Alester G. Furman Jr., after whom the university's administration building is named, signed 1,238 racially restrictive deeds ...

Explore Harriet Tubman's legacy as a freedom fighter. Discover her role in the Underground Railroad and beyond.

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

Born in the Danish West Indies and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, Judah Benjamin moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, became a successful lawyer, owned a plantation and 140 slaves, rarely ...

Donald Trump is following the dictator’s playbook as he uses his shock and awe campaign against American democracy and ...

The state Capitol stairs serve as a stark example of complicated work performed by a complicated man, who lived a remarkable ...

That's how I found myself in Sierra Leone, staring off into a beautiful sunset filled with shades of violet, orange, and red with the sounds of the waves crashing into the white sand of Tokeh Beach on ...

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson explains the history of birthright citizenship and who the 14th Amendment was ...

South Carolina, in 1875, Mary McCleod was the 15th of 17 children born to former slaves Sam and Patsy McLeod. She was the first of her siblings to be born into freedom. Early on, Mary would ...

"The common ground that public education has represented throughout this nation’s history is eroding underneath our feet." The campaign to end America’s multiracial pluralistic democracy and to ...

A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved ...

making him the second Black senator in American history and the first to serve a full six-year term.” I especially love this ...