After four bloody years and over 700,000 deaths, the Confederacy surrendered. More than four million enslaved persons were ...

SPARTANBURG — Around a dozen legal actions — mostly lawsuits — have been filed against companies affiliated with the rent-subsidized Robert Smalls Apartments, accusing management of failing to pay ...

BEAUFORT, S.C. (WTOC) - [UPDATE 4:35 p.m. 11/21/2025] First Responders have opened all lanes of traffic at Parris Island Gateway and Robert Smalls Parkway. [ORIGINAL STORY] There is a major accident ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) — Residents at the Robert Smalls Apartments said they’re enduring another winter without heat — and they’re tired of waiting for help. “We talked to them last year,” said ...

Residents at the Robert Smalls Apartments said they’re enduring another winter without heat — and they’re tired of waiting for help.

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 ...

Basil Watson, a Jamaican-born sculptor, is creating the statue of Smalls. The likeness of Robert Smalls, the escaped slave turned South Carolina lawmaker, will be remembered as the first African ...

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 ...

Inside a small art studio not far from Atlanta, 67-year-old Basil Watson is shaping history. The Jamaican-born artist is creating a sculpture of Robert Smalls, the historic South Carolina lawmaker who ...

On Saturday, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) boarded the Handala, a ship associated with the Flotilla Freedom Coalition, that was attempting to reach Gaza with supplies for starving Palestinians. The ...

BEAUFORT COUNTY, SC (WTOC) - An accident has occurred on Robert Smalls Parkway near Nova Drive in Beaufort, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office. All westbound lanes of Robert Smalls ...