GDN Spotlights

Happy 108th Birthday NAACP: Forward Together, Not One Step Back!

Sunday, February 12th was the birthday membership celebration of the Duplin County NAACP.  An excited crowd met at the First Missionary Baptist Church of Warsaw and heard a rousing speech by Rev. Dr. Michelle A. Laws, former Executive Director of

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The Spotlight: Sampson-Duplin for March 2017

    Download The Sampson-Duplin Spotlight (The Spotlight), a monthly publication for Northeastern, N.C. Thanks to the help and support from area churches, businesses, political and community leaders. The Spotlight and GDN is distributed through local churches and businesses and is available free of charge. The ever

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The Spotlight: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford and Northampton for March 2017

Download The Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford and Northampton Spotlight (The Spotlight), a monthly publication for northeastern, N.C. Thanks to the help and support from area churches, businesses, political and community leaders. Church, business, political and community leaders are playing an instrumental role in

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Arlene Yates Honored during the 11th Annual Black Pearls Unsung Heroes Awards Banquet

By Annie White Arlene Yates, the recipient of the 2016 Black Pearls Unsung Hero Award for Business, is one of an elite group of eighty three women and five men from Northeastern North Carolina who have been honored by the

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A Real Belief in Equal Access to Opportunity: Congressman G. K. Butterfield

Congressman Butterfield is honored to call the First District of North Carolina home. Congressman G. K. Butterfield believes that if you work hard and play by the rules you deserve a fair shot at achieving the American Dream. But for

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Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford and Northampton Spotlight, February 2017

Download The Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford and Northampton Spotlight (The Spotlight), a monthly publication for northeastern, N.C. Thanks to the help and support from area churches, businesses, political and community leaders. Church, business, political and community leaders are playing an instrumental role in

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The Sampson-Duplin Spotlight for February 2017

                               Download The Sampson-Duplin Spotlight (The Spotlight), a monthly publication for Southeastern, N.C. Thanks to the help and support from area churches, businesses, political and community leaders. The Spotlight and GDN is distributed through local churches and businesses and is available free of charge. The ever

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Dr. A. J. Connors, KEMBA Moderator Church and Community Leadership

By Peter Grear, Greater Diversity News This is the first in a planned series of articles intended to analyze community leadership provided by Black churches.  Historically and today churches are our most strategic community anchors and as goes the churches,

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Moving Forward: The Sampson-Duplin Spotlight

The Sampson-Duplin Spotlight made a quiet entry into Sampson and Duplin Counties with its October publication.  By doing so, it became the first publication in the counties to publish news from a Black perspective.  The community support of the Spotlight

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History Made in the Town of Weldon

The Weldon Town of Commissioners recently voted to appoint Katherine Parker as the new Director of Administrative Services (Town Clerk).  Ms. Katherine Parker is the first African American to be hired in this position for the town. A Weldon native,

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The Sampson-Duplin Spotlight for December 2016

  Download The Sampson-Duplin Spotlight (The Spotlight), a monthly publication for Northeastern, N.C. Thanks to the help and support from area churches, businesses, political and community leaders. The Spotlight and GDN is distributed through local churches and businesses and is available free of charge. The ever growing

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Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford and Northampton Spotlight, December 2016

Download The Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford and Northampton Spotlight (The Spotlight), a monthly publication for northeastern, N.C. Thanks to the help and support from area churches, businesses, political and community leaders. Church, business, political and community leaders are playing an instrumental role in

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NAACP Rally, Forum and Freedom Fund Banquet

Evidenced by the growing interest and support of the Sampson County Branch of the NAACP, the day of the group’s Freedom Fund Banquet has become a special occasion. Saturday, October 1, 2016, on the morning of the day of the

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Why We Must Continue to Fight Efforts to Suppress Black Votes

In all democracies, the right to vote is fundamental to the legitimacy of an elected government chosen by the participatory action and will of the people eligible to vote. For 47 million Black Americans, the right to vote is a

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Spotlight on a Pastor: Biographical Sketch of Rev. O. D. Sykes

Rev. O. D. Sykes is the youngest of four children, born to the parents of Deacon Paul C. & Deaconess Bessie M. Sykes of Garysburg, NC. He has two brothers, one sister, nine nieces and nephews, three great nephews and

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Dreams Do Come True: from Dreamer to Doctor

In Bertie County, in a small southern town in eastern North Carolina called Powellsville, there is a community leader quietly going about his day meeting the medical needs of a community he never knew until his passion for service outweighed

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