By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: February 13,2011
The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association last week said it is renewing its contract with Charlotte through 2014. Last month, the Charlotte chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had called for major events, including the CIAA, to boycott Charlotte after public schools were closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: February 4,2011
The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association apparently has not been persuaded by a call by the Charlotte chapter of the NAACP to boycott Charlotte. Last month, the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called for major events, including the CIAA, to boycott the city after public schools were closed on [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: February 1,2011
Charlotte will be the host city for the 2012 Democratic National Convention, the Democratic National Committee said today, ending months of speculation in the Queen City. The city beat out St. Louis, Minneapolis and Cleveland for the 46th DMC, an event expected to bring at least a $150 million boost to Charlotte’s economy. “I think we can safely [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: January 20,2011
A call by the local NAACP to boycott the CIAA basketball tournament and other large sporting events is not sitting well with some black businesspeople in Charlotte who say it would hurt black businesses. During an executive board meeting Tuesday of the Charlotte chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Kojo [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: November 2,2010
For many Charlotte-area parents, Mike Raible is the bad guy. As executive director of planning and project management for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, he’s in charge of the CMS program known as the Case for Continuous Improvement. It’s a nice, positive-sounding name, but the program’s mission is to determine what CMS schools to close and consolidate in [...]
By Deon Roberts, editor
Published: October 15,2010
Some real ugliness is being exposed in Mecklenburg County. As Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools considers closing and merging schools to save money and improve students’ performance, public meetings have been rife with tension that came to a head Tuesday night when Kojo Nantambu, president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored [...]
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