The Winston-Salem City Council approved a resolution on Monday apologizing for the cityâs role in slavery and discrimination against Black people.
Passage came on a 7-1 vote, with Council Member Robert Clark casting the only vote against the measure.
âWe are hoping to clear some minds and hearts and hopefully get Winston-Salem on the right pages of history,â said Council Member D.D. Adams, who made the motion to adopt the resolution.
In addition to the racism and slavery apology on the cityâs behalf, the resolution: Apologizes for the cityâs role in past urban renewal programs and road construction that helped the city grow âat the expense of multiple successful Black businesses and homes in the eastern portion of the city.â
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The Winston-Salem City Council is poised to apologize for its role in slavery and post-slavery discrimination against Black people.
Along with the apology, the city is expected to back passage of a bill in the U.S. Congress that would study and make recommendations for reparations that would be paid to the descendants of slaves.
The council will consider the apology and reparations resolution on Monday during its regular meeting, which will be held online starting at 7 p.m.
The proposal advances to the council after the cityâs general government committee last week approved the resolution with three votes in favor, none opposed and with one abstention.
Kerston and Tyrell Rankins are facing eviction from their home in Winston-Salem. They may be excluded from pandemic assistance programs due to a technicality.
Kerston Rankins thought she got along well with her landlord. Even though she had fallen behind on her rent last fall, the landlord was working with her and taking partial payments.
When she told him over the winter that she hadnât signed up for natural gas service, she recalled, he asked how she was going to keep warm. Rankins told him she would turn on the stove and boil water. The landlord said to be careful.
A company that makes vitamins and nutritional supplements may move to Winston-Salem
A company that makes vitamins and nutritional supplements is considering a move that would bring its headquarters and manufacturing to Winston-Salem into a building at the Whitaker Park business park on Reynolds Boulevard.
The Winston-Salem City Council is poised to sweeten the pot with an offer of $265,000 over five years. Other incentives could come from Forsyth County government, and the state of North Carolina is said to be considering $1.5 million in incentives.
âWe are the front runner,â Laura Lee told members of the Finance Committee of the city council on Monday. Lee is senior vice president of economic development for Greater Winston-Salem Inc., an organization that promotes business development here.
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