Issued on: 06/10/2026 – 15:53
09:39 min
From the show
Reading time 1 min
Renowned journalist Lauren Collins, author of the new book “They Stole a City,” discusses how a 1898 white‑supremacist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina was concealed for decades. In a conversation with FRANCE 24, she reveals how the perpetrators and local authorities suppressed the truth, erasing the event from school curricula even during her own education. Now based in Paris as a staff writer for The New Yorker, Collins sheds light on this obscured chapter of American history.
