CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Rising tension between business leaders and health officials about when to re-open. And new data showing how minorities are at higher risk for Coronavirus infections and death. Click above for more with our political contributor, Mary C. Curtis.
POLITICAL WRAP: Coronavirus – Business vs. Health & Impact on Minorities Read More »
OPINION — It doesn’t take a candidate of color on a debate stage to raise issues of justice and inequality. But that has been the way it has worked out, mostly. For example, it was exhilarating for many when then-candidate Julián Castro said in a Democratic debate, “Police violence is also gun violence,” while naming Atatiana
OPINION — There is a particular line that stuck with me in the just-opened film “Queen & Slim,” about a black couple on the run after an altercation with a white police officer goes awry in the depressing and terrible way you might imagine. During their perilous road trip, in a quieter moment, he (a
Double standards for 2020 Democratic hopefuls? You don’t say Read More »
[OPINION] ROCK HILL, S.C. — Why was South Bend, Indiana, mayor and Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg in South Carolina over the weekend, with a busy schedule that included tailgating at a historically black college homecoming and delivering remarks at an AME Zion worship service? “To say that I want to be the president who
Pete Buttigieg tries to solve his South Carolina puzzle Read More »
OPINION — It was a difference in styles and generations. In a Carolinas swing, first there was Beto O’Rourke with a town hall at a brewery in Charlotte, North Carolina — more like an informal gathering among many new friends. The next day there was Joe Biden with a large crowd at a historically black college in Rock Hill,
Biden and Beto are like night and day — except when they’re potato-potahto Read More »
OPINION — “Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names.” Of course, that language from Toni Morrison perfectly suits this time, when the names we give the things that scare us hardly seem enough. It is fitting that in a week when America has been exposed to the words of a white nationalist screed
The lessons of Toni Morrison: Words matter, now more than ever Read More »
OPINION — It was one of those Baltimore row houses that have come to define the city, three stories high, with a set of white marble steps out front. I will never forget those steps, the ones I had to scrub weekly, brush in one hand, Bon Ami cleanser in the other. And when I
The Baltimore that raised me is America too Read More »
OPINION — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When the Democratic National Convention hit town in 2012, the dancing traffic cop made headlines for his smooth moves and entertaining approach to law enforcement. The officer captured the party atmosphere of that event, leading up to the renomination of no-drama President Barack Obama for a second term. City leaders and residents now look back at that time with
Is a blue city in a purple state having second thoughts about hosting a red convention? Read More »
OPINION — It’s an inside joke I’ve told the last couple of years. My ancestors on both sides have been in America for generations — men, women and children whose blood, sweat and grit drenched the Maryland soil they cultivated and farmed and lived on. Originally brought by force, they claimed their place proudly and
Will America ‘go back’ to where it came from? Read More »
OPINION — Ed Sanders was both unique and ordinary. He became, in his own way, a hero just for doing his job. When Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools integrated in North Carolina, if you can call it that, by allowing a handful of African American students to attend schools formerly reserved for whites only in September 1957, Sanders
Why big yellow buses are the big red herring of 2020 Read More »
