Indy Week
Indy Week, formerly known as the Independent Weekly and originally the North Carolina Independent, is a tabloid-format alternative weekly newspaper published in Durham, North Carolina, United States, and distributed throughout the Research Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary) and counties (Wake County, Durham County, Orange County, and Chatham County). Its first issue was published in April 1983. Indy Week is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and has a progressive, liberal political perspective. The Columbia Journalism Review has cited the newspaper for its "spine of steel."[citation needed] The print edition is published on Wednesdays.
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To Christina Tran, a junior at Middle Creek High School in Apex, her painting featuring Harriet Tubman and her brother Ben Ross invokes a sense of resilience. The work, titled “Under the Northern Star,” depicts Tubman and Ross walking along a sand-colored pathway toward the home of an Underground Railroad conductor. A lush green landscape surrounds the figures as they walk underneath a night sky dotted with stars, the largest of these the North Star, to freedom. Tran created her acrylic painting for a project in English teacher Matthew Scialdone’s...