Rural Narratives
Rural Narratives is a podcast about public health, power, and storytelling in North Carolina’s rural communities.
In this series, we explore how trust is built, how narratives take shape, and how communities shape the systems meant to serve them.
Through conversations with organizers, strategists, cultural leaders, and public health thinkers, Rural Narratives examines who gets to define rural communities — and what it means to reclaim those stories from the inside out.
Episodes
4 episodes
Inside Black Rural Life: What We Miss When These Stories Aren’t Told
Black communities have long been central to rural life in the South, helping shape the culture, economy and civic life of the places they call home.In North Carolina, nearly half of Black residents live in rural counties, reflecting a hi...
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How Access Shapes Trust in Rural Health Systems
In southeastern North Carolina, residents in Columbus County face some of the steepest challenges to living a healthy life. They consistently have the lowest health outcomes in the state. Like in many rural communities, people have ...
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Episode 3
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Building rural power with Down Home North Carolina
In this week’s episode, we visited Down Home North Carolina, a non-profit organization that builds rural, multiracial and working-class power across the state through local campaigning and community organizi...
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Episode 2
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Who Gets to Define Rural Communities?
In our first episode, we ask: Who gets to shape the stories that define rural communities?Welcome to Rural Narratives, a new podcast about public health in North Carolina’s rural communities. In this series, storytelling isn’t j...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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