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Celeste Headlee talks to historian Martha S. Jones about her North Carolina family roots and her new memoir, The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir.

Leoneda Inge talks to Jocelyn Robinson, founder and director of the HBCU Radio Preservation Project, about historically Black college and university broadcasting history and her team's initiative to archive and preserve it.

Jeff Tiberii sits down with WUNC K-12 education reporter Liz Schlemmer to discuss news updates across the state's school districts.

The destruction of local roads, bridges, and even a major interstate highway kept Asheville and surrounding towns mostly cut off from the rest of the world for days after Hurricane Helene.

Funding from the federal government is often tied to metrics. The US Department of Transportation says it may give preference to, “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.”

Hurricane Helene hit areas north of Asheville particularly hard. That’s where flooding from the North Toe River devastated Spruce Pine, a town of about 2,000 people.

Colloquially bird flu, or officially the H5N1 avian influenza, has been spreading among wild birds and poultry. While the public health risk remains low, there are some preventative measures you can take.

Wildfires burn across the state, some Republicans call for a major teacher-pay increase, a Triangle Democrat boycotts the President’s address to Congress.

When we’ve experienced wrongs and trauma at the hands of the people and institutions that once supported us, how do we forgive — and heal?

NC A&T professor Leah Barlow made a TikTok for the 35 students in her Intro to African American Studies class. It ended up reaching millions and inspired an online network of Black educators providing free lectures called “HillmanTok.”