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Postcards promoting a new podcast about the Star of Bengal hang on a Juneau refrigerator. (Ben Hohenstatt / Capital City Weekly)
Tale of historic Wrangell shipwreck surfaces in podcast
By Mark Sabbatini • September 7, 2022 2:30 am

1908 sinking of Star of Bengal, which killed 111, is narrated by locals in 5-part series.

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Black soldiers of Company L, 24th Infantry, famously known as "Buffalo Soldiers," parade on 5th Avenue in Skagway, between Broadway and State streets, in front of the Daily Budget newspaper on July 4, 1899. A recent book from a University of Alaska Anchorage history professor traces the long history of Black Americans in Alaska. (Courtesy image / Alaska's Digital Archives)
Book traces over 150 years of Black history...
By Peter Segall • February 16, 2022 2:30 am

Before the gold rush.

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Dana Zigmund / Juneau Empire 
Siblings Lea Skaggs, left, and Drake Skaggs, right, show off work by their brother Avery Skaggs at the opening night of a show at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum featuring a selection of work Avery Skaggs created during the pandemic lockdown. The exhibition is titled “Home: Disability Creativity in a Pandemic Lockdown.”
Creating without community
By Dana Zigmund • January 12, 2022 2:30 am

‘Capitvating’ new exhibit contains artist’s lockdown work

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Dana Zigmund / Capital City Weekly
Tlingit and Athabascan artist, designer and activist Crystal Kaakeeyaa Worl places a portion of what will become the 60-by 20-foot public mural depicting Elizabeth Kaaxgal.aat Peratrovich, a Tlingit civil rights icon, into place at Centennial Hall on Aug. 13. Once complete, the mural will appear on the currently blank south wall of the Marine Parking garage, the structure on which the downtown branch of Juneau’s public library sits.
A mural comes to life
By Dana Zigmund • August 25, 2021 2:30 am

Team of artists assemble pieces

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Sketches for a new 60 -by- 25-foot mural depicting Elizabeth Kaax̱gal.aat Peratrovich, a Tlingit civil rights activist who worked for equality for Alaska Natives in the 1940s, are laid out for sorting in the studio of Tlingit and Athabascan artist, designer, and activist Crystal Kaakeeyaa Worl. (Courtesy photo / Crystal Kaakeeyaa Worl)
New mural to honor Alaskan civil rights leader
By Dana Zigmund • August 11, 2021 2:30 am

The 60-by-25-foot mural will greet visitors.

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