#Winston Salem State University

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Awww his face ❤️

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📸HBCU Gameday

Stephen A. Smith & First Take at Winston Salem State University

[cowboylikedean]

being a remote student at winston salem state university learning about what happened there this week days after the fact shouldn't be a thing. we should have had a campus wide email from the dean of students. i'm disgusted. justice for leila

[savannah-gonwild]

Idk this mini dress kinda long

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Winston-Salem State beat Southwest Missouri State 77-74 to become the first HBCU to win a national championship on March 17, 1967.

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K3mistry News Brief 📰

Chris Paul’s Support for HBCUs

The following speaks on supporting HBCUs.

Narrated by: J. Stokes

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Winston-Salem State University

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WSSU student Leilla Hamoud arrested; Why did Dr. Cynthia Villagomez call the police?

WSSU student Leilla Hamoud arrested; Why did Dr. Cynthia Villagomez call the police?

Leilla Hamoud, 20, of Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States is a student of Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem. One of her professors in the university is Dr. Cynthia Villagomez, 61, of Winston-Salem.

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Mark Crispin Miller

Aug 28, 2024

33 nurses “died suddenly”:

Alyssa Lynn DeLong, 34

August 26, 2024

Advance, North Carolina - Ms. Alyssa Lynn DeLong, 34, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, August 22, 2024.   Alyssa graduated from Winston-Salem State University with a BA degree in Nursing. She worked for Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Health as a nurse. 

No cause of death reported.

Link

Stephanie Lord, 57

August 26, 2024

Warner Robins, Georgia - Stephanie Lord, 57, passed away on Sunday August 25, 2024 at her home in Warner Robins.  After serving in the Air Force as an aircraft maintenance technician, Stephanie worked as a registered nurse for many years. She attended Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church. She loved her church family very much. She will be missed dearly by her family and her church.

No cause of death reported.

Link

[aaliyahunleashed]

Rest in Heavenly Peace Shanquella Brenada Robinson

January 9, 1997 - October 29, 2022

Robinson was a graduate of the historically black college Winston-Salem State University. She ran several boutique beauty and children's hair-braiding businesses, under her "Exquisite Kids" and "Exquisite Boutique" brands, in her hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina.

She was killed October 29th, 2022 at the age of 25 when she embarked on a trip to Mexico with a "friend" and 5 other assailants (3 men and 3 women who accompanied Shanquella).

While on this trip she was violently attacked by at least one of the female entourage (with other videos displaying another separate attack from another female from the same group).

Robinson dies of Severe Spinal Cord Injury and Atlas Luxation 15 minutes after the attack, but the entourage doesn't call for medical help until hours later.

Based on this police report and the investigations of the Mexican authorities, the US State Department initially released a statement reporting that "Mexican authorities said there was no clear evidence Robinson was murdered".

On November 16, the U.S. Department of State responded they were aware of the incident, releasing following statement:

"We are aware of these reports. Protecting the welfare of U.S. citizens overseas is among our top priorities. Out of respect for the privacy of those involved, we have no further comment at this time," the department stated.

The word, Femicide, becomes more popular as the nation would learn that countries like Mexico have harsh punishments for brutal and violent acts against women. However, to this day, not a single arrest has been made.

October 29, 2023 (1 year after Shanquella's death) the Robinson family files a lawsuit and still demands justice and people across the country have demanded that those responsible be held accountable.

#JusticeForShanquella

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Mayor Weyling J. White (May 16, 1986) is the mayor of Ahoskie and Executive Director of Care Share Health Alliance

He attended Hertford County Public Schools and played on the men’s basketball team. He is a lifelong member of Calvary Missionary Baptist Church in Ahoskie. In 2004, He graduated from Winston-Salem State University with his BS in Exercise Science. He obtained his MBA in Healthcare Management from the University of Phoenix.

Under his leadership, the Town of Ahoskie has successfully implemented many programs and initiatives including The Community-Centered Health initiative; transportation summits; and a youth empowerment program initially targeting young males in our community which expanded to include females as well at Hertford County High School. He has served on the Board of Directors for Care Share Health Alliance and the Community Advisory Committee for the University of North Carolina’s Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. He was recognized nationally as the Emerging Leader in Healthcare Transformation by the Communities Joined in Action for this work in public health. His career accomplishments have been recognized as he was appointed to the NC Institute of Medicine and selected as a Bernstein Health Leadership Fellow.

He is a Class XXV graduate of the Rural Economic Development Institute with the North Carolina Rural Center and a Class XXVI graduate of Leadership North Carolina.

He is married to Nikki White and the father of three children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha

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Ralph Hanes estate, picture from the courtyard revealing part of a house. Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States. Ellen McGowan Biddle Shipman papers, #1259. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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"It is very inspiring to release a figure from a piece of stone or wood. Very often, I look at (the) stone or wood for a year or longer. I will have completed the piece mentally before attacking the material."

You, or someone nearby to you, are very likely carrying around a Selma Hortense Burke sculpture in your pocket at this very moment.

Born in 1900 in Mooresville, North Carolina into a family of ten, Burke attended what would eventually be known as Winston-Salem University, where she unleashed her passion for art but decided that nursing was the more practical path to follow, and became an RN in Philadelphia in 1924 at the prestigious St. Agnes School of Nursing. It might be argued that this was correct choice at the time --certainly the career of a nurse provided much greater financial stability during the Great Depression-- but ultimately Selma's interests swung back to art and in 1935 she moved to New York.

It wasn't long before the Harlem Artists' Guild found its new star sculptor and teacher, and in very short order Selma was travelling throughout Europe --not only honing her skills, but also teaching and lecturing. In 1933 she received the Harmon Foundation award, cementing her role as one of the most influential artists of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1940 she secured an M.A. (Fine Arts) from Columbia and founded the Selma Burke School of Sculpture in New York City. During World War II Selma enlisted in the U.S. Navy --one of the very first Black women to do so. While she saw no overseas action, she worked on base at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and it was while there she learned of a New Deal art competition to depict a likeness of then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in celebration of the "four freedoms." Burke worked for two years on a bronze relief portrait, which not only won the competition (and to this day hangs in the Recorder Of Deeds Building), but in 1946 would become the basis for a specific denomination of U.S.-issued currency.

In other words, Burke's artwork is on the U.S. dime.*

Burke's career certainly didn't stop there; in 1968 she founded the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh, which continued her mission of introducing art opportunities to disadvantaged inner-city youth. Amongst her many subjects have included likenesses of Duke Ellington, Mary McLeod Bethune (Lesson #49 in this series), and A. Philip Randolph (Lesson #68). Her work is on display at the Smithsonian, in Charlotte (significantly a nine-foot statue of Martin Luther King, which she completed in her eighties), at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in Atlanta, and at her beloved Winston-Salem State University. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter presented Burke with a lifetime achievement award from the Women's Caucus for Art. She died in 1995 at the impressive age of 95.

* - No, it wasn't John Sinnock --even the U.S. Mint now acknowledges this plagiarism. Credit-stealing was and is still a thing, with Black artists.

[cowboylikedean]

I hate that I feel like I'm constantly in this abusive relationship with my teachers I cannot leave.

My teacher, grading me down 6% on a paper where the assignment was to take three career assessments, evaluate them next to our work history and career paths, and then choose five additional careers to explore that fit in with our assessment results and interests:

While you drew substantiated conclusions from participating in the assessments, you did not identify elect five alternate career options.

Meanwhile, the last paragraph of the Assessments section before the Conclusion:

Taking my results from all three assessments, I’m not sure there are five careers other than the ones I’ve chosen for myself I’d be best suited for. I feel my plan is consistent with the results. If I had to choose, however, I’d lean towards musicians, instrumental listed in Achievement zone 5, which would fall under Artistic in the Interest profile; Civil Engineers, and computer programmers which are under Achievement zone 4 and Investigative; and camera operators television, video, and motion picture under Achievement zone 4, Artistic.

I cannot win. This has happened several times before where in grading she tells me I simply didn't do a key requirement of the assignment, which I did. When I ask her about it, she either ignores it or retorts with some excuse as to why what I have done doesn't really count. Sometimes it's that I didn't read her mind and do my headings the way that she would have. Sometimes it's that I wrote in a paragraph and not a list. Sometimes I wrote in a list and not a paragraph. Sometimes, it's that I technically did it, but it isn't quite what she was expecting (no, she never clarifies what that means). One time she gave me partial credit when I pushed for 3 weeks after she graded me down 20% on one assignment for no reason.

I'm sick of this. I hate this program, I hate these teachers. I need to find a different grad school program because this...... Is abusive. Plain and simple. And I cannot live my life like this for 2 more years.

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LGBTQ Centers in North Carolina

October 19th was LGBTQ Center Awareness Day. LGBTQ centers are a huge resource to the community. They provide support, resources, education, crisis intervention and more. We have compiled a list of all the LGBTQ centers in the state of North Carolina.

LGBTQ Center of Raleigh

19 W. Hargett St. Suite 507 Raleigh, NC. 27601 (919)832-4484 info@lgbtcenterofraleigh.com

LGBTQ Center of Durham

1007 Broad St, Durham, NC 27705 (919) 827-1436

LGBTQ Center of the Cape Fear Coast

1506 Market Street Wilmington NC 28401 (910) 262-0327 info@lgbtqcapefear.org

Carolina's Care Partnership

5855 Executive Center Dr Suite 200 Charlotte, NC 28212 (704) 531-2467

Guilford Green Foundation & LGBTQ Center

121 N. Greene Street Greensboro, NC 27401 (336) 790-8419 center@ggfnc.org

North Star LGBTQ+ Community Center

930 Burke St. Winston-Salem, NC 27101 (336) 893-9053 info@northstarlgbtcc.com 

Blue Ridge Pride

PO Box 2044, Asheville NC 28802-2044 (828) 423-0655 Hello@BlueRidgePride.org

Onslow County LGBTQ Center

2440 Commerce Rd, Jacksonville, NC 28546 (910) 333-9968 info@onslowcountylgbtq.com

Youth Specific Centers:

Youth OUTright

PMB 128, 30 Westgate Pkwy, Asheville NC 28806 (866) 881-3721 INFO@YOUTHOUTRIGHT.ORG

Time Out Youth

3800 Monroe Road, Charlotte, NC 28205 (704) 344-8335 Info@timeoutyouth.org

Youth SAFE

Greensboro, NC YOUTHSAFEGSO@GMAIL.COM

OUTright Youth

748 4th Street SW, Hickory, NC 28602 outrightcv@gmail.com

iNSIDEoUT 180

PO Box 25217 Durham, NC 27702 boardinsideout@gmail.com

University LGBTQ Centers:

Many universities in NC have an LGBTQ Center, but not all. Some that don't, have diversity and inclusion centers which provide similar services.

App State

East Carolina

NC A&T

NC Central

NC State

UNC Chapel Hill

UNC Wilmington

Duke Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity

Wake Forest University LGBTQ Center

Queens University

Elon University

National Call Centers:

The Trevor Helpline:

1-866-4UTREVOR (1-866-488-7386) http://www.thetrevorproject.org/

Trans Lifeline

(877) 565-8860 http://www.translifeline.org/ 

National Runaway Switchboard:

1-800-RUNAWAY/1-800-786-2929 http://www.1800runaway.org/

RAINN - Rape Abuse & Incest National Network

1-800-656-HOPE (4673) http://www.rainn.org/

GLBT National Youth Talkline:

1-800-246-7743 http://www.glnh.org/

National Domestic Violence Hotline:

1-800-799-SAFE (1-800-799-7233) http://www.glnh.org/

National Child Abuse Hotline:

1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453) http://www.childhelp.org/

National Youth Crisis Hotline:

1-800-442-HOPE (1-800-442-4673)

[maculategiraffe]

just saw your answer to the last ask! which part of NC are you from? i was thinking of applying to a job in durham which is why i'm asking

I'm in the Triad, as opposed to the Triangle, which is what Durham is part of. the Triad is Greensboro, High Point, and Winston-Salem; the Triangle is Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. the Triangle is pretty great, maybe a tad bit more scholarly and hipstery and bikeable than the Triad. my sister lived there for a year or so after graduation and there were very good restaurants. lots of good universities too. and indie bookstores and music venues and art galleries. but again this is the only state where I've ever lived so I might be biased!