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There was controversy this week over the chosen leader for the Mayor’s Racial Equity Initiative. After months of absence, County Commissioner Ella Scarborough goes on paid medical leave. Mask rules are changing around the country and those changes may be coming to Mecklenburg County. And CMPD lays out its plan to reduce crime. Those and other stories with Mike Collins and local reporters.

Homelessness has been something Charlotte and Mecklenburg County have struggled with for years, despite significant infusions of money from the public and private sectors. A new report has some new suggestions on how to get a handle on the issue.

This week on the SouthBound podcast, we’re reairing our episode from last year in which host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Anna Sale, the host of the podcast "Death, Sex & Money." Sale is also the author of the book “Let’s Talk About Hard Things,” which is about to come out in paperback.

Charlotte needs nearly 35,000 affordable housing units and on Monday, City Council will vote on spending over $12 million to build 602 units. A good move or a drop in the ocean?

This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Dr. Benjamin Gilmer, who has written a new book, called “The Other Dr. Gilmer,” about a strange situation: He took over the Asheville, North Carolina-area medical practice of a man who shared his last name, and that man was in prison for murdering his own father. Many plot twists followed.

On the latest SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Stephen Leatherman, who is known as “Dr. Beach” for his annual ranking of the best beaches in America. But he’s also a scientist who has a lot to say about how to protect our beaches—both on a global scale and through little things any beachgoer can do.

This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Mary Tribble, who spent years researching her great-great-great-great-grandmother, a woman who came to North Carolina on a Baptist mission and helped found Wake Forest University. Tribble tells her story in the book “Pious Ambitions.”

In honor of Hispanic Heritage month, we are hosting a public conversation celebrating the immense growth of the Latino population and discussing how this has affected Charlotte currently and in the future.

We discuss overcoming the stigmas that keep people from accessing mental health care, the early signs that mental health care is needed and how to find the right provider and services.

In this episode, we explore how to find affordable options for mental health care with or without insurance.

For the next EQUALibrium public conversation, we will sit down with disability local advocates and city officials to learn what is being done to make Charlotte more accessible for everyone.

Charlotte’s skyline is a hit on Instagram. Where are the best spots to get panoramic pictures of the city?

Latrai Graham is a contributing editor for Garden & Gun and she has written for Southern Living, the Oxford American and many other outlets.

This week's episode of SouthBound features Wright Thompson, senior writer at ESPN and author of the new book "Pappyland," on the legendary bourbon called Pappy Van Winkle.

Across North Carolina, health care workers are rolling up their sleeves to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The first shipments of vaccine doses arrived at hospitals this week after being developed and approved in record time. So how does the vaccine work? And when can you expect to get a shot? FAQ City answers your questions.

This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Jason Mott, the North Carolina writer whose novel “Hell of a Book” recently won the National Book Award for fiction. It’s a funny, surreal and tragic story about trying to process the far-too-common violent deaths of young Black people in America.

This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Del McCoury, the legendary bluegrass singer who is still going strong at age 83. We talk about his new album and his beginnings in rough-and-tumble clubs.

Hank Klibanoff's podcast “Buried Truths,” which is about long-ago racially motivated killings in Georgia, has won a Peabody Award. This season, though, Klibanoff decided to tackle a more current case: last year’s death of Ahmaud Arbery.

If you're a sports fan of a certain age, you probably know Andrea Kirby's voice. From her roots in Alabama, she became a pioneering woman in sports…

On this episode of SouthBound we talk to Harvey Gantt, who has spent his whole life pushing against the boundaries of the South. When he was still a…