Photos: Pharrell And Bernie Sanders With Hillary Clinton In Raleigh Charlotte’s business, community and church leaders joined hundreds of people at Romare Bearden Park on Sunday for One Charlotte Day. It was a day of prayer, music and promises to eradicate the disparities that divide Charlotte into haves and have-nots. Novant’s Jesse Cureton (a Charlotte native), Bank of […]
In an affidavit from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Major Michael Campagna, police say accusations that a police officer killed protestor Justin Carr increased the agitation during the second night of rioting following Keith Lamont Scott’s death. “The crowd is convinced that the police killed the victim with a rubber bullet. While untrue, this belief dramatically elevates the […]
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 […]
For two days, we’ve seen young people express outrage over the fatal police shooting of Keith Scott. Their form of expression smashing windows, looting drug stores, shutting downs streets and setting fires. They’re rioters, looters and agitators. To Cherrell Brown, 27, they’re protestors. Brown and the organizations she works with, QTCOP Collective (Queer and Trans Color […]
The Watts Rebellion, often referred to as the Watts Riot, began this day in 1965. Until 1992, it was the largest such disturbance the city has ever seen and historians point to a longstanding tension between police and the Black community as the impetus. Marquette Frye, then 21, and his brother Ronald were driving in […]
In a recent article for American Banker titled Lessons from Baltimore: ‘Middle-Class Folks Don’t Riot,’ John Hope Bryant, President and CEO of Operation Hope, wrote: “Our goal as…
Two Baltimore correctional officers have been charged with looting after a YouTube clip showed them stealing from a local store during riots following the death…
Racial oppression (particularly suffered by blacks) will not come to an end until we erase the stigmas of pathological deviance that is constantly being attributed to black bodies.
I found this video while searching through the news for Baltimore stories. It’s not being reported, instead, the video is being shared on YouTube. It…
Joseph Kent is a well-known protestor who was kidnapped on Tuesday night. The shocking thing is that it was all caught on CNN’s cameras. And…
The language that has been used to shape the story of passionate Baltimore protestors has proved to be an offensive display of what the world…
Things are starting to calm down in Baltimore as residents ban together to clean up and bring peace back into their community. There were a…
