Hear Our Prayers O' Lord. Amen. The Bible says to be slow to anger but over the last two weeks I have been very angry. I'm ready to meet Allisha, as a writer, so she can tell me her story. I'm ready for the lesson in all this. And I spoke to Ms. Yvex Franklin last night, not as an advocate but as a mother with a young daughter. And as she spo...
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Today I was brought to tears when I looked in my email and saw they were auctioning my storage unit. I immediately called my sister crying. She knows how much I write and how I have so many unpublished books in storage. I thought they told me the 25th was my last day to pay but I must have been wrong. And life has become a rollercoaster from n...
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I have deep opinions about young people, 13 - 25. I have deep opinions about parenting, especially now that one of my children is a young adult. And I certainly have deep opinions about mental health, battling these challenges myself. I have a light story before I begin the serious topic at hand. My wonderful 13 year old child s...
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Understanding Charlotte is like understanding space. It has its own rhythm but outsiders love to explore, in many cases take over. The natives of Charlotte have welcomed us with open arms with this being their atmosphere, their space. And their invaluable knowledge on how to heal this city has in someways bee...
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KNOW WHO OUR LEADERS ARE!!! Too much has happened here in Charlotte for every council seat to not be up for grabs in the upcoming race. I would run but my gifts lie in writing about the city I love. First and foremost let’s take Seat 6 back, in the race between Stephanie Hand (D) and Tariq Bokhari (R).This is Ms. Hand’s&nbs...
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The team of Black Line News is proud to endorse its second candidate for Charlotte’s City Council seat and her name is Stephanie Hand. As we did our due diligence researching her background it wasn’t only her extensive experience with community relations here in Charlotte but her particularly different stance on Affordable ...
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Black Line News and Black Charlotte is proud to make our first endorsement of the calendar year for candidate Tiawana Brown. Her presence in the community has always been prevalent, as an advocate, freedom fighter and social changer. A native of Charlotte’s District 3, she believes in the power of community and will be working hard to add...
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I was married to a man in the Feds for years and I saw personally how some of the young correctional officers would cross the line first hand and hear how they would bring in more contraband than anyone yet search those grannies and others coming in scrupulously. Why would you risk your freedom for someone locked up? I asked myself that q...
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That day leaving “Safe Alliance” seemed to be surreal, as I found myself passing several community leaders in Charlotte, trying to keep my dirty little secret under wraps. But Rodney McGill didn’t cut me from the corner of his eye or act like he didn’t see me but walked up to me with a hug and greeting. I was feeling m...
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There is no amount of money that could have convinced me that three years separated from my abuser, I would still be in court, still telling the story, still reenacting the moments. Still. Never in my life would I imagine that one person could shatter my humanity and there be no restitution. Never would I believe in a civilized society that someone...
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My name is Dearest Price, one of the managers of Black Line News. I use to say I was an owner but I realized I can’t own a culture. I can’t own compassion to promote others. I can’t own Blackness. Over the years many people have said you will make a lot of money on Black Line if you just change the name. Well Black Line wasn’t created to ...
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This Battles Not Yours, It's The Lords By Dearest PriceAgape VoiceI am praying for Ukraine. My heart bleeds for a people that went to work, school, the mall and congregated with friends and family one day to being air raided, forced to bunker down in subways and murdered the next. This attack is not only shocking to the innocent citizens of that na...
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It was January 20th, 1986, 18 years after his death and the dream was still being deferred. It was during a time when the only songs MTV would play in Black culture were Michael Jackson and we stayed disillusioned in the lyrics of Billie Jean, being proud, “the kid is not my son”. It was when the crack epidemic wa...
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Dear Self, Betrayal wrote me on New Years Eve and at first I had nothing to say. He called me by my old name, like my old school friends would yell down the way. They would rough me up on Saturday then by Sunday forget about it all. And to just be outside in the sunlight, removed any embarrassment of the fall. I o...
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AsDear Dearest, I have an issue that is really getting next to me emotionally. I am a consultant and I met this 16 year old young lady. We discussed some issues in regard to her family that were confidential and concluding our encounter, I needed her signature on a document. She proceeded by printing her name. I asked her again for her s...
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Dear Dearest, I have a 19 year old daughter that I adore more than life itself. Her mother and I never got along; a street gutter woman with a hot temper that would keep me away from my daughter at the slightest missed payment of child support. But my child always wanted to be with me, so at 16, she ran away and...
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Dear Dearest, I have raised my daughter along with her mother since the day we brought her home from the hospital. My love for her is unconditional but it has been rocky for me and her mother. During our turbulent times she has thrown in my face that I am not the father to my beautiful baby girl who is now 7. I am planning on leavin...
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Dear Dearest, I contracted COVID in March of this year. I was very resistant to go to the hospital when I began to get sick but my son insisted because of my age and health. I tested positive and immediately was admitted. During the 3 week stay in the hospital I may remember two days. But it was the most horrifying experience I...
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Dear Dearest, I’ve had a period where I ran the streets and messed with drugs. It was due to a rough upbringing by an abusive mother. I have two sons and they were put in foster care, reported by my mother. I can’t seem to forgive her because she put them in the system when she could have taken them in herself. She says she raised her ki...
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Dear Dearest, I am a single co parent of four. I met a beautiful lady that I thought I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. She has 3 kids of her own. After two years of dating we moved in together. She does everything for me but since we added the kids it’s been a disaster. My children can not stand her and...
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