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Thomas Hearn at UAB, 1978. Thomas K. Hearn Jr. (July 5, 1937 – August 18, 2008) was the twelfth president of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.Hearn served as president from 1983 to 2005, which is the second-longest tenure in the university's history.
Rick Duckett, 66, American basketball coach (Fayetteville State Broncos, Winston-Salem State Rams, Grambling State Tigers), cancer. [235] John Pat Fanning, 89, American politician and mortician, member of the West Virginia Senate (1996–2012). [236] Norma Fernandes, Pakistani teacher. [237]
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
Pearl Anna Neal was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, the daughter of Nora L. Neal (later Nora Caldwell). [1] She attended Lincoln Academy in King's Mountain.She graduated from Howard University's Conservatory of Music in 1922, and pursued further studies at the Juilliard School and the Chicago Institute of Music.
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. Taylor became publisher at that time.
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In September 1974, he co-founded Winston-Salem Chronicle in Winston-Salem (a weekly newspaper that focuses on the African-American community) and in 1986 he founded The Nigeria Monitor the first weekly newspaper in Nnewi. He raised local readers awareness on local politics and community affairs, which earned him the nickname Monitor.
The Land Breakers, out of print for several decades, was republished in 2006 by Press 53, a small imprint in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. With The Land Breakers, he started a seven-part series of historical fiction about the Appalachian region. [7] Two of his 11 novels have been adapted as films: The Winter People and The Journey of August King.