Durham County Library welcomes its fifth annual Library Fest during National Library Week, April 6-12. Leoneda Inge sits down with Sara Stephens, Library Development Officer, to learn more about the festival. Zelda Lockhart. Lockhart is one of the week’s keynote speakers and will be delivering a talk on how to write multigenerational stories. The nonprofit organization, NC Catch, the Black seafood community and researchers have teamed up for a new project called “Recognizing African American Par...
Mar 31, 2025•50 min
Wildfires in the western reaches of our state, a new North Carolina "bathroom bill," a leading state lawmaker steps down, updates on two state immigration bills, and the Duke men's basketball team advances to the Elite Eight. Due South's Jeff Tiberii is joined by a panel of journalists to talk about all that and more on the North Carolina News Roundup.
Mar 28, 2025•51 min
Western North Carolina continues to await state and federal funding six months after Helene Six months after Helene, Gov. Josh Stein has signed into a law a bill that will provide more than a half-million dollars in relief funding. The funding approval comes as a new disaster is further ravaging the region, as Henderson and Polk counties continue to fight wildfires. Gerard Albert III , Western North Carolina Rural Communities Reporter, Blue Ridge Public Radio WNC tourism, arts, and restaurant ch...
Mar 27, 2025•50 min
Celeste Gracia, Environment Reporter at WUNC, takes a look at Brunswick County's PFAS problem. Walt Wolfram, William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor of English at North Carolina State University and the director of the North Carolina Language and Life Project, analyzes the Southern accents on Season 3 of The White Lotus. Linda Johnson Dougherty, chief curator and curator of contemporary art at the North Carolina Museum of Art and Maya Brooks, associate curator of contemporary art at...
Mar 26, 2025•50 min
There are approximately 300,000 people living in North Carolina without legal status. And they are not the only North Carolinians grappling with the Trump administration’s deportation promises. Mixed status families, people who had their legal status revoked through recent changes made by the Trump administration, and even people who hold visas and green cards, may be facing anxiety, tumult, and fear. Due South’s Jeff Tiberii talks with Manolo Betancur, a Charlotte bakery owner and community act...
Mar 25, 2025•50 min
North Carolina food banks brace for funding cuts Local schools, food banks, and farmers in North Carolina are expected to be impacted by the Trump administration’s cuts to federal programs through the USDA. These programs allow schools and food banks to buy fresh produce and meat from NC farmers. We’ll talk with the head of one of the state’s largest food banks about the potential impact. Amy Beros , President & CEO of the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina Due South sits down...
Mar 24, 2025•50 min
On this week’s North Carolina News Roundup... the North Carolina Senate passes a $500 million Helene relief bill. Gov. Josh Stein unveils his budget proposal. And more than 200 justices, judges and attorneys called for Jefferson Griffin to end his election lawsuit. Co-host Jeff Tiberii talks with a panel of journalists about those stories and more, on Due South. Guests: Bryan Anderson , reporter, Anderson Alerts newsletter; Colin Campbell , WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief; Liz Schlemmer , WUNC K-12 Ed...
Mar 21, 2025•50 min
A seasonal allergy forecast as pollen rains down on NC It’s springtime in North Carolina – flowers are growing, trees are blooming, and people are sneezing. The notorious yellow-green particles of pollen are dusting cars, roads and surfaces everywhere. Robert Bardon, a professor of forestry and environmental resources at NC State, joins Jeff Tiberii to discuss pollen trends, impacts and severity. Robert Bardon , Associate Dean for Extension, College of Natural Resources, North Carolina State Uni...
Mar 20, 2025•50 min
It's been almost six months since Tropical Storm Helene caused catastrophic flooding and damage in the city of Asheville. In Due South's latest edition of " Meet the Mayors ," Leoneda Inge talks to Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer about the logistical and political complexities of leading her city during a time of recovery and rebuilding. Then, Due South's Jeff Tiberii talks to a Warren County hemp farmer and a North Carolina State University researcher about the challenges and opportunities in ...
Mar 19, 2025•50 min
Secret buildings. Loud electronic hums. You might be closer to a data center than you think. We get the scoop on the energy-needy facilities that make your smartphone go. And, a zoomed-in look at private school vouchers in North Carolina focusing on one county. New Hanover County. Plus, the fight over fluoride in NC. Guests Brian Gordon , Business & Technology reporter for The News & Observer Rachel Keith , Education reporter for WHQR in Wilmington...
Mar 18, 2025•50 min
Realtor John Wood talks housing prices across the Triangle. Axios reporters Zachery Eanes and Brianna Crane talk with Due South's Jeff Tiberii about "co-buying" and "co-living." USModernist founder and CEO George Smart weighs in on generational changes in attitudes toward modernist homes.
Mar 17, 2025•50 min
On this week’s North Carolina News Roundup... Governor Josh Stein’s State of the State address and the Speaker Destin Hall’s Republican response, the NC Senate votes to ban DEI in public schools, how USDA grant freezes impact a Warren County farmer, and an ACC men's basketball tournament update from Charlotte. All that and more, on Due South's North Carolina Friday News Roundup with co-host Jeff Tiberii.
Mar 14, 2025•50 min
Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management professor Lincoln Larson joins Leoneda Inge to explain how budget cuts and layoffs can impact spring and summer travel, tourism dollars, and protected ecosystems. Rev. Jonathan “Jay” Augustine of Pastor of St. Joseph African Methodist Episcopal Church in Durham discusses his participation in a 40-day fast from shopping at Target, following DEI policy rollbacks. Emila Sutton , director of Housing and Neighborhoods for the City of Raleigh, discusses a fir...
Mar 13, 2025•50 min
Doctor Mandy Cohen became a household name in North Carolina after the virus spread to the state. She led the State Department of Health and Human Services from 2017-2021, and went on to become the CDC Director under President Biden. Plus, now in its fourth edition, the Carrboro Django Reinhardt Festival honors the musician's influence and the genre of Jazz Manouche, also known as "Gypsy Jazz" he created with performances, and workshops at Cat’s Cradle later this month. Guests Dr. Mandy Cohen, f...
Mar 12, 2025•50 min
From university funding to DEI to deportation policy to Medicaid, a panel of WUNC reporters looks at how Trump 2.0 affects North Carolina and the people who call our state home. Guests Brianna Atkinson , Higher Education Reporter, WUNC Colin Campbell, Capitol Bureau Chief, WUNC Jay Price, Military Reporter, WUNC Aaron Sánchez-Guerra, Race, Class & Communities Reporter, WUNC Liz Schlemmer, Education Reporter, WUNC Jason deBruyn, Supervising Editor for Digital News, WUNC...
Mar 11, 2025•50 min
Edenton’s Confederate monument still stands, two years after a vote to take it down A deal to move a Confederate monument in front of the Edenton Town Council fell through. What’s next for the statue, and the lawsuits over its position. Mechelle Hankerson , News Director at WHRO Public Media In “Confederates,” Black women in two eras face the same challenges Playmakers Repertory Company is staging a new production of Dominique Morrisseau’s satirical drama, Confederates . Leoneda Inge sits down w...
Mar 10, 2025•50 min
On this week’s NC News Roundup... From the mountains to the sea wildfires are burning across the state. Western North Carolina was hit, even as they continue cleaning up after Helene. We check in with a reporter at Blue Ridge Public Radio. We also get updates from the General Assembly where policy proposals include raising teacher pay, eliminating non-competes, investing in cryptocurrency, and further stifling DEI. All that, and just why did a North Carolina student end up as President Trump’s g...
Mar 07, 2025•51 min
Colloquially “bird flu,” or officially the H5N1 avian influenza, has been spreading among wild birds and poultry. While the public health risk remains low, there are some preventative measures you can take. How fertility and marriages rates could be used to determine federal funding for transportation projects. And, WUNC's 'Main Street NC' series checks on rebuilding efforts in Spruce Pine after Hurricane Helene. Guests Dr. Rocio Crespo , poultry veterinarian and researcher and a professor at th...
Mar 06, 2025•50 min
Jeff Tiberii talks to WUNC's K-12 education reporter Liz Schlemmer about the state's school districts and their concerns over potential budget cuts and low enrollment numbers. Celeste Headlee talks to award-winning historian Martha S. Jones about her North Carolina roots and her new memoir, The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir. Leoneda Inge returns with a new HBCU 101, focused on HBCU radio history and archiving with Jocelyn Robinson of the HBCU Radio Preservation Project.
Mar 05, 2025•50 min
Postpartum health requires support for the body and for the mind, but so many in this country go without either. We talk with the founders of a new full-service, overnight postpartum retreat in Charlotte. Plus, a nurse midwife, and a poet, talk about the challenges of the postpartum period… and some solutions for getting crucial help. Selena Williams and Lauren Hall , founders, Ziva Postpartum Retreat Karen Sheffield-Abdullah , certified nurse-midwife, mindfulness instructor, and Assistant Profe...
Mar 04, 2025•50 min
The destruction of local roads, bridges, and even a major interstate kept Asheville and surrounding towns mostly cut off from the rest of the world for days after Hurricane Helene. The reopening of I-40 between Asheville and Tennessee is a milestone in the rebuilding effort. How to build a road made to last, from WUNC's podcast The Broadside . And, four families navigate housing after Hurricane Helene in the Blue Ridge Public Radio series "Living in Limbo." Guests Richard Stradling , Transportat...
Mar 03, 2025•50 min
Jeff Tiberii chats talks to a roundtable of reporters about the week's news, including possible cuts to Medicaid and a legislative bill to limit cell phone use in public schools. Guests: Bryan Anderson , reporter, Anderson Alerts newsletter; Gary Robertson , North Carolina politics reporter, Associated Press; Lynn Bonner , investigative reporter, NC Newsline; Danielle Battaglia , Washington Correspondent, News & Observer/Charlotte Observer; Jay Price , military reporter, WUNC...
Feb 28, 2025•51 min
What Apple’s investment in the U.S. means for NC Apple’s plans for a campus in Research Triangle Park are on hold. But the company just announced projects in other major U.S. cities. Lauren Ohnesorge , Senior reporter and editor at the Triangle Business Journal Southern News, Southern Politics: How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century The Raleigh News and Observer has a complicated and consequential history in North Carolina. The story of the N&O – or the “Nuisance & Disturber” as s...
Feb 27, 2025•50 min
The 'Legacies of Lynching' inaugural gathering will convene this weekend in Chapel Hill. Historian Blair LM Kelley and Bettie Murchison, co-chair of the Wake County Community Remembrance Coalition, join Leoneda Inge to dig deep into that legacy — for descendants, for communities, and for our collective understanding of our state's history. Poet and spoken word performer Nick Courmon also joins the conversation to share the story of his cousin Percy Berry. Berry was lynched in Craven County in 19...
Feb 26, 2025•50 min
Leoneda Inge chats with Kris Nordstrom, senior policy analyst for the North Carolina Justice Center's Education & Law Project. Celeste Headlee speaks with Hannah McClellan, senior reporter for Education NC. CIAA Commissioner Jacqie McWilliams-Parker chats with Leoneda Inge.
Feb 25, 2025•50 min
The Chronicle of Higher Education is tracking changes to DEI policies at universities in real time with its " DEI Impact Tracker " and a " DEI Legislation Tracker ." We meet a woman who proudly performs her DEI work with a twist. And Reveal’s series "40 Acres and a Lie" uncovers the government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles, only to take the land back. Reveal was recently given a DuPont-Columbia Award for this series. Guests Daarel Burnette II , Senior Editor at The Chron...
Feb 24, 2025•50 min
This week on the North Carolina News Roundup: Protestors took to Raleigh to voice opposition to President Trump’s executive orders and to efforts to challenge 60,000 ballots in North Carolina's still unsettled State Supreme Court race. An update on Helene recovery efforts, almost five months after the storm ravaged western North Carolina. And, how the state budget surplus, tax cuts, and concerns over dropping off the fiscal cliff are all connected. We’ll get to those stories and more with a pane...
Feb 21, 2025•50 min
NC army base renamed for a new Bragg, but echoes of old Fort Bragg linger The army base near Fayetteville, N.C. formerly known as Fort Liberty is now Fort Bragg — again. The U.S.’s largest military base is no longer named for slaveowner and Confederate General Braxton Bragg, but rather a different Bragg — Private Roland L. Bragg of Maine who served in WWII. Jay Price, military reporter for WUNC, joins Due South guest host Celeste Headlee to explain the history of these name changes and the strat...
Feb 20, 2025•50 min
Leoneda Inge talks to Jonathan Harward of Josefs Pharmacy about how tariffs may impact medication prices. Celeste Headlee chats with NC State associate professor Andrew Greenland about the history of tariffs and their potential impact on the state. Maggie Robe of Flyleaf Books looks ahead at some of the most anticipated book releases of Winter/Spring 2025.
Feb 19, 2025•50 min
Why North Carolina’s State Supreme Court election is the last race still not decided from the 2024 election. And, we hear from some of the more than 60,000 voters affected by ballot challenges. Including a woman whose Mother died a few days after voting. Plus, Doug Bock Clark, a reporter for ProPublica’s South hub, shares the national legal and electoral implications from this challenge. Guests Rusty Jacobs , WUNC's Voting and Election Integrity Reporter Jen Baddour , is a voter whose ballot has...
Feb 18, 2025•50 min
