Building rural power with Down Home North Carolina
In this week’s episode, we visited Down Home North Carolina, a non-profit organization that builds rural, multiracial and working-class...
Urbanist Andrés Otero on Carlessness in Wilmington, N.C.
Send a text “New Hanover County has one of the highest shares of households without vehicle access in North...
Who Gets to Define Rural Communities?
In our first episode, we ask: Who gets to shape the stories that define rural communities? Welcome to Rural...
Fixing Wilmington’s Pedestrian Safety Gap
Send a text Recently, the Wilmington StarNews and Cape Fear Collective dug into Wilmington, N.C.’s life-expectancy gap. It turns out...
The Real Vanessa Gonzalez: A Wilmington, N.C. Immigration Lawyer Found a Disturbing Profile on Facebook, Why Won’t Meta Help?
Send us a text In this episode, Shoresides talks with Vanessa Gonzalez about what it means when people looking...
North Carolina lawmakers go all in on partisan gerrymandering in state’s Black Belt
Send us a text North Carolina’s latest congressional map is part of Republicans’ efforts nationwide to gain more seats...
Explaining NC’s latest redistricting of Black Belt counties
Send us a text Ahead of the 2026 Election, North Carolina’s Republican lawmakers — at the request of President...
Inside the history of redistricting in North Carolina’s Black Belt
North Carolina’s Black Belt is a cluster of northeastern counties known for its rich soil and history. And now,...
