At age 24, Cheryse Terry lost her mother to congestive heart failure. Left with questions, she sought consolation by collecting Black memorabilia from eras that impacted her mother’s life. In this way, Terry said, she felt she was able to make sense of her mother’s life and answer questions she had never got to ask.
Read MoreAround 8:45 a.m. on Monday, Charnel Ramage and her son Hunter anxiously awaited his school bus at a corner on Johnson and Wales Way. Hunter, a third grader at First Ward Elementary, was excited to start his second year at the school. His mother was simply hoping for another year without a gun incident. “I
Read MoreThis item first appeared in our morning newsletter, which is delivered Monday through Saturday to more than 7,000 smart subscribers in the Charlotte area. You can become one of them. Last week, Howard University received two bomb threats within 48 hours, the first known threats to an HBCU this academic year. According to the FBI, 57 HBCUs,
Read MoreBlack Pearl Global Investments, an asset-management firm based in Charlotte, has agreed to buy a Florida company that makes contact lenses. When the deal is completed, Black Pearl will be the world’s only contact lens manufacturer that is both Black- and woman-owned, according to a press release Monday announcing the planned acquisition. “It’s exciting to
Read MoreThis item first appeared in our morning newsletter, which is delivered Monday through Saturday to more than 7,000 smart subscribers in the Charlotte area. You can become one of them. The Rev. William Barber, who launched the “Moral Monday” protest movement in Raleigh nearly a decade ago, announced plans for a 15-state drive to reach
Read MoreUntil he was approached by a reporter, Chandler Cannon, a third-year music major at Johnson C. Smith University, hadn’t heard about the Biden administration’s plan to cancel student-loan debts for millions of Americans. The Charlotte native said his family suffered a “big impact” from the Covid-19 pandemic, so news of the debt cancellation came as
Read MoreMecklenburg County has hired a Fairfax, Virginia, company to develop new exhibits and interpretive programming for Historic Latta Place, a former plantation where Black Americans were once enslaved. The site has been closed to the public since last summer, when controversy erupted over a planned Juneteenth event that critics labeled inappropriate. If plans go as
Read MoreGrowing up in Charlotte as a Carolina Panthers fan, Jacob Roberts had long dreamed of playing football on the storied turf at Bank of American Stadium. Linebackers Luke Keuchly, Thomas Davis and Shaq Thompson were among his all-time favorites, and each played there. Now, as a linebacker for North Carolina A&T State University, Roberts’ dream
Read MoreCharlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ teachers, principals and staff members will receive pay raises just before the start of the 2022-2023 school year. On Tuesday, Board members unanimously approved the $1.8 billion operating budget that will see the average CMS teacher get a 4.2% pay raise. Principals and assistant principals will see a 4% pay raise, retroactive to
Read MoreCharlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is investigating a shooting Wednesday afternoon in the University area. According to a statement by CMPD, around 3:24 p.m., officers responded to an assault with deadly weapon with injury call near 600 block of Sawyers Mill Road. When officers located a male victim suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim was pronounced deceased on scene
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