Q & A with Charlotte Mecklenburg Library CEO and Chief Librarian Marcellus Turner

April 29, 2022

Marcellus Turner, or “MT” as he prefers, celebrated his first-year anniversary, last month as the new CEO and chief librarian of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library system. He’s also a first-time resident of Charlotte. Turner is originally from the Jackson, Mississippi area.…

Food Lion Feeds Donates More Than 1.2 Million Meals Through Score to Give More Campaign

April 5, 2022

Food Lion Feeds’ Score to Give More Program Partners with Schools During Basketball Season to Help Sink Hunger SALISBURY, N.C., April 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Throughout the 2021/2022 college basketball season, Food Lion Feeds partnered with 31 colleges and universities to help nourish neighbors in need.…

Johnson C. Smith University
Gets New Cycling Program

March 26, 2022

The first women’s cycling programs at a historically Black college, Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU), and at tribal colleges and universities will launch with funding from a three-year grant from Cannondale, EF Pro Cycling, and USA Cycling (USAC). Two tribal schools, the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Navajo Technical University in Crown Point, New Mexico, are the other grant recipients.…

Book Review – Books By and About Black Women Leaders

March 23, 2022

By Angela Haigler

“Black Roses: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Women”by Harold Green III, Illustrated by Melissa Koby Black women are making history every day. Harold Green, III believes the time for celebrating them is now. Green gained fame by writing love letters in verse for the visionary women who are making a difference in this age.…

LEARN ABOUT ONE OF THE OLDEST CULTURAL TRADITIONS IN CHARLOTTE

March 8, 2022

Free museum admission, guided tours of Catawba pottery exhibit and a special live-streamed event with the Catawba Nation CHARLOTTE, N.C., Mar. 8, 2022 – Take a guided exhibit tour with The Charlotte Museum of History on Saturday, March 26, and learn about one of the oldest cultural traditions in the Carolinas, Catawba pottery. …

Dr. Patricia Bath

February 27, 2022

First Black Woman to Be Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame By Sonja Whitemon Some people seem to have been born to be exceptional— their footsteps ordered from birth. Dr. Patricia Bath was among those seemingly destined for greatness.…

Men Moving Mountains

January 1, 2022

Phenomenal Black men in Charlotte who are uplifting the community. Charlotte has an All-Star Team that are performing Amazing Feats. by John Burton, Abena Atiemo and Lelita Cannon…

HISTORY MUSEUM RECEIVES $160,000 FROM COUNTY AND CITY FOR SAVE SILOAM SCHOOL PROJECT

August 31, 2021

Mecklenburg County pledges $150,000 over next 10 years City of Charlotte will give $10,000 from current year budget CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 30, 2021 – Mecklenburg County and the City of Charlotte together have pledged $160,000 to support the Save Siloam School Project, The Charlotte Museum of History announced today.…

Special Section Bank of America — How Diverse Companies Can Build Their Business Pipeline

August 27, 2021

As our community slowly begins to emerge from the pandemic, we know that small and diverse businesses are experiencing a slower economic recovery. Pride Magazine interviewed Kieth Cockrell, President of Bank of America Charlotte and Vonshe Jenkins, Bank of America’s Supplier Diversity and Responsible Sourcing Executive, to hear their advice on how diverse companies can build their business pipeline.…

CMS Needs More Latino Teachers

August 27, 2021

By Alicia Benjamin Approximately 60 million Latinos live in the U.S., which represents 18.5% of the population, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau statistics. In Charlotte, Latinos make up 14.3 percent of the population or about 133,000 people. But in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), where the Latino population is 27%, only 2.3% of the teachers are Latino, according to the 2020-21 CMS School Diversity Report. …