God must be sick of the lot of us. That was my first thought on reading the text message exchanges between Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. “This is a fight of good versus evil,” Meadows reportedly wrote to Thomas. “Evil always looks like […]
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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee spent much of the week questioning Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina had their chance to engage the nominee, and in the case of Graham, it got quite heated. We’ll hear what both had to say. Third grade reading scores are
Brent Renaud was an award-winning journalist, a documentary filmmaker and photographer, whose work took him around the country and the world, where he covered an earthquake in Haiti, cartel violence in Mexico and, in a Vice News series titled “Last Chance High,” a therapeutic school in Chicago. He won a prestigious Peabody Award for that last project in
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Eight years ago in 2014, Charlotte ranked 50 out of 50 of the nation’s largest metro areas in an upward mobility study from Harvard and the University of California-Berkeley. . The “Land of Opportunity” study painted a bleak outlook for Charlotte’s poorest residents, but served as a wake up call for city officials and community
EQUALibrium: A public conversation on race and equity in Charlotte Read More »
March 7, 1965, is a day to remember. That was never a problem for 90-year-old Ora Bell Shannon of Selma, Ala., then a young mother who ran with her children from the Edmund Pettus Bridge, or for Betty Boynton, who could see the tear gas rising and baton-wielding state troopers beating peaceful marchers. Civil rights activists — among
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In a brief mention in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Joe Biden described his Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as a “consensus builder” and touted her support from the Fraternal Order of Police, before moving on to other topics. That was understandable in a time of war and division, overseas and closer to home. But
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On the next Charlotte Talks Local News Roundup: The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board voted this week to end its indoor mask mandate effective March 7. We’ll talk about what school board members and superintendent Earnest Winston had to say. Redistricting is once again in the news as a three-judge panel decided the fate of the newly proposed
As a very young woman from Baltimore, Mary C. Curtis’ journalism inspiration came from her lived experience. Her family’s involvement in the civil rights movement coupled with strong work ethic catapulted her into a widely successful career. Today Mary is the host of CQ Roll Call’s Equal Time podcast, an award-winning columnist, an NPR contributor
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I lead a double life. That’s not as sinister as it sounds. I cover the news of the day and write opinion columns on the intersection of politics, culture and race. And, if you’ve been paying attention, you know that it’s rough out there. In my other, not-so-secret life, I spend time with thought leaders
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What an insightful interview by Joy-Nicole Smith, founder of ‘The Joy of Learning.’ Thank you for the opportunity; truly enjoyed our conversation:
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