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Ol’ Boys Boards
Combined, women and minorities have spending power in the many trillions. From a business standpoint, companies should be knocking one another over to cater to these groups, including by making sure women, blacks, browns
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“42” is America’s Story
“42” – cuarenta y dos in Spanish – is the story of Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball’s first black player. There are some significant changes in his beloved game that are also reflected –
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Save the Joel name
The city’s move to unload the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum and Bowman Gray Stadium makes good financial sense. The venues aren’t cash cows, and long gone are the days when local municipalities had
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Everyone making millions except college athletes
The recent Wall Street Journal editorial, “California’s Pay-to-Play Bill,” is another example of the hypocrisy that plagues college sports. The newspaper’s parent company, News Corps, is launching its new sports network Fox Sports 1
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Gay Rights Advocates Increasing
You can call it the “bandwagon effect,” or “political opportunism” or, the “wake-up-call effect,” or, less cynically, an old American tradition. Whatever you call it, in the last month it seems everybody and their
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Give Winston Lake Y members R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Curt Hazelbaker, the CEO of the YMCA of Northwest North Carolina, vowed that the Winston Lake Family Y would have a new executive director to fill the shoes of former ED Shawan Gabriel by
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Trayvon Martin: One Year Later
One year later, the Trayvon Martin tragedy still stings – and some people are still throwing salt on the open wound. Recently, George Zimmerman’s brother, Robert Zimmerman, posted a tweet comparing Trayvon Martin to
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All White Federal Courts
It’s 2013, not 1950, but someone forgot to tell our federal court system that. The N.C. NAACP is again voicing its concern about the lack of racial diversity on the U.S. District Court of
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Editorial: The AKAs Are Here
Downtown Winston-Salem is awash in pink and green. The ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. are in town for their 60th Annual Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference. The four day gathering, April 4-7, is expected
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Column: Can We All Just Get Along?
I never considered the late Rodney King anything of a philosopher, but as one observes Washington shenanigans, especially around fiscal matters, it seems that Brother King had a point. Can we all just, maybe,
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