Arnita Miles addresses toxic legacy at Hanes-Lowrance
Winston-Salem City Councilwoman Barbara Burke has an idea for the school district â give it to the city. PHOTOS: Barbara Burke announces request for Hanes-Lowrance property
Northeast ward city council member Barbara Hanes Burke announces her plan to ask the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School board to donate the former Hanes-Lowrance Middle School property to the city of Winston-Salem for development of a community resource center. The announcement was made Friday, July 23, 2021 on the City Hall steps. Walt Unks, Journal
Northeast ward city council member Barbara Hanes Burke announces her plan to ask the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School board to donate the former Hanes-Lowrance Middle School property to the city of Winston-Salem for development of a community resource center.Â
Many factors are playing a role in the recent rash of shootings that resulted in the death of one woman and injuries to 19 people in Winston-Salem, several members of the Winston-Salem City Council said Tuesday.
In addition, a man died from injuries received May 5 after police returned gunfire at a home during a standoff in Ardmore.
âItâs a myriad of things,â Council Member Denise âD.D.â Adams said. âIt goes further back than COVID.â
Problems such as poverty, hunger, unemployment, drug abuse, poor education, crime, mental illness, and health-care disparities plagued neighborhoods before the pandemic, Adams said.
The pandemic magnified those problems, and has played a role in increasing numbers of shootings nationwide and in Winston-Salem, Adams said.
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear about reparations: before you can support a resolution that calls for a commission to study the issue of slavery reparations for black citizens, you must first believe that today’s black Americans experienced slavery firsthand.
There is no way around it. No one can make an honest argument in favor of the resolution that recently passed the Democrat-controlled Winston-Salem City Council (a 7-1 vote) unless they honestly believe that today’s black Americans lived in slavery between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Republican council-member Robert Clark was the only dissenting vote. So, we can likely say that Councilmember Clark does not view today’s black Americans as slaves or victims of slavery.
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Note: The video above aired before the city declared how it would handle the midnight Friday deadline.Winston-Salem officials announced enforcement will not be used to remove individuals at a homeless encampment after the shutdown deadline at midnight Friday.In a wooded area near the corner of Akron Drive and Patterson Avenue is a homeless encampment where about 10 to 20 people lived as of Thursday. As of Friday, there are about 10 people still there, according to the Winston-Salem City Council.Activists said they want to see the city do more to help out the people living there while the city said their goal is to provide them housing. The city said so far they’ve managed to help multiple people who were living there move to the Cities with Dwellings winter shelter. Activists said the city needs to offer more resources. Community members like Arnita Miles and others said they have been trying their best to help those who are experiencing homelessness. “I have been daily br