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Durham County Board of Commissioners: Wendy Jacobs
Occupation & employer: Durham County Commissioner, Durham County Government. 1)In your view, what are the most important issues currently facing Durham County?. I believe the most important issues facing Durham County are rooted in systemic, historic racial and economic disparities. We need to manage our growth while making sure it benefits all of our residents. The issues we face are also connected directly to the funding gaps and lack of local control due to policies of the state legislature and how they impact us here in Durham County.
Durham County Board of Commissioners: Michelle Burton
Occupation & employer: School Librarian/Educator, Durham Public Schools. 1) In your view, what are the most important issues currently facing Durham County? If elected, what would be your top three priorities?. Funding Public Education. Affordable Housing. Livable Wages for Durham County Residents. 2) Durham Public Schools has been roiled by...
NC House District 33: Antoine G. Marshall
Name as it appears on the ballot: Antoine G. Marshall. 1. What in your background qualifies you to represent the people of your North Carolina district effectively? What would you cite as your three biggest career accomplishments?. I feel like most of my education and work history prepared me to...
Durham County Board of Commissioners: Fredrick A. Davis
Name as it appears on the ballot: Fredrick A. Davis. Campaign website: www.facebook.com/CommitteetoElectFredrickADavis. Occupation & employer: Retired Pastor of First Calvary Baptist Church, Durham, N.C. (2023) 1) In your view, what are the most important issues currently facing Durham County? If elected, what would be your top three priorities?. My...
Durham Public Schools Board of Education: Wendell Tabb
1. What are the three main issues that you believe the Durham Public Schools Board of Education needs to address in the upcoming years?. I believe that the three main issues that the Durham Public Schools Board of Education should address are school safety, mental health wellness, and literacy. First,...
Durham Public Schools Board of Education, District B: Millicent Rogers
Name as it appears on the ballot: Millicent Rogers. Occupation and employer: Sales Representative, Oxford University Press. Years lived in the area: All my life. 1. What are the three main issues that you believe the Durham Public Schools Board of Education needs to address in the upcoming years?. I...
NC Senate District 22: Sophia Chitlik
Occupation & employer: Self Employed, Investor & Fractional COO. 1. What in your background qualifies you to represent the people of your North Carolina district effectively? What would you cite as your three biggest career accomplishments?. The core job of a State Senator is to be accountable and accessible to...
‘The hissing cannot happen:’ Durham Mayor Urges Civility Amid Tensions Over Gaza
The room was packed at Thursday afternoon’s city council work session: a masked woman held a sign reading “Gaza must live” in green letters, a man wore a cape-like flag draped over his back that depicted the American and Israeli flags merging into one another, another woman sported a chain necklace with a dog tag that read “peace,” followed by Hebrew letters.
Hayti Heritage Film Festival Returns With Full Slate of In-Person Programming
The Hayti Heritage Film Festival was born out of a desire to keep the Hayti community’s rich culture alive. Once a self-sustaining Black community in the heart of Durham, Hayti quickly fell by the wayside after city officials failed to make good on their promise to rebuild a portion of the neighborhood decimated by Highway 147’s construction.
Durham Advocates, Residents, Elected Officials Gather for Transit Equity Week
As the lights dimmed inside the Durham Bus Station last Wednesday evening, congresswoman Valerie Foushee came into focus on a projector screen to share a message with a room full of transit experts, elected officials, and residents. “Transit Equity Day takes place on Rosa Parks’s birthday, February 4, to honor...
DPS Workers Will Keep Higher Pay Rates—For Now
This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. Workers in Durham Public Schools will continue to receive raised pay rates through the end of the month. Thursday’s unanimous decision from the Durham Public Schools Board of Education, which affects paychecks for classified staff, came just minutes after the district announced that all schools are closed Friday due to transportation staff shortages.
15 Minutes: Kevin “Rowdy” Rowsey II, Executive Director of Blackspace in Durham
What does Blackspace do and what is your role in the organization?. I started as the hip-hop program director at Blackspace, but now I work as the executive director. We aim to empower youth through science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEaM). We specifically look at providing free WokeShops (activities in the digital and creative arts) for children 13 to 19-year-olds in poetry, hip-hop, ciphers, digital storytelling, and even digital coding/programming.
Chronology of a Crisis: a Timeline of the DPS Salary Dispute
This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. Durham Public Schools are in chaos over a wage dispute involving hundreds of school system workers. If you’re just tuning in, it may be difficult to understand what happened, and when. Here are some key dates. January 12, 2023:...
Durham Schools Superintendent Resigns
This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. Durham Public Schools Superintendent Pascal Mubenga has resigned. Bettina Umstead, who chairs the Durham school board, announced the news Wednesday night. “Dr. Mubenga has done good work here in Durham, and it is extremely difficult to accept his resignation this...
Breast Cancer Cluster Suspected at NC State’s Poe Hall, Contaminated with PCBs
This story originally published online at NC Newsline. A 2020 study of nearly 800 North Carolina women found that PCBs might increase the risk death from breast cancer, raising questions about a suspected cluster at N.C. State’s Poe Hall, which is contaminated with high levels of the toxic chemical. In addition, among women who already have breast cancer, the study found PCBs could contribute to deaths from all causes. PCBs are known to accumulate in breast tissue.
Backtalk: DPS will have no choice but to listen
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been reporting on the pay dispute between Durham Public Schools and the district’s educators and staff, including its classified staff who were told that salary increases they had been promised and already paid would not continue. As a result, DPS has closed schools twice in the past two weeks as educators and their supporters have protested the pay situation and lobbied for more transparency. We received the following email from HANNAH POSNER, a student at Riverside High School, who attended the rally last Wednesday at the Fuller Building in Downtown Durham.
INDY’s 2024 Primary Election Endorsements
Early voting begins next week for Durham, Orange, and Wake Counties’ March 5 primary elections, and several local races are on voters’ ballots. In Durham, voters will select five county commissioners from a field of 11 candidates. Commissioner Heidi Carter isn’t running for reelection, but the four other incumbents are all running to keep their seats. Durham Public Schools has one competitive at-large race and three candidates running unopposed, whose names will also appear on the ballot.
A New Documentary Tells the Story of a Chapel Hill Hate Crime
On February 10, 2015, Chapel Hill resident Craig Hicks knocked on the condominium door belonging to his neighbors Deah Shaddy Barakat and Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, who were eating an early dinner with Yusor’s sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha. Using a .357-caliber gun, Hicks opened fire, killing Barakat with a spray of bullets and murdering the Abu-Salha sisters execution style.
Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle Fellows Bring the Magic of Music to Local Schoolchildren
It’s a little before the busy ruh of lunch at Southwest Elementary School in Durham, but when the familiar strains of the Harry Potter theme float quietly over a chattering crowd of third graders, a magical hush falls over the assembly. All of a sudden, a sterile school gym...
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