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Sustaining the BLM Movement in Small Town Beaufort, NC
Shoresides - July 21, 2020 21:00 - 7 minutesSheresa Elliot, 31, of Beaufort, NC speaks about how continuing to organize for Black Lives Matter in a small, southern town looks and feels now. Elliot had never worked on social justice issues before she organized nearly 500 people for Black Lives Matter protests within her town of about 4,000...
Wilmington's Lowercase Leaders
Shoresides - June 26, 2020 21:00 - 3 minutesLily Nicole and her fellow protesters in Wilmington, North Carolina are getting organized. They started an activist group called the lowercase leaders, and they've got a permit to protest on the steps of city hall every day, from 8 in the morning to 9 at night, until June 6th of 2021. Nicole d...
Complacency, George Floyd, and a Transformation
Shoresides - June 23, 2020 21:00 - 5 minutes"I used to not want to offend people. As a pastor, I want to be compassionate. I want to understand both sides, but I've found myself in the past few weeks, just really specifically in a clear and concise way, say, this is why I think this is racist." As the director of Walking Tall Wilmington, ...
Complacency, George Floyd, and a Transformation
Shoresides - June 23, 2020 21:00 - 5 minutes"I used to not want to offend people. As a pastor, I want to be compassionate. I want to understand both sides, but I've found myself in the past few weeks, just really specifically in a clear and concise way, say, this is why I think this is racist." As the director of Walking Tall Wilmington, ...
Young Activist Speaks Up About Racism and Social Justice Issues
Speak Your Piece - June 19, 2020 23:00 - 4 minutesShecoria Smith, 15, reads an essay she composed about her journey to becoming a young activist. She discusses recent events in the U.S. and her community in coastal North Carolina. Smith talks about what protest means to her, and what she's doing to contribute to positive future change. Narrate...
Columbus County: A Series of Disasters
Shoresides - June 12, 2020 00:00 - 4 minutesIn the last 10 years, disasters like Matthew, Florence, and now COVID-19 have changed the fabric of Columbus County, North Carolina and its community. Wallyce Todd and Gerry Lenahan work at Community CPR, a nonprofit focused on disaster relief in the city of Whiteville - its county's seat. The...
Columbus County: A Series of Disasters
Shoresides - June 12, 2020 00:00 - 4 minutesIn the last 10 years, disasters like Matthew, Florence, and now COVID-19 have changed the fabric of Columbus County, North Carolina and its community. Wallyce Todd and Gerry Lenahan work at Community CPR, a nonprofit focused on disaster relief in the city of Whiteville - its county's seat. The...
Medicaid: In Crisis and Beyond
Speak Your Piece - May 13, 2020 19:00 - 6 minutesJeff Mills, volunteer and Medicaid Ambassador with the North Carolina AIDS Action Network (NCAAN), reads an essay he composed with Lee Storrow, the Director NCAAN. Mills and Storrow note the positive changes to restrictions and limitations on Medicaid programs during COVID-19. They call on polic...
PSA: Free COVID-19 Testing
Shoresides - May 12, 2020 14:00 - 39 secondsThis is an important message from the New Hanover Disaster Coalition: There is free testing for COVID-19 in New Hanover County. All you have to do is call 910-798-6800 to talk with a nurse to setup an appointment. That is 910-798-6800 to set up a free COVID-19 test in New Hanover County. S...
The House, It Couldn't Breathe
Shoresides - May 06, 2020 19:00 - 4 minutesIt’s been nearly two years since Hurricane Florence flooded the Maple Hill neighborhood in Pender County, NC. But Arlisha Hill's home is still far from repaired. Hill was ready to resume life as normal. She moved back into her partially repaired home this March – thinking construction would cont...
The House That Couldn't Breathe
Shoresides - May 06, 2020 19:00 - 4 minutesIt’s been nearly two years since Hurricane Florence flooded the Maple Hill neighborhood in Pender County, NC. But Arlisha Hill's home is still far from repaired. Hill was ready to resume life as normal. She moved back into her partially repaired home this March – thinking construction would cont...
White Stocking Resident Still Out of Home: Hurricane then COVID-19
Shoresides - May 06, 2020 19:00 - 4 minutesJacqueline Hand has been repairing her home in from Hurricane Florence since September 2018. During those two years she has stayed with family, gone through the FEMA trailer program and then bought a travel trailer of her own – all while her home was still being repaired. Now, because of Covid-1...
Student Speaks on Reimagining Schools during Remote Learning
Speak Your Piece - May 06, 2020 15:00 - 5 minutes"Schools here have a lot of togetherness." Jaileea Knight is an eighth grader in Tarboro, NC. The small town is home to a large reimagining public schools effort. From her perspective as a student leader, Knight speaks to school redesign momentum during remote learning – tackling interactivity a...
Kelly & How Food Insecurity is Changing
Shoresides - May 01, 2020 19:00 - 4 minutesKelly Spivey speaks about how she has seen the food insecurity conversation change during COVID-19. Kelly's Community Pantry started to take the shame out of asking for help with groceries. The pantry is a public, unmanned neighborhood food cupboard providing free canned and boxed items. Now Sp...
Recovering Together: Rebuilding after Hurricane Florence
Speak Your Piece - April 23, 2020 03:00 - 4 minutesJonny Morales, 18, talks about what it was like returning to his hometown - Wilmington, North Carolina - after Hurricane Florence. And how he, his family, and his neighbors rebuilt the remains of their community together. Broadcast from the Working Narratives studio, Speak Your Piece brings yo...
What Divided Us Brought Us Together
Speak Your Piece - April 23, 2020 03:00 - 3 minutesJulia Narvaez didn't feel tied to her hometown, Wilmington, North Carolina. Instead, she felt disdain for the social and economic inequities in her community. But when Hurricane Florence hit, her feelings for the town changed. Broadcast from the Working Narratives studio, Speak Your Piece brin...
Asthmatic High School Student Discusses COVID-19 & Hurricanes
Speak Your Piece - April 23, 2020 03:00 - 4 minutesMorales knows the hospitals in his communities all too well - from Emergency Room visits for the asthma attacks he's had as long as he can remember to serving as a volunteer in his high school years. Now with the coronavirus outbreak, he's anxious that his local healthcare system will be overwhe...
COVID-19, Ebola, and Racism
Speak Your Piece - April 23, 2020 03:00 - 2 minutesAmari Poindexter, 17, says the indifferent attitudes and racism of people during the coronavirus in coastal North Carolina remind her of how her peers responded to the Ebola outbreak when she was in middle school. Broadcast from the Working Narratives studio, Speak Your Piece brings you the op...
Not Quite Through the Storm
Speak Your Piece - April 23, 2020 03:00 - 3 minutesShecoria Smith was hunkered down with her mother as the wind and rain pounded her city when a call came making her realize that tragedy from the hurricane had hit close to home. Her friend’s mother and sibling were killed by a tree falling on their house. In this essay, Shecoria shares his pers...
COVID-19 & Beach Town Economies
Shoresides - April 22, 2020 00:00 - 3 minutesThe mayor of Atlantic Beach, Trace Cooper, is preparing for a summer unlike he’s ever seen before. Cooper speaks to how the pandemic could disrupt – or boost – his small beach town's tourism economy. Cooper describes COVID-19 as a "one-two punch" for a coastal town still recovering from Hurrican...
Grocery Store Clerk Discusses Progression of COVID-19
Shoresides - April 20, 2020 20:00 - 2 minutesChris Lamoreaux is a grocery store cashier in Morehead City, NC. Lamoreaux lives with his mother, who has an autoimmune disease. After work, Lamoreaux now self-quarantines in his bedroom. The national PPE shortage means that no gloves are available to Lamoreaux for handling customer cash at his ...
Grocery Store Clerk Discusses Progression of Covid-19
Shoresides - April 20, 2020 20:00 - 2 minutesChris Lamoreaux is a grocery store cashier in Morehead City, NC. Lamoreaux lives with his mother, who has an autoimmune disease. After work, Lamoreaux now self-quarantines in his bedroom. The national PPE shortage means that no gloves are available to Lamoreaux for handling customer cash at his ...
Fast Food COVID-19 Special
Shoresides - April 20, 2020 17:00 - 4 minutesA fast food manager in coastal North Carolina discusses how her team has put their health and safety at risk during the coronavirus pandemic - to serve milkshakes and french fries. She says her team feels unsafe and scared, and their concerns aren't being taken seriously. Broadcast from the Wo...
HIV & COVID-19
Shoresides - April 10, 2020 13:00 - 3 minutesJeff Mills, 72, talks about how the coronavirus pandemic compares with the HIV/AIDS outbreak in the 1980's and his life experiences as an activist. Mills has lived in Wilmington, North Carolina with his partner since 2013. Before moving to the southeastern U.S., Mills spent over fourty years in ...
Hair Salon Owner Discusses COVID-19
Shoresides - April 09, 2020 00:00 - 2 minutesLe'Shawna Brunson-Smith says the stimulus bill won't be much of a help making up for the incoming she's losing during the coronavirus. Brunson-Smith is the owner of Ladies Hair Design on Castle Street in Wilmington, North Carolina. Since Governor Cooper ordered the shut-down of hair salons, sh...
Instacart: Lifeline for Neighbors
Shoresides - March 29, 2020 21:00 - 2 minutesRebecca is normally a grade school teacher second, but with schools closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, she's delivering groceries for Instacart. Broadcast from the Working Narratives studio, this series compiles community stories about COVID-19 from coastal North Carolina. Support the S...
COVID-19 & Hurricane Recovery in African American Neighborhoods
Shoresides - March 29, 2020 20:00 - 3 minutesDiana Tootle, 58, lives in Morehead City, North Carolina. Tootle speaks to the intersection between Hurricane Florence and COVID-19 in her historically African American coastal community. Broadcast from the Working Narratives studio, this series compiles community stories about COVID-19 from c...
COVID-19 & Gaps in School Food Distribution
Shoresides - March 29, 2020 20:00 - 4 minutesMichael Turner, 42, is a math teacher at West Carteret High School in Morehead City, North Carolina - a rural, coastal town of 9,000 people. He runs the food pantry which supplements free & reduced lunch with take-home groceries. Now his job is to find and fulfill the gaps or 'soft spots’ in sc...
Hurricanes & COVID-19 Affect Seafood
Shoresides - March 29, 2020 18:00 - 3 minutesMelvin Dunn, 41, is a shrimper in Beaufort, North Carolina. Dunn lost a shrimp season with Hurricane Dorian last September and now faces further impacts from COVID-19 on the seafood industry. Dunn is from the South River – a predominantly black coastal community in Beaufort, NC. With increasingl...
Veteran living in quarantine
Shoresides - March 29, 2020 18:00 - 2 minutesJames (Jim) Wall is 75 and currently in quarantine with his step-grandchildren. Wall is a retired attorney and disabled veteran who lives in Wilmington, North Carolina. He suffers from a heart condition and diabetes, and needless to say - he's part of the population most vulnerable to coronaviru...
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