race relations
“50 years and it still gets to me” – Cooke remembers Orangeburg Massacre
Laurens, SC – The front artwork on the 1968 South Carolina State yearbook showed a collection of yearbook covers from the previous 14 years, giving little indication to the tragedy represented on the first pages. There on an “In Memorium” page were pictured the three young men who died 50 years ago. Delano Middleton, Samuel Hammonds and…
Read MoreLaurens’ 1990s story, ‘Burden’ among top dramas at Sundance Film Fest
Laurens, SC – Rev. David Kennedy of New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church in Laurens left this morning to be in Utah in time to see the Sundance Film Festival’s final showings of “Burden” the film which is among the 16 films in the U.S. Dramatic Film Competition. Starring Forest Whitaker as Kennedy and Garrett Hedlund in the…
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