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06/30/2025

Video: Charlotte Post 2025 Top Senior Kyla Hudson of Mallard Creek High School is following sister Myla's footsteps as senior of the year and a North Carolina A&T State University student in the fall.

06/30/2025

Target’s reputation and in-store traffic continue to spiral downward as new data reveals the toll of its decision to pull back on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

According to The Street, the Minneapolis-based retail chain has suffered four consecutive months of year-over-year foot traffic declines, including a 9% drop in February, followed by 6.5% in March, 3.3% in April, and 1.6% in May. Placer.ai’s latest analytics confirm that Target is losing ground to competitors like Walmart and Costco, who have posted gains during the same period.

National initiative urges consumers to stay away from retailer

06/29/2025

Breaking: US Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) announces he won't seek re-election. Tillis opposed President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill, which drew POTUS's ire and a threat to primary him in 2026. “It underscores the greatest form of hypocrisy in American politics,” Tillis wrote in a statement announcing his retirement at the end of his term.

06/28/2025

In Savannah, Georgia for the annual NNPA Awards gala. NNPA is a trade organization for 200 Black-owned publications across the country.

06/27/2025

A young Black tenant farmer named Willie McDaniel was found dead in 1929, the morning after arguing about pay with his white landlord.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Remembrance Project, in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, seeks to tell the truth about two racial terror lynchings in Mecklenburg – of Willie McDaniel and Joe McNeely – and to memorialize these men.

Put together from more than 50 newspaper stories, census and genealogical records, and more. It challenges the reports of the time and asks what wasn’t in them.

Definitive answers are few and far between in 1929 murder

06/27/2025

Mykesha Smith, a social media star and TV personality, is helping children with something near and dear to her heart.

Smith, who lives in Charlotte and goes by the stage name “Keeshlinooo,” has broken a lot of barriers. Standing at 3-foot-5, the 32-year-old has lived a long life, defying the odds since birth when she was diagnosed with a respiratory condition due to dwarfism. It did not stop her from following her dreams of dancing.

Mykesha Smith, who was born with dwarfism, gives back

06/26/2025

Join us on July 17 for our second annual Football 704 chalk talk with Johnson C. Smith University coach Maurice Flowers and the Golden Bulls. JCSU tied the school record for wins in 2024 with an 8-2 campaign and are a favorite to advance to the 2025 CIAA title game. Register here:
https://www.thecharlottepost.com/index.php?src=forms&ref=Football704%20Registration

06/26/2025

The Charlotte Hornets draft Duke's Kon Knueppel fourth overall in the NBA Draft. Good move?

06/25/2025

We’re in Savannah, Ga., for the annual National Newspaper Publishers Association convention. Historic city!

06/24/2025

Mecklenburg County’s transit tax referendum is a step closer to reality.

The North Carolina House of Representatives voted 102-6 last week to approve the second reading of the PAVE Act, a local option sales tax bill sponsored by Rep. Tricia Cotham, a Charlotte Republican. The bill moves to the third reading in the House and advances to the state Senate.

“This is a historic moment for Mecklenburg County,” Shannon Binns, executive director of Sustain Charlotte said in a statement. “After more than five years of tireless advocacy, negotiation, and collaboration, we are finally within reach of allowing our community to vote on the kind of transportation system we need and deserve.”

NC House passes the PAVE Act for referendum

06/24/2025

By day, Shuler King is a funeral director.

His side hustle makes people laugh.

King (birth name Frank Williams), owns a funeral home in Sumter, South Carolina. On June 24, he'll take a shot at comedic gold on "America's Got Talent," a national talent competition on NBC. The Post interviewed King ahead of the broadcast to learn about his professional and standup backgrounds, what makes a successful comedian and who inspired him to become a comic.

Shuler King looks to spin ‘America’s Got Talent’ into new opportunities

06/23/2025

Cheerwine, a cherry-flavored soda brewed in Salisbury for slightly more than a century, has become widely known as the “nectar of North Carolina.”

On May 17, the Rowan County city held its annual festival to celebrate the beverage that L.D. Peeler, a general store owner, created in 1917. Peeler was interested in producing his own soft drink, according to a brief company history, and met a St. Louis salesman who sold him a wild cherry flavoring that he thought would mix well with others.

The concoction he made had a burgundy tinge, similar to a red wine, and a bubbly, cheery effervescence — hence the name that has secured a venerable spot in the North Carolina food and beverage scene.

The food coloring that gives Cheerwine its red tint has more recently created consternation among critics of synthetic food dyes. Now, eight Republicans in the state House of Representatives have filed proposed legislation that would prohibit certain food additives, including specific yellow, blue and green dyes, — along with the red dye that colors Salisbury’s celebrated homebrew.

Chemical coloring ban would change NC’s beloved beverage