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CNN’s Lack of Diversity Starting to Show
CNN is still a laughing stock. The network’s botched coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings has been golden fodder for late night talk show hosts and the network’s competitors. Even President Obama took a
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Center: Boost in minimum wage would help North Carolinians
A new report from the North Carolina Justice Center finds that raising the minimum wage would have “far-reaching impacts on North Carolina’s working families and the economy as a whole.” President Obama has proposed
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Tuition disparity an obstacle for Hispanic students
Winston-Salem resident Juan Ortega has called North Carolina home since he was a kindergartner, but in the eyes of the state, he’s no North Carolinian. Ortega, who is pursuing his associate’s degree in science,
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Special Recognition Award Honoree: Hispanic American Democrats of Forsyth
Special Recognition Award Honoree Months before Hispanic voters helped to give victories to President Obama and others, the Hispanic American Democrats of Forsyth County was already celebrating a number of successes of its own.
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GOP leader questions president’s faith, agenda
Felice Pete, president of the Wake County Republican Women, told local residents that she’s long taken heat for being black and Republican. She “came out” as a Republican when she was an undergrad at
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Black Leader’s Wish List
During the first week of President Obama’s second term, I joined a coalition of civil rights leaders in Washington, D.C. to call for immediate action on the urban jobs crisis and a host of
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Hands off Malia and Sasha!
Just when you think leaders of the National Rifle Association can’t stoop any lower, they keep managing to plunge even deeper. This time, they have strayed way over the line of respectability by
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A&T grads to hear from Langford
Debra Langford, a longtime executive in the media and entertainment industry, will deliver North Carolina A&T State University’s Fall Commencement address. More than 700 Aggies will graduate at the Greensboro Coliseum at 8:30 a.m.
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Letters to the Editor
Religious leaders hypocritical for opposing Obama To the Editor: The opposition that President Obama has received from some religious leaders and the support that Mitt Romney has received from many in this same group solely
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Editorial: Criticism of President still taboo
WS Chronicle March 28, 2013 0The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been called a pastor’s pastor, a preaching master who’s like the opposite of March: comes in like a lamb and goes out like a lion. But not even his
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