For decades, generations even, it was almost like Wilmington's 1898 coup and massacre never happened. Actively suppressed almost immediately after it occurred, it would be nearly a century before the ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WTVD) -- Historian Larry Thomas was born and raised in Wilmington. But it took decades for him to learn the truth about a violent chapter in the history of his hometown and North ...

As someone who dealt with racial injustice in Wilmington 50 years ago, Ben Chavis admits he knew little about an event that preceded his own struggles more than 50 years earlier. “When I came here in ...

In Wilmington, 1898 never really goes away. One hundred and 25 years ago on Nov. 10, white supremacists overthrew a biracial local government, killed dozens of Blacks and forced hundreds more to leave ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. -- Joshua Halsey was murdered in the November 1898 massacre of Black people in Wilmington, North Carolina, by White supremacists. On Saturday, 123 years later, Halsey was honored with ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - New Hanover County, the City of Wilmington and several local organizations have planed a series of events to mark the 124th anniversary of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre and ...

In 1898, a white supremacist mob attacked the thriving Black community of Wilmington. They burned down the Black-owned local newspaper office, overthrew the local government and murdered dozens of ...

It’s been over 125 years since hundreds of African Americans were killed in Wilmington by white supremacists, who feared the success of the port city’s thriving Black middle class on the political and ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - On this day, 123 years ago, historians estimate that between 60 and 100 people were racially targeted and murdered in Wilmington in what they call the only known, successful ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) Nov. 10 marks the 126th anniversary of a dark day in Wilmington's history: the coup and massacre of 1898, when armed white ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to include a statement from the John Locke Foundation. For decades, generations even, it was almost like Wilmington's 1898 coup and massacre never happened.