October NAACP Meeting
October 2, 2020The October 2020 General Monthly Meeting of the NAACP Greensboro Branch is scheduled online for 5 p.m., October 11. Branch Secretary Janice Spearman will send via email the meeting’s online access information on Saturday, October 10. To receive meeting information, contact her at spearman@yahoo.com or call the branch office, (336) 273-1222.
Disaster Debate: Trump to White Supremacists – “Stand By”
October 2, 2020For the second time in his presidency Donald Trump, when offered the opportunity, declined to denounce White supremacists. Instead, during Tuesday night’s fiery and stunning presidential debate with Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump, when asked by beleaguered moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News, to condemn “White supremacists and militia groups” and tell […]
Gov. Cooper says, if metrics remain stable, he might ease more restrictions
September 25, 2020RALEIGH – Outdoor stadiums and venues with a seating capacity of more than 10,000 will be able to allow some fans back in early October if North Carolina’s COVID-19 trends and metrics remain stable or improve over the next 10 days. Gov. Roy Cooper made the announcement on Tuesday during a briefing with reporters so […]
Book Review: My Own Words
September 25, 2020Please 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, 2020The 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, 2020The 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, 2020On 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, 2020This 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, 2020As 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, 2020As 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. […]
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