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Celeste Headlee talks to historian Martha S. Jones about her North Carolina family roots and her new memoir, The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir.

After much community anticipation, the Wheels Roller Skating Rink in east Durham is reopening under city ownership. Roller rinks across the country have declined drastically since the 1990s. Since then, North Carolina has lost roughly half of its rinks.

Leoneda Inge chats with Dr. David Washington about his debut graphic novel, Black Defender: The Awakening.

Leoneda Inge sits down with Maggie Robe of Flyleaf Books to look ahead at some of the most anticipated book releases of the first half of 2025.

Nnenna and Pierce Freelon join Jeff and Leoneda for the Valentine's Day edition of Southern Mixtape. They talk love songs across generations from Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke to K-Ci & JoJo.

Renovations are underway that will impact how visitors access Duke Gardens. Bill LeFevre, Executive Director of Duke Gardens, joins co-host Leoneda Inge to talk about how to (still) make the most of a trip to the 55-acre botanic garden in Durham.

General Marquis de Lafayette toured across North Carolina during his visit to America in the 1800s.

Leoneda Inge chats with Dr. Nikita Y. Harris, founder of the National Black Debutante Project, about her work researching and archiving Black debutante history.

Leoneda Inge sits down with Mary Lambeth Moore, host of the podcast, Recovering Debs, to discuss debutante societies in the South — and the daughters who tried to buck the familial bonds of participation.

From Houston's own Beyoncé to Memphis-born GloRilla, from Tampa native Doechii to NC's Rapsody, Southern women are making major waves in the rap industry.