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Latonya Black, a former Greensboro resident who performed with the N.C. Black Repertory Co. in the 1980s, has taken her love for performance to the “left coast.” She is the founder and artistic director of the Los Angeles-based Revelation...

The Hallmark Channel movie “The Watsons Go To Birmingham” will premiere tonight, Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. The movie is adapted from the book “The Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963,” which earned author Christopher Paul Curtis the prestigious 1996 Newbery...

The New Winston Museum, 713 S. Marshall St., will host “Standing Up — The Rise of Local 22,” a discussion about the city’s landmark union, on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 5:30 p.m. In 1943, African American leaf workers initiated a sit-down strike at...

Chronicle Staff Report Discounted tickets are now on sale for the Dixie Classic Fair, which will be in Winston-Salem from Oct. 4–13. The second largest agricultural fair in the state, Dixie Classic Fair not only features dozens of...

Chronicle Staff Report A campaign this month aims to raise $10,000 to purchase much-needed instruments for the Carver High School band. Rudolph V. Boone Sr., a former Carver band director and retired music educator, is coordinating the campaign,...

Chronicle Staff Report Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind and its A Brighter Path Foundation will host their premier fundraising event, “After Dark,” on Saturday, Sept. 21 at 6:30 p.m. Now in its ninth year, “After Dark” will be held at...

The “American Idol” audition bus will roll through Winston-Salem on Monday, Aug. 26. A location was not announced before press time. Check www.americanidol.com for location, forms, rules and terms and conditions. The long running Fox talent...

The new Visit Winston-Salem African American Arts & Culture Guide made its debut at the recent National Black Theatre Festival. The 24-page, full-color publication is designed as a companion to Visit Winston-Salem’s Annual Visitor Guide and...

Butler to perform at Reynolds Auditorium Jerry Butler, music’s “The Ice Man,” will be inducted into The Hit Parade Hall of Fame on Saturday, Sept. 21 at 8 p.m. at Reynolds Memorial Auditorium, 301 Hawthorne Road. Butler and 70s chart-topping...

Winston-Salem native Fay Hauser-Price will screen two of her short films during the National Black Theatre Festival’s film festival. Hauser-Price is a veteran actress whose credits include “Roots: The Next Generation,” “The Young and The...

The Sawtooth School for Visual Art and Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts have joined in a new cooperative agreement that is designed to benefit their respective members and supporters. Delta Arts members are now able to register for Sawtooth classes...

Before the Ramones or the Sex Pistols, there was Death, a punk rock band comprised of three African American brothers from Detroit. Charlotte filmmaker Jeff Howlett chronicles the forgotten roots of punk rock music in the new documentary “A Band...

UNCG’s 2013-14 University Performing Arts Series is offering a celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou and a hip-hop competition for students punctuated by a performance by hip-hop artist MC Lyte. The series, managed by the UNCG School of Music, Theatre...

The Theatre Alliance is preparing to re-stage the award-winning musical “Avenue Q” from July 19–28. “Avenue Q” is a musical about the lively and off-the-wall characters on a downtown New York street trying to make sense of their lives. It...

Local artist Leo Rucker is getting a lot of exposure as of late. The Delta Arts Center is currently hosting an exhibit of some of his murals. Next month,  the Sawtooth School for Visual Art – in conjunction with the Arts Council of...

The Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem, 390 South Liberty St., has opened “Kaleidoscape,”  a crocheted, climbing art installation created by renowned Japanese textile artist Toshiko Horiuchi-MacAdam. The innovative art playscape has been...

A number of prominent black Republicans from North Carolina were on hand June 19 as U.S. House and Senate leaders helped to dedicate the Frederick Douglass monument in Emancipation Hall of the U. S. Capitol. The monument resides alongside those...

Dr. James Ewers, a native of  Winston-Salem, has donated several of his sports accolades to the Society for the Study of Afro-American History. Dr. Ewers was a top rated tennis player at Atkins High School and Johnson C. Smith University. Along...