Feb. 10, 2015 Three adults who work at West Charlotte High School but aren't even CMS employees made a pitch for help from the community Tuesday. Their goal: Keep West Charlotte students in their seats in classrooms. George Metz Jr., Tamara Hundley and Dr. Daisy Walker appealed for the kind of ... Continue Reading →
NAACP’s Corine Mack
Feb. 3, 2015 Corine Mack said her mother was a fighter. By the end of a Forum visit, it was clear that Corine Mack is also. Mack said she ran for the NAACP chapter presidency not because she wanted to be in Raleigh, but because she wanted to make change in Charlotte. Her agenda was broad. And ... Continue Reading →
Charlotte’s City Manager Ron Carlee
Jan. 27, 2015 Ron Carlee, Charlotte's city manager, talked about the issues facing the city and the reasons why he went into city administration. The presentation came after a Monday evening meeting during which Charlotte City Council approved a proposal to immediately purchase enough body cameras ... 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 →
Lawyer offers tips on handling encounters with the police
Jan. 20, 2015 Charles Everage has won big legal cases against the police. He's defended the police. The Montgomery native with a Charlotte practice spoke Tuesday at the Forum, and had some unambiguous advice for people young and old who find themselves in an encounter with the police. Excerpts are ... Continue Reading →
Forum’s Year in a few numbers
Jan. 20, 2015 Steve Johnston made a short presentation at the Forum today to present the material in the slides at right and below, to update participants on growth in attendance, growth in total recipients of the Forum's e-mails, and to report a downturn in the donations that pay for coffee ... Continue Reading →
Conference aims for motivational impact on middle-school males
Jan. 20, 2015 Betty Howell Gray was back at the Forum Tuesday to promote a February conference aimed at improving academic achievement. Education experts and inspirational speakers dominate the daytime activities on Feb. 12-13. A free community meeting is planned on the evening of Feb. ... Continue Reading →
Sandra Clory on Tai Chi class
Jan. 20, 2015 Sandra Clory rose at today's Open Forum to discuss a Tai Chi class she will be teaching at Myers Park Baptist Church in February. More on the class is here. ... Continue Reading →
H. Allen Smith keynotes Growing the Dream Awards Luncheon
Jan. 17, 2015 Dr. H. Allen Smith inspired the creation of Charlotte's Growing the Dream Awards ceremony in 2014 when he was an area superintendent under Heath Morrison. Then he was gone. Saturday, he was back from the Oakland Unified School District in California where he is chief of schools, to ... Continue Reading →
Goal: 80% of 3rd-graders reading well by 3rd grade
Jan. 13, 2014 Johanna Anderson, executive director of the Belk Foundation, is still weeks away from a formal announcement of a communitywide effort to improve reading. But she was at the Forum Tuesday to outline some of the scope of the planning that's already been done; to reassure people that ... Continue Reading →
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