Archives for January 2013

Keeping It Positive: Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King

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CHARLOTTE, NC: Many people will have Monday off to celebrate Martin Luther King Day. There are many events around town where you can use your free time to learn more about the man who had a dream of racial equality. Mary Curtis previews the King Day parade, presentations at the Harvey B. Gantt Center, the Levine Museum of the New South, and the Pride Magazine Awards.

City of Charlotte Martin Luther King Day Activities

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French protest against gay marriage plan: An unexpected view from the Eiffel Tower

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France isn’t Scandinavia. If you add up the state-by-state numbers, it isn’t even America. A crowd of more than 300,000 took the fight to the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris to protest the president’s plan to legalize gay marriage and allow same-sex couples to adopt and conceive children. You have to do a lot to get attention in a country used to demonstrations.

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Jan152013

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory balances hometown expectations, GOP austerity

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“He’s got a very difficult balance to strike,’ said Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx. ‘The expectations that are there within his party may not mesh well with the expectations people in this state have.”

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Late-night TV’s white guys club lags in political progress

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With a black man in the White House and a woman – perhaps – on deck, is late-night TV a comforting throwback?

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Keeping It Positive: Kid Friendly Arts, and Something for Adults, Too

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CHARLOTTE, NC: The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art is reaching out to the next generation of arts lovers. They’re holding a Family Day on January 11 from noon to 4:30 PM. It’s a chance for families to enjoy the museum and get hands on with creativity. It’s another event that Mary Curtis says is “Keeping It Positive”!

 

More Information: Discovery Place Science After Dark Improv Event

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Black family life – the reality, and the reality show

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It’s disheartening when reality TV dives into the muck of a rapper’s dysfunctional crew when there’s more human drama in the Mamie Reardens of the world.

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Bev Perdue, North Carolina’s ‘thin blue line,’ makes way for a GOP wave

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Gov. Bev Perdue of North Carolina won’t have that title much longer, but she is making the most of her last few days in office. To end 2012, Perdue issued a full pardon of innocence for the Wilmington 10, nine black men and one white woman accused of firebombing a white-owned grocery store in Wilmington, N.C., in 1971, a time of racial unrest in the region.

Perdue, a Democrat, made history when she was elected North Carolina’s first female governor in the Obama 2008 wave. But she saw her popularity drop and Republicans gain control of the state legislature in the 2010 mid-term elections. She decided in early 2012 not to run for a second term, and former Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory, the Republican opponent Perdue narrowly defeated in 2008, handily defeated Democrat Walter Dalton in November to win the governorship. President Obama also lost North Carolina in November, a state he won by 14,000 votes in 2008.

While Democrats celebrated a national win in this election cycle, including a strengthened Senate majority and pickups in the GOP-controlled House, North Carolina trended from purple to red, with Perdue’s one term being emblematic of the shift.

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For Beverly McIver, art is life — and the other way around

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The subject of an HBO film and a Charlotte exhibition at the Mint Museum Uptown — which closes Jan. 6 — McIver opens up about her work, family and more.

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Keeping it Positive: New Year for Local Arts

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In today’s Keeping it Positive, Mary Curtis details the theatrical fun everyone can appreciate around town!

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