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Black farmers are disappearing across the United States as economic pressures, racial discrimination in federal lending, tariffs and shifting business models accelerate their demise. What can be done to reverse the trend? Gbinga Ajilore, chief economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities offers insight.

The Charlotte Post's 2025 Newsmaker of the Year led a successful capital campaign for a 13,000 square foot state of the art building and continues to innovate in Mecklenburg County's nonprofit health care space.

Charlotte City Council member Malcolm Graham, author of "The Way Forward," recounts his personal experience in the aftermath of the 2015 massacre of nine Black people at Mother Emanuel AME Church. Graham's sister Cynthia Graham Hurd was among the parishioners murdered in the racially-motivated attack.

Charlotte Post Editor-in-Chief Herb White and reporter Kylie Marsh talk about their series on Black maternal mortality gaps. They discuss the history of medical experiments on Black people that led to bias that exists today and what can be done to make childbirth safer.

Joseph De Laine, whose father pushed Clarendon County, S.C., residents to file the lawsuit that resulted in Brown v. Board of Education and the end of separate but equal public schools, looks back on the historic 1954 Supreme Court case.

"Chatty Hatty" Leeper, a pioneering radio deejay at Charlotte's WGIV in the 1950s and '60s, talks about making her mark during segregation, expanding opportunities for women and the best performer ever. Host: Herbert L. White.

As Americans change the conditions of how they'll work, Black workers in the South are raising their voices for fair treatment through union organizing. Produced in partnership with Pulitzer Center.