By Donna Rogers The Chronicle 2015 began with a question for Winston-Salem: Is racism America’s Berlin Wall? Chronicle Publisher Ernie Pitt asked that question at the Martin Luther King Jr.
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Above: AP File Photo- Amelia Boynton, in wheelchair next to President Obama, at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Selma to Montgomery March. By George E. Curry, NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON – Amelia
A white man enters a black church during prayer and Bible study, spends an hour with parishioners then executes nine of them. This horrific episode at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal
In photo: Marian Wright Edelman By Marian Wright Edelman “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we now have the resources to get rid of it.”
Old Salem Museums & Gardens is screening clips from four documentaries in January, February and April. The footage that will
Kwanzaa kick-off echoes calls to value black life (pictured above: Zen Sadler (center) helps Don Williams and Patricia Sadler light the
This photo, released by Paramount Pictures, is part of the trailer for the movie “Selma.” By Dwight Brown NNPA Film
(pictured above: Protestors raise their hands during last week’s rally.) Locals disheartened by decisions not to charge white police officers in
The Reverend Dr. Darryl Aaron, our pastor at First Baptist Church, Highland Avenue, is black. He and his family live
(pictured above: First Lady Michelle Obama speaks.) Around the nation and across the world, she was known and praised as an
