“This is awesome!” That was the reaction of 32 young people who traveled to Washington, D.C. on June 1 to see the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. Several of
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Mechanic & Farmers Bank has awarded its 2013 Founders Awards to William A. “Billy” Marsh Jr., a renowned civil rights attorney, and Vivian R. Patterson, a 48-year veteran of M&F
WFU professor/leader retiring after nearly 40 years Dr. Herman Eure shattered the glass ceiling at Wake Forest University 39 years ago. The then-27 year old made school history in 1974 when
The Gateway YWCA took a stand against bigotry Friday, joining YW branches across the country. This was the first year
A permanent tribute to workers whose strike led to the formation of a landmark union now stands at the corner
A fertile period of labor organizing in the tobacco industry during the 1940s fed into the Civil Rights Movement. A
In 1969, while a graduate student at Notre Dame, I had a one night career on WNDU, the campus radio
Dr. Bob Zellner, a white Southerner who played a part in the Civil Rights Movement, shared his story at Wake
On Friday Feb. 8, students at Diggs-Latham Elementary School gathered in the gym for a “Read-In” event to commemorate the
Rountree and High Court
New Winston-Salem Police Chief Barry Rountree made national headlines last week for all the wrong reasons. Blogs and web sites that specialize in strange, unusual news could not resist a