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Bakari Sellers- " Hillary Clinton did very well in her response..."
Bakari T. Sellers (born September 18, 1984) is an American politician who represented South Carolina's 90th district in the lower house of the state legislature from 2006 to 2014. He vacated his seat in the South Carolina House of Representatives to run for Lieutenant Governor that year. but lost.[1] He was succeeded in office by Justin T. Bamberg.
Sellers is also the first vice chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party.
He is an alumnus of Morehouse College.
He is the son of Gwendolyn Sellers and civil rights activist and professor Cleveland Sellers.
Cleveland Sellers, Jr. (born November 8, 1944) is the current president of Voorhees College, and a veteran civil rights activist who helped lead the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was the only person convicted and jailed for events at the Orangeburg Massacre, a 1968 civil rights protest in which three students were killed by state troopers. Sellers' conviction and the acquittal of the other nine defendants was believed to be motivated by racism, and Sellers received a full pardon 25 years after the incident.
Sellers is the former Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. On April 22, 2008, he was named president of Voorhees College.
Sellers is also the first vice chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party.
He is an alumnus of Morehouse College.
He is the son of Gwendolyn Sellers and civil rights activist and professor Cleveland Sellers.
Cleveland Sellers, Jr. (born November 8, 1944) is the current president of Voorhees College, and a veteran civil rights activist who helped lead the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was the only person convicted and jailed for events at the Orangeburg Massacre, a 1968 civil rights protest in which three students were killed by state troopers. Sellers' conviction and the acquittal of the other nine defendants was believed to be motivated by racism, and Sellers received a full pardon 25 years after the incident.
Sellers is the former Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. On April 22, 2008, he was named president of Voorhees College.
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