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An off-duty Greensboro police officer was killed Saturday, prompting a statewide Blue Alert to seek the public’s help in finding the suspects. On Sunday, the Greensboro Police Department ...
Alan Branson, American politician [10] Michael Brooks, NFL defensive back [11] Hal "Skinny" Brown, MLB pitcher, member of Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame [12] Tony Brown, record producer [13] Joseph M. Bryan, businessman and philanthropist, lived in Greensboro until his death in 1995.
The first sit-in happened in February 1960 when four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The movement spread across the South, reaching Rock Hill on Feb. 12, when about 100 black students staged sit-ins at various ...
Market America was founded in 1992 by former Amway distributor James Howard Ridinger and his wife Loren Ridinger. [3] [4] The company is headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina and employed over 800 employees as of 2016. [1]
There were 6,101 flu cases reported in the state for the week of Oct. 30, the latest data from the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control shows. That’s nearly double the previous week ...
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a public institution located in Greensboro, North Carolina. Following is a list of notable alumni from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The university was known as the State Normal and Industrial School from 1891 to 1896, the State Normal and Industrial College from 1896 to 1919 ...
Greensboro ( / ˈɡriːnzbʌroʊ / ⓘ; [ 5 ] local pronunciation / ˈɡriːnzbʌrə /) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. At the 2020 census, its population was 299,035; it was estimated to be 302,296 in 2023. [ 6 ] It is the third-most populous city in North Carolina after Charlotte and Raleigh ...
Carolina Peacemaker. The Carolina Peacemaker is an African-American weekly newspaper in Greensboro in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It began publication in 1967 [2] and is a member of the National Newspaper Publishers Association [3] and the North Carolina Press Association. [4] It has a weekly circulation of 9,100 copies.