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CHARLOTTE, NC: The YWCA of Central Carolinas is hosting an exhibit called “We Are” through May 14. The exhibit showcases the YWCA’s presence in the Charlotte community since 1902. Mary Curtis stops by Rising to discuss the YWCA’s work and how they’re taking a stand against racism this week.
... Congressman John Lewis at Johnson C. Smith University awards dinner: Too many of our children are not receiving an education, he said. “As a nation we can do better. … If we fail to act, history will not be kind to us.”
... It’s not that the women, the mothers, don’t blame both brothers Tsarnaev as law enforcement officials continue to investigate the bombings at the Boston Marathon and its aftermath, horrors that killed and maimed. There is no limit to the anger and rage aimed at the two of them. But while...
CHARLOTTE – On the federal level, the gun-control debate is now focused on proposed changes to gun legislation, from tightening background checks (given little chance of passage) to efforts to ban military-style assault weapons and limit the capacity of ammunition magazines (given even less). On the local level, however, in...
Just when his apology tour was going so well, South Carolina’s Mark Sanford is in the headlines again — and not for his conservative fiscal policies. His ex-wife Jenny Sanford has filed a trespassing complaint saying that in violation of their divorce settlement, she caught him leaving her home in...
Kid friendly Earth Day celebrations in Charlotte, and a report on my acting debut, for a good cause. On Fox News Rising:
... Karnamaya Mongar is the name of the 41-year-old woman Kermit Gosnell is charged with murdering; she allegedly received high doses of anesthetic at his Philadelphia abortion clinic. The seven children Gosnell is accused of killing at his Women’s Medical Society, as it was called, didn’t have the chance to be...
CHARLOTTE — The occasion was an open-to-the-public reception to introduce Charlotte’s new city manager. But everyone in the lobby of the government center was talking about the decision by Mayor Anthony Foxx not to run for the third term he certainly would have won handily, and the reports – not...
Mary C. Curtis, Rising’s Positive contributor shares with us important details about this month’s “Book Sale” at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Library as well as the latest celebration going on in the Mint Museum.
... In her statement marking Equal Pay Day on April 9, North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan said, “Fifty years ago Congress passed the Equal Pay Act making equal pay for equal work the rule of law. As we commemorate this landmark piece of legislation, it is important to remember that our...