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Contemporary Poetry Review: Reading Anna Lena Phillips Bell’s Debut Collection
NATALIE PATTERSON Ornament Anna Lena Phillips Bell Published 2017 The 2016 Vassar Miller Prize-winning poetry collection “Ornament” by Anna Lena Phillips Bell reads, quite simply, like a love letter to the Carolinas. Though the speaker never directly expresses this love in so many words, it is implicit in the attention she pays to the…
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WSPD Chief Catrina Thompson Addresses Triad NOW Meeting
NATALIE PATTERSON On Tuesday, Feb. 6, Traid NOW, the local chapter for the National Organization for Women, hosted its monthly meeting at Parkway UCC, welcoming guest speaker Catrina Thompson, Chief of the Winston-Salem Police Department, and colleagues. Chief Thompson, a 24-year veteran of the WSPD, presents herself as an advocate for domestic violence and mental…
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Comic Strip: Non-Equilibrium
DIONNE BOONE
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This Month in History: February
NATALIE PATTERSON February 1, 1960: Four African-American students sit down at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., and refuse to leave upon being denied service. This is repeated for several days, with protests spreading to other southern states, and over 1,600 people are arrested for participating in sit-ins. February 3, 1870: The 15th and…
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Black History: The Story of Excellence
MARY DANIELS This black history month, we are looking at some of the extraordinary men and women who demonstrate black excellence. Salem student Zykeria Carlton explained that, “before slavery we were fine. We had our own businesses. We were dependent on ourselves…we had our own civilizations. We were well off. I think that’s what people…
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The Women’s March: One Year Later
GABI IORI On Jan. 21, 2017, millions of people across the world marched together in protest of the inauguration of Donald Trump. The one year anniversary of this event, Jan. 20, 2018, resulted in more turnout from citizens who are still disgruntled with the Trump Administration. The march this year came at a particularly timely…
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News in the World Beyond Salem
MARY DANIELS Taliban Attack in Afghanistan BBC News reported on a Taliban attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018. The attackers filled an ambulance with explosives and detonated the bomb at a security checkpoint in the Ministry of Interior Affairs. The bomb killed 95 people and left 158 injured. The previous week, the…
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Sterritt Resigns, Accepts Position at Vermont College
KADIA KING Photo courtesy of Saint Michael’s College Dr. D. E. Lorraine Sterritt has resigned from her position as president of Salem Academy and College to serve as the 17th president of Saint Michael’s College. Chair of the Board of Trustees, Sallie Craig Huber, informed the community of Sterritt’s resignation in an email sent Friday…
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Jan Term travel experience: making the French connection in Paris and Blois
Kadia King Photo by Dulce Rivas-Rangel Fourteen students participated in the Jan Term course “From Paris to Loire Valley: A Sampling of French Culture”, led by professor and chair of the Department of History and Political Science Dr. Nora Doyle and adjunct professor of French Fernando Pardo. The purpose of the course was to familiarize…
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Contemporary Poetry Review: Celebrating Immigrants in “Home: Where Everyone is Welcome”
NATALIE PATTERSON “Home: Where Everyone is Welcome” By Deepak Chopra, Kabir Sehgal and Paul Avgerinos Grand Central Publishing 2017 The immigrant-inspired poetry and music collection “Home: Where Everyone is Welcome” is not naive. It does not attempt to suggest that America is a country wholly welcoming of immigrants, nor does it imply that all who…
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