The Thirty-fifth Annual Wiggins Lecture Caterina Jarboro, the 1898 Wilmington Riot, and the Challenges of the Archive Richard A. Yarborough Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at 7:00 PM ET Approximately 60 minutes. This hybrid program will be held in person at Antiquarian Hall and livestreamed to a virtual audience on YouTube. Advance registration is required for both. Doors open at
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Wilmington has a rich history, but many stories remain untold.
“A People’s History of Wilmington,” a series of virtual talks and discussions, highlights Black history and culture that is often missing from history lessons.
The series includes:
Cape Fear Rag: The Forgotten Jazz Roots of Wilmington, Thursday, April 8, 6:30 p.m.
North Carolina writer and historian Larry Reni Thomas grew up on the northside of Wilmington. His 1993 book, The True Story of the Wilmington 10, was among the first to focus attention on the injustices of 1971.
On the Record: Recovering the First Black Daily in the South, Thursday, April 15, 6:30 p.m.
Unseen Genius West Philly author Fran Ross published a novel in 1974 that the world ignored. Now, she’s a literary force. Unseen Genius West Philly author Fran Ross published a novel in 1974 that the world ignored. Now, she’s a literary force. Heroines don’t always show up the way that Fran Ross wrote Oreo. Oreo was cut from an entirely different cloth. While Oreo shares many attributes with Blaxploitation heroines of the era, her quest has nothing to do with rescuing or avenging a boyfriend who’s in trouble or dead, like Sugar Hill or Cleopatra Jones. Her story isn’t fueled by surviving violent trauma like Foxy Brown. Foxy Brown’s rape in that 1974 film, as Morehouse cinema scholar Stephane Dunn has explained, becomes “a metaphor for racial power relations.” Consider the direction that Fran Ross took that same trope in her novel that same year.