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It has also gained a reputation for racial amity, from its nationally recognized commitment to busing and integrated schools in the 1970s and ’80s, to the election of Harvey Gantt in 1983 as one of the South’s first prominent black mayors.

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Several projects were approved at Monday night’s Charlotte City Council meeting — but not all. A petition by North Wendover Partners LLC to rezone a 2.5-acre site at the intersection of North

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It’s a watershed year fraught with turmoil for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Across the American South, queer, trans and gender-nonconforming people are facing wave after

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An approval to withdraw a petition earned the biggest response at June’s Charlotte City Council zoning meeting.About 30 people wore bright orange T-shirts proclaiming opposition to a rezoning request at Wilora Lake and Vernedale

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For 14 years, they seemed made for each other: affable, glad-handing “Mayor Pat,” and this city, North Carolina’s largest and a place long defined more by entrepreneurial hustle and economic success

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When North Carolina’s HB2 became the first state level anti-transgender “bathroom bill” to pass, we were left wondering how things would have been different if there were an LGBT voice present in the legislature.

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I am quite serious when I say that LGBT people and people of color in this country are under attack.Specifically, LGBT people who live in the most conservative parts of our country are facing an unprecedented

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On February 22nd, 2016 the Charlotte City Council passed an anti-discrimination bill. The bill updated existing legislation to ban discrimination on the basis of familial status, sexual orientation, gender

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Charlotte City Council member LaWana Mayfield said fellow council member Claire Fallon has been a “constant negative impact” on the City Council and city, and Mayfield has asked her colleagues to explore whether

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