The Voice of the Black Community
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| Bears bring unique take on eating out |
| Sunday, June 23, 2019 |
| SILER CITY — It was a kitchen experiment that went in a different direction when students studying culinary arts at Chatham Central High School in Bear Creek extended the laboratory into the community. The turn taken was for the better. “The community-cafe concept is a part of the international food movement called One World Everybody |
| DPS Student of the Month |
| Tuesday, June 18, 2019 |
| Tre'Vaughn Cox is a graduating senior from the Southern School of Energy and Sustainability. The Bahamian native made a huge impact at Southern during his first and only year at the school through his work in the classroom, on the field and in the community. Tre'Vaughn enjoyed playing soccer and running track. He was also an active member of the Student |
| NC State alumna selected to writing program |
| Wednesday, June 12, 2019 |
| N.C. State alumna Shequeta Smith, a comic book writer, filmmaker and CEO of Shero Comics, has been selected to join the hottest new writing program in Hollywood, Imagine Impact 2. Imagine Impact is an entertainment start-up established to cultivate and empower creative storytellers to turn an idea into a screenplay, teleplay or presentation in eight weeks. |
| Enloe student is an actor, a dancer and a champion for change |
| Wednesday, June 12, 2019 |
| RALEIGH – Jordan King wasn’t the headliner, but as far as Jose Espinal was concerned, she was the evening’s brightest star. In April, Enloe Magnet High School hosted a performance of The Talk, an acclaimed one-man show by Sonny Kelly in which an African American father must have a difficult conversation with his son about how to protect |
| Passing positivity forward for present and future students |
| Tuesday, June 4, 2019 |
| Student: Jeremee Jeter School: East Wake High College: Catawba College Somewhere out there in Wake County is a very lucky bunch of 1-year-olds. Because in four years, they might have Jeremee as their kindergarten teacher. It’s going to be awesome. Not only for that group of children, but for many more who will follow them. Destined to teach The |
| Stedman Graham presents Reconstruction-era sword to museum |
| Wednesday, May 29, 2019 |
| RALEIGH – Businessman and educator Stedman Graham recently presented the N.C. Museum of History with a ceremonial sword as part of the Museum’s exhibit on “Reconstruction, Freedom: A Promise Disrupted, North Carolina 1862- 1901.” The sword is the only known existing material artifact related to the last African American to serve in |
