The Measure of Everyday Life WNCU, 90.7 FM | Sundays, 6:30–7 p.m.The show is also streamed live at www.wncu.org Podcasts of each show is posted the Tuesday after the original airing. @MeasureRadio How do I find a job? Should I get a mammogram? How do we help prisoners re-enter society? Each week, “The Measure of […]
Emily Feng
Bio: Emily Feng is an INDY intern and student at Duke University.
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A Durham program helps immigrants overcome obstacles to learning high-tech skills
Each weekday, from 9 to 5, Ruben Cruz learns to code. Less than a year ago, Cruz, whose parents immigrated from Mexico, had no programming experience. Now a full-time student at The Iron Yard, an intensive coding academy in downtown Durham, he will graduate with the skill level of junior software developer. Cruz credits Code […]
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Promoting safer streets for everyone
The white ghost bikes parked along Hillandale Road and Duke University Road in Durham mark where cyclists have been killed by motorists within the last years. These tragedies have renewed Bike Durham’s resolve to make cyclists and motorists feel safer and more confident on the road. “The fact is that cyclists are not seen and […]
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The sad legacy of Lincoln Apartments
It’s been two years since the last residents of Lincoln Apartments were evicted, some of them around Christmas, yet the apartments are boarded up and unused. Now owned by the Durham Housing Authority, which bought the low-income housing complex from the Lincoln Hospital Foundation for $10, the buildings will remain boarded up unless the city […]