City of Durham

Artist Kelsey Graywill recently installed the Hyperlocal Durham vending machine at Durham Food Hall, which sells zines about different aspects of Durham's history and culture — from urban foraging to the best spots in the city to cry in public.

The Durham Athletic Park, which turns 100 next year, was home to the Durham Bulls for decades and featured in the 1988 film "Bull Durham." The park now hosts youth baseball, occasional concerts, and community events.

Many gathered at Pride: Durham, NC events last weekend to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community through a parade, musical performances, a resource fair and other festivities.

The Durham City Council has passed a resolution to make the city a "Fourth Amendment Workplace," increasing protections for city workers against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and arrests.

The YMCA of the Triangle plans to build a new 65,000-square-foot facility in downtown Durham adjacent to the American Tobacco Campus.

Juneteenth is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States.

Here are some Pride events being held throughout the month of June.

After 35 years in operation, Neo-China in Durham closed its doors at the end of May. The family-owned Chinese restaurant struggled to keep up with rising operational costs, including the increased prices of imported Chinese goods that resulted from the high tariff earlier this spring.

Durham-based visual artist Raj Bunnag, a self-described “political printmaker,” creates works with a strong perspective about history and the presence of white supremacy in our society. That hasn’t posed an issue with showing his work at galleries until this year, when he had two exhibitions canceled, including at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

The NorthStar Church of the Arts in Durham, along with scores of other arts organizations across the country, was notified in early May that it would lose federal funding. In the last week, the organization launched an emergency campaign to raise the money it needs to keep hosting free community programming.