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Remembering the 1898 Massacre

by Fairley Lloyd

As I find myself navigating racism and anti-blackness that has been forced to the front due to the yet again senseless murders of innocent black lives, I find myself confronting racism and what I can do to dismantle it in my very own hometown: Wilmington, North Carolina. Like the rest of the United States of America, this city has its own ugly history of racism, one of the most memorable being the 1898 massacre that took place.

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