Former Spartans Dickey and Baldwin team up for The Basketball Tournament
July 10, 2020James Dickey, III and Diante Baldwin are playing for Team CP3 in The Basketball Tournament, with NBA All-Star Chris Paul as the team’s general manager. While he will not be playing, Kyle Hines is serving as a general manager for Team Hines. The Basketball Tournament (TBT) is a $1 million, winner-take-all summer basketball event televised […]
On Netflix: Da 5 Bloods
July 10, 2020Da 5 Bloods has the potential to be a timely, thoughtful allegory. They fought together in Vietnam decades ago. Now they’re headed back to Nam to retrieve the body of their fallen commanding officer (Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther) and hunt for a pile of gold. The vets share a brotherly love: Paul (Delroy Lindo, Malcolm […]
N.C.’s COVID-19 Cases, Deaths Climb
July 10, 2020As of Monday, July 6th, according to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, North Carolina logged 74,529 cases of COVID-19 statewide, 24 percent of which were Black (or African American); and 1,398 deaths, 33 percent of which are Black. The total cases logged Monday were 1,546 more than were counted the day before; […]
Guilford County Board of Elections approves early-voting plan
July 9, 2020With early voting for the 2020 Elections slated to start in the next few months, Guilford County Board of Elections officials met on July 7 to discuss how that might look amid COVID-19 concerns. The main issue of concern was varying location sizes and how to comply with social distancing guidelines, in particular, at small […]
Uncertainty in Uncertain Times
July 3, 2020We are facing “uncertainty in uncertain times.” The wise person who said this phrase may not have known how accurate these words are for so many people. It can sound odd until broken into its parts. Let’s begin with the uncertain times. There is COVID-19, closed schools, closed businesses, masks, protests, police actions garnering national […]
Cam Newton heads to New England
July 3, 2020Free-agent quarterback Cam Newton has signed a one-year, “incentive-laden” deal with the New England Patriots. The contract is worth up to $7.5 million. Discussions between Newton and the Patriots were quietly “in the works,” according to Rapoport. With the signing, New England now has three quarterbacks who will compete to replace former Patriot Tom Brady: […]
Two years and waiting: Family still seeks answers in loved one’s jail death
July 2, 2020Time can’t heal the hurt that emitted from the podium as Rochelle Thomas-Boyd spoke to a crowd of roughly 40 to 50 people in front of the Guilford County Detention Center that gathered to honor her oldest child, Tasharra “Tasha” Lachelle Thomas. “It was like nobody cared. She got 2:12 seconds of news time,” Thomas-Boyd […]
New Film: Let the People Decide
July 1, 2020Kicking off our Toward Freedom, President’s Series, NC NAACP is pleased to host a FREE screening of the award winning film, “Let the People Decide.” Register free, to access link to screen the eye-opening documentary, “Let the People Decide” now, and get your zoom link to join our panel discussion with NC NAACP President, voting […]
N.C. A&T names Will Jones as head coach
July 1, 2020Willie (prefers Will) Jones has been named North Carolina A&T’s head men’s basketball coach as announced by Director of Athletics Earl M. Hilton III. Jones will be the Aggies’ 11th head men’s basketball coach of the NCAA modern era that started in 1952. A press conference to introduce Jones was held at 11 a.m., Tuesday, […]
Racism is a public health issue
June 25, 2020It harkens my soul as I see finally that society is coming to grips with the well-known fact that racism is a factor in the health of people of color. It is as if forbidden words are now being acknowledged. Now, what is society’s next plan of action? The American Academy of Family Medicine (AAFP) […]
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