9+ hour, 10+ min ago  (516+ words) Saint Augustine's University filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday and announced on Tuesday that its interim president, Dr. Jennie Ward-Robinson, has resigned after about four months on the job. The 159-year-old Raleigh HBCU has been struggling for years with mounting…...

17+ hour, 47+ min ago  (828+ words) Salt, Sweat & Steam Reading | Tuesday, April 28, 6: 30 p. m. | Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh Salt, Sweat & Steam: The Fiery Education of an Accidental Chef, a new memoir from Raleigh food writer Brigid Washington, opens with a crushing breakup that drives Washington to overhaul her…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (723+ words) This story originally published in The 9th Street Journal. Over half of Durham Public Schools high schoolers were'chronically absent in the first six months of the current school year" yet another challenge for a district already facing state underfunding and declining…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (1748+ words) George Hogan has a mission: to stop the Apex Police Department from renewing its contract with Flock, which sells automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), or cameras that track cars by license plate number. Flock cameras capture six to 12 images of…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (982+ words) Several years ago, Tressie Mc Millan Cottom drove her mother, Vivian Mc Millan, from Charlotte to Winston-Salem for a 50th anniversary party of the local Black Panther Party. Seeing her mother with fellow former Black Panther Party members'now in their 70s and…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1776+ words) Climate change can feel at once inescapable and intangible, a problem too ubiquitous and too abstract to address. But if we have any chance at avoiding the most catastrophic outcomes of a warming planet, we can't resign ourselves to thinking…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (247+ words) As members of the Kenan Institute for Ethics (KIE) Living Learning Community, a group of us are interested in building a different sort of culture around consumption, waste, and moving out while benefiting both Duke students and our Durham neighbors....

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (669+ words) About five years after Durham received federal pandemic relief money, the city has invested in a range of projects from local businesses to affordable housing. The money comes from ARPA, or the American Rescue Plan Act, which the federal government…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (12+ words) Lawmakers Threaten Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools Over Books, Policies on Gender'INDY Week...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago  (843+ words) A Date with Death| April 30; 6 p. m. |Letters Community Bookshop, Durham One day in 2009, Jane K. Callahan picked up the phone and learned that her mother was dying. Callahan, then 27, hadn't spoken to her mother, whom she had a complicated relationship with, in…...