Moral Monday

Chants of “Forward together, not one step back” rang through downtown Winston-Salem Monday evening as the N.C. NAACP brought its Moral March to the Polls initiative to town. Hundreds assembled at Corpening Plaza to show their opposition to new...

City Shouldn’t be Nanny Later this month, the city will begin hosting a series of Friday evening activities at the Dixie Classic Fairgrounds designed to keep teenagers from becoming desultory this summer. Idle time is, indeed, the devil’s pal;...

Rev. Dr. William Barber, the architect and leader of the Moral Monday phenomenon, has said at the rallies, “This is not a moment. It is a movement.”   Over the past year, we have attended Moral Monday rallies throughout the state and that...

(pictured above: BOE members (from left) Fleming El-Amin and Ken Raymond listen as Stuart Russell speaks.) Citizens hoping to make their voices heard about the Forsyth County Board of Elections’ firing of its director, Rob Coffman, left the...

Remembering Mandela To the Editor: During my Bishop College days, I first heard of apartheid and the Free Nelson Mandela movement that was beginning to gain momentum. In 1981, during a chapel service, Rev. Jesse Jackson discussed the atrocities...

There is no rest for the weary as the N.C. NAACP reignites its Moral Monday movement to remind the Republican governor and GOP-controlled General Assembly that their brand of lawmaking is not only amoral but unholy. The protests – during which...

Art Pope’s indignation over NAACP-led pickets of his chain of discount stores is chuckle-worthy. The conservative firebrand has been a longtime ally of policies and initiatives designed to keep minorities and the poor powerless and voiceless –...

North Carolina has joined a national Republican initiative to engage African American voters. Though the state’s GOP African American Engagement Office has been up and running since September, it was formally opened in Charlotte on Oct. 21...

The weekly Moral Monday rally at the General Assembly saw a swelling in attendance this week, courtesy of the latest repressive law passed by Republican lawmakers. In what was the legislative equivalent of a quarterback sneak, Republicans pushed...

It’s ironic that racism – an evil that the majority on the U.S. Supreme Court seems to believe doesn’t exist – revealed its ugly head in several forms this past week, colliding with the High Court’s decision Tuesday to virtually kill the Voting...

The Twin City will host leaders from the NC NAACP and their partners next week as part of the Forward Together Movement Local Organizing Tour. Forsyth County will be 20th in the 25-stop tour, which was launched in Raleigh on Tuesday. “We want to...