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"The BeLOVED Community" is a new monthly podcast produced as a collaboration between the Northwest Arkansas Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Council and KUAF. The inaugural guest is Charles Robinson, chancellor of the University of Arkansas.

On today's show, examining the reasons behind Arkansas school districts switching school calendars. Also, Sylvia Poggioli, an NPR European correspondent, talks about her life and career. Plus, local music, the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report, news from the state legislature and the latest episode of "Sound Perimeter."

Sylvia Poggioli has reported for listeners for decades. Kyle Kellams, KUAF's news director, asked her about the next chapter of her life and career.

Randy Dixon, with the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, concludes his series about special assignments that can be found in the KATV Collection of the Pryor Center Archives.

This week's archives from the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History include special projects that took Randy Dixon into the middle of a tornado and a war zone.

For more than 25 years, Lum & Abner was one of the most popular radio comedies in the country. The show was the creation of two Mena-area natives and University of Arkansas alumni, Chet Lauck and Norris Goff. They became household names and even encouraged a small town in Arkansas to officially change its name. We use the Pryor Center Archives to remember Lum & Abner.

How did the little-known Salem Media Group come to have an outsized political influence? Freelance reporter Katie Thornton worked alongside WNYC's On the Media to create the podcast series "The Divided Dial" to understand the impact of Salem Media Group in conservative politics.

The Arkansas State Archives has digitized more than 278,000 pages of the state's newspapers dating back to 1830.

On today's show, Arkansans reckon with extreme violence against members of the LGBTQ community. Arkansas state senator Joyce Elliot launches Get Loud Arkansas! as her 20-year career in the state legislature ends. Plus, the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank experiences more demand and the rock band Little Feat returns to the state.

Phil Allen, Jr. is a pastor, speaker, and the author of The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency From MLK to Darnella Frazier. He discusses the impact of everything from Spike Lee to citizen-captured video of news events can shape public conversations.