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By Elain Hegwood Bowen, M.S.J. BLK Docs: A new partnership between Speller Street Films, the Luminal Theater, and SeedSpark is offering documentaries for the public to stream and enjoy. The first documentary that screened online earlier this week was “Wilmington on Fire” by Christopher Everett. Although this film was about events that happened in the []

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