At age 24, Cheryse Terry lost her mother to congestive heart failure. Left with questions, she sought consolation by collecting Black memorabilia from eras that impacted her mother’s life. In this...
The Gambrell Foundation announced Tuesday that it will give $1.8 million in support of Johnson C. Smith University via the Mayor’s Racial Equity Initiative, pushing the school past its goal to...
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Black Pearl Global Investments, an asset-management firm based in Charlotte, has agreed to buy a Florida company that makes contact lenses. When the deal is completed, Black Pearl will be the...
Around 8:45 a.m. on Monday, Charnel Ramage and her son Hunter anxiously awaited his school bus at a corner on Johnson and Wales Way. Hunter, a third grader at First Ward Elementary, was excited to...
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Until he was approached by a reporter, Chandler Cannon, a third-year music major at Johnson C. Smith University, hadn’t heard about the Biden administration’s plan to cancel student-loan debts...
Growing up in Charlotte as a Carolina Panthers fan, Jacob Roberts has long dreamed of playing football on the storied turf at Bank of American Stadium. Linebackers Luke Keuchly, Thomas Davis and...
Mecklenburg County has hired a Fairfax, Virginia, company to develop new exhibits and interpretive programming for Historic Latta Place, a former plantation where Black American were once enslaved....
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ teachers, principals and staff members will receive pay raises just before the start of the 2022-2023 school year. On Tuesday, Board members unanimously approved the...
