Y’all remember Nyan Cat? Ten years ago, a video (or gif, if you saw it on Tumblr) of a cute pixilated half-cat, half-cherry Pop-Tart bounced through space on a rainbow while the song, “Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya” by Japanese artist Daniwell-P played in the background appeared on YouTube and captu…

The North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a multiracial coalition of Alamance County residents and business owners have sued the county’s all-white Board of Commissioners. The lawsuit is intended to move what may be NC’s most controversi…

The Kellin Foundation is counting on your taste for ice cream to help them stick a pin in child abuse. 

While many and their loved ones have faced trying economic times within this last year and a half, one thing that has become even more prevalent has been the disparities among different populations and subpopulations among the nation and the Triad. These disparities include inequities when i…

“Require Cooperation with ICE 2.0,” the official short title of the recently introduced North Carolina State Bill 101, bluntly describes its intended function.

One of the oldest professions is being recognized this week—the act of assisting another with bringing new life into the world.

ArtsGreensboro will host its annual Public Art Scavenger Hunt beginning April 1, 2020, as part of its #IHeartArtsMonth, which Greensboro City Council proclaimed as April in 2015, and in support of the annual Arts Fund, a community-wide campaign supporting arts organizations and artists in th…

Not every article in Dirty Sexy History, the blog founded and edited by historian and novelist Jessica Cale, is about sex. 

“Say his name,” shouted AJ Morgan to fellow activists gathered in front of Ben & Jerry’s in Greensboro’s Friendly Center at 4 p.m. on Saturday.

Greensboro, N.C. – The Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts is excited to announce the revised schedule for its inaugural Broadway season.

HIGH POINT, NC (March 18, 2021) – The Salvation Army Worship Center and The Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club of High Point is currently assessing damage to their building following the tornadic activity occurring in High Point Thursday afternoon.

The Forsyth County Department of Public Health is opening up another set of COVID-19 vaccination appointments for Monday at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Education Building for seniors, healthcare workers, essential workers and people with medical conditions that put them at higher risk of s…

GREENSBORO, NC –Greensboro Downtown Parks, Inc. (GDPI) is excited to announce that choreographer, Alexandra Joye Warren, will serve as LeBauer & Center City Parks’first official Artist in Residence. In January 2021, Alexandraand her company, JOYEMOVEMENT, began exploring the physical and…

GREENSBORO, NC (March 18, 2021) – The Greensboro Youth Council (GYC) is accepting submissions for the Cultural Awareness Photo Voice Project. Teens 13-19 can submit original photos answering the question: How does society view your culture versus how you view your culture? The purpose of thi…

According to a study published in the April 2020 edition of the Yale Law Journal, the “wandering officer” is a common occurrence in the law enforcement industry today.

Those looking for answers in the officer-involved shooting death of Frederick Cox, Jr. are one step closer to finding out what will happen to the person who killed him as the autopsy and investigative reports have been released in the last week. Now, they must wait on the District Attorney.

According to Guilford County Animal Control, four people were bitten by a coyote in Greensboro’s Lake Brandt area during the first weekend of March. Two others were attacked without sustaining injuries. The first victim was an unnamed man bitten on the leg the evening of Friday, March 5. On …

In honor of International Woman’s Day, here are some historically significant women who were either born in the Triad or became associated with it during their lifetimes. This list is by no means exhaustive. A much longer article could easily have been written on any one of them. There have,…

On March 15, 1781, Private Peter Francisco “slew in this engagement eleven of the enemy with his own broad sword.”

Family, friends, local leaders, and law enforcement officers will have to continue to wait for definitive answers regarding the officer-involved shooting death of 18-year-old Frederick Cox.

Citing “safety of the community,” a federal judge ruled Friday that former High Point police officer Laura Steele cannot be released into the custody of her husband and family but must remain jailed until tried in Federal Court for her part in conspiring to obstruct certification of the 2020…

At a time when many African Americans were forced to sit at the back of the bus, sleep in substandard or unsafe living quarters, forfeit their seat, or find another way of transport, there were a few in the Triad who decided to go another route. 

Several members of the Greensboro city council recently stated to YES! Weekly that settlement offers have been made to the family of Marcus Deon Smith.

What happens when you lock seven artists into a museum chock-full of everything from vintage lace to air conditioner units and felt fabric during a pandemic?

Downtown Greensboro’s streets were filled with demonstrations marching for justice and calling for change to systems as old as the city itself in the summer of 2020.

David Nguyen began breakdancing at Four Seasons Mall in Greensboro when he was five years old. Now a senior at UNCG, he’s an accomplished hip-hop dancer and choreographer who teach other students for free.

The last week has been filled with announcements as incumbents and challengers alike toss their hat in the ring for a seat on Greensboro City Council.

On Sept. 8, 2018, Marcus Deon Smith died after being hogtied on Church Street by eight Greensboro police officers. Records released by the City of Greensboro reveal that seven of those officers subsequently received merit increases, some multiple bonuses, and three of them promoted.

Your first thought about love is caring for someone or something deeply.

“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love,” - Martin Luther King, Jr., from “Where do we go from here?” sermon, 1967

Explaining that he moved to Greensboro “for the love of a good woman,” actor and acting professor Michael Tourek told YES! Weekly that he proposed to his wife Sara atop a Brooklyn apartment building on New Year’s Eve, 2005. He then confessed that, when telling this story, he often undercuts …

Netricia Wilkins wants to bring out the sexy in every woman.

“I’ve always loved boba, and when an opportunity like this came up, giving me a chance to make and sell something I love, I knew it would be fun,” said Ronny Real, who owns and runs Moshi Moshi Boba Café at 2418 Spring Garden Street with his former girlfriend of eleven years, and now wife of…