Voices: Biden Wins, But Red Flags Abound For Democrats.
It’s going to take several months of data analysis to accurately figure out what went wrong for Democrats this election cycle.
Freedom Dreams and the Nightmare of Policing
Voices columnist Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks the crucial question, “Is it time for you to continue to work toward your dream, or is it time to wake up?”
The System Has Failed Black People
A police department cannot be in charge of policing itself.
Even in the Grave, Black People Can’t Rest in Durham
“How can we think differently about this moment of rapid development and shifting earth? What if we acknowledge that the displacement of Black people in Durham is not new, nor is it limited to the living.”
Op-Ed: LGBTQ People Deserve Employment Discrimination Protection Just Like The Rest Of Us
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear cases dealing with LGBTQ workplace discrimination on Tuesday.
From Barcelona With Love: What I Learned on My Summer Vacation
Thoughts and prayers (and I think my migraines are coming back).
Trump Is a Symptom, Not the Disease. Defeating Him Is Only the First Step.
He’s the culmination of a half-century of calculated cynicism that stoked racial resentment, and three decades of Fox News and talk-radio propaganda that laid the groundwork for an army of angry, aggrieved white men.
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Zainab Baloch: Friday Taught Me That White Supremacy Knows No Borders
“The only place I feel fully secure is at my masjid. I will not be intimidated, and I will not be kept from God.”
Those Bird Scooters Suck (and Other Things Our Readers Told Us This Week)
Last week, we wrote about the Bird scooters that have caused such a commotion in downtown Raleigh, and boy, did some of you have feelings about that. We begin with OrionMaize, who compares them to dog poo: “When dockless items (bikes, scooters, cars, food wrappers, pet feces) are left on private propertyor even public sidewalksthey…
Silent Sam Isn’t Really About Racism (and Other Things Our Readers Told Us This Week)
Last Monday evening, demonstrators tore down Silent Sam on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus. Over the next week, the N.C. Historical Commission votedbegrudginglyto keep the three Confederate monuments on the state Capitol grounds, a member of the UNC Board of Governors pledged to re-erect Sam, and a bunch of definitely-not-racist-just-history-loving Silent Sam supporters held their own rally…
It’s the Media’s Fault Trump Is Mean to Us (and Other Things Our Readers Told Us This Week)
A few weeks ago, after The Lakewood announced that it’d be closing, we ran several letters critical of a piece former food editor Victoria Bouloubasis had written last year about the upscale restaurant’s place in a gentrifying neighborhood. We neglected, however, to run this comment, from cantakerous, which stoutly rises to her defense: “Bouloubasis wrote…
What the United Methodist Church Is Doing to Shepherd’s House Is Wrong—Or It’s Not (And Other Things Our Readers Told Us This Week)
In last week’s paper, Sarah Willets wrote about Shepherd’s House, a congregation in Old East Durham that is fighting to retain control of its property, which the United Methodist Church is considering selling to the N.C. Council of Churches. Commenter vivdis writes that the denomination’s plans are “obscene”: “I went to this church growing up.…
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