A Look at Durham’s Progress on Key Metrics Four Years After Voters Passed a $95 Million Affordable Housing Bond
Durham has made some progress in terms of new construction and preservation of multi-family rental units, but homelessness is on the rise as the cost of living soars.
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Winners Announced for Orange/Chatham Counties’ Best of the Triangle
Congratulations to all of the finalists in Orange and Chatham Counties, check out the winners below!
Workers Demonstrate at Durham Waffle House, Call for Fair Wages and Workplace Safety
Since this summer, the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW) has centered its efforts around organizing Waffle House locations.
15 Minutes: Marcella Thompson, 68
Vaccination clinic organizer and founder of the Mustard Seed Project.
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Ella West Gallery Is Carrying On the Legacy of Black Wall Street
“I don’t want people to have to wait to become ancestors to be respectfully compensated,” gallery owner Linda Shropshire says.
2023 Fall Arts Preview: Ten Triangle Exhibitions to See
King Nobuyoshi Godwin, Luis Rey Velasco, inflatable art, and more.
“We Got to Return to the Swamp”: Derrick Beasley in Conversation with Pierce Freelon
Beasley’s solo exhibition, “Surviving the Burn,” is on display at NorthStar Church of the Arts through Friday, September 15.
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On Storms and Stories
What draws us to write about hurricanes?
Poet Ross White Finds Beauty By Looking at Things a Little Bit Sideways
When Durham poet, teacher, and small press executive director Ross White looked Michelangelo’s David in the eyes—virtually, at least—a poem broke open for him.
A New Book Gives a Roadmap for Making Reparations a Reality
The Black Reparations Project | edited by William Darity, A. Kirsten Mullen, and Lucas Hubbard | University of California Press | May 23 The Black Reparations Project isn’t an easy read, but it definitely belongs on bedside tables. This collection of essays—edited by Chapel Hill writer A. Kirsten Mullen and Duke economists William Darity Jr.…
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“A Haunting in Venice” Is a Halloween Movie for Grownups
Set in postwar Europe, Kenneth Branagh’s latest has no gore, no bloodied teenagers. Instead, we get crumbling Italian palazzos, fleeting apparitions, and some surprisingly sophisticated themes.
Full Frame Documentary Festival to Return to Downtown Durham
News of the festival’s revival comes just a day after Duke leadership announced that Center for Documentary Studies director Opeyemi Olukemi had resigned.
Stadium 10, Northgate Mall’s Cinematic Holdout, Closes for Good
The Durham movie theater bustled in the late aughts and kept life quietly thrumming in the shopping center, long after the retail outlets around it went dark.
