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Joshua Proby
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Joshua Proby
By Ryan Kouame AUTHOR OF THE 30-DAY JOURNEY from Prison to Spiritual Peace, Joshua Proby, is a minister, motivational speaker, mentor and entrepreneur. His life is not one of glitz and glamour, but he has dedicated it to educating and uplifting children and young adults to have a better understanding of who they are. At the age of 22, Proby was charged with first-degree burglary and sentenced to twelve years in prison.…
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Tommie Robinson
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Tommie Robinson
By Ryan Kouame A 50-YEAR CAREER and the first Black artist in the Guild of Charlotte Artists, Tommie Robinson will make history as the first Black artist whose portrait of a judge will hang in the Mecklenburg County courthouse.…
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Home Run! Baseball Team Owner Brandon Bellamy
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Home Run! Baseball Team Owner Brandon Bellamy
By Angela Lindsay THE DECISION WAS UNANIMOUS. In July, the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball approved real estate developer Brandon Bellamy to purchase a new club expansion in Gastonia, NC, becoming professional baseball’s only Black majority owner in the nation.…
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Nicholas Wharton
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Nicholas Wharton
The Charlotte Area Fund
By Sonja Whitemon NICHOLAS WHARTON is the President and CEO of the Charlotte Area Fund, a nonprofit that helps people at 200 percent or below the federal poverty guidelines to find their way out of poverty. The organization provides job training in high-demand fields that include HVAC, broadband fiber, commercial driving (CDL) and construction.…
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Jamall Kinard
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Jamall Kinard
By Ryan Kouame EDUCATOR, COACH, COMMUNITY ORGANIZER, and racial equity trainer Jamall Kinard is revitalizing efforts in the community by focusing on family stability and civic awareness. After serving 10 years as an educator in the Charlotte Mecklenburg School System, Kinard eagerly joined the Racial Equity Institute (REI) in August of 2019. As a community organizer/consultant and executive director of the Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance (LNA), his ultimate goal is to create a community organizing blueprint and foster an environment where the truth is celebrated, strong families are cultivated, and racism is dismantled for all communities, organizations, and institutions to follow. As a coach, his goals are to educate himself and others on the history of this country and its systems, build generational wealth by bridging the gap between effort and access, and empower people in the Black community through conscious and consistent leadership. “Plain and simple, there is no way that we can help each other if there is a system in place that thrives off of us staying in our own bubbles and only being concerned about ourselves.…
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Rickey Hall
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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
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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
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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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