A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist who dismantled most of the former slave’s work after the Civil War.

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist

The International African American Museum in downtown Charleston, SC is offering free admission to the museum and events in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

The federal lawsuit argues that the state law requiring a racial quota for the commission violates the 14 Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and Citizenship Clause.

This system will start initially as snowfall Friday afternoon and evening; however, freezing rain and sleet will mix in with the snow Friday night due to warmer air in the upper levels of the atmosphere. The resort is the first in the South Jersey area to receive this award and was the only resort to represent the tri-state area.

Smalls would see a new South Carolina constitution in 1895 wipe out African Americans’ right to vote in a convention led by “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman. Tillman was a governor and U.S. senator ...

Power Up, a national tour series by the Department of Education, aims to solve racial and systemic injustices in the public school system and higher education.

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Proposed Senate Bill 292 would prevent Maryland law enforcement from initiating certain traffic stops. Advocates are trying to find a balance between community protection and police rights. SB 292, would downgrade primary vehicle violations to secondary status.

Martin Luther King Jr., who wrote parts of his “I Have a Dream” speech in South Carolina, was scheduled to be in Columbia on April 3, 1968, the day before he was killed.

Wet and windy conditions will persist along the coast and adjacent ranges during the later part of the week through the weekend as the low and another high pressure system drifting to the south maintain a fresh to strong onshore southeasterly airstream.