Major events in history are often retold through the lens of just a few people and capture just a portion of a
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Journalist, civil rights activist. Born in Youngstown, Florida, on August 25, 1910, McCray was the eldest of seven children born to Donald Carlos McCray and Rachel Rebecca Montgomery. At age six, McCray moved with his family to the all-black community
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“We call for the immediate end of cultural appropriation of the Gullah Geechee language, food and cooking traditions, worship experience and artistic expressions for the financial gain of those who cannot or
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Major events in history are often retold through the lens of just a few people and capture just a portion of a moment. Far too often, the wider scale of an event
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By: Bobby J. Donaldson Curated from: theconversation.com A rusting chain-link fence represents a “color line” for the dead in Columbia, South Carolina. In Randolph Cemetery, separated by the barrier from the well-manicured
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Journalist, civil rights activist. Born in Youngstown, Florida, on August 25, 1910, McCray was the eldest of seven children born to Donald Carlos McCray and Rachel Rebecca Montgomery. At age six, McCray
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Grant will fund restoration and upgrades to Booker T. Washington Auditorium Building Booker T. Washington High School, Columbia’s first public high school for African American students, has a powerful history as a
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I didn’t think a memorial about the horror of lynching could be beautiful. But that’s just what the National Memorial for Peace and Justice is. Though I’m not sure it was done
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