Triad Cultural Arts

Historic Winston-Salem shotgun houses and the stories of those who called them home to be preserved

4:57pm February 26, 2024

Triad Cultural Arts was awarded a North Carolina Humanities Grant for the Shotgun House Legacy Site. $3,000 will be utilized to document significant narratives from residents concerning Black life in Winston-Salem throughout the Jim Crow and Civil Rights periods.

Allen Griffin gives motivational speech at Mazie Woodruff Center

Education

Forsyth Tech kicks off series of community events honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

3:18pm January 08, 2024

by Amy Diaz

Forsyth Technical Community College kicked off an event series on Monday commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It’s a collaboration between local universities, nonprofit organization Triad Cultural Arts, and other community members.

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

by DJ Simmons

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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