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Center for the Arts and its Sweet Bee Theater is a new theatrical venue in Pittsboro, North Carolina founded by Craig Witter and Tammy Matthews. Witter and Matthews also started Pittsboro Youth Theater, an organization that offers dramatic training for children’s productions.
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Thousands of people gathered in Raleigh, North Carolina to protest the inauguration of President Donald Trump. This issue of Indy Week presents stories about this burgeoning movement, from the inauguration protests to the women’s marches.
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Pauli Murray, a Durham activist and lawyer, spent her life facing discrimination and relentlessly pursuing justice. She understood the need to connect issues of race with gender, and was an influential leader in the civil rights movement. A mural painting and national historic landmark designation honor Murray’s legacy.
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Thousands of undocumented immigrants live in North Carolina, and the state’s Latino population is rapidly growing. With the incoming administration, President-elect Donald Trump proposes to deport immigrants. Organizations such as El Pueblo are encouraging community members to fight against the state legislators’ position on immigration.
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David McKnight is an influential musician and former journalist also known as the Franklin Street Fiddler, the Mayor of Ninth Street, or Hillsborough Street’s Handel. McKnight was recently diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, giving him little time to live. This week musicians gathered in Durham to pay tribute to McKnight.
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Horse & Buggy Press will have one last exhibit, by Jessina Leonard, at the Bull City Arts Collaborative before moving locations. Dave Wofford founded the letterpress business and art gallery in 1996. Since then, Wofford’s business has expanded to encompass new perspectives on art and design.
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Sean Martin, of Mebane, North Carolina, found the first edition of F.L. "Fanny" Gillette's The White House Cook Book at a Chapel Hill Public Library book sale. The cookbook was a nineteenth-century bestseller, and could be worth five-hundred dollars.
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Last week a Rolesville police officer was caught on camera throwing a high school student to the ground. Activists are now asking if North Carolina public schools need school resource officers.
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Autopsy results appear to contradict the Durham Police Department’s account of Frank Clark’s death. Police claim that Clark was shot from behind while fleeing the police, but local residents are skeptical. They believe that the officers mistreat impoverished African Americans, particularly those, like Clark, with criminal records.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 52, Jan 2017,
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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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Standard Foods restaurant re-opened in Raleigh after much hype and many delays. The restaurant focuses on sustainable and local food, and serves as a grocery store, butcher shop, and bar.
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Chef Vivian Howard is the owner of Chef and the Farmer restaurant in Kinston, and host of the PBS documentary, A Chef's Life. Now she is on tour for her new book, Deep Run Roots. As part of the tour, Howard is adding a food truck featuring recipes from the book.
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Suppressive Fire, a metal band from Durham, has a new record called Nature of War. The record brings back the sounds of death-metal, and offers perspective to issues of human conflict and brutality.
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Warren Hicks and Jeff Bell are Chapel Hill artists and producers of the new podcast, Don’t You Lie to Me. The podcast explores personalities from the artist community through unscripted dialogues, and aims to illuminate all levels of the art world.
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Roy Cooper officially became Governor-Elect of North Carolina on December 5, 2016. Over the next four years, citizens hope Cooper will take on the General Assembly, stand up for immigrants and refugees, support LGBTQ rights, make North Carolina government transparent, and pursue aggressive environmental policies.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 51, Jan 2017,
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