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William W. Smith is considered the first Black architect in the city of Charlotte. Smith was born in Mecklenburg County where he lived all his life. With no formal education, Smith appeared in the Charlotte City Directory as a brick mason in the early 1890s and at the end of the decade he was briefly…

This article was originally written October 9, 2015 at The Salisbury Post. SALISBURY — Even in the last seven years of her life spent at the Brian Center for health and rehabilitation, Delaine Tabor Fleming found ways to be a nurse, mentor, advocate and friend. Her positive disposition served her well at the center and…

By Pete Prunkl For Historic Salisbury Foundation Historic Salisbury Foundation has long referred to our town’s National Register Historic Districts as the Ten Jewels of Salisbury. The districts — some as small as five houses and others as large as 500 — are indeed preservation gems that other cities would be proud to claim. The…

This week’s Black History Month Salisburian of note was a daily fixture in the community. Former Salisbury Post employee, Mr. Joe Juno, writes of Garland Gaither when he knew him in the 1970’s in his memoir, “INK: A Life in Letters.” “Garland started working at the newspaper in the 1930s — his job was to…

With the support of the AME Zion Church and the support of Salisbury residents, Dr. Price established Livingstone College and become its president in October 1882, when he was twenty-eight years old. (Originally called Zion Wesley College, its name was changed to that of the African explorer and missionary David Livingstone in 1885.) Price’s activist role in civil rights and…