After initially prosecuting those who tried to overthrow an election, Presidents Grant and Hayes backed down—with ...
A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist.
Yes, the Democrats will someday come to be ashamed of and to regret their shameless support for the disgusting and xenophobic ...
Two Florence families were honored Monday by Florence City Council, which voted to rename parks in honor of their relatives.
University of Hawaii at Manoa Anthropology Professor Christopher Bae likens his discovery to piecing together a giant puzzle, ...
Only the most thoroughgoing account of the massacre mentions the heroic stance of “Peg Leg Taylor,” who single-handedly fought off a dozen white attackers. There was also J.B. Stradford, a hotel owner ...
The Florence City Council renamed Northwest and South parks for Mordecai C. Johnson and John and Silvia Lifty Jebaily despite ...
Florence City Council members approved a resolution Monday to rename Northwest Park to the "Mordecai C. Johnson Park."Johnson ...
On a sidewalk near the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, I met Jaqueline Smith, a long-term resident of the motel until she was forcibly evicted in 1988. For 36 years, ...
“We all knew that as African Americans that our records are spotty ... the struggles of Reconstruction and the ongoing fight for equality and justice.” Johnson had two destinations in ...