Creative Loafing Charlotte

Peace, love and misunderstanding

What's so funny about religious pluralism in a free society?

• by Mark Kemp
• Tags: Editor's Notes, Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte, Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, religion, diversity, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Million Man March, Charlotte, anniversary, Day of Atonement

DNC Notebook: Clearing the way for minority businesses

• by Mary C. Curtis
Local minority coalitions are peeved at DNCC's diversity plan and committee staff members volunteer in the Queen City.
• Tags: News, Democratic National Convention 2012, Democratic National Convention 2012, DNC, DNCC, diversity, Charlotte, Mary C. Curtis, Steve Kerrigan, James Ferguson II, LGBT, minorities, women, veterans, Carolina Regional Minority Partnership Coalition, CRMPC, Democrat, Democratic Party, Stephane Berwald, Metrolina Minority Contractors Association, Pat Cotham, Colette Forrest, Tom Rosfelder, security, Ohio, Secret Services, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, 2, 012, volunteer, Ramblewood Park, Allenbrook Elementary, Charlotte Woman of the Year, A Woman's Place, Levine Museum of the New South, Davidson College, Rabbi Judy Schindler, Carol Quillen, Leadership for the 21st Century, Sandra Conway, Keeping It Positive, NPR, The Root, Fox News Rising Charlotte, Politics Daily, Twitter

Cover Story

Debating the i-word

Creative Loafing takes a stand

• by Anthony W. Hager and Ana McKenzie
• Tags: Cover, illegal, alien, immigrant, immigration, Latin American Coalition, Charlotte, race, diversity, United 4 the Dream, The Progressive, YES! Magazine, Society of Professional Journalists, Drop the i-word campaign, undocumented, PunditHouse, Anthony W. Hager, Ana McKenzie, North Carolina, debate, Cover Story

DNC 2012 Notebook: Diversity contracting policy takes shape

• by Mary C. Curtis
The Democratic National Convention Committee announces a diversity contracting policy.
• Tags: News, Democratic National Convention 2012, Democratic National Convention, DNC, DNCC, diversity, minorities, business, uptown, Minority Business Enterprises, Women Business Enterprises, Disability-Owned Businesses, LGBT-Owned Businesses, Veteran-Owned Businesses, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Anthony Foxx, Democrats, Mary Curtis

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CMS race-bias expert to provide Band-Aid for deep wound?

Pricey and perhaps ineffective, but we have to start somewhere

• by Erin Tracy-Blackwood
• Tags: Trouble Hunter, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Heath Morrison, race consultant, race-bias expert, Pacific Educational Group, Glenn Singleton, Courageous Conversations, education, race, diversity, Erin Tracy-Blackwood

Cover Story

Exploiting the DNC

Charlotte struts her stuff for a piece of the political pie

• by Ana McKenzie, Joanne Spataro, and John Grooms
• Tags: DNC News, DNC, Democratic National Convention, DNC 2012, diversity, Event Fantasies, Wadsworth Estate, Aisha Thomas, Amber Serenico, GOP, Republican, Barack Obama, Democrats, delegate, party, Charlotte 714, David Benham, Jason Benham, Malcolm Bailey, convention, Barack2012.org, Krystal Harrell, Darlene Murphy, Create Exposure, DNC Host Committee, Laurel Green, Councilman John Autry, Occupy, Occupy Charlotte, Eastland Mall, Charlotte City Council, agenda, Cover Story

DNC 2012 Notebook: Group questions transparency on contracts

• by Mary C. Curtis
The diversity-focused group says members are informed about big contracts but are left out of whatever isn't in press conferences.
• Tags: News, Democratic National Convention 2012, Carolina Regional Minority Partnership Coalition, Mary C. Curtis, CRMPC, Charlotte, DNC, DNC 2012, North Carolina, diversity, communication, convention, Democrats, America, Robyn Hamilton, Charlotte in 2012 Host Committee, Democratic National Convention Committee

Discovering culture on Jane Jacobs Walk Munching Tour

• by Kelly Davis
Here in the Queen City, we set out to learn more about the diversity and the food of a very small area on Central Avenue.
• Tags: Events, Jane Jacobs, Tom Hanchett, Mary Newsom, food, culture, diversity, Central Avenue, ethnic, Somali, Lebanese, Vietnamese, Ben Thanh, Cedarland Middle Eastern Grocery, Jamile's International Grocery and Restaurant, Chicken Suquaar, El Pulgarcio de America, El Salador, Salvadorian, Flan, Tres Leche Cake

Charlotte: A city of freaks

• by Jeff Taylor
Everybody is somebody's freak, but we better learn to get along if we want to see Charlotte continue to improve artistically and culturally.
• Tags: Life in the Night, Life in the Night, Uptown Charlotte, 2012 DNC, creative loss, Buskapalooza, Busk!, diversity, arts

Party people at the Transfaith in Color Conference 2012

Charlotte celebrates its transgender community in style

• by Joanne Spataro
• Tags: News feature, Transfaith in Color Conference 2012, transgender, Trans People of Color Coalition, Kylar Broadus, National Transgender Discrimination Survey, minority, diversity, Charlene Archilla, Sweet-T: The Mini Ball, Anthony Foxx, LGBT, Hilton University Place, Tonyia Rawls, The Freedom Center for Social Justice, event, Charlotte

New Latino South, Old Latino South

Originally written by Jesse James DeConto, July 6, 2005

• by Mark Kemp
• Tags: 25th Anniversary Issue, 25th anniversary, Jesse James DeConto, Latino, Hispanics, Charlotte, population, diversity, minority, citizenship, North Carolina, immigration, Hispanic

Democratic National Convention 2012 Notebook: Remodeling Charlotte, one contract at a time

• by Mary C. Curtis
• Tags: Democratic National Convention 2012, Democratic National Convention, DNC, Democratic National Convention 2012, DNC 2012, Time Warner Cable, diversity, Steve Kerrigan, Anthony Foxx

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Can Charlotte's religious leaders fight for everyone's rights?

The words they spoke the day they commemorated Bloody Sunday could drown out the voices of intolerance.

• by Erin Tracy-Blackwood
• Tags: Trouble Hunter, Murphy Archibald, Bloody Sunday, Rodney Sadler, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Jay Leach, Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte, James Reeb, Imam Khalil Akbar, Masjid Ash-Shaheed (Mosque of The Witness), religion in Charlotte, social justice, Occupy Charlotte, voting rights, diversity

Cover Story

Face the 'Nation': Louis Farrakhan

Hate yourself just a little for liking the leader of the Nation of Islam? Don't.

• by Emiene Wright
• Tags: Cover, Million Man March, Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam, Charlotte, Bojangles' Coliseum, Scientology, Jews, L. Ron Hubbard, Kurt Schmoke, Day of Atonement, Nathan Perlmutter, Nat Hentoff, Kaz Muhammad, Black Hitler, Public Enemy, Big Daddy Kane, hip-hop, Ishmael Muhammad, race, minority, diversity, Generation X, Yo! Bum Rush the Show, Wallace Fard, Cover Story

The New Great Migration

Originally written by Tara Servatius, July 13, 2005

• by Mark Kemp
• Tags: 25th Anniversary Issue, Tara Servatius, 25th anniversary, African American, South, Charlotte, remigration, race, diversity

Let the races begin

Comedians combat prejudice with new tricks in The Most Races Show on Earth!

• by Anita Overcash
• Tags: Feature, The Most Races Show on Earth, The Chop Shop, diversity, minority, Neil Bansil, Noah Gardenswartz, Viet Huynh, Landry, Trixx

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The power of words

People are not "illegals," and we will not be defining them that way.

• by Mark Kemp
• Tags: Editor's Notes, i-word, illegal, immigrant, immigration, Charlotte, Creative Loafing, Mark Kemp, Anthony W. Hager, Ana McKenzie, race, racism, diversity, language, Latino, Society of Professional Journalists

Is it hot in here?

Examining Charlotte's racial climate

• by Stacey Rose
• Tags: Feature, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, race relations, racism in Charlotte, diversity, Stacey Rose