What is the lasting effect if you’re caught “trending” as the news of the day? Your name lives on, part of an electronic and social media trail that lasts forever.
From Mississippi to Boston, it’s the accusation that lingers Read More »
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 the back story for the
Understanding the bomber next door Read More »
Kid friendly Earth Day celebrations in Charlotte, and a report on my acting debut, for a good cause. On Fox News Rising:
Keeping It Positive: Play Date Options Around Town Read More »
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 February, using his cell phone
More Mark Sanford drama? Like you’re surprised Read More »
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 the city neighborhoods where violence
Can we talk about gun violence? Read More »
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 named. They are what the
Kermit Gosnell trial: It’s about more than politics Read More »
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 confirmed – that he may take a
Charlotte’s Mayor Anthony Foxx won’t run again. Is he headed for Washington? Read More »
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.
Keeping It Positive: Friends of the Library Read More »
What started as a challenge for Jordan Leeper became an opportunity for Kobi Kennedy Brinson and the North Carolina Dance Theatre. The promising young dancer was coming to the end of the first year of his apprenticeship and running out of resources. Leeper’s parents, in his hometown of Jamestown, N.Y., had already helped out as
Charlotte’s African American community ‘Steps Up’ for young dancers Read More »
