By the end of the 19th century, Wilmington was North Carolina’s most populous city, and as a shipping hub, among its most prosperous, too. It was an unusual place: majority Black, with a thriving Black middle class and — most important — a multiracial government. “This was a primal threat to white supremacy,” the journalist […]Read More

Jeffrey Billman
Jeffrey Billman is a North Carolina-based freelance journalist and syndicated political columnist. He was most recently editor in chief of INDY Week, the Research Triangle’s alternative newspaper.











