By Fiona Fehrman The winter clothing drive is ready for students. This year the clothing drive is this Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday morning during first and second period in Riverside’s …
Winter clothing drive opens this week Read More
On Nov. 9, local business owner and city councilman Leonardo Williams was elected as mayor of Durham. Williams, whose son, Izaiah Jackson, attended Riverside in 2020-22, made improving small business …
Former Riverside parent elected as mayor Read More
Story by Cayden Pegg Over the summer new ponds appeared next to Riverside’s practice soccer field and behind the greenhouse. The purpose of the ponds is to retain all of …
Riverside’s Retention Ponds: Two “new” ponds catch runoff water, preserve Eno River in back of school Read More
Voting will be held Tuesday, September 26. Freshmen Rose Mills: “I’m running for freshman president with Nate Cohen. I am a part of the softball and field hockey team. I …
SGA Election Primer Read More
Durham neighborhoods were piling up with garbage during a recent two-week long waste collector strike. The median salary for a trash collector in Durham is $45,000, according to city data. …
Workers Struggle with Cost of Living in Durham Read More
On September 14, Riverside administration announced that the club plan has been finalized and is ready for student attendance. “We are ready to begin hosting student clubs during Lunch/Pirate Block,” …
Pirate Block: How will clubs work this year? Read More
The Pirates’ Hook was named an All-North Carolina newspaper in the North Carolina Scholastic Media Association’s (NCSMA) annual student media contest. The Hook earned the NCSMA’s highest rating for the second …
The Pirates’ Hook named All-North Carolina newspaper for second consecutive year Read More
Freshman Henry Kingston won a national gold metal for their work Duplicity, recognized by the prestigious Alliance for Young Artists and Writers. After winning a gold key in the regional …
Henry Kingston wins National Gold Medal for photography Read More
As Riverside continues to deal with bus driver shortages and increased traffic on and around campus, one local organization wants to make it easier for students to bike to school. …
Bike Durham pushes for sustainable routes to school Read More
Math teacher Kelby Hardy found out she was Riverside’s Beginning Teacher of the Year in a weekly staff email. “It was a very little line and it said, ‘Congratulations to …
Kelby Hardy is 2023 Beginning Teacher of the Year Read More
Teachers all over the United States have always been overlooked and disregarded on how important their job is. During COVID-19, when teachers taught in front of a screen online, many …
A long time coming: Christy Simpson is 2023 Teacher of the Year Read More
Designed to improve equity, and reduce suspensions, restorative practices get mixed results. The reality of RPC David Norman rapidly talks into his classroom phone one humid Friday morning. “A large …
Is RPC working? Read More
By Hannah Posner, Lucinda Dorrance, Isabelle Abadie, Jaden Butler and Jackie Larios Dominguez According to the DPS plan to spend MacKenzie Scott’s $18 million grant, Riverside’s clubs and classroom teachers …
DPS announces spending plan for $18 million MacKenzie Scott grant Read More
By: Piper Winton, Isabelle Abadie and Charlotte Halloway Haley Jones doesn’t post bikini pictures. The Stanford basketball star is one of the best players in the country and has endorsement …
“Of course I’ve experienced sexualization”: New era brings same challenges for female athletes Read More
On February 18, Riverside’s We Are Queens club performed its monthly volunteer work at Duke Methodist Church. Senior Janika Bunch, senior Parys Smith, junior Valery Contreas-Garcia, and sophomores Evelyn Barbee, …
We Are Queens: “A sisterhood for women of color” Read More
Riverside’s Battle of the Books team placed second in the district competition on February 24. Battle of the Books (BOB) is a national voluntary reading program for students in third …
Riverside’s Battle of the Books takes second place Read More
By: Tobias Rangel, Isaiah Heinz and Donna Diaz For students, SROs and sheriffs alike, preventing gun violence remains a top priority. But they have different ideas about how to do …
Gun violence all too real for students Read More
By: Eden Mae Richman and Taliyah Cooper Riverside, like many other schools across the state and country, follows loose sex education curriculum guidelines, leaving many students without essential information in …
Sex-Ed at Riverside: Some students are only being taught abstinence. They’re not the only ones. Read More
Riverside varsity cheer coach and math teacher Kayla Thompson takes pride in attending North Carolina Central University (NCCU). Thompson graduated from NCCU in 2013 and was a varsity cheerleader. She …
Separate and not always equal: HBCUs are systematically shorted of critical resources Read More
Plans for a winter formal dance have been canceled by Riverside’s Student Government Association (SGA). According to SGA, the winter formal is postponed indefinitely. “Originally the kids wanted a dance …
Proposed Winter Formal “postponed indefinitely” by SGA Read More