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SAN DIEGO —  Isabel Rosales’ husband knew exactly how long it took her to get to the nearest grocery store and knew it took 22 minutes for her to get home after work. If she was even a minute late, he would call, exerting a control over her that finally erupted in violence one day in January 2018. Early that morning, Rosales and her husband argued about her texting her coworkers, and he told her she couldn’t go to work that day. Rosales went to the bathroom, where she heard him unsheat...

Clarksville NowContributedMabel the cat CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – St. Bethlehem Animal Clinic is drawing complaints after an employee posted to Snapchat on Thursday a graphic image of a cat’s injury – an injury the cat’s owner claims is the result of malpractice. Kathryn Wigington dropped off her cat Mabel at St. Bethlehem to be spayed on Thursday, April 15, and was told the vet would call her for pickup. A Snapchat photo of Mabel the Cat, seen by a friend of Mabel’s owner, ...

Film Festival Flix Hosts Virtual Documentary Series BLK Docs, Centering Cinema and Media of the Black/ African Diaspora Share Article BLK Docs is a documentary series project created by Curtis John of The Luminal Theater and Christopher Everett of Speller Street Films. The first BLK Docs virtual screening will be available on Film Festival Flix on April 8. Digging for Weldon Irvine screens April 8, from BLK Docs, on Film Festival Flix "We desired to celebrate Irvine’s legacy, alongside celebr...

North Carolina Black Film Festival goes online The event kicks off Thurs., Feb. 25 The 17th Annual North Carolina Black Film Festival kicks off tomorrow By Ashlea Kosikowski | February 24, 2021 at 6:15 PM EST - Updated February 24 at 6:16 PM WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The North Carolina Black Film Festival goes online this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The four-day event begins on Feb. 25 and features independent movies from African American filmmakers. Charlon Turner, who organizes th...

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WILMINGTON – The Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill awakened an awareness in Americans to the fragility of democracy. But many people didn’t come out of the experience of watching history unfold in real time with an understanding of how to process that stark realization. In the hours and days after the deadly riot that directly led to the deaths of five people, Americans turned to history to help understand the troubling present through the past – and nothing has educated people about ...

BBC News By Toby Luckhurst image captionThe mob burned down the offices of the Wilmington Daily Record A violent mob, whipped into a frenzy by politicians, tearing apart a town to overthrow the elected government. Following state elections in 1898, white supremacists moved into the US port of Wilmington, North Carolina, then the largest city in the state. They destroyed black-owned businesses, murdered black residents, and forced the elected local government - a coalition of white and black pol...

New Hanover County Public Library A group of men stand in front of the destroyed printing press of African American newspaper owner and editor Alex Manly on Nov. 10, 1898. Shortly after this, the coup began in the streets of Wilmington. WILMINGTON — On Wednesday, as rioters broke into the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., and a nation watched in disbelief, Americans got a real-time lesson in a startling concept – insurrection. But the Wilmington community — at least those people enlig...