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Just a former VP getting milkshakes at Cookout in Durham 🥤
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Thanks for coming to our TED Talk
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This was the line for yesterday’s
Black Farmers’ Market 🥕🍓🥬
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𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝟭𝟮 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀
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We
really
really
really
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really
need you to stop calling us
Raleigh-Durham.
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It’s about to be the most stressful week in the history of North Carolina
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Us: 2020 couldn’t get any more chaotic
NC: hold my tectonic plate
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On 2/22/22, we’d like to remind you that Raleigh and Durham are 2 completely different cities
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Wear a mask
Wash your hands
Stand six feet apart
Drink some water
Fill out the census
Register to vote
Call your mother
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On 2/2/22 we'd like to remind you that Raleigh and Durham are 2 different cities
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Durham native, Hillside and NCCU grad, Vogue creative director and editor-at-large, and fashion icon … André Leon Talley was many things, but he was always unapologetically himself. RIP
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We don't condone violence or vandalism, but broken windows can be replaced. It's the broken hearts, pain, and frustration sparking this tension that is most troubling to us. Our hearts go out to all who are grieving. Black Lives Matter.
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Eddie Murphy owns the original “The Sugar Shack” by Durham native Ernie Barnes 🎨
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Elaine O’Neal, Durham’s first Black woman mayor, has officially been sworn in
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Today is Durham's birthday! Not to brag or anything, but we look pretty good for 149 🐂🏙️🎂🎉
#HappyDURM
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As the mask mandate is lifted today, please be kind to those who continue to wear them 😷
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It’s so nice to stop at Cary University when you’re taking the ferry from the Outer Banks to Chapel Hill
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.
@CityofDurhamNC
will recognize
#Juneteenth
as an official holiday for their employees starting 2021.
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@NCCU
wins against A&T and gets the regular season MEAC title! 🦅
NCCU just does it better
#EaglePride
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Wearing a mask is not a political statement. It means you care about yourself and others.
#WearAMask
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Our followers have asked how they can support Black-owned businesses in Durham during this time.
Here's a list of 40+ local Durham Black-owned businesses with details and links created with input from our community.
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"There might be 1-2 inches of snow."
People in North Carolina:
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That moment when you get into the university of your dreams 😄
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When someone asks how your trip to “Raleigh-Durham” went
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NC: want some thunder?
Us: not real-
NC: 🌩🌩🌩
Us:
NC: ☀️☀️☀️
Us: well that’s nic-
NC: 🌩🌩🌩🌩🌩🌩🌩🌩
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Every year
@DukeChapel
hosts The Blessing of the Animals where creatures of all shapes, sizes, and scales received a blessing 🙏
Blessed thread 👇
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Durham will be getting its first Black-owned brewery with Proximity Brewing 🍻
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We’d like to take a moment to recognize
@TheDurhamPolice
Chief
@1cjdcop
for keeping us safe and respecting our right to peacefully protest 🐂🏙
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When you have to fight your friend over who gets to take the selfie 😂
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@HamiltonMusical
is here! Did you know Burr and Hamilton's actual letters are here in Durham? The
@rubensteinlib
at
@DukeU
has original letters from the politicians including several documents that are referenced in the musical! ✍️
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@DukeU
is the only school in the country to have a bowl game win and its women's and men's basketball teams in the Sweet 16 🐂🏙️🏈🏀🙌
#CityofChampions
📸s via
@DukeFOOTBALL
,
@DukeWBB
, and
@DukeMBB
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Happy birthday to Ernie Barnes. The late Durham native was the artist of “Sugar Shack,” “Homecoming,” “Lift Every Voice,” and many other masterpieces 🐂🏙 RIP
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Not every city gets to say they have two universities in the NCAA Tournament. Congrats to
@DukeU
and
@NCCU
on heading to the Big Dance!
#BullCityProud
#CityofChampions
🐂🏙️😈🦅
📸s via Duke University and NCCU
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The
@DukeLemurCenter
has two new babies! Hamill (named after
@HamillHimself
) and Gellar (named after
@SarahMGellar
) are two beautiful blue-eyed black lemurs 😍
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Incredible photo of yesterday’s storm clouds over Durham ☁️
📸 by Estlin Haiss
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We spent our entire special effects budget on this. Bye bye 2020 👋
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A haiku
Fear not, Durhamites
The bridge that opens cans is
Doing what it does 🚚
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On January 1, 1942, the Rose Bowl moved to Durham due to fears about an attack by the Japanese on the West Coast of the United States following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Some very-well behaved doggos stopped by Major to snap a pic 🐕🐩🐕🐂🐩🐕🐩
Thanks to So Fetch K9 Adventures for the 📸 and the puppers 🐶👍
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Today is the anniversary of the 1957 Royal Ice Cream protest in Durham.
Virginia Williams is a member of the Royal Seven, the group of activists that protested Jim Crow laws in North Carolina’s first sit-in.
#BlackHistoryMatters
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Fool’s Spring <— you are here
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Black lives still matter
It’s still important to protest
It’s still important to contact your elected representatives
It’s still important to vote
Black lives still matter
Black lives will always matter
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And the bull jumped “over” the moon 😂
We blew our entire special fx budget on this so we hope you enjoy it 🐂🌕
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Lots of uncertainty today, but we’re certain about one thing: we love Durham
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Here’s
@lifeandscience
releasing a batch of butterflies into their conservatory because this is the content we need right now 🦋
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Heck yeah we do
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Us explaining
how Raleigh-Durham
is an airport and a
metropolitan area
but not a city almost everyone
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Happy Birthday to Ann Atwater 🎉
Born on July 1, 1935, Atwater was instrumental in desegregating Durham schools. Her legacy of civil rights activism lives on today 🙌🏾
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