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Longtime Columbia civil rights leader and Confederate flag foe Lonnie Randolph dies
Lonnie Randolph’s lifelong fight against racism was motivated by injustices he saw all around him while growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, including being barred from Columbia’s whites-only public library because he was Black.
Senators look to address SC’s energy need growth. Will they support new natural gas plant?
“I don’t want my poor areas being the conduit to give energy to other areas to make it, and then my people die from cancers and all these other things,” state Sen. Margie Bright Matthews, R-Colleton said.
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