Winston-Salem State University
Sunday, July 20, 2025
On Monday Feb. 18 Leah Poole, a sophomoreat Winston- Salem State, was struck bya car while crossing Martin Luther King Jr.Drive. Poole was crossing the busy street in the crosswalk when she was permitted to cross by a car slowing at the stoplight. According to WSSU Police Captain Marcus Sutton, […]
Do you ever get the feeling that instead of moving up to Division I and joing the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference [MEAC], that Winston-Salem State should have remained in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association [CIAA]? The CIAA is a Division II Historically Black College and University conference composed of10 schools in […]
For more than 60 years, Winston-Salem State was one of the best and most consistent athletic programs in the CIAA. WSSU produced top-flight athletes like Earl Monroe, Cleo Hill, Tim Newsome, Richard Huntley and the winningest HBCU basketball coach Clarence “Big House” Gaines. Monroe and Gaines helped the Rams win […]
In the past few years, the media has presented many reports on the growing problemof overweight Americans. Being overweight leads to many health problems that cost people their lives as well as money as medical care needs increase. According to Hubert Chen, M.D., AssociateDirector of Medical Sciences at Amgen Inc. […]
For students at Winston-Salem State, March 10 is an important date.It marks the first day of spring break at WSSU. The week-long break – March 10 to 14 – gives students a chance to recharge and relax for the final push of the semester. Most college breaks fall between March […]
On Feb. 26, legendary director Spike Lee spoke to a full house at K.R. Williams Auditorium on the campus of Winston-Salem State. Lee served as the keynote speaker for Black Men For Change’s 5th Annual Black Male Symposium. A jet-lagged Lee talked to students and audience members about several topics, […]
There has been a 30 percent increase of white enrollment at Historically Black Colleges and Universities since 1970. A extreme example of the increase is Bluefield State, a HBCU in West Virginia, which is now 91 percent white. This truly defies the historical aspect of an HBCU, because the only […]
Although last night’s game was billed as “Senior Night,” several underclassmen came through for Winston- Salem State as it eked out a 68-65 victory over Norfolk State in the LJVM Annex. Junior Jamal Durham led the Rams with 17 points and added seven rebounds, while freshman Paul Davis finished with […]
At a Student Body Forum Meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 20, Winston-Salem State’s Student Government Association distributed copies of a letter that Student Body President Robert Terrell Stephens sent on Feb. 11 to WSSU Chancellor Donald L. Reaves. The letter contains seven request of the student body to the chancellor, the […]
ESPN Original Entertainment, in collaboration with Shoot the Moon Productions and award-winning director Dan Klores, has announced plans for ESPN to televise a two-part, four-hour film tentatively titled “Black Magic” about the injustice which defined the civil rights movement in America, as told through the lives of basketball players and […]