Ghana

WSSU alumna receives royal title from dad’s African tribe Winston-Salem State University students heard from one of their very own about how she became a queen. Nuekie Aku Opata, a 1998 WSSU alumna, returned to campus Thursday, Nov. 13 to detail...

Kybele, Inc., a Winston-Salem based humanitarian organization that supports medical education in developing countries, will be hosting a documentary film event on Friday, Aug. 15 from 6 – 10:30 p.m. at the Old Salem Visitors Center, 900 Old...

(pictured above: Dr. Avinash Shetty speaks about HIV/AIDS.) International health challenges and possible solutions to them were the focus of the Fourth Annual Global Health Symposium at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. The WFU...

Local group of volunteers on service trip to Ghana (pictured above: Travellers (front row, from left) Beth Frack, Bray Barto, Jozy Unal, Jordan Shegog, Cashlyn Lovell, (back row) Parker Lovell, Shannon Barto, Don Shegog, Daniel Shegog, Chris...

Human Relations Award Honoree In underdeveloped countries, child birth can be a life-threatening ordeal for mother and child. Dr. Medge D. Owen doesn’t think it should be that way, so she is on a lifesaving mission. A professor at Wake...

Were we the only ones expecting someone black or brown to walk out last week after white smoke went up over the Vatican? Sure, the election of Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a big leap for the Catholic Church. For hundreds of years, the...

Local black Catholics are looking to the future with new hope after the selection of the first-ever Latin American pope. Argentina’s Jorge Bergoglio, 76, was elected by his fellow cardinals as the 266th pope last week at The Vatican. He chose...

If the Dreamland Park community is a food desert, then Attorney S. Wayne Patterson and his wife Tamica want their Attucks Street shop to be an oasis. The couple’s Rebecca’s Store Grocery & More is the first local participant in the Healthy...

Parkland students helping kids in Ghana Children in the tiny village of Nsumesama, Ghana will soon be heading to school in style, thanks to the efforts of 17-year-old Ginaya Meyer. Meyer, a senior at Parkland Magnet High School, is leading an...

In 1962, a Ghana native named Ed Reynolds became the first black full-time undergraduate student to attend Wake Forest University. On Friday, Sept. 21, Reynolds will come back to campus to mark the 50th anniversary of integration as part ...

After 20 years at the helm of Goler Memorial AME Zion Church, Dr. Seth Lartey is assuming a new title and embarking on a new chapter in his life. Lartey, a native of Monrovia, Liberia, will soon be making a triumphant homecoming to the Mother...