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After four days of clashes in the Port City, two people were dead, six were injured, and more than half-a-million dollars in damage was done. Mike’s Grocery, a white-owned store in a Black neighborhood, had been fire-bombed. It took the National Guard to put an end to the conflict. It's the story of The Wilmington Ten, begun 51 years ago, and still reverberating in Wilmington, NC.
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Despite recent public outcry, it’s not uncommon to see Wilmington street signs named after infamous confederate or 1898 figures. That could partly be due…
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One of Wilmington’s major arteries, Market Street, is named for an antebellum slave market. Bedford Forest Drive in Wilmington honors Nathan Bedford…
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This week, the Cape Fear Museum and County’s Library and Information Technology Department unveiled an online, interactive exhibit of the events of the…
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The New Hanover County Public Library is now providing an online directory of the City of Wilmington. And while the directory is new, the information in…
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As we watch public tolerance for Confederate monuments shift, and as we see Black Lives Matter, both the idea and the organization command center stage in…
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In the wake of George Floyd’s death, the protests began in Wilmington on May 30 with a gathering at 1898 Memorial Park. The next day, they moved to the…
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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 marked nine days since the death of George Floyd -- an unarmed black man who died after a white police officer in Minneapolis…