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In Our 23rd Year Issue No. 1934 February 2005
www.theacphoenix.com Associate Consuitants
Serving the Triad FREE
DELTA ARTS
CENTER OPENS
By: Mutter D. Evans
The much anticipated Grand Opening of the new DELTA ARTS
CENTER, located at the corner of new Walkertown Road and 14th
Street, took place during the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday week
end to rave reviews
by scores of loyal
patrons, supporters,
and guests. Mayor
Pro Tern Vivian Burke
declared it Delta Fine
Arts weekend in the
city of Winston-
Salem. The inaugural
exhibition: Five
Contemporary Voices
in a New Space
opened. It is the
combined works of
artists: Nanette
Carter, Chandra Cox,
Lisa Corinne Davis,
Debra Priestly, and
Phiiemona Williamson
and their exploration
of the relation of time
and space to individ
ual perception. It can
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Simona Allen, Chair of Capital Campaign
Committee and Founding Member
of Winston-Salem Fine Arts
TRISTOME, A NEW
COMMUNITY BANK
By: Mutter D. Evans
Ever noticed that the bigger
a bank becomes, the more
uncomfortable you feel doing
business there? A few years
ago when you first opened your
account at ABC Bank, they
seemed happy to have you as
a customer. But now that ABC
Bank has merged or acquired
additional banks, you do not
seem to matter quite as much.
It is almost impossible to get
an answer from an actual
person any more and some
questions just cannot be
handled by canned, prerecord
ed answers.
Well a new bank opened
November 30th with you in
mind. It is called TriStone
Community Bank, a full service
bank, centrally and convenient-
Simpson O. “Skip” Brown, Jr.
ly located at 401 Knollwood
Street in midtown Winston-
Salem, NC. Simpson O.
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ESTHER SIEVER-PARKER
VICE PRESIDENT - DIVERSITY
WALMART, INC.
Martin Luther King
Day Speech
I was born and raised in
Goldsboro, North Carolina, and
came of age more or less in tan
dem with the Civil Rights move
ment.
I tend to think of Dr. King in
personal rather than historic
terms, as I’m sure many of you
do. I was a high school
sophomore in 1963 when I
watched Dr. King give his “I Flave
a Dream” speech on television
(we had a black and white TV
then, and back in 1963, that TV
set was one of the few places in
Goldsboro where black and white
came together).
My experience growing up was
not unlike those of so many
millions of African-Americans
during the King years. Our
segregated neighborhood was a
nurturing place. The ties of family
and community were strong.
Most people were poor, worked
hard and shared what they had.
There were seven children in
our family. My father worked as a
janitor, but he and my mother
managed to send each one of us
to college — all but one to his
torically black colleges in the
South.
My Grandma Silver lived next
door with a vegetable garden the
size of a small farm, which fed our
family and any other family in
Goldsboro that found itself in
need.
Our community thrived on
strong families and helping each
other, taking our moral strength
from the churches, which were
the center of our lives.
In some ways it was idyllic. But
it was also a caricature of the seg
regated South. And like many
other parents, my mother and
father tried to insulate their chil
dren from the ugliest parts of seg
regation, and rationalize away the
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CELEBRXTE BLACK HISTORY MOIMTH
Esther Silver-Parker
INSIDE.
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Am 1 My
Brother’s Keeper . .
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Arnold Hence Hired
as Executive Vice
President
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The 21st Century
Underground
Railroad is Alive . .
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Local Task Force
on Dell Formed . . .
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Let Go of Stuff and
Mess
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Where You Can Pick
Us Us
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Don’t Live in the
Past, Learn from
It
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