This is an excellent video explanation from Jamelle Bouie of what Jim Crow was, how it developed, and how it continues to ...

This is an excellent video explanation from Jamelle Bouie of what Jim Crow was, how it developed, and how it continues to reverberate in American society and politics today.

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Just off of Epps Bridge Parkway sits a small schoolhouse next to Chestnut Grove Baptist Church. On first glance, you wouldn’t ...

The resilience, faith and purity of African American hymns come to life at the Historic Ward Rooming House with “Precious ...

Johnson was a target of racial hostility, his actions demonized to “protect” white womanhood from Black masculinity.

On the steps of the SC Statehouse sits a statue of George Washington, with a broken walking stick. How it broke, however, is ...

Not literally, of course. But the legendary watch owes its popularity—if not its underwater cred—to everyone's favorite spy.

New York Times journalist Kevin Sack says there was a “Charleston before 2015 and a Charleston after 2015″ in a discussion ...

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s.