Nicole Campbell

How Will The North Carolina Budget Impact The State?

Nicole Campbell and Frank Stasio — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:30:45 +0000

Host Frank Stasio will speak with North Carolina reporters and Senator Josh Stein about the budget and how it will impact the Triangle, Western and Coastal North Carolina. Jessica Jones is WUNC's Capitol Bureau Chief; Democratic Senator Josh Stein represents Wake County; Kirk Ross is a contributing reporter for Carolina Public Press and a policy adviser to the North Carolina Coastal Federation.

Moral Mondays: Modern Day Civil Disobedience In The State Capitol

Nicole Campbell and Frank Stasio — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:53:38 +0000

If you've gone to the legislature these past four Mondays, you likely encountered a group of demonstrators singing, chanting, holding hands and raising signs. And a lot of them are getting arrested. Since April 29th, 153 people have been arrested at what the NAACP and other organizers are calling "Moral Mondays."

A group of community members and scholars joined host Frank Stasio on WUNC's The State of Things to talk about the recent arrests, as well as the theory and history behind civil disobedience on a global scale.

Poet Explores How Childlike "Boyishness" Exists Where You'd Least Expect It

Nicole Campbell and Frank Stasio — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:07:04 +0000

Tanya Olson will tell you that being an eight-year-old child in the world allows you a lot of room to be whoever and whatever you want. You can be a whale, a man, a spaceship, and few will tell you otherwise. After that age though, the feeling doesn't necessarily go away. She explores that desire to transform in her first book of poems, "Boyishly" (YesYes Books, 2013). Tanya Olson is a poet and an English professor at Vance-Granville Community College.

Education Power Grab In Wake County

Nicole Campbell and Frank Stasio — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:52:31 +0000

County School Boards have long since been in charge of school construction. However, the Senate recently passed a bill that would hand over school construction to county commissioners in 10 North Carolina counties. Many people who oppose the bill argue that county commissioners may have experience building prisons but not schools. This is one bill out of many that have been progressing through the Senate recently.

Duke Professor Carries On Tradition Of Black Radical Poetry

Nicole Campbell and Frank Stasio — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:56:19 +0000

Fred Moten grew up in a home and in a time where revolution was not portrayed as a romantic dream for the future, but a vital necessity for survival. He was raised in Las Vegas in the late '60s and '70s by a family who understood the need for change.

The Complex Identities Of Some Of America's Most Famous Black Men

Nicole Campbell and Frank Stasio — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:56:21 +0000

Have you ever thought of Jay-Z having multiple personalities? There's Jay-Z, Sean Carter, Hova, and Jigga. And they're all wrapped up inside one black man. In Mark Anthony Neal's latest book "Looking For Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities," he explores the complex identities of figures like Jay-Z, Avery Brooks and Luther Vandross (NYU Press; 2013).

Bill To Repeal NC Renewables Program Makes A Slow Comeback

Nicole Campbell and Frank Stasio — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:57:42 +0000

The North Carolina Renewables Program, instated in 2007, requires utility companies to produce a percentage of sales from efficiency efforts or renewable sources. The program has since pushed North Carolina up in solar farm research and also created jobs during a recession. Efforts to repeal the program have recently been introduced to the House and Senate, claiming that the programs will have a negative impact on the economy.

Exhibit Explores Attention Through TINY Art

Nicole Campbell and Frank Stasio — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:07:18 +0000

Who says bigger is always better? It seems that the smallest things hold our world together. If you unscrewed the back of your watch, you would see a whole world of washers and gears and screws that held together your concept of time. The Carrack recently opened the exhibit "TINY: Attention, Exploded." The exhibit works to explore how we relate to the small.

Gov. Pat McCrory Revamps The NC Board Of Elections

Nicole Campbell and Frank Stasio — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:21:35 +0000

Last Friday, Gov. Pat McCrory appointed an entirely new staff to the North Carolina State Board of Elections. Earlier that week the board was set to begin an investigation into contributions to McCrory's campaign. A one-hundred percent turnover is unusual and leaves many speculating whether or not it has to do with this investigation.

John Frank is a political reporter for the News and Observer and joined Host Frank Stasio today to talk about the turnover.

Photographer Spends Forty Years Capturing Rural County

Nicole Campbell and Frank Stasio — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:16:44 +0000

Many photographers in this day and age seek to capture as many worlds as they can in their lifetime. Paul Kwilecki did all of this while staying in Decatur County, Georgia for over four decades.