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(01/26/21 10:30pm)
DTH Photo Illustration. Events like Queer Ride Carrboro and WTF Mechanic Nights provide LGBTQIA+ community members of the Triangle area with the opportunity to make friends, foster support and find a sense of community through a mutual love for biking.
(12/14/20 10:45pm)
Will Vizuete, 44, and Connor LaMontagne, 25, are the bassist and drummer for The Unsustainables, a band brought together by their mutual love for the environment and the traditional sounds of the Jaimaican ’Ska’ genre. Vizuete is an Associate professor in the Environmental Science and Engineering department at the Gillings School of Public Health, while LaMontagne works in the same department as a PhD student. The band is composed of environmental scientists, engineers and even one EPA employee. According to LaMontagne, Ska is the predecessor of reggae. “It’s a cool mix,” LaMontagne said. “We’ll be playing just a regular reggae tune and then Trent will call out dub style and we’ll [make] what he describes as a ‘subtractive art’. It’s not about making a bunch of noise, it’s more about what you sounds you remove and sort of tastefully messing with the arrangement.” Vizuete agrees that the band’s mutual love for this era of music makes the group so amazing. “What’s really hip about it is that we’re all writing new songs,” Vizuete said. “It’s something new and contemporary, because [we’re] writing about stuff in [our] own life, but it’s within this kind of era of sound that we love. And that’s the fun part, trying to recreate that sound.” The Unsustainables create this sound through the use of drums, bass, guitar, trumpet, trombone, saxophone and conga. They are in the process of trying out a new piano player, according to Vizuete, which would bring the total number of members from seven to eight people. “Just being able to play has really been keeping our sanity,” Vizuete said.
(11/03/20 12:29am)
Early voting poll workers wear protective gear while helping register and sign in voters on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020 at the Carrboro Town Hall.
(10/27/20 10:54pm)
From left to right: Evan, nine, Amelia, eight and a half, and Will, nine, point their wands in preparation for Halloween night in Durham on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. The three, who have all known each other their whole lives, will be going as Harry, Hermione and Ron from Harry Potter. Amelia lives across the street from Evan and Will, who are identical twins and just five and a half months older than Amelia. They all agreed that they are most excited to get candy and play corn hole on Halloween.
(10/27/20 10:54pm)
From left to right: Amelia, eight and a half, Evan, nine, and Will, nine, point their wands in preparation for Halloween night in Durham on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Amelia lives across the street from Evan and Will, who are identical twins and just five and a half months older than Amelia. The three, who have all known each other their whole lives, will be going as Harry, Hermione and Ron from Harry Potter. They all agreed that they are most excited to get candy and play corn hole on Halloween.
(10/25/20 8:14pm)
Taryn Ward, born and raised in Chapel Hill, mans the Orange County Democrats table outside of the University Mall early voting site on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Ward has been completing on various tasks meant to increase voter participation. "I've distributed information around the neighborhoods, helped with voter registration and today, I've signed up to be a greeter," Ward said. "I want to try and encourage people in our community to get out there and make positive change. Your vote matters. Please vote."
(10/25/20 8:14pm)
Heather Brutz, 40, stands at the entrance of the Chapel of the Cross early voting site on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Brutz, who graduated with an MBA from the UNC School of Business, works for N.C. State at the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center. "I've worked in three general elections before," Brutz said, "but this is my first time doing early voting."
(10/25/20 8:14pm)
A car decked out in Trump prohpaganda sits at the University Mall shopping center early polling site on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020.
(10/25/20 8:14pm)
An early voting poll worker hands a pen to a voter at the Univesity Mall polling site on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020.
(10/25/20 8:14pm)
A voter walks towards the early voting site entrance at the University Mall on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020.
(10/25/20 8:14pm)
Matthi Shalev, born and raised in Kibbutz, Israel, stands outside of an early voting site in the University Mall on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. "I've been here for eight hours today," Shalev said. "I feel energized. I can't wait. I'm anxious. I want my life back." Shalev, who is retired, says he joined the Orange County Democrats campaign months ago on behalf of all the people with jobs who cannot. "I feel crazy," Shalev said. "This is beyond any differences between ideology or anything with substance. It's just about sanity and regular life."
(10/25/20 8:14pm)
Katie Jamieson works as a poll observer outside of the Carrboro Town Hall on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Jamieson who moved to the U.S. from England 15 years ago, is not even registered to vote in America. That has not stopped her from making signs with her kids and working at early voting sites. “I wanted to do something productive," Jamieson said. "In North Carolina, of all states, I believe it is incredibly important to get as many people to vote as possible."
(10/25/20 8:14pm)
Early voting poll workers wear protective gear while helping register and sign in voters on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020 at the Carrboro Town Hall.
(10/25/20 8:14pm)
Early voters stand in line outside of the Carrboro Town Hall on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020.
(10/25/20 8:14pm)
Poll workers stand with masks on at the entrance of an early voting site in the University Mall shopping center on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020.
(10/25/20 8:14pm)
An early voting poll worker hands a pen to a voter at the Univesity Mall polling site on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020.
(10/25/20 8:14pm)
Katie Jamieson works as a poll observer outside of the Carrboro Town Hall on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Jamieson who moved to the U.S. from England 15 years ago, is not even registered to vote in America. That has not stopped her from making signs with her kids and working at early voting sites. “I wanted to do something productive," Jamieson said. "In North Carolina, of all states, I believe it is incredibly important to get as many people to vote as possible."
(10/21/20 11:05pm)
James Holman, a crew leader for UNC housekeeping services and 15-year-long employee at the university, stands in front of a wall of honorable mentions in the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History on Friday, October 16, 2020. Holman is the first recipient of the Rebecca Clark Staff Award for Moral Courage. Holman spoke about his role as a sort of liaison for his staff. “I do a lot of advocacy work,” Holman said. He is the person that gets complaints heard and miscommunication straightened out, before it starts to affect people’s work life and mental health. “When the staff have issues, if it’s a group issue, I will take it to the forum and then we’ll take it tot the Vice Chancellors and try to get the situation resolved.”
(10/12/20 10:55pm)
Mick Schulte, 39, is a freelance photographer and writer from Minnesota, and she has been living in N.C. for the last 11 years. Just over a year ago, Schulte began a project with the World Relief Immigration Center, located in the John O'Daniel Exchange building at 801 Gilbert Street in Durham. "I was an ESL teacher, and I've always had a heart for immigrants and refugees," Schulte said. She has been taking portraits of children and documenting some of the Center's events in hopes of highlighting refugees in the community. Schulte mentioned her dissatisfaction with the current presidential administration and said that she wants to show refugees and immigrants that "there are still people that want to make their lives easier. Not only assist them, but become friends with them."
(10/09/20 1:17am)
UNC junior public policy major Collyn Smith stands for a virtual portrait in his bedroom in Barbecue, N.C. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Smith, an activist at UNC, joined student government six months ago. “I want to change the fact that student government feels really inaccessible for certain groups,” Smith said. “I really want to elevate other people’s stories that are not traditionally placed in the spaces of leadership and advocacy.”