Left, Ken Koontz; facade of Excelsior Club in undated James Peeler photo. June 5, 2018 Ken Koontz opened today's Open Forum with an update on the status of the shuttered Excelsior Club. Koontz was a part-owner of the Beatties Ford Road institution in the 1980s. The nightclub was a gathering ... Continue Reading →
2 pipelines: school-failure-to-prison; and prison-back-into-society
April 24, 2018 Perhaps this is one of the things the Forum does best: bring folks together out of their silos to meet, explain their silos and then, perhaps, go away to contemplate how to knock down the silos. Educator and longtime Mecklenburg resident Ken Simmons said he had never met Henry ... Continue Reading →
6 women who serve
From left: Tenea McDonald and Simone Williams, lawyers at McDonald & Williams law firm; LaBecky Roe, retired New York police officer; Tamala Bullard, associate director of human resources, Davidson College; N.C. House Rep. Becky Carney; Rep. Carla Cunningham. March 27, 2018 They've represented ... Continue Reading →
3 women making their mark in Charlotte
From left: Susan Woods, Dr. Fostoria Pierson, Rita Leach. March 20, 2018 They do all sorts of work. One advises those who are considering creating their own nonprofit organization. One runs such a charitable organization. The third is trying to sell something she loves and that she thinks makes ... Continue Reading →
Black women who were ‘firsts’
From left: Vi Lyles, Beverly Earle, Ella Scarborough and Sarah Stevenson. Feb. 6, 2018 A panel of five woman were at Belmont Center this morning as the Forum opened Black History Month with a wide-ranging discussion that focused not so much on celebration of these women's victories and ... Continue Reading →
Charlotte Women’s March
Jan. 20, 2018 Video from today's Charlotte Women's March. ... Continue Reading →
Exploring the city’s (limited) options for ensuring housing for all
Jan. 16, 2018 The presentation was laced with jargon. It frequently descended into debate over what words to use to describe the city's goals. But still, there were messages as Pam Wideman and LaWana Mayield described some of the tools that are available to the city as it works to ensure that more ... Continue Reading →
Dawkins: Cut homicides by helping people resolve conflicts peacefully
Nov. 21, 2017 Today's Forum opened with with longtime Charlotte and North Carolina organizer Robert Dawkins outlining improvements to the law and administrative rules governing Charlotte's police review board. Then he launched into background on Charlotte's growing-but-not-as-bad-as-it-used-to-be ... Continue Reading →
City investing in rebuilding lives, preparing adults for work
Nov. 14, 2017 Kevin Dick offered a description of how a city program mandated by City Council is helping adults with barriers to employment find the support and retraining for life that will lead to longterm employment. The four handouts explaining the program are below, or can be downloaded is ... Continue Reading →
Open Forum: Dance, KIPP, voc ed, Council, housing for all
Clockwise from top left: Blanche Penn’s grandchildren J' Nair and Yariah; KIPP Charlotte Principal Elizabeth Simpson; Damiko Faulkner; J.R. and Dr. Trasha Black; Pat Cotham; LaWana Mayfield. July 25, 2017 Today's Open Forum did what Open Forums nearly always do. It put out on the public table for ... Continue Reading →
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