With every day that goes by, this seems more and more like a fight everyone lost.
Jeffrey C. Billman
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Aaliyah Palmer Never Got Justice for Her Alleged Sexual Assault. She Wants Tinder and Snapchat to Pay.
“When people use those platforms, they’re not thinking about, well, what happens if I get assaulted or this happens to me, will there be evidence?”
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Al’s Burger Shack No Longer Part of Beer Study’s Durham Expansion
Yesterday, the Orange County Rape Crisis Center cut ties with Al Bowers, citing allegations of sexual harassment.
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Woman Whose Fort Bragg Sexual-Assault Story Helped Change N.C. Consent Law Sues Tinder, Snapchat Over Revenge Porn
Through their “intentional and reckless” behavior, the lawsuit alleges, Snapchat and Tinder caused Aaliyah Palmer “emotional distress, embarrassment, humiliation, fear, and harm.”
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How White Supremacists Won North Carolina: A Pulitzer Prize Winner’s New Book Explores the Wilmington Coup of 1898 and Why It Still Matters
“This spread throughout the South; it wasn’t just happening in North Carolina. This event really inspired white supremacy all across the South.”
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Report: DHA Evacuating McDougald Terrace Residents to Hotels Following Complaints of Carbon Monoxide Exposure
“What can you tell me that would help me feel comfortable letting my kids go to sleep tonight?”
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The Assassination of Qassim Suleimani, a Bad Guy
In 2002, Dick Cheney said we’d be “greeted as liberators.” We got endless war. In 2020, Mike Pompeo said Iraqis were “dancing in the street.” Do you really think that’s how this ends?
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2040 Vision: Will the Triangle Be Better Off 20 Years From Now?
In the five years I’ve lived here, the Triangle has seen tremendous change. It’s not going to stop. How we deal with it will be the story of the next two decades.
