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Now is the time to get out and enjoy the weather before the temperatures in Texas rise as we get closer to summer. Luckily, there are a number of festivals,

“Territory,” a short film focused on the indigenous people of the Eastern Caribbean island of Dominica- the Kalinago, wins Best Short Documentary at the 18th…

The weather is finally starting to cool down in Central Texas, but the number of events that are planned for the coming week are still heating up. Sign up for

Each week, It's Been a Minute features people in the culture who deserve your attention. Plus weekly wraps of the news with journalists in the know. Join us to make sense of the world through conversation.

A few weeks ago, writer and critic Brittany Luse became the new host of the beloved NPR show It's Been A Minute. But before she became a radio and podcasting fixture, Luse was a kid growing up in Farmington Hills. On today's show, we talked with Luse about her Michigan origins, her new gig, and her career telling and producing stories from Black experience.

Luse has previously hosted podcasts that include "For Colored Nerds" and "The Nod."

No one knows better than residents of this Mahoning Valley about picking ourselves up after being knocked down. We all remember that dark day, Sept. 19, 1977, when thousands of steelworkers lost their jobs with the shuttering of Youngstown Sheet & Tube’s Campbell Works, following by a domino effect of other area steel mills. Our region survived and rebuilt, ultimately turning our manufacturing focus to automaking. Another big blow came with the 2005 loss of nearly 5,000 Warren-based Delph...