Sept. 27, 2021 Mecklenburg County announced a grant program that might help some families stay in their homes. Downloads fliers in English and Spanish. More information is here. ... Continue Reading →
Black Political Caucus hears from CMS
Sept. 21, 2021 A virtual meeting of the Black Political Caucus heard tonight from Supt. Earnest Winston and a number of his CMS colleagues. The embedded video below is from Facebook Live from the Zoom virtual meeting. [The Facebook embed did not play in Safari's desktop browser, so this screenshare ... Continue Reading →
Let the reading begin
Sept. 21, 2021 To empower. Specifically, to empower parents, not just with rights, but with skills, to guide their children into the world of reading. Dr. Munro Richardson, executive director of Read Charlotte, gathered together for today's Forum a number of colleagues from area groups working ... Continue Reading →
Jennifer De La Jara
– Page initiated Sept. 14, 2021 Jennifer De La Jara was elected in 2019 to an at-large on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education. In fall 2021, she announced that she would be a candidate in 2022 for an at-large seat on the Board of County Commissioners. Materials on this website 4-12-22 ... Continue Reading →
Candidate De La Jara greetings
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Preserving, connecting: JCSU archiving the Black Charlotte experience
Sept. 14, 2021 Many of the stories have already been told about life in Black Charlotte neighborhoods maimed or destroyed by 1960s urban renewal or the current wave of gentrification. But Johnson C. Smith University Archivist Brandon Lunsford is on the hunt for the stories and photos that have ... Continue Reading →
Where’s the outrage over reading achievement decline?
Sept 10, 2021 The following commentary was first published by QCityMetro (website; PDF) and The Charlotte Post (website; PDF) on Sept. 8. The last Facebook post of Heather Hyer (the young white woman killed in Charlottesville, Va. during the Fight White Supremacy Protest) read, "If you are not ... Continue Reading →
Pushing against partisan divisions in the N.C. legislature
Sept. 7, 2021 An animated speaker. Lots of questions. Many Forum regulars this morning seemed well pleased with the broad discussion of issues being discussed in Raleigh, led by N.C. Sen. Natasha Marcus, chair of the Mecklenburg delegation to the N.C. General Assembly. Marcus represents a ... Continue Reading →
‘Massive community response’ sought to overcome reading loss
Sept. 3, 2021 In an initial review of 3rd-grade reading scores from CMS and some comparison districts, the nonprofit Read Charlotte has outlined the sweeping erosion in reading skills among young children due to the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. “The pandemic is an equal opportunity ... Continue Reading →
‘The first published poet – Phillis Wheatley’
"Incredible Black Women You Should Know About" – The Series If I hear "Critical Race Theory" one more time, I'm going to scream! Teaching a class on this scholarly investigation of the intersectionality of law and race is not a thing. Since 2020, conservative U.S. lawmakers have sought to ban or ... Continue Reading →
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