In 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger. More than 10 years earlier, Private…
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Three generations of the Jabba family take turns peering through the eyepiece of a telescope aimed at Monday night’s waxing gibbous. Through the lens, the…
As people took turns spinning a nearly 2-foot-wide multicolored wheel, a woman sporting a “Celebrate Everyday like It’s Earth Day,” T-shirt jumped up and down…
As people arrived under the picnic shelter in Oval Park on Saturday morning by bike, car, and foot, they introduced themselves with their names, and…
Starting about noon Monday, people began to gather inside The Parlour, craning their necks to see the flavors of the day. They were waiting patiently…
Jeremiah Sterling has six shots in him—three Pfizer vaccinations, two Jack Daniels shooters, and one bullet from Iraq—and he feels them all on an unusually…
Under a cloudy purple night sky, a small group of clowns gathers on the lawn at Bull McCabe’s. Above the fluffy blue, pink, and red…
The drumbeat starts low and slow and builds in tempo. Another drummer joins in, creating an intense beat that fills the room. Onstage, a giant,…
“He loved the bees,” John Replogle, former CEO of Burt’s Bees, recalls of Burt Shavitz, the company’s founder. “Just the idea that there was an…
It can feel difficult to find areas of consensus in our polarized country. But on Oct. 31 in Durham, a few universal truths were recognized…