By Carl Kenney
April 19, 2011
By Roderick Marshall, Jr. NCCU Staff Writer The Durham VOICE Thedurhamvoice@gmail.com While most people associate football with men, Durham’s Carolina Phoenix women’s tackle football team is working to change that perception. The team, part of the Independent Women’s Football League since 2007, started in Greensboro, but has recently moved to Durham. More than 1,600 women […]
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April 14, 2011
By Hannah Taylor UNC Co-Editor The Durham VOICE thedurhamvoice@gmail.com Corey Wise has the date committed to memory. The date was his finish line – a beacon of hope at the end of a long, dark, cell-lined tunnel. Around prison, it was the conversation topic when people would ask, “How many more days, man?” It was […]
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By Anita Rao UNC Staff writer the Durham VOICE thedurhamvoice@gmail.com Frequent riders on Durham public buses may notice new faces along their bus routes this month as Triangle Transit employees come on board to conduct surveys and personal interviews as part of the “Designing Better Bus Services” effort. The two-part effort is an attempt to […]
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By Anita Rao UNC Staff writer the Durham VOICE thedurhamvoice@gmail.com To truly describe her husband, 76-year-old Louise Galifianakis had to tell a story. In a small shop in Asheville several years ago, she found a sculpture of the famous literary figure Don Quixote staring at a windmill he was trying to attack, and she said […]
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By John Hamlin UNC Staff Writer the Durham Voice thedurhamvoice@gmail.com Kifu Faruq and Melanie Wilkerson aren’t just food lovers — they’re food justice warriors. The pair organized Green Space Initiative LLC (GSI) in 2010 to empower the people of Northeast Central Durham to eat healthfully and affordable food by reconnecting to their roots to community […]
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By Maggie Bridgforth UNC Co-Editor the Durham Voice thedurhamvoice@gmail.com On most Saturday mornings at 501 Foster St., the home of the Durham Farmers’ Market, one can usually find tables bursting with the latest colors of the season: heirloom tomatoes, sweet onions, blueberries and wildflowers. But on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 5, instead of local […]
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By Zakiya Scott UNC Staff Writer The Durham VOICE thedurhamvoice@gmail.com The Grilled Cheese Bus is not just another food truck…it’s much more than that. It made its debut Saturday, just across from the Briggs Avenue Community Garden. The red and teal converted school bus served its original, pimento and pimento with bacon sandwiches, grilled until […]
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By Kelcie Landon UNC Staff Writer the Durham VOICE thedurhamvoice@gmail.com Every day, a group of men and women dressed in scrubs, lab coats and street clothes gathers above the women’s shelter of the Durham Rescue Mission to spend time in prayer. The men and women pray for individuals whom they have seen that week, people […]
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By Leah Campbell UNC Staff Writer the Durham VOICE thedurhamvoice@gmail.com Residents in Durham’s Eastway Village may have noticed a new installment on the corner of Eastway Avenue and Taylor Street. A table laden with balloons marks the site of the Bull City Cruisers Walking Club sign-up booth, which has recently set up camp at the […]
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By Purity Kimaiyo NCCU Staff Writer the Durham VOICE thedurhamvoice@gmail.com A new face of homelessness is striking as more people face mounting economic pressure and foreclosure of homes according to a survey done by Durham’s Ten Years to End Homelessness Project. In an event to focus public attention on homelessness, volunteers knocked on shelter homes […]
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By Ashley Gadsden NCCU Staff Writer the Durham VOICE thedurhamvoice@gmail.com The battle continues between the Durham City Council, community members and the state Department of Transportation. Last week’s city hall meeting was just another standoff without a final decision in the widening of Alston Avenue. The city hall meeting was opened by Mayor William V. […]
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By Belinda Dunn NCCU Staff Writer the Durham VOICE thedurhamvoice@gmail.com After months of hard work and organizing, Samuel and Sons Babershop will start its reconstruction on April 26. Sam Jenkins, owner, has been out of his shop since Jan. 2, after an electrical fire damaged his Angier Avenue barbershop. Jenkins has struggled to get the […]
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By Clinton Centry NCCU Staff Writer the Durham VOICE thedurhamvoice@gmail.com With new architecture and attractions, Durham’s skyline is changing. Some might say that it is beginning to look like a major urban city. Landmarks such as the DPAC, Fox 50, Durham Bulls Stadium, and Tobacco Row will soon be joined by the Durham Health and […]
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By Kiara Bennerman NCCU Staff Writer the Durham VOICE thedurhamvoice@gmail.com Five students in an administrative leadership and ethics class in N.C. Central University’s masters of public administration program have a plan. The students are teaming up with nearby St. Titus Episcopal Church to help that church “increase community awareness about and generate funds from the […]
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April 4, 2011
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