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[Steve @_SteveJohnson_]

@tylermilliken_ Too soon?

[Steve @_SteveJohnson_]

@DudyNobleField Thousands of empty seats and the few that aren’t happen to be occupied by people more interested in looking at their📱 during the game

[Steve @_SteveJohnson_]

@alefever @BaptistBlogger Congratulations, Alan! Are there any plans to write ✍️ a biography of the man who led @SWBTS to historic heights in terms of student enrollment, evangelical reputation, and academic diversity? I can’t think of anyone better than you to write a book about Dr. Dilday.

[Steve @_SteveJohnson_]

Time stands still
Beauty in all she is
I will be grape 🍇
I will not let anything take away
What's standing in front of me
Every breath, every hour has come to this

One step closer.…

[Steve @_SteveJohnson_]

@CoxGamecocks I experienced a similar euphoria when (fake) Jennifer Beals slid into my DMs back in 2018. #WhatAFeeling

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

“They gave every white athlete a bus ticket. They told him Black runners didn’t qualify. So he walked 1,765 miles to prove them wrong.”

In 1928, after winning the Rocky Mountain Olympic qualifier in the 5,000 meters, Kelley Dolphus Stroud was denied a bus ticket to the U.S. Olympic trials in Boston—a ticket every white qualifier received. Officials invented a rule on the spot: he hadn't "approached the previous record." Stroud, a 20-year-old Black college student from Colorado, recognized the racism dressed as paperwork. He had a choice: accept the theft of his opportunity, or chase it down on foot.

With ten dollars, a golf club for protection, and a cardboard sign reading “Denver to Olympia,” he set out on Highway 40. For 12 grueling days, he walked, ran, and hitchhiked across 1,765 miles of America—sleeping in fields, surviving storms, and facing hunger and hostility. When his story reached the press, small acts of kindness helped carry him the final miles. He arrived at Harvard Stadium with just six hours before his race—exhausted, underfed, his feet bloodied.

He lined up anyway. For five laps, he held on. On the sixth, his body gave out. He collapsed on the track to the sound of some spectators laughing. They didn’t see the journey. They didn’t see the courage. They only saw a fall.

Stroud didn’t make the Olympic team. But he never broke. He returned to Colorado College as one of its few Black students, graduated with honors, became the first Black student elected to Phi Beta Kappa there, and later outran a 1928 Olympian in a fair rematch. He built a life of dignity, scholarship, and quiet influence.

Decades later, his legacy is finally receiving its due: an arena named in his honor, a scholars program, a documentary, even an opera in the works. His story is no longer a buried footnote—it’s a testament to what happens when someone refuses to let injustice define their limits.

“The true measure of a champion isn’t just how fast they run, but how far they’re willing to walk when the road is made impossibly long.”

© Tales of Past

#drthehistories

[National Association of Evangelicals @NAEvangelicals]

Racism is an affront to the value of individuals created in God’s image and to the divinely designed diversity of redeemed humanity. Any denial of personhood and belonging runs contrary to the peace and unity God intended from the beginning and that Scripture promises will one day be fully realized.

The United States carries a tragic history of racial dehumanization. Moments that revive that legacy — including the recent video portraying the Obamas as apes — grieve the heart of God. As a nation and as people of faith, we must expect better of our leaders, model better with our own words and lives, and pray and work for a society marked by justice, compassion and unity.

[South Carolina Football @GamecockFB]

Recruiting at the highest level 🤙

[Steve @_SteveJohnson_]

@mika_edmondson MLK preached the gospel and affirmed: the deity of Christ, the doctrine of the Trinity, and the authority of Scripture. This is provable by searching and reading his sermons and papers from @MLKInstitute

[Mika Edmondson @mika_edmondson]

Claims about King’s “lack of orthodoxy” usually come from his seminary papers—before 1953. Like many students, King was testing ideas, often presenting views to show mastery of whatever theory a professor favored. Those papers were not his settled theology.

[Wes Mitchell @WesMitchellGC]

BREAKING: NC State transfer OL Jacarrius Peak, the No. 1 OT in the transfer portal, has committed to South Carolina he tells @Hayesfawcett3. The Gamecocks have their left tackle and a MASSIVE building block in their offensive line rebuild.

FREE READ: https://t.co/RGkwBf2xfs

[Steve @_SteveJohnson_]

@GamecockCentral He kicked a long of 33 & served as backup to Stone Harrington

[KingsAdvisors @kingsadvisors_]

🟨🟨False start on the center! 5 YD penalty! Repeat 1st down🟨🟨

[Steve @_SteveJohnson_]

@ESPNLowell, @UofSC is in Columbia, not Columbus

[Steve @_SteveJohnson_]

@SaturdayInSC__ 16 ✅
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[Nyckoles Harbor @Nyck1k]

Merry Christmas From 🎱

[Mission:Dignity @MissionDignity]

Merry Christmas! Today, we celebrate the greatest gift ever given. Thank you for extending Christ’s love to these faithful servants who spent their lives sharing the Gospel and ministering to others. More: https://t.co/dcEctT88xW

[Famously Garnet Sports @FamouslyGarnet]

**BREAKING**

Gamecock WR Nyck Harbor officially announces that he’s returning to the Gamecocks for his senior season.

[Mission:Dignity @MissionDignity]

These heroes of the faith served for decades, and now they need our help. We're praying to reach our year-end goal so that nearly 2,800 servants receive monthly assistance for food, utilities and medications. Will you help answer their prayers? More: https://t.co/p5xdE3Lxei

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Gamecock player hit by Texas A&M gameday cop files criminal complaint https://t.co/cfrfNX0U0Q