By Herbert L. White THE CHARLOTE POST Charlotte’s still open for business to historically underutilized vendors. The city-backed Charlotte Business Inclusion collaborates with small, minority, and women-owned businesses. In 2023, the city distributed $193 million in contracts with those vendors,...
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By Alex Bass Alex.bass@triangletribune.com DURHAM – Gloria Burton began her music journey as a student. She still considers herself a student – one who without her own words is deemed well-deserving by Pope Francis. Burton, among the brightest shining beacons...
By Tracey C. Morrison FAYETTEVILLE, NC – While staying attentive to the news, the writer came across a breaking story last month about President Joe Biden pardoning the prison sentences of approximately 1,500 individuals, including his son, Hunter Biden....
Herbert L. White An article in the Sept. 26, 2024, edition of The Post gave Audrey Pride hope. Advocate Health, Charlotte-based Atrium Health’s parent company announced it would drop property liens as a method of collecting on debt starting in...
By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III (TriceEdneyWire.com) – “I don’t know who you are and I don’t know why you like this guy (Trump). I think what you like about him; he appears to be strong and the rest of...
By Alex Bass Alex.bass@triangletribune.com RALEIGH – Tanisha Holmes found an irony to the location of a recent Wake County affordable housing program – John Chavis Park. “There was enough land space to be able to go back and rebuild affordable...
By Cash Michaels Contributing writer What was at first thought to be a vital financial lifeline is now seen as another major blunder for beleaguered St. Augustine’s University (SAU) in Raleigh, one that could cost the small private historically black...
In recent years, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs have faced increasing scrutiny, with policy shifts and executive orders leading to the rollback of federally mandated initiatives. These changes raise fundamental questions about the future of supplier diversity, workforce equity,...
By Alex Bass Alex.bass@triangletribune.com RALEIGH – Eugene Myrick, president of the Biltmore Hills Neighborhood Association, cut to the chase about the historic community chartered in the early 1960s at a Jan. 29 meeting at John Chavis Park. “It was a...
Herbert L. White THE CHARLOTTE POST When Julia Ann McKnight Teamer was born 108 years ago, World War I was raging, Charlotte didn’t provide public education for Black students and women couldn’t vote. Teamer, a longtime education advocate and teacher...