During the early voting period for the North Carolina primary many voters came out, literally, by the vanload. Working as if it was a full-time job, two students from North Carolina A&T State University shuttled their peers between the college campus and the Old County Courthouse, collecting a new bunch every half hour. Junior Gary Brown, 20, and sophomore Syene Jasmin, 19, both journalism and mass communication majors, met just ...
Local religious leaders delve into Rev. Wright’s
WINSTON-SALEM – Days before the North Carolina primary election and in the midst of controversy over the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Triad religious leaders and scholars tackled theological references made in a recent public address by the former pastor of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The community forum held in Winston-Salem last Sunday evening was appropriately entitled, “Is the African American Church Under Attack?” Wright, speaking at the National Press Club in Washington on Monday, April 28, referred to media criticisms ...
“Oh my grandmother!” recalled the former NBA star of the Chicago Bulls in an ...
Obama Takes N.C., Clinton Squeaks by in Indiana
RALEIGH (NNPA) - Despite narrowing pre-primary polls, withering negative national headlines and a relentless assault by his fierce Democratic opponent, North Carolina put Sen. Barack Obama’s historic bid for the presidency firmly back in the driver’s seat Tuesday with a commanding 56-42 primary victory over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton...
“From the Mississippi Delta” comes to Triad Stage
From poverty, sexual assault, prostitution and her mother’s death, to activism, professorship and a Pulitzer-Prize nomination, the odyssey of the late Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland is one of adversity, ...
Obama Victory brings hope for us all
Sen. Barack Obama’s overwhelming victory in North Carolina and near victory in Indiana brings great hope to us and should give hope to all Americans. Not because he is a Black man and potentially the...
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