A 40,000-square-foot museum with a mission to honor the untold stories of the African-American journey at the site of one of the country’s most prolific slave-trading ports opens on June
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A local nonprofit is forging ahead with plans to revitalize All-Star Bowling Lanes, the backdrop of the protests that culminated in the Orangeburg Massacre, thanks to a $750,000 grant.
understand who he was and what he did and what he was going to do. i mean, it was his trajectory that everybody was following. i confess that, you know, by the time he was assassinated i was almost numb in 1968. dr. king had been killed just a couple of months earlier and a couple months before that in my hometown there had been the orangeburg massacre where three young black men within sight of my house had been killed by white state troopers in a demonstration, three unarmed men, 27 other people shot and injured. by the time we got to june, it was too much. it was in 1968, it was too much. and, willie, we going back to d-day and young men there, i remember on the 60th anniversary of d-day going over there just