A new statue honoring Civil War hero and former congressman Robert Smalls will become the first monument of an individual African American on the South Carolina Statehouse grounds. Artist Basil Watson ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - 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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - Gov. Henry McMaster placed his signature Thursday on a bill that will celebrate a South Carolina Civil War hero on the State House grounds. A ceremonial bill signing for a ...

COLUMBIA - On Saturday, Jan. 28, the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, in partnership with the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and the South Carolina ...

Lonnie Randolph, President of the SC chapter of NAACP, speaks during the 10,000 Hoodie March/Rally for Social Justice in Remembrance of Trayvon Martin. The rally began at the State House, and the ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcountry plantations. The Carnegie Mellon ...

Aaron Harter served in the Union Army during the Civil War in 1865, and more than a century and a half later, his Stanwood grave has finally been marked to honor his service. Harter was born in ...