This week, we profile EQUALibrium awardee Mike Realon, who received the award for Established Leader in the education category.

As school systems, universities and museums throughout the United States reckon with ways to present the history of slavery, three of the oldest, most historic properties in Mecklenburg County are no exception.

Multidisciplinary artist Irisol González Vega will make her cinematic debut, premiering her first short film at Charlotte’s Independent Picture House on Friday, Sept. 8.

There are few bigger worries than displacement and gentrification for many neighborhoods in Charlotte, a city with a well-known fondness for bulldozers, cranes and shiny new buildings. And as traditionally low-income, majority-Black neighborhoods around uptown experience some of the most dramatic changes and skyrocketing real estate prices, that’s led local politicians to focus intensely on avoiding, or at least mitigating, some of the impacts.

It’s striking how many of Charlotte’s local policy debates are still wrapped up in the language of economic mobility. Whether it’s transit and transportation, disparities in the school system, or racial inequities in housing, that’s how you’ll likely hear the questions framed. The latest: In the discussion about a developer seeking public subsidies for a new tennis complex, the sports arena has largely been portrayed as a tool to help low-income communities and children.

Eight years ago, Charlotte ranked 50 out of 50 in an upward mobility study from Harvard University. Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles and others join host Mary C. Curtis to discuss upward mobility — the good, the not so good and what still needs to be done.

Charlotte has a vision of itself as a city on the rise — always building, always growing, always attracting new people and new business. But WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson says the city also needs to confront the impact of racism and inequity.