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WHQR's CoastLine Coastline is a call-in variety news hour. Every week, we'll look into issues that matter in the Cape Fear Region. Host Rachel Lewis Hilburn will interview expert guests and invite you to join the conversation. Tell us what topics you would like discussed on CoastLine. Email thoughts and suggestions to coastline@whqr.org.
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Coastline is a call-in variety news hour. Every week, we'll look into issues that matter in the Cape Fear Region. Host Rachel Lewis Hilburn will interview expert guests and invite you to join the conversation. Tell us what topics you would like discussed on CoastLine. Email thoughts and suggestions to coastline@whqr.org.

Most Recent Episodes

CoastLine: Comedians Cliff Cash and Nancy Witter on touring and finding the funny

Both Cliff Cash and Nancy Witter are professional comedians, have played to sold-out houses across these United States, and call the Cape Fear region home. On this episode they explore the craft of comedy and how it's evolved for them.

CoastLine: Comedians Cliff Cash and Nancy Witter on touring and finding the funny

In the Wild Coastal Plain with carnivorous plants

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.

In the Wild Coastal Plain with carnivorous plants

CoastLine: Soil scientist Britt Moore: Environmental Justice should guide culturally-respo...

Environmental justice can be complicated. The way studies are set up, the way the researchers communicate with the subjects of the study, and what the scientists do with the results – all those protocols are part of what Dr. Britt Moore calls "culturally-responsive science".

CoastLine: Soil scientist Britt Moore: Environmental Justice should guide culturally-respo...

CoastLine: Soil scientist Britt Moore: Environmental Justice should guide culturally-respo...

Environmental justice can be complicated. The way studies are set up, the way the researchers communicate with the subjects of the study, and what the scientists do with the results – all those protocols are part of what Dr. Britt Moore calls "culturally-responsive science".

CoastLine: Soil scientist Britt Moore: Environmental Justice should guide culturally-respo...

CoastLine: Racial healing activists of all races need to interrogate themselves first, say...

"A fundamental question that each of us must answer is: Who are the victims of racism? Upon careful investigation, it seems quite clear that the answer is 'everyone'." Dr. Catherine Meeks, Exec. Director, Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing

CoastLine: Racial healing activists of all races need to interrogate themselves first, say...

CoastLine: Black Barbie, the film, celebrates Black women, reveals deep cultural influence

Black Barbie, the documentary film by Lagueria Davis, explores the way the doll shapes culture, and ultimately the way people think about themselves. It's a close look at representation, starting with the filmmaker's aunt, Beulah Mae Mitchell, who was on the original Barbie manufacturing line with Mattel and played a key role in bringing Black Barbie to life.

CoastLine: Black Barbie, the film, celebrates Black women, reveals deep cultural influence

CoastLine: How retired Marine Grady Kurpasi landed in a Ukraine war zone and the long journey home

Kevin Maurer, an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author has written extensively about and inside war zones. When he heard of the mysterious disappearance of retired Marine and Wilmington resident Grady Kurpasi during a Russian ambush in Ukraine, he started investigating. That led to an article about the extraordinary life and death of Grady Kurpasi in Rolling Stone Magazine. Former Marine and close friend Don Turner also joins us to shed light on Grady's disappearance and the efforts to bring him home.

CoastLine: How retired Marine Grady Kurpasi landed in a Ukraine war zone and the long journey home

CoastLine: Sara Johnson Allen on writing her first novel and how place shapes us

Down Here We Come Up, which took more than fifteen years to write, started as an exploration of the jarring class differences between the northern and southern United States. But the novel Sara Johnson Allen actually completed, set just outside of Wilmington, NC, raises even deeper questions about what defines family and a home place, and whether ancestral ties are enough.

CoastLine: Sara Johnson Allen on writing her first novel and how place shapes us

In the Wild Coastal Plain of SE NC with the red-cockaded woodpecker and longleaf pine

As natural areas disappear, we're taking a closer look at what we're losing, species by species, in a new series called In The Wild Coastal Plain. In this second episode, we explore the intertwined fates of the red-cockaded woodpecker and longleaf pine.

In the Wild Coastal Plain of SE NC with the red-cockaded woodpecker and longleaf pine

CoastLine: In The Wild Coastal Plain with Andy Wood, the red-cockaded woodpecker, and longleaf pine

As natural areas disappear, we're taking a closer look at what we're losing, species by species, in a new CoastLine series called In The Wild Coastal Plain. On this edition of CoastLine, we explore why the intertwined fates of the red-cockaded woodpecker and longleaf pine are important harbingers of the area's fate.

CoastLine: In The Wild Coastal Plain with Andy Wood, the red-cockaded woodpecker, and longleaf pine

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