Alumni from formerly segregated Chapel Hill-Carrboro high schools join hands, honor three recent high school grads working for racial reconciliation
It’s never too late — to be a classmate! The newly formed Lincoln High School-Chapel Hill High School Joint Alumni Association presented its first round of annual community service awards to three local recent high school graduates on … Read more
In which we take to the open road again
Dear Reader, permit me a brief introduction, I am not a travel writer. But I am a writer. And I am traveling. Since a writer is compelled by internal hard wiring to record what he or she sees … Read more
What do European newspapers know that we don’t
Reflections on community — and community journalism from afar Or…In which the ol’ perfesser finds that journalism in Italy is alive and well… Isabella’s news stand sells 19 separate newspapers, not including — she is quick to tell us — … Read more
Celebrating high school journalism at Hillside High
As the Durham VOICE (www.durhamvoice.org) enters its ninth year, when I look back in mind’s eye rear-view-mirror, the thing I see is not the 42 print editions or the hundreds of online versions of our paper. I see faces. For … Read more
On community
On Community Community is where you find it. Archbishop Desmond Tutu cites the South African concept of communal unity, in his native language, “Ubuntu,” explaining, “We are made people through other people.” That we, as a species, are … Read more
An Old Professor’s Letter to a First-Year Journalism Major
I am sitting seaside this morning, watching grandchildren frolic in the surf. But I am thinking how it won’t be long until these youngsters will be like you — nervous first-years at college somewhere, wondering what they should … Read more
Six kids, five days, two papers and one island
Earlier this month, the Durham VOICE and the Durham NGO Partners for Youth Opportunity teamed up with the Ocracoke Observer to bring six Durham inner-city teens to the Outer Banks island to spend the better part of a week … Read more
Feeling the “power of the press” in Roanoke Rapids
Time was, community newspapers had their offices right on Main Street, USA, with a newspaper press thundering in the back room like a locomotive train chained to the floor. Sadly, in the last 30 years we’ve seen all that change. … Read more
The Henderson Daily Dispatch: lifting up the community
As the reader can deduce from the name of this journal, I have a love-hate relationship with interstate highways. They get me to my mountain cabin quickly, dependably and predictably without a red light between Chapel Hill and Marion … Read more
Roadshow visits the Jacksonville Daily News
With the plethora of military bases across the Old North State, you can appreciate the challenges faced by local media when it comes to effectively covering their turf when those bases exist and operate as separate and restricted worlds, especially … Read more