Confronting a legacy of hate, a rural SC town tries to make sense of trans teen's murder
Jacob Williamson was from Laurens — home of “The Redneck Shop” and the state’s first openly gay mayor.
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Black Preacher To Turn 'World's Only Klan Museum' Into A Racial Healing Community Center - Blavity
Black Preacher To Turn Worlds Only Klan Museum Into A Racial Healing Community Center The recently founded Echo Project has raised more $375,000 to renovate and the former KKK meeting place and white supremacist museum. January 18, 2021 at 4:39 pm Two South Carolina men have formed an organization to renovate a once well-established place of segregation and white supremacy into a place for racial healing and remembrance. Officially forming the Echo Project in 2019, Laurens, South Carolina, re...
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A former White supremacist store and Ku Klux Klan meeting space is being turned into a community center to promote healing
A former White supremacist store and Ku Klux Klan meeting space is being turned into a community center to promote healing A South Carolina preacher and local resident are turning what once was a Ku Klux Klan meeting place into a community center dedicated to educating and fighting against racial injustice. Deep in Laurens stands the historic Echo Theater, perched in between diners and cafes bustling with customers and ’50s music that can be heard from the street. But that building carries a ...
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