Greensboro, NC News and In-Depth Reporting

A Community Remembers Yvonne Johnson, ‘The Conscience of the City.’

Long-time council member and the first Black mayor of Greensboro, Yvonne Johnson. Photo courtesy of the city of Greensboro.

Greensboro’s first Black mayor, fought segregation and built community in the city she loved.

At Greensboro’s HBCUs, Persistence in the Face of Defeat

N.C. A&T students hold It’s About Us shirts during a Black Voters Matter bus tour through campus on November 4, 2024. (Photo courtesy Korey Davis Photography)

Kamala Harris would have been the nation’s first president to graduate from an HBCU. Students say her loss won’t damper their political engagement.

N.C. A&T Students Carefully Planned a Candidate Forum. Then Mark Robinson Crashed.

N.C. A&T student and moderator Quentin Clarke with Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and superintendent of public instruction candidate Michele Morrow. (Photo by Joe Killian)

Mark Robinson contacted N.C. A&T organizers the day of the event to say he was coming—whether they wanted him or not.

Revisiting the Greensboro Massacre 45 Years Later

Rev. Nelson Johnson and his wife, Joyce, stand beside a historical marker for the Greensboro Massacre in Greensboro in August 2017. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

“The relevance is not just timely but timeless,” says the author of a new book about the Greensboro Massacre.

The Faculty Diplomat

Wade Maki, a philosophy lecturer at UNC-Greensboro, leads the UNC System's faculty assembly. (Photo courtesy of Maki)

At a tense time for the UNC System, faculty assembly leader Wade Maki says he’s focused on building relationships and credibility.

Postmark Greensboro: A Historic Transit Hub Could Be Key to Downtown’s Next Chapter

This 1935 postcard shows off the Southern Railway Passenger Station (now the J. Douglas Galyon Depot) on E. Washington Street. When it was built in 1927, it was one of the East Coast's largest and most grand railway stations.

Greensboro’s Southern Railway Passenger Station was one of the grandest on the East Coast. Nearly 100 years later, it could play a pivotal role in the future.

‘Nobody Knows Where the Line Is’

Illustration of UNC-Greensboro and rpk GROUP by The Chronicle; photos by Julia Schmalz, The Chronicle; Makiya Seminera, AP; Carolyn de Berry, The Assembly; iStock

When cost-cutting universities hire consultants, who’s really making the decisions? UNC-Greensboro offers a case study.

Postmark Greensboro: A Tale of Two O. Henry Hotels

The original O. Henry Hotel, opened in 1919 at the corner of Bellemeade and N. Elm Streets in downtown Greensboro. By the time this card was sent in 1942, it was a city landmark.

Two landmark hotels in Greensboro took their name from the city’s greatest storyteller. Separated by decades, each carried on his romantic Bohemian legacy.

Back in the Game

Former Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins, the first candidate to announce he's running for mayor in 2025.

Former Mayor Robbie Perkins says Greensboro needs a strong leader. More than a decade after leaving council, Perkins says he’s the man for the job.

Postmark Greensboro: UNCG, Then and Now

The Julius I. Foust Building seen from a postcard sent in 1912. The schools was known at that time as the State Normal and Industrial College.

Charles Duncan McIver founded what would become UNC-Greensboro in 1891, expanding access to higher education and changing the face of public education in North Carolina.