Summer has officially graced us with her long-awaited presence, a season that means longer days of fun at amusement parks, days at the beach, and swimming pools for…

VIA YMCA Communications Civil rights leader Benjamin Jealous will be the keynote speaker of the McCrorey YMCA’s 21st Annual MLK Holiday Prayer Breakfast at the Charlotte Convention Center’s Crown Ballroom on Monday, January 19, 2015.. More than 1,100 are expected to participate in Charlotte’s largest celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This year’s breakfast […]

Our elders called it sugar, but doctors call it fatal. Diabetes is killing African Americans at an alarming rate, but we’re not talking about it…

Despite a federal ruling that determined a law that directs the president to proclaim a National Day of Prayer as unconstitutional, people gathered throughout the country to pray Thursday. In Charlotte, about 2,000 people gathered at the Charlotte Convention Center for a YMCA Community Prayer Breakfast. Franklin Graham prayed outside the Pentagon. There were prayer […]