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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 the festival, said the films included range from comedies and features to shorts and documentaries. Tu...

Richards received 59.7 percent of the 3,219 votes cast in the election, defeating his opponent, junior Keshav Javvadi, by 851 votes, according to the results from the Board of Elections. 

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 the causes and consequences of an insurrection more than the 1898 Wilmington Massacre. In the past m...

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 politicians - to resign en masse. Historians have described it as the only coup in US history. Its rin...

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 enlightened about its history — already got this lesson in seditious behavior when they learned about t...