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Miriam Valle faced many struggles in her childhood growing up in Durham, but she was able to overcome them with the help of the local nonprofit community. Now working in the nonprofit sector, Valle is the winner of the 2016 Schewel Award.
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A Durham County Library online exhibit is strengthening the city’s LGBTQ community by preserving its history. The exhibit, Love + Liberation, showcases oral histories and artifacts from Durham’s LGBTQ community. Its website features relics ranging from scanned documents and letters to audio clips and old photographs.
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Cecilia Polanco runs the So Good Pupusas food truck in Durham, catering pupusas and other Salvadoran dishes. Earlier this year, Polanco began a scholarship program to help undocumented immigrants pay for school tuition. She also hopes to use her business to create a mechanism for community members to sell their food out of the truck and make a living.
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Anthony Greenup, a former Harlem Globetrotter basketball player, started a food truck in Cary, North Carolina. Inspired by his childhood in Louisiana, Baton Rouge Cuisine serves authentic Cajun and Creole cooking. The food truck’s menu features classic dishes such as gumbo, etouffees, and boudin balls, as well as Greenup’s signature “Who Dat” remoulade sauce.
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The Southern Oral History Program, a branch of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South, has been collecting oral histories from the South for more than forty years. The lack of Asian stories led to a new project called Southern Mix, which will focus on collecting Asian oral histories about immigration, assimilation, and the blending or preservation of cultures.
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Recently, Durham has had a steady stream of new businesses focused on witchcraft, tarot, magic, healing work and sacred spaces. Bakara Wintner, who identifies as a white witch, opened a store called Everyday Magic. Witner has heard concerns about the business of magic expressed on social media, but she stands by her shop and her vision.
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Entrepreneur Ben Greene wants to eliminate the gap between farm and table in the Research Triangle. His innovative farm-at-table mobile kitchen, The Farmery, serves meals made from locally grown food. The food is so local that most comes from a Crop Box, a regionally produced shipping container converted into a greenhouse, beside The Farmery's Airstream kitchen.
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Meishin Kyudojo is a Japanese archery studio operated by Dan and Jackie DeProspero in their backyard in Cary. Kyudo, or the way of the bow, is considered one of the purest forms of budo, or martial arts. In honor of the Onuma family, Dan’s mentors in Japan, he decided to continue the family’s legacy by bringing kyudo to the United States.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 23, June 2016,
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Bombshell Beer Company is North Carolina’s only all-female-owned microbrewery with all female brewers. Ellen Joyner, Michelle Miniutti, and Jackie Hudspeth started the brewery in Holly Springs with hopes of bringing more women into the craft beer world.
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The North Carolina Lantern Festival will be held in Cary, where artisans will gather to craft detailed lanterns to celebrate Chinese New Year. Many of the smaller pieces featured in the festival are constructed in China, but all of the lanterns and large pieces are made on site.
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CompostNow, Tilthy Rich, and Food FWD are three local companies offering membership services for weekly compost pickup at residences and businesses in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Durham. The collected food scraps are composted and turned into rich soil for a healthier environment.
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Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Paws (EENP) is a Carrboro-based nonprofit organization that has partnered with inmates at Franklin Correctional Center to train service dogs. EENP benefits from the work of the prisoners, but the inmates also find the work rewarding. The program helps to improve inmate mental health and gives them skills that may be beneficial outside of prison.
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