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A two-story wooden house with a brick chimney, painted white with a red roof and porch roof. It sits in a field at the end of a dirt road.

The Other Side of the Story

Community Forum of the Stagville Descendants Council Library series
Saturdays, February 8 – March 22

Group of young Black women speaking in front of news cameras at a protest, one holding a Black Lives Matter sign in the foreground

Online resource Black Life in America

The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today

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At our locations Tax preparation

Main Library

Sessions offered by AARP Tax-Aide
January 29 – April 14
Make a Tax-Aide appointment online
For appointment help, call 919-695-7548 or email durhamtaxaide@gmail.com

South Regional Library

Sessions offered by the IRS’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program
February 1 – April 19
Walk in, or email Durhamsouthregionalvita@gmail.com for an appointment

A prison fence with barbed wire on top and a small locked gate, with the grey concrete prison wall behind it and a blue sky overhead.

Upcoming program Exclusive Screening: The Strike

View this documentary before the national premiere! Film screening followed by panel discussion.
Saturday, February 8 – 1-4 p.m.
Main Library
Learn more and register >

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Upcoming program VULTURES!

Wednesday, February 12 – 6-7 p.m.
Main Library
Learn more and register >

Photos of trans and nonbinary people of many races and cultures in loving situations with their parents, partners, children, and siblings.

At our locations Authentic Selves

Celebrating trans and nonbinary people and their families.
Photographs and interviews on display:
East Regional Library: January 9-23
Southwest Regional Library: February 1-15

Upcoming program Writing the Novel with Redbud (6-week course)

Wednesdays, March 19 – April 23
East Regional Library
Application required – applications open through February 14
Learn more and apply >

Covers of books including A Kind Life, A More Just Future, All I Know About Management I Learned From My Dog, and more.

Book list Forging Ahead

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Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report

Get this year’s snapshot of some of the many things the library has been up to!

¡Obtenga un resumen de este año de algunas de las numerosas actividades de la biblioteca!

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