Second Ward High School News Today

A school that apparently housed a Cold War bomb shelter closes, as new schools are built with barricades against shooters. It's a reminder that school buildings tell stories about our hopes and fears.

Atrium and CMS revealed plans to launch an early-college high school program to address a workforce shortage.

Second Ward High School was Charlotte’s first public high school for Black students in the city -- a hundred years later, those connected to the school are working to make sure its impacts are remembered for another hundred years and beyond.

The airman crashed while on a daring mission in Germany on October 29, 1944.

The Tuskegee Airmen pilot disappeared when his plane crashed over Italy in 1944.

The Tuskegee Airmen pilot disappeared when his plane crashed over Italy in 1944.

Find out who’s on the ballot and what they stand for. This Q&A is one in a series for The Charlotte Observer’s 2023 voter guide.

The Charlotte African American Book Festival turned the page on its first chapter.

You wouldnt know it passing 7th and Highland today, but for nearly a century, the northwest corner was home to one of the earliest high schools in the city. Later, it was the site of an elementary school. Now, its an educational institution of higher learning.

Located on East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Uptown, the only part of the original school that remains is the gymnasium. But for former students like Arthur Griffin, who graduated in 1966, this milestone is something to commemorate.