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Authors Josh Bovill and Rodrekous Hunter Take an Unprecedented Approach to Decreasing the Black Student Literacy Gap Coastal Carolina Graduates to launch their first book, hip-hop album and non-profit organization aimed at decreasing the literacy gap for black students. News provided by Share this article Share this article ROCK HILL, S.C., Dec. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Write Way Foundation s founders Josh Bovill and Rodrekous Hunter both grew up as low-income, inner-city kids. They often struggled to find their place in a school system they felt did not understand them, their culture, or the way they learned. They both used the power of writing and their imagination to escape the reality of their environment at home and school. After meeting in college, they founded Coastal Carolina University s first-ever PEACE (Performers Emerging Above Circumstances to Excel) Club to help other students gain a platform and a voice to express themselves. The organization w ....
King of Sluggers: Josh Gibson’s Legacy A century has passed since the founding of the Negro Leagues, and the great-grandson of the game’s most feared yet forgotten hitter is fighting for the recognition of Pittsburgh’s Black baseball history. November 11, 2020 PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHUCK BEARD He has a set of hands that could wrap around the trunk of a Southern Live Oak the state tree of his native Georgia and a pair of forearms that could snap one in half. It’s sometime in the 1930s in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh when he steps up to the plate and bashes a baseball that clears the ivy-veiled outfield walls of Forbes Field and soars into oblivion. The following day his Pittsburgh Crawfords are playing in Philadelphia, and from out of nowhere, a baseball falls from the heavens and lands into the glove of a surprised center fielder. The umpire points to the twenty-something kid named Josh Gibson and shouts, Yer out yesterday in Pittsburgh. ....
Texas man killed by police was shot in the back, civil rights attorney says By Erin Donaghue December 16, 2020 / 8:52 PM / CBS News A southeast Texas man killed by police last week was shot in the back, according to an autopsy commissioned by the family of the slain man. The results of the independent autopsy in the death of 22-year-old Joshua Feast were announced Wednesday evening by national civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the family. Crump called for the firing of the La Marque police officer who opened fire, Jose Santos, and the immediate release of bodycam videos. Investigators have said Feast pointed a gun when Santos tried to approach him about an outstanding felony warrant on December 9, but Crump said Feast posed no threat and was shot while fleeing. ....