“My favorite book of the Bible is the book of James. Go figure, right? And one of my favorite quotes there is faith without work is dead. My friend Bishop Fulton is back there, and he’s nodding with me. Because, If God doesn’t test you, how do you know that he is the risen savior? And right now, in Winston-Salem, we are being tested. We are bei… More
Tuesday’s fatal shooting at BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse, outside of Hanes Mall, was a senseless act of violence. Because a young white man pulled a trigger, three children are without their father and a wife without her husband. In the wake of mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, the shooting on Hanes Ma… More
Monday was Councilmember D.D. Adams birthday. But it wasn’t a day for celebrations. After quickly wishing Adams a happy birthday Winston-Salem Alliance president and Winston-Salem mayor, Allen Joines took a more somber tone as he addressed the shooting of Edward Van McCrae by a Winston-Salem Police Department officer… More
This article was originally posted on February 9, 2014, on winstonwatchman.org. It’s the story of a petty criminal and a massive, disproportionate mobilization of local police to bring him into custody.
Just before midnight on Sunday, February 2, as the good folks of Northwest North Carolina were in bed asleep in p
