by lindaoppenheim | Nov 25, 2016 | Article
Novelist, Jacqueline Woodson, turns to memories of her elders in South Carolina to find words to comfort her eight-year-old son.
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 12, 2015 | Poem
Poet Nikky Finney, a daughter of South Carolina, composed a piece about the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds. She discusses her background, her emergence as a poet, and her writing process in this interview. Thanks to NIOT...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 30, 2015 | Article
Bree Newsome’s statement explaining her motivation to scale the South Carolina statehouse flagpole and take down the Confederate flag.
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 21, 2015 | Article
‘I Will Never Be Able to Hold Her Again, But I Forgive You.’ was the 6-column headline for the New York Times story on Saturday, June 20 with the subhead Raw Emotion as Victims’ Kin Address Charleston Suspect. “It was as if the Bible study had...
