Year: 2021

2021 May/June

Retail Closures Leave a Gap in the Job Market

May 3, 2021
By Sonja Whitemon The retail industry has been a dominant source of employment in the U.S. for decades, employing more people than the airline, banking or hotel industries. But retail has been on the decline for years, long before Covid-19 came on the scene.…
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PEEP Is Being Reborn

May 3, 2021
By Alicia Benjamin and Kaycee McGee When Pride Magazine featured the story, “Who Will Save Our Children,” in a 2006 issue that told the daunting story of how many Black children in the Charlotte area were severely neglected, Dee Dixon, Pride Magazine’s CEO and Publisher was motivated to do something to help the children.…
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How Do You Know You Have a Detached Retina?

April 30, 2021
By Dr. Paula Newsome There are a few ocular emergencies that you could experience and retinal detachment is one of them. The retina is the thin lining of the inside of the eye and is the only place in the body where we can directly look at arteries, veins and nerves without physically cutting.…
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NXT | CLT Helps Small Businesses Succeed

April 30, 2021
By Angela Lindsay It can be challenging for minority-owned businesses to get off the ground, let alone remain sustainable for generations. While full of potential, too often these enterprises aren’t given the opportunities necessary to grow to the next level. Recognizing this challenge, business accelerator NXT Charlotte (NXT | CLT) has stepped in to give these companies a step up.…
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Wellness

THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE BODY: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

March 11, 2021

THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE BODY: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

September 24, 2020

By Dr. Patrick Evivie and Valerie Evivie. 3 MINUTE READ. COVID-19 stands for coronavirus disease 2019. It is caused by a virus called SARS-COV-2, which first appeared in late 2019 and quickly spread around the world becoming the most fatal pandemic of our lifetime.…
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Wellness

Wellness

March 10, 2021

PRIDE HEALTH

Why it's important to know your blood type

By Kesa McGee

In medicine, knowing a patient’s blood type is important, especially when it comes to blood transfusions. With a blood transfusion, blood or part of the blood is collected from one person and is given to another.…
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Dragon helps put out fire: Charlotte Knights mascot seen helping put out uptown Charlotte fire

March 10, 2021
This time, the dragon helped extinguish a fire. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Charlotte Knights mascot Homer the Dragon flipped the script Tuesday: he helped put out a fire.  When a small brush fire broke out in a flower bed near Truist Field and Romare Bearden Park, the Charlotte Fire Department said, “Homer was in the neighborhood and assisted Charlotte Fire Engine 4 with putting the fire out.”…