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LUGOFF, S.C. (AP) â Sadia Pollardâs father has a memory.
Itâs the 1980s and Pollardâs father, a young man then, drives by his grandparentsâ home and farm in the Chesapeake Bay area. The day is hot. He sees his grandmother bent over and digging in the dirt, maybe pulling weeds or taking a vegetable from the ground. Heâs embarrassed that his grandmother is working the farm, Pollard said.
He thought farming âwasnât respectableâ at the time, said Pollard, who uses nonbinary pronouns.
In some rural communities like their great grandmotherâs, leaving âis the biggest thing you could do,â they said. âTo leave and not have to do what your grandparents did.â
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SC lawmakers hold emergency meeting in case of man who died at Charleston Co. jail
VIDEO: SC lawmakers hold emergency meeting in case of man who died at Charleston Co. jail By Logan Reigstad | May 19, 2021 at 3:26 PM EDT - Updated May 19 at 7:53 PM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Leaders from the stateâs Democratic and Legislative Black caucuses held an emergency meeting at North Charleston City Hall to talk about what legislation they can pass to ensure what happened to Jamal Sutherland doesnât happen to others.
Sutherland died on Jan. 5 at the Al Cannon Detention Center while deputies were forcibly removing him from his cell so he could attend a bond hearing on an assault charge. During the incident, he became unresponsive.
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