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| Exclusive: Obama Art Museum |
| Wednesday, September 8, 2010 |
| RALEIGH - Artist Christopher Terrell is putting the
historic election day of America's first black president in a time capsule.
"It was something as an artist that came to
me," Terrell said. "I felt like I was obligated to document this
historic happening in America, the first African-American president in our
time. If it doesn't happen for another 100 |
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| Wake school zones causes rift |
| Wednesday, September 8, 2010 |
| After several months of planning and protests, the Wake
County school assignment committee has devised 16 zones.
John Tedesco, a board member who chairs the committee,
said the student reassignment map, which includes zones in Apex, Athens Drive,
Broughton, Cary, East Wake, Enloe/Southeast Raleigh, Fuquay-Varina, Garner,
Green Hope/Panther Creek, Holly |
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| UNC housekeepers demand respect |
| Wednesday, September 8, 2010 |
| CHAPEL HILL -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "All labor that uplifts
humanity has dignity and importance, and should be undertaken with painstaking
excellence."
James Holman, a housekeeper delegate at the University of
North Carolina, said his colleagues are upholding their end of the bargain by
working hard, but they are not being granted the |
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| Domestic violence victims urged to break silence |
| Wednesday, September 8, 2010 |
| Survivors of domestic abuse will readily say it's never
irrelevant to discuss its causes or to let those who suffer know that they
don't have to take it. It's never irrelevant to let those who have been
battered, beaten and abused know they do have options.
"I never could have imagined that this was going to
happen to me," said Sheila Armstrong, a domestic |
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| Reality and poll reporting are poles apart |
| Wednesday, September 8, 2010 |
| Almost every day, the public is bombarded with news
reports that President Obama's standing in the polls is at the lowest level of
his presidency.
While true, the reporting leaves out one critical fact:
Obama's approval rating of 43 percent in the Gallup Poll of Aug. 23 is below
the levels of both presidents Bush at this point in their White House |
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| The Cost of Incarceration, part 8 |
| Sunday, September 5, 2010 |
| The Cost of Incarceration is an eight-part occasional series written by Patrice Gaines, former Washington Post reporter, author and co-founder of The Brown Angel Center, a program in Charlotte, that helps formerly incarcerated women become financially independent. |
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| Obamas dish on daughters' doings |
| Friday, September 3, 2010 |
| WASHINGTON - Twelve-year-old Malia Obama wears braces,
toots a flute and is after her father to save the tigers. Younger sister Sasha,
9, shoots hoops like her basketball-loving dad and dances to hip-hop.
Both girls get up at 6 a.m. to get ready for school.
Barack and Michelle Obama put their girls off limits to
the news media after they moved to the White |
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| Triangle 100 focuses on child obesity |
| Wednesday, September 1, 2010 |
| RALEIGH - "Fighting to stomp out childhood
obesity" is the theme of the newly formed Triangle Chapter of the National
Coalition of 100 Black Women's inaugural event.
The Triangle 100 is sponsoring a walk-a-thon that will
serve as a fundraising event for T100, a registered 501(c)3 organization, and
the Duke Children's Healthy Lifestyle Program - one of a |
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