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We're Better Together!

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Hosted by: The United Neighborhoods of Charlotte (UNNOC). Charlotte Day was a refreshing reminder of the old days when everybody "use" to cruise through Freedom Park without a care in the world. As a Charlotte native, I was "taken back" with nostalgia of those shiny cars, loud motorcycles and bass in the trunks as if nothing had changed. Although I...
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I Support Kap Because I Know It’s Just Business For Jay

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Changing the guard and giving leadership to non-white men always has relevancy in the Black community. Yet we need to understand that everything we do as a people, serves a purpose in the ongoing fight towards or against our liberation and equality. This includes but is not limited to capalism, resistance and consumerism. I offended&...
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The current state of the black male mind . . . By Link

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Fear, is what I notice most when speaking to another King. Wether it be the fear of failing or the fear of consequence for a mistake or misstep, it's all the same because it only serves to prevent you from achieving greatness. Through conversation as well as my own experience I've come to understand where these fears derived from. Fear has never be...
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Countering that . . . By - Link

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Dearest, I respect your writing skills more than you could know but when it's wasted trying to influence opinion rather than uplift or educate I get offended. The black mind is a shattered glass and while we are picking up the pieces we don't need our leaders being criticized by the very people he's trying to lead. It's not defending Jay Z as much ...
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Treachery of the “Field”

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​There was something very eerie about a “slave” oppressor, sitting on the porch, watching Black people pick cotton, as if it was a spectator sport.  “Woman get me some more lemonade!” Overseers serving as referees and as long as you had white skin, you had season tickets to the game. Imageries of lemonade, sweat, ...
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Black Moses

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Today Black Line News Celebrates the life and legacy of Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. A man with such great influence that 79 years after his death we still quote, analyze and build upon his words as lessons that will never be forgotten. Black Line News is heavily rooted in this ideology of unity, independence from oppressi...
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This Week’s National Disappointment

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Jigga What?  J, your new relationship with Roger Goodell, NFL’s Commissioner, “got me thinking, I’ve been thinking”. You say we are pass knelling but our babies are still getting shot in the streets. You’re moving different now you are in that billions club. But this piece won’t be about that. This piece won’t be about the ...
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Dear Dearest,

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Dear Dearest,  I read your posts everyday and you are truly inspiring. But sometimes you sound so sad. Are you depressed?  A faithful follower.  Dear “Faithful Follower”,   I’m so humbled that you said you are inspired by me. I just want God to use me, so you are inspired by the God in me. Glory!!! That means everythin...
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Yes God is Real

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 "Our young people are the Preachers, Teachers, Prophets and Apostles that we have been looking for. We must begin to listen." ~ Dearest Entering the studio, you instantaneously knew you were somewhere special. I had the honor of attending a live taping at Dominion TV with my partner Katris Wright, the Toddler Teller. She is a vision...
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My Depression

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My depression fits me like a glove. It appeases my lazy and strokes my pity. It confirms what I see when I look in the mirror. It excuses me from doing housework. It gives me permission to pop these pills. It makes it ok not to pay these bills. My depression loves the dark and feeds off of make believe. My depression tells me where I can go and all...
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Black Line News Endorses Lucille Puckett for Mayor - The Woman Who Hears Us

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​We have been watching these local mayoral races consistently. Through social media and attending a plethora of events, there have been too many parties and not enough planning. We’ve watched the response of too many shootings, the RNC’s possible waiver into our beloved city for 2020 and nonsense talk about a...
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A.O.G. In The Place To Be - It’s Our Choice

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​Young people excite me but young people on fire for God captivate me. Representing the essence of who we were and the potential of what we all long to be, A.O.G. is in the mesmerizing business. Timyra Myra Elisé (23) and Jaylen T Byers (16) make up the sister/brother duo, Ambassadors of God. This is ministry. Thi...
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Dear Dearest,

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Dear Dearest,  I’m from Nashville and I am so excited that Cyntoia Brown has been released from prison after 15 years for murdering her sex trafficker. I have been following this case  but to my disappointment, I just read she married someone while in prison. She didn’t even give herself a chance to breathe.  I kn...
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Don’t Play With Me - Grief Over Education

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Every month I write a letter or post a statement to my child’s charter school (Movement in Charlotte, NC).  You see I am only giving them 1 job to do. The rest Dad and I will give him the tools. The job is to teach my baby to read. He is an exceptional boy if I must say. He is open to learning ...
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Jessica Davis, Right for District 2

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It is such an awesome election season with great candidates. Charlotte has a plethora of talented individuals that can transform our city from good to great. I have read all the materials I could possible read about District 2. And after dilberating with the Black Charlotte Team, we stand with Jessica Davis for City Council.&nbs...
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Mother Morrison - Queen of the Pen

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Some of you grieved hard for Nipsey, while  others held on to TuPac. Some of you were devastated by Aaliyah and Left Eye as there death still has you shell shock. But today I grieve for my mother, a literary god, a genius meets her end. Her name was Toni Morrison and in my despair she was always my frien...
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Dear Dearest,

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​August 5, 2019 Dear Dearest,  I am the survivor of a physically abusive relationship from my husband who I haven’t seen in 4 years. I was a coward and I exposed my children, who were 10 and 8 at the time to their father physically violating me, breaking my nose, damaging my vison among other things. I never ...
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Dear Dearest,

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August 4, 2019 Dear Dearest,   I have been with the same individual for 3 years. We started doing business together until we realized we had great chemistry. We had to immediately “x” the business relationship because it caused too much conflict with the new way that we looked at each other. We have even been disgraceful, f...
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Dear Dearest,

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August 3, 2019 Dear Dearest,  My son has recently graduated from High School and has decided to attend a Vocational Tech. I am very proud of him as he enters this new endeavor. I took the appropriate steps to secure his spot, such as registration and financial aid. As time drew nearer for him to attend, he began to bother me daily&nb...
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Activate It!!!!

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To be young, gifted and Black .  . . what does that truly mean? Kt James may have some answers for you with his new project “Now or Never”; a combination of songs about relationships, life and of course love. This humble 23 year old graced the Toddler Teller, Black Line News and I-Heart Radio’s presence, with...
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