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A short documentary will spotlight efforts in Charlotte to tackle food insecurity, including a neighborhood coalition in a mostly minority community in one of the city’s Corridors of Opportunity.

Over two dozen laptops were distributed in Charlotte Thursday to help nonprofits that focus on helping those in need.

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.

As part of Black History Month, a new exhibit at the Vapa Center in uptown spotlights people, places, and moments that have helped shape Charlotte.

Community members gathered in the Historic West End on Tuesday to study ways to reconnect the low-income neighbourhoods to uptown after they was severed when the highway was built.

Hundreds marched through uptown Charlotte over the weekend in a local demonstration against the Islamic Republic in Iran.

As part of the Winter Olympics, Team USA will slide across the ice headfirst on a sled on Friday in the skeleton race. The race will feature a former Queens University of Charlotte student.

Tracing a family tree can be challenging, especially when birth records are missing or relatives change names through marriage or divorce. Many African Americans face even greater challenges due to a lack of records for enslaved ancestors. As part of Black History Month, a class in Charlotte is helping people find those lost branches of their family tree.

At a Black History Month panel discussion in Charlotte on Tuesday, speakers weighed in on how urban renewal and desegregation have affected local Black communities and brought back painful memories as the city debates building new toll lanes near uptown.

A forum in Charlotte over the weekend aimed to support members of the Black and LGBTQ+ communities who have been impacted by HIV.