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Easter sunrise service celebrates 60th anniversary

    Easter sunrise service celebrates 60th anniversary

Photo by Timothy Ramsey BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY  THE CHRONICLE The first Easter Service Committee was organized with only three members – Velma Hopkins, Jerry C. Gilmore Jr. and Frances S.

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Union leaders recalled as trailblazers

    Union leaders recalled as trailblazers

A permanent tribute to workers whose strike led to the formation of a landmark union now stands at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Fourth Street. A

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Marker to immortalize Reynolds union

    Marker to immortalize Reynolds union

Twenty years before the now-famous March on Washington, workers in Winston-Salem were fighting for their rights through Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations

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Voters of all political persuasions celebrate on election night

    Voters of all political persuasions celebrate on election night

The crowd leapt to its feet at the Millennium Center Tuesday night when Elisabeth Motsinger took to the stage. Motsinger, a Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board member, lost her bid to

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