Culture

The 8th annual Beats n Bars festival will be hosted at the American Tobacco Campus on Saturday, April 28 from 4 to 9 p.m. WUNC’s Kamaya Truitt sat down with event founder and curator, Crystal Taylor, to discuss the elements and impact of the festival.

In 2022, North Carolinians sought out entertainment close to home, pondered career moves, worked on their relationships, and considered adding new skills — like Braille and Cherokee language — to their personal toolkits.

For this summer’s Youth Reporting Institute, reporter Nassibah Bedreddine took a look at how intolerance has facilitated not only cultural assimilation but also cultural loss. She dug into her Algerian family’s history and documented how they are working to preserve their culture.

Was bluegrass born in a western North Carolina radio station in the late 1930s?

This summer, WUNC’s 2021 Youth Reporters turned on their mics and collected powerful stories from their communities. Kiana McKnight, from Greensboro, navigated through her community’s relationship with faith and mental health.

WUNC Youth Reporter Surafele Sintanyehu reports from Raleigh, capturing how two local artists are balancing their passion and maintaining their authenticity.

Revelations of sexual misconduct at the federal level have opened up inquiries into the culture in state houses around the country. At the North Carolina…

Revelations of sexual misconduct at the federal level have opened up inquiries into the culture in state houses around the country. At the North Carolina…

Harry Golden is no longer a household name in North Carolina, but at one point he was likely the most famous North Carolinian in the country. Golden was a…

Harry Golden is no longer a household name in North Carolina, but at one point he was likely the most famous North Carolinian in the country. Golden was a…