Community comes together in tornado aftermath
April 19, 2018“We’re just trying to take care of people,” said Millicent Lee of New Light Missionary Baptist Church. “There are a lot of people without power, especially our senior citizens that need emergency assistance.” New Light was just one of many area churches, organizations and residents that rallied around east Greensboro families and residents devastated by […]
Public school students displaced following tornado
April 19, 2018Students from three Triad schools will be relocating due to extensive storm damage at those schools following an EF-2 tornado that ripped through parts of East Greensboro Sunday afternoon. Guilford County Schools Board of Education voted unanimously to move Hampton, Peeler and Erwin Elementary schools to different sites through the end of the 2017-2018 school […]
Dixon Takes the Helm at ECSU
April 13, 2018ELIZABETH CITY – Dr. Karrie Dixon is now serving as Elizabeth City State University’s new interim chancellor. She was appointed interim chancellor by University of North Carolina System President, Margaret Spellings. The appointment was made after Chancellor Thomas E.H. Conway, Jr. announced his retirement last February. Conway will remain at ECSU in an advisorsy capacity […]
Ahautenco on My Mind
April 12, 2018Yaseline Muñoz was born in the U.S. but separated from her Mexican parents because they did not have legal documents. She is currently completing a B.S. in Entrepreneurship at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and works over 40 hours a week while being a full-time student. She founded Mi Placita Latinx Coalition, a […]
Brown Summit Alumni Remember Rosenwald Schools
April 5, 2018BROWN SUMMIT – On Thursday, March 29, the Brown Summit High School Alumni and Friends Association memorialized the impact of the Rosenwald Schools in their own community with a state historical marker and ceremony held at Brown Summit Middle School. Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute (today Tuskegee University) and Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist and […]
Adams wins for HBCUs in 2018 Omnibus Budget
March 30, 2018Who says there’s nothing but bad news coming out of our nation’s capital? Despite her usual blunt and frank assessment of what she routinely sees as the “negative” policies of the Republican majority in Congress, and President Donald Trump in particular, Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC-12) had little to complain about last week. Beyond announcing Sunday […]
Moore encourages STEM students by sharing mother’s inspiring story
March 23, 2018Greensboro resident Katherine Johnson Moore, the youngest daughter of distinguished NASA mathematician Katherine G. Johnson, recently visited students at Western Guilford Middle School. Katherine G. Johnson is the inspiration for the best-selling book and movie, “Hidden Figures, The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race,” by […]
Students ‘walkout’ for gun safety
March 16, 2018Nearly 200 Grimsley High School students participated in a walkout on the morning of March 14. One month to the day of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla., thousands of schools across the U.S. participated in a nationwide school walkout. Students gathered for 17 minutes, in remembrance of the 17 students […]
Civil Rights Museum faces threats after paying back city debt
March 9, 2018The International Civil Rights Center and Museum (ICRCM) has officially paid back its debt to the city. On all accounts that is terrific news. On Thursday, March 1, the City of Greensboro sent a letter to the museum informing its board and management that the city had forgiven a $1.5 million loan made over a […]
Henrietta Raven Dial-Stanley Crowned Miss Indian North Carolina 2018-2019
March 8, 2018On February 24, 2018, Henrietta Raven Dial-Stanley was crowned Miss Indian North Carolina 2018-2019 at the Miss Indian NC Scholarship pageant held at UNC Pembroke. She is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Raven is the 19-year-old daughter of Steve Stanley and Nora Dial-Stanley of Kernersville and the granddaughter of the […]
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