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Visitors to Kenai Fjords National Park near Seward get a look at Exit Glacier. “The word on the street in Seward from hotels and Airbnbs is it’s going to be a wild summer,” said Bixler McClure, who runs whale-watching tours. “Airbnb nightly rentals are literally full for all of July. This has never happened this early.” (Marc Lester / ADN)
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Print article SEWARD, Alaska - Bixler McClure’s whale-watching tours in this popular port south of Anchorage are nearly sold out for June and July. He’s had so many emails and phone calls begging him for a spot that he recently hired another captain and ordered a third boat. This big expansion of his small business, Seward Ocean Excursions, would have been unthinkable this time last year, when tourism evaporated and he nearly sold a boat to keep the business afloa
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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens to his defense attorney make closing arguments on Monday during his trial in the death of George Floyd.
A jury has found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all charges in the killing of George Floyd, including 2nd-degree murder. The trial was being watched closely around the nation, including in Wilmington, where local officials are weighing in on what the verdict means for our region.
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New Hanover County NAACP President Deborah Dicks Maxwell said the “fate of the country” was in the jury’s hands, and she felt they made the right decision one that’s crucial to future police reform, she said.
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On this edition of Coastline, we meet two people from this community. One woman, one man. One in mid-life. One a young adult. They both live in the Cape Fear region. And while neither of them would say they feel despised or hunted or under attack here, they still must think about how mainstream local residents might respond to them. And this – the constant, necessary vigilance is the part that should not have been – but was news to this journalist.
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image captionThe mob burned down the offices of the Wilmington Daily Record
A violent mob, whipped into a frenzy by politicians, tearing apart a town to overthrow the elected government.
Following state elections in 1898, white supremacists moved into the US port of Wilmington, North Carolina, then the largest city in the state. They destroyed black-owned businesses, murdered black residents, and forced the elected local government - a coalition of white and black politicians - to resign en masse.
Historians have described it as the only coup in US history. Its ringleaders took power the same day as the insurrection and swiftly brought in laws to strip voting and civil rights from the state s black population. They faced no consequences.
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