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Volume 44, Number 37
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C
THURSDAY, May 17, 2018
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BY TEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
The North Carolina Black Repertory Company (the
Black Rep) is moving downtown.
After calling 610 Coliseum Drive home for more than
20 years, during a press conference earlier this week rep
resentatives for the Black Rep, the states’ first and oldest
African-American theatre company, announced the move
to 419 Spruce St.
Earlier this year, The Arts Council of Winston-Salem
confirmed plans to sell its 2.93 acre property, which hous
es the Black Rep and the Little Theatre of Winston-Salem.
At the time of the announcement, Arts Council officials
said the move was part of a restructuring initiative that
aims t6 reduce expenses.
Executive Director Nigel Alston said the move down
town, which is a collaborative effort with The Arts
Council, will mark a new beginning for the Black Rep. He
said although the old location has been the foundation of
the company for years, the move downtown will carry the
Black Rep and the National Black Theatre Festival into
the future.
“We’re moving out of our home. We’re moving from
where it started where die foundation has been laid over a
See Black Rep on A5
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Photos by Tevin Stinson
During a press conference on Monday, May 14, representatives from the N.C.
Black Repertory Company announced they will be moving to this building at
419 Spruce Street in the coming months.
Alston
Photo by Tevin Stinson
Participants in the May Day Celebration Royal Court make their way to the stage on Friday, May 11.
Cook students
show off talent
with 1 st May
Day event
BY TEV1N STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
With temperatures in the mid- to upper
90s last week, students, teachers, faculty,
staff and parents at Cook Literacy Model
School came together to celebrate the start
of summer during their first annual May
Day Celebration.
The earliest May Day celebratidns were
celebrated as a pagan holiday in Roman
times, but through the years became a popu
lar secular celebration.
The celebration took on new meaning at
Cook last Friday as students showed their
talents through song and dance. Students
from every grade were also selected to rep
resent the May Day Court, similar to the
Homecoming court seen at high schools
and colleges.
From Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” to
more contemporary hits, the event had
enough singing and dancing to keep every
one interested. Several parents and teachers
even joined in when they knew the lyrics.
See May Day on AS
Early College
kicks off 2018
graduations
B’S’TEVIN STINSON
TOE CHRONICLE _ _
More than a dozen high school students and their
lov&l ones became very familiar with the Lawrence Joel
Veterans Memorial Coliseum last week as they participat
ed in not one, but two graduation ceremonies on the same
Photo by Tevin Stinson
A student from the Early College of Forsyth County
receives her high school diploma during the grada
tion ceremony on Friday, May 11.
day.
Students from Early College of Forsyth County
(ECF) officially kicked off graduation season in the area
when they held their ceremony at the coliseum last Friday
morning, May 11.
As if graduating from high school isn’t enough
excitement for one day, students returned later that
evening to receive their associates’ degree during the
See Early on A8
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Frustration over body cam laws
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Residents and City Council
members expressed their frustra
tions with the state’s body camera
law during Monday’s Public Safety
Committee meeting on May 14.
The law, preventing release of
police body cam footage without
court order, has once again become
a local issue as many are calling for
the release of footage from a recent
deadly police shooting of an
African-American man by a white
officer.
According to a Winston-Salem
Police Department (WSPD) release,
Officer D.E. McGuire was conduct
ing a routine traffic stop on a car
with Edward Van McCrea and two
other adults in it on March 30.
McCrea reached toward a concealed
area of the vehicle and the officer
repeatedly told him to stop. After
being removed from the vehicle,
McCrea physically struggled with
McGuire and a handgun became vis
ible to the officer. When McCrea
reached for the gun, McGuire fatally
shot him.
Following standard procedure,
the North Carolina State Bureau of
Investigation (NCBI), WSPD
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