May 9, 2023 Sherri Chisholm returned this morning with a new staff backed by a refreshed "council" of community and business advisers, and gave an update on an earlier visit on behalf of Leading on Opportunity. Charlotte leaders were embarrassed when a 2014 Harvard study led by Raj Chetty ... Continue Reading →
County exploring views on investor-owned houses in neighborhoods
Photo of a display board; from contractor Lee Institute, Chrystal Joy, top right, and Toni Tupponce. May 2, 2023 A relatively small number of big corporate investors own thousands of Mecklenburg single-family homes. Complaints about that recent development go beyond communication barriers with ... Continue Reading →
Closing the digital divide – one person at a time
April 25, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic drove home the reality that not being on the Internet reduces job opportunities for adults, and can severely restrict young children's education. BEING on the Internet can open social contacts to homebound seniors, get them medical advice, and arrange deliveries ... Continue Reading →
Steve Crump shares his latest documentary
April 4, 2023 Video documentarian Steve Crump had asked that the Forum today share with Forum participants his latest work: "Andrew Young's Datelines of Protest." On his way to the hospital for observation this morning, he called to say, can't be there but go ahead and share. That's Steve ... Continue Reading →
Women who, as lawyers, pioneered opening justice to all
March 28, 2023 One always wanted to be an immigration lawyer. One fell into lawyering sort of by accident. Another was the daughter of a lawyer. Their stories are worth turning into snippets of video to show in high school career exploration classes. Including the stories about seeing and then ... Continue Reading →
Making broadcast paths straighter for Black women who followed
March 7, 2023 Memories flowed this morning as three who were among the first Black women hired by Charlotte TV broadcasters shared the good and the bad, the hilarious and the horrific that they witnessed. Deborah Mann Gibbs, a St. Louis native, joined WBTV in 1975. Just a month earlier, she had ... Continue Reading →
Equity Initiative: What’s ahead, what’s already on a bumpy path
Feb. 28, 2023; last updated March 1 Malcomb Coley offered to talk about how Mayor Lyles' Racial Equity Initiative came together. As a campaign chair of the $250 million fundraising project, Coley had much to report on. But one of the things that Coley chose to disclose was a development project ... Continue Reading →
Rep. Adams marks Black History Month in House floor speech
Feb. 1, 2023 Below is the text as prepared for delivery of U.S. Rep. Alma Adams' floor speech marking Black History Month. "Today I rise to celebrate the first day of Black History Month, and to honor the Greensboro Four for exemplifying this year’s Black History Month theme, Black ... Continue Reading →
Aiding seniors, stabilizing neighborhoods
Jan. 24, 2023 A thirtysomething whirlwind, a Charleston-born lawyer named Alesha Brown, is building in Charlotte a service organization that may help people decide for themselves whether community efforts just happen, or whether the ones that thrive and serve are blessed with energetic, engaged and ... Continue Reading →
United Way working through a major focus shift
Aug. 30, 2022 The new United Way is a smaller United Way. It may be more nimble. It is certainly on a new path. Tuesday's Forum presentation placed on the table some of that information. Officials have their work cut out for them reforming public perceptions. Kathryn Firmin-Sellers is Chief ... Continue Reading →
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