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MomsRising turns mothers into advocates

    MomsRising turns mothers into advocates

BY TODD LUCK  THE CHRONICLE Online organizing that’s turned many busy mothers into advocates is taking local involvement to a new level as MomsRising held its first Winston-Salem chapter meeting.

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Pay attention to domestic violence

    Pay attention to domestic violence

Laura Finley Guest Columnist October was Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Dwarfed by the enormous outpouring for breast cancer awareness month, it receives attention largely from survivors, advocates and activists. But

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Advocates vow to win justice for Kalvin Michael Smith

    Advocates vow to win justice for Kalvin Michael Smith

(pictured above:  August Dark, Kalvin Michael Smith’s father, speaks to supporters at Lloyd Presbyterian Church.) For Darryl Hunt, Sept. 11 was a day of infamy long before 2001. On that

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IDs aren’t required, but voters will see changes

    IDs aren’t required, but voters will see changes

With the May 6 primary election quickly approaching, voting rights advocates and candidates alike are scrambling to make sure that voters are empowered – and inspired – to hit the

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Editorial: Bond Referendums & Skewed Voting

    Editorial: Bond Referendums & Skewed Voting

Bond Referendum We are pleased and surprised that talk of a bond referendum has not relegated the city’s more urban

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Advocates prepare to appeal to lawmakers on behalf of older North Carolinians 

    Advocates prepare to appeal to lawmakers on behalf of older North Carolinians 

Dr. Althea Taylor-Jones joined other AARP advocates from Feb. 18-19 as they prepared to speak to state lawmakers about the

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Authoring Action’s annual Retrospective coming to SECCA

    Authoring Action’s annual  Retrospective coming to SECCA

(pictured above:  Authoring Action co-founder Nathan Ross Freeman poses with some of the program’s young participants in 2012.) The teen

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Overflow shelters open

    Overflow shelters open

(above: Sonjia Kurosky stands outside Samaritan Ministries.) Across the city, service providers are amping up their efforts to accommodate the homeless

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A murder transforms woman into criminal justice reformer

    A murder transforms woman into criminal justice reformer

It was a 2 a.m. phone call in 2003 that shattered Therese Bartholomew’s life. It would be years before the

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Seeing Things More Clearly

    Seeing Things More Clearly

Blind volunteers provide students with enlightening experience Modern advocates for the blind visited Salem Academy and College Oct. 16, nearly

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