Chants of “Your Southern Soldiers were Enemy Combatants” and a rendition of the Battle Hymn of the Republic divided the corner of Fourth and Liberty streets last Sunday afternoon as more than 100 people gathered downtown to speak in support of or against the city’s decision to remove the statue which was placed at the old Forsyth County Courthouse in 1905.
Smith Reynolds Airport has an $801 million impact on the local economy and supports 3,585 jobs according to the N.C. Department of Transportation’s Aviation Division.
Celebrations ignited all over the world for the first day of Kwanzaa. Among those celebrations was Winston Salem’s annual citywide Kwanzaa celebration.