After eight community meetings, historic African-American settlement communities are preparing their applications to earn funding from the Gullah Geechee Heritage Project Grant.
The Gullah Geechee people of barrier islands in Beaufort County have been fighting against a proposed development since 2022, and so far they are winning in the board votes and their legal battle.
Dozens of community members were in Mount Pleasant Thursday evening for a feedback session discussing the preservation of historic African American communities in Charleston.
During its first month open, hundreds of visitors from across the country passed through the doors of the International African American History Museum.
More than $100,000 is going to be available to historically black and Gullah Geechee communities in the Charleston area for documentation and preservation efforts.
A historic African American community in the Lowcountry is suing the Charleston County Planning Commission after approving plans to build a subdivision on the land.
Thursday’s landmark ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down affirmative action will significantly shake up the admissions processes for colleges and universities nationwide.
As we approach the grand opening of the International African American Museum along the waterfront in downtown Charleston, anticipation and celebrations are heating up.
With its official opening five days away, the International African American Museum co-hosteda multi-faith worship service Thursday night to celebrate the new facility.
After more than two decades of planning and building, the International African American Museum will officially open its doors to the public on Tuesday.
A group of James Island neighbors are working together to preserve gravestones of former slaves and their descendants thirteen years after power crews discovered them.
Now that Keith Summey has decided not to run again for mayor of North Charleston, we sat down with Rev. Nelson B. Rivers for a candid conversation about North Charleston’s longest-serving leader.
A local organization hosted an event Saturday for community members to get together and discuss common problems in the area and find solutions as a group.
Real Talk and a Haircut is a program hosted by the Community Resource Center in North Charleston that offers free haircuts, uniforms and clothing to young men in the area.
On Saturday, Legacy Aviation hosted local minority and underrepresented students on the flightline to educate and encourage them to achieve success as aerospace and STEM professionals while emphasizing military career opportunities.
Hundreds of students, staff and family members participated in remembering the three Black students who were killed by police on South Carolina State University’s Campus in 1968.
A state lawmaker wants to file a bill to ban schools from teaching about slave owners in response to an effort by Republicans to “censor the teaching of Black history.”
Harriet Tubman, best known for her underground railroad to free Southern slaves, will have a sculpture put in the middle of Georgetown for three months this summer.
The Charleston Commission on History is working on a plaque on a downtown corner marking a 1919 race riot that killed three black Charleston residents and left dozens injured.
More than 200 people turned out at the Ace Basin Parkway in Green Pond. Santa and firefighters helped the nonprofit give out clothes, shoes, and bikes.
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