Medical disclaimer: The Forum's discussion on March 31, 2026, was about a very serious illness named multiple myeloma. The presentations and answers to questions provide some information on the disease, how it affects the body and some of the disease's symptoms. This information is provided to raise ... Continue Reading →
Visioning the future & building resources to make it happen
March 17, 2026 Deidra Willis has an approach to meshing life goals with financial instruments that might help you achieve the goals. First, the financial planner told Forum participants this morning, is to figure out where you're headed. Do you have the education you need? What assets ... Continue Reading →
Black women dying in childbirth: Action for solutions
SC roots of Brown: The Briggs v Elliott case
Feb. 12, 2026; material first published May 17, 2011 The 2011 links to YouTube videos broke some time ago, so this page will revive material captured at the Forum 15 years ago and link the material back to the Forum's archive. The 68 minutes of video in 2011 was captured on a small camcorder that ... Continue Reading →
Prices paid to achieve ‘successes’ of desegregation, urban ‘renewal’
Feb. 10, 2026 Tuesday's session was not a bus ride down Memory Lane. It was an occasionally searing experience of recreating the moment in African-Americans' lives when the cost of "urban renewal" or cross-town busing for school desegregation fell directly on their shoulders. And some of the ... Continue Reading →
After 50+ years, arts educators prepare a permanent home
Dec. 9, 2026 They will be vagabonds no more. After five decades on the move, the Community School of the Arts now branded as Arts Plus has found a permanent facility on The Plaza, even as many of its teachers' lessons with children learning the arts will continue to be held in area churches and ... Continue Reading →
CMS: Scores rising amidst steady leadership, but challenges ahead
Nov. 25, 2025 Mental health of students and staff. The deep fear among Charlotte-Mecklenburg's fast-growing Hispanic population, a sense of vulnerability shared not just by recent immigrants but by children born in the U.S. The challenge of running a public school system on last year's budget while ... Continue Reading →
Teaching students, not just curriculum
Perspective | A decade of exceeding growth: North Pitt High School's path to excellence By Rachel Candaso, EdNC.org | November 20, 2025 The sign out front says it all: “Welcome to the Greatest High School in the USA!” It might sound bold, but when you step through the doors of North Pitt ... Continue Reading →
Strengthening early literacy: How one principal gets books into the hands of young readers
by Katie Dukes, EdNC.org | October 6, 2025 EdNC is highlighting the experiences of educators, families, researchers, and advocates with a stake in North Carolina’s early care and learning landscape. These profiles illustrate that care and education are inseparable, especially in a child’s first ... Continue Reading →
Save lives with a question, then a listen: ‘How are you doing today?’
May 13, 2025 On the occasion of Mental Health Month, practitioners from several Charlotte area groups offering assistance to individuals and families facing mental health challenges presented this morning. The focus was not really on the labyrinth of assistance programs, and certainly not on all ... Continue Reading →
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