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Book Review: My Own Words

September 25, 2020

Please and Thank You. Those were “The Magic Words” you learned at your knee, the ones that opened doors and gained favors. That was also when you learned something important, as you’ll see in “My Own Words” by Ruth Bader Ginsburg (with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams): letters, when properly collected, can move mountains. […]


The Fieldhouse to serve as early voting site, part of Hornets’ ‘Swarm The Polls’ Campaign

September 25, 2020

The Fieldhouse at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex, the home of the Greensboro Swarm basketball team, will serve as an early voting site for Guilford County residents for the upcoming 2020 elections as part of the organization’s “Swarm The Polls” campaign. The organization previously announced that Spectrum Center, the home of the Charlotte Hornets, will host […]


Voting for Our Lives Registration Drive

September 25, 2020

The Black and Brown Women’s GET OUT THE VOTE (GOTV) Initiative, in partnership with St. James Presbyterian Church and the Beloved Community Center, is hosting a Voting for Our Lives Voter Registration and Voter Information event on October 3, at Shiloh Baptist Church; 1210 S. Eugene Street; Greensboro, N.C. from noon to 3 p.m. Participants […]


Mount Zion Baptist donates $50K to aid Guilford Co. Schools

September 25, 2020

On Tuesday, Sept. 23, Mount Zion Baptist Church (located at1301 Alamance Church Road in Greensboro) donated $50,000 to The Guilford Education Alliance on September 23 for the purchase of much-needed devices for students. When schools closed in March due to COVID-19, GCS only had 16,000 devices available for 73,000 students and 10,000 teachers across the […]


Voters concerned Biden Campaign not doing enough to win N.C.

September 25, 2020

This week it was reported that a “Women for Trump” tour through North Carolina was kicking off, and Trump himself is visiting Charlotte today – his fifth N.C. trip in a month – and that was after the Republican president made a fly-in campaign stop at Fayetteville Airport last Saturday. Meanwhile, Joe Biden made his […]


Osaka wins U.S. Open

September 18, 2020

As Naomi Osaka lay on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court for 18 seconds after winning her second U.S. Open, staring into the sky, she recalled watching previous tennis greats do the same. “I’ve always wanted to see what they saw,” she said after rallying past Belarus’ Victoria Azarenka 1-6, 6-3, 6-3. So much else of […]


People of color needed for COVID-19 vaccine trials

September 18, 2020

As I write this article, 194,000 people have died from COVID-19 and this number grows each day. In the United States, we are losing 1,000 people per day. The numbers continuously show that we are far from controlling this highly contagious virus. The numbers are also a harbinger of the fact that in the U.S. […]


Civil Rights Icon Benjamin Chavis to Host Weekly Black Talk Show on PBS

September 18, 2020

WASHINGTON, DC – Civil rights icon Dr. Benjamin Chavis, former NAACP executive director and current president/CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), will become host of a weekly Black-oriented public affairs talk show on PBS (Public Broadcasting System) in October. As racial tensions and disparities have skyrocketed in almost every category of American life, […]


N.C. Civil Rights Attorney says: ‘Pay close attention to armed right-wing groups’

September 18, 2020

A top North Carolina civil rights attorney warns that the recent displays of high-powered weapons by angry Whites during demonstrations – even here in North Carolina – are a harbinger of deadly things to come, and African Americans should be paying very close attention. Atty. Irving Joyner, law professor at North Carolina Central University School […]


The State of the Election: Where’s Joe and Kamala?

September 18, 2020

On 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 […]


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