@Amtrak today my heart broke for your staff and the conductor who choked up as he announced a trespasser strike outside High Point, NC that delayed Train72 CLT-Durham. It was the 3rd time this week that made it most difficult for the team witnessing such a horrific scene.
While in the UK, my grandmother has passed and her body will be donated to science. I know that minds have been open in my family to the life-changing work we do in this world. I am incredible proud this path called for me and that I heeded to it’s call. #researchsaveslives
Incredibly pumped to celebrate my birthday 🎂 in the field this week during the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) | @aapscomms#NBC2023 meeting in Philadelphia, PA!
@AliciaLalone@CharlotteTalks@CLTMayor@ViLyles@WFAE Exactly. And the backdoor permit done says before we finally got historic destination protection. That’s sad. Neighbors driving by all morning in tears. A slap in our face. A slap in the face of the nation’s perhaps top midcentury civil rights movers and shakers!
Isaac Heard Jr., whose family lived in the home for 60+ years, said he sold the property to Lyles for less than some of the other offers he received because he wanted someone who would maintain it and be a good neighbor. "I’m surprised and disappointed," he told me.
Mayor Vi Lyles plans to demolish a home she owns in the historic neighborhood of McCrorey Heights because of the cost of repairs, but it's caused an uproar from neighbors.
https://t.co/dPYA5Yq8So
"I thought she was gonna do something different, as did the neighbors, because a lot of my concern was for finding a good neighbor for the people who lived around there because my family has been a part of that community since 1957." https://t.co/zBK8oCJRHT
In the 1960s and ‘70s, Charlotte destroyed Brooklyn, its largest Black community, under the guise of urban renewal. Through months of research, I was able to document examples of how much that cost Black Charlotteans in generational wealth. https://t.co/u4UGOOsuUi
@ViLyles Tragic & will go down n history that this historically black neighborhood will be dismissed as non-historic becuz our own black mayor wants 2 do what community @ large is against. An iconic black man’s architectural glory demo’d 2 the ground #preservation#BlackHistoryMonth
Today the house on Madison Avenue will be demolished. I purchased this house as-is and, as the prior owner acknowledges, there are major structural issues in the foundation. When I rebuild, I will follow all the rules of the HDC and the neighborhood covenants.