White protesters clash with police outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1920. Left photo by Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/ Washington Post via Getty Images; right: still from “Buried News” In 1978, a Pentacostal minister and occasional backhoe operator in Dawson City, Yukon, was digging through the […]
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Belk bankruptcy highlights century-old ties to Wilmington NC
WILMINGTON – There were only a dozen Belk stores in existence when the North Carolina-born department store opened its 13th in Wilmington in 1915. William Henry Belk’s soon-to-be mammoth retailer started in Monroe in 1888 with a single location known as the New York Racket. By the turn of the […]