UofSC alumna uses politics, technology to elevate the underestimated
From a dirt road in SC, Jotaka Eaddy builds a career of transformative change
Posted on: April 1, 2021; Updated on: April 1, 2021
Jotaka Eaddy is fond of quoting the words on the University of South Carolina’s seal: Learning humanizes character and does not permit it to be cruel.
For Eaddy, a 2001 political science graduate and the first Black woman elected as the university’s student body president, those words and their promise help explain her life’s story. Her path started in the tiny Florence County town of Johnsonville, South Carolina, where she grew up on a dirt road. She now is the founder and CEO of
From ‘Redneck Shop’ to racial reconciliation
UofSC alum works to replace hate with hope
Posted on: February 25, 2021; Updated on: February 25, 2021
It was the spring of 2018 and Regan Freeman was studying in one of the cubicles deep inside Thomas Cooper Library when he stumbled upon a
60 Minutes story. Oprah Winfrey and attorney Bryan Stevenson were touring the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, a monument to the thousands of African Americans who were lynched in the 70 years following the Civil War.
Freeman watched the screen as Winfrey and Stevenson paused and looked up at one of the 800 weathered steel monuments, each representing a county in the United States
The Schottenstein Center's east concourse was humming Friday during a kind of dress rehearsal for the COVID-19 vaccine clinic opening up Tuesday. About 400