New Youth-Led Campaign Wants Cops Out of Durham Schools
“This campaign envisions a future in which students of color attend schools that lift them, not pat them down, and invest in their future, not their incarceration.”
Lamont Lilly Is a Frontline Foot Soldier in the Fight Against Inequality
“The real question should be, ‘Is it just or not? Does it preserve lives and save the Earth, or does it look to profit from it?’”
15 Minutes: Aissa Dearing, Student and Community Organizer
“Part of the reason I wrote that petition and part of the reason that I’m planning this march on June 13 is to remind Durham Public Schools who the real stakeholders are. And that’s students and teachers.”
Poet Lamar Wilson on His Annual Thirteen-Mile Run to Protest a Lynching
Every year, Wilson, the producer and subject of documentary short The Changing Same, retraces the path of the brutal 1934 lynching of Claude Neal.
Best of the Triangle 2019: Local Color
Let’s love on lemurs, hate on ICE, and dunk on Thom Tillis.
Why Doesn’t Facebook Want You to Watch SeepeopleS’ “New American Dream” Video?
A dispatch from Facebook jail in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Episode 9: Activist Maya Little on Blood, Sweat, and Silent Sam
A podcast to give you the latest news and culture from Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill.
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The Story of School Desegregation in Durham: Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
The Best of Enemies, due out in April, tells the story of an unlikely bond between black activist Ann Atwater and Klan leader C.P. Ellis.
UNC Students Create Silent Sam Audio Tour
Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed an audio tour app to facilitate discussion about race, history and Silent Sam. No Longer Silent is a project of the sixteen students in Sabine Gruffat’s digital art class. Users can download the app and hear interviews conducted by students as they walk…
Bree Newsome, Who Pulled Down S.C. Confederate Flag in 2015, Salutes Durham Demonstrators
Demonstrators who tore down a Confederate monument in Durham Monday have the support of someone who knows a bit about taking on the symbols of white supremacy: Bree Newsome. Newsome, who was born in Durham, famously removed a Confederate flag flying above the South Carolina state capitol two years ago. Images of Newsome scaling the…
Durham Sheriff Identifying Demonstrators, Pursuing Felony Charges
Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews said this afternoon that he had considered ordering his deputies to “engage the crowd” last night in a rally that saw a Confederate monument toppled, but he opted instead for “restraint” in order to prevent injuries. Andrews, along with county manager Wendell Davis, spoke Tuesday afternoon in a brief press…
“Make Racists Afraid Again”: The Scene as Demonstrators Toppled a Confederate Monument in Durham Monday
Chanting “make racists afraid again” and “no cops, no KKK, no fascist USA,” demonstrators toppled a ninety-three-year-old Confederate monument in downtown Durham Monday night. After a demonstrator climbed to the top of a ladder and looped a yellow rope around the hollow figure, a crowd gathered outside of the Durham County government building cheered, with…
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