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.”
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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 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 Carly Dunno (front) volunteers at the Diaper Bank with other city employees for the city’s Martin