Environmental Racism is Real, Destructive and Deadly
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent
Published May 20, 2021
acks and Hispanics experience 56 percent and 63 percent, respectively, more pollution than their consumption would generate. Whites experience a “pollution advantage” while Blacks and Hispanics experience a “pollution burden.”
For many, Earth Day stands as a reminder of everyone’s role as stewards of the planet.
It’s a time to reflect and to plan ahead for a cleaner and healthier environment.
Still, for many others, it’s also a stark reminder about how African Americans and other minorities are often forgotten when it comes to the protection of their communities.
Donald L. Walters, 84, of Willow Valley, passed away on April 26, 2021. Dr. Walters was born in 1937 in Indiana. He received the bachelor s and master s degree from Indiana
Bluffton interim town manager Marshall resigns
Bluffton Today
Bluffton Town Council accepted interim town manager Scott Marshall’s resignation at its Tuesday meeting.
Mayor Lisa Sulka said council had received a resignation letter from Marshall, who was hired as deputy town manager in 2015, after it returned from a closed executive session to discuss personnel. Marshall s last day with the town will be June 4.
“You’ve really kept our ship going,” Sulka told Marshall.
Marshall was appointed interim town manager in January after Marc Orlando was hired as the new town manager on Hilton Head Island.
The town said April 26 that council was offering the Bluffton town manager job to Easley city administrator Stephen Steese. Sulka said Steese has accepted the job and council is waiting on a final contract to review at a workshop this month.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina ETV (SCETV) today announced that its weekly, 30-minute, literature-focused series,
By The River, has received two accolades from The Communicator Awards – the Communicator Award of Excellence in the Television Cultural category and the Communicator Award of Distinction in the Television Interview category.
Now filming its fourth season,
By The River is filmed on a Bronze Telly Award-winning set at ETV Lowcountry in Beaufort, S.C. Achieved in partnership with the University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB), the entire crew for the show consists of USCB Communication Studies students. The show is hosted by Holly Jackson, director of Operations and Content at ETV Lowcountry and is produced by Dr. Caroline E. Sawyer, assistant professor of Communication Studies at USCB.
2 South Carolina college students killed in bridge crash
May 4, 2021 GMT
BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) Two of three people killed when a pickup truck and a sedan crashed on a bridge over a body of water were students at South Carolina colleges, according to school officials.
The Beaufort County Coroner’s Office identified the victims Saturday as Tyler Cameron Carroll, 23, of Ridgeland; Jonathan Green, 27, of Hardeeville and Jordan Amari Johnson, 21, of Ridgeland.
Green, who was driving the sedan, was studying information science at the University of South Carolina Beaufort, university spokeswoman Carol Weir told The Island Packet. Johnson was in the sedan’s back seat. She was a student at Converse College in Spartanburg, according to Converse spokeswoman Holly Duncan.