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  • In 1992, Eva Clayton became the first Black woman from North Carolina elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Now, at 87 years old, Clayton is keeping her finger on the pulse of North Carolina politics.
  • It’s been more than three years since Marcus Smith died at the hands of police officers in Greensboro. Now, his family is coming to the end of a long and arduous road after a settlement with the City of Greensboro.
  • More than 150 years after the emancipation of slavery in America, a team of dedicated scuba divers is busy excavating and restoring wreckage from slave ships that sank across the Middle Passage.
  • Extremely potent substances like fentanyl and xylazine have flooded the illegal drug market, causing a major increase in overdose ER visits and deaths. Harm reduction policies could help reverse that trend.
  • In the South, sports betting is largely illegal, but since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a nationwide ban, more states are joining the pool. North Carolina could be next.
  • Education reporter Liz Schlemmer joins host Anisa Khalifa to discuss what happened when a Black cultural center at UNC-Chapel Hill canceled the exhibition of a Black artist. Cornell Watson, who created a photo series about Black life at UNC-CH for the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, describes the experience as censorship.
  • The “Pharaoh of Fabulosity” was an unstoppable force of fashion. André Leon Talley’s influence branched across the globe during his illustrious career – one that began in his hometown of Durham, N.C.
  • Darryl Hunt spent nearly 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. The people who wrote about and read about his case in the papers were stunned at Hunt’s willingness to forgive the people in a system that had failed him so miserably. But while many had heard about his grace and humility, few knew that Hunt was quietly suffering.
  • Through a one-person play, North Carolina actor and playwright Mike Wiley has taken the story of Emmett Till across the world. Now, his play carries an even deeper resonance in the wake of the recent Emmett Till Antilynching Act.
  • Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn has garnered a lot of attention for himself, mostly as a full-throated supporter of Donald Trump and a rabble rouser at hard-right political rallies. But a group of voters recently sought to prevent him from running again.
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