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  • How One Food Bank Serves the Hungry in Durham
  • NC Business Leaders Call for Immigration Reform
  • ICYMI: A Look at Durham’s First “Heritage Community”
  • Wake County’s New School Board Member

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On a recent Wednesday, hundreds of cars cycled through Emanuel Food Pantry (EFP), a nonprofit that runs a weekly food distribution out of Iglesia Presbiteriana Emanuel on Roxboro Street in Durham.

What began as a weekly hot meal service for 30 families has become, in five years, Durham County’s largest emergency food assistance program, with 150 volunteers serving 860 families each week, Andrea Richards writes for the INDY.

“Once you know that almost 50,000 people are food insecure in this community that has so much brain power and so much wealth, you cannot turn a blind eye—it’s almost inconceivable that this was such a hidden issue for so long,” Miguel Rubiera, who, along with his wife Margaret, founded the Emanuel Food Pantry in 2020, told Andrea.

Last week, EFP quickly adapted to continue serving families in an area where many businesses serve the Latino community and closed down amid deportation sweeps.

Read more about Emanuel Food Pantry’s no-waste model, the dedicated staff and volunteers making it all happen, and food insecurity in Durham.

—Sarah W.

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Bad for Business

Businesses and work sites went quiet during last week’s deportation sweeps. INDY’s Jane Porter reports elected officials and business leaders are calling for immigration reform.

Credit: Bottom center image courtesy Bonita Green, bottom right image via Wikipedia; other images courtesy Durham County Library’s North Carolina Collection

Living History

Merrick-Moore is Durham’s first Heritage Community. For the historic neighborhood, it’s a way to preserve its past—and protect its future in a growing city, Kennedy Thomason writes.

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STATE: After years of fighting rising rates of overdoses, rural North Carolina communities are finally reversing the trend. Now they face dramatic funding cuts that could undo that progress, Border Belt Independent reports.

STATE: Remember when Apple was going to build a campus in RTP? It’s now pushing back the timeline by four years, Axios reports.

STATE: In other RTP news, county officials approved a rezoning to allow for non-research uses, like housing and retail, WRAL reports.

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  • Learn about Booker T. Spicely, a Black soldier who took a stand against segregation on Durham’s buses, on Monday at this Durham County Library event with members of Spicely’s family.
  • Billed as a “a satirical, feather-rufflin’ night of bluegrass,” GRAMMY-nominee Joe Troop and his band Truth Machine are playing a benefit show for Siembra NC at The Pinhook on Saturday.
  • The Wake County Board of Education appointed Jennifer Job to fill a vacant seat on the board.
  • Duke student activists were arrested protesting conditions at the so-called Alligator Alcatraz in Florida.
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