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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Scott Ellsworth | The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph In 1944, 20 years before the height of the civil rights movement, an all-Black basketball team from the North Carolina College for Negroes—now known as North Carolina Central University, or NCCU—and an all-white team of Duke University medical school students put their lives on the line to meet at the NCCU gym for a clash of the titans. At the time, the idea of a Black team competing against a white team was unheard...