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Student for a short time, Gamecock for a Lifetime. Welcome to the USC Black Alumni Council Facebook! Richard T. Visit mycarolina.org/bac to learn more!

The University of South Carolina's Black Alumni Council (BAC) is an affiliation of the Alumni Association. The BAC stimulates the participation and involvement of Black Alumni in University and alumni affairs by (1) Recruiting and promoting active membership from Black Alumni and (2) Developing and implementing programs and activities to foster the understanding and good relationships among the me

mbers of the organization, the University of South Carolina and the community. Greener Scholarship

Since 1983, the Black Alumni Council has actively worked to attract bright students to the university by providing scholarships to graduating high school seniors who have excelled academically. Richard Theodore Greener, the man for whom the scholarship is named, became the first African-American to graduate from Harvard University in 1870 and was the first African-American faculty member at Carolina in 1873.

06/19/2026

When was the last time a photograph changed the way you see history?

This Juneteenth, University of South Carolina Libraries released more than 5,000 images from Columbia photographer Richard Samuel Roberts, capturing Black life in South Carolina during the early 20th century.

The images are stunning. The stories are even more powerful.

On this Juneteenth, we honor that legacy — and the generations of Gamecock alumni who carry it forward.

Read more and view the full Roberts collection at https://www.sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/exhibits_events_news/news/2026/new_digitized_photo_collection.php

04/22/2026

In an era when doors were not easily opened, Lindell Bradley stepped onto campus and into history, quietly reshaping the future of athletics at the University of South Carolina. Decades later, newly uncovered records and the devotion of his family bring his story into long-overdue focus, revealing a life defined by perseverance, dignity and unshakable resolve.

Join the Black Alumni Council and Bradley's daughter, Karen Pfister, at the University of Virginia for a screening of the Gamecocks Plus documentary GAMECOCKS UNTOLD: UNTIL NOW.

May 19, 5 p.m. at the UVA Darden School of Business.

Register: https://bit.ly/4cpavIK

04/08/2026

Four Black alumnae were named to the 2026 presented by South Carolina Student Loan 🤙🏾

🏆 Raven Brewer '14
🏆 Morgan Epperson '15
🏆 Briana Reckling '22
🏆 Shannon Schoultz '22

Learn more about each of these honorees and the new cohort of outstanding young alumni at uscalumni.com/gamecock35.

04/04/2026

THE GAMECOCKS ARE HEADED TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 🏆🐔❤️

After taking down UConn, it’s only right we come together and finish this run STRONG.

Join the Black Alumni Council for a Championship Watch Party tomorrow at 3:30 p.m.!

📍 Twin Peaks – Carowinds: 992 Cabelas Dr 29708
🗓️ April 5 | 3:30 p.m. tip-off

Pull up, wear your garnet and black, and let’s pack the house for history in the making. 🤙

03/31/2026

🏀 WATCH PARTY 🏀
South Carolina vs UCONN
Tip-off at 7 PM
Join us Friday, April 3rd at Ten 58 Sports Bar & Lounge as we bring the Gamecock energy to Charlotte 🔥🐔
📍 430 W 4th St
Charlotte, NC
Big game. Big crowd. Don’t miss it.

03/28/2026

Adrianne Grimes is the Director of Marketing & Communications for the South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA), where she has a front-row seat to the groundbreaking technologies transforming our state's economy — from innovative feeding systems for premature babies at MUSC to 3D-printed earpieces improving music therapy for seniors. SCRA's work brings new products and services to market while simultaneously creating higher-paying jobs across South Carolina.

And Adrianne isn't just telling that story — she's helping build it.

In a testament to her vision and leadership, Adrianne founded Innovation Awareness Month, which received a Governor's Proclamation in 2023 and is now celebrated annually by colleges, universities, hospital systems and entrepreneurial organizations statewide.

Before SCRA, Adrianne served at MUSC Health, where she launched the South Carolina Telehealth Alliance brand — an integrated telemedicine model serving rural South Carolina. Her PR and marketing strategies earned back-to-back best-in-class awards from the Carolina Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society in 2018 and 2019.

Her career spans decades of high-impact work — from television news affiliates in the late '80s and '90s, to Capitol Hill, where she managed U.S. congressional campaign communications and transition team communications leading into swearing-in events. She also managed campaign communications during the 2012 U.S. Presidential Primary.

A proud Gamecock, Adrianne holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Carolina and a Master of Science from The Citadel Graduate College. She remains deeply rooted in her community through board service, volunteer PR work and membership in the Greater Charleston Chapter of Top Ladies of Distinction.

03/27/2026

Jotaka L. Eaddy made history at USC as the first Black woman elected Student Body President in the university's 213-year history — and the first Black woman elected to such a position in the entire state of South Carolina. As a student, she also authored legislation that contributed to the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House Dome.

That was just the beginning.

Over the past 20+ years, Jotaka has become one of the most powerful strategists in the country — dubbed the "Olivia Pope of Silicon Valley" by Forbes Magazine. As Senior Director for Voting Rights at the NAACP, she helped change the Delaware State Constitution to expand voting rights for people with felony convictions, stopped the spread of voter suppression laws and secured voting rights for more than 300,000 citizens in Virginia through a gubernatorial executive order.

In 2004, she directed the national campaign against the juvenile death penalty — efforts that contributed to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roper v. Simmons (2005), which abolished the juvenile death penalty in the United States.

In 2020, she founded — an intergenerational network of Black women leaders that has generated over 600 million social media impressions and is credited with playing a significant role in the historic election of the United States' first Black woman Vice President.

As one of the few Black women to serve in the C-Suite of a Silicon Valley company, Jotaka has also helped consumers save more than $200 million in fees and interest and created financial education courses viewed over 2.1 million times.

She has previously served as a board member of the University of South Carolina Alumni Association Board of Governors and has spoken in 49 states and 25 countries on human rights and social impact.

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900 Senate Street
Columbia, SC
29201

Telephone

+18037774111

Website

https://uscalumni.com/affinity-groups/black-alumni-council/, https://uscalumni.com/scholarship/richard-t-greener-scholar

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