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.…
Men and Depression
The opening line in Scott Peck’s “ The Road Less Traveled” says, “Life is difficult.” The difficulties of life can produce times when we feel sad, irritable, tired, and hopeless. For many, this may result in symptoms associated with depression. The National Institute of Mental Health found that in 2017, seven percent of adults suffered with depression.…
Why Life Insurance Should Be a Priority for Millennials
By Nicole McConico
Having a conversation about planning for the unknown or a death occurring is hard for most people. It is definitely easier to discuss a recent travel destination or trending sports topic with a millennial than life insurance.
According to a recent T.…
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.…
The Rundown of Things to Do: Thursday, February 6- Sunday, February 9
By: Shawn D. Allison, II
Greetings everyone! Hope you all have had a great weekend. But the weekend is here and so is The Rundown and it is chock full of cultural flyness! I will be out spreading the love to all this Sunday afternoon on the turntables at my event “Bueller’s Black Love Boogie: Vinyltine’s Day 2020” so please be sure to come through and get some of this musical magic!…
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.…