When Chris Kenan pulled up to his childhood home in East Durham last month, he saw seven mothers standing resolutely with a crowd of children.…
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By Cameron Oglesby and Henry Haggart After Durham’s most violent night in months of protests, Mayor Steve Schewel blamed unidentified outsiders for busting windows, spray-painting…
Because exposure to the coronavirus remains a risk inside Durham County Detention Center, the sheriff wants funding to test inmates and staff more frequently. One…
A summer of change was just beginning when Durham’s elected leaders vowed on June 15 to “transform policing” in response to local and national protests…
By Henry Haggart New demands that Durham Police Department improve how it treats residents swelled last week after news broke that police officers approached Black…
Andrea Cobb, a nationally known artist based in Durham, collected and filed away the annual property tax notices she received in the mail for more…
Chances are you’ve spotted them on social media streams: super-sized words painted on pavement outside two government buildings in downtown Durham. “DEFUND” yells one in…
Last week’s early-morning fire at Historic Stagville state historic site was set, according to a fire department chief who was among the first on the…
Six Durham County Sheriff’s Office employees assigned to the county jail have tested positive for COVID-19. No inmates have tested positive, according to a press…
Stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic present a dangerous reality for victims of domestic violence: a government mandate to remain at home, in an isolated…