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'Freedom Never Dies': New children's book spells out life, activism of Harry and Harriette Moore
Florida Today via Yahoo News· 10 minutes ago"They learn the important lesson that's not ancient history, which is that it was a struggle for...
Friendship 9’s John Gaines dies at 83. SC civil rights group pioneered ‘jail, no bail’
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSouth Carolina civil rights legend John Alexander Gaines, who spent a month in the York County jail...
Local historian shares tales of St. Helena’s freed people during and after the Civil War
Hilton Head Island Packet via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoOver the weekend multiple events across Beaufort County celebrated the holiday and local historian...
John Gaines, civil rights leader and member of Friendship Nine, has died
WSOC-TV Charlotte· 2 days agoJohn Gaines, a civil rights leader from South Carolina who made history during a sit-in at a Rock...
Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech in its entirety
Mountain View Telegraph· 4 hours agoCivil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial in...
Harriet Tubman led a raid that freed more than 700 enslaved people. A South Carolina church has...
CNN via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoIn the early hours of June 2, 1863, Union army gunboats idled along the banks of South Carolina’s...
Internet Hilariously Roasts Nancy Mace’s Latest Hypocrisy
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 6 days agoSouth Carolina Republican Representative Nancy Mace bragged about her record supporting civil...
Two Upstate activists making a push for statewide hate crime legislation in South Carolina
Gannett via AOL· 2 days ago"We're going to push for it to be done and we're not going to give up the fight until it is done,"...
It’s time for South Carolina to finally recognize Juneteenth as an official holiday | Opinion
The State McClatchy via AOL· 18 hours agoState Sen. Darrell Jackson, D-Columbia, has introduced several bills to make Juneteenth an SC state...
SC ends AP African American Studies in public schools. Some say it’s ‘whitewashing history’
The State via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe South Carolina Department of Education announced that schools could not longer offer advanced...