Bernice Bryant News Today

Across Mecklenburg County, home values are up an average of 58% from four years ago in the newest tax revaluation. But if you live in a lower-priced home close to uptown, there’s a good chance the value at least doubled. That means more of the tax burden is shifting to these homeowners and, indirectly, to renters in many of the city’s Corridors of Opportunity — lower-income areas that have long been overlooked, and more affordable.

Author and journalist Mark Whitaker visits Texas, where his great-grandfather became a free man in 1865, and meets with relatives for whom Juneteenth – America's second Independence Day – has taken on a special meaning.