ELIZABETH CITY, North Carolina — As a little girl growing up in this segregated eastern port city, Bettie Parker’s parents told her, “When you see the Confederate flag on a car, run.”
In Anderson, South Carolina, African-Americans underrepresented in local government
ANDERSON, South Carolina — As a young teacher, Beatrice Thompson and her friend went to the local movie theatre – which at the time was segregated – and did the unthinkable: they strolled through the front door and sat on the first floor, instead of in the balcony with the rest of the African-Americans.
In South Carolina town, “Finding ways to get along;” Taking down statue is not one of them
ANDERSON, South Carolina-After the third hour of a one-man tour of this southern city, Joey Opperman is still full of stories – a labor strike in the factory building, the youth teams that played on a particular baseball field, political decisions 35 years ago that shaped the area today.
In Virginia town, African-American elders hold mixed views on confederate statue
LEESBURG, Virginia — Gertrude Evans, 70, was born into the Jim Crow South and lived through the rocky integration of Leesburg when firemen filled a swimming pool with cement and garbage rather than permit its integration.
Friendship Games: Student-run Irish team enjoys ride
The Ireland team has looked like a familiar guest at the 13th annual Friendship Games.
Diplomacy meets basketball at 2018 Friendship Games
In 2005, after seeing generations of children from neighboring countries and cultures grow up amid conflict, Ed Peskowitz and Arie Rosenzweig tried a novel approach to diplomacy – a basketball tournament.
We interviewed five of the people who run NBA Twitter accounts
NBA team Twitter accounts have tapped into the social zeitgeist in a way that sets them apart from sports franchises in other leagues. That’s not an accident.
The top eight moments in NBA Twitter history
From the tweet that got an NBA social media manager fired to the tweet that led to another social media manager getting married, there have been hundreds of funny and meaningful moments in the relatively short history of NBA Twitter.
The hidden Twitter relationships of NBA teams
At Capital News Service, we analyzed every conversation between NBA teams on Twitter since 2012 — about 1,900 in total — to uncover the hidden relationships between teams.
On Twitter, creative, meme-filled conversations help NBA stand out
Far more than in other professional sports leagues, NBA teams’ official social presences have adopted online personas that mimic the meme-filled, emoji-heavy method of discourse favored by young digital natives.