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True or false? Victorian doctors invented the vibrator to cure women's "hysteria" by bringing them to sexual climax. The answer may surprise you ... as it did Anita! She gets the truth about vibrator history from journalist Hallie Lieberman and meets Anna Lee, the engineer behind the first-ever “smart” vibrator that can help you better understand your arousal patterns.

Stuttering occurs in every culture with a spoken language. So why do many communities treat it as a source of shame? Two speech-language pathologists and a comedian help Anita question cultural assumptions about stuttering and explore the growing movement to embrace speech diversity.

In 1948, Pauli Murray began a years-long journey, crossing the country to document each state's segregation laws. The result was an exhaustive, 700-page tome.

After spending decades fighting for gender equality and racial justice, Pauli Murray decided to unite her convictions for human rights with her religious spirituality.

As a Black, queer, Southern woman, Pauli Murray endured a sinister combination of sexism and racism. She called this specific kind of discrimination Jane Crow, and no matter where Pauli went, Jane Crow followed. But Pauli refused to let that dictate her life.

Medicaid expansion is not the only major healthcare fight going on in state government these days. There is also a squabble over what to do about the…

The candidate filing period has concluded in North Carolina and there are hundreds of competitors for congressional, legislative and judicial…

There was plenty of North Carolina political news in Raleigh, and points beyond this week.Lauren Horsch of the NC Insider discusses legislative efforts to…

WUNC Data Reporter Jason de Bruyn joins this edition of the WUNCPolitics podcast.Among the topics discussed are an on-going investigation into alleged…

Lawmakers are expected to send forth multiple proposed constitutional amendments in the coming days.Jonathan Kappler, Executive Director of the NC Free…