The State of Things
Summary: Stories from WUNC's The State of Things with Frank Stasio.
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When Sharon Ewell Foster first published her novel Passing by Samaria in the late 1990s, it was a time of relative racial peace throughout the United...
Pharmaceutical player GlaxoSmithKline is laying off hundreds of workers in its American facilities, and the bulk of these job cuts are in Research...
In 1912, famed educator Booker T. Washington approached philanthropist and Sears Roebuck Company CEO Julius Rosenwald with a plan to build schools for...
Durham writer Gregg Cusick's day job as a bartender allows him to write about some things he hears from the other side of the bar. He uses just a few...
Governor Pat McCrory tearfully announced the departure of the state’s Secretary of Commerce Sharon Decker. She will step down at the end of the month...
The musical Into the Woods begins like many classic fairy tales with the line “Once Upon A Time…”
Fairy tales have been around in various forms for hundreds and likely thousands of years, and many scholars argue that they’ve stood the test of time...
As a chemist in the 1970s, Pat Nathan was quite often the only woman in the room. She remained one of the only women in the room as she rose through...
Across the country on Thursday, Americans will consume the quintessential Thanksgiving food: turkey.
During the holiday season, perhaps more than any other part of the year, families embrace or reject traditions.
Many people sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner may hearken back to some version of a story about Pilgrims and Native Americans feasting together.
A grand jury in St. Louis has decided not to indict Darren Wilson, the white Ferguson police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown, an...
After a turbulent year in which Alec Baldwin's radio program was suspended due to lack of funding, the podcast Here's the Thing is back on the air. As...
Author Jason Mott hails from Bolton, North Carolina- a town with a population of 700. The characters in Mott’s novels come from smalltown America as...
Many kids grow up spending time after school with other kids in their neighborhood playing pick-up soccer, videogames or capture the flag.
