A former Durham County deputy manager is suing the county, saying the current manager, Wendell Davis, demoted her and cut her pay inhalf as retaliation after the two competed for the county manager role. Marqueta Welton worked for Durham County in different roles from September 19, 2005, until her resignation on December 28, 2016. Welton […]
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After Protests, Durham County Commissioners Say They Support Video Visitations at the Jail Only as an “Additional Option”
On Monday night, the Durham County Board of Commissioners clarified its position on plans to implement video visitations at the Durham County Detention Facility, after five people protesting that initiative were arrested at a commissioners’ meeting earlier this month. Board chairwoman Wendy Jacobs opened the board’s regular meeting Monday with a statement on the issue, […]
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SBI Taking Over Inquiry Into Teen’s Death Inside Durham Jail
Sheriff Mike Andrews is asking the State Bureau of Investigation to take over the inquiry into a seventeen-year-old’s death at the Durham County Jail. The Sheriff’s Office released a report Friday on Uniece Glenae Fennell’s apparent suicide. On the form, Interim Detention Director Major Julian Couch lists Fennell’s cause of death as suicide and means […]
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ACA Repeal Protesters Put Senator Burr on Blast, Stage Die-In at Duke
On Friday morning, Ezra Farber was standing in the cold on Cameron Boulevard, holding his own tombstone. OK, it wasn’t a real tombstone but rather a poster board on which Farber had drawn the shape of a tombstone and a sad face with Xs for eyes and written, “My brain tumor was a pre-existing condition.” […]
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Good News: Durham Is Getting More Bicycle-Friendly
The city of Durham added 2.8 miles of bike lanes last year, according to the Durham Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission. Max Bushell, BPAC chair, touted some of the commission’s achievements in a 2016 annual report given during the Durham City Council’s Thursday work session. Among the new bike lanes is a contraflow lane on […]
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Teen Found Dead at Durham County Jail, May Have Committed Suicide, Sheriff’s Office Says
A seventeen-year-old found dead in a Durham County jail cell this morning apparently committed suicide, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Uniece Glenae Fennell was found unresponsive at about three thirty a.m. She was jailed July 26 after being charged with the murder of a nineteen-year-old. “Paramedics responded to the facility and pronounced her dead at […]
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Charles Murray’s Duke Appearance Avoids the Blacks-Are-Inferior Thing, Talks About “Cognitive Elites” and the White Working Class
Charles Murray much preferred his most recent visit to Duke University to his last stop four years ago. The controversial social scientist spoke at the school Tuesday night as part of a nationwide tour connecting the themes of his 2012 book, Coming Apart: The State of White America to the 2016 election. Considered a white […]
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Local Schools Try to Be Safe Spaces for Undocumented Immigrants
The day after the presidential election, Mark Bailey, director of Durham’s Maureen Joy Charter School, greeted worried students as they got off the bus. “I had kids that morning who were like, ‘All the moms and dads have to go back now. Is it true that we’re going to be deported?’” he says. Under ICE […]
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How Undocumented Immigrants Can Avoid ICE
In advising her clients, immigration attorney Yesenia Polanco-Galdamez likens the chaos currently swirling around immigration enforcement to a natural disaster: Hurricane Trump. As with a hurricane, she says, immigrants need to have an emergency plan in place in case they or a loved one are detained. Polanco-Galdamez, thirty-four, is the principal attorney at Polanco Law, […]
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Lilian Cardona, a Pregnant Mom Who Has Called North Carolina Home for Twenty Years, Could Be One of Trump’s First Immigration Victims
On March 11, a Saturday afternoon, in William Chapel A.M.E. Zion, a bare-bones church in Angier, Lilian Cardona is watching her children play. They weave among the rows of seats that had been filled moments before and run circles around the keyboard and the legs of standing adults. Cardona, nearly thirty-five, turns her head behind […]
