Charlotte is officially in a stage 1 drought. Lawn irrigation is only allowed on Tuesday and Saturdays. Residential car washing is banned. According to @Charlottewater, the Catawba-Wateree Drought Management Advisory Group announced that dry weather conditions and warm temperatures have placed Charlotte Water customers in Stage 1 of the drought protocol. Want the latest news and gossip […]

Keith Sweat will be in the Queen City on November 11th!  However, he won’t be alone! Avant, K-Ci & Jo Jo and Mint Condition will be performing live on the same stage at the Bojangle’s Arena.  So make sure you keep listening to Old School 105.3 to win your FREE tickets!

Charlotte Rescue Mission’s Rev. Tony Marciano wants to bring back Friday Friends, a weekly lunch series focused on race, according to a Charlotte Observer article. Don’t miss: Black Charlotte Business Executives Launch Charlotte Unity Initiative Marciano issues the challenge in a column that will appear in several community newspapers Friday. In it, he provides a list […]

Charlotte will hire Norfolk’s Marcus Jones as its new manager. Jones is currently the city manager at Norfolk. He will be Charlotte’s first African American city manager, according to news reports. Jones replaces interim Charlotte city manager Ron Carlee. In February, the Charlotte City Council decided not to extend Carlee’s three-year contract. Jones spent his […]

After days of delay, police in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday released extended video footage of the police-involved shooting death of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, according to multiple media outlets. The graphic police bodycam footage shows the final moments of the father of seven after he was shot by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer on Sept. 20 […]

Join Old School 105.3 for “Shred Day” at Mechanics & Farmers Bank located at 101 Beatties Ford Rd.  It’s this Saturday, October 8th from 10am-12n with Eddie Owens.  So, pull out all those old bills and expired paperwork and bring it to the bank to be shredded!

Right on the heels of the murder of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, another man named Keith Lamont Scott was shot and killed by police in Charlotte, North Carolina. While law enforcement in Tulsa, Oklahoma quickly released footage of the incident and charged the officer who shot Crutcher with manslaughter, law […]

Bishop T.D. Jakes was in our city yesterday to tape an upcoming episode for The T.D. Jakes Show that will focus in on recent shooting incidences in both Charlotte and Tulsa, OK. Jakes visited the neighborhood off Old Concord Road where Keith Scott was shot and killed by police and spoke with Urban League president Patrick Graham.  The episode “Conversation […]

Right on the heels of the murder of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, another man named Keith Lamont Scott was shot and killed by police in Charlotte, North Carolina. While law enforcement in Tulsa, Oklahoma quickly released footage of the incident and charged the officer who shot Crutcher with manslaughter, law […]

Fantasia Barrino has joined the likes of Christina Milian, Raven Symone and Stacey Dash. Over the weekend, she announced her headlining concert in Charlotte, N.C., and fans went crazy after seeing the event’s name: “Hear Me Now! – All Lives Matter.” https://twitter.com/VashtiHurt/status/780069385859923968 The dismissive statement, which is a response to the Black Lives Matter outcry, caused social […]

Although last night’s protests were peaceful, the city of Charlotte is maintaining its curfew.  The curfew is from 12am until 6am.  Bars and restaurants are required to close at midnight as well.  For more details, listen to Old School 105.3

  9/23/16- Jacque Reid talks to Bree Newsome, the woman who scaled the pole in Columbia, SC to take down the Confederate flag. She lives in North Carolina and works as a field organizer for a local organization helping undeserved communities in the Charlotte area. “Right in the wake of police brutality, the first reaction that […]