Two Lowcountry minority organizations are offering scholarships to help Black students begin and complete their college careers. Four scholarship opportunities are available.
"Some were not literate, and they traveled by remembering landmarks, the lay of the land. And they would take you from St. George to New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C."
"We're honoring the fact that despite the stronghold of slavery, African Americans have been able to transcend and impact the world in really amazing ways."
North Charleston Police Chief Reginald L. Burgess is the first African American to serve as head of the department. He was named chief in January 2018.
There is a renewed effIn April of 2016, the U.S. Treasury Department, with the support of the Obama-Biden Administration, announced that formerly enslaved abolitionist Harriet Tubman would be placed on a new version of the $20 bill starting in 2020. The effort stalled under the Trump administration.
"I believe for the students this will be a most meaningful college experience, for they will study a project that is under construction and learn much about our nation's long-hidden history,"
On the last day of January in 1961, a group of African-American students from Friendship Junior College staged a sit-in at the McCrory’s segregated lunch counter in Rock Hill.
The effort to put on the $20 the image of Tubman, a former slave who helped others gain freedom, was first announced during the Obama administration in 2016.
Tyler Perry has donated $100,000 to the legal defense fund of Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, after police fatally shot Taylor inside her apartment earlier this year.
The University of South Carolina is hosting a virtual public forum Monday night to give the public the chance to voice concerns about renaming buildings on the UofSC campus.
Funeral arrangements have been finalized for the woman who brought people of all different walks of life together to enjoy a good meal at her two Lowcountry restaurants.
And then when the pandemic hit and shut the NBA down, Jatae, who had already moved out on her own, came home. So now we have all four children at home, three grown, and the one that's saying why are y'all back cause this is my house. So now everybody's under one roof.
The University of South Carolina’s football team spoke briefly on campus Monday morning on social justice issues after Head Coach Will Muschamp’s decision to cancel football activities.
A Mount Pleasant committee will vote Wednesday on a resolution that would name racism as a threat to public health, which its authors hope would help in the fight to end systemic racism.
McClellan Douglas was told to expect hate for making a mural celebrating diversity, but the fact that he should expect backlash at all further motivated his art.
President Woodrow Wilson’s name has been removed from two buildings at Princeton University, but no changes are planned for his childhood home in Augusta.
Charleston city leaders have approved a resolution to remove the statue of John C. Calhoun from Marion Square. Charleston City Council voted unanimously on the resolution Tuesday night.
An East Texas family is not happy about the 'brand changing' of a popular pancake syrup: Aunt Jemima. The iconic Aunt Jemima has long standing ties with the city of Hawkins, and a goodwill ambassador named 'Lillian Richard.'
Five Democratic South Carolina House members plan to file legislation that would proclaim the month of June as “Black Lives Matter Month” in the Palmetto State.
In just about any other year, Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that all enslaved black people learned they had been freed from bondage, would be marked by African American families across the nation with a cookout, a parade or a community festival.
Today, as yet another shocking killing of an African American roils the country, bringing a wave of pulled down statues and the removal of names of historical figures who repressed or oppressed other people, South Carolina leaders appears to be sitting out this movement so far.
Their symptoms included headache, fatigue, high fever, severe cough, severe diarrhea and shortness of breath. One had to be hospitalized, while others battled the disease from home.
State Sen. John Matthews, who represents portions of Berkeley, Dorchester, Colleton, Calhoun and Orangeburg Counties, said Tuesday he will not seek re-election this year.
"They would often refer to the upper seats as the buzzard's roost or the peanut gallery because those were often the least cared for sections of the theater to begin with at the time," Professor Damon Fordham said.
Black History Month first began as Negro History Week in 1926 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Woodson wanted schools and communities all over the nation to learn about the accomplishments of African Americans and celebrate their contributions to society.
As America dealt with racial strife and injustice, the city of Charleston was not immune. In 1969, the hospital workers at the medical college went on strike demanding better treatment and better pay.
Echoes of the song “We Shall Overcome” reverberates through the nation at marches, around Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s birthday and during Black History Month.
The last Monday in May is always observed as Memorial Day, a day to remember those who lost their lives serving as members of the United States military.
Mosquito Beach is about 10 minutes from Folly Beach, but in the 50's during the Jim Crow era that kept blacks and whites separate in the south, blacks could not go to Folly Beach.
From Andrews to Anderson, several famous African American actors and actresses were born and some grew up right here in the Lowcountry or other parts of South Carolina,
Although President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had been signed for more than two years, there was no one to enforce the executive order throughout the slave states until the Union soldiers arrived.
February is Black History Month, and cadets at The Citadel say they're trying to bridge the historical gap between Emancipation and the Inauguration. "You get a true understanding where we come from that's
