Year: 2021

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Men Moving Mountains

Rickey Hall

By Ryan Kouame   SENIOR BOARD CHAIR for the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition and Westside Community Land Trust, Rickey Hall, has spent his lifetime working to implement sustainable communitydriven solutions to address systemic social and economic mobility challenges in disenfranchised African-American communities and promoting community-driven initiatives focused on addressing systemic food insecurity and improved health access.   Hall believes west side residents can build a new community that harkens back to the self-contained and self-sustaining Black communities of the 1940s and 1950s.…

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William McNeely

Do Greater Charlotte

By Sonja Whitemon   WITHIN ZIP CODE 28208 in the heart of Charlotte, are many neighborhoods such as Ashley Park, Camp Green, and Revolution Park— mostly low income with nearly double the state and national unemployment rates.…

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Kenneth Snow

By Ryan Kouame   MANAGING PARTNER AND leading attorney for The Snow Legal Group, Kenneth Snow, does not recall when he first decided to become an attorney but says, “I do know that I became a lawyer to speak for the voiceless and fight for the justice of those who cannot fend for themselves.”   Snow went on to receive his Juris Doctor (J.D.)…

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Police Chief Johnny Jennings

Takes the Torch and Ignites a New Era

By Angela Lindsay   “LAW ENFORCEMENT CHOSE ME. I didn’t choose law enforcement.” That is what Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Police Chief Johnny Jennings will tell you about how he became a member of the 108th recruit class in May of 1992.…

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Khalif Rhodes

By Ryan Kouame   KHALIF J. RHODES, ESQ., was appointed chief magistrate of Mecklenburg County of the 26th Judicial District in 2017. Under his guidance, Mecklenburg County addressed the significant disparities in the criminal justice system and Attorney Rhodes was part of the team that rewrote Mecklenburg County’s bail policy.…