Cheslie Kryst Sets an Example
By Hope Yancey
Photo courtesy of “The Miss Universe Organization.”
Cheslie Kryst was born in Jackson, Mich., moved to Charlotte at about age 4, then South Carolina as a teenager. She graduated from high school and college in South Carolina, before earning law and MBA degrees at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem and returning to Charlotte to practice law.…
How One Woman is Fighting to Close the Racial Gap in Health Care
Yvonne Dixon still vividly recalls the heartbreak and hard work of her family’s struggle to care for her great-grandmother in Salisbury in the 1970s.
Caring for a person with dementia is often too much for families to handle on their own.…
The Shaping of Black Charlotte
By Fannie Flono
Charlotte is often listed among the best places for African Americans to live and work. It placed sixth on the 2018 Forbes magazine list of cities where Blacks are doing best economically. And, with more than 13,000 Black-owned businesses, Black Enterprise has called the city a mecca for Black entrepreneurs.…
Pushing Black Homeownership One Question at a Time
By Tonya Jameson
At a recent Tuesday Morning Breakfast, a weekly community meeting, Winston Robinson stood up during the Q&A and asked the question. It’s the question he often asks: Do you have a specific agenda for Black people to create a more equitable Charlotte?…
Crowning the Beauty Within
By Angela Lindsay
In a social media climate that glorifies eyelash extensions, lace front wigs, claw-like artificial nails and butt implants, a local program is celebrating all-natural beauty and empowering young women to embrace their own.
Founder Vernisha Crawford saw a need for such a program when she realized how much time and money she was spending on her external appearance.…
Promoting the Power of Philanthropy
By Angela Lindsay
August is Black Philanthropy Month, created in August 2011 by Dr. Jackie Bouvier Copeland, co-founder of the Pan-African Women’s Philanthropy Network as an annual global celebration of African-descent giving. While these facts may be news to some, Foundation for the Carolinas (FFTC) is well aware of the occasion, and chose to observe it this year by celebrating and highlighting the work of one of its special programs that has been serving the Charlotte community for a quarter of a century.…
Seniors Stay Healthy with Friends and Fitness
By Tonya Jameson
Inside the community room at Greater Bethel AME Church, music blared as arms reached toward the ceiling and bodies swayed. Laugher rang out as the group’s leader called out the steps.
“Push it away,” Mitchell Smith-Bey called out, “hot dogs, push it away, hamburgers, push it
Mitchell Smith-Bey
away.”
“French fries,” a woman panted, as she swept her arm in front of her body as if she was pushing through a crowd of people.…
Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Partner Spotlight: the Steve Smith Family Foundation
By Gerard Littlejohn
It’s not often that you get to live out your purpose and make a living doing it. Fortunately for me, I get a chance to do just that on a daily basis.
Four years ago, I was hired by former Carolina Panthers star Steve Smith Sr.…
Metrolina Internal Medicine is committed to improving health outcomes in Charlotte’s Black Community
By LaShawn Hudson
When Deborah Walker and her daughter relocated to Charlotte from Birmingham, Ala., nearly two decades ago, at the top of her to-do list was to find a great physician. After searching extensively, she was referred to Dr.…
The Rundown of Things to Do: Thursday, September 5 – Monday, September 9
By Shawn D. Allison, II
Peace brothers and sisters! This is the most important weekend of the year—it is The Black Ferris Bueller’s Born Day! What better way to celebrate with all of you in a wide variety of goodies to get into!…