Edda Fields-Black gives a keynote speech for Juneteenth at Carnegie Mellon University in 2024. (Photo courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University) Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Within the walls of The Old Slave Mart, there are newspapers dated back to the 19th century. They showcase front page ads of enslaved people without a voice. "Slavery and ...

WELCOME BACK. WE’VE JUST LEARNED THAT MORE THAN A DOZEN UNMARKED GRAVES AT AN UPSTATE CHURCH BELONG TO AFRICAN-AMERICANS WHO WERE ONCE ENSLAVED. AND THE CREDIT FOR THAT HISTORIC FIND IS GOING TO A ...

Enslaved farmhand John Andrew Jackson fled a plantation in Sumter County by riding a horse along the roads towards Charleston. This brazen escape happened in 1846, as he fled on Christmas Day by ...

The International African American Museum will soon open in Charleston, South Carolina, at one of the country’s most historically significant slave trading ports. Overlooking the sacred site of ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD)- A state lawmaker introduced a bill Tuesday in the South Carolina House that would ban public schools from teaching about slave owners. The bill, filed by Rep. Jermaine Johnson ...

YORK COUNTY, S.C. — A York County man has unearthed 144 slave gravesites buried in his backyard after working with archeologists and has since been working to restore the area. Homeowner Andrew ...

CHARLESTON, S.C., May 12 (Reuters) - Descendants of U.S. Civil War hero Robert Smalls are celebrating the ex-slave who 150 years ago this weekend commandeered a Confederate steamship and evaded ...

On Hilton Head Island in the Deep South, Annabel Grossman visits one of the most significant, but often overlooked, ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- A conference in Florida this week focuses on the first underground railroad in which slaves from South Carolina headed south. The National Underground Railroad Conference ...