On this Mother’s Day some 50 years ago, the Rev. Leighton B. McKeithen Jr. was at his best before a Highland Presbyterian Church congregation that filled the sanctuary to the balcony. When …

Joy Cogswell is an icon when it comes to music in this community. Her presence is a gift to any piano. And teaching young people the notes and keys of a piano is one of the joys of her life. She has been doing that for the past 20 years as director of Snyder Music Academy at Snyder Memorial Baptist Church.

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Here’s the truth of it: The Market House at the center of downtown Fayetteville already has been repurposed. No slave ever will be sold there again. No one, no matter the color of their skin. We as a community and a nation will not stand for that kind of conduct and discrimination.

When it comes to believing, Paul Peel needs not a single second to tell you the Lord has been his shepherd every day of his life. Not a single second, mind you. “Absolutely,” Peel, …

For state Rep. Marvin Lucas, Cape Fear Valley Medical Center has held a special place in his heart for more than 60 years. His mind wandered back to those days when the hospital was just a red brick …

Darvin Jones was a gentle man. He was quiet-spoken and unassuming, and yet so vital and significant when it came to the better health of the African-American community as the face and voice of the …

Slowly and in a soft voice, Kevin Golphin would relive that September day when he and his older brother, Tilmon Golphin, would end the watch of a state Highway Patrol trooper and a Cumberland County sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop along Interstate 95.

Al Lowry was like all of us on that bright and sunny afternoon of Sept. 23, 1997, when television and radio news reports were relaying the word that “officers were down” in a traffic stop …

This was heart-wrenching. This was painful to witness. And deeply emotional. “I have loved Edward since I was 16,” Dixie Lowry Davis, 70, was saying Monday as Judge Tom Locke was …