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Today, we expect to see black nurses when we go to the hospital, doctor or clinic. It wasn’t always that way. Thereasea Elder knows first hand. She was one of the community’s public health nurses. When we think about desegregation, we often recall images of innocent school children simply trying to get an education. Twitter […]

Just weeks after preaching All Lives Matter rhetoric, Cam Newton is catching flack again. The Carolina Panthers are currently 1-5 on the season and 4th in the NFC South, and a happy Cam Newton that does not make. After Sunday night’s 41-38 loss against the New Orleans Saints, Newton walked out of the post game press conference. […]

Keith Scott Buried In SC Friends, family and the media gathered in James Island, SC near Charleston for the funeral of Keith Scott who was gunned down by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police. Scott’s funeral was originally planned for two weeks ago, but was delayed because of Hurricane Matthew. 2nd Man Charged In EpiCentre Assault Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Detectives […]

Domestic violence continues to blemish the social fabric of our country. According to the Center’s of Disease Control and Prevention, severe physical violence was experienced by 22% of women and 14% of men. This includes being hit with something hard, being kicked or beaten, or being burned. Among victims of contact sexual violence, physical violence, […]

In an interview with “CBS This Morning,” Rakeyia Scott told co-host Gayle King that she doesn’t believe officer Brentley Vinson fatally shot her husband last month. In the interview, Scott doesn’t say who she believes killed Scott. “Officer Vinson, I don’t believe shot my husband,” Rakeyia Scott said. “Because of the positioning when the shooting […]

The Thereasea Clark Elder Community Appreciation Ceremony will celebrate the life and work of Ms. Elders and launch the T.C. Elder Community Health Leadership Academy on Thursday. Elder was a pioneering public health nurse with the Mecklenburg County Health Department from 1962 to 1989. The T.C. Elder Community Health Leadership Academy will focus on chronic […]

Governor Pat McCrory and Democratic candidate Roy Cooper State squared off tonight about everything from Republican nominee Donald Trump’s comments about women to the Black Lives Matter Movement. On HB972 (Releasing Police Camera Footage) McCrory: We need to balance the public interests, we also need to balance the constitutional rights of those being investigating. I […]

Pat McCrory doesn’t get it. During his debate with Democratic candidate Roy Cooper,  McCrory quoted Martin Luther King Jr and then went on to say “All lives should matter. We should value every single human life.” The comment underscores the disconnect between people who vilify Black Lives Matter and those who seek to understand the […]

Interested in learning more about how faith organizations are coming together to fight heart disease, diabetes and obesity? Join the Village HeartBEAT, sponsored by the Mecklenburg County’s Health Department, for an information session about how your church can get involved. It’s fun, family, faith and fitness. They are saving the community, one church at a […]

The portrait of slavery for far too long has been that of the docile and acquiescing slave always buckling under the weight of a cruel and unjust system. But with the release of ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ a different picture of the slave experience emerges. It’s a picture of insurrection and rebellion. It’s a […]

Vance High graduate Devyne Johnson is bringing her indie film, “Mosaic,” to Ayrsley Grand Cinemas 14 on Saturday and Sunday. “Mosiac” is the first screenplay written by Johnson, and produced by her company Artefaekts, is close to her heart. “I couldn’t move on with anything else without honoring this one,” said Johnson who has written […]

Congrats to the Levine Museum of the New South’s ¡NUEVOlution! exhibit. The Southeastern Museum Conference named it as the winner of three awards in their annual exhibit and technology competitions for the current exhibit, ¡NUEVOlution!: Latinos and the New South. ¡NUEVOlution! received the top “Excellence in Exhibitions” Gold Award for exhibits with budgets over $100,000. […]