SC Public Radio News Features

The African American History Monument at the SC State House turns 25 this year. Lawmakers, a scholar and the sculptor look back on how it came to be and why it still matters.

Wrapping up South Carolina Public Radio’s series on domestic violence is a look at the hope and healing possible where there is help.

Cardboard silhouettes filled the Statehouse steps as officials, survivors and families remembered the 40 South Carolinians lost to domestic violence last year.

Two women headline the race to replace Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace.

About half of the nation's domestic violence instances go unreported, according to a U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics survey. And just of fraction of the 32,338 reported in 2024 in South Carolina cases go to trial.

DSS say that some of the deepest, most enduring trauma is inflicted on children who never receive a single physical mark.

Schweinitz's sunflowers are native to the Piedmont. Development drove them to the edge of extinction. But a local effort is seeing them come back.

Domestic violence is a persistent, deadly crisis in South Carolina. New data confirm the state's rate of intimate partner violence continues to exceed the national average.

A question from a stranger changed a woman's life.

ACLU-SC's "Youth Behind the Fence" report reveals that hundreds of children are still detained for non-criminal status offenses despite federal law barring the practice, alleges safety failures, and highlights 'widened' racial disparities within the state's juvenile justice system.