Meals on Wheels: lending a holiday hand
By Carl Kenney
December 4, 2015
This holiday season, the Durham Meals on Wheels program lent a helping hand to the community.
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December 4, 2015
This holiday season, the Durham Meals on Wheels program lent a helping hand to the community.
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December 2, 2015
Volunteers braved the rain and mud to finish a playground build at Oakwood Avenue led by Kaboom, a national nonprofit.
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Durham Voice reporter DeVante Campbell discovered that Meals on Wheels of Durham does much more than deliver food to the homebound.
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November 21, 2015
Two million students across the nation will be affected by new changes to the S.A.T., including a new scoring system and change to the formerly required essay.
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November 13, 2015
Neal Magnet Middle School hosted its first-ever cookout — featuring four athletic events — to cultivate school spirit and raise funds for their athletic department.
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November 12, 2015
It would be difficult not to notice the joy that this building contains as cast members rehearsed for their annual performance of “The Durham Nutcracker.” But this isn’t the version that you’ve seen before.
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Justin Cook’s ongoing project, “Made in Durham,” explores the effects of homicide, incarceration and urban renewal in the city.
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The Durham History Hub provides a glimpse into Hayti, the cultural and social center for the African-American community that developed after the civil war.
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Growing up on a farm on the edge of Durham County, Ken Browning never dreamed of being a football coach. But that all changed during his senior season in 1963.
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The Kidznotes program in Durham serves five schools and hopes to raise $1 million by the end of the year to help increase enrollment.
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November 2, 2015
NCCU Voice reporters profiled four Northeast Central Durham elementary school principals. In this video, DeVante Campbell introduces Shayla Holeman, principal of Eastway Elementary School.
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October 26, 2015
CEO of National Pawn, Bob Moulton, has a heart and a desire to give back to the community and to change lives. Just ask the kids at Shepard Middle School in Durham who are making more music with the recent donation of instruments from Moulton.
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Every Wednesday in September and October, a big truck with a NC Joblinks logo sits next to Angier Avenue Baptist Church. Some people in formal attire, some not, go inside the truck for a short while. Inside the truck lies new opportunities for Northeast Central Durham residents.
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October 23, 2015
Judd is the principal of Y.E. Smith Elementary Museum School. As its title infers, Y.E. Smith stands out from other NECD schools in that it focuses on hands-on and diverse learning opportunities through community collaboration.
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In the halls of Maureen Joy Charter School, students and staff are encouraged to be active in and around their school, as well enjoy and embrace learning. So what better way to accentuate that than to have a leader who is just that, and even is excited to do it?
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Since it opened its doors in 2009, Global Scholar’s Academy, with its extended hours and extra activities, has had families crossing their fingers that they will get drawn in the annual lottery for the charter school.
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Twenty years ago Oct, 16, 1995, found millions of men driving, flying and riding buses to Washington, D.C., for the Million Man March.
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October 20, 2015
Nod-worthy beats, enticing melodies, and soulful lyrics are the ingredients used to make Durham’s music group Tha Materials.
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During the 2014-2015 school year, I have heard students talked about how early they had to get up, saying that most mornings they’re too tired to do school work.
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For a few hours on a rainy Friday, the community helped Durham Bulls Athletic Park open its doors to some of the residents who needed it most.
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On a cool rainy October afternoon many residents of Durham were sitting down to watch the game or catch up on their usual Sunday afternoon nap, but for the 540 residents of Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers, the day was anything but ordinary.
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It’s been said that kids say the darndest things. For the Walltown Aspiring Youth program, it’s the children who have the best ideas.
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SEEDS has developed opportunities for children and teens to bring things from the soil and to the table through the help of camps, classes and after-school programs.
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Patience. For Charles Singletary, better known by his stage name Charles DaBeast, there couldn’t have been a more fitting title for his debut album.
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More than 100 community members came together Saturday morning (Oct. 17) at the dedication ceremony for a 2,400 square foot mural commemorating Durham’s civil rights leaders.
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The Girls Who Code meeting didn’t start with a screen saturated with lines of code, a discussion of Python, or a lesson scrawled on a white board. It began with a story.
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October 13, 2015
Mr. Wendell Tabb stands at the door of his theater room, a group of children gathered around, “Due to the situation we are currently having, the school has cancelled rehearsal today, we will resume rehearsal tomorrow as planned,” he said. The students all scurry off, calling for rides they weren’t aware they would need. […]
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October 11, 2015
Wendy Clark, an entrepreneur and small business owner, sought an opportunity that would not only benefit her, but the people in the community as well, by purchasing the abandoned John O’Daniel Exchange building in January 2007. According to Joanna Cutrara, Clark’s staff writer, what is now a building for disadvantaged people and non-profits to work […]
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The Boys and Girls Club is a well-known nationwide network of clubs in urban areas to keep kids and teens busy, engaged, safe and off the streets. Durham’s John Avery Boys and Girls Club, 808 E. Pettigrew St., welcomes about 110 children each day. Their after-school programs run from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m.. According […]
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October 1, 2015
On East Geer Street, a relatively new, flashy yellow two-story building stands out from the rest of the block. The color seems symbolic of the organization housed there. Sunrise Recovery Resources Center, a peer-led organization helps substance abusers turn their lives around. SRRC is a non-clinical organization and branch of the Alcoholic Drug Council. They […]
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When people ask Pat Murray what she does, she says, “I’m all about community media.” Murray never studied journalism as a student, but began writing as a part of Chicago’s radio and newspaper media. Murray has lived in Durham for 14 years and publishes the Durham Skywriter, an online community media outlet, as a positive news source […]
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“I’ve lived in the same ZIP code since I got to the U.S. in fourth-grade—27703,” says Vianey Martinez. Martinez, a 21-year-old senior who is majoring in sociology and Hispanic linguistics, grabs shelter from a downpour at the Old Well. She is the only student from her graduating class at Southern High School to attend UNC-Chapel […]
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“A crossroads between the community.” That is how Emmanuel Kearney, a volunteer, describes SEEDS (South Eastern Efforts Developing Sustainable Spaces). On Sept. 24, SEEDS hosted its 12th annual Harvest Dinner, the largest fundraiser of the year. Among the attendees were notable members of the SEEDS community, such as Kearney. The night began with a cocktail […]
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Walltown Children’s Theatre took center stage in a dance performance on Sept. 19 at the Durham Arts Council’s annual CenterFest in downtown Durham. The dance students stood in formation anxiously waiting for the beat to drop, while a curious crowd gathered around to watch the free show. The hip-hop and Bollywood performances showcased the […]
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Parents of Durham now have an option to track their child’s bus location when curious about their whereabouts. The “Here Comes the Bus” application allows parents to view real time school bus information of where their child’s location is via smart phone, tablet or computer using the latest in GPS technology. According to the […]
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Long-time Northeast Central Durham residents have no trouble recalling a time in the ’90s when their community was at a crossroads. “Things were out of control,” William Thomas, 72, of Taylor Street remembers. “There was drug dealing and a lot of undesirable actions.”
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September 30, 2015
Most teenagers don’t care about what members of the city council do or say, however there are 32 youth that do care. The Durham Youth Commission (DYC) is a city-funded council composed of 30 high school aged teens. This commission gives teens the opportunity to have a formal role in the city’s planning. The Durham […]
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September 29, 2015
Pretty much everybody has heard of Beyonce, but do you know about the only male dancers that are associated with her, Les Twins? As a young African-American dancer. I look up to these two people for many reasons, but primarily because of how they grew up dancing. Their family is a dancing musical family […]
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September 22, 2015
When did it become OK to say the “N-Word”? Recently, I’ve asked myself this question a lot, and started wondering about the origin of the word, the meaning of it and just how much it has changed in popular culture lately. Personally, as a young African-American woman, I try never to use the word. Yet, […]
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September 18, 2015
At the Holton Career and Resource Center, Katony Stanfield, 17, prepares to shave a reclined client in the school’s barbershop. Upstairs in the cosmetology classroom, students Irene Diaz, 18, and Rebecca Aguilar, 17, sit behind computer screens searching the Internet for hair images for the grand opening flyer. Down the hall, a group of students […]
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Many families around Durham don’t have a lot of money to spend on food. In fact, the latest reports show that 1-in-4 children and 1-in-5 residents worry about where their next meal may be coming from. The Farmer Food Share program, Porch, and the Food Shuttle work in tandem to help families get fresh, nutritious […]
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Since taking over Los Primos 13 years ago, owner Miguel Collado has battled through adverse conditions and managed to maintain one of the only supermarkets in Northeast Central Durham. “When we first came here, this was a very downgraded store with very little services to people,” Collado said. “When we took […]
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An overcast sky hangs overhead a derelict wooden structure which sits in near solitude, hidden behind its well-kept contemporary counterparts. Its shattered windows strangely whistle as wind blows through the cracks and bullet holes littering it. The Wachovia banking drive-through location on Driver St. has been closed since 1998, sitting abandoned behind a well-maintained plaza […]
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A summer basketball league calls to mind the squeaking of sneakers, the sound of the whistle blow, and the swish of the ball going through the net. But for participants in Campaign 4 Change’s summer league, it meant much more. DONS Basketball League (DBL) provides a 12-week summer basketball league during June, July, and August, […]
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When many people think of Durham one of two things comes to mind: Research Triangle Park or Duke University. However, beneath the hoops and hospitals lies one of the richest and most diverse dance communities in the southeast. It’s a normal Thursday morning in the Hillside High School dance studio; students congregate on the […]
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September 17, 2015
Only blocks away from the epicenter of what Southern Living calls one of the South’s Tastiest Towns, the Saltbox Seafood Joint at 608 N. Mangum St. sits nestled comfortably in Durham’s Old Five Points neighborhood. “I live in Chapel Hill,” said businessman and Saltbox patron, Tom Vickers. “But I always try to time my trips […]
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Community members say the Alston Avenue widening project will create more division than access to the neighborhood even after the compromise to save Los Primos Supermarket. The widening project, which will stretch from N.C. Highway 147 (the Durham Freeway) to Holloway Street, has been part of the conversation in North East Central Durham since […]
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Though the digital divide adversely affects the Northeast Central Durham community, who exactly it is dividing is diverse: the impoverished from the wealthier, students from schoolwork, and even parents from children. When asked about the digital divide in Durham, the CommUNITY tutors at the West End Community Foundation pondered for a moment. The classroom they sat […]
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In an effort to raise money and bring the community together, SEEDS will be hosting its 12th Annual Harvest Dinner at the Pavilion at Durham Central Park on Thursday, Sept. 24. SEEDS (South Eastern Efforts Developing Sustainable Spaces) is central Durham’s nonprofit community educational garden. Since 1994, the garden has been working to promote sustainable […]
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Brooklyn Cooper is now the first Teen Editor-in-Chief of the Durham VOICE to attend UNC-Chapel Hill. Danny Nett, the VOICE’s social media editor, sat down with Cooper to discuss how she likes Carolina so far and how her time on the VOICE and Northern High School’s newspaper, the Northern Round Table, influenced her decision to pursue […]
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