March 2, 2026 Tomorrow is Primary Election Day. I hope that you vote if you have not already. Reporting election results has been part of this website since its inception. Elections have consequences, as they say. Staying home has consequences for us all. Please vote. In preparation for the ... Continue Reading →
Invite children to tell the story, and….
Feb. 26, 2026 In 2014, Jason (Jet) Jones was part of Maria Macon's Young Entrepreneurs Network. (So also was Forum facilitator Jasmine Wright.) By 2016, in a follow-up Forum presentation, it was clear that Jason Jet was focused on passing on his craft to younger Charlotteans. Today, he ... Continue Reading →
‘Charlotte Sound’: Music veterans talk about place, story, church
Feb. 24, 2026 Among the questions What makes the Charlotte sound unique? How do you connect with youth to continue the music tradition? Black music has been diluted. What factors have contributed? Might there be political messages in the music? What makes for a hit? Do ... Continue Reading →
More about CMS principal Joseph C. Belton
Feb. 12, 2026 By Queen Norwood Thompson The Feb. 10 session was excellent. I applaud the group's discussion on education and that of Mrs. Belton as a counselor at West Charlotte High School. David Belton's father, Mr. Joseph C. Belton, was equally a powerhouse in Charlotte. I and my husband ... Continue Reading →
Soul City’s chief planner issues a challenge for today
Feb. 20, 2026 Harvey Gantt looks back at the 1970s and wonders if, even if Floyd McKIssick today were to lay down his vision for a multiracial Soul City without poverty, with jobs, with opportunity for all, would he find today the support that he needed back then to make a new city a reality? Would ... Continue Reading →
‘Imagine, A city without prejudice. A city without poverty.’
Feb. 17, 2026 ... Continue Reading →
Collaboration that made a difference in chiildren’s reading
Feb. 13, 2026 Pineville Elementary and Read Charlotte teamed up for an effort to supplement in-class reading instruction with volunteer reading assistance. The result was pronounced recovery in reading skills among students after the pandemic. The video above suggests that lessons learned at ... Continue Reading →
SC roots of Brown: The Briggs v Elliott case
Feb. 12, 2026; material first published May 17, 2011 The 2011 links to YouTube videos broke some time ago, so this page will revive material captured at the Forum 15 years ago and link the material back to the Forum's archive. The 68 minutes of video in 2011 was captured on a small camcorder that ... Continue Reading →
Prices paid to achieve ‘successes’ of desegregation, urban ‘renewal’
Feb. 10, 2026 Tuesday's session was not a bus ride down Memory Lane. It was an occasionally searing experience of recreating the moment in African-Americans' lives when the cost of "urban renewal" or cross-town busing for school desegregation fell directly on their shoulders. And some of the ... Continue Reading →
Summaries of Forum announcements suspended
Feb. 8, 2026 Another update about changes at the Forum. Earlier articles are from Sept. 9, Sept. 26, Nov. 13, and Nov. 18. Saturday night I inadvertently caused a part of the Forum website to go offline. Within 6 hours, techs had the website problem mostly fixed, but I have not been. An ... Continue Reading →
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