Fried chicken, collard greens, pinto beans, potato salad, cornbread, and of course macaroni & cheese — all staple items located on menus at Black-owned restaurants across the country. Some call it “Southern food,” others “soul food,” and you’ll hear the occasional “country cooking” tossed around too. But in the end, these simple and timeless menu...
Unsheltered homelessness is often thought of as a problem typical of big west coast cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, but North Carolinians are taking notice of a similar trend in their own backyards.
The shooting death of a student at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem brought local and state leaders together Thursday in mourning and to recognize the heroism of local police and faculty. Gov. Roy Cooper traveled to Winston Salem for the news conference and took the opportunity to call for more school spending on “wraparound...
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear about reparations: before you can support a resolution that calls for a commission to study the issue of slavery reparations for black citizens, you must first believe that today’s black Americans experienced slavery firsthand. There is no way around it. No one can make an honest argument in favor...
While North Carolina suffered under slavery and segregation for far too long, the courage of students from N.C. A&T State University transformed the trajectory of our state and nation.
RALEIGH — Government isn’t run like a business. It does, however, often offer aid — politely called “incentives ” — to businesses. And that can be a toxic brew for taxpayers, especially if local governments don’t engage in the same sort of due diligence that a well-run business would. Winston-Salem’s involvement in building a new minor league baseball stadium highlights the problem.
RALEIGH — The indictments of two former members of the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem and a private developer in a property-flipping scheme have triggered much-needed local reform and better transparency in a federal program dogged by corruption nationwide, officials say.
WINSTON-SALEM — Winston-Salem is getting into the baseball business. Whether Forsyth County joins the city remains to be seen. At a meeting in January, the Winston-Salem City Council unanimously signed off on $29 million in incentives to help build a baseball stadium downtown.
What are city governments for? If policymakers listened to reason and studied the available data, they would not answer that question with “investing in sports teams.”
GREENSBORO — “Green” schools appear to be a growing trend in public education nationally and in North Carolina. But school systems are quickly finding out that green schools cost quite a bit of green money.
The Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point region is proving to have just as many lunatics as there in Charlotte and the Triangle, given news that officials are considering a mass transit are project for $2 billion in construction costs alone that could hit taxpayers.
