Triad City Beat This Week: May 17, 2017

Triad investigative journalism legend Phoebe Zerwick broke the story on Darryl Hunt, a Winston-Salem man who was wrongfully convicted of murder, back in 2004. Now a professor at Wake Forest University, Zerwick explores the personal turmoil that led Hunt to take his own life last year in this week’s Triad City Beat cover story.

NEWS

• Faculty members back allegations about department chair’s abuses

• New electioneering group wrestles with identity and representation

• ICE grants three-month stay to Greensboro man ordered to leave the country

OPINION

• Editorial: NC’s voter ID bill is a flat circle

• Trump’s America: An assault on the Census

• Fresh Eyes: When Mother’s Day hurts: 5 empowering ways to be the mother you never had

• Editor’s Notebook: Running game on the ‘rental units

COLUMNS

• Citizen Green: Commissioners say police accountability is broken

• Sportsball: Girls on Fire engages in a sport for the mind

• Triaditude Adjustment: As prolific as an aphid colony

 

CULTURE

• Food: A vegetarian restaurant within a restaurant

• Barstool: NC liquor’s strained history in ‘Still & Barrel’

• Music: Raising hardcore from the underground

• Art: Career suicide at the Blind Tiger

Triad City Beat This Week comes out every Wednesday with links to stories in that week’s paper.