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Organization of the Year: Black Philanthropy Initiative
Organization of the Year Historically, African Americans have always opened their hearts, homes and wallets to help friends, family members and even complete strangers. The Black Philanthropy Initiative of the Winston-Salem Foundation has taken
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Community Service Award Honoree: Phyllis Walker
Community Service Award Honoree If you’re not registered to vote, Phyllis Walker will find you. Phyllis has long been a one-woman voter-registering powerhouse, visiting high schools, churches, jails and even shopping centers on Black
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Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree: Nathaniel Barber
Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree Give Nathaniel Barber a committed faculty and students eager to excel, and he will produce glowing results. Before his retirement last year, he had logged nearly 40-years in education. Over
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Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree: Clementine Shaw
Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree Members of the clergy aren’t the only ones called to their profession. With a heart of gold and an innate instinct for helping others, Clementine Shaw was destined to become
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Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree: Walteria Spaulding
Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree A song has always been in the heart of Walteria Mack Spaulding. At age seven, under the tutelage of some of the city’s most acclaimed musicians, she began mastering the
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Plethora of community servants to be honored
Nineteen plaques will be handed out Saturday, March 23 at The Chronicle’s 28th Annual Community Service Gala. Accepting them will be well-deserving local men and women whose contributions have created a better city, state,
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Parmon: current session is the worst
Local Democratic members of the General Assembly frustrated by GOP’s moves With the election of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, the North Carolina Legislature became a supermajority, with Republicans controlling the House, Senate and the
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Not Quittin’ on The Dream
Hope, the pillar on which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. built many a sermon, was a recurring theme Monday morning at the prayer breakfast The Chronicle has held each MLK Day for the past
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Good Gospel Comes to the Fair
The Chronicle Dixie Classic Fair Gospel Fest Chronicle Staff Report Beautiful weather and pitch-perfect music helped attract a healthy-sized crowd to the Dixie Classic Fair Clock Tower Sunday for The Chronicle’s first 2012 Gospel
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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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