Nov. 16, 2021 Readers know the tale: An academic comes to town, says people have a hard time getting ahead. Charlotte's leadership class is concerned or embarrassed, orders a study, issues a report, creates a small group to birddog the report's recommendations into reality. Where will this tale ... Continue Reading →
Charlotte leaders call in the chits, this time for ‘racial equity’
Nov. 1, 2021 Mayor Vi Lyles said her father did not have the opportunities she has had. Is it not time now to ensure that others have such opportunities? she mused to reporters. Monday's gathering at Johnson C. Smith University launched Charlotte's effort to fulfill commitments, made after the ... Continue Reading →
Planning around what residents want
Oct. 12, 2021 Interstate 77 was conceived in the 1950s, extended toward Mecklenburg in the 1960s, bulldozed through Charlotte schools, homes, cemeteries and businesses in the 1970s and opened to traffic in 1977. Like so many U.S. cities, Charlotte can't really repair the damage from its encounter ... Continue Reading →
County grant might keep some people in their homes
Sept. 27, 2021 Mecklenburg County announced a grant program that might help some families stay in their homes. Downloads fliers in English and Spanish. More information is here. ... Continue Reading →
Preserving, connecting: JCSU archiving the Black Charlotte experience
Sept. 14, 2021 Many of the stories have already been told about life in Black Charlotte neighborhoods maimed or destroyed by 1960s urban renewal or the current wave of gentrification. But Johnson C. Smith University Archivist Brandon Lunsford is on the hunt for the stories and photos that have ... 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 →
Activating a community for joint action with others
April 13, 2021 Two presenters reviewed efforts to activate North Carolina's black voters, and to organize joint action with Latinex and other groups to pursue political reform and improvements in the lives of all North Carolinians. For a Mecklenburg audience, it might have been particularly ... Continue Reading →
Update on Lake Arbor residents’ search for justice
March 20, 2021 The Charlotte Observer today published this update on a court-affirmed settlement of lawsuits over landlord malfeasance at the now-renamed Lake Arbor apartments off Tuckaseegee Road. ... Continue Reading →
Black History Month 2021
Feb. 1, 2021 For many years, the Forum marked Black History Month by scheduling speakers and panelists who could offer a perspective on the history of Charlotte-Mecklenburg's African-American community. In the name of upholding that tradition in these pandemic times: The following graphics were ... Continue Reading →
Black Film Festival; police chief hiring survey; etc.
March 10, 2020 April Benson and Patricia Campbell filled in for Tommy Nichols to outline plans for Nichols' Charlotte Black Film Festival. And Paula Rinnik was back to collect more surveys about issues residents consider important in the hiring of a new police chief. Scattered through the ... Continue Reading →
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