At least one Juneteenth organizer reports funding cuts for events. Here’s what Charlotte is doing to celebrate.

The Carolinas’ largest Juneteenth event is moving to a new home in northeast Charlotte According to the Charlotte Observer, ...

Boasted as the Carolinas biggest Juneteenth event, the eighth annual event is returning to the Queen City with a new theme ...

Discover 7 essential Black Music Month festivals this June celebrating jazz, gospel, hip-hop and R&B across North Carolina, ...

Charlotte’s Durag Festival, dubbed the “Met Gala of durags,” is coming back for a fifth year and expected to draw thousands. The festival’s mission this year is to “make Juneteenth the ...

Charlotte artist Dammit Wesley and his co-founding team behind Durag Fest built an epiphany into a cultural phenomenon. At the time, the Marvel film Black Panther had surpassed all conventional ...

However, that hasn’t stop organizers like Dammit Wesley, one of the co-founders of the Durag Fest in North Carolina, from curating Black events to keep the proverbial torch burning.

Charlotte artist Dammit Wesley had an epiphany he didn’t expect during the first Durag Fest in 2018. As people gathered outside his BLKMRKT gallery in Camp North End to celebrate, crowds of ...

Like how the city has no culture, just condos. Last year, he set out to prove the critics wrong with the inaugural Durag Festival. Jimi Thompson, known as Dammit Wesley, organizer of the Durag ...