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Mar 31, 2021

First in Future: Harold L. Martin Sr. – Chancellor of NC A&T

The Institute for Emerging Issues, in a four part series, will be focusing on the state’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities – a group of 10 colleges and universities stretching across the state formed to ensure that African Americans had access to higher education. This episode is with Dr. Harold L. Martin Sr., Chancellor of NC A&T State University. 

Mar 2, 2021

First in Future: Dr. Jason Miller – Revisited (part 2)

In 2020, we did a two part First in Future series called “the lost speeches of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr,” focusing on two speeches Dr. King gave in North Carolina. Both stories involve NC State Professor of English Dr. Jason Miller, to whom we revisit the conversation. This First in Future episode we hear a different story about the second speech, which is remarkable, because we know almost nothing about what he said. 

Feb 16, 2021

First in Future: Dr. Rupert Nacoste – Revisited

February is Black History Month, a month where you hear more than you normally do about some of the bridgebuilders in the African American community, people you may not know enough about. This episode of First in Future, we revisit our conversation with Dr. Rupert Nacoste. He is the author of several books and his latest is "To Live Woke: Thoughts to Carry in our struggle to Save the Soul of America". Dr. Nacoste is retiring this year after 32 years as a professor of psychology at NC State, but he has also lived some important parts of Black History. 

Nov 3, 2020

First in Future: The Ties That Bind Us (part 1) – Caroline Parker

This is part of a three episode series of First in Future, where we want to focus on community, specifically what people and places in North Carolina are doing to make the places we live special. This episode starts with the story of Hayesville, NC, in the far western corner of the state, and we talk with Caroline Parker of Education NC about her new series, "Anchored in Hayesville," about how the people in that community are working together to maintain their uniqueness and strength in a town that is "two hours from everywhere." 

Sep 1, 2020

First in Future: Dr. Katherine Mellen Charron

In celebration of 19th amendment that secured all women the right to vote over 100 years ago, this episode of First in Future, we are joined by Dr. Katherine Mellen Charron, Associate Professor of history at NC State. We explore what the amendment meant and did not mean and about how Tennessee passed it and NC did not. 

Jul 29, 2020

Racial Equity in Criminal Justice

Summary: Leslie Boney, the Director of the Institute for Emerging Issues, hosts a special virtual conversations discussing “Racial Equity in Criminal Justice” with guests Justice Anita Earls and Attorney General… 

Jul 17, 2020

Parenting Education Beyond COVID-19

Summary: The Institute for Emerging Issues is hosting a series of conversations around early childhood learning focused on how we develop stronger systems in the midst of ongoing uncertainty. This… 

Jul 7, 2020

First in Future: Dr. Deepak Kumar and Juvencio Rocha Peralta on disproportionate COVID rates

Summary: African Americans make up 22% of the state’s population, but have 24% of the COVID cases and 33% of the deaths. Ten percent of the state’s population are Latinx,… 

Jun 16, 2020

First in Future: Rebecca Tippett and Stacey Carless on the US Census

Summary: So far this year only a little over half of NC households have self-responded to the Census, and we lag behind other states and behind where we were this… 

May 26, 2020

First in Future: James Ford and Lori Thomas of UNC Charlotte

Summary: A new series of reports from the Urban Institute at UNC Charlotte took a closer look at who has wealth in the Charlotte region and who doesn’t. The series…