Bill will prohibit renaming Fayetteville State
April 8, 2021North Carolina’s pervasive legacy of slavery and racial injustice has spurred the renaming of many buildings and locations across the state once named after slave-owners and White supremacists. Buildings, streets and other venues are now being renamed across the state to bury that inauspicious past. But for years, there have been discussions about renaming HBCU […]
Leaders brace for new GOP voter suppression efforts
April 1, 2021Last week, one day after Georgia Republican lawmakers passed what many critics call sweeping voter suppression legislation designed to restrain the Black vote, Dr. William Barber, president of Repairers of the Breach, tweeted, “Voter Suppression is always a racist tactic with an economic goal. Those who attack voting rights fear poor and low-wealth Americans – […]
Pandemic Observations: A Year Later
April 1, 2021No one escaped the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past year, the Coronavirus has dominated discussions, affected our politics and restricted our social interactions. While coping with the palpable fears and harrowing realities, communities had to find, discover and reinvent ways to adjust and thrive as best as possible. The mounting, shocking deaths […]
Literacy tests for Blacks still in N.C. Constitution
March 25, 2021As you read this, if you’re an African American voter in the state of North Carolina, the state’s Constitution requires you to take a literacy test before you cast your next ballot. Don’t worry, federal law has long rendered this “requirement” null and void in North Carolina law, so don’t expect anyone in or out […]
Frederick Cox autopsy report shows he was shot in the back
March 18, 2021HIGH POINT — A long anticipated state medical officer’s autopsy report on the gunshot death of 18-year-old Frederick Cox Jr. by an undercover sheriff’s deputy at a High Point funeral last November only intensified community anger and raised questions about the delay in a public response by the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and other […]
Cone Health has COVID-19 vaccine appointments available
March 18, 2021As more people are becoming eligible under state guidelines, Cone Health urges them to schedule their COVID-19 vaccination. Appointments available in Burlington, Greensboro and Reidsville. Individuals who have a medical condition that puts them at higher risk of serious illness from COVID-19 can be vaccinated against COVID-19. This can be done through Cone Health at […]
A&T student wows judges on The Voice
March 18, 2021When Victor Solomon was in middle school, he won his eighth-grade talent show by singing John Legend’s “Ordinary People.” But he never could have guessed that just a few years later he’d be singing one of Legend’s songs in front of the celebrity musician on one of the most-watched TV shows on the air today. […]
Adams Remembers “Bloody Sunday” and Honors the Late John Lewis
March 11, 2021WASHINGTON, D.C. – Monday night, Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) honored the late Congressman and modern-day founding father, John Lewis, on the floor of the United States House of Representatives during a caporder hour commemorating the “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma, Alabama 56 years ago. Adams joined other members of the Congressional Black Caucus for the […]
Senate and House Pass $1.9 Trillion American Rescue Plan
March 11, 2021WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Joe Biden promised help was on the way to an America still battered by COVID-19, and after a marathon session of debate known as vote-a-rama and some dissension in the Democratic ranks – particularly Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia—the U.S. Senate finally passed the president’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan […]
UNC Greensboro’s Ali bestowed high honor by French government
March 11, 2021In March, Dr. Omar Ali was named Knight in the Order of the Academic Palms (Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques) by the French government. Ali serves as dean of Lloyd International Honors College and professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) at UNC Greensboro. Dating to 1808, L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques was […]
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