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In our eighth episode "TEA: The Transgender Experience in Arkansas" filmed in KUAF's Listening Lab, host Taylor Johnson talks with transgender guest Deanna Starshine, a professor of physics at the University of Arkansas and award-winning poet.
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“I Am Northwest Arkansas” host Randy Wilburn is spending a few weeks exploring why some people have moved to the region and what they’re doing now that they’re here. The latest episode features a conversation with James Hawkins, a therapist who moved to northwest Arkansas after serving in the Air Force and living in New Orleans as an adult.
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In this week’s excerpt of "I Am Northwest Arkansas", host Randy Wilburn speaks with Anela Malik, who lives in Bentonville, but travels the world for her website, Feed the Malik.
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In this edition of "Reflections In Black", host Raven Cook discusses Dr. Carter G. Woodson, who is known as the father of Black history.
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In this week’s excerpt of "I Am Northwest Arkansas", host Randy Wilburn speaks with two of the organizers of this year’s Soup Sunday fundraiser for Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families: Missy Kincaid, the northwest Arkansas development director for AACF and Clint Schaff, the 2024 Soup Sunday committee chair.
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This week’s excerpt of "I Am Northwest Arkansas" concentrates on folk singer Lead Belly. Host Randy Wilburn talks to Alvin Singh, great nephew of Lead Belly and northwest Arkansas resident. In this excerpt from the conversation, Alvin discusses the legend’s legacy.
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In this edition of Reflections In Black, Raven Cook discusses Zora Neale Hurston, an American author, anthropologist and filmmaker.
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In this week’s excerpt of "I Am Northwest Arkansas," host Randy Wilburn visits with Ellie Hoyt. She's the director of development at SOAR, an afterschool program that works with students from five northwest Arkansas schools to develop leadership skills.
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TEA: the Transgender Experience in Arkansas, filmed in KUAF's Listening Lab, profiles the lives of seven trans youth, women and men. The first episode is hosted by Taylor Johnson and features Ethan Avanzino, a 35-year-old trans man who lives in Eureka Springs and works in the commercial airline industry. The following is an excerpt of the long-form interview.
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In this week’s excerpt of "I Am Northwest Arkansas," host Randy Wilburn talks with local comedian The Frisco Kid. They discuss his journey from LA to NWA, the budding comedy scene, and more.
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The podcast "Points of Departure" highlights social problems like hunger, poverty and housing from local and global perspectives. The new season will premiere later this spring. Hosts Laurence Hare and Rogelio Garcia Contreras conducted a special conversation with Alyssa Snyder from local non-profit Seeds That Feed about an intercultural exchange in Barcelona addressing food insecurity.
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Raven Cook is back with new episodes of "Reflections in Black." She starts off the new year reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Strength to Love" and addresses the fear that the future may bring.