June 3, 2025 In 2015, Malcolm Graham in many ways became head of an extended family grieving over the loss of their sister and family member. Cynthia Graham Hurd and eight others were murdered during a Blble Study at Emanuel Church in Charleston, where Malcolm and his siblings grew up. More Bible ... Continue Reading →
Meck board’s DJ: Clerk’s office keeps the records spinning
May 27, 2025 Kristine Smith writes history. The history of Mecklenburg County government, one meeting at a time. The Clerk to the Board of County Commissioners, in her summary minutes of open and closed commissioner meetings, says she knows that county residents not only want to know who voted ... Continue Reading →
Sheroes supporting families in fear of ICE roundups
May 20, 2025 Fear. Fear that government agents will, in their zeal to enforce immigration law, leave lasting emotional damage to innocent children. Fear that whereabouts of undocumented loved ones will be impossible to determine for the weeks between their arrest and when their whereabouts can ... Continue Reading →
Save lives with a question, then a listen: ‘How are you doing today?’
May 13, 2025 On the occasion of Mental Health Month, practitioners from several Charlotte area groups offering assistance to individuals and families facing mental health challenges presented this morning. The focus was not really on the labyrinth of assistance programs, and certainly not on all ... Continue Reading →
Bringing the lynchings story home: ‘It Happened Here’
May 5, 2025 Lynching "To put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal approval or permission." – Merriam-Webster There might not have been a hanging tree in the 20 Century lynchings of two Black males in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. A mob with guns. A landlord with, what, a ... Continue Reading →
NAACP Convention in Charlotte July 12-16
April 29, 2025 NAACP CEO Derrick Johnson today helped launch media and other efforts to draw a crowd to Charlotte July 12-16 for the civil rights group's annual convention. Johnson offered an overview of how federal policies that impact tariffs, recession, inflation, etc. may soon constrict many ... Continue Reading →
Helping youth open doors to a rewarding lifetime
April 29, 2025 Youth who didn't grow up watching adults install electrical wiring might scurry from the sound of circuit breakers blowing, or the furnace beginning to sound like a jet taking off from the roof. Similarly, youth who didn't grow up around adults who told them about attending ... Continue Reading →
Harold C. Dixon dies; retired from CMS
April 27, 2025 Harold C. Dixon died on Saturday, April 26, 2025. Mr. Dixon retired from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in 2024 after more than 37 years of service. He was youth choir director at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church on Beatties Ford Road in Charlotte. He played an active role in PTAs at ... Continue Reading →
CMS lauds progress, pleads for volunteers to help
April 22, 2025 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Chief of Staff Dr. Ingrid Medlock and her associates brought multiple messages this morning: Much of the initial presentation was about celebration, with descriptors like "absolutely" and "obviously" and "very excited" and "what we can celebrate" and ... Continue Reading →
2 courageous teens stood for justice; their stories retold
April 15, 2025 Listen below, young people, to the eyewitness testimonies of two women who, as teenagers, faced harassment, name-calling and worse just for having a commitment to obtain a good education. Listen below, young people, to judge what it took to make Charlotte, not a perfect place, but ... Continue Reading →
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