Podcasts

On this edition of the Carolina connection podcast, we hosted a virtual roundtable to discuss how college seniors are dealing with the effects of the coronavirus on their educational and professional lives.

Every day, first responders and healthcare workers put themselves at risk to help COVID-19 patients across the nation. On this edition of the Carolina Connection Podcast, reporter Josh Conner spoke with an Emergency Room nurse in Hendersonville about how the virus is affecting her professional and personal life.

On this week’s Carolina Connection Podcast, reporter Miranda DiPaolo joins in to discuss how the coronavirus has affected the lives of North Carolina’s homeless population and homeless shelters.

On this week’s Carolina Connection Podcast, we’re discussing how the coronavirus has effectively changed day to day life for students. We hosted a virtual roundtable for student reporters to tell their stories.

UNC has one the most storied basketball programs in the country. But recently, one student noticed one of the most important players was missing from that story.

In early February, the UNC Board of Trustees approved the creation of an Asian-American Center on campus. On this week’s Carolina Connection podcast, we discuss physical spaces for minority students on UNC’s campus. Brian Keyes joins us this week to talk about his visits to the Carolina Latinx Center, American Indian Center, and the Black Student Movement.

One of the fastest growing trends in religion mixes Christ with cattle. They’re called cowboy churches and according to one fellowship group, more than 200 are now operating around the United States. Annabeth Poe reported the story for Carolina Connection and joins us to talk about what she found at one church in Siler City that’s putting its unique brand on Christian worship.

It’s been 10 years since a magnitude-7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti. After the quake, many survivors took advantage of a program that allowed them to come to the United States to find work and rebuild their lives. More than 1,500 of those Haitian refugees settled in the eastern North Carolina town of Mount Olive, but now, the Trump administration may force them to leave.

The Daily Tar Heel has filed a legal complaint against UNC’s Board of Governors. The paper is claiming the board violated the N.C. Open Meetings Law when it approved a settlement with the Sons of Confederate Veterans. In the settlement, UNC agreed to give the Silent Sam Confederate Monument to the group along with $2.5 million in a trust for the statue’s preservation. In a separate agreement, the Board paid the group $74,999 in exchange for them agreeing to limit campus protests.

On this edition of the CarolinaCast, we discuss the health effects of exposure to mold. Jackson Lanier and Ben Rappaport hear from medical professionals and from a student who says she lived with mold in her dorm.