by Christopher Oliver
Year in Review is a Top 10 countdown of stories released throughout 2020 by The Manning Times.
(04/30/2020)
On December 12, at the Clarendon County courthouse, Kimberly and Kevin Johnson were sworn in by former senator John Land as members of the South Carolina House of Representatives and South Carolina Senate, respectively.
Kevin Johnson has been a member of the South Carolina State Senate and still representing District 36. He is married to Gloria Richardson, with three children, Kenneth, Kyndra, and Kimberly Johnson.
Kimberly Johnson is a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, representing District 64. She assumed office on November 9, after she won the general election on November 3, 2020. The Johnson family is doing whatever it takes to succeed by creating a legacy worth keeping. In Clarendon, the father and daughter duo, winning elected positions in the elections made people very proud. Kimberly Johnson and her father, Kevin Johnson
Trump loyalists harboring martial law fantasies don’t know their history Gillian Brockell Gloria Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, pushes a National Guardsman’s bayonet aside in Cambridge, Md., on July 21, 1963, as she moves among a crowd of African Americans to convince them to disperse. (AP) Some of President Trump’s most rabid loyalists are calling for him to declare martial law so he won’t have to cede power to President-elect Joe Biden next month though his White House aides have rejected that idea as a way to overturn the election. A frustrated Trump redoubles efforts to overturn election result
Police deploy pepper spray in confrontation outside cellblock holding people arrested during demonstrations Peter Hermann, Marissa Lang, Keith L. Alexander D.C. police said they fired pepper spray in a confrontation with activists outside a cellblock where a group gathered Monday evening to greet people being freed from detention after arrests during weekend demonstrations in downtown Washington. Social justice activists said they were surprised by the police presence at what has become a routine event dubbed “jail support” to give people who had been held until their initial court appearances food, medical care and hugs. They described the police as overly aggressive.
12/11/2020
Gloria Richardson Pushed Aside a Bayonet as a ’60s Civil Rights Activist. Now 98, She Wants the New Generation to Fight On Breaking News
More than five decades after she faced off with armed National Guardsmen during protests over segregation, Gloria Richardson watched as outrage over the death of George Floyd prompted thousands to take to the streets.
The civil rights fighter was angry the nation had not made more progress since she helped lead a racial justice uprising on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the 1960s. But the news images from across the country also sparked hope: While the protesters who had joined her were predominantly Black, she watched a mix of races, all marching together to continue their work.
Lincoln Project founder seeks AOC for Anti-Trump organization We need to work together or we are going to lose America, said Steve Schmidt, co-founder of the Lincoln Project
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a lengthy Twitter thread.
According to Newsweek, Schmidt is one of eight Republicans who started an anti-Trump political action committee. He previously worked on campaigns for President George W. Bush, Governor
John McCain.
“I would like to officially reach out to @AOC on behalf of the @ProjectLincoln in defense of democracy. We disagree on many issues and that is ok in our view,” Schmidt said.
He followed by acknowledging her former job as a waitress, saying, “Btw, we don’t look down on waitresses. We admire them. We are all the types of guys who always tip at 50 percent or more.”