The State of the Election: Where’s Joe and Kamala?
September 18, 2020On Monday, Ivanka Trump, daughter and special adviser to Pres. Donald Trump, held a so-called campaign “fireside chat” in Wilmington, talking about what she saw as her father’s accomplishments during the course of his almost four years in office. It was her second North Carolina event in recent weeks. This coming Saturday, the president is […]
Volunteers distribute produce to families in need
September 11, 2020The Greensboro Alumnae Delta Cultural Center Inc. (GADCEC) is distributing free boxes of fresh produce in the Southern and Eastern areas of Greensboro designated as food deserts and where the most cases of the novel Coronavirus exist. Under a $47,500 grant from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) administered through Guilford County, […]
Book Review: A Most Beautiful Thing
September 10, 2020Either, or. The choice is yours: do you pick one thing, or take the other? Stay where you are, or reach for better? This or that, any way, you always have to decide: do you take either, or… as in “A Most Beautiful Thing” by Arshay Cooper, do you take the oar? Growing up Chicago’s […]
A&T’s Hilton named AD of the Year
September 10, 2020North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCA&T) Intercollegiate Athletics Director Earl M. Hilton III has been named an Under Armour Athletics Director (AD) of the Year for NCAA FCS institutions, the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. He becomes the second MEAC AD to be honored in the past two years. N.C. Central’s […]
Community remembers Marcus Smith and demands police accountability
September 10, 2020On Tuesday night, two years to the day Marcus Smith had his life taken, his parents, George and Mary Smith, stood in front of hundreds of people at the Phill G. McDonald Plaza and recounted the story of their son’s death at the hands of Greensboro Police. “Since that day, I’ve been in a mental […]
Voter Registration Drive
September 4, 2020The Saint James Presbyterian Church’s Social Justice Advocacy Ministry, in partnership with the League of Women Voters of the Piedmont Triad, will sponsor a Voter Registration event on Saturday, September 12, from 3 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. at the church, located at 820 Ross Avenue in Greensboro. The event is open to both unregistered and […]
COVID-19 Testing at St. Matthews UMC
September 4, 2020Free COVID-19 Testing Site – Wednesday, September 9, 2020, 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Where: St. Matthews United Methodist Church, located at 600 East Florida Street; Greensboro, N.C. 27406. Site will be open from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. No appointment is necessary. Please bring proper identification and insurance information, if possible. The site will […]
Women to lead CIAA
September 4, 2020CHARLOTTE – The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) and their Sports Information Directors Association (SIDA) recently conducted its biennial election of officers, which produced historic results. Jolisa Williams of Shaw University and Romanda Noble-Watson of Claflin University were re-elected as president and secretary, respectively, while Oralia Washington of Johnson C. Smith University was voted in […]
Early Voting is October 15 – October 31
September 4, 2020Sites will be open 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on October 31. Volunteers can visit the website at www.guilfordnc.gov to apply to be poll workers. IMPORTANT VOTING DATES: September 4: N.C. begins mailing out absentee ballots to those who request […]
2020 March on Washington
September 4, 2020WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the 57th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, tens of thousands of people gathered again at the Lincoln Memorial to protest the continued killings of African American women, children and men by law enforcement, vigilantes and others. The march, convened by The Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network […]
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