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History is perilously close to repeating itself in the struggle for civil rights in North Carolina, said Benjamin Jealous, former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
"I Love My Hair When It's Good: And Then Again When It Looks Defiant and Impressive" is returning to Manbites Dog Theater in Durham, two years after it originally premiered in the same location. This time, it carries the tag of “The Remix,” after writer and director Chaunesti Webb decided to bring it back in a modified incarnation due to its popularity when it first showed.
President Barack Obama is aiming for energy manufacturing to be the future of the U.S. economy, with Raleigh, N.C. at the center of development.
To show his support for global academic freedom President Richard Brodhead has joined in opposition to a boycott of Israeli universities.
Durham police held a press conference Friday afternoon to release a preliminary report on findings of the department’s internal investigation of the Nov. 19 incident involving the 17-year old Huerta, who died shortly following the indicent. Captain Laura Clayton read from a statement describing the sequence of events that resulted in Huerta being found shot in the back of a police cruiser with his handcuffs still on.
Since his papacy began on March 13, Francis has exhibited multiple departures from the practices of his predecessors, such as wearing simpler vestments with little ornamentation, living outside of the papal apartments of the Apostolic Palace and allegedly leaving the Vatican at night to minster to the homeless.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>An anti-discrimination bill in the U.S. House of Representatives could benefit LGBT employees in North Carolina, but it is meeting mixed levels of support.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Crystal Mangum was found guilty Friday of second-degree murder of her boyfriend Reginald Daye. She was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway to a minimum of 14 years in prison after about six hours of deliberation by a 13-person jury.Mangum stabbed Daye in April 2011 in a fight at Daye's home, 10 days after which he died at Duke University Medical Center. Mangum claimed she was acting in self-defense at the time after Daye hit her and knocked her to the floor, threatening and choking her. She testified in her own defense Wednesday and expressed that she did not intend to kill him.Mangum's attorney Daniel Meier said that due to her constitutional right to testify, it was not his decision to allow her to take the stand. He would not say what his advice was to her or whether he believed the testimony did more harm than good, but noted that he has rarely had a clients' testimony work in their favor.The worst possible outcome was for Mangum to be convicted of first-degree murder and life in prison without parole. He said the conviction, which was a lot better than the worst-case scenario, has been appealed.Mangum previously gained notoriety after accusing three 2006 Duke lacrosse players of raping and kidnapping her. The players were eventually found innocent and Mangum's lawyer and former Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred for perjury and violating professional conduct. Meier said that he thinks the Duke case had a "bit of an influence" on the murder trial, but not an overwhelming one. The jury acquitted Mangum of two larceny charges. She was accused of stealing two money orders from Daye totaling $700.
Farmers and consumers both locally and nationally are voicing concerns over the upcoming implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act.
An appeal relating to the 2006 lacrosse scandal was rejected for consideration by the United States Supreme Court Tuesday.
Pullitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Barton Gellman was invited to be a part of the “ Leakers or Whistleblowers? National Security Reporting in the Digital Age” event organized at the Sanford School of Public Policy Monday evening. He sat down with The Chronicle’s Georgia Parke to discuss the ethics of journalism and his recent involvement with Snowden’s leaked documents.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Durham voter turnout for this year’s municipal elections was nearly as low as Duke’s acceptance rate.
Incumbent Bill Bell has won a seventh term as the mayor of Durham.
Students in North Carolina took steps to understand the implications of the North Carolina voting reform law, passed this summer, at a forum Monday night.
Following the disbanding of the Latino Cultural House in 2011, two other cultural living groups have prospered.
Students staged a walkout in protest of a talk by libertarian political scientist Charles Murray at the Sanford School of Public Policy Monday night.
Jeffrey Zients, Trinity '88, was recently chosen to oversee the repairs of Healthcare.gov, the website through which health insurance exchanges are set up under the Affordable Care Act. Upon its advent the website experienced multiple crashes and technological issues that the administration is now working to fix. Zients, who is the former director of the Office of Management and Budget and will become the director of the National Economic Council in January, will serve as the manager of the repair project within the Department of Health and Human Services. Zients sat down with The Chronicle's Elizabeth Djinis and Georgia Parke to discuss his work and the path that brought him into the public sector today.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In anticipation of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, administrators are hoping that this year will bring even more financial assistance to students hoping to attend Duke.
"Honestly, I never noticed anything different. I'm not sure if that's because we're a private university or not, but I didn't notice any cutbacks in hours, staff, services anything. Maybe I'm not observant enough, but if I didn't follow the news, I wouldn't have known anything was going on at all."
When the federal government shut down as a result of Congress’ failure to pass a budget by its Oct. 1 deadline, agencies around the country were forced to close their doors and furlough their employees until their funding was appropriated more than two weeks later. The Chronicle’s Azeb Yirga and Georgia Parke looked into the consequences of the shutdown in local agencies in Durham and the Triangle Area as the state and country responded to a government shutdown for the first time in 17 years.
