When Louis Duke returned from summer break in 2012, he updated his voter registration from his parents’ address in Rockingham County to his new on-campus residence at Campbell University in Harnett County. But when he tried to cast a ballot during early voting, a volunteer poll worker told him he was not registered. The source […]
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Opening arguments launch historic voting rights trial in North Carolina
During the 2014 election, Gwendolyn Farrington worked 72 hours a week putting bolts in transmissions for AW North Carolina, a transmission supplier for Toyota. With limited time between when she left work and picked up two sons from school on Election Day, Farrington, who is from Durham, decided to vote at a polling place that […]
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Those fabled high-tech jobs
The sun creeps over the pines on the ridge of University Drive in Durham on Wednesday morning as my friend T and I carpool to the offices of Manpower. We’re in search of one of the much-coveted production jobs at IBM, the largest computer-maker in the world. The downsizing of the American workforce and the […]