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The Tabor-Loris Tribune (formerly The Tabor City Tribune) is a weekly [1] newspaper serving Tabor City, North Carolina and Loris, South Carolina in the southeastern United States. It was founded in 1946 by W. Horace Carter .
Walter Horace Carter (January 20, 1921 – September 16, 2009) was an American newspaper publisher in Tabor City, North Carolina, whose paper won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the activities of the Ku Klux Klan and his editorials which opposed them. [1]
The paper was founded in 1896 and serves Columbus County, North Carolina, United States. The News Reporter won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1953, shared with the Tabor City Tribune, for reporting of Ku Klux Klan activities in Columbus County, NC. [1] [2] [3] The News Reporter had been owned by the Thompson/High family since 1938. [4]
In 1984 and 1986, Epperson was the Republican nominee for the fifth Congressional district of North Carolina. Epperson had no prior political experience and spent most of his first campaign trying to gain attention. [4] In both races, Epperson was defeated by the incumbent Democrat, Stephen L. Neal, falling short 5,000 and 13,000 votes ...
It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first such newspaper in North Carolina was the Journal of Freedom of Raleigh, which published its first issue on September 30, 1865. [1] The African American press in North Carolina has historically been centered on a few large cities such as Raleigh, Durham, and Greensboro. [2]
Tabor City (/ ˈ t eɪ b ɜːr / TAY-bur) [4] is a town in Columbus County, North Carolina, United States.It is the southernmost town in the county. It is located just north of the North Carolina/South Carolina line, about 39 miles (63 km) north of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and is just north of Loris, South Carolina.
WTAB signed on on July 1, 1954. On September 1, 1965, it gained a sister F.M. station with the addition of WTAB-FM/104.9 (later WKSM & now WYNA).. WTAB received notoriety in 2009 when Sal Governale and Richard Christy from The Howard Stern Show made prank calls to the station's "Swap Shop" program hosted by Jack Miller.
Darryl Hunt (February 24, 1965 – March 13, 2016) was an African-American man from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who, in 1984, was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and the murder of Deborah Sykes, a young white newspaper copy editor. After being convicted in that case, Hunt was tried in 1987 for the 1983 ...