A year ago today, March 10, Gov. Roy Cooper rolled out North Carolina’s first emergency order addressing the coronavirus pandemic. No one envisioned all that…
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The sky was pitch black, but Hannah Slocum was on the move. Rolling out her purple yoga mat and cueing a new playlist, she turned…
At the Blue Corn Cafe, co-owner Danielle Martini-Rios keeps a close eye on her servers’ hands. When she trains them, her directions are clear: “Don’t…
In addition to covering news, 9th Street Journal reporters delivered memorable tales in 2020. They discovered and developed these pieces while reporting on the pandemic,…
At 3:17 a.m. the Rev. Ben Johnston-Krase jumped out of bed, scrambled for his iPad and started Googling — somebody must have thought of this…
Nearly every Saturday morning since 2007, Durham Farmers’ Market transformed Durham Central Park. Usually, vendors rolled into Central Park Pavilion early, 6 or 7 a.m. …
From the moment I wandered onto Ninth Street as a clueless Duke freshman experiencing her first days of August humidity in the Southeast, I never…
COVID-19 has claimed its next holiday victim in Durham: trick or treating on Halloween. Donning a witch’s hat, Steve Schewel announced last week that Oct.…
Braggtown, like many predominantly Black neighborhoods in Durham, was settled by formerly enslaved people. Liberated from the vast Stagville plantation at the end of the…
“VA 2-211-685” is scrawled in black marker across a sheet of paper. Wade H. Williams, artist at his own company Artist at Large, holds up…