Barack Obama is coming to North Carolina.
The Democratic presidential candidate will make his first public appearance in North Carolina next month in Durham.
Obama, the Illinois senator, will host a "North Carolina Countdown to Change," at the Leroy Walker Physical Education Center at N.C. Central University in Durham on November 1.
The small dollar fund raiser — $15 for students and $25 for everyone else — will be open to the press.
Obama's last trip to North Carolina was at a private fund raiser in Chapel Hill.
