noted. WHAT AN HONOR The New York Times named Hayti Heritage Center in its list of “8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History,” citing the rich past of Black Wall Street and St. Joseph AME Church, which dates back to 1892, as well as the center’s arts programming.
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Clarkston Hines and the late Robert “Stonewall” Jackson
were named among the class of 2023 inductees to the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. Clarkston was a two-time first-team All American and three-time first-team allACC football player for Duke University. He was named the 1989 ACC Player of American Dance the Year and 1990 Festival will award ACC Male Athlete Rennie Harris – of the Year – the known for his work McKevlin Award – as a choreographer, and was inducted into educator and the Duke Athletics Hall PHOTO BY ambassador for hipof Fame and College OSAMU INOUE hop style dance – the Football Hall of Fame. 2023 Samuel H. Robert spent 30 years Scripps/American as an educator and Dance Festival coach at North Carolina Award for lifetime Central University. achievement. Dance Before that, he played Education Laboratory football at what is BY founder Jody Gottfried PHOTO now North Carolina WHITNEY BROWNE Arnhold will also A&T State University be honored with the 2023 and was the first African Balasaraswati/Joy Anne Dewey American from a historically Beinecke Endowed Chair for Black college to be drafted Distinguished Teaching award. by the NFL.
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LET’S TACO ‘BOUT IT Lawrence Barbecue and Lagoon Bar owner Jake Wood’s third concept, Leroy’s Tacos n Beer, was slated to open at Boxyard RTP on March 25, as of press time. Leroy’s will offer the fan favorite Lawrence Barbecue special brisket birria tacos, among other tacos and sides, as well as canned beer and Micheladas.
Candle company Bright Black won top honors in the craft category of Our State magazine’s 2022 Made in NC Awards for its Genre collection, which references five Black musical traditions – bachata, hip-hop, gospel, rock and yemanja – as distinctive candle scents.
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Pauli Murray, an accomplished
human rights activist who grew up in Durham, will be featured on United States quarters as one of five 2024 honorees of the U.S. Mint’s American Women
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Quarters Program. Pauli was an advocate for social justice as well as a poet, writer, lawyer and the first American Black woman to become an ordained Episcopal priest. Designs for the quarters will be released later this year. The NC Restaurant & Lodging Association awarded Parizade’s Igor Gacina a NCRLA Stars of the Industry Award for Restaurant Manager of the Year. Igor was honored for his 30-year career at Parizade