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The Party Begins
’13 NBTF to offer wide range of choices and lots of starpower Nearly 40 theater companies from cities across the United States, Canada and the Caribbean will converge on Winston-Salem later this summer. Over the
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Against the Odds
Employees who have overcome challenges feted by agency Monarch honored nearly 100 of its clients last Thursday for excelling in the workforce despite their physical or mental disabilities. Monarch, which provides support statewide to
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Johnson: Social capital could change fortunes of the poor
Building social capital – or community connections and friendships across lines of race, class and neighborhood boundaries – is especially essential for those who are economically marginalized. Dr. James Johnson, the William R. Kenan
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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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Controversial author/researcher gives her take on conquering poverty
Dr. Ruby Payne, author of “Bridges out of Poverty,” led a three-hour workshop last week, schooling a group of more than 150 social service and non-profit officials on ways that they can help their
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Under the Big Top Unique project allows students to discuss bias
During tent-covered outdoor sessions last week, students at Mount Tabor High School explored the complexities of racial diversity, cultural differences and the stereotypes associated with them. Wake Forest University Art Professor David Finn said
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