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Mable Owens Clarke got emotional while telling how she promised her mother on her deathbed to never let the doors close at Soapstone Baptist Church, founded by her great-grandfather in 1865 in Liberia, SC.

The book, “Liberia, SC” tells the history of 5 generations of her family

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May 30, 2020
The whole country needs to stop right now and listen to Killer Mike. He’s verbalizing what a lot of us don’t know how to express
Watching Killer Mike tell black people to go home reminds me of the night James Brown successfully used his influence in the black community to literally save the city of Boston April 5, 1968, the night after Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated
I also love the beautiful symbolism of “Killer” Mike being the voice of reason at a time like this
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EVERYBODY from South Carolina: A Thread.

Let’s start with The Godfather of Soul, James Brown.

On May 3, 1933, James Brown was born poor in a shack near Barnwell, South Carolina and went on to become one of the most influential entertainers of all time
Let’s rewind. I started this thread because as a kid, I remember watching TV and listening to the radio and rarely seeing or hearing the state represented. Many young people have fled to major cities in search of resources or experiences that don’t exist here.
I’ve always been a problem solver, so the idea of staying here and creating those resources and experiences has always been more fascinating to me than leaving. In staying, I began to discover a lot of facts about the state and started sharing them on social media.
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