Throughout the South, state legislatures are adopting and expanding school voucher programs designed to allow parents to use public funds to pay for private school tuition. But this modern day push for school choice is connected to a dark past that recalls America’s long and sometimes forgotten history of resisting integration in the classroom.

Featuring:

• Jennifer Berry Hawes, reporter with ProPublica
• Crystal Sanders, author of “A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs”

Links:

• Read Jennifer Berry Hawes reporting on segregation academies and school vouchers here.
• You can find a transcript of this episode here.

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In 2018, the US Supreme Court ruled that states could legalize sports gambling. Since then, 38 states have taken the plunge, including our home state of North Carolina. The payoff has been lucrative. But it also has a human toll.

Featuring:

• Jason deBruyn, Supervising Editor for Digital News at WUNC
• Jason Quick, Senior Writer at The Athletic

Links:

• Check out Jason Quick's incredible reporting about gambling addiction.
• You can find a transcript of this episode here.

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On a chilly evening in 1961, a B-52 crashed in rural eastern North Carolina near the town of Goldsboro. Any plane crash is bad, but this one was particularly dangerous because onboard that bomber were two nuclear weapons. The event was perhaps the closest the United States has ever come to accidentally detonating a nuclear bomb—and kicking off a nuclear war.

Featuring:

• Jay Price, Military and Veterans Affairs reporter at WUNC and The American Homefront Project
• Stephen Schwartz, independent nuclear weapons expert and author of “Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940”

Links:

• Read Jay's article from 2018 marking the 50th anniversary of the Goldsboro nuclear accident.
• View photos of the Mars Bluff Crater left behind by the nuclear accident in Florence, South Carolina.

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