By Lucy Marques
April 30, 2024
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 By Lucy Marques The Durham VOICE’s Lucy Marques spoke with Durham City Council member Nate Baker about his priorities for the council, career experience and favorite things about Durham. Baker was elected to the council in 2023. This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. The Durham Voice: Tell me […]
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April 23, 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 By Lucy Marques In 2020, filmmaker Katina Parker founded Feed Durham, a mutual aid collective focusing on providing quality food for the Durham community. While Feed Durham began as an outgrowth of one of Parker’s annual family barbecues, the organization has now provided meals for over 165,000 people right from Parker’s […]
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April 2, 2024
Alexis Gumbs poses for a portrait. Photo by Sufia Ikbal-Doucet. Tuesday, April 2, 2024 By Lucy Marques At the beginning of high school, Durham-based writer Alexis Pauline Gumbs read “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston, for the first time. As they were reading the coming-of-age story, Gumbs was the same age as […]
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March 7, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024 By Lucy Marques The Durham VOICE’s Lucy Marques spoke with Durham City Council member Chelsea Cook about priorities for the council, career experience, and favorite things about Durham. Cook was appointed to the council in January to fill the seat that opened up after Leonardo Williams was elected mayor, and currently […]
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February 20, 2024
Aya Shabu, the director of arts and culture at Village of Wisdom, said that the organization started to help Black families navigate a racist and inequitable school system.
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