This year’s Charleston Forum encourages less talk, more action
Sharmane Anderson was shocked by what she learned from Rev. Nelson Rivers in June 2017.
The pastor from Charity Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston took the stage at the first Charleston Forum to talk about equity in education in South Carolina. He touched on the state’s Black Code of 1865, which restricted African Americans’ newfound freedom after the passage of the 13th Amendment earlier that year. He drew the line from the legal discrimination of the 19th century to the continued segregation and achievement disparity in school districts today.
Anderson, a mom and a paralegal at the state Solicitor’s Office in Clarendon County, started thinking about how she could help teachers improve reading levels in her area.
