Culture 360: #BlackTwitter, Ta-Nehisi Coates, NWA and More

WUNC | By Hady Mawajdeh,

Frank Stasio

Published August 5, 2015 at 12:07 PM EDT

There are all kinds of conversations happening in themultiversethat is social media.

From discussions aboutTa-NehisiCoates’ new book to police brutality, social media takes a look at a wide array of issues in the headlines.

Host FrankStasiotalks with pop culture experts Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African & African American Studies, and Natalie Bullock Brown, professor of film and multimedia at St. Augustine University's about topics in pop culture.

Hady Mawajdeh

Hady Mawajdeh is a native Texan, born and raised in San Antonio. He listened to Fresh Air growing up and fell in love with public radio. He earned his B.A. in Mass Communication at Texas State University and specialized in electronic media. He worked at NPR affiliate stations KUT and KUTX in Austin, Texas as an intern, producer, social media coordinator, and a late-night deejay.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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