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Major changes are coming to SNAP and Medicaid eligibility rules and the impacts will affect millions of Americans. Yulonda Griffin with Mecklenburg County Department of Community Resources explains the changes and how to navigate them.

SOL Nation executive director Tiffany Fant advocates for grassroots environmental justice through community initiatives. The latest is EJ Day, a celebration of community and sustainability.

Charlotte, like the rest of America, is debating data centers. City Council member Dimple Ajmera recently hosted a town hall to answer questions and empower constituents to learn more about the pros and cons of such facilities. Charlotte is observing a 150-day moratorium on new data center construction while council considers new development rules.

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.

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.