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WFAE T'Afo Feimster stands next to "NC 8," a mural he and fellow artist Abel Jackson just completed at 1600 W. Trade St. in Charlotte. The mural depicts eight legendary Black musicians from North Carolina. Almost as soon as you head west from uptown Charlotte into the historic Biddleville neighborhood, you’re greeted with public art. As construction crews worked on West Trade Street near where an extension of the Gold Line Streetcar is coming on a recent morning, color popped behind them. On the side of Johnson C. Smith University’s Arts Factory, a beaming mural showed off past and cont...

/ Harvey Gantt stands on the steps of Sikes Hall on the day he entered Clemson University as its first Black student in 1963. On this holiday to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Americans are reflecting on King’s legacy and the divisiveness of the country, especially given the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol more than a week ago. In his famous 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," King wrote that “the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” These are indeed challenging ti...

Updated floor design gives JCSU's Brayboy Gym a refreshed look Court shows off more wood, less paint   JOHNSON C. SMITH ATHLETICS Johnson C. Smith's Brayboy Gym has a different look with improvements to the floor shared by men's and women's basketball and volleyball. Home court has a new look for the Johnson C. Smith Golden Bulls. The school’s remote fall semester offered time necessary to update Brayboy Gym’s floor, as students were not on campus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Because of COVID-19, we had a lot of downtime where we didn’t have the student-athletes here,” said Golde...

Theroot.com and professor at morgan state university. he's also an msnbc political contributor. jason, what is going on with these record numbers? what are the reasons that you're finding and what is being done to accommodate this? >> well, it's a lot of things. it's money. who's in political power, and the students want to be respected. there's a lot of different factors that have pushed to this, and it's been happening really for only the last two years. an intense increase. north carolina ant, howard, morgan state, johnson c. smith, all these schools are seeing 20, 30, sometimes 50% increas...