By Lillian Lewis In 1949, Author George Orwell wrote about the future. He described that governments would have control over mass media and history. That the people of a country would be monitored and certain rights would be prohibited. This…
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By Kyle Stengel The Carolina Hurricanes Stadium Series on Saturday was electric. Throughout the whole day, you could feel the excitement in the air. Upon arriving at the game after waiting in the traffic for an hour with everybody else…
By Lillian Lewis Let me start by saying I am extremely privileged. I have the luxury of having parents who can pay for my college education. Yes, I have a job outside of school, but most of that money I…
By Michelle Porizkova The internal turmoil between Russia and Ukraine has been simmering to the brim since 2014, and it is not surprising that years later, an insecure and desperate Vladimir Putin has taken the dive and placed brute force…
By Dezarae Churchill One hundred and sixty-five years ago, William Peace donated $10,000 and a plot of land to create Peace Institute, hoping to provide higher educational opportunities for the women of Raleigh. Last month, the focus on campus turned…
By Kyra Harrison With the latest release of the BioNTech, Pfizer vaccine, Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and the Moderna, NIAID vaccine there have been 212 million doses given out in the United States alone. Resulting in 85.4 million people that…
By Jasanee Killins Black Lives Matter is nothing new. The existence of the movement, not the organization, has been on America’s mind since 2013, preemptively showing up after the shooting of Trayvon Martin. At the time, I was only in…
By Agi Ngie It is almost March, which means spring break is right around the corner. The weather may be frigid, but that does not mean you cannot start thinking of ideas for a fun getaway. Whether you want to…
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of nonfiction cinema. Each spring, Full Frame welcomes filmmakers and film lovers from around the world to historic downtown Durham for a four-day, morning-to-midnight…
On April 6 at 9:30 a.m. there was not a dry eye in Cinema 3 at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Why the tears? Because everyone in that theater, myself included, was watching a documentary called Kifaru. Going into…