In South Carolina, $5.3 million from the state is going to an expansion of the museum at Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park on Hilton Head Island. Earlier this year, Florida lawmakers approved $1 ...

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In 1873, a group of 50 or so African Americans facing threats from the Ku Klux Klan in their hometown of Cross Anchor in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, left in the middle of the night for the ...

Residents of Pelzer, South Carolina, have spent nearly a decade fighting to reclaim the land where the historic Chapman Grove School once stood. According to Fox Carolina, residents of Pelzer, South ...

In 1944, South Carolina executed 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. after a 10-minute trial. Decades later, a judge declared his conviction unjust.

On August 28, 1963, an estimated 250,000 people made their way to Washington, D.C. to demand civil and economic rights for ...

U.S. Rep. James Clyburn's book detailing the pioneering eight Black South Carolinians who preceded him in the U.S. Congress– ...

Jackson finished second in the Democratic primary to Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who would go on to lose the 1988 presidential election to George H.W. Bush. But Jackson’s strong results ...

South Carolina boasts numerous historical firsts in America, from the first European settlement to the first patent for a ...

Black American cuisine is varied and has deep roots in the U.S. Stacker used research from colleges and food historians to ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Wednesday marks five years since nine black worshipers were killed in a racist attack at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. The white supremacist shooter, Dylan Roof, ...