Countdown to Elections has started. Please vote on Novemeber 5, 2013 Early Voting is  Oct. 17- Nov. 2 To look up sample ballots, districts : click http://charmeck.org/mecklenburg/county/BOE/voter/Pages/SampleBallot.aspx All sites are open 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, 1-4 p.m. Sunday and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 2. From Monday to Friday, the Hal Marshall Annex, 618 N. College […]

[/caption] Hundreds of black men, adorned in lime green shirts, answered their pastors call to show their presence uptown for July 4th. The effort spearheaded by University City Church Pastor Michael Stevens was in response to last month’s uptown murder during Memorial Day weekend. The killing highlighted the continued problem with unsupervised youth converging uptown. […]

NAACP President Kojo Nantambu blasted CMS superintendent Peter Gorman’s decision to make up a snow day on Dr. Martin Luther King’s Holiday. “Once again Dr. Gorman has shown total disdain and disrespect for a very significant part of this community. He continues to demonstrate a blatant deliberate disconnect with the African American Community,” said Rev. […]