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The school board bows their heads in prayer during a hearing for the banning of 'Stamped' on August 10, 2023, in Wilmington, North Carolina. Photo by Allison Joyce
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Not long after Katie Gates, a parent of a former Ashley High School student, won her appeal to have the book Stamped effectively removed from the district’s high school curriculum, she put in a public records request asking for more information on the district’s teachers. At the same time, the Board of Education is moving forward with a policy to put additional scrutiny on what materials teachers use and what they say in the classroom.
CoastLine
  • In each episode of In The Wild Coastal Plain, we meet a plant or an animal endemic to the southeastern North Carolina biodiversity hotspot – so we can better understand our coastal plain ecosystem and who lives here with us.Today, we’re exploring Holly Shelter, a nature preserve and game land in Pender County that boasts tens of thousands of acres -- one of the last great pieces of connected natural area in southeastern North Carolina. That’s because humans are rapidly building all around it.
The Newsroom
  • On this episode, Kelly Kenoyer sits down with Wilmington Mayor Pro-Tem Margaret Haynes to talk about what's actually with the city's power to do — an important thing to know ahead of this year's municipal elections. Plus, Ben Schachtman talks to a 'blue' and a 'red' from Braver Angels, an organization dedicated to repairing the political divide in the United States.
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