Prayers for Charleston Date and Time: Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 9:00am Location: Macedonia Baptist Church, 502 S. Daniel Morgan Avenue, Spartanburg, SC 29302 Join the Spartanburg Branch of NAACP in Collaboration with community and faith leaders as we remember those we lost in Charleston. For More Details: Brenda Lee
Spartanburg, SC May 29th, 2015- Spartanburg NAACP President Monier Abusaft speaks about his educational path, professional choices, and civic engagement to a group of students at the Meeting Street Academy. The Meeting Street Academy is a Spartanburg private school focused on providing underprivileged children with a top education. To find
When first-grader Gracie Baxter Smith goes to school, she enters a classroom named after the College of Charleston. She knows its song. She’s learned what year she’ll graduate from high school and go to college herself. She wants to be a nurse. Yet she goes to Meeting Street Elementary @
5-year analysis finds 209 incidents of law enforcement shooting at suspects, but few charges and no convictions Police in South Carolina have fired their weapons at 209 suspects in the past five years, and a handful of officers have been accused of pulling the trigger illegally – but none has
Co-working spaces are often treated today as a novelty, as a thoroughly modern solution to the changing needs of a workforce now more loyal to their laptops than any long-term employers. But the idea is actually as old as the public library. One of the world’s first and most famous
A White House Task Force charged with probing the deteriorated relationship between police and the communities they protect issued a report to President Obama on Monday that calls for independent investigations into all police shootings and to abolish all policing practices that rely on racial profiling. “The moment is now
On Feb. 1 and Feb. 8, I read in the Herald-Journal the comments by Mr. Monier Abusaft, the new NAACP leader in Spartanburg, about the tragic and unjust killings of black youths and black men. I agree that these deaths are tragic and that the nation’s attention must be drawn
More than 1,000 supporters of S.C. State University gathered at the State House Monday to rally against a legislative proposal to close the school for two years. Lawmakers, ministers and activists promised to keep open South Carolina’s only historically black public college, decrying what they said is a lack of