June 6, 2017 Four items came up today about summer camps about to occur for area youth. A rundown: • • • YMCA 'Summer of Opportunity' City Council member Greg Phipps brought up the project to open three YMCA facilities for use exclusively by teens on Friday and Saturday nights between June 23 ... Continue Reading →
Blanche Penn: ‘I’m a freedom fighter’
March 8, 2016 Longtime Forum participant Blanche Penn offered this presentation today on her life work. ... Continue Reading →
Summer 2015: Sacré-Cœur Basilica, Paris
One in a series of reports from our far-flung correspondents. Send text and photos of your wanderings this summer here. By Blanche Penn The view of Paris from the basilica steps "Now you know I had to get a painting of me in Paris" ... Continue Reading →
‘Highlighting African-American Achievers’ to be Feb. 19-21
Jan. 20, 2015 Blanche Penn announced that the 2015 edition of "Highlighting African-American Achievers" would be Feb. 19-21 at Wallace Pruitt Recreation Center. The annual event on a shoestring budget attempts to give schoolchildren a glimpse of moments in African-American history, and the many ... Continue Reading →
Reflections of Some Who Lived Black History
When the Forum gathered at the Wallace Pruitt Rec Center for the "Highlighting African-American Achievers" exhibit, participants saw reminders of the inventive genius of African-Americans, and saw a riviting skit about the Underground Railroad. When the skit concluded, they met in a room and ... Continue Reading →
African-American Achievers
The Wallace Pruitt Rec Center was full of examples of the creativity and inventiveness of African-Americans. The door knob ... a lock ... the lawn sprinkler ... the lighted traffic signal. Hundreds of items to help show the mostly young visitors to the "Highlighting African-American Achievers" ... Continue Reading →
Blanche Penn on Wallace Pruitt Center exhibits
Feb. 19, 2013 Blanche Penn from the Pruitt Recreation Center in Charlotte previews the Black Inventors Exhibit and the Underground Railroad presentation at this morning's Forum. ... Continue Reading →
Candidates for county commissioner, N.C. Senate address Forum
Oct. 2, 2012 Pat Cotham, commissioners at large James Peterson, commissioners at large Blanche Penn for Kim Ratliff, commissioners at large Concluding remarks ... Continue Reading →