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A2 August 5, 2021 The Chronicle Local educator gives financial assistance to graduating seniors BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE David Bishop has a heart for helping children, because someone helped him growing up. That was the major motivation for him to start the David Bishop Scholarship. Bishop, in partnership with Doug Middleton and the Dream the Impossible Initiative, gave five lo cal senior students $500 scholarships to assist with their transition to college. Bishop is a teacher at Quality Education Acad emy (QEA), so he has seen up close the needs some students and their families have as they move on to the collegiate level. “I’m a teacher at QEA, so I un derstand the impact that COVID had on families and the senior students at the school,” said Bishop. “I’ve always wanted to give back. When I was a senior in high school at Winston-Salem Prep, it was a middle school teacher that had a scholar ship for two seniors, kind of similar to mine, and it was a $100 scholarship, a gift card to Walmart. She actually never taught me, but she spoke highly of me and that has resonated with me since then. When I started teaching again, we were actually co-workers at Winston-Salem Prep, so I wanted to do for others exactly what she had done for me.” Getting started with a scholarship was a mystery for Bishop, so he reached out to Middleton, who has been a friend of his since the third grade. “I wanted to reach out to Doug because I didn’t know if I had to have a nonprofit organization or if I had to have a corpora tion to do what I wanted to do,” he said. Due to Middleton hav ing a nonprofit organiza tion of his own, he was able to give Bishop tips as to how to get started with his idea. Middleton liked the idea that Bishop had and chose to partner Dream the Impossible with Bishop’s mission. Bishop says it was im portant for him to give a child of color the oppor tunity to obtain the schol arships. He said he also wanted to make sure the child was a student in For syth County. He reached out to several high school guidance counselors to try and find students that fit the criteria. Submitted photo David Bishop is helping local students with college expenses through scholarships. “It was a good amount of students that applied for the scholarship,” Bishop stated. “We had one stu dent from North Forsyth, three from QEA and one from Winston-Salem Prep. Like I said earlier, that op portunity that was given to me while I was in high school has always stuck with me, so I always want ed to find a way to give back. “I have been blessed this year, so I just wanted to give that blessing to the youth. Doug is a big men tal health awareness advo cate after his best friend died and I am all about youth and making sure they have some type of guidance, because it’s a lot of kids out there without a father figure. I just love what I do.” Bishop is a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and says the response from his frat brothers and others in the community to help for next year has been very encouraging. He says he was surprised by the out pouring of support. For Bishop, he plans to make this scholarship an annual event for seniors in Forsyth County. He stated that he has seen people with the resources to help students in the county, but choose not to. Because he is an educator, Bishop is on the front lines trying to affect change in the class- room and the scholarship is just another way for him to further help students in need. He hopes his efforts inspire others to do the same, but if not, he will continue to do his part. “I’m in the field, so I understand the impact that this has,” he said. “What ever I do, if people decide to follow, then that’s more kids being reached and I hope that does happen and open up doors for other kids with opportunities, but that was not my goal. My goal was just to reach as many kids as I could out of my pocket. “With this blessing we received from other people and people wanting to part ner up and donate for next year, I’m definitely happy with that. If that’s going to open up doors for other people to start up things that have those resources, I am all for that and maybe we can partner up, so we can do more things.” The kids were excited to be the recipients of the scholarships, Bishop said. He and Middleton gave all of the kids encouraging words prior to them head ing off to college. Bishop would also like to expand the scholarship to reach more kids with more money. He just wants to continue to grow to help more children. “It takes a village to reach these kids. If any one wants to do something in the community to give back, I’m all for it.” NAACP awards scholarships to local students BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE Last week the Win ston-Salem Chapter of the NAACP (WSNAACP) awarded $5,000 in schol arships to five different lo cal students. Caden Davis, Reynolds High School, Breanna Chadwick, Park- land High School, Rob ert “BJ” Moore III, At kins High School, Chloe Fletcher, Carver High School, and Lauren Valle, Atkins High School, each received $1,000 to help further their education. Valle, who will attend Duke University and ma jor in biology this fall, also received the Reverend Dr. Carlton A. Eversley award for having the “high est scholastic standing” among all the scholarship Safe From page Al to be themselves. Even the books the student read this summer were culturally relevant. Throughout the six-week program, stu dents were introduced to several Black authors in cluding Sharon Flake, G. Neri, James Patterson, and Kawmi Alexander. “One of the things we tried to do this summer with Freedom School was make the students aware of what’s happening before them. The pain, the op pression, and the injustice our people have suffered, and make them aware that our people have never just taken that on the chin and not resisted,” Hawkins continued. “Our people have created, resisted and fought for their lives and the lives of their families and communities and one of the ways we instill this Photo by Tevin Stinson Scholarship recipients pose for a photo outside the local NAACP Headquarters. The Winston-Salem Chapter of the NAACP awarded $5,000 in scholarships. recipients. Valle earned an unweighted GPA of 4.0. She is also active in the community and she partic ipates in several extracur- reality is by telling the stu dents that we’re more than what we live through.” When discussing the culture of Lit City Free dom School, Miranda Jones, who serves as the program director, said it gives educators a chance to try something different as well. Jones, who is a licensed educator, said at Lit City she gets to bring liberation education to children in a way that she would never be allowed to do in a normal K-12 environment and has op portunities to really listen to students. “I get to bring a lot of the Afrocentric ele ments to the children that’s not appreciated or toler ated in Eurocentric spaces, so I get to actually do that here,” Jones said. “A lot of people don’t understand that you can talk to Black children ... you really don’t have to ricular activities. The award honors the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Carlton, who passed away unexpectedly just go off, you don’t have to just seek to save white teachers, you can actually seek to save Black children and sometimes it’s just a matter of trying to figure out what their intentions were and seeking to under stand.” That understanding between the students and instructors was on full dis play last Friday during the Freedom School finale. The students had the op portunity to show what they learned over the past six weeks and received certificates for complet ing the program. As they walked up to receive their certificates, every student wore a smile that stretched from ear to ear. Although the Lit City Freedom School has ended for the summer, according to Hawkins they will stay in touch with the students throughout the school year in 2019. Eversley was a longtime member of the NAACP and a well-re spected civil rights activ ist. Additionally, he served with different programs and initiatives. For more informa tion on Lit City Freedom School or to make a dona tion, visit https://linktr.ee/ Litcityws or visit “L.I.T. City on Facebook. 336-575.-2890 Linked^ Instagram 0 f*?'. tv Pest Control. Termite Inspections FHA & VA Reports . Bed Bugs Senior Citizens are given a 1 time service FREE of charge, (some stipulations may occur). Bo Gilliam ^ ... , , . c telephone: .136-788-3020 1 resident A (. I t ‘Toll Free: 1-800-930-WASP (9277) bogtriadpestcontrol@yahoo.com f w as chair of the NAACP Ed ucation Committee for a very long time and was af filiated with the Ministers’ Conference of Winston- Salem and Vicinity. Ever sley also actively served as the pastor of Dellabrook Presbyterian Church for 35 years. Every year the local chapter hosts a banquet as a fundraiser to garner sup port for the scholarships, but due to the pandemic, the Freedom Fund Ban quet was cancelled, but members of the scholar ship and fundraising com mittees refused to let the tradition die. Committee members sought assis tance from the community, local churches, and busi nesses to garner support and raise the funds. “On behalf of the MICHAEL D PORTER Owner fl PORTCRS1U BAIL BOHDIRG Executive Board of the NAACP, I want to thank everyone who helped sup port our young people,” said Al Jabbar, president of the WSNAACP, during the brief ceremony on Friday, July 30. “And to our young people ... may you have much success and if there’s anything that we as a chapter may be able to do to aid you in your next level of life, please call on us, because we’re here for the community.” For more information on the scholarships or the Winston-Salem Chapter of the NAACP, please contact the office at 336-767-3470 or visit www.naacpws.org. tod for 39 Years in Business CONTACTING THE CHRONICLE www.wschronicle.com To send news items: email news@wschronicle.com 1300 E. 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