By Charlie Leonard July 20, 2020 Phillip Gripper is a man of many talents. Besides being a versatile recording artist and musician (he’s a member of the Hip Hop Prodigies collective, local band Modern Primitives, and his own solo venture Moon Man Music), Gripper is...
By Mark I. West July 10, 2020 A popular bumper sticker says “Think Global, Act Local” but a corollary to this message is “Think Global, Read Local.” By reading books by local authors, readers not only support their neighbors, but they also help build a...
By Charlie Leonard July 7, 2020 “I’m doing this for the love of gaming.” That’s what Abari Game Bar’s owner, Zach Pulliam, told me over the phone. Before he answered my call, Pulliam was playing one of the 50+ arcade games featured inside the popular...
By CLTure News June 24, 2020 Corey Mitchell, the head of the musical theatre department of Northwest School of the Arts has won the inaugural Stephen Schwartz Musical Theatre Teacher of the Year Award presented by The ASCAP Foundation and the Educational Theatre Association (EdTA). Mitchell,...
By Ryen Thomas June 20, 2020 George Floyd was tragically killed in Minneapolis by the hands of the police weeks ago and since then, protests have ensued across the world, mobilizing in solidarity under the banner Black Lives Matter. On Friday, June 19 (also known...
By Cameron Lee June 20, 2020 “I grew up on the West Side of Charlotte. I grew up in the 28208 zip code in Charlotte to be exact, which is still being affected by the digital divide,” Khalia Braswell said. “So I’m very vocal about...
By Mark I. West June 16, 2020 Long before the phrase “Black Lives Matter” became a rallying cry for civil rights activists across the nation and world, T.J. Reddy had already established himself as one of Charlotte’s leading civil rights activists. As a student at...
By Robert K. Corbett, III June 7, 2020 Over the last four weeks, our country has seen massive unrest concerning police brutality. Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Dreasjon “Sean” Reid and, recently, George Floyd have lost their lives callously at the hands of the police or...
By CLTure News June 6, 2020 (Updated) Almost four years after the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott and three years after Charlotte’s Braxton Winston was elected as a Charlotte City Council member, Vice TV will air a special titled Black South Rising on Sunday,...
By CLTure News June 3, 2020 The world has been turned upside down with the vicious killing of George Floyd by police in Minnesota, igniting protests and unrest in cities across the world. As this atrocious cycle seems all too familiar, the attention often tends...