Latest Coastal nc Podcast Episodes
North Carolina Agency Warns Anglers About Poisoned Fish
Shoresides - May 25, 2024 14:00 - 25 minutesHosted by Rend Smith Featuring Melba Newsome, a veteran freelance journalist with more than 20 years of experience reporting on environmental news. Music by PenguinMusic – Better Day from Pixabay. In a recent article for Sierra Magazine titled "North Carolina Agency Warns Anglers About Poisone...
International teachers fill gaps amid teacher attrition
Shoresides - May 06, 2024 13:00 - 13 minutesHosted by Rend Smith Featuring Claudia M. Rivera Cotto of Enlace Latino NC Music by PenguinMusic – Better Day from Pixabay. Data on the 'State of the Teaching Profession' shows significant arrival of international teachers to the state during 2022-23 in the state of North Carolina. With teac...
North Carolina Shrimping: Facing an Existential Crisis
Shoresides - April 14, 2024 16:00 - 19 minutesHosted by Rend Smith Featuring Johanna F. Still of The Assembly Music by PenguinMusic – Better Day from Pixabay. For the coastal Carolina shrimping industry the challenges are mounting. The economics aren’t adding even when they bring home a good catch. Johanna F. Still, who covers the coa...
Shoresides Weekly News Round Up
Shoresides - October 09, 2023 16:00 - 4 minutesThis is the Shoresides Weekly News Roundup for October 9th, 2023. We look at the top stories impacting the coastal region. According to a recent story in the News & Observer the insurance company Nationwide has recently decided not to renew 10,000 insurance policies in Eastern North Carolina...
3 Chambers Festival coming to coastal region
Shoresides - September 14, 2023 16:00 - 57 minutesWe speak with documentary filmmaker Chris Everett about his upcoming 3 Chambers festival. A festival that digs into the intersection of Black culture, hip-hop, martial arts, and anime through by presenting artistic events. It takes place in Wilmington, North Carolina in October. Support the ...
Loneliness in New Hanover County North Carolina
Shoresides - August 08, 2023 22:00 - 9 minutesLoneliness is tough, and it has real consequences for our health and life span. The pandemic certainly didn’t help with social isolation and broken routines. We went out into New Hanover County, North Carolina to learn how people experience loneliness and what we can do about it. One thing we ...
A Day in the Life: Mayor Sharon Harker
Shoresides - July 12, 2022 21:00 - 26 minutes"Here we are in 2022 and we're still hearing those milestones being made. Yes, it is sad that you still have the firsts still being done. But what's rejoiceful is that it's coming..." Shoresides does a day in the life of a mayor. In this episode, we follow Beaufort, North Carolina Mayor Sharon H...
NC Must Provide More Culturally Relevant Practices
Speak Your Piece - May 18, 2022 17:00 - 3 minutes“It would be great if we could have funding to have mandatory training programs for teachers so that they could be really educated about what's going on. So they're not only a teacher who just teaches academics, but they also teach morals and how this world functions.” Vaishnavi Kode, 14, of Ape...
Fund School Counselors, Not School Resource Officers
Speak Your Piece - April 21, 2022 17:00 - 2 minutes“I should not be scared to come to school. Schools need to be a place of love.” Yakob Lemma, 17, of Raleigh, NC speaks about how SROs are harming students and why the state needs to invest in more constructive strategies. Support the Show.
'We All Need a Place to Live'
Shoresides - April 13, 2022 16:00 - 13 minutesIn Carteret County, North Carolina finding affordable housing is getting tougher. Forty percent of renters and twenty-two percent of households report that they are having a tough time with the rising cost of housing. In this episode, we dig into why there is so little affordable housing in the...
Inequitable Public School Funding Must End
Speak Your Piece - March 02, 2022 18:00 - 3 minutesSonia Green, 17, of Durham, North Carolina speaks about how equitable funding for public school capital and enrichment activities is critical for providing equal educational opportunity to all children. Support the Show.
NC Public Schools Need Culturally Relevant Curriculum and Teaching
Speak Your Piece - February 25, 2022 18:00 - 3 minutes“My dad wanted me to know that people like me, we weren't just slaves. We were also really successful mathematicians and astronomers and scientists.” Laura Norman, 16, of Cary, NC speaks about how the state’s public school curriculum does not adequately explore race relations, racial discriminat...
Wellness Check: Carteret County
Shoresides - January 27, 2022 16:00 - 26 minutesAs a mental health crisis surges nationwide, we examine how folks in the coastal North Carolina county of Carteret are affected. Three local therapists provide us with insights into handling the emotional challenges linked to the pandemic. Shoresides is a local news podcast by and for Carteret...
North Carolina Must Adequately Fund Rural Public Schools, Now
Speak Your Piece - January 15, 2022 18:00 - 1 minuteI want to be a journalist… There is no school newspaper or journalism class at my school.” Jaileea Knight, 15, of Tarboro, NC speaks about how North Carolina’s failure to allocate resources toward the specific needs of students in rural districts unfairly limits student potential. Support the ...
Black Leaders in Columbus County Work Toward Equity in COVID-19 Vaccinations
Shoresides - June 08, 2021 04:00 - 11 minutesToday, producer Brea Hampton takes us back to a COVID-19 vaccine drive that happened in Tabor City, Columbus County in March. She speaks with Ashlei McFadden, who's been aiding vaccination efforts - like the drive in Tabor City. McFadden says that vaccines intended for Tabor City's Black communi...
Andrew Brown & What's Happening in Elizabeth City, Now
Shoresides - April 28, 2021 19:00 - 18 minutesShoresides spoke with community organizer and Elizabeth City local Quentin Jackson about what is happening in Elizabeth City as the community responds to the police killing of Andrew Brown. Support the Show. www.shoresides.org
North Carolina Must Fund Improvements to Internet Access Before It’s Too Late
Speak Your Piece - February 07, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutesNorth Carolina student Francisco Ibarra speaks out. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced many public school children to be exclusively on-line learners, North Carolina is still failing to provide the infrastructure for improved internet service state-wide, preventing some stud...
Is It Enough?: Reflecting On 2020's Attempts At Cultural Remediation And The Gullah/Geechee Nation
Shoresides - December 22, 2020 20:00 - 7 minutesThough unaffiliated with Gullah/Geechee culture, a number of restaurants and food brands in Charleston, South Carolina used their name for decades. This year, several of these businesses finally underwent rebranding. In 2020, we've heard story after story on mainstream media outlets about busin...
Felony Voter Disenfranchisement
Speak Your Piece - November 09, 2020 21:00 - 6 minutes"We are all We The People. When you tell me that I can't participate in an election, you telling me I'm not a part of We The People...that makes me feel like you are still oppressing me, and you still seeing me as three-fifths of a human." Daquan Peters is the Second Chance Alliance Coordinator...
First Time Voters In Brunswick County
Shoresides - October 31, 2020 04:00 - 1 minuteThe Shoresides Team spoke with first time voters ages 30, 18, and 41 at the polls in Brunswick County, North Carolina about why they voted this election season. Here's what they had to say... Support the Show. www.shoresides.org
The Importance Of Latinx Voters
Speak Your Piece - October 29, 2020 01:00 - 7 minutes"We are contributors, tax payers. We are entrepreneurs. We are business owners. We have mixed families. We are American...To me, it is important that I define who I am and I say my story, because it took me 25 years to be a U.S. citizen." Victoria Velazco says political parties and policies at ...
Racial Equity & Election Priorities from Payal Shah
Speak Your Piece - October 27, 2020 22:00 - 4 minutesPayal Shah is a University of North Carolina student from Marshallberg, NC – a predominantly white and conservative town of 400 in Down East, North Carolina. As Shah heads to the voting booth for her first time this week, she thinks about Presidential rhetoric. And how it trickles down to affec...
Oysters & The Ballot Box
Speak Your Piece - October 27, 2020 21:00 - 5 minutesWhat does an oyster farmer think about when he heads into the voting booth? Kyle Frey, owner of Crystal Coast Oysters, speaks to how he'd like to see elected officials think about environment and jobs. Support the Show.
On Ocracoke, A Back Porch Op Ed
Speak Your Piece - October 27, 2020 21:00 - 5 minutesDaphne Bennick has been living on Ocracoke island for the past 35 years. And she's run Back Porch restaurant there for the past 21. Bennick she speaks to what she's looking for in this election as her island goes through a "double wammy" – Hurricane Dorian recovery, then COVID-19. Support the S...
¿Por qué es importante votar?
Shoresides - October 27, 2020 18:00 - 4 minutes"Nos hemos ganado ese derecho a ser votantes y que es un privilegio ejercerlo, y así como ha sido una responsabilidad, es un privilegio que vale la pena ejercer." Victoria Garcia Velazco es la fundadora de VIDA Familiar Latina Magazine y Vida Translations. Ella está estudiando para su maestrí...
Voting Information For People Who Are Currently And Formerly Incarcerated
Shoresides - October 26, 2020 17:00 - 6 minutesHave you been convicted of a felony or currently incarcerated and want to learn about your eligibility to vote in North Carolina? If you have been convicted of a felony or are currently incarcerated, you are eligible to register and vote under the following circumstances... ¿Has sido condenado...
Early Voting Information For Coastal North Carolina
Shoresides - October 26, 2020 16:00 - 2 minutesWant to vote early in coastal North Carolina? Here's how. ¿Quieres votar temprano en la costa de Carolina del Norte? Escucha este anuncio. Support the Show. www.shoresides.org
Schools as Hurricane Shelters during Covid-19
Shoresides - August 06, 2020 21:00 - 5 minutesAmanda White, high school Chemistry teacher and president of New Hanover Association of Educators, lets us in on educator efforts to ensure a safe start to the school year. She also discusses the worries teachers have with schools being used as shelters from Hurricane Isaias, with sick or sympto...
Schools as Hurricane Shelters during Covid-19
Shoresides - August 06, 2020 21:00 - 5 minutesAmanda White, high school Chemistry teacher and president of New Hanover Association of Educators, lets us in on educator efforts to ensure a safe start to the school year. She also discusses the worries teachers have with schools being used as shelters from Hurricane Isaias, with sick or sympto...
Sustaining the Movement for Black Lives in a Small, Southern Town
Shoresides - July 21, 2020 21:00 - 7 minutesSheresa Elliot, 31, of Beaufort, NC speaks about how her job as a therapist is informing her work as she continues to organize for Black Lives Matter in Beaufort, NC. Elliot had never worked on social justice issues before she organized nearly 500 people for Black Lives Matter protests within he...
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