Lawsuit seeks to allow unaffiliated voters to serve on State Election Board
August 12, 2022Fact – as of July 30, 2022, there are 2.5 million unaffiliated voters in North Carolina, more registered voters than Democrat or Republican. Fact – there are no members of the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) who are registered unaffiliated, and never have been. As is custom, whichever political party wins the governor’s […]
First Day of School at Allen Jay Prep.
August 11, 2022At Allen Jay Preparatory Academy in High Point, any jitters regarding the first day of school quickly disappeared with a resounding welcome performance for the students by the award-winning North Carolina A&T State University Cold Steel Drumline. One of three Guilford County Schools operating on an extended year calendar, Allen Jay Prep joins Brooks Global […]
National Night Out Cultivates Community
August 5, 2022Greensboro residents, neighborhood leaders and groups, public safety officials and elected officials took to the streets on August 2 for the city’s annual National Night Out. National Night Out (NNO), is a national crime and drug prevention event sponsored locally by the Greensboro Police Department (GPD). Through community gatherings, National Night Out seeks to enhance […]
N.C. Appellate Court ruling says ex-felons may vote in Nov. midterms
August 5, 2022It is the one court ruling North Carolina Republicans dreaded to hear. Approximately 56,000 ex-felons statewide are now, as of July 27th, eligible to register to vote, says the N.C. Court of Appeals and N.C. Board of Elections, starting with this November’s midterm elections. That means a 1973 law that essentially made ex-felons jump through […]
Museum Gala Salutes Civil Rights Stalwarts
July 29, 2022The International Civil Rights Center and Museum held its annual fundraising gala this week on Monday, July 25. The annual gala is typically held in February, highlighting the beginning of the F.W. Woolworth’s lunch-counter sit-ins launched by four N.C. A&T College freshmen: David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., (Jibreel Khazan) and Joseph McNeil in […]
Spearman’s NAACP lawsuit will continue after death says atty.
July 29, 2022By North Carolina law, the defamation portion of the late former N.C. NAACP Pres. Rev. Dr. T. Anthony Spearman’s lawsuit against National NAACP Pres./CEO Derrick Johnson and other NAACP members died with him last week when his lifeless body was discovered near a huge pool of blood in his Guilford County home, according to his […]
Former N.C. NAACP Pres. Spearman dies
July 21, 2022North Carolina, the AME Zion Church and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have lost an icon. Rev. Dr. Theodore Anthony Spearman has died. According to sources close to the family, Spearman was found dead inside his Guilford County home Tuesday evening. Spearman was the immediate past president of the N.C. NAACP. […]
Retired Greensboro Fire Department Chief Flowers passes
July 20, 2022Ray Kermit Flowers, son of the late James Vernel Flowers and Mattie Tillman Flowers, was born in Wadesboro, N.C. on March 25, 1939. He entered into eternal rest on July 16, 2022. Flowers graduated from Anson County Training School in 1957 where he excelled as a student, athlete, and class leader. He graduated from what […]
Carolyn Coleman Way dedicated
July 15, 2022Community leaders and elected officials joined scores of friends and family members of the late Guilford County Commissioner Carolyn Q. Coleman to herald her life of courageous civil rights advocacy and public service in dedicating a street in her name — Carolyn Coleman Way bisecting Martin Luther King Drive in Greensboro. At New Zion Missionary […]
Crucial N.C. Voting Rights case will come out of U.S. Supreme Court
July 8, 2022It is the N.C. case that has most legal experts across the nation shaking in their shoes about what damage this conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court will do next. The N.C. case is Moore v. Harper, and the question it raises is can state courts having anything to do with how disputes over federal elections are […]
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