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Designing a Dream – Pride Award Winner Quintel Gwinn Masters Interior Design

April 29, 2022

The road to becoming a business owner is often complicated. Minority entrepreneurs can face particularly onerous obstacles when trying to access the resources necessary to make business ownership more than just a good idea. Black interior designer, Quintel Gwinn, knows all too well how rocky the road to entrepreneurship can be.…

Black communities have little access to healthy food options. A Charlotte chef cooked up an idea to change that

May 12, 2021

Black neighborhoods are typically limited to fast food. Chef Dee Hairston’s goal is to provide healthy, affordable options on Charlotte’s west side. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Charlotte chef is breaking barriers by bringing healthy food to communities of color, an issue that dates back centuries. …

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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.”…