June 7, 2016 Open Forums regularly cover a lot of ground. Today’s was no exception. – CMS is hiring bus drivers. Jon Kennerly and Cindy Jeffries explain the details. A flier is here. – Sheila Peltzer continues to lobby legislators for a more robust legal presumption that both parents should ... Continue Reading →
Young Entrepreneurs Network: A living, singing ambassador
April 5, 2016 Maria Macon had brought a group of young people to the Forum Sept. 4, 2014 to introduce them as the Young Entrepreneurs Network. Macon teaches business basics, and she will soon launch Class 5. And to give an example of young African-American entrepreneurs finding success, Macon ... Continue Reading →
CIAA staffers describe operation, upcoming tournament, outreach
Jan. 12, 2016 The small staff of Charlotte-based CIAA manages dozens of operations each year. But they are gearing up for one of the larger such operations: the CIAA basketball tournament. In a presentation this morning, two staff members described how the organization is set up, and what's ... Continue Reading →
‘Working to get more of Charlotte connected’
Nov. 19, 2015 QCityMetro profiles J’Tanya Adams’ work spearheading Saturday’s Internet and Computer Bazaar to provide more low-income families access to the Internet. Read the story here. ... Continue Reading →
Entrepreneurs all: Owners of businesses of all sizes share experiences
July 28, 2015 Three sat at the speakers' table. More just stood up in the audience. Tuesday's Forum turned into a celebration of the entrepreneurial spirit that has propelled African-Americans into the middle class and opened up new opportunities in the community. Artist Tommie ... Continue Reading →
Chapman: Rebuilding Briar Creek church still lies ahead
July 2, 2015 Jeremiah Chapman, a staffer for 12th District U.S. Rep. Alma Adams and frequent Forum participant, addressed the task ahead to rebuild Briar Creek Road Baptist Church, at a gathering sponsored by the NAACP on church safety in the wake of the Charleston murders. The event drew a ... Continue Reading →
H. Allen Smith keynotes Growing the Dream Awards Luncheon
Jan. 17, 2015 Dr. H. Allen Smith inspired the creation of Charlotte's Growing the Dream Awards ceremony in 2014 when he was an area superintendent under Heath Morrison. Then he was gone. Saturday, he was back from the Oakland Unified School District in California where he is chief of schools, to ... Continue Reading →
Fuller: We want action on creating upward mobility out of poverty
Trevor Fuller said Tuesday that the task force on poverty issues that begins its work in January must have open conversations about the role of race in making Charlotte-Mecklenburg one of the most difficult places in North Carolina and the nation for a family to make its way out of ... Continue Reading →
Observer editor Fannie Flono retires
Charlotte Observer editorial writer Fannie Flono would periodically attend the Forum, drawn by the subject of the day. She would generally sit in the back and listen, writing on a yellow pad. The Forum was one of those dozens of places where Flono "gathered string," as journalists say, collecting ... Continue Reading →
Vi Alexander Lyles on Gentrification
At today's Forum, a member of the audience asserted that African-Americans were losing their communities, that governments spent money in black neighborhoods only after whites started to move in, and that neighborhoods where poor blacks continued to live were in worse shape than 50 years ... Continue Reading →
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