April 18, 2017 YMCA CEO Todd Tibbits this morning made a $150,000 appeal for community support for a summer program for youth aged 13-18. As photos of street protests in Charlotte and Ferguson and elsewhere lingered on the screen, Tibbits said the Y plans to open three Ys on Thursday, Friday and ... Continue Reading →
County to re-dedicate a renovated West Charlotte Rec Center
April 6, 2017 Mecklenburg County officials invited all to a re-dedication of the West Charlotte Recreation Center on Wednesday, April 12 at 10 a.m. at the center, 2401 Kendall Drive. The Forum met weekly at the Rec Center from about 2003 through April 28, 2015. The Foum moved to Ivory Baker ... Continue Reading →
Four who are making a difference in Charlotte community groups
March 14, 2017 Four women making a difference in Charlotte-area community-focused organizations shared the front table this morning. Speakers were Colette Forrest, president, Black Political Caucus; Carolyn Logan, president, Black Women’s Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg; Kerry Miller, president, ... Continue Reading →
‘A Mother’s Cry for Her Children: Generations of Black History Moments’
Feb. 28, 2017 Dr. Yolanda Holmes’ avocation is writing dramatic scripts. She said today that when she thought of a way to share a perspective on Black History, she started writing. The result was the presentation below, offered at the beginning of today’s Forum. The video below contains the ... Continue Reading →
Nakisa Glover on community engagement
Jan. 17, 2017 Nakisa Glover presented this morning about community engagement: about her work with national and local groups, about how best to take issues to the people, about her struggle to understand how to present the need for community action that addresses all the seemingly unrelated ... Continue Reading →
Forum talks about racial divide, police-community relations
Jan. 3, 2017 Near the end of today's Forum, Willie Ratchford had participants look out the meeting room door. They could verify, he said, that the world had not come to an end because they had talked about race and police-community relations issues. Indeed, the longtime head of ... Continue Reading →
Council of Elders continues discussion of its work
Nov. 29, 2016 Maria Macon returned today with members of the Community Relations Committee’s Council of Elders to continue a discussion begun Oct. 18 about the council’s work. Among those present was retired detective Garry McFadden, who spoke about his part-time work making contacts with the ... Continue Reading →
Charlotte Works: Preparing people for tomorrow’s jobs
Nov. 15, 2016 It was a presentation thick with bureaucratic words and wonky terminology. What was billed as a session on "Workforce Systems and Opportunity Pathways" delivered. But somewhere under all that mumbo-jumbo, focused communication and extensive planning are the people of Charlotte who ... Continue Reading →
Gathering momentum in serving people’s needs for skills, health, housing
Aug. 30, 2016 Chris Jackson came from Goodwill. Caroline Chambre Hammock came from the Urban Ministry. But that's not what they talked about. What they talked about is how agencies, governmental units and individual volunteers are working toward meeting the need of people and families needing ... Continue Reading →
Hanchett – and Forum participants – on the people of McCrorey Heights
Aug. 16, 2016 Local historian Tom Hanchett’s presentation today on some of the people who lived in Charlotte’s McCrorey Heights neighborhood prompted an outpouring of comments, reflections and additional information from Forum participants. And that’s exactly what Hanchett had hoped ... Continue Reading →
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