Anisa Khalifa
Podcast Producer and HostAnisa Khalifa is an award-winning podcast producer and host at WUNC. She grew up in a public radio household, and fell in love with podcasts shortly before her friends convinced her to start one with them about Korean dramas. Since joining WUNC in 2021, Anisa has produced Me and My Muslim Friends, CREEP, Tested and Dating While Gray, and is the host of WUNC's weekly podcast The Broadside.
Anisa is also the co-creator of indie podcasts Dramas Over Flowers and Muslim in Plain Sight. In her non-podcast life, she’s a culture writer, poet, visual artist and chronic insomniac, who is fascinated by the stories we tell about ourselves and each other.
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Twenty years ago, the old-time string band Carolina Chocolate Drops turned heads and wowed audiences. They were young. They were Black. And with their fiddles and banjos, they launched a movement that would challenge long-standing stereotypes about traditional music in America. Today we're sharing a special program called “Reclaiming the Banjo” from The Broadside. -
Major changes to Medicaid are on the horizon. For those trying to assess the early political and policy fallout, all eyes are on rural America. -
Arguably the most important mine in the world is located in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. And we don’t have a backup.
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Country music is very white. And that's not a coincidence.
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Jeff Tiberii talks to Zach Eanes about data centers in NC. The Broadside takes a look at crypto mining in Appalachia. NC State professor Barbara Doll discusses a plastic bottle tracking project in Marsh Creek. -
A Black folk revival is sweeping the country and challenging long-lasting stereotypes about traditional American music.
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College football has become a money-sucking machine, with schools spending every dollar possible to keep up in an athletics arms race.
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Every summer, a group of Jane Austen enthusiasts gather to celebrate her work… in an unexpected place.
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NC State ecologist Rob Dunn takes us on a journey, explaining why humans are dependent on our relationships with nature. His new book is The Call of the Honeyguide: What Science Tells Us about How to Live Well with the Rest of Life. Then, WUNC’s podcast The Broadside investigates the "Devil’s Tramping Ground" in Chatham County, NC. -
The country’s only state agency dedicated to investigating claims of wrongful convictions could soon come to an end.
