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Karyn Parsons spent six years playing the ditzy character, Hilary, on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The show was huge in the culture in the 1990s — it ran for six seasons beginning in 1990 and left an indelible mark on pop culture. Her character, Hilary, was — and still is — truly beloved by fans everywhere. What fans didn't know is that during her time playing Hilary, Parsons was devoting quite a bit of her own personal time to writing short fiction, and learning about history — particularly inspiring and empowering stories of African American achievement.

Associated Press The Florida Department of Education is being sued over allegations it shortchanged teachers when it paid bonuses awarded by the...

Tired of the same old pumpkin pie or squash side dish? Morning Edition challenged Chris Kimball of America's Test Kitchen to shake up Thanksgiving with recipes that put a new spin on the humble gourd. His chosen recipes include barley risotto with butternut squash and maple-pumpkin stack cake.

Florida’s suicide rate increased 10.6 percent from 1999 to 2016, though most states saw larger increases, according to a new report from the federal...

An encore presentation of our show from earlier this year featuring music performed live in studio by the Southwest Florida-based band The Swingin’ Clique.

This time on the Gulf Coast Life Book Club, we hear from Clint Smith, author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, and Gabriela Garcia, author of Of Women and Salt.

While he wasn’t actually born in Florida, Jeff Klinkenberg's parents moved to Miami from Chicago when he was 2 years old, and Klinkenberg is about as…

Florida’s unemployment rate is currently around a low 3.7 percent, that’s a drop of more than 7 percent since the end of 2010 at the peak of the economic…

The November 6th general election is now just over three weeks away and today we kick off a series of interviews with the Republican and Democratic…

We’re sitting down with Dr. David Campt in advance of his upcoming workshops on “Being a Better Ally” that seek to help white people learn empathetic…