Gwendolyn Glenn
Gwendolyn is an award-winning journalist who has covered a broad range of stories on the local and national levels. Her experience includes producing on-air reports for National Public Radio and she worked full-time as a producer for NPR’s All Things Considered news program for five years. She worked for several years as an on-air contract reporter for CNN in Atlanta and worked in print as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun Media Group, The Washington Post and covered Congress and various federal agencies for the Daily Environment Report and Real Estate Finance Today. Glenn has won awards for her reports from the Maryland-DC-Delaware Press Association, SNA and the first-place radio award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
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Executive editor of the Charlotte Observer Rana Cash joins WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn to talk about the past year and her career so far. -
This week, award-winning poet Ada Limón was named the nation’s 24th poet laureate by the Library of Congress. Limón, a Latina of Mexican-American descent lives in Lexington, Kentucky and teaches at Queens University in Charlotte in the school’s Masters of Fine Arts Latin America program.
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Rural hospitals struggling the most financially in North Carolina are in poorer counties with higher unemployment rates and greater populations of Black and Latino residents.
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Last year, North Carolina lawmakers passed legislation allowing cities to create social districts, where patrons can drink alcoholic beverages purchased at nearby bars and restaurants outside. So what's driving this trend?
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For the first time in its 23-year history, the White Privilege Conference is coming to Charlotte. Founded by Dr. Eddie Moore Jr., the annual event aims to generate discussions around topics of identity and oppression. This year's theme is "Wade in the Water: White Supremacy, Religion and Reciprocity."
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The late Julius Chambers, a Charlotte civil rights icon, is the subject of a new documentary that highlights his life, including his work on the landmark Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education case that had a major impact on desegregation and busing.
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President Joe Biden has pledged to fight for stalled voting rights and police reform legislation. That's despite not having the votes in the Senate to move either measure closer to becoming law. Biden commented while delivering the commencement address at South Carolina State University on Friday.
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Phillip Adams shot and killed six people in York County, South Carolina, in April, authorities said. The ex-NFL player's brain was tested for chronic encephalopathy, or CTE. On Tuesday, the county coroner's office and an expert from Boston University confirmed the diagnosis.
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Howard Thurman, who died 40 years ago, had a major influence on the non-violence approach many Black leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., advocated during the civil rights movement. Dr. Mary Wade teaches classes on Thurman's principles. She joined "All Things Considered" host Gwendolyn Glenn to talk more about Thurman.
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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster last week asked the state superintendent to conduct an investigation into how the book "Gender Queer: A Memoir" ended up in public school libraries, calling it "obscene." But legal experts have a different opinion on whether it meets that definition.
