app

Bringing The World Home To You

© 2025 app
120 Friday Center Dr
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
919.445.9150 | 800.962.9862
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

#Culture360: The Emmys, 'Empire,' Serena Williams And More

A new season of television launches this week with hit shows  and . The shows are breaking records and barriers with audiences, showcasing narratives of black life in America. 

Meanwhile, Viola Davis won an Emmy this weekend for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series," becoming the first woman of color to win the award. 

Credit HTTP://LEFTOFBLACK.TUMBLR.COM/
Natalie Bullock Brown (left) and Mark Anthony Neal (right)

Host Frank Stasio talks with pop culture experts , professor of African & African American Studies, and , professor of film and multimedia at St. Augustine University's about the Emmys, Empire, and the media's depiction of tennis star Serena Williams.

Charlie Shelton-Ormond is a podcast producer for app.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's app Director.
Related Stories
More Stories