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(04/25/16 3:01am)
“Do you live here?” exclaimed the police officer who had pulled into our driveway and interrupted my and my brother’s basketball game. A few minutes earlier, I had climbed onto the trash bin to fix the insect screen that had fallen off the nearest window. The sight of a 12-year-old brown boy atop a trash bin in a white neighborhood must have raised the suspicion of the neighbors.
(04/11/16 2:14am)
Duke University’s administration and its police department have been engaged in a cover up for two years.
(03/28/16 3:03am)
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified energy projects have cropped up in the most peculiar of places: Northside Elementary School in Chapel Hill, the courthouse in downtown Durham, the Greenbridge mixed-use development in Chapel Hill and the Genome Science Building on campus. And, early last year, I learned that Orange County hired an architecture firm “well-versed in correctional center and energy-efficient design” to plan a new $20 million jail.
(03/09/16 2:43am)
My earliest memory of the U.S. electoral process was the 2000 presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore. My family had only immigrated to the United States two years prior to the election, and although my parents could not vote, they were steadfast Democrats. They idolized Bill Clinton for it was his promises of prosperity and social security that led them to immigrate to America.
(02/24/16 3:25am)
CORRECTION: Due to a reporting error, a previous version of this column misstated whether Bradley Opere was the first international student elected student body president at UNC. The story has been updated to reflect this change. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error.
(02/10/16 5:31am)
Being woke is in vogue. Earlier this year, MTV pronounced woke as the “new slang” of 2016. On Twitter, a casual scroll through the trending #StayWoke unearths tweets about a raccoon, Chipotle and Scooby Doo. Meanwhile, BuzzFeed recently lauded cis, white, hetero male actor Matt McGorry of “How to Get Away with Murder” and “Orange is the New Black” for his astute acknowledgement that privilege and injustice exist—in other words his “wokeness.”
(01/27/16 6:56am)
This weekend’s snowstorm meant no classes for students and wage theft for many workers on campus.
(01/13/16 4:24am)
The premiere of Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series “Master of None” in November was perceived as an “at last” moment for South Asian American immigrants. At face value, we finally had a show centered around an Indian comic who contemplated South Asian diaspora issues of race, assimilation and representation.
(11/20/15 4:24am)
Today marks a week since the Paris attacks, and with it a renewed sense of anguish and grief over the loss of innocent life.
(11/06/15 4:47am)
Shock, outrage and then silence — such characterized the mainstream response to a school resource officer assaulting a Black female student and dragging her out of the classroom in handcuffs.
(10/23/15 4:21am)
The Orange County Board of Commissioners voted last week against inclusive housing. Despite public outcry, the commissioners passed a bond referendum that included $120 million for education and only $5 million for affordable housing.
(10/09/15 4:08am)
When I was four years old, my parents decided to immigrate to the United States for the promise of a better life. They wanted my brother and me to have the opportunities to succeed, and here, in America, they believed we could pursue our dreams.
(09/25/15 2:24am)
GOP presidential candidate Piyush “Bobby” Jindal and I are branches of the same tree. We are both sons of Indian immigrant parents who came to America in search of better opportunities for their children, and we both lived in white, rural areas of the South.
(09/11/15 3:55am)
A peculiar silence had consumed the usual commotion of my elementary classroom when my teacher Ms. Rubin rushed into the room in the early hours of September 11th, 2001. Her face had lost its familiar tones of vibrance, and her hands were clapped to her mouth.
(08/28/15 1:58am)
"Help Us,” pleaded the makeshift sign that an inmate had pressed against the narrow window slit of his cell.