Today the North Carolina Republican Party convenes its state convention in Greensboro. We'll get a preview and discuss the basics of state party conventions. And: In 1976, North Carolina was the turning point for Ronald Reagan’s GOP primary campaign. It set the stage for his eventual election to President, and his effort to reshape the party are a defining characteristic of our current political landscape. Guests - Chris Cooper , professor of political science and public affairs, Western Carolin...
May 23, 2024•49 min
The new book Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past is about “the most-played digital renditions of American history since The Oregon Trail .” Guests - Tore C. Olsson is an Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies for American History at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and the author of a book coming out in August 2024 – Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past...
May 22, 2024•49 min
Investigative journalist Barry Yeoman talks about his coverage of the 2024 United Methodist Church General Assembly and musician Tom Maxwell chats about his new book, A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene, 1989-1999 .
May 21, 2024•49 min
On the road for the South’s best gas station food Forget Gatorade and a bag of chips – the American South is home to a more advanced style of gas station cuisine. Photographer Kate Medley knew this growing up in Mississippi, but what she didn’t know until she left was how unique and integral the restaurants and eateries at places you can also buy gas were to life in the South. Kate Medley, freelance photographer, author and photographer of “Thank You, Please Come Again: How Gas Stations Feed &am...
May 20, 2024•49 min
Our panel of reporters break down the latest state and regional news with co-host Jeff Tiberii. Guests Ben Tobin , Greater Triangle Reporter, Triangle Business Journal Dawn Vaughan , Capitol Bureau Chief, The News & Observer Laura Leslie , Capitol Bureau Chief, WRAL Reuben Jones , Washington Reporter covering North Carolina, Spectrum News
May 17, 2024•50 min
When it comes to child care, the numbers just don't seem to add up: parents struggle to pay increasing child care tuition costs, child care workers often earn less than a living wage, and child care center owners often can't even afford to pay themselves. North Carolina's child care industry will face another challenge at the end of June -- that's when federal funds intended to stabilize the industry during the pandemic are set to run out. Some experts anticipate that if the funding support goes...
May 16, 2024•49 min
HBCU 101, Due South's series on historically Black colleges and universities, continues as co-host Leoneda Inge chats with graduates of St. Augustine's University, Morehouse and NCCU School of Law about their experiences.
May 15, 2024•49 min
Dr. Damon Tweedy discusses his choice to enter the field of psychiatry, despite its stigma within the medical industry. He sits down with co-host Leoneda Inge to discuss his new book, Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine .
May 14, 2024•49 min
North Carolina’s private school voucher program began over a decade ago to offer low-income families an alternative to low-performing public schools. The Opportunity Scholarship program has expanded in recent years — now there is no income requirement to qualify and tens of thousands of moderate to higher-income applicants are waiting to hear if they'll get scholarships as well. As a massive expansion to the program is debated and winds its way through the legislative process, we hear from a pan...
May 13, 2024•49 min
State lawmakers seek to define antisemitism. The legal fight over Voter ID returns to federal court. An investigation of mental health facilities finds allegations of abuse, patient over-medication, and a general lack of care. Plus, updates on private school vouchers, demonstrations in Chapel Hill, a notable group speaks out against new proposed water quality standards. And we've got another primary next week – did you know!? Join Jeff Tiberii and a panel of reporters for context and analysis of...
May 10, 2024•49 min
A research study tracks women's pathways to motherhood; family therapist Dr. Kristen Wynns offers advice for navigating difficult feelings about Mother's Day; a look at the life and career of Brevard, NC native Moms Mabley
May 09, 2024•49 min
From Texas, to New York City, to Chapel Hill, students protesting university and U.S. support of Israel during its ongoing military effort in Gaza are being arrested, suspended and threatened with expulsion. A conversation about the line between protected free speech, unwelcoming speech, and unacceptable disruption to campus life, and who gets to decide what is allowed. Guests: -Sarah Brown, News Editor for the Chronicle of Higher Education -Sarah Ludington, Clinical Professor of Law and Directo...
May 08, 2024•49 min
Doctors, researchers, and students at Duke University are developing an oral history archive to shed light on the stories of abortion patients and providers impacted by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision and North Carolina’s 12-week ban. In part one of this conversation, co-host Leoneda Inge talks with three doctors about why they're contributing to this audio archive, which captures reproductive health history, happening now. Then, Leoneda Inge is joined by two students who are also involv...
May 07, 2024•49 min
Part One: NASA Astronaut Christina Koch We're lifting off today with Astronaut Christina Koch. She grew up here, graduated from the North Carolina School of Science and Math, then NC State, and today works for NASA. Koch has spent more than 300 days at the International Space Station and is readying for a lunar mission. Christina Koch talks training, outer space food, and common questions she gets. Christina Koch , NASA Astronaut Part Two: Digging into the Mysteries of the Universe with NC Astro...
May 06, 2024•49 min
Co-host Jeff Tiberii checks in with a roundtable of reporters on college protests at UNC Chapel Hill; law enforcement tragedy in Charlotte and updates on primary elections and school vouchers.
May 03, 2024•49 min
The podcast Scene on Radio recently launched its sixth season, “Echoes of a Coup,” right on the heels of the anniversary of the Jan 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which many call an "attempted coup." The podcast explores the history behind what is widely considered the only successful coup d’état in United States history. In Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898, white supremacists massacred Black people (some estimates put the death toll in the hundreds) and seized power with a violent overth...
May 02, 2024•36 min
As college students wrap up their classes for the semester, pro-Palestinian demonstrations have sprung up on campuses across the country, dominating headlines and the public discourse. In Chapel Hill, 36 protesters at UNC were detained when they refused to leave a tent encampment on school grounds. Confrontations intensified Tuesday when demonstrators pulled down an American flag from a campus flagpole, replacing it with a Palestinian flag. Two Daily Tar Heel editors, Liv Reilly and Lauren Rhode...
May 01, 2024•36 min
Children of immigrants are often asked to interpret for their parents, a task that can get particularly complicated in health care settings. For members of North Carolina’s Hmong community, there may be additional complications. As WUNC’s Eli Chen and WFAE’s Layna Hong write in their recent report about aging Hmong immigrants seeking health care in North Carolina, “[m]any English terms don’t exist in Hmong, such as diabetes and cancer.” Eli and Layna join co-host Jeff Tiberii to talk about the s...
Apr 30, 2024•36 min
Politicians, parents and pundits have lots of opinions about how to solve mental health problems affecting nearly every campus. In this conversation, students themselves share their perspective of what they and their classmates are facing. These students work at the nine college newspapers in North Carolina partnered together to create The Mental Health Collaborative, a series of stories about campus mental health. Guests Emmy Martin , Editor-in-Chief The Daily Tar Heel , leader of "The Mental H...
Apr 29, 2024•49 min
On the North Carolina News Roundup… The state has a $1 billion surplus, and the governor wants more in the way of raises for teachers and state employees and less for private school vouchers. With the Republican-led legislature gaveling in this week, do the Democratic Governor Cooper's requests have much of a chance? Meanwhile, the state treasurer continues to pressure drug makers for better prices on obesity medication. And the Carolina Hurricanes are back in the playoffs. Spring hockey in the ...
Apr 26, 2024•36 min
In her first standup tour in six years, Kathy Griffin jokes about the hardest times in her life. She chats with co-host Leoneda Inge in advance of her Durham, NC tour stop on May 5. North Carolina State University professor Kelly Oten tells co-hosts Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii about the sights and sounds to expect as 13-year cicadas emerge in the Triangle area and beyond.
Apr 25, 2024•35 min
As warm weather emerges in North Carolina, so do the snakes. A reptile expert tells us how to observe — and enjoy — snakes from afar. Then, an emergency medicine doctor tells us what to do if you’re bitten by a venomous snake: first, stay calm, and second, seek medical care.
Apr 24, 2024•36 min
If your nose is getting stuffy, you’re not alone. About one-fourth of Americans have seasonal allergies. And mid-April is usually the height of spring allergy season for central North Carolina, and into the Triangle. Bekah Brunstetter has written for shows like Maid on Netflix and NBC’s This is Us. Most recently, she wrote for the Broadway musical adaptation of The Notebook. She discusses the debut of her Lysistrata adaptation, The Game, at Playmakers Repertory Theater in Chapel Hill. Guests Rob...
Apr 23, 2024•49 min
In honor of Earth Day 2024, co-host Leoneda Inge chats with Dr. Jack Kurki-Fox of NC State University about microplastics pollution; State Climatologist Dr. Kathie Dello to talk about climate change in NC; and Charles Welch of the Duke Lemur Center about lemur conservation.
Apr 22, 2024•49 min
On the North Carolina News Roundup… DEI and the BOG – a University of North Carolina Board of Governors committee votes to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at all 17 campuses. The head of the North Carolina State Board of Elections tells lawmakers that county boards need more help. And, big business in the Tar Heel state: updates on Amazon's facility in Johnston County, and VinFast's facility in Chatham County. Later in the hour, a conversation about why and how medical marijua...
Apr 19, 2024•49 min
Some Republican-led states have accepted federal funding for a program that will make getting food during the summer easier for children on free and reduced price lunch, others use it as political football. Families that qualify will receive $40 per month for the three summer months per child. It will be paid out in a lump sum through electronic benefits (EBT). Learn more about "SUN Bucks" or "Summer EBT" here: https://www.ncdhhs.gov/sunbucks And, Guests: - Katrina Shealy , Republican South Caro...
Apr 18, 2024•49 min
WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Colin Campbell joins Due South co-host Jeff Tiberii for a preview of the North Carolina General Assembly’s upcoming session. Hummingbird researcher Susan Campbell shares tips for spotting and attracting the smallest bird in North America. In a new "About Dad Time," writer Michael Venutolo-Mantovani shares his family's experience with pregnancy loss.
Apr 17, 2024•49 min
Nine years ago, three young Muslim Americans were murdered in Chapel Hill in a case that received national and international attention. What was first called a “parking dispute” by police and many media outlets was eventually shown to be what the victims’ families and countless others knew immediately – that the murders were motivated by hate. Filmmaker Tarek Albaba joins co-host Leoneda Inge to talk about his documentary about the murders, 36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime , and the fight fo...
Apr 16, 2024•49 min
2024 has ushered in a renaissance for Black country musicians in an industry that has historically overlooked them. Co-host Leoneda Inge chats with writer Alice Randall and musicians Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer.
Apr 15, 2024•49 min
Due South's panel of reporters from across the state on the biggest stories of this week: Falling in line behind violent rhetoric in the name of party unity, another quarter billion for some schools, and a state visit by the Prime Minister of Japan. Guests -Colin Campbell, Capitol Bureau Chief, WUN -Dawn Vaughan, Capitol Bureau Chief, The News & Observer -Danielle Battaglia, Capitol Hill Correspondent, The News & Observer/The Charlotte Observer/McClatchy -Steve Harrison, Political Report...
Apr 12, 2024•49 min
