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Winston-Salem’s African-American Neighborhoods: 1870-1950
Historic and Architectural Resources of African-American Neighborhoods in Northeastern Winston-Salem ca. 1900-1947
Reynoldstown: Race, Blight, Disease, Highway Construction and the Transformation of Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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"Reynolda Park was developed by Katharine Smith Reynolds Johnston in the 1920s on a 65-acre tract partitioned from Reynolda Estate. The innovative park-like neighborhood was designed by landscape architect Thomas W. Sears and showcases houses designed by noted architects, including Charles Barton Keen and Luther Lashmit."

The Reynolda Park neighborhood was recognized by @cityofwinstonsalem recently. You can watch the relatively subdued ceremony on the City's YouTube page. The marker is on Kent, adjacent to Stratford Road. Stratford stretches from Buena Vista to Clemmons. As Highway 52 (the city's Berlin Wall) is defined by marginalized Black communities, Stratford is Highway 52's equal and opposite. It's defined by white affluence.

Not to oversimplify, but Stratford is the result of public policies and practices that have favored the rich. Highway 52, "Jim Crow in concrete," is the fruit of decades of racist policies.

There's a vast gulf between the rich and the working poor in WSNC that continues to widen. If you don't believe me, compare the median home values in Reynolda Park to those in Reynolds Park. ...

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July image shows Gene Piner in front of a building at Kernersville and Sedge Garden. Shortly after this photo was taken the building and every mobile home on that lot besides Gene's home was demolished. He's lived without water and power for months. @WXII

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The two living partners at KKR, the private equity firm that purchased RJR/Nabisco in a massive leverage buyout in 1988 are retiring. Good riddance!

The Havoc Left by Private Equity‘s Pioneers

Kingpins like Kravis and Roberts have been hollowing out the hopes of average working people and the communities t...

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Tonight Boone passed and adopted a Human Relations committee! The town will now establish a board that seeks to mitigate and address discrimination in our community. Unbelievably excited to have been an advocate in this process, the work isn't over but it's a new beginning!

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A Trade Street fixture closes its doors. Sad.

Finnigan's Wake to close for good Oct. 30

Finnigan’s Wake, a mainstay bar and restaurant downtown for 15 years, has announced it will close permanently on Oct. 30.

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"The 18-unit Spear Villas Apartments at 133 N. Spring St. in Winston-Salem's West End were purchased by BCP-ASA LLC for $1.9 million, which works out to $105,500 per unit. Forsyth County records also list the .45-acre community as Springbrook Apartments." https://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2021/10/18/apartment-community-sells-for-big-per-unit-price.html

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Rolling Stones song comes to mind with last week’s decision by FDA to officially approve one electronic-cigarette product for the U.S. marketplace. “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometime you just might find you get what you need.”

Finding marketing balance for e-cigarettes will challenge FDA, Reynolds

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“A little $22.6-million project with maybe $11 million in city involvement turned into a colossal project that required a whole lot more public money. Naïve city officials basically got depantsed by Billy Prim, the team owner, who got an additional $15.7 million in 2009 after the project stalled, running the city’s tab to about $28 million. In the end, the stadium wound up costing $48.7 million.”

-Scott Sexton, Winston-Salem Journal, Apr 2012