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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WFAE "All Things Considered" host Gwendolyn Glenn talked with former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt about past challenges he endured — and the challenges the nation faces today, as armed protests are threatened during President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. -
It was a big week for sports: Charlotte Hornets rookie guard LaMelo Ball set an NBA record, COVID 19 is leading to scheduling problems for college basketball games, and a well-known Carolina Panthers player may not be back next season.
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As COVID-19 cases continue to surge in North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper has mobilized the state’s National Guard to help local health providers in administering vaccinations.
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Big losses for the Clemson Tigers and the UNC Tar Heels in bowl games this weekend; the Charlotte Hornets are struggling six games into the season and it was a day of interceptions for the Carolina Panthers. To talk about these topics in our first show of 2021 with "All Things Considered" host Gwendolyn Glenn is Langston Wertz Jr. a longtime sportswriter with the Charlotte Observer.
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WFAE host Gwendolyn Glenn caught up with Washington, D.C.-based author and emotional intelligence expert Sylvia Baffour to get her take on how empathy is or should play out during these trying times.
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The Carolina Panthers are searching for a new general manager, Charlotte Hornets rookie LaMelo Ball is receiving praise from other NBA general managers and Clemson won big in Charlotte in the ACC Championship game.
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With the fall semester wrapped up some colleges did better than others keeping COVID-19 cases low on campus. In Columbia, South Carolina, officials at the private, historically Black Benedict College operated under the bubble concept.
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Bennett College has been granted candidate status with TRACS, Trans National Association of Christian Colleges and Schools accrediting organization, and is on its way to getting full TRACS accreditation. Bennett College president Suzanne Walsh explains what the new candidate status with TRACS means.
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The Carolina Panthers lose another close game, LaMelo Ball and Gordon Hayward make their preseason debuts with the Charlotte Hornets and an ACC school cancels its remaining nonconference games due to COVID-19 concerns.
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A Superior Court hearing has been set for the second week in January regarding the nearly $550,000 settlement reached between the former owner and manager of Lake Arbor Apartments and tenants. About 100 former tenants of the west Charlotte complex will share in the settlement if approved by the court. In a class action lawsuit, the tenants claimed that complex managers illegally collected rent despite being cited for numerous health and safety violations.
