“I think we all recognized as soon as the protests happened, this is what we had been training for, in a way,” says Raleigh rapper Jrusalam, who’s been helping hold down the cypher at N.C. State’s Free Expression Tunnel for a decade.
Brian Howe
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From Midwife Traffic Cops in Thailand to Quechua Rappers in Peru, Saleem Reshamwala Podcasts Stories of Global Ingenuity in “Pindrop”
We interviewed the Durham filmmaker-turned-podcaster about hosting a new global-travel podcast for TED during a pandemic that prevents global travel.
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Indigena Presents a Black Lives Matter Reading to Support Emancipate NC
Featuring Jabar Boykin, Honora Ankong, Kayla Rodney, and Destiny Hemphill, “Poetry in Protest” will benefit the anti-mass-incarceration organization’s Freedom Fighter Bond Fund.
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N.C. Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green Mourns George Floyd with “Oh My Brother”
The lamentation for Black men murdered by the police will appear on Green’s debut album on Juneteenth. But she released it early because we need it now.
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Al Riggs Plays Randy Newman to Support the Bail Project Tonight
COVID-19 heightens the urgency of ending the cruel, arbitrary practice of locking up people who are legally presumed innocent because they can’t afford bail.
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New Director Bobby Asher Brings a Community Focus to Duke Performances
“What better way to attract people to an experience than to just ask them what they want that experience to be?”
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Triangle First: The Bittersweet Balm of Honey Magpie’s “Late Spring Tragedies”
The Chapel Hill chamber-folk group sets three vignettes of nature’s quiet, gentle cruelty in apt, evocative music, with a sonnet-like turn at the end.
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Duke Performances Has a New Leader
Bobby Asher, who comes from the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, succeeds interim director Eric Oberstein at the helm of Duke’s performing-arts series.
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The Mothership Is Closing. Its Legacy in Durham Will Long Outlast COVID-19.
A coworking space and a retail showroom for local goods, The Mothership was something more than the sum of those parts: a true community. Its story goes on in the ways it paved for others.
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Sexier than CDs, Cheaper than Vinyl, Cassettes Thrive on Underground Labels Like Broken Sound Tapes
M Is We bandleader Michael Wood’s Carrboro-based tape label has two new post-punk releases, including its first foray into vinyl.
