South Carolina plans to erect its first-ever statue dedicated to an African American Civil War hero after years of debate.

The United States has made almost no progress in closing racial health disparities despite promises, research shows. The ...

South Carolina is preparing to honor Robert Smalls, a former slave who became a prominent political leader, by erecting the ...

Then there is the matter of location. While South Carolina has a monument with multiple panels honoring the struggle of ...

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a ...

Robert Smalls will soon become the first African American to be honored with an individual statue in South Carolina. Smalls ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Richard Moore never meant to kill anyone the night he robbed a South Carolina ...

A federal judge has rejected the request of a South Carolina man scheduled for execution next week to remove the governor's ...

Moore, who is Black, is the only man on South Carolina's death row to have been convicted by a jury that did not have any African Americans. Moore's lawyer said no one has ever been put to death ...

A condemned South Carolina inmate has chosen to be executed by lethal injection for killing a store clerk in 1999.

The South Carolina African American Heritage Foundation ... He recalled how the state in 2015 highlighted the contributions of African-Americans as it commemorated the 150th anniversary of the ...

A new exhibit highlighting the Gullah culture and its impact on the South will open this month. The African Roots — Gullah ...