CHARLOTTE, NC – Governor Roy Cooper announced North Carolina schools will reopen in August. Political contributor Mary C. Curtis has a breakdown of the governor’s plan.
Archives for July 2020
Sree’s Sunday #NYTReadalong | Guest: Mary C. Curtis
Guesting on Sree Sreenivasan’s Sunday #NYTReadalong this week, July 12. Every Sunday at 8:30am he reviews the print edition of the Sunday New York Times, taking audience comments and interviewing special guests.
(If you didn’t catch it live, you can watch the replay right here.)
Neil Parekh is the Executive Producer. His production team includes: Paula Kiger, Steve Taylor, Julia Weeks and Carla Baranauckas.
Jul122020
POLITICAL WRAP: How Soon Should Students Return to School?
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The debate over school re-openings intensifies, amid a rise in coronavirus cases.
It comes as new data shows nearly one in four American teachers are at higher risk of serious illness if they contract coronavirus.
Click above for more with our political contributor, Mary C. Curtis.
Jul122020
Mary C. Curtis: Confederate Monument Controversy
CHARLOTTE, NC — Over the last few weeks we’ve seen the removal of confederate monuments across the United States.
Here in North Carolina, the controversial “fame’ statue was removed from downtown Salisbury.
In Gaston county, a panel is having talks this week to decide the future of a confederate statue outside the courthouse.
Here’s WCCB Political contributor Mary C. Curtis with more on the debate.
Jul082020
POLITICAL WRAP: Trump Campaign “Culture War” Strategy; A New Silent Majority?
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – President Trump, at Mount Rushmore on Friday night, set the stage for a campaign increasingly focused on “culture war” issues.
“Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children,” the President said.
So, is the appeal of a “culture war” campaign too narrow?
Or is there a Nixon-esque “Silent Majority,” as the President is saying, ready to show up in November?
Click above for more with our political contributor, Mary C. Curtis.
Jul052020
There is more than one way to be Black — and to be an American
Elijah McClain of Aurora, Colorado, was many things. The slight 23-year-old, who looked younger, was a massage therapist one client described as “the sweetest, purest person I have ever met.” He was a vegetarian who taught himself to play the guitar and violin and shared his musical gifts with shelter animals to calm them. Family members said he sometimes wore a ski mask because he was anemic and always cold, and perhaps to create some distance in a world he found overwhelming. (And aren’t we all supposed to be covering our faces these days.) In his final trip to a convenience store, though, he interacted with the clerk and customers, it seemed from video, offering a bow on his way out.
Did he look “sketchy” and “suspicious” to a 911 caller and police because he sang to himself on the walk home and waved his arms, perhaps conducting a symphony only he could hear? McClain told the police who stopped him, “I am an introvert, please respect the boundaries that I am speaking.”
The three officers escalated the confrontation, took him down with a hold that made him utter a too-often-heard refrain: “I just can’t breathe correctly.” One officer threatened to sic a dog on him. If they saw his quirks, his idiosyncrasies, his joy, it did not translate. If they heard his pleas, these enforcers of laws the young man had not broken did not listen. “You are beautiful and I love you,” he told them. He apologized for vomiting as police tossed around his 140-pound body before medics shot it up with strong drugs.
Now, Elijah McClain, who police say committed no crime, is dead.
Jul022020
Mary C. Curtis: Russia Bounty Allegations
CHARLOTTE, NC — What did the president know?
That’s the question lawmakers want answered– after reports that U.S. intelligence found out Russians offered a bounty if Taliban terrorists killed U.S. and British troops in Afghanistan.
The white house says the president was never briefed on the plot.
Here’s WCCB political contributor Mary C. Curtis.
Jul012020
