The last time I hung out with Becky Heron we were riding on a refurbished school bus through the rolling countryside of northern Durham County. A longtime county commissioner, she was among several dozen people on a Farmland Tour in 2009, an opportunity to meet Durham residents often overlooked by their city counterparts just a […]
Lisa Sorg
Bio: Lisa Sorg is the editor of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/lisasorg
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Special mention: The Rev. William Barber and the Moral Monday movement
Every once in a while, there is a social shift so seismic that it transcends the work of just one individual to become the work of the whole. The Rev. William Barber, president of the state chapter of the NAACP, jump-started and led the Moral Monday movementregular demonstrations of civil disobedience at the legislative buildingand […]
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Honoring those who seek justice
On Feb. 22, we’ll recognize the winners of both the Citizen Awards and the Indies Arts Awards at an annual luncheon at the Cotton Room at Golden Belt in Durham. It is open to the public. Tickets are $10. Please RSVP to: [email protected] “What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility.” Henry […]
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Thava Mahadevan of The Farm at Penny Lane
When Thava Mahadevan met Don Doc two years ago, Don was living in a storage unit in Carrboro. For Don, who has PTSD, the storage unit was an upgrade. He had been living in the woods for four years. The director of XDS, a nonprofit that provides health and wellness services for people with mental […]
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A Peruvian find, 3,200 miles from home
It is 3,258 miles from Durham to Chanchamayo Valley, an area famous for its coffee and fruit farms in the Central Jungle of Peru. I found this itema wall hanging, perhaps?on a recent rainy day as I walked down Morehead Avenue, between Duke and Vickers streets in Durham. It’s a long way from home. This […]
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In Durham, photos of the before and after
Before: Three weeks ago, we published on the editor’s blog and in the print edition a photo of newspapers tucked in the long grass. It appears to be a bed for a homeless person, just steps from the Kress Building, which is home to half-million-dollar condos in downtown Durham (“30 feet separates the haves from […]
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Durham gathers to honor Jesús Huerta
A photo of Jesús Huerta was placed on a stand near the altar of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, where he received the Sacrament of Confirmation several years ago. Jesús, a smiling boy wearing oversize glasses, whose life ended on Nov. 19 with a gunshot wound in the back of a police car. Jesús, 17, whose […]
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A peaceful vigil in Durham to remember the life of Jesus Huerta
A photo of Jesus Huerta was placed on a stand near the altar of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, where he received the Sacrament of Confirmation several years ago. Jesus, a smiling teenager wearing oversized glasses, whose life ended on Nov. 19 in the back of a police car. Jesus, 17, whose memory has been publicly […]
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At the American Tobacco Campus ice rink, the night felt like a dream
I’ve never ice skated, but I spent many a preteen birthday party at a roller rink, where the music and lights seem to hypnotize me. You could call it a form of meditation. I went to the American Tobacco Campus rink on Friday night, as people took advantage of the last weekend of ice skating. […]
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At the American Tobacco Campus ice rink, the night felt like a dream
I’ve never ice skated, but I spent many a preteen birthday party at a roller rink, where the music and lights seem to hypnotize me. You could call it a form of meditation. I went to the American Tobacco Campus rink on Friday night, as people took advantage of the last weekend of ice skating. […]
