“We need to speak out,” said Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Prayer Breakfast on Dr. King’s actual birthday and the celebrated holiday, on Monday, Jan. 15. The Chronicle and the Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity sponsored the event.
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Victor Johnson was instrumental in organizing the Winston-Salem Sit In Movement. Busta Brown asked which was first, Greensboro or Winston-Salem. He smiles and says, “They sat down first, but we ate first.”
Dr. Louise Toppin, a soprano and renowned scholar of African-American art song, performed freedom songs at Home Moravian Church on Sunday, Jan. 14, as part of the church’s Songs of Justice and Peace program, a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.
The Big 4 Choir consists of singers who went to High School at Winston-Salem’s “Black High Schools” during the Jim Crow Era. The Big 4 Choir performed at this years Chronicle/Ministers
Photo by Tevin Stinson Few empty seats were left Monday morning inside the Embassy Suites Pavilion as more than 1,000
Photo by Timothy Ramsey Dr. Lamonte Williams (far left) stands with the award recipients at the Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem
Photo by Timothy Ramsey Following the panel discussion many people stayed to collectively pray in a candlelight vigil. BY TIMOTHY
Photo by Donna Rogers The Burke Singers and their founder, Maestra D’Walla Simmons-Burke, show the audience how to keep the
Photo by Todd Luck BY TODD LUCK THE CHRONICLE The Phi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. fed
Photo by Todd Luck Carly Dunno (front) volunteers at the Diaper Bank with other city employees for the city’s Martin
