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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A deadly fungus is devastating worldwide banana crops. The cure may be in an office park in North Carolina.
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A little more than 75 years ago, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball's major leagues. But integration in the South took a slightly different path.
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The Carolinas are the only two states that ban all government employees from unionizing.
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Women's basketball has finally hit the mainstream. Why did it take so long?
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One man’s fascinating and unusual legacy in a Southern town is challenging how we talk about the Civil Rights Movement.
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The Charlotte Hornets lost 60 games in 1988, but they looked incredible while doing it. Their iconic uniforms would launch a global fashion trend.
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As the energy grid expands, so does demand for power poles — and the big trees we use to make them.
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Video games are fundamentally changing the real world of motorsports.
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We explore Southern communities transformed by forces beyond their control.