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Baptist launches new community health program
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 meeting
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Whitfield is NCCU’s graduation speaker
Fredricka Whitfield, a news anchor and correspondent for CNN, will deliver the address at the 121st Commencement exercises for North Carolina Central University on Saturday, May 11. The ceremony will begin at 8 a.m.
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Old Salem plans day trip
Old Salem Museums & Gardens is offering a trip to the North Carolina Museum of History on Saturday, May 18 to view the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation that is dated Sept. 22, 1862 and signed
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Rogers leaving Wake Forest for the White House
The White House announced on Wednesday, March 13, that President Barack Obama has named Melissa Rogers Director of the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. In her new role, she will act as the
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Documentary to look at challenges of inner-city school
The documentary “180 Days: A Year Inside An American High School” will be shown on PBS in two parts on March 25-26 from 9-11 p.m. Watch Preview on PBS. See more from 180 Days. The
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Sullivan to keynote WSSU conference
Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and former president of Morehouse School of Medicine, will be the keynote speaker at a Thursday, April 18 research
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Voting Rights Act under attack
Shelby County, Ala. is suing the Justice Department because they think that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (and its reauthorization in 1982 and 2006) is unfair. The facts: The small
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Black Leader’s Wish List
During the first week of President Obama’s second term, I joined a coalition of civil rights leaders in Washington, D.C. to call for immediate action on the urban jobs crisis and a host of
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Little to discuss post WWII racism at Davidson College
Winston-Salem State University professor Larry Little will speak at Davidson College on Monday, Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. in the Brown Atrium of the Alvarez College Union. His address is free and open to
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D.C.-based office supply operation has local links
Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind (WSIFB) opened its 18th Base Supply Center (BSC) at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 9. The AbilityOne Base Supply Center store, operated
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