Margaux "Max" Tendler
Digital News InternMargaux Tendler is a rising sophomore at Duke University majoring in English and minoring in Journalism and Creative Writing. A Durham native, she was previously Editor-in-Chief of her high school newspaper and is now an Associate News Editor at The Duke Chronicle.
Sheβs the recipient of a 2025 Gracie Award and PMJA Award for a radio feature published by WUNC last summer, and she won the North Carolina Scholastic Media Associationβs Best Feature Article in 2024.
Tendler, who also goes by "Max," applied for the Youth Reporting Institute to improve her story-crafting skills and serve her community with the most effective and compelling journalism possible.
Contact Max at mtendler@wunc.org
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With support and a little stability, some transgender women are able to find careers after they leave prison. -
Black transgender women describe the trauma they experienced reentering society after a reportedly agonizing time in N.C. prisons. -
Three Black transgender women chronicle alleged abuses they faced while serving time in men's prisons in North Carolina. -
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 online bookstore is run entirely by the volunteers at Friends of the Durham Library, a nonprofit that has worked with the library since at least the 1980s, Shayne Goodrum, FODL's former president, said. -
The celebration came amidst an uncertain time for Murray's legacy. The federal government cut more than $300,000 of funding for the recently-opened Pauli Murray Center, and references to Murray's queerness and history have been censored or altogether erased on federal websites. However, Murray was also posthumously bestowed the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, one of North Carolina's highest awards. -
The aid-on-wheels program, which began this past January, served 3,000 individuals in its first 70 days, illustrating the "urgent need," the organization said in a statement, for solutions that bring resources directly to those they serve. -
Every week until Labor Day weekend, the Wake Water Quality Lab is taking samples from recreational areas across the county to check for the levels of E. coli and enterococcus bacteria. -
Gray Byrd had submitted a speech responding to the prompt "striving to excel" β part of the school motto β that included the line "transgender people are facing new levels of violence each day, and the voices of transgender children are being overlooked." -
A department spokesperson told the Associated Press that the email, which included a spreadsheet labeling 150 Administration for Children and Families grants for termination, contained "outdated and predecisional information."
