Last week, the State of North Carolina updated a highway marker commemorating the violent overthrow of the Wilmington government in 1898. Erected in 1994, the original marker described the event as a “race riot” and did not mention the death toll amongst the black populace.  The new marker calls the event a “coup” and highlights the “untold number of African-American dead.” … Continue reading 121 years ago when the Rochester press condemned the Wilmington, North Carolina race riots. And the Douglass Monument