Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
With her latest album, "Spectacles," Shirlette Ammons talks about what it means to gaze versus being gazed at, the influence of her eastern North Carolina roots and her collaborators in Durham, paying homage to Prince and how a path to a better future is to "trouble" important issues.
Each summer, youth reporters are tasked with telling stories from their community. Alani Rouse passed the mic to NC Piedmont Poet Laureate Dasan Ahanu as he reflected on his poetic journey, his role as an educator and his new book.
In Kansas City, the Moral Injury Association of America sponsors a writing group that’s worked with thousands of veterans and family members since 2014.
Online HBCU Trivia Night returns May 12th at 7pm! Categories include: astrology, horror, global slang, cereal box lore and, as always, we celebrate Black history 365.