If you’ve ever seen a beautiful photo of Sarah P. Duke Gardens and wondered, “How’d they get that shot?” you are probably looking at the work of Rick Fisher. How Rick, an uber-devoted volunteer photographer, captures the glorious beauty of the gardens involves a lifetime of studying photography, early morning access to the grounds and […]
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LeVelle Moton sits behind the desk in his office at North Carolina Central University’s McDougald-McLendon Arena, surrounded by dozens of photos of his smiling wife, Bridget, and their two children – Brooke, 7, and LeVelle Jr., 3. You’d have no idea that the men’s basketball head coach’s own childhood was far from this picture. The man he is
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My colleagues at Durham Magazine recently joined me at the Durham branch of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina for a morning of fun volunteer activities. For writers, editors, photographer, art directors, publishers and sales representatives, sorting food is not a part of their daily routine, but certainly something they all were
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When you enter the large brick building on Rigsbee Avenue, you feel as if you might have walked into a student union on a college campus rather than the Durham Center for Senior Life. Maybe because the “seniors” there are having as much fun as college students – minus the annoying homework. From the upper
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Durham native Chris Rosati was no different than most of us – intending to do good in the world, but getting constantly sidetracked by his career and family obligations. Outside of his day job in marketing, he constantly dabbled in his own side businesses. “I was a serial failed entrepreneur,” Chris says. “I was learning
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What do South Central LA, the Ivy League’s Dartmouth College, El Salvador and the Emily K Center have in common? Robert Polanco. The story of how this 26-year-old student support specialist for the Scholars to College program at the Emily K Center crisscrossed the country and ended up helping kids in Durham is an unlikely
One day some 40 years ago, when Alex Denson was a young civil trial lawyer in Raleigh, he was walking down the street with Charles Blanchard, a senior partner at his firm. As they discussed a case, they came upon a man passed out on the sidewalk. “I did not see him as a man,”
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Deep inside Northgate Mall a bell rings inside the office of Dress for Success (DFS) of the Triangle, symbolizing a fresh start – a job offer – for a woman who really needed it. As of this month, 5,000 Durham women have passed through the program on the way from hopelessness to self-sustainability thanks to one woman with a vision and the experience and passion to
