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Walking along the Eno’s Buckquarter Creek Trail a friend and I were discussing the new businesses along Geer Street. “I love the new coffee shop, and one of the owners is a person of color,” I said to her.
Published: May. 18, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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Everybody wants somebody to do something about getting people from one side of the downtown Durham railroad tracks to the other and alive to tell about it.
Published: May. 18, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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If City Hall’s recent propositions for downtown parking gave you a moment of déjà vu, it means you’ve been around here awhile.
Published: May. 15, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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Perceptions rule the day when parents go to battle to ensure their children receive the best education their money and screaming can obtain. Things like race and economic disparity have a way of showing up whenever parents begin contemplating the best place to send Dick or Jane to get an education.
Published: May. 11, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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At this point, just about everybody involved in the decision about what to do with the venerable but groaning Liberty Warehouse on Rigsbee Avenue would prefer to be, oh let’s say, soaking up some serious rays on the sugar sands of Cancun.
Published: May. 11, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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On a cool, sunny, April morning the Bull City Connector bus stopped on Main Street, near Whole Foods. I followed a young, ponytailed man who was tethered to an equally young Asian woman onto the bus. The bus driver greeted me.
Published: May. 7, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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At the edge of my grandfather’s garden lay a large, soil-filled area outlined with rocks. A very permanent raised bed, it was the animal graveyard. When a kitten or chick or puppy died, my grandmother gave the children a box and the five siblings picked flowers, assigned roles, rehearsed prayers, and then processed toward the garden cemetery, minister at the head, gravediggers in the rear, all of them singing “On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand.”
Published: May. 4, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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Like a lot of other people in these parts, I shrugged off last month’s announcement by the ACC’s Council of Presidents that they had signed off on a grant-of-rights (GOR) agreement designed to “stabilize” the 15-school conference.
Published: May. 4, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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Bernard Obie’s organic farm in Person County north of Durham is a reminder that food can be an equalizer among societies.
Published: May. 3, 2013 11:47 AM | Full story
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“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they will be called children of God” Matthew proclaims in the Beatitudes. But, what is peace? Is it simply the absence of war or conflict that brings peace?
Published: May. 1, 2013 3:42 PM | Full story
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