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UNC to hold ceremony to mark first anniversary of Eve Carson’s death

March 4, 2009

A short ceremony tomorrow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will mark the one-year anniversary of the murder of Eve Carson, who was then UNC student body president.
During the ceremony, to be held in The Pit, UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp will speak about Carson’s role in the community. In addition, The Clef Hangers, a UNC a [...]

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Durham Police investigate first murder of 2009

February 27, 2009

A 17-year-old was shot and killed Thursday night in East Durham, in what the Durham Herald-Sun reported was the first murder of the year in the city .
The Durham Police Department identified the victim as Alejandro Emir Denis-Terron in a statement.
DPD officers arrived at 119 Herbert Street around 11 p.m. Thursday in response to reports [...]

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Piece of Civil Rights history for sale

January 23, 2009

Those in the Triangle area inspired by the Civil Rights legacy invoked by this week’s inauguration festivities may soon be able to lay claim to a small piece of that history….for a price.

A yellowing program autographed by a 29-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. in 1958 when he delivered the keynote address at a voter registration [...]

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Poetic in many ways

January 20, 2009

Toward the end of an interview with President Richard Brodhead last week, after he’d told me what books he read over break (for the record, among them were a biography of Obama and The Tender Bar) he confessed something:
“I taught the poet for Obama’s inauguration, you know.”
I hadn’t, but it makes sense. Brodhead, long-winded and [...]

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A dream deferred

January 20, 2009

by Ryan Brown
They came from all over the United States: from Durham to Denver to Detroit, from George Bush’s Texas and Barack Obama’s Illinois, from every precinct and campaign office and state party headquarters. Many traveled for days by bus or train; others walked from as far away as Virginia and [...]

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D.C. swarmed for “We Are One” Concert

January 18, 2009

Inauguration festivities began in earnest this afternoon as, Bono, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Renee Fleming, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Heather Headley, John Legend, Jennifer Nettles, John Mellencamp, Usher Raymond IV, Shakira, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Will.I.Am and Stevie Wonder in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

Celebrities Denzel Washington, Ashley Judd, Tom Hanks, Jack Black, Steve Carrell, [...]

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Inauguration fever sweeps nation and the Gothic Wonderland

January 18, 2009

Even with officials warning of freezing temperatures, long lines, crush-level crowds and what seemingly amounts to mass chaos, millions have already begun their descent into Washington D.C. for Tuesday’s presidential inauguration.
While President-elect Obama was making his way from Philadelphia to D.C. via the historic train route Abraham Lincoln took to claim his presidency, cars were [...]

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Moustapha on media bias

January 14, 2009

Imad Moustapha, who spoke at Duke yesterday, at one point denounced American media, accusing prominent publications like The New York Times and the New Yorker of having a pro-Israeli bias and censoring journalists.
Moustapha seems to be speaking of this alleged bias for at least a couple years now. At a talk in December 2007, he [...]

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