racism

Why should we continue to celebrate Black History Month? (pictured above: Oscar Micheaux, first black movie director who produced “Up From Slavery” in 1919.) King Adinkera of the Akan people of West Africa declared, “Se wo were fi na...

(pictured above: Dr. Vincent Harding in conversation last week.) Wake Forest University invited author and civil rights legend Dr. Vincent Harding to campus last week to share pearls of wisdom from his days as a foot soldier in the Civil Rights...

The trial of the killer of yet another black teenager in Florida has again awakened a national conversation about race and the criminal justice system. Following a verbal altercation over loud music on Nov. 23, 2012, Michael Dunn, a 47-year-old...

(pictured above: Head Coach Anita Howard (front row, second from right) and Salem faculty members pose with the Salem College basketball team at the Benton Convention Center Monday. Twenty-year-old Whitney Campbell is too young to remember the...

“Paul Robeson” by Phillip Hayes Dean is coming to the Hanesbrands Theatre, 209 North Spruce St., later this month. Presented by Winston-Salem-based United in Music, the production chronicles the life of the iconic Paul Robeson, a child of New...

(pictured above: Keith Howard speaks as fellow panelists (from left) Rodney Stilwell, Wrenwyck Williams and Greg Davis listen.) Panel leads candid conversation More than 100 local residents – both black and white – attended a candid discussion...

Several Wake Forest University professors have contributed to a new text book, “Trauma and Resilience in American Indian and African American Southern History.” Released in April by Peter Lang Publishing, the book is edited by Ethnic Study...

We admire the work of the Institute for Dismantling Racism, but were taken aback by co-founder and executive director Willard Bass’ contention that hurling vitriolic words like “nigger” do not rise to the level of true racism – not the kind, at...

Was anyone shocked by last week’s Reuters/Ipsos’ poll that found that about 40 percent of white Americans have no non-white friends? Although America’s demographics are changing, it is still a place where whites, especially those with money and...

Triad residents Ron Jones and Andy Schlosberg are using their comedic talents to tackle a societal issue that is anything but funny – prejudice. Jones, an Emmy winning actor and Winston-Salem resident, began his journey with “The Black Jew...

The Theatre Alliance is preparing to re-stage the award-winning musical “Avenue Q” from July 19–28. “Avenue Q” is a musical about the lively and off-the-wall characters on a downtown New York street trying to make sense of their lives. It...

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...

In Winston-Salem, like in countless cities across the South during the Jim Crow era, black students fought against the odds to get a sound education. Educators of the 1960s and earlier were forced to use creativity and pure determination to...

NAACP tour aims to recruit more warriors for justice The spirit of protest was alive and well when the N.C. NAACP’s Forward Together tour rolled through Winston-Salem last Thursday. Dozens gathered in the sanctuary of Shiloh Baptist Church to...

Sandra Daye Hughes, a pioneering journalist and community advocate, will receive the 2013 Brotherhood/Sisterhood Citation Award from the National Conference for Community and Justice of the Piedmont Triad on Thursday, Nov. 7. “We are thrilled to...

The Gateway YWCA took a stand against bigotry Friday, joining YW branches across the country. This was the first year the local branch has taken part in the national “Stand Against Racism” campaign, which was created by two New Jersey YW...

Three Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center officials joined representatives of 48 other health care systems recently in Washington, D.C., to explore new ways of improving health and health care in vulnerable communities across the country. The...

North Carolina NAACP President Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II recently received two awards acknowledging his work to help re-build the freedom movement in the South. Barber received “The Grio.com’s 100 Making History Today” honor, a national...