Nearing the close of the event billed 'Sports Night! 2005' Wake Forest men's basketball coach Skip Prosser invoked a quote from the late tennis star Arthur Ashe: “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give...

Nearing the close of the event billed 'Sports Night! 2005' Wake Forest men's basketball coach Skip Prosser invoked a quote from the late tennis star Arthur Ashe: “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give...

The officer holds open the door of a cell measuring about 5 feet by 10. It is a little after eight in the morning, but the Guilford County Jail in downtown Greensboro is filled with noisy activity. In one of the cells — maybe the one next door — a prisoner is making a racket worthy of Marley's ghost...

The officer holds open the door of a cell measuring about 5 feet by 10. It is a little after eight in the morning, but the Guilford County Jail in downtown Greensboro is filled with noisy activity. In one of the cells — maybe the one next door — a prisoner is making a racket worthy of Marley's ghost...

Two new studies of education and civil rights last month suggested an ominous retrenchment in public education in the South, particularly in North Carolina schools...

Inside the ballroom at the downtown Marriott it's buzzing like a Biblical swarm of locusts. The sound of the tiny pistons of a roomful of tattoo guns injecting ink under exposed dermis almost drowns out the music blasting from speakers at the back of the room.

Inside the ballroom at the downtown Marriott it's buzzing like a Biblical swarm of locusts. The sound of the tiny pistons of a roomful of tattoo guns injecting ink under exposed dermis almost drowns out the music blasting from speakers at the back of the room.

Sitting in a cinderblock room with 20 college students fresh from the outdoors and wearing the lingering scent of perspiration, I close my eyes letting the faint aroma of chalk dust invade my nostrils. I make believe I'm back in school and I've forgotten to read the day's assignment...

Sitting in a cinderblock room with 20 college students fresh from the outdoors and wearing the lingering scent of perspiration, I close my eyes letting the faint aroma of chalk dust invade my nostrils. I make believe I'm back in school and I've forgotten to read the day's assignment...

In the summer of 2002 I traveled with other activists from the United States, Western Europe and Japan to the West Bank to engage in a creative, non-violent disruption of the Israeli military occupation of Palestinian communities...

“Hurry up, honey, before my legs go numb,” a RuPaul look-alike says sweetly as a photographer hurriedly snaps a group picture. The look-alike is one of ten showstoppers commonly known as drag queens — or Bingo Verifying Divas (BVDs), as this particular bunch prefers to be called — who preen backstage at the lower level of the Empire Room on August 19 for what's quickly becoming one of downtown Greensboro's most stylish ways to spend a Friday evening: Green Queen Bingo...

“Hurry up, honey, before my legs go numb,” a RuPaul look-alike says sweetly as a photographer hurriedly snaps a group picture. The look-alike is one of ten showstoppers commonly known as drag queens — or Bingo Verifying Divas (BVDs), as this particular bunch prefers to be called — who preen backstage at the lower level of the Empire Room on August 19 for what's quickly becoming one of downtown Greensboro's most stylish ways to spend a Friday evening: Green Queen Bingo...

It might have been the effect of the drugs, but he believes there was a force more profound and intentional operating within him...

It might have been the effect of the drugs, but he believes there was a force more profound and intentional operating within him...

The hands of Barry Williams, organizer of the First Annual Bench Press Competition held at Greene Street this past Saturday, shake as he signs an autograph for a fan during a break. Williams, who's been power lifting for ten years now, has just finished pressing 475 pounds.

The hands of Barry Williams, organizer of the First Annual Bench Press Competition held at Greene Street this past Saturday, shake as he signs an autograph for a fan during a break. Williams, who's been power lifting for ten years now, has just finished pressing 475 pounds.

Deep within the Kingdom of Atlantia, far-reaching into the Barony of Sacred Stone, lyeth the noble Canton of Hindscroft. And those dutiful noblemen and maidens lying therein make their places of dwelling here in the great land named thereafter Sir Nathanael Greene, known commonly to most dwellers as the City of Greensboro...

Deep within the Kingdom of Atlantia, far-reaching into the Barony of Sacred Stone, lyeth the noble Canton of Hindscroft. And those dutiful noblemen and maidens lying therein make their places of dwelling here in the great land named thereafter Sir Nathanael Greene, known commonly to most dwellers as the City of Greensboro...

The Witch of State Street has eyes that crinkle behind the lightly tinted lenses of her small, round eyeglasses when she smiles her pixie-ish smile. She has tiny hands… tiny… and slim fingers bedecked with precious metals.

The Witch of State Street has eyes that crinkle behind the lightly tinted lenses of her small, round eyeglasses when she smiles her pixie-ish smile. She has tiny hands… tiny… and slim fingers bedecked with precious metals.