Greenville News reporter Angelia Davis recognized for covering underserved communities

Greenville News staff writer Angelia Davis was honored on Saturday for her work reporting on Greenville County’s underserved communities.

Davis, who has been with the News since 1996, has been a business reporter and community reporter before turning her focus to writing about underserved communities.

She was honored by the Fuller Normal School alumni. Earlier this year, Davis wrote a story about the schools’ financial struggles. 

Lillie Akali, who is a member of the Fuller Normal School Friends and Alumni Board, said Davis was instrumental in sharing the schools’ fundraising efforts with her story

The school is continuing fund-raising efforts to try and raise $500,000 and is about one-third of the way there, Akali said.. 

A Sept. 17 event, dedicating the school's conference room to the late state Sen. Ralph Anderson, won't likely get the school to its goal, “but we haven't taken away the dream either," Akali said. 

Akali said The Greenville News article helped get the public familiar with the school that she called on of Greenville’s best kept secrets. 

The school that opened in Greenville in 1923 provided education to Black children during public school segregation. Recently, the school has struggled with enrollment and funding.

The school was established as the Fuller Normal & Industrial Institute in 1912 by the late William Fuller Sr. It eventually moved to Greenville and settled into its current location on Anderson Road in 1950.