Margaret Green didn’t know what she was selling was slowly killing her. Green was the sweets lady in Red Top, a black community in rural Charleston County. She sold candy bars and ice cream and ate a lot herself, a habit that her granddaughter believes contributed to Green developing diabetes and hypertension, which led to …
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By Destiny Kennedy Hundreds of people packed into Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church for the annual Nehemiah Action assembly on Monday night. Community members, organizers and elected officials came together for the event hosted by the Charleston Area Justice Ministry. This year was the 12th year of the group addressing education, affordable housing and reducing racial bias …
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At its annual Nehemiah Action gathering, Charleston Area Justice Ministry members called on Charleston County School District leaders to promise more transparency regarding the school board, whose actions in recent months have sparked repeated controversies.
Wage theft is a lot more common than people think. It costs workers billions of dollars every year. Employers often get away with wage theft because it’s tough to spot and sometimes workers feel pressured to not speak up about it so that they don’t lose their jobs. But wage theft is illegal, and you can report wage theft to your state, or local authorities and to the U.S. Department of Labor.
While a bus rapid transit system aimed at providing adequate transportation is projected for 2025 in Charleston region, elected officials said they won’t wait that long to work on efforts to make public transportation more efficient and affordable. The Charleston Area Justice Ministry held its seventh annual Nehemiah Action Rally Monday at Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church, …
CARTA board members say they’ll push for “Fair Fares Plan” Posted by Adam Manno on Tue, May 7, 2019 at 1:25 PM Ruta Smith Monday’s Nehemiah Action at Mount Moriah Baptist in North Charleston is one of CAJM’s biggest events of the year As 1,800 people greeted their friends and took their seats, there was no question what inspired them …
Ann Powell-Cromwell was turning to head home on James Island when an officer stopped her. Her tag lights were out, he said, and he couldn’t see her license plate. “I felt that he shouldn’t have stopped me because I had my signal on way ahead of time,” Powell-Cromwell said in a classroom at St. James …
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The Charleston Area Justice Ministry will focus its time, resources, and people power on improving transportation in the Lowcountry in 2019. The perceived lack of accessible public transit came out on top with 221 votes at Monday night’s Community Problems Assembly at Morris Brown AME in downtown Charleston. Education got second place, with 132 votes. …
The city of Charleston is making progress on two strategies to build more trust between the Charleston Police Department and the people it serves, particularly minorities. The city has launched its search for an independent firm to review the department’s policing practices and identify any racial biases that might be at work when officers are …
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The Charleston area is an increasingly unaffordable place for too many local residents to live. That’s hardly news to tens of thousands of people who struggle to pay rent or find a reasonably priced home close to where they work. So it’s not surprising there was broad consensus regarding the housing crisis at this year’s …