Aissa Dearing remembers a talk on gang violence prevention in her seventh-grade health class. This is how gangs recruit students, school security and police officers…
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Despite making up just 14% of Durham County’s population, over three-quarters of reported COVID-19 cases in June were among Latinx residents, Department of Public Health…
A new State of the County Health Report is out and the message is clear. Durham is making progress on some major health priorities. But…
For the second time this month, frustration and outrage over police misconduct against Black people dominated a Durham City Council meeting on Monday. Council members…
When the school day ended on March 13, Durham teachers and staff packed their bags, turned off lights and locked doors as if it was…
As a young woman, Wanda Boone was the first African-American to work outside of the kitchen at the hospital where she was employed. Later, while…
In order to reopen, Durham needs two vital things: more coronavirus testing and the ability to keep tracking down people unaware they were exposed to…
Responses to the coronavirus outbreak are disrupting all sides of substance abuse treatment in Durham. Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers, Durham’s best known addiction…
At the end of class at Empower Dance Studio, director Nicole Oxendine tells her students to unmute their Zoom sound. They extend their arms to…
Durham’s stay-at-home order is about to get more stringent, limiting public and private gatherings to no more than five people and placing new public health…