PHILLIPS COMMUNITY, S.C. — The Rev. “I’m being surrounded, really,” Wright said recently in the Brooklyn accent she picked up before returning to her late husband’s home 30 years ago in Jonesville Historic Gullah Neighborhood. “We should be able to hold onto it.” —- South Carolina’s 2017 reforms stymied some predatory behavior, according to Josh Walden of the Center for …
CNN — The Navy has renamed a warship in honor of a Black sailor and statesman who had been born into slavery, as part of the US military’s ongoing effort to remove names that commemorate the Confederacy. The guided missile destroyer USS Chancellorsville, which was named after a Confederate victory in the Civil War, was renamed the USS Robert Smalls, …
