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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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