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Charges Dropped Against Two Accused of Bringing Weapons to Anti-Klan Rally
Last summer, Dwayne Dixon was charged with bringing a weapon to a spontaneous anti-Klan demonstration that brought hundreds of people to downtown Durham. On Thursday, the charge against him was...
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Durham Activists Want the City to Become the First in the U.S. to Condemn...
Since 9/11, high-ranking American police officers from all over the country have been sent to Israel for counterterrorism training, a practice critics find problematic due to Israeli security forces’...
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Vert & Vogue Awarded B Corp Distinction, Vows to Expand Social and...
Durham retailer Vert & Vogue recently earned distinction as a B Corp, the equivalent of a Fair Trade certification in the coffee industry. The B Corp title is given to companies that meet a...
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Would Your Favorite President Survive These Duke Professors’ March Madness...
Next week, two Duke professors—B.J. Rudell, the associate director of POLIS: The Center for Political Leadership, Innovation, and Service; and Fritz Mayer, the associate dean of the Sanford School of...
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Judge Tells Durham GOP Why He Didn't Convict Protesters Charged with Toppling...
"I'm going to talk about the elephant in the room right now," Durham County District Court Judge Fred Battaglia Jr. told a crowd of thirty-plus people Thursday night. Battaglia wasn't talking about the...
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Amid National Walkouts, Little Kids From Durham Early School Voice Their Own...
As thousands of students across the nation walked out of classrooms this morning to call for an end to gun violence, children from Carolina Friends Durham Early School came up with their own way to...
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So What’s Going On With This Heated Durham NPO Debate?
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The Durham Sheriff Says the Bungled Confederate Monument Case Wasn’t His Fault
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Congress’s Omnibus Spending Bill Could Potentially Mean Good News for...
The $1.3 trillion spending bill being rushed through Congress ahead of tomorrow’s deadline is a complex, multifaceted thing, some twenty-two hundred pages long, with countless goodies tucked into its...
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Let’s Try (and Fail) to Make Sense of Durham’s Latest Crime Stats
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Here’s Some Good News for Proponents of the Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit...
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Responding to Activists, the Durham City Council Rejects Police Exchanges...
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Everything Is Awesome! Notes on the State of Downtown Raleigh and Durham,...
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Local Activists Condemn the Detention of Up to Twenty-Five Undocumented...
On Friday morning, the activist group El Centro Hispano and officials from around North Carolina denounced a spate of ICE raids across the Triangle that have led to the detention of up to twenty-five...
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The Opportunity Zone Tax Incentive Is Supposed to Help Distressed Areas. See...
Seven Durham census tracts are being nominated for designation as opportunity zones under a buried provision in the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act designed to encourage investment in low-income areas....
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Durham City Council Unanimously Approves Contentious Zoning Regulations in...
The Durham council chamber, nearly packed to capacity, was awash with yellow “No” and lime-green “Yes” signs on Monday night in anticipation of the city council’s precedent-setting decision regarding...
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A Duke University VP Walked Into the Campus Joe Van Gogh, Heard a Rap Song,...
On Monday, two employees of Duke University’s Joe Van Gogh location had their contracts terminated after vice president for student affairs Larry Moneta and executive director of dining services...
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Joe Van Gogh Owner Robbie Roberts Apologizes for Handling of Duke Officials’...
In a statement posted on the company’s website this morning, Joe Van Gogh owner Robbie Roberts apologized for how his company handled a demand from Duke administrators to fire two baristas over a song...
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Protesters at Duke Joe Van Gogh Call on Administration to Condemn...
Dozens of students appeared outside of the Joe Van Gogh on Duke West Campus early this afternoon to protest the termination of two of the coffee shop’s employees.…
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Is the General Assembly About to Kill Light Rail?
The budget adjustment Republicans in the General Assembly crafted behind closed doors, unveiled last night, and are expected to pass by a veto-proof supermajority later this week—for the first time in...
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Dear DPAC, We Really Need to Talk About Jordan Peterson
Dear DPAC, your friends at the INDY here. Might we have a quick word?…
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Durham County Officials Lay Out Legislative Priorities, Including Medicaid...
Expanding Medicaid, improving social services, and combating opioid overdoses are among the priorities Durham County wants legislators to take on in their next long session. Durham County...
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Thanks for Nothing, Florence: The Durham Bulls Will Play All Five Games of...
Tonight, the Durham Bulls will take to Scranton’s PNC Field for game one of the Governors’ Cup Finals against the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (booooooooooooooooooo). The winner of the...
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Triangle Residents Advised to Seek Safety from Hurricane Florence's Floodwaters
The city of Raleigh has warned twenty-six thousand residents of flood risks at their properties ahead of Hurricane Florence's arrival, WRAL reports, and in Durham, more than one hundred properties...
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In Durham, McDonald’s Workers, Activists Protest Allegedly Pervasive Sexual...
Across the country, workers walked off the job and demonstrated outside McDonald’s restaurants Tuesday to protest what they describe as pervasive sexual harassment the company has failed to address....
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