By Carl Kenney
October 20, 2009
By Aaron Saunders NCCU Staff Writer the Durham VOICE thedurhamvoice@gmail.com For the past 16 years, Durham youth have been able to grow athletically and academically through the Durham Eagles Athletic Association. Rodney Rogers, a former NBA player who started at Durham’s Hillside High School and Wake Forest University, and James Butch Williams, a Durham attorney […]
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October 8, 2009
by Praycious Wilson-Gay with Rosalia Preiss Teen Co-Arts Editors the Durham VOICE thedurhamvoice@gmail.com Music is a universal language for youth as well as adults. As my peers around me are always in classrooms humming or tapping on the tables, I come to wonder what their involvement in music is and how does it impact their […]
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By Emily Kennard UNC Co-Editor the Durham VOICE Look around Troy Weaver’s office at the brand-new Union Independent School, on the corner of North Roxboro and Dowd streets, and it appears he has hardly started working. Frames are still covered in plastic wrap, shelves remain empty and walls are bare. But the mess isn’t due […]
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September 24, 2009
By Julian March UNC Staff Writer the Durham VOICE By early October, about a dozen high school students in Durham will be selected to participate in a student-run record label. Over the next few months, they will churn beats, rhythms and rhymes into records to be marketed locally. And, if Sandy Wiley has his wish, […]
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By Emily Browder UNC Staff Writer the Durham VOICE From the outside, Union Independent School looks like a brand new elementary school with primary colors decorating the outside of the building, a smiling receptionist waiting for you at the front desk and large oversized crayons decorating the lobby. However, UIS is far from the ordinary. […]
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by Courtney Price UNC co-editor the Durham VOICE In two weeks, they’ll be catering their own graduation banquet, and their friends and family won’t have to lift a finger. They are students at the Milestones Culinary Institute in Durham, where they have spent the last 10 weeks learning basic skills in cooking, kitchen safety and […]
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