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A once segregated bowling alley was defined by exclusion. Now the community is preserving its history and reclaiming it

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The road to equality for all Americans hasn’t come without sacrifice, bloodshed and strife. Cecil Williams, a local historian in Orangeburg, South Carolina — a small city that’s nestled between Columbia and Charleston — said he remembers when race determined where someone could and could not go. “Most of South Carolina, and especially most of … Read more

Miniature art transforms an alley into a surrealist wonderland at ‘Mississippi’s Tiniest Museum’

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HATTIESBURG, Miss. — In the cramped backroom of a theater, Vicki Taylor glues together tiny figurines that peer over electrical boxes, canoe down drainage pipes and hide in nooks and crannies waiting to be found by someone curious enough to get on their hands and knees to search. Taylor and her husband, Rick, opened the … Read more