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Willie Earl Vereen, one of the Wilmington Ten, passed away on Saturday, May 25.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Willie Earl Vereen, one of the Wilmington Ten, passed away on Saturday, May 25. The Wilmington Ten were 10 activists who were impr ...

Vereen, who had battled liver cancer and endured years of dialysis, died at 5:30 a.m. while in hospice care. His death marks the passing of another key figure in the fight for racial justice in the 1970s.

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Funeral services for James “Bun” McKoy, a member of the civil rights and political prisoner group The Wilmington Ten, are set for 3:30 p.m. EST on Friday, Nov. 17. McKoy died on November 10th, at the age of 69. The cause of death was not immediately

Special Honors & Scholarship Gala Washington, D.C. – The Washington Association of Black Journalists (WABJ) annual Special Honors & Scholarship Gala is back — this time at the Armour J. Blackburn University Center on the campus of Howard University on Saturday, December 2. The event starts at 6 p.m. This year’s gala honors eight distinguished

James McKoy, member of the Wilmington Ten, dies at 69. His story of civil rights activism and false convictions will be remembered.

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NEW HANOVER COUNTY — Two Wilmington locations could become stops along the North Carolina Civil Rights Trail this fall. READ MORE: Just a regular school closing?

good evening. again, a mounting death toll from this weeks historic tornado outbreak here in the south. rescuers acknowledge time is running out to find survivors. as we come on the air tonight, officials say at least 341 people are dead across seven states, making this the countrys second deadliest tornado outbreak ever. thousands of others are injured. the sheer number of people left homeless by this disaster has created what the mayor of tuscaloosa has called a humanitarian crisis. ...

the extraordinary ceremony. "today," sunday, may 1s, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to "today" on a sunday morning. im lester holt in tuscaloosa, alabama. and im jenna wolfe in new york. and, lester, the scope of the destruction from those tornadoes is just unimaginable. youve been there for days now. what can you tell us about the situation this morning? the more time you spend here, jenna, you realize the defining patterns of these tor...