Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part investigation into North Carolina’s hog-farming industry. The first story examined claims by lower-income African-American residents of eastern North Carolina that neighboring hog farms have polluted their properties and efforts by lawmakers to shield pork producers from litigation. The second looked at the environmental impacts hog farming […]
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Hogwashed Series Documents
In the interest of transparency, the INDY is publishing source documents, scientific journal articles, interview and email transcripts, and full statements from Smithfields Foods and the N.C. Pork Council related to our three-part Hogwashed series. This is in addition to the newspaper and journal articles and data linked in the online versions of our stories. […]
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Hogwashed, Part 2: Environmental Advocates Say Hog Facilities’ Antiquated Waste-Disposal Systems Are Threatening the State’s Waterways
Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a three-part investigation into North Carolina’s hog-farming industry. The first story examined claims by lower-income African-American residents of eastern North Carolina that neighboring hog farms have polluted their properties and efforts by lawmakers to shield pork producers from litigation. This story looks at the environmental impacts hog […]
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Orange County School Board Punts on Long-Running Confederate Flag Debate
Saying they wanted to supplement protections for LGBTQ students and students with disabilities, Orange County School Board members declined Monday night to add new language to the school system’s dress code that would ban the Confederate flag from county schools. The measure, which would prohibit students from wearing clothing or accessories that are “indecent, profane, […]
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The Durham Police’s Explanation of Frank Clark’s Death Hardly Clears Things Up
Some facts are indisputable. It was a cool November afternoon in Durham’s McDougald Terrace housing projects. A heavily tattooed African-American man was confronted by three police officers. Shots rang out. The man, a thirty-four-year-old named Frank Clark, suffered gunshot wounds to the right thigh and the top left of his head. He died at the […]
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Orange County Schools Takes Step Toward Confederate Flag Ban
More than six months after the parent of an Orange High School student founded the Hate Free Schools Coalition in response to Confederate flags on T-shirts, backpacks, and hats on campus, the Orange County Board of Education voted Monday evening to ban racially intimidating symbols from inside local schools. While the policy change won’t be […]
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Clark Family Attorney Responds to Durham Police Report on Fatal Shooting
The attorney representing the family of a man who was shot to death by Durham police in the McDougald Terrace housing community in November wants to be sure the officers involved do not return to patrol the neighborhood where Frank Clark died despite the Durham Police Department’s Friday announcement that the three officers “violated no […]
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There Are Some Weird Things About the DPD’s Version of Frank Clark’s Death
Earlier today, when the Durham Police Department released its account of what happened November 22 in McDougald Terrace to justify an officer-involved shooting that left Frank Clark dead, it marked the third official dissemination of a narrative regarding the case. But each account offers a different version of just what unfolded that morning—and all three […]
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After Being Detained at RDU Under Suspicion of Being a Predator, a Local Gay Dad Is Fighting Back
Durham’s Rockwood Park is virtually empty when Henry Amador-Batten suggests that his son, Benjamin, take a turn on the long blue slide. The sun is shining and the temperature is mild, maybe eighty degrees. But the boy hesitates. “It’s OK,” his father says. “I’ll be right here.” The five-year-old flashes a wide smile and sets […]
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Orange County Schools May Finally Ban the Confederate Flag from School Property
A few weeks ago, a biracial thirteen-year-old walked into a classroom at Gravelly Hill Middle School in Efland and was rattled to learn that a classmate had drawn a swastika on his arm. Another girl told her that it was his way of protesting a proposed ban on hate symbolsthe swastika, yes, but especially the […]