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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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
(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
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
Bond Referendum We are pleased and surprised that talk of a bond referendum has not relegated the city’s more urban
Dr. Althea Taylor-Jones joined other AARP advocates from Feb. 18-19 as they prepared to speak to state lawmakers about the
(pictured above: Authoring Action co-founder Nathan Ross Freeman poses with some of the program’s young participants in 2012.) The teen
(above: Sonjia Kurosky stands outside Samaritan Ministries.) Across the city, service providers are amping up their efforts to accommodate the homeless
It was a 2 a.m. phone call in 2003 that shattered Therese Bartholomew’s life. It would be years before the
Blind volunteers provide students with enlightening experience Modern advocates for the blind visited Salem Academy and College Oct. 16, nearly
