Character Studies is an INDY series about familiar faces around the Triangle—and the stories you may not know about them.
Bertha Bradley is one of Durham’s leading activists, yet very few people know her name—but only because no one calls her by it. When she was little, her grandmother called her “Cookie.” The nickname stuck like glue.
Cookie, a lifelong Durham resident, has been instrumental in movements like Fight for $15 and a Union and the Union of Southern Service Workers, both of which strive to improve working conditions for service-industry workers in the South. Her passion about this subject comes from firsthand experience…