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Community advocates see good, bad in state of black leadership
The heat has been on local African American elected officials – particularly those on the City Council and Forsyth County Board of Commissioners – this year. From the debate over the city’s selling of
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Barber: GOP lawmakers will be judged by God
Rev. Dr. William Barber II says North Carolina is on trial. “I come by here to say to all those that wield political power, you’re on trial; you face the judgement of God,” declared Barber,
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Column: Can We All Just Get Along?
I never considered the late Rodney King anything of a philosopher, but as one observes Washington shenanigans, especially around fiscal matters, it seems that Brother King had a point. Can we all just, maybe,
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Racial wealth gap triples
As long as most of us can remember, Black communities have taught and believed that a college education is the key to social and economic advancement. But according to a new research and policy
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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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New college offers personal touch
When Dr. Lucas Shallua and his wife, Dorothy Edward, started Mount Eagle College, they thought about how fortunate they were to have gone to college in their native Tanzania, a country in East Africa
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City issues call to employ vets
For Sgt. Kevin Riley, joining the U.S. Army seven years ago felt more like a calling than a career choice. “I was a mechanic before I joined the Army. I woke up on my
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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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