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Blanche Penn: ‘I’m a freedom fighter’
March 8, 2016 Longtime Forum participant Blanche Penn offered this presentation today on her life work. ... Continue Reading →
Lucy Bush Carter on Friendship Trays
March 8, 2016 Lucy Bush Carter today offered an overview of the work of Friendship Trays, the Charlotte-area meals-on-wheels nonprofit. ... Continue Reading →
James Ford: Don’t limit kids’ futures by the parents they didn’t choose
March 8, 2016 James Ford is a former N.C. Teacher of the Year. His years as a world history teacher at Garinger have been widely chronicled. Today he was back in Belmont/Villa Heights, which he identified as the stomping ground of many of his former students. His short talk was focused on his ... Continue Reading →
An appeal for turnout at a student assignment meeting
March 1, 2016 At the end of the memorial for Malachi Greene, Carlenia Ivory made a pitch for turnout at a CMS Policy Committee meeting on March 10 at 6 p.m. at the Government Center. No public comments will be taken during the committee meeting. ... Continue Reading →
Remembering Malachi Greene
March 1, 2016 Participants at the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum today took turns coming to front to speak about Malachi Greene, a longtime Forum participant, political activist, former Charlotte City Council member and nurturer of many good things in Charlotte. The stories suggest that his ... Continue Reading →
Three women who went first
Feb. 23, 2016 They were asked how they wanted to be remembered, these three African-American women who were first in their fields to be clerk of court, or social worker, or school board chair. It was a way to unearth what had motivated them to do, to keep doing. Perhaps their testimony will ... Continue Reading →
Simmons: ‘Bad’ CMS schools can be fixed ‘overnight’
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To Charlotte’s young leaders struggling for the common good
Feb. 16, 2016 Forum co-founder Sarah Stevenson this morning asked Forum participants to honor the memory of MarShawn McCarrel, a 23-year-old Ohio activist who, succumbing to depression, took his own life on Feb. 9. But her message was for the living: "There are young women and men who come in ... Continue Reading →
Lessons learned as African-Americans won seats in halls of local government
Feb 16, 2016 Five men who brought African-American voices to the table in Charlotte in the 1970s and thereafter recounted their efforts and those of others to push Charlotte to become an inclusive city. Stories spilled out in an extended edition of the Forum this morning. The stories were about ... Continue Reading →
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