Mel Watt

(pictured above: Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind’s Stephanie Davis shows U.S. Rep. Alma Adams around IFB’s facility.) U.S. Rep. Alma Adams, the newest member of the U.S. House of Representatives, recently made her first official tour of...

Who is standing for Randall Lindsay? Americans didn’t bother to vote in the recent General Elections, and pollsters and analysts are postulating as to why. We have our own theory – Randall Lindsay. He’s the 54-year-old disabled man whose story...

(pictured above:  Candidates (from left) State Rep. Marcus Brandon, Curtis Osborne, State Rep. Alma Adams, State Sen. Malcolm Graham, Ravjive Patel and George Battle.) A standing room only crowd heard from Democratic candidates running for the...

(pictured above:  Sen. Malcolm Graham speaks with supporters at his side.) Congressional hopeful Sen. Malcolm Graham won the support of a local heavyweight in his bid for the 12th District seat. Mayor Allen Joines officially announced his...

(pictured above: Delmas Parker tout’s W.E.B. DuBois’ “The Souls of Black Folk.”) Political hopefuls addressed members of the Forsyth County Senior Democrats on Wednesday, Feb. 5 during the group’s regular monthly breakfast meeting at the Golden...

MLK Day We are celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday. In recent years, there has been a strong push to make the annual MLK Day holiday a call to social action. Americans have been urged to use their day off from...

(pictured above: Vice President Joe Biden prepares to swear-in Mel Watt last week as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.) Some of those seeking to succeed Mel Watt in Congress are panning Gov. Pat McCrory’s decision to leave Watt’s 12th...

Mel Watt is sworn in Monday in Washington, D.C. as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency by Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx as his wife, Eulada, holds the Bible. Foxx is the former mayor of Charlotte, and Watt, a resident of the Queen...

State Rep. Alma Adams has earned the endorsement of the N.C. Association of Educators. Adams, a veteran elected official who has represented Guilford County in the N.C. House for more than a decade, is one of several Democrats vying to win the...

On Nov. 4, 2008, many Americans shared, for the first time, an unbelievable calm, pride, and, yes, hope in our country. For a moment, we dared to believe that a “colored” man born of a white American mother and black African father and raised by...

Over the last eight years, U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx has slaughtered a slew of Democrats who have challenged her for her Fifth District seat. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board Member Elisabeth Motsinger is the latest Democrat standing...