Gwendolyn Glenn
Race & Equity ReporterGwendolyn 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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It’s a mixed bag for Charlotte sports teams right now. Charlotte FC is playing a must-win match Friday; Johnson C. Smith University is still undefeated at 8 and 0; the Charlotte Hornets are 2 and 2, but face NBA Champions the Boston Celtics Friday and Saturday and the Carolina Panthers continue to struggle. Charlotte Observer veteran sportswriter Langston Wertz, Jr. talks about some of this with WFAE’s Gwendolyn Glenn. -
It’s been more than a month since Helene wreaked havoc throughout western North Carolina and left more than 100 people dead in the aftermath. People might think the worst is over but more than 100,000 homes were damaged or destroyed and the Red Cross continues to seek volunteers to help. -
Charlotte lost a major leader, fundraiser and supporter with the passing of Jim Hynes at the age of 84. Mark Ethridge, former managing editor of the Charlotte Observer and Hynes' neighbor for 25 years, credits Hynes with Charlotte’s transformation from a small town to a major city. He talks to WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn in this interview. -
The first exhibition to display a comprehensive look at Southern art over the first half of the 20th century opens to the public Saturday at the Mint Museum in uptown Charlotte. "Southern/Modern: Rediscovering the Radical Art Below the Mason-Dixon Line" features more than 100 paintings by artists linked to the South. -
JCSU's new resource center for veterans encompasses an entire floor, will offer an array of services, and veterans will have designated study spaces. They will also be able to hold events and gatherings in the center’s multipurpose room. -
Tylee Craft, a UNC-Chapel Hill wide receiver and student assistant coach, died Saturday after battling a rare form of lung cancer. He was 23. -
Antonia Bennett has been singing on stage since she was a toddler, performing around the world with her father, the late, legendary crooner Tony Bennett. This Saturday, Bennett will perform jazz standards and original songs at Middle C Jazz in uptown Charlotte. She talks to WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn about her style of singing and how her father influenced her career. -
The PBS program "The American Experience" explores the deadly 1898 massacre of Blacks in Wilmington, N.C., and the takeover of the local government by white supremacists in a documentary titled "The American Coup: Wilmington 1898." Co-director Yoruba Richen talks to WFAE’s Gwendolyn Glenn about the murderous coup and its implications today. -
A North Carolina family of four is about a month away from completing 5K runs in all 50 states to raise money for Smart Train, an organization that pays for surgeries for people suffering from cleft lips and palates. They also want to bring more awareness to the condition that affects 1 in 700 newborn babies worldwide. -
North Carolina death penalty opponents will begin a 136-mile walk across the state, to bring attention to those on death row here. Participants in the march will walk a mile for each of the state’s 136 death row inmates.
