After three years waiting in limbo for approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to sell Crystal Towers, an 11-story public housing unit located on West Sixth Street, HAWS has announced that they will keep Crystal Towers and work with the City of Winston-Salem to make renovations.
Last year, Target launched their HBCU Design Challenge which was a competition where students from Historically Black Colleges & Universities submitted designs for Target’s celebration of Black History Month. One of the challenge winners was Winston-Salem’s own Trajan Baker, who is an architecture student at Hampton University and a graduate of Atkins High School.
Read Write Spell (RWS) is a community program based out of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church that strives to ensure that every child in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools (WSFCS) learns to read on grade level. RWS trains tutors in the science of reading to better assist students in need in WS/FCS.