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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Madison Dobrzenski TABLE OF CONTENTS [email protected] PAGE 3 Re-entry testing EDITORIAL Olivia Lawless MANAGING EDITOR PAGE 4 Remembering influential Black UNC Char- Tyler Trudeau COMMUNITY EDITOR NEWS lotte alumni: T.J. Reddy Megan Bird NEWS EDITOR Hiral Patel OPINION EDITOR Emily Kottak LIFESTYLE EDITOR Anders Hare A&E EDITOR PAGE 5 Digital Blackface: Yes, it’s real Bradley Cole SPORTS EDITOR Max Young COPY EDITOR Niyathi Sulkunte PHOTO EDITOR OPINION María Solano VIDEO EDITOR Nic Jensen LAYOUT EDITOR PAGE 6 The boys are back ASSISTANT EDITORS Jessica Ceballos NEWS Milo Cain OPINION PAGE 7 Valuable leader Miles Ruder SPORTS SPORTS April Carte COPY Elizabeth McGuire VIDEO Brandon Mitchell LAYOUT PAGE 8 Judas and the Black Messiah Emma Lineberger LAYOUT PAGE 9 Frank Ocean’s ‘Nostalgia, ULTRA’ CONTRIBUTING STAFF Kathryn Caudill, Abena Atiemo, A&E PAGE 10 What is NT listening to? Sam Perry, Cameron Williams, Gabe NINER MEDIA Lapalombella, Arik Miguel, Lesly Santos @UNCCMEDIA PAGE 11 Collared dollar NEWSROOM 705.687.7150 NINERTIMES.COM/STAFF PAGE 12 Niner Times Tries: Viral TikTok Pasta TWITTER @NINER_TIMES LIFESTYLE NINER TIMES CREATIVE DIRECTOR @niner_times James Bourke READ + WATCH MORE ONLINE AT [email protected] MARKETING STAFF Ridge Grant NinerTimes.com UPTOWN AUDIO @uptownaudio POLICE BLOTTER LOCATED ON THE LOWER LEVEL OF THE STUDENT UNION 2/14: Larceny from Auto Niner Times • Uptown Audio SANSKRIT Sanskrit Literary-Arts Magazine LIT ARTS Media Marketing • Technical Officers responded to to a parking lot in reference to a larceny from an auto. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE MAGAZINE Kelly Merges NINER MEDIA ADVISER VIEW FULL BLOTTER AT @sanskrituncc Laurie Cuddy BUSINESS MANAGER Joshua Wood GRAPHICS & PRODUCTION 2 FEB. 16, 2021 NINERTIMES POLICE.UNCC.EDU/POLICE-LOG Photo by Niyathi Sulkunte RE-ENTRY TESTING UNC Charlotte gears up for Phase 2 of Covid-19 re-entry testing NEWS by Kathryn Caudill Staff Writer Institute, employees whose jobs campus locations. Mitigation testing provide housing to any on-campus As students and faculty return require close interaction with student will consist of randomly selected student who does test positive. to some in-person instruction on living or dining, and students that groups with email with instructions. Off-campus students and faculty Feb. 22, UNC Charlotte will require required in-person participation such As the selections are random, you will need to self-isolate at private COVID-19 re-entry testing to mitigate as nursing majors. might be selected multiple times and residences. The University’s tracing the virus’s spread on campus. Those Testing conducted during Phase 2 participation is required every time. team will contact those who do test required to take the re-entry tests will be from Feb. 17-22. Registration If you are exempt from testing, positive for COVID-19 to notify close include anyone attending classes in for on-campus testing is now available you do not need to file a separate contacts. person, living on campus, working through StarMed, the University’s exemption form for mitigation Due to the county’s extended on campus, those with meal plans, partner for this testing, which you testing. Exemptions to testing health directive through Feb. 28, staff all faculty teaching in-person classes, can access by texting “covid” to include medical conditions, bona have been encouraged to continue and all faculty and staff that require (833) 269-6396. Appointments are fide religious belief and a positive to work from home until Feb. 22. regular attendance on campus. available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on COVID-19 test within the last three The University can randomly select The University offers free testing the specified dates. The testing will months. employees (including students) who on-campus. However, students and take place on the third floor of the While awaiting your test results, visit campus regularly for mitigation staff can also elect to complete an Popp Martin Student Union, and free you may continue to go on campus testing throughout the semester. off-campus test. Those who get off- parking will be available in the Union following all mask and distancing campus testing must provide proof parking decks. A 49er ID Card will protocols, as long as you have not from a molecular PCR test. All tests be required to get tested on-campus, been in close contact with anyone need to be administered within 72 and StarMed will provide results via who has tested positive for COVID-19 hours of the start of classes or return email or text. The University will and show no symptoms. When to residence halls. also see the results. Participation completing Niner Health Checks, you PHASE 2 There are two different testing in re-entry and mitigation testing, should select that you are awaiting phases. Phase 1 was completed in which is the testing of randomly results, and under “reason why,” you TESTING WILL BE January and included students who selected students, faculty and staff should select “Mitigation or Re-entry received permission to move in early, throughout the semester, is required Testing.” CONDUCTED: students with meal plans using the for being on campus for any purpose. If you test positive, the University plan before Feb. 22, students and If you do not meet these requirements, will instruct you to self-isolate for a FEB. 17-22 employees of the English Training you will not be permitted to attend minimum of 10 days will be emailed in-person classes or utilize any other to you. The University will also Photo of CHHS Plaza, by Niyathi Sulkunte NINERTIMES.COM FEB. 16, 2021 3 T.J. Reddy T.J. Remembering influential Black UNC Charlotte alumni by Jessica Ceballos Photo courtesy of Tina Wright via uncc.edu Asst. News Editor This article is part of a large series on March 31, 2019, in Charlotte, Lois Stickell, Reddy recalled when established by the Niner Times news North Carolina. According to the the BSU issued ten demands for the section in order to celebrate UNC Biographical/Historical section in university administration to change Charlotte’s influential Black alumni. the Reddy papers, he was a poet and raised their black flag on the Thomas James Reddy, known consultant and an associate editor campus flagpole. as T.J. Reddy, is a UNC Charlotte of the arts magazine, Three. He also According to the Biographical/ alumnus who helped in founding the won the LeGette Blythe Creative Historical section in the Reddy University’s Black Student Union and Writing Award in 1969. Reddy papers, while at Charlotte, Reddy Africana Studies Department. The published two poetry books, Less participated in the Civil Rights Department of Africana Studies staff Than a Score, But a Point in 1974 Movement, protesting the Vietnam page remembers him as “an African and Poems in One Part Harmony in War and specifically the U.S. American Social Realist painter who 1979. He received the Kwanja Award government’s recruiting methods by constructs mixed media paintings for Creativity in 1978 and the North distributing anti-draft leaflets. He with acrylics and natural materials” Carolina Conference of Black Studies also protested segregation and racial and a “creator and coordinator of Service Award. inequality. murals and public art projects.” Reddy transferred to UNC Reddy was featured on the Storied He was also known for his poetry, Charlotte in 1967 from Johnson C. Charlotte webpage on June 6, 2020, political activism and membership Smith University and graduated by Mark West. On July 20, 2017, UNC in the Charlotte Three alongside in 1974 with a B.A. in history and Charlotte held an opening reception Charles Parker and Jim Grant, who sociology and a Master’s Degree in for T. J. Reddy as a way to honor were all charged with arson of the Education in 1977. Reddy assisted him and display his art exhibition Lazy B stables. Reddy was sentenced in founding the Black Student Union “Everything is Everything.” After to 20 years in prison and later had (BSU) and what was then called the Reddy’s death, UNC Charlotte held a his sentence commuted. African and Afro-American Studies virtual event to celebrate the life of Reddy was born in Savannah, Department at UNC Charlotte. In an T.J. Reddy. A recording of the evening Ga., on June 8, 1945, and died oral interview conducted in 2004 by is posted on this webpage. 4 FEB. 16, 2021 NINERTIMES OPINION by Abena Atiemo Intern African American Vernacular have digital blackface. It is taking it up. AAVE is something non-Black that we need to police every non- English (AAVE) is a culturally the black form and warping it into people use to be relevant or funny. Black person’s movement online significant form of English with its something entertaining. It seems For Black folks, it is simply a way to (or off); instead, we should have a own unique grammar, vocabulary like a harsh verdict for something communicate, a way of life. conversation on what we deem as and specific traits found in the seemingly so harmless, right? When When looking at GIF and image funny or trendy. How come Black accent. It derives from the non- we look at why people tend to use the usage, it’s easy to say that it’s all people in almost any state of being, standard English that settlers had images they do, disturbing problems coincidence. You might be thinking: whether sad (crying Jordan meme) or in the southern United States. There begin to unravel themselves. “These pictures are funny because in a generally serious moment (Sheryl are also similarities between African Our blackness isn’t something that of the inside jokes behind them!” Underwood taking off her wig), are creole languages and West African we can put on and take off whenever and to an extent, you’d be right, still seen as funny? Why is it “hip” to languages.