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88-year-old Rock Hill resident Wali Cathcart’s family story stretches across generations of Black struggle in America, from slavery to integration. For Cathcart, many of those challenges and triumphs played out through his love of baseball, a sport that didn’t fully integrate for Black players until the late 1950s. As part of Black History Month, WFAE explores Cathcart’s journey from living under Jim Crow segregation to being honored for promoting equality.
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Nick de la Canal/WFAEThe back-and-forth over I-77 toll lanes continues, street vending in NoDa is now illegal, Birkdale Village in Huntersville faces new restrictions after a disturbance involving hundreds of young people, and Charlotte FC is kicking off a new season. -
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Joseph Terrell wrote his song, "Genuine American Hero" after Renee Good, a U.S. citizen, was shot and killed by an immigration enforcement officer last month. -
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is trying to increase scores on the DIBELS exam, a test that measures early literacy skills for students in kindergarten through third grade. One school is trying out a new strategy: teaching families how they can help prepare their children. -
A once-partly abandoned industrial site that's become one of Charlotte's hottest developments has a new part-owner. An Atlanta-based group has purchased a stake in Camp North End just north of uptown, now home to offices, restaurants and apartments. For more on what the change means, Ashley Fahey of the Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter joined WFAE’s Marshall Terry for our segment BizWorthy. -
The North Carolina film industry fared reasonably well last year economically, but challenges linger. -
Dozens of people gathered Tuesday evening outside the eastern regional office of GEO Group in Ballantyne to protest a possible ICE detention center in North Carolina. -
Many Catholics across the Charlotte region gathered Wednesday to mark Ash Wednesday, the start of the Lenten season.
NATION & WORLD
DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP
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A majority of Charlotte City Council members want to pump the brakes on NCDOT's plans for I-77 express toll lanes. A measles outbreak is nearing 1,000 cases in the Carolinas. Mecklenburg County Recycling implores people to stop putting rechargeable lithium ion batteries in household trash. Hornets guard LaMelo Ball crashes his Hummer in uptown.
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