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More than 200 unmarked graves found on Clemson campus

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CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) – A team of researchers has announced that more than 200 unmarked graves have been discovered in a Clemson University cemetery. The graves are thought to be of those enslaved at John C. Calhoun’s plantation as well as sharecroppers and convicted workers who constructed campus buildings. Researchers had long known unidentified bodies of African-Americans were buried among…
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State lawmakers to consider election changes

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Columiba, S.C. (AP)–South Carolina’s Senate is coming back into session in two weeks to mull over possible election law updates necessitated by the coronavirus outbreak. Senate President Harvey Peeler said Monday that state senators would return Sept. 2 to “make plans to protect the voter and the vote” given that the pandemic continues in the run up to the November…

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SC Senate called back to ‘protect the voter and the vote’

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COLUMBIA, SC (AP) – South Carolina’s Senate is coming back into session in two weeks to mull over possible election law updates necessitated by the coronavirus outbreak. Senate President Harvey Peeler said Monday that state senators would return Sept. 2 to “make plans to protect the voter and the vote” given that the pandemic continues in the run up to…
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Congressman Clyburn to address DNC

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  Washington D.C. (AP)– South Carolina congressman James Clyburn is now the highest-ranking Black lawmaker in Congress, the House Democratic Whip, and one of the few 1960s civil rights movement leaders still in elective office today. He’ll bring that connection to the past to the Democratic National Convention on Monday. Clyburn will address a country in a new phase of…

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