Personal stories highlight YWCA initiative (pictured above: Gateway YWCA Board Member LaShonda Hairston speaks on the history of the Historic Oak Grove School.) The Gateway YWCA took its annual Stand Against Racism
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City leaders paid homage to a piece of local history Tuesday, with the unveiling of a commemorative plaque in historic City Hall. The plaque, which adorns the wall just outside
Local rally recalls historic March on Washington Lenoir native Louise Lash’s grandmother worked as a maid but was not allowed to enter the front door at the home of the
This ‘n’ That By Ernie Pitt I really and honestly thought that on that steamy hot afternoon at the Washington Monument in August of 1963 that I had seen the
African Americans have spent much of our history fighting for equal treatment. Just two generations ago, our parents and our
Twenty years before the now-famous March on Washington, workers in Winston-Salem were fighting for their rights through Local 22 of
