Perhaps you heard that, yesterday, the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention—the largest Protestant organization in the world, with about fifteen million members—voted that members should cease displaying the Confederate flag. “We recognize that the Confederate battle flag is used by some and perceived by many as a symbol of hatred, bigotry, and racism, offending […]
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Durham’s Lamont Lilly is Running for Vice President (of the United States)
In February 2015, the INDYrecognized Durham’s Lamont Lilly with a Citizen Award for his activism and journalism in the interest of advancing civil rights. At the time, Lilly was beginning to travel the country for speaking tours, protests, and political rallies, discussing issues like the Black Lives Matter movement, the criminal justice system, and the […]
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The Morning Roundup: The Snake
Wednesday is here. But what does that really mean? 1. Triangle vigils for Orlando victims. A crowd of hundreds turned up outside Rigsbee Ave. LGBT joint The Bar on Tuesday night to honor the lives lost in Orlando. From WRAL: Participants remembered that it was at a place similar to The Bar that 49 people […]
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Which N.C. Pols Take the NRA’s Cash, Do Its Bidding?
In light of Sunday’s bloodshed in Orlando—and the fact that our country’s lax gun laws enable this sort of thing to happen—we decided to take a closer look at which North Carolina politicians the National Rifle Association, a group that has worked very hard to ensure that sportsmen and sociopaths alike have ready access to […]
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And the Winner of the Durham County Dog-Poop Art Contest Is…
A few months ago, Durham took care of its “poop problem” by making it a finable offense for not picking up after your dog. To get the word out, Durham County put together the Canine Waste Student Artwork Contest, which sought art from kids that would help publicize the message. At the county commissioner’s meeting […]
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Durham to Gradually Bump Minimum Wage for City Employees to $15 per Hour
The Durham City Council this afternoon unanimously approved a motion to raise the minimum wage for full-time city employees to $15 an hour, the Herald-Sun reports. The council had multiple funding possibilities brought to them on Thursday during a special fiscal year 2016-17 meeting, but decided on a model that would have all full-time employees […]
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The Morning Roundup: Elections and More
Happy Wednesday. Your headlines: 1. There were (more) primary elections in North Carolina yesterday. The results: U.S. House, Second District: Superconservative George Holding absolutely destroyed just-pretty-conservative Renee Ellmers. Holding will face Democrat John McNeil in November. The N&O has a nice analysis here. U.S. House, Fourth District: Sue Google, I mean Sue Googe, beat Teiji […]
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In Durham, Rich Neighborhoods Have Plenty of Trees. Poor Neighborhoods, Not So Much
In his landmark 2014 Atlantic piece, “The Case for Reparations,” writer Ta-Nehisi Coates argued, rather convincingly, that racist policies by the Federal Housing Authority between the 1930s and 1960s “destroyed the possibility of investment wherever black people lived.” A federal program established to refinance mortgages for underwater homeownersthe Home Owners’ Loan Corporationsent to American cities […]
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McCrory Eats Bowl of Shit, Says He’ll Support Trump
If you were making bets on which Republicans might be brave and principled enough to oppose Donald Trump’s candidacy for president, Gov. Pat McCrory would not be your Seabiscuit. Today—just a few days after Trump said that an Indiana judge’s Mexican heritage made him unfit to rule in a fraud lawsuit against Trump University—McCrory got […]
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Wake County Judge Michael Denning: ‘China Wouldn’t Be So Bad If It Weren’t for All the Chinese’
Little-known fact: There is another primary election tomorrow, June 7. The INDY made its endorsements last week. You can peruse those here before you go vote. One of the races is for judge in Wake County Superior Court District 10C—the northwest part of the county. We’ve endorsed Becky Holt, who has worked in the Wake […]
