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  • Durham Becomes Fourth Amendment Workplace
  • A Profile of UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts
  • An Update on the Proposed Data Facility Near Apex
  • Recommended Films Coming to Local Theaters
  • Does Durham Have Some of The Country’s Best BBQ?
Volunteers from the Fourth Amendment Workplaces initiative visit Carrboro businesses in July.
Credit: Photo by Lena Geller

Good morning, readers.

A Carrboro gift shop employee has a plan if ICE shows up: throw stuff at them and hide in the back room. 

Or, that was their plan, until volunteers from the immigrant rights group Siembra NC knocked on the door with a different strategy. Since April, the organization has been teaching business owners and workers across the state how to handle federal raids, from knowing which spaces require real judicial warrants to practicing how to film encounters with masked authorities. 

So far, over 200 businesses have signed on—and last night, Durham became the second municipality, after Carrboro, to back the effort. The Durham city council voted unanimously to pass a resolution directing city staff to uphold constitutional protections in municipal buildings and encouraging local businesses to join the movement.

“The more people in the city that are able to identify agents safely, the more people that are trained to demand a warrant signed by a judge specifically naming their target and protect those extra-judiciously harassed, the harder it will be for these agents to take our community members who make this city great,” said Elise Ballan, who serves as the chair of the Durham Workers’ Rights Commission, one of the groups that collaborated with the city council on drafting the resolution, ahead of the vote.

Read more about the effort to train businesses for potential ICE raids below.

—Lena

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Pride: Durham, NC! Organized by the LGBTQ Center of Durham, this year’s theme for Pride, “We Are The Rainbow,” centers ourselves as the ones we have been waiting for in the storms of life, the ones who have the solutions to the problems we face. Together, we can radiantly offer and receive support for our coalitions, environments, and futures. Join us this month as we continue our tradition of celebrating Durham’s LGBTQ+ community and history during the first weekend of the fall season: Fri. Sept 26, Sat. Sept 27, and Sun. Sept 28.

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UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts gives a tour of his office in Chapel Hill, NC.
Credit: Matt Ramey for The Assembly

The Long Game

Lee Roberts, the UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor, has his sights set on the big picture—despite federal-level uncertainties and campus clashes over his business-driven vision, The Assembly reports.

Credit: Illustration by Nicole Pajor Moore

Digital Footprint

INDY’s Jane Porter has an update on the proposed data storage facility near Apex: The developer has filed plans for what it’s calling a “digital campus.” Meanwhile, neighbors are organizing in opposition to the proposal. 

Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch in THE ROSES. Photo by Jaap Buitendijk, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2025 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.

Incoming! Films

By Glenn McDonald for the INDY: An action thriller from Paul Thomas Anderson, a dark comedy about spousal warfare, and more films coming to theaters across the Triangle.

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NATION: WUNC reports that tariffs on foreign goods are starting to hit Triangle instrument stores.

STATE: Governor Josh Stein created a council that will study how state agencies can use AI and establish oversight teams, NC Newsline reports. The goal is to make North Carolina’s the “most AI-literate state government workforce in the nation.”

EDUCATION: A Wake County Public School System reassignment plan would move hundreds of students attending 24 schools for the 2026-27 school year, WRAL reports.

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