For more than 30 years, the SC African American Heritage Commission has taken a serious effort in preserving the rich African ...

SC State University marked 57 years since the Orangeburg Massacre as survivors and families remembered those killed and the ...

Feb. 8 marks 57 years since the Orangeburg Massacre of 1968, when South Carolina Highway Patrol officers opened fire on a ...

Segregation academies that remain vastly ... Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina all have passed new or expanded programs since 2023. (South Carolina’s state ...

In South Carolina, where I live ... Many of these private schools are known as “segregation academies” because they opened for white children while the federal courts were forcing districts ...

South Carolina lawmakers argue that public schools ... But some of these schools feel a whole lot like those old segregation academies — only this time it's their management that's segregated ...

And we found none that reflected the demographics of their communities Anisa Khalifa: She says North Carolina offered a good look into segregation academies in the South for two reasons.

Settled by the English in 1670, the colony named for King Charles I was split into North and South Carolina in 1710. Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice ...