March 1, 2025 Women's History Month 2025 March 4: Dena J. King, United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. March 11: Kim Graham, Executive Director of Greater Charlotte Apartment Association. March 18: U.S. Rep. Alma Adams, NC-12. March 25: Linda Lockhart, ... Continue Reading →
Family values: Education, mutual aid, seeking justice for all
Feb. 25, 2025 Today's Forum focused on a set of overlapping families that have left a mark on Charlotte's struggle for freedom, justice and equality for all. If viewers of the video below cry out for a graphic showing how the family trees intertwined on Charlotte's west side in the 20th Century, ... Continue Reading →
Report outlines the task ahead for NC schools
Feb. 20, 2025 MyFutureNC is a nonprofit following up on 2019 bipartisan N.C. legislation setting a goal that "2 million North Carolinians aged 25-44 hold an industry-valued credential or postsecondary degree by 2030." There is a ways to go, and annual reports offer details. More on the report is ... Continue Reading →
Articles of Faith: Narratives from smaller faith communities
Feb. 18, 2025 They are Catholic, Protestant, Muslim. They know the disparate paths their own faith congregations have taken on the path to the present. Yet they seem to agree that they have much in common, and a shared calling. And when pressed on whether they can become more united in serving the ... Continue Reading →
A ‘monument for resistance’ rose in Black Brooklyn
Feb. 11, 2025 Fergie danced. There were many light moments. There were wonderful stories illuminating the work of a Charlotte law firm pursuing civil rights for all citizens. Dangerous work. Julius Chambers' law office was firebombed. Methodical work. As federal laws were passed, the ... Continue Reading →
GOV Channel to air Feb. 4 conversation with 4 Black mayors
Feb. 8, 2025 The City of Charlotte's GOV Channel will be airing throughout February a video of the Forum's Feb. 4 meeting with former mayors Harvey Gantt, Anthony Foxx, Patrick Cannon and current Mayor Vi Lyles. This link to the video may not work until after 1 p.m. Sunday, According to the ... Continue Reading →
4 Black mayors reflect on the way forward
Feb. 4, 2025 Four African-Americans have or are now serving as Charlotte's mayor. Their service spans more than 40 years, from 1983 to the present. During that time, the population has tripled, the city's national standing has skyrocketed, its economic engines have radically changed – but the ... Continue Reading →
Black History Month 2025
Feb. 1, 2025 Feb. 24, 2025 Feb. 16, 2025 Feb. 8, 2026 Jan. 28, 2025 ... Continue Reading →
Group recounts effort to launch Eastland Yards renewal
Jan. 28, 2025 The plan is about more than soccer, more than sports tourism, more than afterschool learning opportunities for children or jobs at the old Eastland Mall site or boosting an entire quadrant of the City of Charlotte. All of those goals were discussed this morning, along with ... Continue Reading →
Facilitators comment on Forum, their roles & Sarah Stevenson
Jan. 21, 2025 Forum facilitators this morning sat down at the presenters' table. and offered their reflections on why they volunteer reliably at the Forum, what their particular focus is in sustaining the group, and what it means to them. Some have been at the forum only a few years. One has been ... Continue Reading →
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