At 618 Foster Street, around the corner from Motorco Music Hall, stands a brick building whose side is covered with a scene straight out of…
9th Street Journal
It is a Wednesday afternoon in October in suite 4700—the Durham County Public Defender’s Office. A woman sits in the corridor, Face-timing a friend. Minutes…
Ping! The silver pinball ricochets off a triceratops’s horns. Ping! It bounces back with the flick of a stegosaurus’s tail. Ping! The ball rebounds off…
Kellie Smith wants to spend the holidays with her children. “I missed my kids having their first steps, them crawling for the first time, them…
During Thursday’s Durham Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Pascal Mubenga applauded billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s $18 million donation to the school district, but urged patience…
On a recent Sunday morning, I went to therapy feeling optimistic and left smelling like goat pee. To get my therapy, I drove 25 minutes…
In Durham County Courtroom 7C recently, prosecutor Mary Jude Darrow scans a docket of first appearances, bond hearings, and probation violations. Outside, a pair of…
A row of college baseball caps decorates the wall behind William T. Logan’s desk. The caps — from Clemson University, North Carolina State University and…
Judge Amanda Maris rocked her gray chair back and forth at the mahogany bench in her courtroom, where she was hearing cases involving domestic violence. …
Despite worries of voter intimidation, chaos at the polls, and post-election denialism, North Carolina’s midterm voting seems to have run smoothly. “I can say without…