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• Genealogy while black reveals some painful pasts — slavery and the Civil War

  07-02-2019 09:30 via triad-city-beat.com
  Angenita Boone gestures to the images projected on the screen. She motions to the rows of names, scrawled in cursive and points out the surname of her grandmother’s ancestors — Gailyard. Printed next to some of the names is an abbreviation: ‘neg.’“‘Neg,’ that’s negro,” Boone explains. “Some have ‘M’ for mullatto and that means you’re mixed or something, but some black people would have a ‘W’ because you loo
  
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• Universalities unveiled in August Wilson monologue contest

  07-02-2019 09:20 via triad-city-beat.com
  Against a cheerful blue sky, stray clouds hung above the metalloid frame of a ’39 Ford that sat stationary on a winding, red-dirt road. The scene felt like Alabama, but the stories spoken on Feb. 2 rang out from the soul of 20th Century Pittsburgh.Eight high schoolers from across the Triad converged at Triad Stage to participate in the third annual August Wilson Monologue Competition, where the nonprofit theater company is currently showing White Lightning. The students trained in a series
  
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• Tuned together: Chatham Rabbits plays like a slow dance

  07-02-2019 09:20 via triad-city-beat.com
  Austin McCombie adjusts his guitar strap slightly, leaning into the mic. He sets the scene: a rural farmhouse passed down by his family through the generations. The structure recently burned to the ground, he tells the audience, inspiring a song titled “The Fire.” He begins to sing; his wife, Sarah, joins in.“He woke up to the sound of his hound dog,” they sing. “A spark, a flame, and it was all gone.”On a Sunday night, the couple holds court in the Crown at t
  
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• EDITORIAL: A big win for Bennett College, and us all

  07-02-2019 09:15 via triad-city-beat.com
  Bennett College was on the ropes.In its second year of probation and in danger of losing its accreditation, enrollment at Bennett had shrunk to just 469 students. And in January, school administrators acknowledged they’d need to come up with $5 million by Feb. 1. Bennett humbly asked for help from any and all quarters. The short version of the story is that Bennett raised more than $8 million as of this week, and will walk into its re-accreditation hearing an adequately funded school.
  
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• LIST: 7 questions for Captain Debra Chenault

  07-02-2019 08:41 via triad-city-beat.com
  Debra Chenault recently became the first African-American female to be promoted to the rank of captain in the 170-year history of the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office. She will serve as the detention security services B/D Team Division commander and has worked her way up within the office for the last 27 years.How does it feel to be the first black woman promoted to the rank of captain in 170 years?It’s actually amazing. It’s very humbling, and I’m honored. With that said,
  
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• Forsyth County sheriff says he will limit cooperation with ICE

  07-02-2019 03:25 via triad-city-beat.com
  Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough Jr. said when he renegotiates a contract with the US Marshals Service in April, ICE will no longer be authorized to use the jail.The jail will continue to set aside beds for federal
  prisoners awaiting trial in federal court.Kimbrough noted that the contract with the US Marshals
  Service includes a section entitled “Other Authorized Users” with check-off boxes
  for different federal agencies, including US Immigration Customs Enforcement,
  or ICE.“For example
  
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• Citizen Green: State of disunion

  07-02-2019 00:01 via triad-city-beat.com
  Tucked into the endless honor roll of ordinary Americans spotlighted during Trump’s State of the Union address, there was a neat symmetry between the survivors and heroes of last year’s Pittsburgh synagogue shooting and the Holocaust.Even if you despised the man giving the speech, you couldn’t fail to feel tenderness and warmth at the sight of the gallery singing “Happy Birthday” to 81-year-old Judah Samet, who survived both the Holocaust and the massacre at Tree of
  
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