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Fresh Air names award-winning journalist and public media vet Tonya Mosley co-host

Award-winning public media journalist Tonya Mosley has been named co-host of Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the radio program and podcast devoted to contemporary arts and issues, produced by WHYY in Philadelphia and distributed by NPR. Terry Gross will continue as Co-Executive Producer and Host. Mosley is a correspondent and former host of Here & Now, the midday radio show from NPR and WBUR Boston, and the creator and host of the podcast Truth Be Told. She has been a regular contribut...

Gross, a fixture of the NPR show since 1975, is not going anywhere and will remain on as Fresh Air’s executive producer and host, station executives said.

Tonya Mosley has been a regular contributing interviewer for Fresh Air since 2021. Terry Gross will continue as Executive Producer and Host.

Hundreds Gather In Belmont To Remember Henry Tapia And Decry Racial Hatred A crowd gathered in Belmonts Cushing Square for a vigil for Henry Tapia. Edgar B. Herwick III/ Hundreds gathered on a chilly Thursday evening in Belmont’s Cushing Square to speak out against racial hatred and remember Henry Tapia. Tapia, a 35-year old black and Latino man, was killed in Belmont earlier this week after an apparent road rage incident. The suspect, Dean Kapsalis, allegedly hurled a racial slur before...

Begin. the president was just talking about a success story. we have covered the south of new york, across the river from philadelphia. in camden, new jersey. but he also just addressed ferguson. and thats why we want to go to nbcs ron allen. our friend ron was covering ferguson. long after many in the news media went home. we saw that explosion of violence and, ron, first of all, explain why ferguson has been in the news vis-a-vis the fbi director james comey. >> reporter: well, the ferguson af...

Regarding drug trade and where it will lead regarding the violence, and that if we move in this direction of prohibition with drugs, it will lead to more crime, give more power and control to the organizations and well have more dangerous drugs available to our citizens, mainly our young people. i wish we could listen to our forefathers in policing what they predicted. >> as mentioned by my colleague ron allen at the white house, people have been talking about that comey said there was a ferguso...

And i think this narrative, hands up dont shoot, i get why there is not truth from it in the justice report. but it transcends just the michael brown case. i think it represents a feeling of mino and brown sort of the feeling they feel towards the police for mistreatment. and all throughout history you have dont overtax me, you have we shall overcome. its become a narrative for a larger problem. >> im glad you brought that up. people in the media quickly pivoted to the related question of histor...

And i think this narrative, hands up dont shoot, i get why there is not truth from it in the justice report. but it transcends just the michael brown case. i think it represents a feeling of minorities black and brown sort of the feeling they feel towards the police for mistreatment. and all throughout history you have dont overtax me, you have we shall overcome. its become a narrative for a larger problem. >> im glad you brought that up. people in the media quickly pivoted to the related questi...

Breaking news. protests on the streets of new york city in the wake of the grand jury decision not to indict. a police officer who put eric garner in that now infamous chokehold. joining me to discuss all this, my cnn colleagues, welcome to the evening. past your bedtime. >> it is. >> very serious subject. talking a lot about ferguson. now we have the eric garner thing. to most people the video tells the story. apparently didnt for the grand jury. >> well, look, i think the video does tell the s...