Meet 9 trailblazing ‘hidden figures’ of Black history from across the Charlotte region
Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...
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On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
80 Posts From The Victorian Era That Prove It Really Was A Different Time
The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...
BACK THEN: Public Utilities, city merger nears completion 20 years ago
NEWS FROM THE ISSUE OF JAN. 1, 2004 Eight of 27 Meeker County businesses failed tobacco compliance checks that were conducted in December. The 70% success rate is lower than what was ...