Speak Your Piece
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Shoresides accepts opinion essays on a range of topics for our “Speak Your Piece” series which is published as text online or aired as audio as part of our podcast. We’re particularly interested in essays that share ideas or issues from the coastal region from perspectives not often heard in our traditional media. Written essays typically run from 400 to 1,200 words and audio essays from 3-4 minutes, but drafts of any length will be considered. We will arrange recording for audio editions.Submission guidelines: Please share one sentence at the top of your submission that tells us who you are and how your opion essay is connected to the coastal region. Also, be sure to include annotations for all assertions and attributions made in your essay. All submissions must be original, exclusive to Shoresides. Contact us at shoresides@workingnarratives.org
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Shoresides accepts opinion essays on a range of topics for our “Speak Your Piece” series which is published as text online or aired as audio as part of our podcast. We’re particularly interested in essays that share ideas or issues from the coastal region from perspectives not often heard in our traditional media. Written essays typically run from 400 to 1,200 words and audio essays from 3-4 minutes, but drafts of any length will be considered. We will arrange recording for audio editions.Submission guidelines: Please share one sentence at the top of your submission that tells us who you are and how your opion essay is connected to the coastal region. Also, be sure to include annotations for all assertions and attributions made in your essay. All submissions must be original, exclusive to Shoresides. Contact us at shoresides@workingnarratives.org
Language:
English
Contact:
9196368668
Episodes
NC Must Provide More Culturally Relevant Practices
5/18/2022
“It would be great if we could have funding to have mandatory training programs for teachers so that they could be really educated about what's going on. So they're not only a teacher who just teaches academics, but they also teach morals and how this world functions.” Vaishnavi Kode, 14, of Apex, NC speaks about the critical need for culturally relevant education in NC public schools, which helps prepare students for their future engagement in our society.
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Duration:00:03:55
Fund School Counselors, Not School Resource Officers
4/21/2022
“I should not be scared to come to school. Schools need to be a place of love.” Yakob Lemma, 17, of Raleigh, NC speaks about how SROs are harming students and why the state needs to invest in more constructive strategies.
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Duration:00:02:44
Inequitable Public School Funding Must End
3/2/2022
Sonia Green, 17, of Durham, North Carolina speaks about how equitable funding for public school capital and enrichment activities is critical for providing equal educational opportunity to all children.
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Duration:00:03:09
NC Public Schools Need Culturally Relevant Curriculum and Teaching
2/25/2022
“My dad wanted me to know that people like me, we weren't just slaves. We were also really successful mathematicians and astronomers and scientists.” Laura Norman, 16, of Cary, NC speaks about how the state’s public school curriculum does not adequately explore race relations, racial discrimination, and systemic racism.
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Duration:00:03:11
North Carolina Must Adequately Fund Rural Public Schools, Now
1/15/2022
I want to be a journalist… There is no school newspaper or journalism class at my school.” Jaileea Knight, 15, of Tarboro, NC speaks about how North Carolina’s failure to allocate resources toward the specific needs of students in rural districts unfairly limits student potential.
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Duration:00:01:55
North Carolina Must Fund Improvements to Internet Access Before It’s Too Late
2/7/2021
North Carolina student Francisco Ibarra speaks out. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced many public school children to be exclusively on-line learners, North Carolina is still failing to provide the infrastructure for improved internet service state-wide, preventing some students from getting the education they are owed.
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Duration:00:03:08
Felony Voter Disenfranchisement
11/9/2020
"We are all We The People. When you tell me that I can't participate in an election, you telling me I'm not a part of We The People...that makes me feel like you are still oppressing me, and you still seeing me as three-fifths of a human."
Daquan Peters is the Second Chance Alliance Coordinator at LINC Inc, a nonprofit in Wilmington, North Carolina focused on reentry for formerly incarcerated people and youth empowerment. As a someone who was formerly incarcerated himself and is on federal probation for a felony conviction, Peters talks about voter disenfranchisement and why it's vital to get the right to vote back.
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Duration:00:06:50
The Importance Of Latinx Voters
10/28/2020
"We are contributors, tax payers. We are entrepreneurs. We are business owners. We have mixed families. We are American...To me, it is important that I define who I am and I say my story, because it took me 25 years to be a U.S. citizen."
Victoria Velazco says political parties and policies at the federal, state, and county levels don't always consider Latinx voters. She tells us why she believes the Latinx vote is important and how she envisions the future of leadership in the United States.
Velazco is the founder of VIDA Familiar Latina Magazine and Vida Translations. She is currently pursuing her master's degree in clinical social work at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
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Duration:00:07:27
Racial Equity & Election Priorities from Payal Shah
10/27/2020
Payal Shah is a University of North Carolina student from Marshallberg, NC – a predominantly white and conservative town of 400 in Down East, North Carolina. As Shah heads to the voting booth for her first time this week, she thinks about Presidential rhetoric. And how it trickles down to affect how her family is treated in Marshallberg.
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Duration:00:04:15
On Ocracoke, A Back Porch Op Ed
10/27/2020
Daphne Bennick has been living on Ocracoke island for the past 35 years. And she's run Back Porch restaurant there for the past 21. Bennick she speaks to what she's looking for in this election as her island goes through a "double wammy" – Hurricane Dorian recovery, then COVID-19.
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Duration:00:05:24
Oysters & The Ballot Box
10/27/2020
What does an oyster farmer think about when he heads into the voting booth? Kyle Frey, owner of Crystal Coast Oysters, speaks to how he'd like to see elected officials think about environment and jobs.
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Duration:00:05:09
A message from Wilmington protest leader
6/25/2020
Lily Nicole is an actor and activist who lives in Wilmington, North Carolina. After the murder of George Floyd, she became the leader of Wilmington's continued peaceful protest movement and started a new activist group with her peers - the lowercase leaders.
Today, Nicole takes a ten minute break from making signs and answering messages to share a Facebook post she wrote to her white friends and acquaintances regarding recent protests.
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Duration:00:12:36
Young Activist Speaks Up About Racism and Social Justice Issues
6/19/2020
Shecoria Smith, 15, reads an essay she composed about her journey to becoming a young activist. She discusses recent events in the U.S. and her community in coastal North Carolina. Smith talks about what protest means to her, and what she's doing to contribute to positive future change.
Narrated by Emmanuel Ngardinga.
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Duration:00:04:10
Medicaid: In Crisis and Beyond
5/13/2020
Jeff Mills, volunteer and Medicaid Ambassador with the North Carolina AIDS Action Network (NCAAN), reads an essay he composed with Lee Storrow, the Director NCAAN. Mills and Storrow note the positive changes to restrictions and limitations on Medicaid programs during COVID-19. They call on policy-makers to extend these considerations beyond times of crisis.
Mills is a volunteer and Medicaid Ambassador with NCAAN.
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Duration:00:06:05
Student Speaks on Reimagining Schools during Remote Learning
5/6/2020
"Schools here have a lot of togetherness." Jaileea Knight is an eighth grader in Tarboro, NC. The small town is home to a large reimagining public schools effort. From her perspective as a student leader, Knight speaks to school redesign momentum during remote learning – tackling interactivity and broadband limitations.
Broadcast from the Working Narratives studio, Speak Your Piece brings you the opinions of your coastal neighbors on today's pressing regional issues.
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Duration:00:05:36
Not Quite Through the Storm
4/22/2020
Shecoria Smith was hunkered down with her mother as the wind and rain pounded her city when a call came making her realize that tragedy from the hurricane had hit close to home. Her friend’s mother and sibling were killed by a tree falling on their house. In this essay, Shecoria shares his personal experience in comforting a friend and the questions it raised for her about how to make each other safe in the face of hurricanes.
Broadcast from the Working Narratives studio, Speak Your Piece brings you the opinions of your coastal neighbors on today's pressing regional issues.
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Duration:00:03:16
Recovering Together: Rebuilding after Hurricane Florence
4/22/2020
Jonny Morales, 18, talks about what it was like returning to his hometown - Wilmington, North Carolina - after Hurricane Florence. And how he, his family, and his neighbors rebuilt the remains of their community together.
Broadcast from the Working Narratives studio, Speak Your Piece brings you the opinions of your coastal neighbors on today's pressing regional issues.
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Duration:00:03:59
What Divided Us Brought Us Together
4/22/2020
Julia Narvaez didn't feel tied to her hometown, Wilmington, North Carolina. Instead, she felt disdain for the social and economic inequities in her community. But when Hurricane Florence hit, her feelings for the town changed.
Broadcast from the Working Narratives studio, Speak Your Piece brings you the opinions of your coastal neighbors on today's pressing regional issues.
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Duration:00:03:16
COVID-19, Ebola, and Racism
4/22/2020
Amari Poindexter, 17, says the indifferent attitudes and racism of people during the coronavirus in coastal North Carolina remind her of how her peers responded to the Ebola outbreak when she was in middle school.
Broadcast from the Working Narratives studio, Speak Your Piece brings you the opinions of your coastal neighbors on today's pressing regional issues. This Speak Your Piece episode is brought to you by Coastal Youth Media podcast.
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Duration:00:02:55
Asthmatic High School Student Discusses COVID-19 & Hurricanes
4/22/2020
Morales knows the hospitals in his communities all too well - from Emergency Room visits for the asthma attacks he's had as long as he can remember to serving as a volunteer in his high school years. Now with the coronavirus outbreak, he's anxious that his local healthcare system will be overwhelmed. But thinking back to his experience of relief efforts after Hurricane Florence, he has high hopes that his community will come together and help one another through this trying time.
Broadcast from the Working Narratives studio, Speak Your Piece brings you the opinions of your coastal neighbors on today's pressing regional issues. This Speak Your Piece episode is brought to you by Coastal Youth Media podcast.
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Duration:00:04:25