The Broadside
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Each week, The Broadside highlights a story from the heart of the American South and asks why it matters to you. From news to arts and culture, we dive into topics that might not be on a front page, but deserve a closer look. Along the way, we explore the nuances of our home—and how what happens here ripples across the country.Hosted by Anisa Khalifa, The Broadside is a production of North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC. Find it every Thursday wherever you listen to podcasts.
Each week, The Broadside highlights a story from the heart of the American South and asks why it matters to you. From news to arts and culture, we dive into topics that might not be on a front page, but deserve a closer look. Along the way, we explore the nuances of our home—and how what happens here ripples across the country.Hosted by Anisa Khalifa, The Broadside is a production of North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC. Find it every Thursday wherever you listen to podcasts.
Video games are fundamentally changing the real world of motorsports.
A rural community has endured living next to North Carolina's largest landfill for generations. But its residents are determined to keep fighting for a clean home.
Dollar stores can be convenient and even necessary, but some advocates warn their rapid spread is creating food deserts.
A decline in hunters and a deadly disease are threatening the foundation of our wildlife management system.
A deadly fungus is devastating worldwide banana crops. The cure may be growing in an office park in North Carolina.
A little more than 75 years ago, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball. But integration in the South took a slightly different path.
A decade ago, toxic coal ash poured into the Dan River. That was just the beginning of the story.
The Carolinas are the only two states that ban all government employees from unionizing.
Women's basketball has finally hit the mainstream. Why did it take so long?
Traditional tornado patterns in the US are moving and the South is directly in the path.
The South is the birthplace of all the big cola brands. But why?
One man’s fascinating and unusual legacy in a Southern town is challenging how we talk about the Civil Rights Movement.
The Charlotte Hornets lost 60 games in 1988, but they looked incredible while doing it. Their iconic uniforms would launch a global fashion trend.
As the energy grid expands, so does demand for power poles — and the trees we use to make them.
Can you put a place in a pint?
For decades, the epicenter of America’s Black middle class was in a midsize city in central North Carolina. Now that it's gone, what legacy does it leave?
Video games are fundamentally changing the real world of motorsports.
Explore Southern communities transformed by forces beyond their control.
Stanton, Tennessee is a microcosm of the powerful new economics at play in states throughout the American South.
The Wright Brothers aren’t the only icons of early aviation with ties to the South.
We hear a lot about toxic fandoms — but this episode of the award-winning podcast Embodied has a lot to share about the brighter side.
A young journalist tells us how she uncovered the history of her neighborhood and fought to preserve it for future generations.
We check in on a group of long Covid patients and doctors from the Carolinas to see how we’re adapting to the second silent pandemic.
When you turn on the faucet, you really don’t want to think twice about the quality of the water coming out. But that’s the reality for millions of people across the South.
North Carolina will spend $1.5 billion in opioid settlement funds. Its unique model could be a compelling test case for solving the opioid crisis across the country.
This Thanksgiving, we take a look at what's under your meal.
A once-promising process for returning looted Native American remains has slowed to a crawl. We ask what can be done to fix the problem.
For more than half a century, the citizens of Richmond, Kentucky lived in the shadow of something extraordinary and terrible: an arsenal of chemical weapons.
In 1988, two armed Native American men occupied a newspaper office in a North Carolina community. 35 years later, we look at the legacy of the takeover of The Robesonian.
Dollar stores can be convenient and even necessary, but some advocates warn their rapid spread is creating food deserts.
Influential, exploitative and ever-evolving, this week we look between the bars of Southern prison music.
Fifty years after the first movement for Asian American Studies, we explore why it's finally having its moment at universities across the South.
A basement in the mountains of North Carolina might hold the keys to the climate crisis. Meet the keepers of America’s weather data.
English speakers outside the South are embracing the word y’all. And the reasons may surprise you.
Weekly stories from the American South - and why they matter to you.