Culture‘They Stole a City’ author Lauren Collins on Wilmington coup cover-up

Lauren Collins, author of “They Stole a City”, told FRANCE 24 how those involved in a 1898 white supremacist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina, and the authorities concealed it for years. The event was never taught in local schools, including when Collins was a student. She discussed the book from Paris, where she works for The New Yorker.