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The battle between the executive and judicial branches continues, both at the state and national levels. A three-judge panel halted the state Senate…

When Eddy McGee started as a mail carrier in the early ‘90s, he knew that he wanted his job to be more than just putting mail in a box. He started to…

Note: This conversation is a rebroadcast from February 16, 2017.Brooklyn-based hip-hop artist Talib Kweli entered the music scene in the late 1990s as one…

Makeba Wilbourn has been immersed in the subtleties of language since she was a child.As the daughter of a northern white mother and southern black…

Ben Vereen made a name for himself on Broadway in the late 1960s with performances in hit productions like “Sweet Charity” and “Hair.” He later won a Tony…

In 2006, Bakari Sellers became the youngest elected state representative in South Carolina. At one point he was also the youngest black elected official…

In the heart of downtown Asheville sits Pack Square, a bustling center lined by popular restaurants and ongoing construction projects. A stone obelisk…

In 2014, tens of thousands of families fled Central America to the U.S. in an attempt to escape gang violence. Since that period, asylum requests in the…

Confederate monuments have become flash points for a national debate about free speech, race and memory. Statues have been removed in more than a dozen…

The music of Africa Unplugged harkens back to the African diaspora. The Greensboro-based group channels jazz and funk, while still maintaining roots in…