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In Wilmington, hip-hop, at least the locally sourced variety, is largely an underground phenomenon, even as it sometimes breaks into the spotlight.

A lot of events were canceled last weekend because winter, and the same may happen this weekend, so keep that in mind when making plans.

Among the things that the COVID-19 vaccine allowed us to get back, community seems is one that people missed the most.

It wasn’t until Kieran Haile broke his hip at age 29 that he began to learn about how traumas from America’s early years are more than a dissociated story from the past. His brittle bone disease, he learned, is a consequence of slavery in the American south, when white slaveowners would rape Black women – eventually, perhaps, raping their own daughters. Kieran Haile, the great-great-grandson of Alexander Manly, and his wife, Priscilla Haile, visited Wilmington for the first time in September of 2021.

On Aug. 19, School Kids reopened at 1001-A Kerr Ave., just a few doors down from where the shop closed in early 2003 after 25-year run in Wilmington.