Nov. 14, 2017 Kevin Dick offered a description of how a city program mandated by City Council is helping adults with barriers to employment find the support and retraining for life that will lead to longterm employment. The four handouts explaining the program are below, or can be downloaded is ... Continue Reading →
Open Forum: Dance, KIPP, voc ed, Council, housing for all
Clockwise from top left: Blanche Penn’s grandchildren J' Nair and Yariah; KIPP Charlotte Principal Elizabeth Simpson; Damiko Faulkner; J.R. and Dr. Trasha Black; Pat Cotham; LaWana Mayfield. July 25, 2017 Today's Open Forum did what Open Forums nearly always do. It put out on the public table for ... Continue Reading →
Community change agents
May 30, 2017 You could have heard a pin drop this morning as Braxton Winston spoke about his life before, during and after the Lamont Scott protests last September. In the back of many minds was the picture at right, the one that went viral during the demonstrations. Those demonstrations ... Continue Reading →
Live at the mic: ‘Chatty Hattie’ Leeper, ’50s trailblazer in radio
May 23, 2017 Hattie Leeper was a trailblazer in radio, the first African-American woman DJ on Charlotte radio. For a number of people at this morning's Forum, "Chatty Hattie" was the soundtrack of their early lives. In the room, appreciation for her trailblazing merged with the ... Continue Reading →
Working one-on-one to bring freed prisoners home
May 9, 2017 Dr. Madeline McClenney-Sadler says she leads a staff of 10 part-timers with a total annual budget of about $150,000. In a community of billion-dollar budgets, McClenney-Sadler’s Exodus Foundation appears to be hobbled by the dearth of support for helping the once-incarcerated to ... Continue Reading →
YMCA, police plan ‘Summer of Opportunity 2017’
April 18, 2017 YMCA CEO Todd Tibbits this morning made a $150,000 appeal for community support for a summer program for youth aged 13-18. As photos of street protests in Charlotte and Ferguson and elsewhere lingered on the screen, Tibbits said the Y plans to open three Ys on Thursday, Friday and ... Continue Reading →
County to re-dedicate a renovated West Charlotte Rec Center
April 6, 2017 Mecklenburg County officials invited all to a re-dedication of the West Charlotte Recreation Center on Wednesday, April 12 at 10 a.m. at the center, 2401 Kendall Drive. The Forum met weekly at the Rec Center from about 2003 through April 28, 2015. The Foum moved to Ivory Baker ... Continue Reading →
Four who are making a difference in Charlotte community groups
March 14, 2017 Four women making a difference in Charlotte-area community-focused organizations shared the front table this morning. Speakers were Colette Forrest, president, Black Political Caucus; Carolyn Logan, president, Black Women’s Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg; Kerry Miller, president, ... Continue Reading →
‘A Mother’s Cry for Her Children: Generations of Black History Moments’
Feb. 28, 2017 Dr. Yolanda Holmes’ avocation is writing dramatic scripts. She said today that when she thought of a way to share a perspective on Black History, she started writing. The result was the presentation below, offered at the beginning of today’s Forum. The video below contains the ... Continue Reading →
Nakisa Glover on community engagement
Jan. 17, 2017 Nakisa Glover presented this morning about community engagement: about her work with national and local groups, about how best to take issues to the people, about her struggle to understand how to present the need for community action that addresses all the seemingly unrelated ... Continue Reading →
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