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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Former SC Gov. David Beasley said he does not believe most people are aware of the daunting task his organization, the World Food Programme, faces in addressing world hunger amidst wars, climate change and corrupt governments. -
Martin Lawrence is at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte along with DeRay Davis, Bruce Bruce, Adele Givens and Benji Brown. Plus the Festival in the Park in Freedom Park is back, and we’ve got the scoop on theater, art and music events for the weekend.
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Can the Carolina Panthers keep their momentum after beating the New Orleans Saints on Sunday at Bank of America Stadium? Also on Time Out For Sports, we look at the UNC Charlotte 49ers' loss to the Georgia State Panthers and preview a local high school game: Julius Chambers High vs. Hough High at Memorial Stadium. Plus, North Carolina's Brooklyn Harker plays three positions for her high school football team.
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Willie Nelson is 88 years old, but he's still going strong and will be in Charlotte this weekend performing in the Outlaw Music Festival. A Matthews Playhouse performance about the Tulsa massacre of 1921, a book tour by Gabrielle Union, Lysander Piano Trio and an event using food to showcase gentrification are also in this edition of Weekend in Entertainment.
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In February, Atrium Health announced a partnership with the city of Charlotte on a violence intervention program that involves working with emergency room gunshot patients to find ways to prevent them from being repeat victims or perpetrators of violence. Statistics show that 25% of them end up that way within two to three years.
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It’s Time Out For Sports! The Carolina Panthers won their season debut against the New York Jets 19-16, and UNC football bounced back after a week one loss. We'll talk about tall that and catch up with the latest in local high school football.
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Charlotte Mecklenburg police believe a series of recent shootings have some relation to Hopewell, North Mecklenburg and Chambers high schools. Those schools and West Mecklenburg High School are on a modified lockdown at least through Friday.
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Join WFAE "All Things Considered" host Gwendolyn Glenn as she and Jodie Valade, co-writer of WFAE’s arts and entertainment newsletter, Tapestry, go through this weekend’s slate of events. The slate is highlighted by "Wicked" coming to Ovens Auditorium and Historic Brattonsville’s annual festival to celebrate the heritage of local African Americans.
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Charlotte's Johnson C. Smith University is a historically Black college in Charlotte that has had to learn to adjust to the pandemic and a smaller student body. This year, classes are in person for the first time since March 2020, but all students and faculty are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. Federal aid has helped JCSU forgive student loans and provide tuition breaks.
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Richard Porter is a former Marine and now a project manager in the Chapel Hill area. He's part of a volunteer effort called Team America that's patching together technology and personal contacts to get people who want to leave Afghanistan out of the country.
