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The forum hosted by WHQR, WECT, and Port City Daily, featured the four candidates running for two seats: Salette Andrews, Judy Justice, Dr. LaShonda Wallace, and Rob Zapple.

From a Poet’s Point of View — it's from Speak Ya Peace NC, a poetry collective and platform that facilitates art and conversations about issues stemming from racism and other forms of oppression and discrimination. Today’s show looks at the lived conditions of being Black in America, and celebrates Mama Makeda Baker's new book.

WHQR's Ben Schachtman and Rachel Keith dig into our recent candidates forum for the New Hanover County school board. Five Republicans and six Democrats are running for four seats in each party.

Rhonda's guests are Beth Ann Bryant-Richards, who wrote and stars in the one-woman show "True Confessions of a Failed Debutante" running through March 8 in the Stein Studio Theater at Thalian Hall. Director Jen Ingulli also joins us.

Rhonda's guests are the cast members of "To Kill a Mockingbird" being staged by Opera House Theatre Company through March 1.

From a Poet’s Point of View — it's from Speak Ya Peace NC, a poetry collective and platform that facilitates art and conversations about issues stemming from racism and other forms of oppression and discrimination. Today’s show looks at the resurgence of Wilmington's Encore Magazine and taps into the Carolina Gold grains, an important part of Gullah Geeche culture.

In this limited-series podcast, freelance journalist and broadcaster Logan Kennedy sits down with the people on the ground in schools and classrooms, who know firsthand what is happening in public education. The program aims to add context to the constant noise out of Raleigh and Washington, and hear firsthand from the teachers, school board members, advocates, and students in our local schools.

The forum hosted by WHQR, WECT, and Port City Daily, featured the four candidates running for two seats: Salette Andrews, Judy Justice, Dr. LaShonda Wallace, and Rob Zapple.

Rhonda's guest is Nancy King, artistic director of Opera Wilmington, who talks about the annual Caterina Jarboro Recital on Feb. 13, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. in UNCW's Beckwith Recital Hall featuring lyric coloratura soprano Diana Thompson-Brewer. Rhonda also previews Big Dawg Productions' "White Rabbit Red Rabbit" being staged Feb. 12-22 in the Stein Studio Theater at Thalian Hall.

On this edition of The Newsroom, we're speaking with Rebecca Trammel, a nonprofit founder, community organizer, and advocate for public education funding who aims to run as an unaffiliated candidate for North Carolina’s Senate District 7. We asked about her decision to run without major party support — and where she lands on some contentious state-level policies.