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Nearly 25,000 schools were considered in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Early College at Guilford stood out from the rest.

The incoming class at Salem College in Winston-Salem has more than doubled. The boost in numbers comes following a decade of declining enrollment. The school is one of the nation’s oldest continually operating educational institutions for women and girls, and 106 new students are enrolled this fall compared to 46 from last year.

Funds are applied to critical issues in the Black community.

In late January, a fire broke out at a fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem that led to the evacuation of thousands of residents.

The state’s first African American-owned transportation company was formed in the mid-1920s and it continued operating until 1972 when it became part of the Winston Salem Transit Authority.

Eighty-four-year-old photographer, arts community organizer and activist Kwame Brathwaite chronicled the second-wave Renaissance of his beloved Harlem, New York.