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.
On a mission preaching forgiveness, a Charleston minister whose wife was one of nine victims of the 2015 shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church will lead a prayer march through the Holy City on Sunday.
Saturday afternoon, 150 student musicians and 35 additional staff packed instruments and duffel bags across a fleet of charter buses on the Benedict College campus.
Her latest request was to be taken to Walmart so that she could ride one of the electric scooters to the shoe section. She wanted to pick out her own shoes.
“They didn’t think we were coming. We sat there I think we arrived there like 8 in the morning on a Monday morning and by the time they figured out where they are going to house us, it was 4 o’clock that afternoon.”
The courtroom at the Charleston Municipal Court will be renamed Thursday afternoon in honor of the first Black elected judicial official in the Southeast.
The Racial Justice Network is calling for changes in the Charleston County School District and answers for recent instances of what it calls racial intimidation.
The city of Charleston will mark 200 years since Denmark Vesey planned an uprising to free enslaved people in the Lowcountry in a three-day event starting Thursday.
Multiple groups called for answers and an independent investigation into a Sunday night crash involving a Charleston County deputy that left three Colleton County women dead.
Some members of the Black clergy in the Lowcountry are voicing concerns that U.S. Sen. Tim Scott refused to meet with them about their concerns over the confirmation process of the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.
With two weeks left in the current legislative session, groups held a news conference on the steps of the South Carolina Statehouse to call for last-minute action to pass a hate crimes bill.
The International African American Museum is praising former Charleston Mayor Joe Riley as it announced he is limiting his duties after decades of commitment to the facility.
Vester Owens was born in rural Cross, on April 9, 1922. A black man born in the segregated south, he worked as a plowman in the cotton fields until drafted into the United States Army in 1942. He left his home in Berkeley County to help storm the beaches of Normandy, France, on D-Day in 1944 during World War II.
One Black veterinarian just became the owner of a new animal hospital in North Charleston in a field in which the American Veterinary Medical Association estimates only 2% of veterinarians are Black.
Jack and Jill will host its Children’s Cluster event at ECPI in North Charleston on Saturday. Jack and Jill is a mentoring organization, made up of African American children and their mothers. The Mid-Atlantic region includes North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina.
When the world-famous African-American dance troupe takes the stage next week at the Charleston Gaillard Center, a North Charleston native will be one of the dancers.
South Carolina State University commemorated the 54th anniversary Tuesday of a deadly shooting at a 1968 Civil Rights protest that has come to be known as the Orangeburg Massacre.
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