For more than 30 years, the SC African American Heritage Commission has taken a serious effort in preserving the rich African American History in South Carolina. The African American Historic ...

Justice & Health Facing Climate Gentrification, an Historic African American Community Outside Charleston, S.C., Embraces Conservation After emancipation, freed slaves bought marshy land along the ...

South Carolina state Representatives Brandon Cox, left, and Jermaine Johnson talk about their efforts to honor Robert Smalls, who will soon be the first African American individual with a statue ...

As climate change threatens South Carolina’s coastal riches—from sunswept resorts like Hilton Head to huge future developments—the state’s historical African American settlements are also ...

A bust of Robert Smalls displayed Reconstruction Era National Historic Park in Beaufort, South Carolina, on September 12. Smalls will soon be the first African American person with a statue at the ...

A bust of Robert Smalls, who will soon be the first African American individual with a statue at the South Carolina Statehouse, is displayed Reconstruction Era National Historic Park, Thursday ...

BEAUFORT, S.C. — South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal ...

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ...