Community in Crisis: The Durham Neighbors Free Lunch Initiative What happens when concerned citizens join forces to provide for their community during a pandemic? Durham is seeing it happen right now, via the Durham Neighbors Free Lunch Initiative. Three weeks ago, Elijah King, Riverside High School senior and student activist, ...

Sample 1 Sophomore Zoe Zhu sits on a couch in the third floor of Benson. She’s donning a red Chinese National Ultimate Frisbee uniform from head to toe and heavily worn sneakers. She looks down at her computer overrun with assorted stickers. Her backpack rests by her as a Frisbee ...

COVID’s Quiet War Against Suburbia   I jolt back into consciousness after the cat knocks my finance textbook off the kitchen table. Simultaneously, my older sister bellows at her third graders via Zoom, and I hear my little sister snooze her alarm for the 15th time this morning- it is ...

“I truly thought I was going to die” says Dale Donaldson. Dale Donaldson, a 56-year-old man from Brooklyn New York was diagnosed with the coronavirus March 29. Two weeks of uncertainty and fear filled the Donaldson household. According to the CDC, there have been 605,390 total reported cases of COVID-19 ...

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The Q&A profile:

1. Alternative form of storytelling.
2. Give a sense of hearing the subject talk by capturing accurately the language of their answers. (Use a tape recorder for your main interview).
3. Create a story with a beginning, middle and end.
4. You can edit your questions so that they are ...
   
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The Dormant Art By Elena Marsh Lights up. Theatre is ephemeral. It exists when it happens, and then it does not exist again. Theatre must be live. It takes place in a shared space and calls upon those particular circumstances to create art. Ent. Anna Hibbert, Wake Forest Alumni, Studio ...

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I am a 21-year-old junior in college writing a journalism article on a MacBook Pro. My motivation for writing this article is to learn for the sake of learning–as I have never written in the context of journalism before. My biggest academic challenge during this pandemic? My lagging Wi-Fi. I ...

Anthony D’Angelo Story 4 The tears built up in my grandmother’s eyes as she moved out of my house, a house she has called home for many years, while not being able to even hug her grandchildren goodbye.  Due to my sister being diagnosed with COVID-19, it was necessary for ...

John D. Manos “How Corona Changed Our Lives Forever”             It was the first Monday of ‘quarantine’ at around 12:00 noon, as I picked my ball out of the 18th hole at Secession Golf Club. I went in for the classic post-round handshake, but was instead met with a glare, ...