About 75 people gathered outside the county courthouse in Laurens, South Carolina Sunday afternoon to take part in a Prayer Vigil for America, organized by the Laurens Liberty Society. “We will pray until it goes through the courts,” one minister said, leading the group in prayer on the sunny afternoon. Read more…
Saturday morning, about 375 people gathered in Anderson, South Carolina to show their support for law enforcement officers in the area and across the country. This car parade, which had a route through downtown Anderson on the cloudy fall morning, included a rally with speeches from the police chief, state Read more…
Every year throughout the country, communities gather to climb 110 flights in honor of the nearly 3,000 Americans who lost their lives on September 11th. Among the 3,000 lives lost were 412 first responders who jumped into action at the World Trade Center on that day 19 years ago. This Read more…
Protests continue this week throughout the South, the country, and around the world. Today, I am here with photos from Anderson, South Carolina — a city of approximately 27,000 people. As I’ve said in all of my coverage (Atlanta, Athens, and Seneca), I believe that these protests are not Black Read more…
Protests continue here in the South and all over the United States, which means that my coverage of these events will continue as I try to bring you more insight into what it’s like on the ground. Today, that means a protest in Seneca, South Carolina, a town of about Read more…
The morning was grey, sunlight struggling to poke through the cloud coverage of a grey winter day. He paused, a long sigh. “It’s just…people around here, they’re pissed off,” he said. Around here, in this case, was a series of small towns in rural Georgia and South Carolina. Spending several Read more…
“You have to have a cheesesteak,” Marc says emphatically. His eyes widened with excitement, sparkling from the memory. We sat across from each other at the kitchen table, miles away from Philadelphia in his Detroit home. “You have to get it from Pat’s, that’s the only place you should go,” Read more…