"Incredible Black Women You Should Know About" – The Series Mary Jane Patterson – First African-American Woman to Receive B.A. degree Sept. 12, 1840 – Sept. 24, 1894 By DonnaMarie Woodson This article, from the October 2021 edition of the Charmeck Chronicle, is published here with permission ... Continue Reading →
Where’s the outrage over reading achievement decline?
Sept 10, 2021 The following commentary was first published by QCityMetro (website; PDF) and The Charlotte Post (website; PDF) on Sept. 8. The last Facebook post of Heather Hyer (the young white woman killed in Charlottesville, Va. during the Fight White Supremacy Protest) read, "If you are not ... Continue Reading →
‘The first published poet – Phillis Wheatley’
"Incredible Black Women You Should Know About" – The Series If I hear "Critical Race Theory" one more time, I'm going to scream! Teaching a class on this scholarly investigation of the intersectionality of law and race is not a thing. Since 2020, conservative U.S. lawmakers have sought to ban or ... Continue Reading →
Happy 95th, Thelma McKoy
June 8, 2021 The Forum marks the upcoming 95th birthday of Thelma N. McKoy of Charlotte, “one of Charlotte's pioneers and historians that originally brought to Charlotte the Juneteenth event celebration,” writes Garcia Nelson. Maria Macon recalls that McKoy “started small, hosting Juneteenth in ... Continue Reading →
NAACP leader on protests after police killing in Elizabeth City
April 27, 2021 Another family mourns. Another city gathers up its resources to sustain a street protest in the name of justice. Another African American is dead after law enforcement action to serve a search warrant. The community's name is Elizabeth City. Keith Rivers is president of the ... Continue Reading →
‘Holding on to Hope’
Nov. 1, 2020 Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, offered the sermon at the National Cathedral’s Nov. 1 service, "Holding on to Hope: A National Service for Healing and Wholeness." Click on the photo above to watch the video. Before his 2015 election as presiding ... Continue Reading →
‘Havana Chapman-Edwards – Young Changemaker’
This article, from the August 2020 edition of the Charmeck Chronicle, is published here with permission of the author. By DonnaMarie Woodson I'd like to introduce you to an incredibly determined, and passionate 9-year old "Change Maker" - Havana Chapman-Edwards. She gives me hope for a future of ... Continue Reading →
Rejecting the unconscionable
June 25, 2020 A statement to Bishops of the Episcopal Church by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, June 13, 2020. ... Continue Reading →
‘My daddy changed the world’
Page initiated June 6, 2020 “We are plagued with the harsh reality that it could be us. It is us. The songs that were sung and the movements that were made were all entirely too familiar. The Floyd family is just like any other black American family. In pain, grasping hope, and determined to meet ... Continue Reading →
“Legacies”: A new book about Charlotte’s African-American female pioneers
June 25, 2019 Dr. Debra C. Smith is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at UNCC. She detailed the meetings and interviews that produced "Legacies: African-American Female Pioneers" about Charlotte women who led, mostly behind the scenes, during the Civil Rights Movement. Smith said the book ... Continue Reading →
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