Jan. 17, 2022 Today's WBTV special report on the day of a COVID-truncated MLK Day celebration focused on the civil rights leader’s impact on Charlotte. The hour-long report is at the WBTV website here. At one point, reporter Dedrick Russell quizzed four African-Americans now in Charlotte ... Continue Reading →
New name, same mission: Sarah Stevenson Tuesday Forum
Jan. 4, 2022 Sarah Stevenson Tuesday Forum. Facilitators this morning announced their November decision to re-brand the community group that's been known over the years as a club and a forum but chiefly as the place where one strong woman insisted that people could get along and, by golly, they ... Continue Reading →
Claudette Colvin: A teen sits down, before Rosa Parks
"Incredible Black Women You Should Know About" – The Series Claudette Colvin (Before Rosa Parks) (September 5, 1939 – ) By DonnaMarie Woodson This article, from the January 2022 edition of the Charmeck Chronicle, is published here with permission of the author. Before Rosa Parks refused to ... Continue Reading →
Forum delays return to in-person meetings
Dec. 21, 2021 At a virtual meeting this afternoon, the Forum's facilitators decided to delay until further notice any return to in-person Forum meetings. Facilitators had earlier expressed optimism that in-person meetings would resume Jan. 4. Then along came Omicron. The possibly less lethal ... Continue Reading →
Looking for a New Year’s Resolution?
Dec. 15, 2021 From an Episcopal News Service Q&A with The Rev. Fletcher Harper, a priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, N.J., and executive director of the Manhattan-based GreenFaith, a worldwide, multi-faith climate and environmental movement. Q: I read that you will be ... Continue Reading →
Retired principal reaches out to CMS
Dec. 6, 2021 In a document apparently aimed at a CMS Board of Education under fire for disarray in its schoolhouses, veteran educator Kenneth Simmons says he can make a difference, if only the school system would allow him to do so: "On many instances in the past, I have attempted to share with ... Continue Reading →
‘It’s about building a legacy of knowledge’
Dec. 5, 2021 “God has left me here long enough to be an instrument,” he says. “I could sell myself off to museums and galleries, and become something not pretty. But it’s not about the money to me. It’s about building a legacy of knowledge.” – Self-taught artist Charlie Lucas, Selma, Ala., in the ... Continue Reading →
Another perspective on Beatties Ford mural
Dec. 3, 2021 Elloree Erwin sent in photos she took of Abel Jackson’s 2021 mural at West End Fresh Seafood Market (shown inset photo, Google) at 2206 Beatties Ford Rd. Six prominent African-Americans portrayed in the mural are, from left, Dr. Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, James Ferguson II, Julius ... Continue Reading →
Maggie Lena Walker: First Black Bank President
"Incredible Black Women You Should Know About" – The Series Maggie Lena Walker – First Black Bank President (July 15, 1864 – December 15, 1934) By DonnaMarie Woodson This article, from the December 2021 edition of the Charmeck Chronicle, is published here with permission of the ... Continue Reading →
NC board hears a lesson in N.C. race relations history
State Board of Education braces for resistance to its equity work by hearing lessons from the past By Rupen R. Fofaria, EducationNC October 12, 2020 The State Board of Education adopted a Whole Child Resolution four years ago. One month ago, it adopted its Equity Resolution. Between those ... Continue Reading →
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