Brooklyn Collective Picks up the Torch of Charlotte’s Black History, my Queen City Nerve cover story, is live online. Below, view the additional photos of TBC and their last art show “The Soul of Brooklyn,” featuring artists Beverly Smith, Percy King, and Dr. Dimeji Onafuwa. Thank you to the Collective and everybody that talked to me and gave me their time. Read Brooklyn Collective Picks up the Torch of Charlotte’s Black History at Queen City Nerve. …
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This is my second cover story, completely unexpected. The article is about the new arts group called The Brooklyn Collective and Charlotte’s Black Wall Street. I learned a lot about Queen City’s history when writing this piece. Thank you, Ryan. Vol. 3, Issue 7 of Queen City Nerve is officially out. If you’re in Charlotte, pick up a copy of the paper at your local news stand. …
I wrote Why Charlotte’s East Side is known as the ‘Salad Bowl Community’ for The Charlotte Observer. The story is about what immigrants do with when white flight leaves areas impoverished and abandoned. There was a lot of other components that I wished I could’ve incorporated, like the gentrifying of the Black Belmont neighborhood, especially after some Black Charlotteans were displaced in the 60’s and 70’s because of the urban renewal program. The wealth discrepancy among whites and Blacks and …
For The Charlotte Observer, here’s my new article about foreign-born Charlotte residents adjusting to life in America. Thank you to everybody that gave their time and let me interview them. Thank you to everybody that reached out to me for the story. There was a lot of material that didn’t make the story, including some interviews, but they’re worth revisiting. Though there was other cultural aspects to unpack like the ways in which close ties and community are formed, I …
Here’s my first article for Queen City Nerve about the housing crisis. Researching this story about Charlotte evictions was dispiriting and that’s just for starters. Reading Mathew Desmond’s Eviction, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law, the incredible work of UNC Charlotte Urban Institute, the devastating wealth gap among Black versus white households, the various other “indicators,” the emotional trauma and psychological terrorism that sustains our stagnation, it’s quite sobering and enraging. It answers the question as to why Charlotte’s Black …
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