Southeast GSO community loses fight with developer
The sky was clear but lighting struck down the efforts of a southeast Greensboro community in what has shaped up to be a battle to the end against a local city developer. The council voted 6-2 in favor of a proposal by developer Keystone Group to add an additional apartment complex near a single-family residential neighborhood on Meadow Oak Drive in Greensboro. The property bordering the single family neighborhood near Rehobeth Church Road already holds three apartment complex units. The issue was originally addressed at the May 6 council meeting, where Keystone President Scott Wallace took ...
Local NAACP hosts education forum
The Greensboro NAACP is slated to host an education forum for the community Sunday, July 20 evening at New Light Missionary Baptist Church. Organizers say the forum is designed to help parents become more informed and involved in their children’s schooling. Yvonne Hunt Perry, a retired educator and the education committee chair of the local advocacy branch added, the open discussion is also an effort to halt the finger-pointing sometimes exchanged between community stakeholders concerning who’s at fault for the academic underachievement among young people.
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Bond Continues to Scorch Bush Administration, Introduces New CEO at 99th NAACP Convention
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, at the organization’s 99th National Convention in Cincinnati this week, showed no letting up on his marathon of criticism of President George W. Bush, this election year saying Bush has “united Americans around a desire for change.”
Recalling threats from the Internal Revenue Service because of what the IRS ...
Jesse Jackson Repents for His 'Locker Room, Trash Talk' About Obama, but Calls His Perspective 'Loving Criticism'
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., expressing sorrow for a vulgar remark that he made concerning presidential hopeful Barack Obama, says his only intent was to point out the need to balance campaign talk about self-responsibility and faith-based initiatives in the Black community with talk about the crisis that America’s Black communities are now suffering.
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41st Annual Hampton Jazz Festival
The 41st Annual Hampton Jazz Festival will take place at the Hampton Coliseum from Friday, June 27 through Sunday, June 29. Performing on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. will...
Pros and Cons of Modern Technology
War is war. There was a time during wars, when civilians could enter into bomb shelters with their families and be reasonably safe from death. However, some genius created the technology for the ...
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