Now that the city of Winston-Salem has full control over the Grand Pavilion Ballroom and conference rooms on the lower floor of the Embassy Suites hotel, plans are moving forward to give the space a facelift to complement the look and feel of Benton Convention Center.
When the work is done, city officials say the ballroom and conference rooms can be an extension of the Benton, which underwent a major renovation costing $20 million that finished in 2017.
The city plans to have Hospitality Ventures Management Group (HVMG) operate the Grand Pavilion, as it already manages the Benton and the Marriott Hotel under the name Twin City Quarter.
Winston-Salem should make a proposed ordinance that provides protections based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression “as broad as possible,” advocates of a non-discrimination ordinance said Thursday.
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The movie, âJudas and the Black Messiahâ is a largely accurate portrayal of how the government conspired to kill one of the leaders of the Black Panther Party, a former leader of the Panthers in Winston-Salem says.
The movie âshows how the FBI went out of its way to murder Panthers like Fred Hampton and others,â said Larry Little, who at age 19 was a founding member of the Winston-Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party and a city native.
âThat sets the historical record straight,â Little said. âIt was an organized political assassination.â
The film depicts how the FBI used a confidential informant in its surveillance of a Panther leader and its collaboration with Chicago police in December 1969.