A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Race Deconstructed newsletter. To get it in your inbox every week, sign up for free here. A grassroots organization is forcing a South Carolina city to reckon ...

LAURENS, S.C. (WSPA) – A beacon of light and hope is now radiating from a place that was once filled with darkness. Transforming the former Redneck Shop has been years in the making, but the man ...

The Redneck Shop in downtown Laurens no longer exists, but its legacy lives on in the small Upstate town, in the attitudes of some of its residents, in persistent racial and social conflict and in the ...

The Rev. David Kennedy remembers well what it was like growing up in Laurens, South Carolina, during the Jim Crow era. He lived in an apartment with his grandparents marked “C” for “colored” and was ...

Rev. David Kennedy stands in front of the closed Redneck Shop Friday in Laurens. Kennedy hopes to transform the space to benefit the community. The Redneck Shop once sold KKK robes and swastikas and ...

The Redneck Shop once sold Confederate merchandise. In a twist of fate, the deed to the building was transferred to New Beginning Church in 1997, but its black congregation and activist preacher could ...

A group with a mission to #RehabHate has launched a project to take a former Ku Klux Klan museum in South Carolina and convert it into a diversity center. The Echo Project, based in the small town of ...