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volume 44, Number 33
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
THURSDAY, April 19, 2018
BY CASH MICHAELS
FOR THE CHRONICLE'
With the May 8 primar
ies commencing in three
weeks, and early voting
beginning today through
May 5, veterans of the
1960s and ’70s Civil
Rights Movement came to
North Carolina recently to
encourage black voters to
study the issues, register to
vote, and cast their ballots
in both the primaries and
Nov. 6 midterm elections.
On Saturday, U.S. Rep.
John Lewis of Georgia
came to Knightdale to
attend a private fundraiser
for St. Augustine’s
University, urging all to
support HBCUs (histori
cally black colleges and
universities).
But the veteran civil
rights hero also made the
case for turning out the
Raleigh City Councilman Corey Branch and his wife, Chanda, speak with civil rights legend US. Rep. John
Lewis, during his visit to North Carolina last Saturday, April 14.
black vote.
Urging the predomi
nately black audience to
“Vote like never before,”
Congressman Lewis credit
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black female Democrats
Alabama and Virginia
th helping to defeat
Trump-backed
Republicans in the last few
statewide elections..
“Men, we must get on
the ball,” Lewis told his
audience. “The women and
the young people are going
to get us there.”
“Men and women of
color, with our white,
Hispanic, Asian-American
colleagues and friends,
must come together,”
Lewis continued. “If I can
say anything, we’ve got to
vote like we’ve never voted
before!”
Rep. Lewis then
recounted the legendary
1965 Selma to
Montgomery March.
Lewis recalled how black
people in Alabama did not
have the right to even reg
ister to vote without uncon
stitutional poll taxes.
Lewis talked about how
the Alabama state troopers
blocked the 600 marchers
as they came over the
Edmund Pettus Bridge, and
began beating them merci
lessly with night sticks and
bull whips, and firing tear
gas in an early march
across the bridge.
Lewis - who was 25
years-old at the time - was
seriously struck on the
head, causing a concus
sion.
“I thought I saw death.
I thought I was going to
die,” Lewis said, haunting
ly as the audience intently
listened. “But GOD
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Speaking out at church academy
Young men ranging in grade levels from
sixth to eighth grade at Ephesus Junior
Academy in Winston-Salem recently compet
ed in an oratorical program aimed at
improving their public speaking skills along
them a lesson on the impor
tg. They delivered their per
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spiration to serve. SEE
Photo by Timothy Ramsey
Eighth grader Christopher Hawkins walked
away the winner of the 2018 oratorical contest
at Ephesus Junior Academy.
New city
park will be
named after
N. Malloy
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE _
The new handicap accessible North Ward park, which
will break ground next week, will now be named after for
mer City Council Member Nelson Malloy Jr.
The Winston-Salem City Council voted unanimously
to name it the Nelson L. Malloy, Jr. Park during its
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Former City Council Member Nelson Malloy speaks
during Monday’s City Council meeting, at which a
new park was named after him.
Monday, April 16, meeting. The park, located near the cor
ner of Bethabara Road and Shattalon Drive, will be the
first of its kind in the city designed around handicap acces
sibility. It’ll feature a dog park for service dogs, a splash
pool, picnic shelters, playground, wheelchair swings and
flowers that’ll appeal to the senses of the visually
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Who will take
on Virginia
Foxx?
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Denise “DD” Adams
and Jenny Marshall debat
ed in front of a standing
room only crowd of fellow
Democrats at the Central
Library last week over
which one of them should
challenge Rep. Virginia
Foxx in this year’s elec
CAMPAIGN
tioq.
Both Adams and
Marshall are running for
the 5th District seat that’s
been held by the six-term
Republican representative
since 2005. Foxx does
have primary challengers,
but is expected to win her
party’s nomination again.
Adams is a City
Council member who rep
resents Winston-Salem’s
North Ward. Marshall is a
former teacher and first
time candidate. Both have
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