Happy Friday, Charlotte. Glenn here. For some of us, fall means canning season. Here is my first batch of muscadine jelly this year. Never heard of muscadines? Then clearly you didn’t grow up in the South, as I did. Free Newsletter Stay informed with news and events that impact Charlotte’s Black communities. Muscadines are in
Read MoreThe HBCU homecoming experience is truly like no other. This I know for certain. As a undergrad at North Carolina Central, I remember waking up in my dorm room on homecoming Saturday to the smell of food cooking on grills and music blasting from tailgates. I’d put on my flyest outfit to go to the
Read MoreFifth-Third Bank will commit up to $20 million in various forms of financial assistance to aid the economic development of Historic West End, the company announced Thursday. The assistance will come in the form of small business loans, mortgages, investments and philanthropic support, including grants from the Fifth Third Foundation. The commitment would be one
Read MoreMartin Luther King, Jr. Julian Bond. Andrew Young. These giants of the civil rights movement stood upon the shoulders of a remarkable leader, educator, man of faith and activist, Benjamin Mays, Ph.D. In his lifetime, Mays served as an ordained minister, the dean of religious studies at Howard University, president of Morehouse College and an
Read MoreSponsored by: Charlotte Center City Partners boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure Charlotte Center City is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich, and beloved place for all Coffee, burgers, wines, vegan cuisine and more — all can be found at The Market at 7th Street, where change is in
Read MoreIn 2019, residents of the West Boulevard corridor, in partnership with the city of Charlotte, released a 108-page plan envisioning the kind of community they wanted. The plan, called the West Boulevard Corridor Playbook, prioritized economic development, transportation improvements, retail amenities, and improved visual appeal. Now two years later, parts of the vision will become
Read MoreReservations are made for dinner, not typically for attending church. But at the 5,000-member St.Paul Baptist Church in east Charlotte, where at least 25 members have died from Covid-19, in-person worship each Sunday is limited to 600 people — first come, first served. Pre-registration is required on EventBrite, where a colorful banner declares “Welcome Back
Read MoreLivingstone College will offer a full scholarship to a Liberian teen who found $50,000 and returned the money to its rightful owner. Emmanuel Tuloe, 18, made international headlines earlier this month when news broke of his deeds. According to media reports, Tuloe, who dropped out of school to support his family by driving a motorcycle
Read MoreGeneral Colin Powell was someone I deeply admired for his service to our country and especially our children. I was blessed to meet him and his beautiful wife, Alma, at two GradNation Summits in Washington, D.C. which I attended with some of my colleagues in the Kinston and Charlotte communities. At the time, the Powells were
Read MoreLast week 81 percent of quiz takers knew that Jamie Lee Kirkpatrick got an award and sports scholarship named after him. Only 12 percent knew that over 40 of the films at Charlotte’s Film Festival were from Black creatives. Now for this weeks quiz. Source link
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