Losing pieces of Black history stops with Archive CLT

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 way, Terry said, she felt she was able to make sense of her mother’s life and answer questions she had never got to ask.  Now, she taken that hobby and turned it into a business. On August 27, Terry officially opened Archive CLT, a vintage book...

A new gift from the Gambrell Foundation pushes Johnson C. Smith University past an $80 million fundraising goal

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 raise $80 million. Calling JCSU “a gem in the Queen City Crown,” Gambrell Foundation President Sally Gambrell said the donation was long overdue. “This is just the beginning of a relationship on my watch with Johnson C. Smith going forward,” she...

HBCU Digest – Q City Metro

This item first appeared in our morning newsletter, which is delivered Monday through Saturday to more than 7,000 smart subscribers in the Charlotte area. You can become one of them. Last week, Howard University received two bomb threats within 48 hours, the first known threats to an HBCU this academic year. According to the FBI, 57 HBCUs, including Fayetteville State University and Winston-Salem State University, have received bomb...

Black Pearl to buy Florida-based maker of contact lenses

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 world’s only contact lens manufacturer that is both Black- and woman-owned, according to a press release Monday announcing the planned acquisition. “It’s exciting to celebrate this milestone as we close out National Black Business Month,” Black...

‘That’s my only son. I can’t let anything happen to him’

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 start his second year at the school. His mother was simply hoping for another year without a gun incident.  “I only hear bad things about students being able to get guns on campus,” she said. “There’s not as much security as there should...

A call for political change

This item first appeared in our morning newsletter, which is delivered Monday through Saturday to more than 7,000 smart subscribers in the Charlotte area. You can become one of them. The Rev. William Barber, who launched the “Moral Monday” protest movement in Raleigh nearly a decade ago, announced plans for a 15-state drive to reach more than 5 million poor and low-income voters ahead of the midterm elections. The campaign kicks off...

In Charlotte, college students say debt cancellation was welcomed news

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 for millions of Americans. The Charlotte native said his family suffered a “big impact” from the Covid-19 pandemic, so news of the debt cancellation came as relief. “That’ll be a lot of money I wouldn’t be able to have if I did have to pay...

For one N.C. A&T player, the Duke’s Mayo Classic will fulfill a childhood dream

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 Shaq Thompson were among his all-time favorites and had each played there. Now, as a linebacker for North Carolina A&T State University, Roberts’ dream is about to come true. On Sept. 3, inside the stadium he admired as a boy, he and his teammates...

Historic Latta Place could reopen next year

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. The site has been closed to the public since last summer, when controversy erupted over a planned Juneteenth event that critics labeled inappropriate. If plans go as scheduled, the Huntersville site, formally known as Historic Latta Plantation, could...

CMS teachers, principals and staff to get pay raises

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 $1.8 billion operating budget that will see the average CMS teacher get a 4.2% pay raise. Principals and assistant principals will see a 4% pay raise, retroactive to July 1.  The budget also includes a 5% additional local county supplement increase...

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