Charlotte and JWU history: Racism in Charlotte

More than 60 years after Charlotte’s City Council voted for a federal urban renewal program that would destroy a prominent Black neighborhood uptown, the city’s leader had a starkly different message.

College of Education dean discusses how racial discrimination results in unequal educational opportunities.

A new study shows that the pressures associated with discrimination contribute to the achievement gap.

Regardless of the state of the economy, African Americans face more challenges getting higher paying jobs.

North Carolina is among the top states for “racial progress” but lags further behind in racial integration, a new study finds.

Here is the racial progress study info

Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s schools are the most racially segregated in North Carolina by the calculations of a report released Friday by a nonprofit advocacy group.

This is the companion report to “E(race)ing Inequities: The State of Racial Equity in North Carolina Public Schools” from the Center for Racial Equity in Education (CREED). Find all content related to “Deep Rooted” and “E(race)ing Inequities” here.

Americans would like to believe that the long arc of history bends towards justice, but currently in the school system of Charlotte, North Carolina, history seems to look more like a pendulum.

Charlotte Stories hit the streets a few summers ago in search of a solution to reducing racism in our city.