Durham
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Ripken the Bat Dog prepares for another season with Durham Bulls
The Durham Bulls are an institution in the Bull City. So is “Ripken the Bat Dog,” an American Black Lab trained retrieve loose bats on the field during games.
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The 5 NC billionaires who call Research Triangle Park home
Five notable billionaires reside in NC’s Research Triangle Park, an area that includes Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh. Do you know them and what they do?
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Multiple Durham schools close as teachers protest pay, education funding in NC
Wednesday’s school closings come after weeks of uncertainty in Durham. School staff are angry about pay and underfunding of public schools.
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VIDEO: Leo Williams: Here’s A Big Success Story From Eastern NC
WATCH: We don’t always hear success stories out of eastern NC, but here’s a big one. We went inside Durham Mayor Leo Williams’ rise, from Halifax County “country-boy” to leader of one of NC’s fastest-growing cities. For the full story, here. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cardinal & Pine…
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Leo Williams: How a ‘country boy’ from eastern NC came to lead one of NC’s fastest-growing cities
Leo Williams is an up-and-coming political leader with a deep background in education. We talked to him about being the mayor of his adopted city, and the pressures of leading in tumultuous times.
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6 Utopias You Didn’t Know Existed in North Carolina
A Black refuge for economic empowerment, a lesbian commune, and a refuge for enslaved people: Let’s take a tour of the hidden societies within North Carolina society.
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Our Juneteenth: When emancipation came to one of North Carolina’s largest plantations
At the close of the Civil War, news of Emancipation took two months to wind its away across the South. But word reached the Stagville plantation in Durham, NC, in about two days.
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Methodists banned gay marriage. But 12 of their NC pastors defied the church together.
One of the world’s largest Christian denominations banned same-sex marriage. But a 2020 wedding in North Carolina defied the church.
