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Greetings from Leon Threatt on March 15 primary
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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 →
Lucy Bush Carter on Friendship Trays
March 8, 2016 Lucy Bush Carter today offered an overview of the work of Friendship Trays, the Charlotte-area meals-on-wheels nonprofit. ... Continue Reading →
James Ford: Don’t limit kids’ futures by the parents they didn’t choose
March 8, 2016 James Ford is a former N.C. Teacher of the Year. His years as a world history teacher at Garinger have been widely chronicled. Today he was back in Belmont/Villa Heights, which he identified as the stomping ground of many of his former students. His short talk was focused on his ... Continue Reading →
An appeal for turnout at a student assignment meeting
March 1, 2016 At the end of the memorial for Malachi Greene, Carlenia Ivory made a pitch for turnout at a CMS Policy Committee meeting on March 10 at 6 p.m. at the Government Center. No public comments will be taken during the committee meeting. ... Continue Reading →
Remembering Malachi Greene
March 1, 2016 Participants at the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum today took turns coming to front to speak about Malachi Greene, a longtime Forum participant, political activist, former Charlotte City Council member and nurturer of many good things in Charlotte. The stories suggest that his ... Continue Reading →
Three women who went first
Feb. 23, 2016 They were asked how they wanted to be remembered, these three African-American women who were first in their fields to be clerk of court, or social worker, or school board chair. It was a way to unearth what had motivated them to do, to keep doing. Perhaps their testimony will ... Continue Reading →
Simmons: ‘Bad’ CMS schools can be fixed ‘overnight’
Feb. 23, 2016 ... Continue Reading →
To Charlotte’s young leaders struggling for the common good
Feb. 16, 2016 Forum co-founder Sarah Stevenson this morning asked Forum participants to honor the memory of MarShawn McCarrel, a 23-year-old Ohio activist who, succumbing to depression, took his own life on Feb. 9. But her message was for the living: "There are young women and men who come in ... Continue Reading →
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