July 17, 2018 The question on the floor was civic engagement. But the real question was: How does the black community stop electing people who proceed to ignore the black community’s interests? These were some of the answers laid out by Black Political Caucus chair and longtime education ... Continue Reading →
Sickle cell patients need African-Americans to donate blood
July 13, 2018 Jessica Jankowski writes that, where the blood supply meets patients with sickle cell disease, there is “a problem.” “This past week alone, JUST ONE local hospital required over 170 of these specially matched units to treat sickle cell patients,” says Jankowski, communications ... Continue Reading →
Know your rights: A glimpse of CMPD transparency presentation
July 10, 2018 Maria Macon introduced the morning's task: Get a bit of exposure to what is going in at the Council of Elders' daylong Know Your Rights workshops. A piece of that workshop is CMPD Officer Shawn Ward's police transparency training. Ward told the group that how police share ... Continue Reading →
Tough cop becomes advocate for mental health training for officers
June 26, 2018 Kareem Puranda says he now knows what it's like to face a tough cop who knows the system well enough to get away with trashing lives and wrecking families. For Kareem Puranda says he was once such a cop. Today, the self-published author is a counselor and believes that all police ... Continue Reading →
REAL ID: NC gears up for a security measure born out of 9/11
Lisa Crawford; excerpts from a REAL ID brochure; download the brochure here. June 19, 2018 Even in a crowd that knew and loved her, Lisa Crawford had tough go of it, wading through the cynicism and suspicion. Imagine less loving crowds, where she must again detail how a massive change in driver's ... Continue Reading →
City’s budget: Staff repeatedly questioned about westside investments
June 12, 2018 It was Tuesday morning, and during the previous evening the Charlotte City Council had given its approval to a budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year. It was no longer the city manager's proposed budget; it was the Council's budget. But nonetheless, it was City Manager Marcus ... Continue Reading →
Update on The Excelsior Club
Left, Ken Koontz; facade of Excelsior Club in undated James Peeler photo. June 5, 2018 Ken Koontz opened today's Open Forum with an update on the status of the shuttered Excelsior Club. Koontz was a part-owner of the Beatties Ford Road institution in the 1980s. The nightclub was a gathering ... Continue Reading →
Blue Star Mothers
May 29, 2018 They're in a sort of club, the Blue Star Mothers, that few would be excited to join: They have or have had family members in the U.S. military. The Gold Star Mothers among them have seen loved ones lose their lives in the service of their country. Yet they are reaching out to each ... Continue Reading →
Charleston Carter, Trial Court Administrator
May 22, 2018 Charleston Carter is the first African-American Trial Court Administrator in Mecklenburg's 26th Judicial District. He became TCA in November, after 22 years of experience in similar positions in Georgia. A court website says the job entails "development of local rules and ... Continue Reading →
How science now sees adverse experiences impacting children
May 15, 2018 Tuesday's presentation offered a view into how scientists' understanding of childhood behavior has been revolutionized by examining the impact that the violence and abuse that children witness early in their lives poisons them and seems to cause physical and mental illness later – ... Continue Reading →
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