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News for the Carolinas
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Monday, December 10, 2012
The City of Florence Department of Community Services conducted a review on fair housing impediments in the city. The Department's Director, Scotty Davis, says the review found possible impediments with unequal access to mortgage financing from some Florence lending institutions, as well as a low number of loans available to African-Americans and disparities in property insurance coverage.
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Friday, November 09, 2012
Randolph Harrell, 89, was one of 20,000 African Americans who were allowed to join the US Marine Corps in 1942, following a Presidential Directive by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Monday, September 03, 2012
Spaulding Heights is one of the oldest African American American communities in North Florence.
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Monday, June 13, 2011
The Civil War commemorations planned for the next several years have revived an unsettling debate that lingers 150 years after the conflict: how to view the role of African Americans in the Confederacy.
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Thursday, June 02, 2011
Thirty years ago this week, the federal government diagnosed five men with Pneumocystis Pneumonia. Doctors later discovered the pneumonia was brought on by a virus that was attacking their immune system, the virus commonly known today as HIV/AIDS.
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Some Darlington preschool students celebrated Black History Month with special reflections on African Americans who have impacted our nation.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Census estimates show the nation's blacks are leaving big cities in the Northeast and Midwest at the highest levels in decades.
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Friday, January 29, 2010
African Americans and the Civil War is the topic of the annual meeting of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission.
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