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.
A shuttered bowling alley at the center of a 1968 integration protest where state police killed three Black students is being remade into a civil rights center.
The Citadel released a statement Thursday saying it will “not sit idly by and tolerate comments” of the type it says one of its own graduates posted on social media just two days into Black History Month.
While many organizations are closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the Goose Creek NAACP chapter is hard at work collecting toiletries for local students.
The U.S. Senate’s only Black Republican is putting forth what he characterizes as a positive response to partisan rhetoric on race that he’s best-positioned to rebut.
The Charleston County School District is looking to expand the diversity of its teachers with a new educational pathway designed to help men of color become teachers.
Members of the Stand as One activist group called for the firing of a Berkeley County teacher accused of using a racial slur during a classroom lesson on racism.
The land was then purchased by four freedmen who were former slaves in 1871. These men: Ismael Grant, Aaron Middleton, William Lecque and Plenty Lecque purchased Liberty Hill from the Trescott family.
Michael Allen, retired National Park Ranger, continues to work tirelessly to bring attention to the relevance of the Gullah Geechee Culture in the Lowcountry.
The Charleston County Library system released changes to its operating schedule and summer feeding program because of the new Juneteenth federal holiday.
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