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WHQR will be gathering our weekly reporting and posting it every Saturday in a podcast--we're calling it THE WEEKLY. Catch up every weekend with host…
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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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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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Two demonstrations in Wilmington over the weekend. Both were about George Floyd – the black man killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis last week.…
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Over the weekend, protests continued all across the country over the death of George Floyd, the unarmed black man who died from the knee of a white…
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It was the early 1990s when an American creative writing professor set about publishing his second novel. The pivotal event in his book: a 19th century…
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A new marker unveiled Friday in Wilmington refers to the events of November 1898 as a “coup” and not a “race riot” as other signs had in years past. The…
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Wilmington’s history is rooted in racial tension. A local organization, Tru Colors, is trying to connect people across racial and economic divides through…
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“Sins, like chickens, come home to roost. The South paid a fearful price for the wrong of negro slavery; in some form or other it will doubtless reap the…
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The City of Wilmington has named November 10th 1898 Day. It was 120 years ago that a white mob seized local government, murdered an unknown number of…