Up and Coming Weekly is a weekly publication in Fayetteville, NC and Fort Bragg, NC area offering local news, views, arts, entertainment and community event and business information.
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4 UCW FEBRUARY 2 - 8, 2022 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM STAFF PUBLISHER Bill Bowman Bill@upandcomingweekly.com OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Paulette Naylor accounting@upandcomingweekly.com EDITOR Emily Sussman editor@upandcomingweekly.com ASSISTANT EDITOR Hannah Lee assistanteditor@upandcomingweekly. com PRODUCTION MANAGER/ GRAPHIC DESIGNER Dylan Hooker art@upandcomingweekly.com STAFF WRITER Elaina J. Martin Alyson Hansen MARKETING ASSOCIATE Linda McAlister Brown linda@upandcomingweekly.com DISTRIBUTION MANAGER/SALES ADMINISTRATOR Laurel Handforth laurel@upandcomingweekly.com CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Margaret Dickson, Soni Martin COVER Design by Dylan Hooker Up & Coming Weekly www.upandcomingweekly.com 208 Rowan St. P.O. Box 53461 Fayetteville, NC 28305 PHONE: 910-484-6200- FAX: 910-484-9218 Up & Coming Weekly is a "Quality of Life" publication with local features, news and information on what's happening in and around the Fayetteville/Cumberland County community. 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PUBLISHER'S PEN 82 64 82 83 79 82 63 64 83 66 64 65 THU FEB 03 FRI FEB 04 SAT FEB 05 SUN FEB 06 MON FEB 07 TUE FEB 08 69 56 60 33 45 20 46 24 48 27 50 33 Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Showers Showers Association of Community Publishers As a publication, we get sug- gestions and requests weekly for content coverage. We cannot always follow up on every idea sent our way, whether because we have already budgeted the space in the paper or because we have already committed resources elsewhere. But, sometimes, the suggestion is so heartfelt, timely and important that you just make space where other- wise there might not have been. is is how it went a few weeks ago when Tammy urman, commu- nity relations manager at Piedmont Natural Gas and vice chairwoman of the Greater Fayetteville Chamber, approached Up & Coming Weekly to cover Black History Month in a unique and important way. We met and discussed her vision. Some stories everyone knows explained urman. No matter their origins, some stories are told and retold every February, but there are more. Stories that go unnoticed but are equally important. As urman explained, stories are repeated every February, and the leaders who are spoken into the fabric of our community and society through those stories are hugely important. But the lesser told stories, shared on a smaller scale, are quietly told among people of color, and they deserve a louder voice and a broader audience. It is these stories urman hoped we, at Up & Coming Weekly, would help to amplify. is month we will be featuring a series on local Fayetteville Black history heroes. is week and for the next three consecutive weeks, we will feature the story of a Fay- etteville-connected Black folk hero. We will share an account from the past that marks the struggles and triumphs in the his- tory of our local Black community. is week we share the story of Isaac Ham- mond and the Fifer's Grave, shared with us in an interview with Charles Anderson Jr., a history lec- turer at Fayetteville State University (see page15). In the following weeks we will tell the stories of Robert R. Taylor, ar- chitect and educator; Mable C. Smith, local politician and fighter for the disenfran- chised; and Charles Waddell Chesnutt, political activist and author. We are reaching out to Black community members to help us tell these stories, both through their time via inter- views or through their writing. In addition to our local Black History Heroes from Fayette- ville's past, we will also be speaking with Black community members making a difference and impacting our Fayetteville commu- nity today. Look for our cover story next week on a local veteran art- ist mentioned on pages 12-13, this week, Damien Mathis. And in the issue hitting stands on Feb. 16, we will be profiling veteran business owner Joseph Dewberry. Join us on this journey while we share stories that may get over- looked in national headlines but are a vital part of the unique, diverse and storied Fayetteville communi- ty's Black History. Pick up our paper each week this February or click in via our website and social media to read about and hear these voices. ank you for reading Up & Com- ing Weekly. But there are more stories; Past, present, future by EMILY SUSSMAN EMILY SUSSMAN, Editor. COMMENTS? editor@upandcom- ingweekly.com. 910-484-6200.