On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned its landmark Roe v Wade decision that had protected a woman’s right to abortion for 50 years. Many worry that other constitutional protections related to sex and gender may also be overturned.
It was a sunny Tuesday morning as Joe Michaels, then director of the Today Show, prepared for a live concert at Rockefeller Center. A helicopter was in the sky, a camera was on the roof of 30 Rock and the crew was in place.
WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice today announced that it has seized 63.7 bitcoins currently valued at approximately $2.3 million. These funds allegedly represent the proceeds of a May 8, ransom payment to individuals in a group known as DarkSide, which had targeted Colonial Pipeline, r…
Spike Cohen, the 2020 Libertarian candidate for Vice President and first millennial on the ballot in all fifty states, will be speaking at the NC Libertarian convention next Fri., June 18 and Sat., June 19 at the Shrine Club @ 5010 High Point Rd. in Greensboro.
Paris “PJ” Jones has found her element and is thriving on the road to success, as she not only conquers Hollywood but her own self-doubts. The Greensboro native remembers music always being a part of her life and credits her mother with her love of Hip Hop, broad taste in music, and career c…
On Thursday morning, Allison Baynes Key, owner of Happy Moms Consignment Sale, a Greensboro-based online thrift store, made the following public post on her Facebook page:
Multiple former patients of a local teen drug and alcohol rehab program allege that it not only isolates its members, demands obedience, and teaches that homosexuality is a delusion, but that its staff and founders regularly insult African-Americans and Latinx people in crude terms.
Sitting here on the eve of the eve of New Year’s Eve, reminiscing on the collective shit show this year has been for everyone in the country, state, and Triad is definitely a bummer. But things certainly could have been a lot worse for both Ian and me. That is the thing about our white, cisg…
On Dec. 11 around 2:30 p.m., the sound of Christmas music filled the air outside the Forsyth County Government Center as 10 activists from Housing Justice Now, Hate Out of Winston, and Triad Abolition Project protested the eviction hearings of over 60 people in less than two weeks before the…
Featured photo: Sheriff Terry Johnson with neo-Confederate supporters
Featured photo by Tony Crider
Over three minutes after Guilford County EMT Ashley Abbott noticed that Marcus Deon Smith was unresponsive, she began resuscitative measures. Dr. Trevonne Thompson, associate professor of emergency medicine and director of the medical toxicology fellowship program at the University of Illino…
The socially conscious family of fashion designers are not strangers to making a statement through their art. The mother-daughter trio of No Punching Bag have embedded their brand in advocating change for various social issues plaguing the United States, such as beauty stereotypes, gun viole…
Last weekend, photos of a white female Trump supporter in a phallic mask went viral on social media. The photos were taken by Anthony Crider, an Elon University professor who documents the activities of white supremacists and those protesting against them across North Carolina. Crider gave Y…
“You always have a connection to your pillow with tears,” said Mary Smith, speaking about her late son Marcus Deon Smith, who, on Sept. 8, 2018, was fatally hogtied by eight Greensboro police officers. “Not only am I hurting for Marcus, but my husband and my other children are, too. We all c…
Albemarle-based musician and comedian Stuart Baker is suffering national backlash after calling Dolly Parton a “bimbo” and “slut” and accusing her of “surrendering her race and culture” in response to Parton’s support of Black Lives Matter. Baker is best-known nationally for voicing Early Cu…
Protesters with the Triad Abolition Project’s #OccupyWSNC movement have spent the last three weeks in Bailey Park from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m., and they aren’t going anywhere until their demands are met. On Aug. 4, the ACLU of North Carolina released a petition outlining the Triad Abolition Pr…
Featured photo by Tommy Priest
*Editor's note: The cover photo was provided by Ebony Holt
Amidst the chaos of a global pandemic, the nation has also been mourning the deaths of multiple African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement. Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT in Louisville, Kentucky, was shot eight times in the early hours of March 13 by Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, and de…
“We can’t eat art, but it feeds us.
RALEIGH, N.C.—Today, health care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis returned to Raleigh for a third time, calling for Gov. Roy Cooper and North Carolina lawmakers to heed the advice of experts and keep non-essential businesses closed and the stay-at-home order in place and unt…
“You can’t get tested unless you’re rich or dying,” is what Carina, who works at a Triad gas station, said a Greensboro doctor regretfully told her after she asked about being tested for COVID-19. Carina, who spoke on the condition that her last name be withheld, is one of several Triad resi…
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*Editor's note: Since this article went to press, RiverRun informed YES! Weekly that some of the films on this year’s slate, including Rodrigo’s Bulls and Saints, will soon be available online. Check the Bulls and Saints listing at the RiverRun website for updates.
On April 16, many Triad small business owners panicked after hearing the news that the fund from the Small Business Administration’s $349 billion loan program had already been depleted.
*Editor's note: This story contains spoilers.
Veteran Civil Rights attorney Flint Taylor will talk about the Marcus Smith case and the Greensboro Police on the nationally-syndicated radio program Law and Disorder at 9 a.m. on Monday morning. Law and Disorder is a production of WBAI, a non-commercial listener-supported radio station lice…
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