Jada Kirkland

Imagine you are 36-years-old and learn that your kidneys are failing. Then you discover your spouse is leaving you, taking with them $60,000 of your money, plus your dog dies. These circumstances were a painful reality for Columbia, SC native Don Gordon. His book “Snowball’s Chance” details the complications he faced before and after getting a kidney transplant from his brother in 1983.

If you’ve stepped outside in the past week, you know it’s hot. While summer means fun in the sun, hot days can become dangerous and sometimes deadly.

2021 data from the Kaiser Foundation shows about 3 out of every 25 suicides in South Carolina were of black people. A church workshop wants to change that.