May Day, which falls annually on May 1, is observed around the world to celebrate workers’ rights. The Durham rally was organized by the Southern Workers Assembly and garnered the attention of union organizations, public school staff and sanitation workers, among other local workers through a Wednesday Instagram post.
The DPS “LEA attrition rate,” which includes teachers that either left the state or left their respective LEA, was 21.1%, exceeding the average LEA attrition rate of 16.8%.
The committee voted to reverse the policy in less than four minutes with no discussion or questions, according to The Associated Press.
This weekend, the Savannah Bananas, a traveling independent baseball team, brought their Banana Ball World Tour to Durham, playing a three-game weekend series at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in front of sellout crowds from April 12 to 14.
The event, which took place on the first day of Black Maternal Health Week, featured testimonials from women who have been personally affected by increasingly strict abortion bans across the country.
As part of his push to support youth “from cradle to career,” he announced the launch of the Mentoring Alliance Partnership with the Youth Office and Youth Mentoring Collaborative. This partnership aims to offer educational opportunities for students to start on their career paths.
Stein, who faces Republican Mark Robinson in the upcoming election, highlighted his policies on education, housing reform, gun violence, economic growth and voting rights.
Before the decision to effectively shut the program down, findings from a study conducted by Duke Law School’s Wilson Center for Science and Justice were presented to the council.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announced Friday afternoon that he would be rescinding a 2021 executive order guiding universities on how to manage name, image and likeness (NIL) profits by student-athletes.
North Carolina was one of 15 states to hold its primary on Super Tuesday, a day with the most concurrent primary elections and over a third of available delegates for Republican and Democratic nominations at stake. Municipal, state and federal races were all on Durham’s ballot.
The polls closed at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, and with 99.32% precincts reporting, here is how the votes tallied up for North Carolina’s statewide candidates, as well as candidates running for local Durham offices with all county precincts reporting:
Council members voted 4-2 to reject a three-year contract with ShotSpotter — now known as SoundThinking — whose services drew criticism from community members and failed to pick up a drive-by shooting in January 2023 and two deadly shootings in February 2023.
Trump’s address focused primarily on securing the U.S. border with Mexico to prevent “migrant crime,” vehemently criticizing President Joseph Biden’s policies during his first term and preventing what he called a “rigged election” in 2020 from recurring in 2024.
North Carolina and 14 other states will hold primary elections Tuesday, a critical day in which 36% of Republican delegates are at stake. A High Point University poll released Friday showed that former president Donald Trump is leading the Republican presidential primary race with 69% of the vote, while Haley trails behind at 24%.
Harris’s trip came in advance of the North Carolina primary election on March 5. Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Donald Trump are holding rallies on Saturday in Raleigh and Greensboro, respectively.
Durham County primary elections for board of commissioners, board of education and register of deeds will be held on March 5, ahead of the general elections on Nov. 5.
Ten pro-Israel and 30 pro-Palestinian speakers addressed the council prior to the vote. Chief among their concerns was the language of the proposed resolution: pro-Israel speakers protested the fact it did not name Hamas, while pro-Palestinian speakers thought the resolution should have called for a permanent cease-fire and labeled Israel’s actions as genocide.
The election will decide the Republican and Democratic candidates, who will advance to the Nov. 5 general election. The Chronicle has you covered with a guide on the candidates and the main issues at the forefront of voters’ minds.
Munger previously ran for governor of North Carolina in 2008 as the Libertarian Party nominee, becoming the first third party candidate to appear in a televised debate and earning nearly three percent of the vote.
The DAE believes that a meet and confer process will aid the district in “retaining Durham Public School staff and attracting highly qualified workers to join Durham Public Schools.”
