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  • The corrupt intellectual foundation of Critical Race Theory

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    By Monica Chen  In the summer of 1989, the leaders of Critical Race Theory held their fledgling movement’s first conference in Madison, Wis.  For the first time, it was made official the academics who were devoted to the CRT cause beyond the main founder, Derrick Bell. Bell was the first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School who had written the definitive CRT treatise,...

    February 7, 2022
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  • “Lawn Boy” IS pedophilic. Here’s why. (Explicit)

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    By Monica Chen  The author of “Lawn Boy” and his supporters say parents who want the book removed from libraries have not read it, and do not put it in the right context.  Alright, I read the book. Its pedophilic, exploitative and abusive elements go beyond the swear words and the sexual passages.  To sum up the news surrounding “Lawn Boy”: A mother in...

    January 28, 2022
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  • Wake DA silent on parents’ criminal charges against schools for pornography

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    By Monica Chen Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman has not taken any actions following parents filing criminal charges on pornography against Wake schools in recent weeks. Freeman’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment before Christmas and after the holiday last week.  A group of parents filed nine complaints at the Wake County Sheriff’s Office on Nov. 30, on counts of...

    January 6, 2022
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  • Opinion: The controversy over “Gender Queer” masks a bigger problem. Is it a true memoir? (Explicit)

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    By Monica Chen As parents around the country have called for the banning of "Gender Queer: A Memoir" over explicit images, the media has painted it as a fight of conservative parents against LGBT people wanting to live freely. But the parents' concerns about the book just scratch the surface.

    January 4, 2022
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  • What is Liz Cheney’s Wyoming?

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    By Monica Chen If someone only knew about Wyoming from paying attention to Liz Cheney, they might think it was a cozy, domestic kind of place. A state that likes to hold a lot of meetings in rooms with pin-cushioned couches. A state that holds a lot of conferences in comfy banquet halls. And a place where people really like Zoom meetings. They also...

    December 19, 2021
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  • A big problem with the “Civilian Climate Corps”

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    By Monica Chen On social media, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been pushing for the “Civilian Climate Corps” and its inclusion in the $2 trillion Build Back Better Act. But more than a joint project between AmeriCorps and the Department of Labor, the proposed entity would cut into the work done by the National Parks system, as well as state and local government parks....

    December 8, 2021
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  • Nancy Pelosi’s $200 million gift to the Presidio Trust

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    By Monica Chen Despite Republican outcries of earmarks and payoffs earlier this year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has kept $200 million in appropriations for The Presidio Trust in the Build Back Better plan. Tucked into the massive 2,000-page bill are two paragraphs giving the organization that sum, to be doled out in fiscal year 2022 and available until 2026, for “carrying out projects.” The...

    December 2, 2021
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March 18, 2023

What’s going on at the Durham County Jail?

By Monica Chen The Durham County Sheriff’s Office is still using COVID lockdown protocols at the jail, and activists...

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October 22, 2022

There are serious problems with the Durham Police Department

By Monica Chen I complained about a Sheriff’s Deputy. Then, the Durham Police started harassing me. Then, it got...

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August 24, 2022

Movie review: “2000 Mules,” a flawed but legitimate bombshell

By Monica Chen “2000 Mules” is not as much the hard-hitting expose of the 2020 election that viewers might...

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July 23, 2022

What’s wrong with schools

By Monica Chen  Schools have become so bad in the past decade that some fundamental things need to be...

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Lucia Micarelli’s performance of “Kashmir”

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If you can, wait until night to watch this video. This is not just another classical music concert. A violinist plays barefoot, wild yet controlled just enough. Her sound...

February 18, 2020
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Pauli Murray’s love poetry

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Murray's poems on history and politics are passionate and sweeping. But her love poems are more quiet, although still sensual and earthy. Here are six of Pauli Murray's love...

February 17, 2020
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Happy Valentine’s Day! Here are 7 movie scenes of love and romance (Spoilers)

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The English Patient (1996): “Cathedral paintings”   One of the most romantic scenes in cinema. Hana (Juliette Binoche), a vibrant and capable nurse who takes care of the titular...

February 15, 2020
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Let’s eat! “A Bite of China,” bubble teas, and Ina Garten’s lemon bars

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Let’s eat! “A Bite of China” was originally posted in July. Here, I’m updating it with some writing on bubble teas and Ina Garten’s lemon bars. Enjoy! “A Bite...

February 7, 2020
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Memories of the Odd Fellows tract from Ron Sutherland. Photos by the Ghost of Odd Fellows

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Ron Sutherland, chief scientist with the Wildlands Network who led the successful activist efforts to save the 79,000-acre Hoffmann Forest in 2015, recalls what the Odd Fellows tract looked like in the ’80s, when he was a Boy Scout roaming through the woods and playing capture the flag. I asked Dr. Sutherland what he remembered, and his memories came out uninterrupted and still very clear from more than 30 years ago. Here are his comments. The photos are by the anonymous “Ghost of Odd Fellows.” The full portfolios of the photos can be seen here and here. It was the place to go in camp for our Boy Scout troop. We didn’t need to do much. We could just go out there on pretty short notice and go out and camp. It was kind of a home away from home for the Boy Scouts. It took all of ten minutes to get there. We didn’t feel like we were in a small, tightly regulated state park. It felt like it was the woods that...

July 17, 2020
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Seafood in the summer

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By Matt Goad A door slams shut behind a satisfied customer and another door opens with a new customer not far behind. This happens all day long, three days a week in the small, cinder-block shack that houses Tom Robinson’s Carolina Seafood of Carrboro. With a small staff, the business manages to get to the North Carolina coast every Wednesday to get fish and...

July 28, 2020
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Photo gallery: Scenes in downtown Chapel Hill

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UNC students working on Franklin Street. The margaritas at Bandido’s. Murals in hidden places. The photos covering the walls of Sutton’s Drug Store. Some things have not changed in downtown Chapel Hill. Long-time photographer Karen Tam, who has worked for The News & Observer and The Raleigh Times, and freelanced for The Associated Press, spent a recent Friday afternoon capturing the goings-on. See the...

July 24, 2020
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What are Chapel Hill’s plans for downtown?

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On a recent afternoon, Antoni Sustaita, owner of Bandido’s Mexican Café on Franklin Street, opens the makeshift takeout window. The awning and lights over Amber Alley have been removed, and the ground is still wet from rain. At the alley’s back entrance sits heavy machinery for the construction of a nightclub, called StillLife Nightclub, on the roof of Sutton’s Drug Store. Sustaita says through...

July 8, 2020
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Save RDU Forest issue: What happened with the “sunset clause”?

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In the contentious fight between Umstead Coalition and activists, Wake Stone Corp. and Raleigh-Durham International Airport, one major point of argument has been over the “sunset clause.” That is the clause in the permit for the existing Wake Stone mine that states how long the mine can operate. That mine, located off Harrison Avenue, has been operating since 1981. The gaps in the trees...

June 17, 2020
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How The ArtsCenter has changed is the saddest thing to happen to Carrboro

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The lights keep going out in Carrboro. What will happen if The ArtsCenter's toxic Jones Ferry project is actually built?

May 25, 2020
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