At age nine, Ronald McNair was kicked out of the library for being Black. Today, that same edifice has been named in his honor. Throughout his lifetime, McNair was met with the ugliness of racism and ...

LAKE CITY, S.C. (WCIV) — Today's Black History Month fact is about Ronald McNair. A native of Lake City, South Carolina, McNair was an American physicist and astronaut who was killed in the Challenger ...

"It is bittersweet, but it's so sweet to see how his life has been something of good," Cheyrl McNair says. The name Ron McNair is synonymous with several things to the town of Lake City.

(Columbia) January 26, 2006 - On February 3rd, 1984, the Space Shuttle Challenger began its orbit on a complex mission, one of the most ambitious NASA had launched. The five man crew included Lake ...

15, in McNair’s hometown, Lake City, S.C. Lake City recently relocated McNair’s remains to the Dr. Ronald E. McNair Memorial Park. The city is hosting a series of special events to mark the 18th ...

25 years after explosion, African-American physicist is honored in hometown. Jan. 29, 2011— -- Twenty five years ago the nation watched in horror as the space shuttle Challenger exploded in the ...

LAKE CITY, S.C. (WMBF) - A community in the Pee Dee is gathering Thursday to honor one of its own, 35 years after his life was tragically cut short. A candlelight vigil was held for astronaut Ronald ...

The beloved neo-soul pioneer and R&B innovator is dead at 51 after a prolonged, personal cancer battle. 14 hours ago While Ronald McNair lived in Boston he also taught the young people of the South ...

Ronald E. McNair’s zest for life and knowledge made history in South Carolina, but the astronaut’s life was tragically cut short doing what he loved. McNair grew up in Lake City, graduating from ...

LAKE CITY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - A South Carolina native is being remembered this week as the country reflects on a tragedy that happened 39 years ago. January 28 is the anniversary of the Challenger ...

Ronald E. McNair marched up to the library in his little town of Lake City, S.C., to check out some books. The bespectacled 9-year-old was a serious student — he had started going to school at age 4 — ...