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The Daily Record is a member of the North Carolina Newspaper Association. The newspaper was previously known as: [3] The Daily Record. (Dunn, N.C.) 1950-1978, OCLC: 13168584; The Dunn Dispatch. (Dunn, N.C.) 1914-1978, OCLC: 26794344
The first such newspaper in North Carolina was the Journal of Freedom of Raleigh, which published its first issue on September 30, 1865. [1] The African American press in North Carolina has historically been centered on a few large cities such as Raleigh, Durham, and Greensboro.
The Winston-Salem Journal, started by Charles Landon Knight, began publishing in the afternoons on April 3, 1897. The area's other newspaper, the Twin City Sentinel , also was an afternoon paper. Knight moved out of the area and the Journal had several owners before publisher D.A. Fawcett made it a morning paper starting January 2, 1902.
Darryl Hunt (February 24, 1965 – March 13, 2016) was an African-American man from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who, in 1984, was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and the murder of Deborah Sykes, a young white newspaper copy editor. After being convicted in that case, Hunt was tried in 1987 for the 1983 ...
The Twin-City Sentinel was the name of the afternoon newspaper published in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Sentinel ' s masthead was dropped in 1985 when operations were absorbed into its sister paper, the morning Winston-Salem Journal. Twin City derived from the fact that Winston and Salem began as separate cities.
Bowman Gray was born in what was then Winston, North Carolina, to Wachovia co-founder James Alexander Gray and the former Aurelia Bowman. After receiving his primary and secondary education in his hometown, Gray matriculated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 1890-91 academic year and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
The Chronicle won numerous awards including the John Russwurm Award as best Black newspaper in the United States. [ 5 ] Derwin Montgomery and James Taylor, the managing directors of Chronicle Media Group LLC, said March 27, 2017 that their company was buying The Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. by May 2017.
Dunn is the most populous city of Harnett County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 8,446 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is, along with Harnett County, part of the Anderson Creek , NC Micropolitan Statistical Area , which is also included in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary , NC Combined Statistical Area .