The National Trust for Historic Preservation has completed the purchase of one of Beaufort’s most historic and well known properties — the Robert Smalls House — for $1.7 million. Together with local ...

This summer, Roberts Smalls International Academy will be demolished, and along with it, the mural the community painted in 2018 to colorfully line its walls and honor the school’s namesake. But, the ...

BEAUFORT COUNTY, Sc. (WTOC) - Friday marks the 185th birthday of Beaufort hero Robert Smalls. To celebrate, a local artist is throwing a birthday party that all are welcome to attend. At Friday ...

Robert Smalls is an American hero, one Beaufort can proudly claim as its own. His antebellum home in downtown Beaufort stands as a monument to one man’s extraordinary journey from enslavement to ...

The Robert Smalls statue will be the first monument to honor an African American person. ¹South Carolina will soon erect its first individual statue for a Black person on its Statehouse lawn in its ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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 ...

The S.C. Senate unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to create an 11-member commission to install a statue on the Statehouse grounds to honor Robert Smalls, the Civil War hero and Black legislator. A ...

Last fall when I was traveling in South Carolina, my friend Robin, who is a civil rights attorney, told me about Robert Smalls and showed me a plaque in his honor in Charleston. I have to admit I had ...

Sometimes, it takes a village to tell a story. And when it comes to the narrative of legendary South Carolinian Robert Smalls, getting it right may be a way forward for our city — and for the creative ...