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College scholarships provides another avenue of possibility for high school students to achieve their goal of walking the corridors of a university campus, becoming a college student and experiencing life in a higher education environment. The My Brother’s Keeper of Charlotte-Mecklenburg – in partnership with Bellevue University and the United Soccer League – is helping […]
The history of the Ohio-based E.E. Ward Moving & Storage Company, founded by John T. Ward in 1881, is replete with perseverance, tenacity, and effort to continue an extraordinary legacy. E.E. Ward Moving and Storage Company has the distinction of being the oldest continuously black-owned and operated business in the United States. After 141 years, […]
The Steve Smith Foundation and Mecklenburg County recently announced that they are partnering to create Charlotte’s first behavioral health urgent care. Former Carolina Panther wide receiver Smith, presented plans to the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners during the county’s annual budget retreat to appeal for funds and support. The clinic will be located in east […]
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has launched has launched the Preserving Black Churches Project with a donation of $20 million from the The Lily Endowment.
Three Charlotte streets have recently received new names after years of commemorating slavery and the era of the Confederacy. The Legacy Commission was launched back in 2020 to review sites in the community and within the last year, the city of Charlotte has renamed nine streets with names tied to white supremacists, Confederate leaders, or […]
A Pew Research Center survey released in December 2021, says that the most religious group in our country are African immigrants. The survey was based on the following: attendance at weekly service the importance of religion read scripture once weekly believe in God as described in the Bible/ scripture believe that scripture should be taken […]
Mecklenburg County will put $3 million toward the launch of a food distribution center in west Charlotte. Carolina Farm Trust hopes to open the site in the spring or summer of 2023, to bring locally-grown foods to neighborhoods with limited access to local groceries. Just 3% of homes in some parts of west Charlotte are […]
Charlotte Mayor’s Vi Lyles’ “Racial Equity Initiative” will help bridge the digital divide, invest millions of dollars in neighborhoods located in the ‘Corridors of Opportunity,’ and help transform Johnson C. Smith University into a top-tier career focused HBCU. ‘COMMUNITY VOICES’ guest hosts, Christine Edwards and Enovia Bedford unpacks the Mayor’s initiative, and other private/public partnerships […]
Weather and public health challenges are not enough to stop our efforts to keep the dream alive. Here are a few opportunities in our area to celebrate and serve: You can serve today at Samaritan’s Feet from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Volunteers are asked to bring a new pair of athletic shoes or $25 […]
There’s some exciting things happening at the Beattes Ford and LaSalle Street Corridor. Like many neighborhoods, streets and communities in urban settings across the country – a valiant fight to emerge from a myriad of socio-economic challenges, including: disenfranchisement of various kinds, crime, poverty and a struggling infrastructure. But on the horizon, opportunity is plentiful, […]
The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library has put its books on wheels. A new bookmobile, MoLi (pronounced “Molly”) will bring library materials and services to Charlotte area neighborhoods whose residents might not have the ability to physically or virtually go to one of the library’s 20 branches. MoLi is a 33-foot-long bookmobile that offers adult, teen and […]