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The latest from Mary
- Equal Time: An icon’s example inspires conversations and action on reparations
- America’s two-tiered justice system isn’t new — just don’t talk about it
- Local News Roundup: NC school performance results released; NC legislature considers Sunday alcohol sales and continues casino debate; Panthers set to play Atlanta
- A summer of reflection — and fears of history repeating itself
- Local News Roundup: CMS complies with NC Parents’ Bill of Rights; Fentanyl overdoses are up; Mark Robinson speaks in Charlotte; Panthers prepare to host Detroit
- WFAE All Things Considered NEXT UP: 6:30 PM Marketplace All Things Considered WFAE All Streams Charlotte Talks Charlotte Talks With Mike Collins Local News Roundup: Mark Meadows indicted; No Labels recognized in NC; Legislature overrides Gov. Cooper vetoes; Lyles endorses council candidate
- Fani Willis Takes on Trump: How bluster became a criminal conspiracy to disenfranchise Black voters
- Local News Roundup: COVID-19 numbers rise; City Council recommends esports venue for Eastland Yards; CATS Gold Line changes; Beyoncé in Charlotte
- Florida Public Schools’ New Anti-Woke Partner
- It’s Hot as Hell. Why Are Pools Closed?
- U.S. vs Trump
- America’s future depends on a truthful reckoning with its past
- Local News Roundup: Elyse Dashew will not seek another term as CMS Board Chair; City Council rejects zoning petitions in a rare move; LYNX Blue Line repair price tag doubles
- Can the U.S. military still lead the way on civil rights?
- Do you need to have faith to practice values?
- North Carolina and the Supreme Court
- Local News Roundup: a milestone for the proposed Charlotte tennis complex; a crack in a beam at Carowinds shuts down ride; a lawsuit against Tim Moore is resolved; USMNT comes to the Queen City
- What has been deemed legal is not always right
- Local News Roundup: Officials look for answers after Charlotte Preparatory fire; Vi Lyles announces reelection campaign; SCOTUS hands down decisions impacting NC cases
- The Failed Coup in Russia
- In a moment of progress in America, everyone can win
- Trump indictment: When always striving for ‘more’ turns toxic
- Public education won’t ‘fail,’ unless America abandons the idea and the ideal
- Local News Roundup: How did NC delegation vote in debt ceiling deal? Protest over CMS boundaries; video released of CATS bus shooting; County narrowly approves CMS bond request
- WFAE’s EQUALibrium Live conversation on advancing maternal health equity
- Why mental health policy is personal and political
- The Navajo Fight for Water
- NC Abortion Bill, Senate Budget Talks and AI Concerns
- Many Americans really are thinking terrible things — and proudly saying them out loud
- Local News Roundup: Break Point proposal in River District; County tax hike probable; No 4-year terms for council; Cooper on statewide tour on abortion veto
- Reporters’ Roundtable
- Is former battleground North Carolina becoming a Florida clone?
- Sacrificing democracy to belong to a shrinking ‘club’
- America’s Rich History of Gun Control: How “originalist” arguments against gun control distort actual history.
- Local News Roundup: CMS continues superintendent search as Gaston County’s superintendent resigns; Tricia Cotham sponsors private school voucher bill; NC legislature bill on trans athletes and more
- Will Democrats raise the volume on expressing what they believe in?
- Dianne Feinstein’s Last Stand: Can the Democrats afford to let the California senator finish her term?
- Dominion Takes Fox News to Court: Can Dominion prove “actual malice”?
- Equal Time: How Black women, America’s invisible ‘saviors,’ can rewrite the narrative
- Do Abortion Pills Actually Need FDA Approval?
- Tennessee’s House Divided: Days of public protest, open shouting from the Rotunda, and expulsions that broke on color lines
- Clarence Thomas’s Friends in High Places: Who is Harlan Crow and why is he the justice’s vacation benefactor?
- Local News Roundup: Tricia Cotham switches parties; NCDOT tells CATS to fully staff; Mecklenburg Commissioners frustrated at revaluations for golf courses; Leon Levine dies
- Preventing Preventive Care: A federal judge has blocked a key provision of the ACA—who will step up to save it?
- Wisconsin’s High-Stakes Supreme Court Race
- Trump Heads to Court
- Fear should not be a deal breaker when debating tough topics
- Local News Roundup: CATS goes off the rails, political maps back at NC Supreme Court, ‘Banktown’ reacts to SVB collapse
- Two visions of America’s past — and future
- There’s no escape from any country’s complicated history
- Why Insulin Prices Keep Rising
- When tuneful nostalgia turns toxic: The old days weren’t good for everyone
- Is Nikki Haley the GOP’s Future?
- Where does North Carolina stand in the national culture war?
- Local News Roundup: CATS Bus driver strike averted; naming rights proposed to generate money for city; pioneering judge Shirley Fulton dies at 71
- Is the American dream for everyone? Just ask Ilhan Omar
- After Tyre Nichols, can they finally say those three simple words?
- When corporate activism takes center stage
- The insidious power of keeping it vague
- A Conversation With The Cast Of A Soldier’s Play
- Local News Roundup: Myers Park sexual assault trial; Controversial Cotswold Chick-Fil-A plan approved; AG Josh Stein throws his hat into the ring for NC Governor
- Hospice for Profit: End-of-life care is full of people looking for a big return on little effort.
- Telling the truth, onstage and off, so history doesn’t repeat itself
- Will Southwest Be Held Accountable?
- Reflections on the January 6th Capitol attack, two years later
- 2022 End Of Year Local News Roundup
- Why a lost election left Adam Frisch (and his son) optimistic
- Georgia voters spoke. Is the GOP listening?
- Best Podcast: ‘Equal Time with Mary C. Curtis’
- It’s about more than one dinner and a man named Trump
- Local News Roundup: A local graduate among those killed at UVA, Tepper and Rock Hill come to an agreement, Juneteenth officially a holiday in Charlotte
- Reporters’ Roundtable
- Which party has a game plan for the future? We’re about to find out
- BLACK ISSUES FORUM: Commentary on Election 2022
- Who gets credit, and blame, after Election Day?
- When will Republicans reject fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear?
- Celebrating, reflecting and looking to the future after National Hispanic Heritage Month
- Local News Roundup: Early voting starts, McCaffrey trade, Mecklenburg leaders look at how to end violence and new toll lanes discussed for I-77
- A depressing return to a well-worn election playbook — because it works
- Five Years of #MeToo
- An American Surgeon in Wartime Ukraine
- A majority of Americans will have election deniers on the ballot. What could this mean for the future?
- Local News Roundup: CATS gets riders’ input on new station; CMS school performance update; Panthers continue to lose
- When Climate Change Makes You Sell Your House
- The fight over faith in politics: Which faith? Whose values?
- Local News Roundup: Bomb threats and lockdowns at schools throughout the region; Actors Theatre to close; Gaston County Schools payroll problem continues; CATS drivers vote on agreement
- You can’t ‘pivot away’ from sick stunts and cruelty
- CB Bowman: Courage to Leap and Lead (Part 2)
- CB Bowman: Courage to Leap and Lead
- Fighting unwinnable battles in an American culture war
- Two systems of justice? Bet on it
- Black Issues Forum: Biden MAGA GOPers, Student Debt and Black Women Athletes
- Progress? Certainly. But has the Americans with Disabilities Act changed the country enough?
- How Serena Transcended Tennis
- Abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention
- Oklahoma’s Upcoming Execution Spree
- The Migrants Texas Sent to New York City
- The Red States Punishing Green Businesses
- Will Kentucky Fail Breonna Taylor Again?
- What the DOJ Should Do About Trump
