November 23, 2009
The increasing-by-the-minute crowd is spilling over into a second waiting room at the free monthly walk-in medical clinic off West Market Street — even though doctors aren’t scheduled to see patients for another half-hour.
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November 21, 2009
The biblical Jacob wrestled with the angel until he got his blessing. A scenario of similar undertaking occurred last summer. Except that it was First Lutheran Church, known for ministry emphasizing an end to hunger and homelessness in Guilford County, wr...
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November 20, 2009
Health officials are reaching out to faith communities to spread the word about upcoming flu shot clinics. “We know that lots of churches are taking steps to reduce the transmission of illness — like making changes in communion, even how perso...
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November 19, 2009
HIGH POINT — In the media room of the converted two-story brick home housing the I Am Now program, poster-sized cap-and-gown graduation pictures show the boys who succeeded here.
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November 18, 2009
GREENSBORO — A man posing as a United Way of Greater Greensboro volunteer tried to pick up campaign contributions at a local business, which has prompted the Greensboro nonprofit to issue a scam alert.
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November 17, 2009
Not much surprises Michele Forrest , who seeks out the homeless in tent camps atop near-frozen earth and huddled in blankets underneath highway underpasses. Yet, as she has passed out food and hygiene items recently, the circumstances have become even mor...
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November 15, 2009
EDEN — Kindergartner Abbey Corbin’s poster featured pictures of her grandfather, who served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1973. Don’t think that anyone had to remind her why people consider Barry Cochran a hero.
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November 14, 2009
When the Rev. Joe Giaritelli asked his congregation to help feed 5,000 people at Thanksgiving, children gave up allowances and parents decided to cut back on their Christmas budgets to help out.
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Thousands of Baptists were in Greensboro this week for the 179th annual Baptist State Convention of North Carolina at the Koury Convention Center. In previous years, the group has met in the Greensboro Coliseum’s special events complex.
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November 10, 2009
Greensboro attorney Kathy Manning was sworn in Monday as the first board chairwoman of one of the most influential Jewish organizations in the world.
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November 8, 2009
The retired longtime president of Greensboro’s United Way and the attorney whose name is attached to numerous firsts for a black man in North Carolina will lead the inaugural “1960 Society” in support of the downtown civil rights museum.
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November 7, 2009
When 81-year-old Laszlo Berkowits recently stood at the entrance of the gas chamber at the infamous Auschwitz death camp complex, it occurred to him this would have been where his mother saw her last bit of sunlight.
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The need hasn’t gone anywhere. The Greensboro Urban Ministry last year was a major organizer of the Winter Emergency initiative, which involves staffing and food for overflow homeless shelter sites, most of which were located in churches. And execut...
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November 4, 2009
When Amelia Parker dreams of the Feb. 1, 2010, opening of the planned civil rights museum in downtown Greensboro, President Barack Obama is at the head of the tour. The executive director of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum and others are...
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The newly hired curator of the civil rights museum under construction in the old Woolworth’s building is an anthropologist who was just a boy when he heard about college students trying to integrate a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro.
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November 2, 2009
GREENSBORO — When Dr. George Simkins asked the courts to integrate Moses Cone Hospital, leading to other federally funded hospitals having to do the same, it helped hone the NAACP’s legacy of dismantling segregation. Simkins was the president...
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October 31, 2009
When health officials began releasing information on the swine flu epidemic, the Rev. Mark Sills made sure the words were translated into other languages so that non-English-speaking immigrants in the community could get timely updates.
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Some congregations will place white roses on the altar Sunday , to represent remembrance. Others will recite the names of departed parishioners and friends, read scripture or sing special hymns as part of a special hospice Sabbath during regular worship...
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October 29, 2009
She didn’t get enough votes to claim the readers’ choice designation in Glamour magazine’s annual Women of the Year issue. So LaToya Marsh won’t be part of the fashion and lifestyle magazine’s December issue with first lady M...
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October 25, 2009
My love affair with my hair started before grade school, when I coveted my sister's long, Pochahontas-like braids. I can still remember watching her get on the school bus one morning while crying over my own plaits, which were more like twigs. In exaspera...
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October 24, 2009
Those who contributed in the past year to Emily’s Kids in memory of Southeast High School graduate Emily Field , who died last November, funded $4,000 in gas cards and $800 in hospital parking passes for the families of young cancer patients.
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Reformation Sunday is this weekend at First Presbyterian Church on North Elm. Besides Jamestown Pipes and Drums playing before, during and after worship, an expert on John Calvin will kick off a new study of the influencer of Christian theology and Wester...
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October 23, 2009
Paul Scott knew it was time to invest what he could scrounge into producing a CD. “The more places we went, people were asking, 'Do y’all have a CD?’ 'Do you have something we can take home?’” Scott said of the urban go...
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October 22, 2009
When they gather in Greensboro next weekend, these black members of the United Methodist Church will discuss getting young adults more involved in their denomination. But they’ll also talk about such issues as clergy assignments across racial lines.
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October 17, 2009
Want to stump this “Father Abraham”? Sam Reichelson is preparing for that. “I’m Jewish for 66 years, but in doing this research, I’m finding quite a lot about our religion and the history of our people that I didn’t kno...
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