Gwendolyn Glenn

4 weeks ago | wfae.org | Gwendolyn Glenn

For 15 years, businesses, education institutions and federal government agencies have hired author Michael Fosberg to conduct interactive training sessions on diversity, equity and inclusion. His presentations include performing a one-man play, "Incognito," that he wrote and developed from an autobiographical book he wrote in 2011. Fosberg, a Chicago native, was in Charlotte this week for a training session for the Canopy Realtor Association’s Fair Housing Month celebration.

1 month ago | wfae.org | Gwendolyn Glenn

“People are operating from a sense of fear … especially when it comes to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” is how author and journalist Clint Smith describes the climate in America. Smith, who wrote the bestseller, "How the Word Is Passed" is the keynote speaker Wednesday, March 26, for Habitat for Humanity of the Charlotte Region’s annual affordable housing symposium. He talks to WFAE’s Gwendolyn Glenn about the focus of his message.

1 month ago | wunc.org | Gwendolyn Glenn

Radio stations at historically Black colleges and universities have always played a special role in connecting the schools to their communities. Students receive training at the campus stations and many have public affairs programs that give voice to people and issues not heard in other media. A new effort is underway to preserve the rich history and the programming these stations produced that documents the Black experience from the days of using reel-to-reel recorders and eight-tracks to MP3s.

1 month ago | wfae.org | Gwendolyn Glenn

Bribery, extortion, influence peddling and money laundering are federal corruption charges three members of the North Charleston City Council face, stemming from a yearlong FBI investigation. Two of the indicted members have resigned and pleaded guilty to the charges and a third pleaded not guilty. Five other people were charged, including a North Carolina woman who owns a financial services business near Raleigh.

1 month ago | wfae.org | Gwendolyn Glenn

Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs continue to be attacked at the federal and state level, but in Charlotte, officials with the Center for Racial Equity in Education, or CREED, say efforts to end DEI have affected their organization but not their plans to persist in their work to end racism in education. That includes supporting educators through equity training, providing resources to recruit and retain more teachers of color and advocating for year-round teaching of Black history.