When Andrew Smith said, “People fear what they don’t understand and hate what they can’t conquer,” he was laying out the blueprint
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To be a small state, and not heavily populated, South Carolina’s influence stretches farther than I ever expected when I moved away
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When the Senate voted last week to recognize June 19 as a federal holiday, the reaction among many of my friends and
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My elementary school principal, Hal Howington, called me into his office. I’d written a “love letter” of the typical grade-school variety (“I
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Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series. Read Part 1 here.When a friend posted on Facebook that young Black
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Social media usually is such a proliferation of nonsense that I’m surprised when I read something that really makes me stop and
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