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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Advocacy organizations are calling for greater safety measures on CATS, the local bus system. They announced a bus safety initiative at Monday night’s Charlotte City Council meeting and called on city officials to join them in riding several bus routes on May 4, to see what passengers experience daily.
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Through city and private funding, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra will use a newly-unveiled mobile stage to perform free concerts in underserved communities throughout the city.
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At 95, pianist Jim Stack continues to play for the dinner crowd at his assisted-living community in Charlotte. Stack, a former aerospace engineer, started playing piano at an early age and went on to play with greats such as legendary jazz pianist and composer Loonis McGlohon, Clare Fischer, Bill Evans and Charlie Spivak. WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn talks to him about his career.
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Winthrop University admitted its first Black students in 1964. Cynthia Plair Roddey, who was the first Black student to enroll, talks to WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn about the school's early days of integration and how the school has changed over the years.
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Problems with the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid form, which determines college students' financial aid eligibility, are causing delays in students receiving financial aid packages nationwide. A UNC Charlotte official says the university extended its commitment date because of the aid delays.
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It's Sweet 16 time for the NCAA basketball tournament, and four men's teams and three women's teams from the Carolinas are competing. WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn sat down with Charlotte Observer sportswriter Langston Wertz, Jr. to discuss these ACC teams playing strong in the tournament at a time when the ACC has been called a weak conference.
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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.