Triad Cultural Arts

One of the Shotgun Homes in the Happy Hill neighborhood in Winston-Salem.

Culture

Triad Cultural Arts buys land, paving a way for new center to honor local Black history

6:47am June 20, 2023

When Triad Cultural Arts, Inc. purchased three lots from Winston-Salem, it marked a major step in a multi-year effort to create a new cultural center.

Race

Juneteenth: A time of reflection and celebration, with some historical and contemporary complications

5:06pm June 16, 2023

by David Ford

Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, a Union general arrived in Texas, accompanied by 2,000 troops, and delivered the news that all enslaved Black people in the state were free. That was June 19, 1865, and on its one-year anniversary, the very first Juneteenth celebrations took place there.

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