for my the perfect time to reestab- veal trust truths in the the Word of God and desires will ask that question, ho- ality of God and Jesus shirt.” His mother smiled lish our faith and rebuild midst of hardship. Murray to see people experience wever they phrase it. You’d Christ like seeing the par- and said, “Well, Kevin, you our trust in God. takes us into the lives of freedom, wholeness and better be ready with an an- ents living out their faith. will be happy to know that Murray’s inspirational many people who were un- victory in all areas of life. swer. Howard Hendricks of Dal- Jesus has answered your new book, “You Can TRUST sure they could survive I wonder if we even have las Theological Seminary prayer.” to teach a child God exists. tells how a child in his city “He has?” he said, eyes AROUND THE TRIANGLE They almost seem to come learned an unforgettable bugging out. into the world with that lesson about God. The His brothers were in on RALEIGH PARTY idents. Contact: Lloyd knowledge. It seems more father in a family with four the plan, so with that, the OPENING Pure Life Party on the Schmeidler at (919) 560- that we have to work to un- boys had resigned his first brother went out and The Wright Village will Patio is Aug. 22, 6 p.m., 4570. Deadline: Aug. 20. teach them. However, it is good paying job to enroll came back with a shirt, host its grand opening and 3801 Hillsborough St. Visit necessary to tell them in seminary and become a which he lay on the kitchen one-year anniversary Aug. www.purelifetheatre.com. BLOOD DRIVE about Jesus. No one comes minister. They soon found table in front of Kevin. 15, noon to 5 p.m., 420 Hu- A Bull City Firefighters into the world with a ready themselves in financial “Wow, this is great,” said bert St. Visit www.thew- EDUCATION Back to School Blood Drive knowledge of our Lord and need. One night as the the 7-year-old. Then rightvillage.com/events. Journalist Nikole Han- is Aug. 20, 2-7 p.m., Savior, Jesus of Nazareth. family gathered to pray, 7- another brother came in nah-Jones will headline Rookies Sports Bar, 4911 First, it’s a matter of es- year-old Kevin said, “I with a second shirt and laid WOMEN Color of Education 2021, a Central Park Drive. tablishing credibility. Does need a new shirt. Is it all it on top of the first one. Museum of History will two-day virtual summit to this require parents to jet- right to ask Jesus to give “Two? I have two shirts? I honor Women’s Equality discuss racial inequities in CAREGIVERS tison all imaginary char- me a shirt?” Mom assured just asked for one!” he said. Day with a noon lecture by education, Oct. 26-27, 4-6 White Rock Baptist spon- acters and customs? To do him it was indeed, and And the third brother Danielle M. Carman, Esq., p.m. Register at color- sors a support group for away with Santa or the they prayed for Kevin a brought in another shirt. By of N.C. Council for Women, ofeducation2021.event- caregivers for those with Easter Bunny? Some par- shirt. now, the first brother was Aug. 18, via Zoom. Visit brite.com. dementia every third Tues- ents have answered yes. Each night after that, back with another shirt. ncmuseumofhistory.org. day , 7 p.m., via Zoom. Call Personally, I’m not so Kevin would say, “And Shirt followed shirt, which CARY (919) 598-1551. quick to go there. After all, don’t forget to ask the Lord they kept piling on top of TASTING WESTERN DEMS children have great imagi- to give me a new shirt.” the first. Bourbon and chocolate Western Wake Democrats nations and love to use Night after night, that The stack in front of tasting is Aug. 19, 8 p.m., will host an in-person gath- ORANGE COUNTY them. The imaginary world request became a regular Kevin grew to be 12 shirts The Chocolate Boutique, ering Aug. 22, 4-6 p.m., at MASKS of a child has room for all part of their prayers. One high. By now, he was cry- Lafayette Village on Honey- North Cary Park. Register Orange County has re- kinds of fantastic char- day a man from their ing, he was so happy. His cutt Road. Tickets at event- at www.meetup.com. instated indoor mask re- acters – from Winnie the church phoned. “Mrs. mom and dad were also in brite.com. quirements effective Aug. Pooh and Piglet to Mickey Johnson,” he said, “as you tears. DURHAM 11 at 5 p.m. and Minnie to Alice and know, I manage a men and Hendricks says, “Out in SCHOOL SUPPLIES SCHOOL SUPPLIES: Dorothy to Barney and boy’s clothing store. And Dallas, Texas, there is a lit- Stuff the Bag Back to * DCI is hosting a back-to- Thomas the Tank Engine. we have some shirts here tle boy who has no trouble School Festival is Aug. 21, school supply event Aug. MISC. The wonderful Chron- we’ve not been able to sell. whatever believing that 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Lion’s 17, 4-7 p.m., the parking GRANTS icles of Narnia by C. S. 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MOVIE REVIEW Respect hits the mark By Dwight Brown NNPA NEWS WIRE “They want to hear you sing,” says the Rev. C.L. Franklin (Forest Whitaker) to his 10-year-old daughter Aretha (Skye Dakota Turner). And she did. Even- tually singing herself into 25 Grammys, a posthu- mously awarded Pulitzer Prize Special Citation and the history books. How Franklin became the Queen of Soul and loved by millions is the subject of Jennifer Hudson as Aretha Franklin in “Respect.” Prepare for this fairly detailed and very entertaining biofilm that gospel/blues tinged “I anced by the exhilarating charts her rise from child- Never Loved a Man,” moments (recording her power outages hood to 1972, and her recorded with the Muscle first hit), shows of courage making of the classic, live- Shoals Rhythm Band on At- (civil rights activism with recorded album, “Amazing lantic records in 1967. The MLK and supporting Angela with a Generac Grace.” This project stars rest is soul music history. Davis) and creative break- Jennifer Hudson, the singer Whitaker, Hudson, throughs (watching the home standby who was handpicked by Turner and Audra MacDon- scenes where she arranges Franklin to play her. Like a ald as the mother belt out songs with the band is Queen anointing a prin- songs. Titus Burgess as the magic). The characters, generator cess, Franklin deemed: Rev. James Cleveland, large and small, are well “I've made my decision, Franklin’s musical mentor; drawn with depth and di- and it is you, young lady, Saycon Sengbloh as the mension. The dialogue who I want to play me.” adult sister Erma; Hailey floats safely above a soap That endorsement makes Kilgore as sister Carolyn; opera-ish feel. Mom to her this “Respect” the quintes- and Brenda Nicole Moorer daughter: “Your daddy sential Franklin biodrama as Brenda harmonize well. does not own your voice.” and any others, not so Their voices are heavenly, Most of the ensemble per- REQUEST A much. making the songs feel formances are strong, with Detroit 1952: 10-year-old richer. Classics like “Dr. Hudson as the anchor and Aretha is a precocious mu- Feelgood,” “Think,” “Ain’t her singing as her strongest FREE QUOTE! sical prodigy lauded by her No Way,” “Chain of Fools” asset. While her acting can- dad, loved by her grand- and "Sweet Sweet Baby not match that of a trained mother (Kimberly Scott, (Since You've Been Gone)" thespian (Viola Davis, 844-805-2431 The Abyss) and envied by resonate so much the Angela Basset) and her ac- her siblings. As a young music carries the film over cent seems to waver at adult in the 1960s, Franklin any rough spots. times, she does convey the (Hudson) tours churches The script by playwright- emotional trauma the star with her father who turned-screenwriter Tracey experienced in some very watches her like a hawk, Scott Wilson doesn’t miss impressive scenes. Her in- warding off suitors. C.L. much in the star’s forma- terpretation of Franklin, FREE helps his daughter land a tive years: Franklin’s often when she sings, mimics her 7-Year Extended Warranty* recording contract with Co- strained relationship with walk and gestures and dis- lumbia Records in 1960, her domineering dad, plays that badass attitude A $695 Value! and Franklin releases tween and teenage preg- captures the aura just right. jazz/pop-orientated al- nancies, White’s notorious Scenes in which Hudson bums to little success. spousal abuse and the wears an Afro wig and Limited Time Off er – Call for Details When she hooks up with singer’s bouts with alcohol- revels in her militant hustler turned manager ism. The latter two plot “Young, Gifted and Black” Ted White (Marlon points provide some of the phase are the ones when Wayans), C.L. is peeved: film’s highest drama, mo- she looks most like Frank- “You are not leaving this ments when Aretha was lin. Special Financing Available family for that piece of scarred for her life, humili- What’s on view is so fas- trash!” Yet this is when ated in public and facing cinating and the storyline Subject to Credit Approval inner demons that put her so involving and con- Franklin finds her stride. *To qualify, consumers must request a quote, purchase, install She develops her own on a path of self-destruc- sequential that when the brand of soul music, which tion. film ends, you wish there and activate the generator with a participating dealer. Call for starts with the That human frailty is bal- was more. a full list of terms and conditions. Long WWW.TRIANGLETRIBUNE.COM Ball The Triangle succeeds TRIBUNE despite Sports SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 2021 – PAGE 6A odds It’s hard to believe it’s been COLLEGE CORNER 13 years since Patricia James, HBCU FOOTBALL who was Patricia Nobles at the time, convinced a representa- tive of Minor League Baseball, who was in town to catch a game, to support a summer baseball league for inner-city youth. Durham Parks & Recreation had decided to eliminate its 13-and-over baseball league due to finances. Nobles had a teenage son who played in the league, and the first question Quanera Hayes he asked was, “Mom, what am I going to do this summer?” That’s when James went to work. She discovered that Minor League Baseball had started a pro- gram in select inner cities. So she put together a proposal to add COURTESY Durham to the Harold Carmichael was a superstar at Southern University. list. When the Trevor Stewart and Randolph BONITTA MiLB executive Ross Jr. BEST told her at the game to send Harold Carmichael him a proposal, she gave it to him personally instead. Thus, Long Ball was born. finally gets his due The two-division program supports players in a junior division (13 to 15 years) and a By Bonitta Best senior division (16 to 19). The [email protected] feelgood stories over the Southern alumnus Harold years could fill the Historic Carmichael finally got the Durham Athletic Park, where recognition due him as a Long Ball plays some of its member of the Pro Football home games. Hall of Fame. There were young men Carmichael was a three- about to drop out of high sport athlete: basketball, school, but when told they javelin and track and field. Ammaarah Williams wouldn’t be able to play (good The 6-foot-8 great played grades are a requirement), wide receiver, center in bas- stuck it out – and graduated. ketball and threw the jave- Or the young man who rode lin and discus in track. HBCU two buses for an hour and a He was drafted in the event Aug. 21 beginning at Dan Owen was Florida At- half just to play on a team. 1971 NFL Draft in the sev- 9 a.m. with a Back to School lantic University’s special But you know when one of enth round. Carmichael giveaway. At 10 a.m., the teams analyst last season. pride at “us” tries to do something ended his Philadelphia team will conduct a practice The year prior, he was a de- positive in our community, Eagles career with 590 re- scrimmage inside O’Kelly- fensive graduate assistant the haters come out. ceptions for 8,985 yards Riddick Stadium. All free, of at East Carolina University. Tokyo James was asked repeatedly, and 79 career touchdowns. course. Claude Clayborne was the “Why are you wasting your And speaking of the defensive coordinator and time on these guys?” Maybe Meet the Eagles Eagles, a new safeties coach linebackers coach for Los because, as a mother of a North Carolina Central and defensive line coach Angeles Valley College Olympics young Black male, she’d want will host a football preview has joined the football staff. Please see CARMICHAEL/7A A standing ovation to Living- someone to care about him if stone alumna Quanera Hayes. she weren’t around. While North Carolina A&T’s Tre- To say it’s been an easy 13 vor Stewart and Randolph Ross years would be a gross under- garnered a lot of the press, Hayes statement: finding sponsor- HBCU BASKETBALL was the Queen of track and field ships have been like pulling for HBCU fans. The three-time teeth; being pushed out of NCAA outdoor 400-meter cham- places to practice and play pion finished seventh in the 400 games at in favor of more “up- meters. scale” leagues; and the list “We are so proud of the accom- goes on. plishments that Quanera has But James and her dedicated made in her athletic career for volunteers kept the faith. Livingstone and for the country,” Now, many of those vol- said athletic director Lamonte unteers are gone. Some have Massie-Sampson. “Her commit- changed jobs or work hours ment to excellence as a former where they can no longer student-athlete and as a current work the games. Then, there Olympian defies the impossible are those who quit as soon as of what Blue Bears can do.” their child leaves. And, let’s not forget those “I don’t have my regular vol- Aggies. unteers anymore, and when NCAT runners Trevor Stewart children age out, they (par- and Randolph Ross Jr. earned a ents) disappear,” James said. gold in the men’s 4x400-meter “I don’t want the dynamics to relay. Ross also won a bronze in change. We see the potential the 400 meters. of where the program could HBCU pride! go.” And so do others. Every time MEAC preseason team James vows that this will be North Carolina Central volley- her last season with Long Ball, ball player Ammaarah Williams someone comes through. The was voted to the MEAC preseason latest is a plumbing company team. Williams was third in the that donated scholarship conference in hitting percentage, money to graduating players. and blocks per set. AW North Carolina has been a North Carolina A&T alumnus Milik Gantz constant supporter, as well as NCAA forum the Chevy Youth Sports Pro- N.C. Central Chancellor gram. Johnson O. Akinleye has been ap- This season Long Ball has its pointed to the NCAA Division I most diverse teams ever. From Aggie to Globetrotter Presidential Forum. His term James credits the pandemic, runs through Aug. 31, 2024. which curtailed many AAU By Bonitta Best [email protected] “Chancellor Akinleye has dec- teams’ summer travel plans ades of experience in higher edu- and forced them to play closer North Carolina A&T alum- cation and is a proven to home. But though the nus Milik Gantz returned to progressive leader,” MEAC Com- makeup of the league looks Greensboro last weekend as missioner Dennis E. Thomas different, there’s no doubt a member of the Washing- said. “These are challenging who’s in charge. ton Generals. times for collegiate athletics and “I had coaches ask me if The Generals are the Chancellor Akinleye will continue they could put their whole nemesis of the Harlem to provide salient insight for the team in. I told them no. We Globetrotters. The rivals future.” have a draft and players go to played at the Greensboro the team that drafts them,” Coliseum. James said. “I’m extremely proud of Despite her struggles, James Milik,” said NCAT coach Will is well respected in the indus- Jones. “He’s traveling the try. She’s won numerous world as a professional bas- Troy Baxter Jr. awards and prizes – even a ketball player. He has his de- The free cruise - for her work and gree. He’s having fun. This is again.” Baxter was a two-year dedication. what Aggies do!” starter on the basketball The playoffs started this In two seasons, Gantz MEAC male player team and averaged 15.5 BEST week and, barring bad averaged 6.3 points and 2.6 of the year points per game in his sen- weather, the championship rebounds, and shot 51% Former Morgan State stu- ior season. games will be held Aug. 17 be- from the field. dent-athlete Troy Baxter Jr. The Bears lost to Norfolk in ginning at 6 p.m. The end-of- “Overall, the whole Globe- has been named the 2021 State in the MEAC Tourna- season banquet is Aug. 22 at trotters experience has been MEAC male student-athlete ment Championship. the Durham Armory, and then amazing,” he said. “COVID of the year. Baxter signed a free agent HBCU it’s time to start planning for cut us short last year, but The Tallahassee, Florida, contract with the Chicago a biggie next year when the I’m just happy to be back on native graduated in May Bulls earlier this summer. the road and playing in front with a degree in applied lib- Sports Please see LONG BALL/7A of thousands of people eral studies. Please see LINCOLN/7A 7A SPORTS/The Triangle Tribune Sunday, August 15, 2021

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Phillip Carr Lincoln’s Kwanza Murray signs professional contract Continued from page 6A team, Vllaznia Shkodra, to Murray is heading to Ire- And speaking of the the playoff semifinals with land to play for Brunell of Bears, alumnus Phillip Carr 18.5 points per game and the Ireland Super League. recently signed with UCC 43% shooting from 3-point “I feel great about myself Assigeco Piacenza of Italy. range. to be able to do something The 25-year-old has been rare coming from a small playing overseas since his Lincoln’s Murray signs Division II school like Lin- graduation. Kwanza Murray has coln,” she said. “I hope it Stanley Davis Jr., who is made history as the first helps put Lincoln on the Norfolk State quarterback Juwan Carter also overseas, signed with women’s player to sign a map. I am blessed I was the the Surrey Sorchers in Bri- professional basketball one.” Harold Carmichael finally tain. Davis led his former contract. gets his due at Pro HOF Continued from page 6A on the STATS Perform FCS since 2014. He also is a Walter Payton Watch List. former magazine pub- The award is considered lisher. 6Magazine was the “Heisman” of the FCS. published from 2008-13. The nominees are: * QB Juwan Carter, NSU The Man! * QB Aqeel Glass, AAMU Former South Carolina * QB Felix Harper, ASU State great Darius Leonard * RB Jah-Maine Martin, recently became the high- NC A&T est-paid inside linebacker in NFL history. Leonard Buck Buchanan signed a five-year, $99 Watch List million extension, of Southern University’s which $52.5 million is Jordan Lewis, Florida guaranteed. A&M’s Markquese Bell and And he’s worth every South Carolina State’s De- penny! Leonard is the first cobie Durant are the only player in almost 35 years three HBCU players on the to amass over 300 tackles Buck Buchanan Watch List. COURTESY in his first 30 games. The award is given to the N.C. A&T running back Jah-Maine Martin. best FCS defensive player FSU’s new field of the year. Lewis earned Fayetteville State has in- the award after the spring BOXTOROW 2021 stalled new “high-tech” football season. He fin- Fred Sparkman AstroTurf at its football ished the spring No. 1 in stadium. sacks and tackles for loss. In memory Preseason All-America Team “In 2007, FSU was the HBCU football family first in the CIAA to shift Top 25 lost two beloved members By Donal Ware RB: Ezra Gray, Alabama Tennessee State from natural grass,” said North Carolina A&T is recently. Former Shaw SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE State DL: Joshua Pryor, Bowie the only HBCU to crack standout Fred Sparkman RB: Devon Starling, Ten- State athletic director Anthony Alabama A&M quarter- Bennett. “…The new field Stats Perform FCS Presea- passed earlier this month, nessee State LB: Keonte Hampton, back Aqeel Glass, Southern will ensure a safe playing son Top 25. The Aggies and just Tuesday, Virginia RB: Jah-Maine Martin, Jackson State defensive end Jordan surface as we continue to are ranked No. 25 despite Union student-athlete North Carolina A&T LB: BJ Davis, South Caro- Lewis, and Alabama State feature one of the best fa- not playing the 2020 sea- Quandarium Wilburn died OL: Mark Evans, II, Arkan- lina State running back Ezra Gray cilities in the conference.” son. Four HBCUs received after collapsing on the sas-Pine Bluff LB: Aubrey Miller, Jr., have been selected to the votes: Alabama A&M, Flor- field after a conditioning OL: Danny Garza, Prairie Jackson State ida A&M, Alcorn State and session. BOXTOROW preseason View A&M LB: Isaac Peppers, Arkan- Walter Payton Award HBCU college football All- Four HBCU players are South Carolina State. OL: Johnathan Bishop, sas-Pine Bluff America team, leading a Southern DB: Jalon Thigpen, Ar- contingent of 30 players. OL: Jonathan Williams, kansas-Pine Bluff Reigning national cham- Alabama A&M DB: Decobie Durant, pion Alabama A&M also OL: Trayvon Taylor, Ala- South Carolina State had two other players bama State DB: Naytron Culpeppper, make the team, including TE: Terrance Ellis, Ala- Alabama State wide receiver Abdul-Fatai bama State DB: Irshaad Davis, Ala- Ibrahim and offensive line- TE: Ethan Howard, South- bama State man Jonathan Williams. ern DB: De’Jahn Warren, BOXTOROW has admin- WR: Abdul-Fatai Ibrahim, Jackson State istered the All-America Alabama A&M DB: Demetri Morsell, team since 2007, and the WR: Jadakis Bonds, Bowie State, STANDINGS voters are comprised of Hampton SPECIALISTS (as of Aug. 10) media members from P: Kenny Amaya, Bowie

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Senior Division – Ages 16-19 SPORTS SHORTS RALEIGH ent a Community Health off Aug. 21, 1 p.m., at Team WL T * Fall coed kickball starts Fair Aug. 28, 11 a.m. to 2 Zweli’s Restaurant on Dur- Cardinals 6 2 0 this fall in the Goombay p.m., Chavis Community ham-Chapel Hill Boulevard. Rays 4 3 1 Raleigh-Durham Sports Center, 505 MLK Jr. Blvd. Ten HBCU coaches have Pirates 3 4 1 League. Games will be been invited. Tigers 2 6 0 played at Fred Fletcher CARY * Softball and baseball Park, 820 Clay St. * Front and Back 9 Golf players ages 5-14 are in- * Registration is open for Academy is accepting reg- vited to a free instructional Tuesday Night Ladies istration for ages 6-17, clinic Aug. 21 from Ripken Long Ball suceeds Under the Lights Fall Kick- Aug. 21, at Lochmere Golf Baseball staff. Special ball League starting in Sep- Club. Visit www.front- needs participants encour- Continued from page 6A tember. Games will be held back9.com. aged. Regionals come to Durham in July. More than 400 players – not including coaches, at Knights of Columbus, Three different sessions family, etc. – will be arriving in the Triangle. 4301 Columbus Club DURHAM at Durham Bulls Athletic “Durham should embrace this opportunity and show our cultural awareness,” James Drive. * BOXTOROW will host its Park. Register at said. To learn more, visit longballdurham.com. * Raleigh Firebirds pres- annual Countdown to Kick- chevy.com/youthbaseball. 8A FOCUSThe Triangle Tribune Sunday, August 15, 2021 Mixed-use development Is a reverse mortgage the right savings tool for you? By Shanta Jackson surance premiums for fed- specifies. The lender might coming to SE Raleigh SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE erally-insured home equity say the loan may be used conversion mortgages, or only to pay for home re- If you're 62 years of age HECMs. pairs, improvements or or older and want money * You owe more over property taxes. Home- to supplement your in- time. Your loan collects in- owners with low to mod- come, you might consider terest, so the amount you erate incomes can qualify. a reverse mortgage. owe grows. Interest adds * Proprietary reverse You'll be able to convert up. mortgages are private part of your home equity * Interest rates may loans backed by the com- into cash without having to change over time. Depend- panies that develop them. sell your home or keep ing on the kind of mort- If your home has a high ap- paying your mortgage. gage you take out, you may praised value and you have In a reverse mortgage, a have fixed or variable a small mortgage, you may lender pays you what rates. Make sure you un- qualify. amounts to an advance derstand your financial re- * HECMs, which are fed- payment on your home sponsibilities before erally insured reverse equity. The payment is signing. mortgages backed by the usually tax-free. * Interest is not tax de- U.S. Department of Hous- Generally, the home- ductible each year. There is ing and Urban Devel- owner doesn't have to pay no tax break until the loan opment, can be used for back the money for as long is paid off. any purpose. as he lives in the home, * You have to pay other HECMs and proprietary and he keeps the title. Sell- costs. You keep the title to reverse mortgages may be ing the home reaps money your home, so you're re- more expensive than tradi- to repay the loan, and any sponsible for property tional home loans. Upfront money left over after the taxes, insurance, utilities, costs can be high. This is sale goes to the owner or fuel, maintenance and an important aspect to his heirs. other expenses. If you consider, particularly if The benefits: don't pay any of this, the you plan to stay in your * You remain the owner COURTESY lender might require you home for just a short time of your home. Longtime Southeast Raleigh real estate development leader James Mon- to repay your loan. or borrow a small amount. * There are no monthly * Your spouse may con- You may have much less tague’s F7 International Development company has partnered with the mortgage payments to tinue to live in the home income to work with once Saint Augustine's University CDC to boost the economic landscape in the make. after you die if he pays you retire, and paying your East College Park community. * You are protected if the taxes and insurance and monthly mortgage pay- A groundbreaking ceremony for Falcon's Point, at the corner of Tarboro house value declines. If the continues to maintain the ments may be rough. With house is worth less than Road and Lane Street, was held Aug. 12 at the site of the $2.5 million, 15,000- property. But if your a reverse mortgage, you the outstanding loan, spouse wasn't part of the can supplement a dimin- square-foot, three-story development. The project answers the call of com- neither the homeowner loan agreement, no more ished income and continue munity conversations and surveys to bring residents, families, students, nor the heirs are respon- money will be paid out. to pay your bills. Speak faculty, and staff what they asked for to help strengthen and build the com- sible for the shortfall. There are three types of with a financial profes- munity they desire. Here are some down- reverse mortgages: sional to see whether a re- sides to reverse mort- * Single-purpose reverse verse mortgage is right for gages: mortgages are the least ex- you. * There are fees and pensive option, but loans other costs. Lenders charge like this are not available Shanta Jackson is a REAL- an origination fee, closing everywhere. The loan may TOR with Jackson Realty costs and servicing fees. be used for only one pur- Group. She can be reached Some charge mortgage in- pose, which the lender at [email protected]. HBCU NEWS SHAW UNIVERSITY tion, telecommunications ating African American Erin H. Moore has been and nonprofits. Studies curricula for K-12 named the ex- Moore has a wealth of schools. ecutive direc- higher education experi- Moore earned her Bach- tor of the ence, including roles as elor of Arts in economics at Center for Ra- Central State University as- Spelman College, her cial and Social sistant professor of history Master’s in African Ameri- Justice. and as Spelman College ad- can Studies from The Ohio Moore joins junct professor of history. State University, and her the CRSJ with She most recently Ph.D. in African American a diverse Moore worked as a consultant for Studies from Temple Uni- range of ex- Diversity, Equity, and In- versity. perience in higher educa- clusion training and cre- Missed well visits put kids Author wrote ‘The at risk for communicable Coming Race Wars’ nearly diseases at school 30 years ago By Nadia Ramlagan Society, said it could put of Pediatrics, explained N.C. NEWS SERVICE more kids at risk for be- well visits can set a child It still resonates today. coming ill from communi- on track to stay healthy RALEIGH – Parents about 30 years old,” Pan- of division deeper into cable diseases such as and safe. By Alejandra Molina should catch their kids up RELIGION NEWS SERVICE nell, 92, told Religion News America’s heartland,” and measles. "The pediatrician will Service. “Why is that? What asks again, “Where do we on missed doctor visits, In his book, “The Coming "Vaccines are absolutely make sure that you're up- is there about this book go from here?” and, in some cases, vacci- Race Wars,” theologian Wil- important for kids of all to-date on your vaccines, that makes it so painfully “The here, unfortunately, nations, to protect them- liam Pannell foresees the ages," Hudgins asserted. but will also check in on contemporary after so long is pretty much what it was selves and their poor and disenfranchised "And they are a great way growth and development a time?” 30 years ago,” Pannell told communities before they engaging in violent urban to keep kids safe, in school and your child's mental The book was first pub- RNS. return to school, according uprisings and revolts ac- and out of school." health, and make sure that lished in 1993, in the wake To Edward Gilbreath, vice to a new report by the ross the world similar to The report showed visits chronic diseases are taken of the 1992 uprising that president of strategic part- American Academy of Pe- the 1992 Los Angeles riots. to providers' offices fell by care of," Beers said. "So, erupted in Los Angeles nerships at Christianity diatrics and the George- It will only be a matter of 58% for all age groups in there's lots and lots of rea- after a jury acquitted four Today, the expanded and town University Health time, he writes, “before March of last year, and sons to get back to your pe- LAPD officers in the beat- new version of Pannell’s Policy Institute. some cop blows it again in visits for toddlers dropped diatrician now." ing of Rodney King. Now, book serves as a historical Earlier this year, the his or her treatment of a 75%, the largest decline by According to the N.C. in the wake of 2020’s racial reflection but “also as a Centers for Disease Con- Black person, probably a any age group. Area Health Education justice uprisings after the statement on how far we trol and Prevention re- Black man.” Some parents don't im- Centers, some pediatri- killing of George Floyd, haven’t come.” ported orders for all Police brutality, racist munize children for reli- cians have allowed sibling Pannell has released an up- “Dr. Pannell was not non-influenza childhood and discriminatory lending gious reasons, while others well-child visits, so parents dated version. “The Com- afraid to speak the truth to vaccines had decreased by practices, lack of well-pay- worry about potential only have to come into the ing Race Wars: A Cry for power in evangelical circles around 11 million doses, a ing jobs could push Black health risks of some vac- office once instead of twice Justice, from Civil Rights to at that time. He was very direct result of fewer pedi- people and other margin- cines, although those are or more, and have imple- Black Lives Matter” was much engaged and a part atric visits. alized communities to re- reported to be extremely mented more consistent published in June, and fea- of the predominantly white Elizabeth Hudgins, ex- volt, Pannell predicts. And rare. schedules for telehealth tures a new introduction by evangelical community,” ecutive director of the the evangelical church — Dr. Lee Beers, president visits and in-person follow- Jemar Tisby, author of said Gilbreath, who in 2019 North Carolina Pediatric with all its influence, re- of the American Academy up. “The Color of Compromise: helped spearhead Pannell’s sources and its supply of The Truth About the Amer- updated book when he was missionaries across the ican Church’s Complicity an executive editor at Inter- world — is ill-equipped to in Racism,” and an after- Varsity Press. “This gave address social issues at word that Pannell began him a very intimate per- home, he argues. Pannell, Swearing-in ceremony for writing before COVID-19 spective in terms of being professor emeritus of struck the nation and prior trusted and someone who preaching at Fuller Semi- to the police killing of is not just criticizing for nary, pushes back against N.C. Industrial Commission Floyd. criticism’s sake, but he the notion that Jesus is all Pannell, in the new epi- really cared about the people need to make it. logue, seeks to answer the church and wanted to see “I really do believe that Rev. Martin Luther King real change because he people — all people — Jr.’s question, “Where do loved the church.” need Jesus,” Pannell writes. we go from here?” But the Anthea Butler, associate “But to make it in society, meaning of “here” is some- professor of religious white Christians realize thing Pannell grapples studies and Africana they need a lot more than with. He underscores the studies at the University of salvation. They may expect death of King and recalls Pennsylvania, said it’s cru- Black people to be content the crowd leaving the cial to contextualize how with salvation in Christ. March on Washington the original book was pub- But that is not enough for “wondering about the fu- lished at a time when L.A. the white Christians them- ture.” He highlights Billy was reckoning with the af- selves.” Graham’s 1970 “The Unfin- termath of what’s been de- While the debate has ished Dream” speech in scribed as one of the worst been “between those com- front of a predominantly race riots in American his- mitted to evangelism and white crowd and how his tory. “It was important to those committed to jus- “power and prestige legiti- talk about the ways in tice,” Pannell writes that mated the marriage of God which evangelicals hadn’t “what we should be striv- and country.” paid attention to race,” said ing for is a spirituality that Pannell brings readers Butler, author of “White will inform both evangel- back into the present, to Evangelical Racism: The ism and social transfor- the Black Lives Matter pro- Politics of Morality in mation. The interesting tests and to former Pres- America.” “He was already thing about this book is COURTESY ident Donald Trump’s working on that book when that it sounds so contem- On Monday, former Wake County Commissioner Jessica Holmes, right, was speech at Mount Rushmore the L.A. riots happened.” porary, even though it’s sworn in as Deputy Commissioner of the N.C. Industrial Commission. where he “drove the dagger 9A FOCUS/The Triangle Tribune Sunday, August 15, 2021

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