Norwood,
Ferris Bueller s Day Off and
What s Love Got to Do with It. She is the founder of Lafayette Players and received the National Black Theatre Festival Living Legend Award, the Paul Robeson Pioneer Award and the NAACP Image Award for Theatre Excellence in recognition of her work. Capers died at the age of 78 in 2004.
Ralph on Capers: Aunt Virginia Capers was a mentor and blessing to me from the moment I first met her as a 19-year-old winner of
Glamour Magazine’s Top Ten College Women in America. She had just won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical for her performance as the stern but loving matriarch, Lena Younger, in
The COVID-19 pandemic has hurt arts and music organizations as much as any sector of the economy. But while the Winston-Salem Symphony has struggled with the pandemic like any live
On top of that, the county will be spending another $2.8 million within county departments, restoring budgets that were trimmed 3% earlier and hiring additional social workers and public-health nurses, as well as someone to help guide the county toward clean-energy goals. Money is in there as well to increase employee pay.
From the higher projected revenues, commissioners approved new spending of more than $7.2 million on Thursday.
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools will get an extra $2.9 million from that amount, plus another $500,000 from a separate coronavirus relief funds for ventilation-system improvements meant to improve air quality in the schools.
While many of the groups getting additional money are ones that help the needy, commissioners took no action on the demands of more than 30 anti-eviction protesters who gathered outside Thursday while they met.
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