Durham Leaders Oppose Federal Changes to Low-Income Child Care Program
Proposed changes to Head Start could cut staffing and eligibility for the program, which currently provides free child care and other services to about 500 kids in Durham.
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Reintroducing ‘By The Horns,’ a Column for the Local Government Nerd in You
INDY’s Justin Laidlaw is here to help readers get a grip on politics and civic life in Durham.
Apex Town Council Committee to Make Recommendation on Flock
Under pressure from residents, the town council is reconsidering the Apex Police Department’s contract with Flock, a license plate surveillance system. A committee will discuss the issue this week, with a recommendation to come later.
The Gig Is Up: UNC Health Does an About-Face on BidShift
The hospital system’s plan to make nurses bid against each other for extra shifts was abandoned after a social media firestorm.
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What It Takes to Keep History from Fading, Shriveling, or Molding
Talking with Meg Brown, Exhibits Coordinator at Duke Library, about the three Declaration of Independence copies on display in Durham this fall.
Durham’s Cultural Roadmap Gets the Green Light
At the Thursday-night meeting, local arts workers celebrated the adoption of the plan, which has been in the works for four years, while calling for more clarity around funding initiatives and plan implementation.
CAM Is Selling Its Iconic Building. Could It Have Done More to Keep It?
The decision to sell comes after a 2020 rezoning made the downtown museum’s property much more valuable. CAM leadership maintains they want the institution to “be here for years to come”—but many in the art world feel skeptical.
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The Day the Priestess and the Poet Met in Asheville
Langston Hughes first met Nina Simone in 1949, when he visited her high school chapter of the NAACP. Their decades-long friendship would become a cultural cornerstone of the Black Power era.
Carrboro Author Elisa Faison On Polyamory, Domestic Fiction, and Her Debut Novel ‘Skin Contact’
Released in June, ‘Skin Contact’ has the buzzy premise of a young couple navigating an newly opened marriage. But the novel is as interested in friendship and family as it is romance.
White Men and White Metal
How a small group of white men engineered the violent 1898 overthrow of Wilmington’s duly elected multiracial government.
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Boots Riley on Labor Organizing, His North Carolina Family Roots, and “I Love Boosters”
The filmmaker makes stops in Durham and Winston-Salem this week as part of a tour for his new anti-capitalist caper.
New Documentary Fest To Launch in Durham With All-Local Slate
Southern Doc Fest makes it debut at the Durham Arts Council on Oct 10 with two feature-length films and four shorts.
Incoming! Peasant Revolts, Wilderness Survival, and Victorian Psychopaths
Ethan Hawke as a Depresion-era prisoner in “The Weight,” Andrew Garfield as an anonymous ploughman in “The Uprising,” and more films coming to local theaters near you.
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