Updates & Announcements A service of THE VIRGINIA DEFENDER newspaper. Editorial Board: Ana Edwards & Phil Wilayto Nov. 10, 2025 Nov. 10 - On this day in 1898, white police officers and soldiers participated in the murder of at least 60 Black men in Wilmington, N.C. The Wilmington Massacre was a carefully orchestrated coup that toppled a multiracial government in what at that time was the South’s most progressive majority-Black city. (See Wilmington Massacre .) On Nov. 9 and 10 in 1938, the Nazis launched a massive pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria. Kristallnacht , or Night of Broken Glass, was a state-sponsored campaign of terror in which the fascists burned more than 1,000 synagogues, vandalized thousands of Jewish-owned businesses, desecrated Jewish religious objects and assaulted and killed Jewish people. Meanwhile, the German police arrested tens of thousands of Jewish men and boys. It took a world war to turn back the fasc...