News Briefs for 07.26.19
Beyond the Carolinas
News Briefs from across the globe for 07.26.19.
From Brooklyn to Ballantyne: The story behind Charlotte’s affordable housing crisis
Charlotte’s history of affordable housing includes broken promises and empty gestures. Now that the city’s chronic shortage has become a crisis, leaders are responding with unprecedented resources. Will this time be different?
Anyone who’s lived in Charlotte for a minute knows that the Ballantyne area, wealthier than Mecklenburg County as a whole, isn’t the place to find an affordable apartment if you’re a hotel housekeeper, a fry cook, a landscaper — anyone making less than $15 or so an hour.
Drag Queen Story Hour personalities read to Gastonia youth
Small Group Protested Event
The Owl + Ivy Healing Arts and Bohemian Style shop at 70 S. South St. in Gastonia played host to a growing phenomenon, A Drag Queen Story Hour.
ECU center hosts ribbon cutting, open house
Carolinas News Notes
East Carolina University (ECU) held a ribbon cutting and open house for the newly named Dr. Jesse R. Peel LGBTQ Center. It became the largest center of its kind in the University of North Carolina system.
ENC RYE Fellowship announces first recipients
Carolinas News Notes
Equality North Carolina has announced their selection of eight LGBTQ youth from across the state to participate in the foundation’s inaugural Rural Youth Empowerment (RYE) Fellowship.
HRC index scores municipalities
Beyond the Carolinas
The Human Rights Campaign has released it 2018 Municipal Equality Index and the Carolinas has been included.
Breast cancer walks help raise awareness
Monies raised go toward supporting organizations, research, treatment and care
October across the U.S. is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. During this time, communities bring out the pink as participants take to the streets to walk or run to bring awareness to the disease that affects primarily women, and more rarely, men too.
Innercise: Emotional Wellness
Health & Wellnes: In My Fillings
I felt something punch me in the chest so hard that I felt the wind knocked out of me. For a few moments I thought it was my ex. They look that similar.
LGBTQ advocates may sue South Carolina over anti-gay foster parent prohibition
LGBTQ advocates in South Carolina say they are considering suing the state after it passed new measures allowing foster agencies to discriminate against LGBT residents.
