Gwendolyn Glenn
Host, WFAE's All Things ConsideredGwendolyn 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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A new exhibition on Mary Cardwell Dawson, founder of the National Negro Opera Company, opens March 26 at the Charlotte Museum of History. The company was established in 1941 and is the first successful Black opera company in the country.
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All 30 of Mecklenburg County's liquor stores are now able to take customer orders through a new app. No waiting in line for customers who order ahead using the app, then pick up in person.
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Online sports betting kicks off in North Carolina on March 11 and bettors can start preregistering to use the betting apps March 1. WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn talks to Charlotte Observer sportswriter Langston Wertz, Jr. about how it will operate and the revenue it is expected to generate.
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Since 2010, Joe McGill has traveled around the country, finding and spending the night in dwellings that once housed enslaved people. He talked to WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn about The Slave Dwelling Project and why he became interested in this work.
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"In the Pines," a film produced by the conservative John Locke Foundation on the Wilmington massacre of 1898 that killed hundreds of Black people, is being highly criticized for focusing on the love story of a white couple. The Foundation is also being accused of denigrating Democrats.
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Patricia Ann Neely, viola da gamba classical musician, performs Thursday at the Charlotte Museum of History. She talks about the racism she faced breaking into classical music and the lack of focus on Black classical musicians in the past and today.
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Bonita Buford, the new CEO of the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture plans to build on its success of the past 50 years by expanding the collection, bringing in larger exhibitions, focusing on social justice and making the center more multidisciplinary.
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A 2022 survey found that over half of Americans use digital payment apps. However, few protections are in place for when consumers are victims of scams or mistakes. North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is among attorneys generals from 18 states calling for stronger federal regulations.
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Blood donations are down 40% over the past 20 years nationwide. In Charlotte, local Red Cross officials say they only have a few days supply of some blood types, such as O positive and O negative.
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Nationwide, only 1.3% of all teachers are Black men, and that percentage is falling. In addition, nearly half of Black male teachers said they were planning to leave the classroom, according to a 2021 Rand Corporation report. Charlotte-based Profound Gentlemen works to retain and recruit Black male teachers.