When President Obama nominated Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency, he praised the North Carolinian’s experience. “Mel has led efforts to rein in unscrupulous mortgage lenders,” the president said. “He’s helped protect consumers from the kind of reckless risk-taking that led to the financial crisis in the first place. And […]
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When the NRA brought its annual meeting to Charlotte in 2010, I covered it for Politics Daily, but even if I hadn’t had the assignment, I might have stopped by. The convention center floor was certainly a spectacle, filled with displays of guns, ammunition, camouflage clothing and more. It would have made an entertaining afternoon
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A show that came together in Charlotte before its successful New York run brings its urban acrobatics to the Knight Theater.
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Where’s Atticus Finch when you need him? Finch, of course, is the honest lawyer, a heroic seeker of justice and hero of Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The intensely private Lee has sadly made new headlines for a lawsuit she has brought against the son-in-law of her former literary agent over the copyright
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In 1947, when Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball, the world was not integrated. The movie “42” would have to last a lot longer than a couple of hours to tell the whole story: the death threats, the insults from fans, opposing players and his Dodgers teammates, Robinson’s separate and unequal trials, the pressure to
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CHARLOTTE, NC: Lollipops and double dutch? You’ll find events with them right here in Charlotte this weekend. Mary C. Curtis previews the cultural happenings around town!
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As Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, looked on, he might have been wondering if the moment will ever come for him.
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CHARLOTTE — When Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx said that he would not run for the third term he was almost guaranteed to win easily, most folks in town figured something big was in his future. The explanation everyone expected officially came on Monday when President Obama announced Foxx, a Democrat, was his choice to join
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Pop culture in America has always broken rules and crossed lines authorities created to keep races apart. Jazz, a uniquely American art form, could not have been created without a fusion of cultures. There has been pushback, too, with denunciations from 1950s adults who saw racial subversion and contamination in Elvis’s hips and Little Richard’s
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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.
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