“James has never known the meaning of racial segregation,” Darius Swann wrote of his six-year-old son in a September 2, 1964 letter to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education. “We have been happy to watch him grow and develop with an unaffected…
When busing ended, West Charlotte High School went from being a model for the nation to a problem the city has yet to solve
Charlotte avoids becoming a battlefield during the Civil War. But as the South is decimated, the city becomes a place of refuge for the Confederacy—including, in the end, the fleeing president from a nation that never was
Where more for less is becoming more for more
A look back at the venue's history, before it changes again
The new light rail won’t destroy a company that has been heating and cooling NoDa for 85 years
How the August 2014 issue became one of our most popular ever
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Robert and Carlos Hunter took Tuesday morning off work. That’s not an easy thing for them to do these days. Their construction business is still relatively young, a little more than three years old, and they're always looking for more…
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Charlotte’s fight for the railroad, and the bigger battles that follow
The man who writes obituaries, the people who hire him, and what we learn from our last words
From the executive editor
A father’s letter to the greatest thing in the world
Fresh food, fresh faces, and an old way of life preserved
Despite the center’s ups and downs, Jeff Wise stays steady at the helm
The Guinness International Champions Cup comes to Charlotte
This spring, the light rail extension began taking shape in NoDa. Here’s what you need to know about the train that will connect uptown to UNC Charlotte
Virginia Brown among list of writers in 27 Views of Charlotte: The Queen City in Prose & Poetry
Two hundred years before Charlotte becomes a banking hub, a gold rush gives the city its first taste of wealth
Our annual list of the area's best returns
But will his brain let him?
About 23 million people are on the bone marrow donor registry. But to those who can’t find a match, that’s not enough. Now, some of Charlotte’s most influential people are rallying around one of their own to build the list of a lifetime
From the executive editor
A year ago, he was still Charlotte's mayor. Now settled into his job as U.S. Secretary of Transportation, the West Charlotte graduate has the task of addressing perhaps the most important question for America’s future: How are we going to get around?
Just in time for an international soccer game, the Panthers’ stadium gets a facelift
Fifty years ago, the mayor wrote a letter to the people of 2014. It makes us wonder: What would we say to the people of the future?
