In December, we published Milla Surjadi’s elegant essay about how she is learning to do her reporting with both rigor and humanity. She has now…
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Story by Nicole Kagan, photos by Kulsoom Rizavi Major the Bull, a 10-foot, 2,500-pound, bronze statue who watches over downtown Durham from his brick pedestal,…
After nearly seven years of public service, Charlie Reece will join his last Durham City Council meeting in less than a week. The city clerk…
In October, Bill Whittington, owner of Durham’s Blue Note Grill, was eagerly awaiting a performance by singer-songwriter Darrell Scott. The show was slated for Thursday,…
Durham has long been a beacon of Black entrepreneurship. The nation’s second-oldest African American bank, Mechanics and Farmers Bank, and North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance,…
Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog in Pennsylvania, predicted six more weeks of winter earlier this month and if you believe that a rodent can…
On a Monday morning last October, Duke football players shuffled into the team meeting room. Mondays are usually their day off, but they had guest…
Durham County Sheriff Clarence F. Birkhead issued a written statement in response to inquiries from The 9th Street Journal. The full text of the statement…
A program that helps Durham residents struggling to pay rent because of the pandemic will close on Feb. 6 after just 25 days of operation.…
Three years ago, Josh Sotomayor offered to mop the floors of the District Attorney’s office. He had entered law school four years earlier with hopes…