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Bakers, volunteers needed for Juneteenth Festival
Plans are underway for the Ninth Annual Triad Juneteenth Africana Festival, which will be held Saturday, June 15 at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum Annex from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Triad Cultural
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FCDS’s Allen tells students about witnessing history
Forsyth County Day School eighth graders took a trip to Greensboro on April 26 to visit the International Civil Rights Center & Museum. John Allen, the school’s student outreach coordinator and girls’ basketball coach,
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100 years later
Winston-Salem is holding a big birthday party this weekend. It was 100 years ago that the towns of Winston and Salem merged, added a dash and became the city we call home. A lot
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Author to discuss landmark work at Winston-Salem State
Dr. Trevor Getz, author of the critically acclaimed “Abina and the Important Men,” will speak at Winston-Salem State University on Thursday, April 4 at 6 p.m. in room 207C of the Thompson Student Services
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Group to perform at gallery
The Mami Wata Cultural Arts Collective will perform at Delta Arts Center, 2611 New Walkertown Road, on Saturday, March 2 at 11 a.m. as part of a series of events designed to spotlight the
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Guns, not the Klan, are the real threat
Chicago suffers unbearable levels of gun violence, yet the victims remain largely silent. They travel from funeral home to graveyard, rather than march from church to gun shop. The president is applauded when he
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Students travel back in time at gallery
Eleven year-old Duwaun Cowen came face-to-face with history last Thursday morning at the Delta Arts Center. Duwaun and a handful of his Moore Elementary School fifth grade classmates were selected to be a part
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Gathering to explore church’s role in promoting healthy eating
“Food, Faith, and Justice: A Common Calling,” a conference that will explore the role that churches and faith communities have in promoting wellness through improving access to healthy food, will be held next month.
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Civil Rights icon says practice ‘aggressive patience’
Hollis Watkins has been fighting for freedom for more than five decades. Watkins, the youngest of 12 children born to sharecroppers in Lincoln, Miss., became the first student from his state to join the
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Students Salute Veterans
The student body of Old Richmond Elementary School in Tobaccoville became a flag waving chorus on Friday during a special Veterans Day program. For over a decade, the school has saluted the men
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