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Charlotte Man Recalls Journey in Emergency Animal Rescue Work
Last fall, Mike Schultz was about four years into his journey doing animal rescue work locally, helping rehabilitate injured wildlife with the Indian Trail-based Carolina Waterfowl Rescue — working with turtles, rabbits, birds, snakes and squirrels — while also fostering dogs that were awaiting adoption. Come late-September, as Schultz began…
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A Guide to Giving to Charlotte’s Most Vulnerable Populations
‘Tis the season to think of the most vulnerable populations in Charlotte, but organizations that help those who need it most can be hard to find. Children, of course, come to mind, but there are others — folks going through incarceration and their families, for example. Then there are animals,…
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Organizer Jibril Hough Discusses Pro-Palestine Rally in Uptown Charlotte
Longtime local activist Jibril Hough addressed a vibrant but mournful crowd of more than 300 people at a pro-Palestinian rally in Uptown, the first of multiple rallies planned for Charlotte as Israel continues to shell the densely populated Gaza Strip in response to an attack by Hamas earlier in October. …
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Reproductive Rights Coalition Wants to Answer Your Questions on Abortion
March is Women’s History Month, but there is still as sharp a focus as ever on one women’s issue that’s never really history: abortion. The Reproductive Rights Coalition (RRC) is a local nonprofit created by abortion rights supporters to focus on access — to health-care clinics that offer abortion, to…
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Lorenzo Steele Jr. Takes Kids Behind Prison Walls with a Camera
When Lorenzo Steele Jr. was 5 years old, his mother put a camera in his hands for the first time. “I can still remember the feeling of it in my hands. It felt like something that was taken away for many years and it was found again. Staring at it…
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