Charlotte

As I was reading the latest issue of Vibe Magazine, I was introduced to a North Carolina based folk music group - the Carolina Chocolate Drops. I decided to do a little investigation and found out that the group is a part of an old North Carolina musical tradition.

Head over to Southend for a day of family friendly festivities during the South End Soul festival. It’s a creative festival along Camden Street. South End Soul, Charlotte’s Creative Festival is an annual two-day event to celebrate Historic South End as the creative district of Charlotte. The Festival creates a unique opportunity for visitors to […]

By Tom Hanchett, historian Levine Museum of the New South Golden Gate Quartet In the late 1930s this quartet burst onto the national scene, thanks to records made in Charlotte, and introduced the hot sound of swing to acapella gospel. The Gates started singing as teenagers in Virginia, then moved to Charlotte to perform live […]

          Spread the Word! Verizon is searching for local muralists in each city on the How Sweet The Sound national tour to create a mural that best represents their city and the tenets of the How Sweet the Sound gospel experience.

The 13th Annual Juneteenth Festival of the Carolinas kicks starts officially today at Independence Park. Dozens of youth attended the festival's youth day camp on Thursday. There will be an inaugural drum circle today at 4 p.m. There's a parade at 10 a.m. Saturday. Other events include a fashion show, vendors, dance and more. Click here for more information.

On Saturday, we celebrate Juneteenth, the day 145 years ago when news finally made its way to Texas that slavery was no longer the law of the land. It was on June 19th 1865 that Union soldiers arrived at Galveston, Texas with word that the Civil War had ended and that enslaved Africans in the region were free.

Clues & Catagories for June 18th, 2010

Jermaine Nakia Lee is fixture on Charlotte’s creative arts scene. In the past seven years, he’s written, directed or starred in plays that highlight devastation of AIDS in the black community, police brutality and highlighting artists from the Harlem Renaissance. He most recently starred in “Tribe,” a play about a single black mother struggling to […]

            It’s nice to have your shoe game together, but you’ve also got to take care of your feet!

Clues & Catagories for June 17th, 2010

Under intense pressure from President Barack Obama, BP Plc agreed on Wednesday to set up a $20 billion fund for damage claims from its huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill and suspended dividend payments to its shareholders.

By Tom Hanchett Today J.H. Gunn is barely remembered as the long-ago principal of J.H. Gunn School off Albemarle Road on Charlotte’s east side. But 80 years ago this African American leader was known throughout the eastern U.S. as a recording and touring musician at the helm of Jimmie Gunn and His Orchestra. J. H. […]