May 5, 2025 Lynching "To put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal approval or permission." – Merriam-Webster There might not have been a hanging tree in the 20 Century lynchings of two Black males in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. A mob with guns. A landlord with, what, a ... Continue Reading →
NAACP Convention in Charlotte July 12-16
April 29, 2025 NAACP CEO Derrick Johnson today helped launch media and other efforts to draw a crowd to Charlotte July 12-16 for the civil rights group's annual convention. Johnson offered an overview of how federal policies that impact tariffs, recession, inflation, etc. may soon constrict many ... Continue Reading →
Helping youth open doors to a rewarding lifetime
April 29, 2025 Youth who didn't grow up watching adults install electrical wiring might scurry from the sound of circuit breakers blowing, or the furnace beginning to sound like a jet taking off from the roof. Similarly, youth who didn't grow up around adults who told them about attending ... Continue Reading →
Harold C. Dixon dies; retired from CMS
April 27, 2025 Harold C. Dixon died on Saturday, April 26, 2025. Mr. Dixon retired from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in 2024 after more than 37 years of service. He was youth choir director at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church on Beatties Ford Road in Charlotte. He played an active role in PTAs at ... Continue Reading →
CMS lauds progress, pleads for volunteers to help
April 22, 2025 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Chief of Staff Dr. Ingrid Medlock and her associates brought multiple messages this morning: Much of the initial presentation was about celebration, with descriptors like "absolutely" and "obviously" and "very excited" and "what we can celebrate" and ... Continue Reading →
2 courageous teens stood for justice; their stories retold
April 15, 2025 Listen below, young people, to the eyewitness testimonies of two women who, as teenagers, faced harassment, name-calling and worse just for having a commitment to obtain a good education. Listen below, young people, to judge what it took to make Charlotte, not a perfect place, but ... Continue Reading →
Library system aims to expand services to all, CEO says
April 8, 2025 Behind each second-floor framed window at the new University City Regional Library, there is a lounge chair. Nearly every chair is filled most hours of the day, says library system CEO MT Turner. And that excites him. A public enterprise serving its public. Expanding its reach to ... Continue Reading →
An explainer on fair housing enforcement activities
April 1, 2025 As the Fair Housing Month sponsored by the National Association of Realtors opened, staff members from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee (CRC) offered a session on local efforts to encourage nondiscrimination in housing and public accommodations. The CRC ... Continue Reading →
How America was ‘Segregated By Design’
April 1, 2025 The video above is narrated by Richard Rothstein, the longtime researcher and writer on education subjects. From 1999 to 2002, he was the national education columnist for the New York Times. The video explores the issues Rothstein pursued in his 2017 book, "The Color of Law: A ... Continue Reading →
First Black female firefighter continues to fight
March 25, 2025 Linda Lockhart arrived with her family in Charlotte as the schools were desegregating in 1970. Her narrative this morning about her experiences as the first African-American woman hired into the Charlotte Fire Department is difficult to listen to. But overall it's compatible with ... Continue Reading →
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