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OPINION: Moms for Liberty or Parents for Bigotry?
On the first Wednesday of September, I ventured to Pure Pizza on Central Avenue for what became a rather dramatic…
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Author’s Note: ‘Legacy: Three Centuries of Black History in Charlotte’
The three men gaze out over the vehicles speeding past on South Brevard Street. Their dark suits and stiff white…
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A Follow-Up on Grief and the Faceless Nature of Facebook
Tip Top Daily Market proprietor Jason Michel saw me as soon as I pushed open the door of his establishment…
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Adventures in Bureaucracy: The Bradford Pears of Shamrock Gardens
The crazed, broken trunks of dying Bradford pear trees emerge from the ground at awkward angles, like wraiths struggling to…
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ESSAY: Grief and the Faceless Nature of Facebook
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. The message arrived September 23,…
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Black History of Charlotte: Slavery & Revolution Part 2
The following is a continuation of Pamela Grundy’s original five-part series Black History of Charlotte and touches on the treatment…
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Black History of Charlotte: Slavery and Revolution
The following is a continuation of Pamela Grundy’s original five-part series Black History of Charlotte and touches on the treatment…
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OPINION: Rethinking the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
On the morning of May 20, 1963, a group of Johnson C. Smith University students set out on the two-mile…
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Editor’s Note: Meck Dec Day and Charlotte’s Racist History
In our latest News feature, Ryan Pitkin talks to local author and social entrepreneur Justin Jones-Fosu about diversity and inclusion,…
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‘Fragile Democracy’ Tells of Struggle for Voting Rights in NC
In the fall of 1936, Franklin Roosevelt was running for his second term as president, and Elizabeth Randolph could not…
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Black History of Charlotte Part 5: The Battle Over Desegregation in Charlotte
The following is the final chapter in a five-part history of Black culture in Charlotte, and touches on desegregation in…
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Black History of Charlotte Part 4: How Redlining, Blockbusting and ‘Urban Renewal’ Victimized a Community
The following is the fourth in a five-part history of Black culture in Charlotte, looking at the history of urban…
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Black History of Charlotte: Women of the Charlotte Sit-Ins
The following is a special addition to our five-part Black History of Charlotte series, to be read alongside Part 3. …
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Black History of Charlotte Part 3: Civil Rights in the New South
The following is the third in a five-part history of Black culture in Charlotte. Read Part 1 and Part 2,…
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Black History of Charlotte Part 2: The Building of Brooklyn
The following is the second in a five-part history of Black culture in Charlotte, looking at the construction of Brooklyn,…
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Black History of Charlotte Part 1: The White Supremacist Response to Reconstruction
The following is the first in a five-part history of Black culture in Charlotte. Stay tuned for the parts in…
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