CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – For more than 100 years schools in America were segregated based on race. In 1954 everything would change with the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education. Although they didn’t know it at the time, people in Charlotte would play a major role in what desegregated schooling […]
In 1957, Dorothy Counts-Scoggins helped to integrate Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, facing hecklers as she walked into what was then known as Harding High.
This weekend, Livermore Valley Arts and Tri-Valley for Black Lives, are hosting two Juneteenth celebrations at the Bankhead Theater to commemorate the official end of slavery in the U.S. and to educate people about racial justice.