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International African American Museum, South Carolina
August 23, 2018
Charleston, South Carolina's proposed International African-American Museum got a boost from two people who are big fans of the project
Memorial planned for the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston thegrio.com
July 16, 2018
[griojw id=”xWSHbyCN” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   Designs were revealed for a memorial that will be erected in honor of the nine victims
Slave Mart thegrio.com
June 20, 2018
On Juneteenth, the city of Charleston, SC issued an official apology for its role in the slave trade.
March 20, 2018
A riverfront stretch of land in Charleston, S.C. -- formerly known as Gasden's Wharf -- where slaves took their first…
March 22, 2017
The only person with whom Dylann Roof shared his racist plot to massacre worshippers at a historically black South Carolina…
December 29, 2016
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia nonprofit group has fired its director after she wrote a Facebook post referring…
December 29, 2016
Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof says he won't call witnesses or present evidence while representing himself during death penalty trial.
December 5, 2016
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) —  A mistrial has been declared in the trial of a South Carolina police officer charged with
November 23, 2016
The family of 15-year-old James Means is looking for answers after he was gunned down on Monday night...
June 17, 2016
As I sat seemingly unable to move while watching coverage of the carnage at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub this past weekend,
June 14, 2016
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The names of Confederate generals still adorn street signs in Charleston's public housing projects, and a…
May 25, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a year after the brutal shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a Charleston, South Carolina,…
March 21, 2016
Last month Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant announced a controversial decision to declare April to be Confederate Heritage Month.  He did this
February 26, 2016
According to lawyers, a 50-year-old woman who was arrested after failing to pay her court fines died the next day…
February 25, 2016
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant has declared April to be "Confederate Heritage Month."
December 22, 2015
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A woman accused of placing a Confederate flag on a black co-worker's desk has pleaded guilty…
December 10, 2015
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's military college The Citadel is investigating after pictures surfaced on social media this week…
November 26, 2015
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina church where nine parishioners were shot and killed in what police called a…
November 18, 2015
On Monday, a pair of Charleston lawyers filed a federal lawsuit against the owners of J&J Cafeteria after they allegedly…
September 15, 2015
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — A judge denied bail Monday for a white former South Carolina police officer charged with…