CHARLESTON, SOAKING IN ITS BEAUTY AND HOSPITALITY, IT’S EASY TO FORGET THE DARKER CHAPTERS THAT UNFOLDED HERE. THE STORY OF THE ENSLAVED IN CHARLESTON FROM THE SHORES OF AFRICA TO THE AUCTION BLOCK OF ...

A former slave’s attempt to lead a rebellion in Charleston during the summer of 1822 would forever alter life in the ...

Downtown Charleston’s International African American Museum will open an exhibit next week to serve as a national archive on ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — "Living Legacies," a celebration of Black history, took place Saturday at Magnolia Plantation & Gardens. Guided by historians and artists from the Slave Dwelling Project, the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Magnolia Plantation & Gardens has been used for 345 years, and in that time, has seen beauty, robust farming and wealth. It has also seen the transition from the horror of slavery ...

EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (AP) – As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century South Carolina plantation that once grew prized sea island cotton, workers this week carefully disassembled, measured and ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Stephen Schmutz, a Charleston attorney, left, and Dr. Bernard Powers Jr., founding executive ...

Charleston, the South Carolina port city where about 40 percent of enslaved Africans landed in North America after being taken from their homelands, has become the latest city to apologize for its ...

One of South Carolina's oldest cities might apologize for its prolific role in the U.S. slave trade, according to city documents. Charleston’s city council will consider a resolution "recognizing, ...

Some of Charleston’s most revealing stories live outside its most visited attractions. It lingers in overlooked neighborhoods, backstreets and structures once central to resistance and everyday life.