Winston-Salem

At a campaign event in Winston-Salem on the eve of the 1976 North Carolina Democratic primary, a voter asked then-candidate Jimmy Carter whether he was a “born again” Christian.

In 2017, Wheeler received the Living Legend Award from the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, N.C., which he called a “tremendous honor,” according to his obituary.

Since then officials in Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Asheville and Wake County, N.C., have scrapped plans for motel conversions with Step Up and Shangri-La, according to Blue Ridge Public Radio.

In the 1750s, Moravians settled in what would become present-day Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

No Democrat filed to run in the seat, which stretches from Greensboro and Winston-Salem south and west to Concord.