The National Black Theatre Festival is returning to Winston-Salem this summer after a pandemic hiatus. It has been an unusually long break since the last festival in 2019. During that time organizers lost their longtime leader, Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin, who died in January. She had been the festival’s executive producer for more than a decade following the death of her husband, Larry Leon Hamlin, the event’s founder.
Local Democrats and Republicans had mixed views on President Biden s State of the Union speech Tuesday night, but agreed with Biden s position of supporting Ukraine after Russia invaded that country