April 9, 2024 The crisis in Black maternal health, doula Robin Price told the Forum this morning, is not in the lack of access to medical facilities. Or in lack of money. Of the 2018-19 deaths among N.C. women during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period, she said, a state report judged 85% ... Continue Reading →
People can help you through the annual health insurance thicket
Nov. 14, 2022 Three people who work with the labyrinth of health insurance coverage rules offered lots of information this morning. The session was timely: Medicare’s open enrollment period closes in a few weeks, and a similar Affordable Care Act deadline looms in January. But if you come away ... Continue Reading →
The Males Place
Oct. 31, 2023 The nonprofits that are continuing to do good after 30 years are relatively rare. The Males Place is in its 30th year, and is continuing its chosen mission of focusing resources, knowledge and huge quantities of adult love and guidance on preparing teenaged boys to develop into ... Continue Reading →
School bond advocates encounter pushback
Oct. 10, 2023 Just over 30 days from when Mecklenburg voters weigh in on a $2.5 billion bond proposal for CMS school construction and renovation, Forum participants today peppered representatives from the Vote Yes for Bonds group and from CMS with questions: Why is new construction sold as a ... Continue Reading →
Grit runs in the family: New CMS Supt. Dr. Crystal L. Hill
July 18, 2023 North Carolina's second-largest K-12 school district is in the hands of a veteran educator. That is not to say that everything she will initiate during her superintendency will be welcomed by every educator. But Dr. Crystal L. Hill presents herself as determined to use what ... Continue Reading →
The bumpy road to business success
July 11, 2023 This morning's Forum featured two women on different paths. Their businesses are not connected or related. But each presenter's story prompted both questions and suggestions from Forum participants. Each could do with a little help from their friends. Sharon Geter started making ... Continue Reading →
Achievement gaps between schools: Do they stem from ‘management problem’?
June 18, 2023 The material on this page was written by Bolyn McClung, an occasional Forum participant and longtime CMS observer, and is published with his permission. The text and graphs are in a PDF that may be downloaded here. The piece is entitled, “The Heartbreak of Being a CMS Academic ... Continue Reading →
Clinical drug trials: After abuses, can minorities see value in participating?
May 16, 2023 The questioning began with the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which researchers withheld medicine from nearly 400 Black men without their knowledge, just to see what would happen, and 100 of them died of a treatable disease. Then there were questions like whether Big Pharma ... Continue Reading →
Autism: Nurturing, advocating for people who struggle to communicate or interact
April 18, 2023 There may not be a single cause of autism. There certainly isn’t a magic pill to cure it. Some children exhibit signs of the brain-related ailment by the age of 2; others are nearly adults before signs appear. Some children have very mild cases and may exhibit few symptoms; others ... Continue Reading →
They did overcome: Pioneer Black nurses as hospitals desegregated
March 21, 2023 The Hill-Burton Act embodied President Truman's determination to make hospital care available to all. The prime goal, to increase beds nationwide, was achieved in 1980. To get federal support, however, Hill-Burton required entities like Charlotte Memorial Hospital to desegregate all ... Continue Reading →
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