Written by: Stella Griffin

Durham resident Aidil Ortiz’s work- “A love letter to Durham”

By Stella Griffin

May 9, 2024

“I think that if you are a person who wants to feel sane, in any capacity, there’s a certain amount of reckoning and submission to the fact that the only constant is change,” she said. 

Ortiz embraces this constant in both her own life and in the city of Durham, which has grown with her.

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Sincerely Yours Salon celebrates 25 years of nurturing natural beauty

By Stella Griffin

April 2, 2024

“When I came here it felt different from the others,” Hill said. “In the other settings, stylists talk to each other, they play music and they kind of ignore the client. It’s just a trade and you feel like you’re a customer. When I came here, it was about the person in the chair.”

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Durham man turns to community to rally support for kidney transplant

By Stella Griffin

March 7, 2024

In 2007, Raymond was diagnosed with Focal Segmental Glomerculosis (FSGS), a rare kidney disease that creates scar tissue around the kidneys and prevents them from filtering toxins from the blood. This  led to kidney failure for Raymond. He is in desperate need of a kidney transplant to live.

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