What’s Happening, Charlotte – Q City Metro

Happy Friday, Charlotte. Glenn here. For some of us, fall means canning season. Here is my first batch of muscadine jelly this year. Never heard of muscadines? Then clearly you didn’t grow up in the South, as I did. Free Newsletter Stay informed with news and events that impact Charlotte's Black communities. Muscadines are in the grape family, but they are indigenous to this region. When I was a boy, I’d sometimes stumble across the vines...

Fifth Third Bank will invest up to $20 million to assist Historic West End

Fifth-Third Bank will commit up to $20 million in various forms of financial assistance to aid the economic development of Historic West End, the company announced Thursday. The assistance will come in the form of small business loans, mortgages, investments and philanthropic support, including grants from the Fifth Third Foundation. The commitment would be one of the largest yet in the historically Black community, which in recent years has...

After a Covid pause in 2020, homecomings resume at some HBCUs… but with fewer events

The HBCU homecoming experience is truly like no other. This I know for certain.  As a undergrad at North Carolina Central, I remember waking up in my dorm room on homecoming Saturday to the smell of food cooking on grills and music blasting from tailgates. I’d put on my flyest outfit to go to the football game. Later on, my friends and I would head to the Greek Bowl, an outdoor party that would last well into the night. Now I’m a NCCU...

The Market at 7th Street: The name is new, but the mission is unchanged

Sponsored by: Charlotte Center City Partners boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure Charlotte Center City is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich, and beloved place for all Coffee, burgers, wines, vegan cuisine and more — all can be found at The Market at 7th Street, where change is in the air as The Market celebrates its 10th anniversary this fall.  The Market separates itself from...

Celebrate a civil rights icon this November

Martin Luther King, Jr. Julian Bond. Andrew Young. These giants of the civil rights movement stood upon the shoulders of a remarkable leader, educator, man of faith and activist, Benjamin Mays, Ph.D. In his lifetime, Mays served as an ordained minister, the dean of religious studies at Howard University, president of Morehouse College and an advisor to several U.S. presidents. It was under Mays’ tutelage that Morehouse rose to international...

West Boulevard is next in line for city’s ‘Corridors of Opportunity’ investments

In 2019, residents of the West Boulevard corridor, in partnership with the city of Charlotte, released a 108-page plan envisioning the kind of community they wanted. The plan, called the West Boulevard Corridor Playbook, prioritized economic development, transportation improvements, retail amenities, and improved visual appeal. Now two years later, parts of the vision will become reality. At West Boulevard and Remount Road, an intersection...

A look inside one Charlotte church where the pandemic has forced reinvention

Reservations are made for dinner, not typically for attending church. But at the 5,000-member St.Paul Baptist Church in east Charlotte, where at least 25 members have died from Covid-19, in-person worship each Sunday is limited to 600 people — first come, first served. Pre-registration is required on EventBrite, where a colorful banner declares “Welcome Back Home. Before worshipers can enter the church’s sanctuary, they are temperature...

Liberian teen found and returned $50,000; now he has a Livingstone scholarship offer

Livingstone College will offer a full scholarship to a Liberian teen who found $50,000 and returned the money to its rightful owner. Emmanuel Tuloe, 18, made international headlines earlier this month when news broke of his deeds. According to media reports, Tuloe, who dropped out of school to support his family by driving a motorcycle taxi, was working one day when he found the money wrapped in plastic. He took the cash to an aunt’s house...

I long admired Gen. Colin Powell. After his death, I learned we shared something in common

General Colin Powell was someone I deeply admired for his service to our country and especially our children. I was blessed to meet him and his beautiful wife, Alma, at two GradNation Summits in Washington, D.C. which I attended with some of my colleagues in the Kinston and Charlotte communities. At the time, the Powells were leaders of America’s Promise. Their son, Michael, gave a shout out to Kinston during a speech, calling us one of the...

Weekend News Quiz – Q City Metro

Last week 81 percent of quiz takers knew that Jamie Lee Kirkpatrick got an award and sports scholarship named after him. Only 12 percent knew that over 40 of the films at Charlotte’s Film Festival were from Black creatives. Now for this weeks quiz. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';...

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