The flashing lights of the police car caught me by surprise. It was dark out, and my friend had asked if he could turn the…
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Traffic court is full. People sit chin in hand, eyelids heavy. Some stomp out of the courtroom, then return a few minutes later. Others grimace, checking…
The Woolworth’s store on South Elm Street marks the start of downtown Greensboro. Its lunch counters, the catalyst of a national wave of sit-ins in…
North Carolina’s governor and lieutenant governor don’t seem to agree on anything. As candidates for governor, Roy Cooper, the Democratic incumbent, and Dan Forest, 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…
An American flag flails halfheartedly beside the demonstration in downtown Durham. A Pan-African flag — larger and catching more gusts of wind — is paraded…
Adam Merritt caught a ride home from work and pulled up to find his house full of cops. Someone had tried to break into the…
At a panel on public-private community partnerships, District Attorney Satana Deberry stood before a lecture hall of Duke students and introduced them to Durham —…
A new film that celebrates a pivotal event in Durham’s history has an important asterisk: It wasn’t filmed in Durham. Set to hit theaters nationwide…
Durham is a diverse city where black residents account for 37 percent of the population and people of Hispanic origin represent 13 percent. But officials…