The Broadside

Pimento cheese, aka Carolina caviar, is as synonymous with Southern food culture as sweet tea and fried chicken. But the origin story of this spreadable cheddar cheese and pimento pepper dish is much more complicated and a lot less Southern than you might think.Featuring:Vivian Howard, chef, restauranteur and PBS hostSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

From public syllabi to surveillance, universities across the country are embracing unprecedented policies that professors say are undermining their academic freedom. And North Carolina is front and center.Featuring:Brianna Atkinson, higher education reporter for WUNC NewsKeith Whittington, director of Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Yale Law School and author of “You Can’t Teach That!: The Battle Over University Classrooms”Links:You can find more of Brianna Atkinson’s reporting hereCover Image: Liz SchlemmerSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As the story goes, hip-hop music was born a little over 50 years ago at a house party in the Bronx. But that version of history doesn't account for an entertainer from Durham, North Carolina with the incredible name Pigmeat Markham. In 1968, Markham released a hit song called “Here Comes the Judge.” The tune fused comedy, funk, and what can only be described as an early form of rapping—years before hip-hop officially burst onto the scene. So was this largely forgotten figure actually the first rapper?Featuring:Mark Anthony Neal, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University Links:Check out a playlist of the songs mentioned in this episode and some others inspired by Pigmeat Markham here.Cover image: The album cover art for Pigmeat Markham's 1968 single "Here Comes the Judge”See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

From Huntsville to Houston, the space industry in the US is rooted in the South. And as NASA works towards returning to the moon with the Artemis program, our space history is inspiring new generations of Americans. But in North Carolina, two important sites from the Space Race of the 1960s remain relatively unknown.Featuring:Cliff Bumgardner, director and producer at PBS North CarolinaBrett Tingley, managing editor at Space.comLinks:Check out the short documentary film about Morehead Planetarium that Cliff produced for PBS NC and Our State Magazine here.Read Brett's article about the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute in Rosman, North Carolina here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On a cold night in January 1958, hundreds of Native American men and women from the Lumbee Tribe showed up to a field in southeast North Carolina with one mission: to boot the KKK out of their community. The skirmish that followed would become an integral part of modern Lumbee identity and lore.Featuring: Jack Lowery, criminal defense lawyer and member of the Lumbee Tribe of North CarolinaMalinda Maynor Lowery, history professor at Emory University and member of the Lumbee Tribe of North CarolinaLinks:“The Lumbee Tribe: An American Struggle” by Malinda Maynor LowerySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.