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S.C. Supreme Court Justice-elect Letitia Verdin will join the state's high court in August after her unanimous election by the Legislature on Wednesday, June 5, 2024.

The South Carolina General Assembly will vote June 5 to elect a new justice to the state Supreme Court. Chief Justice Donald Beatty is retiring this year because of the state's 72-year age limit for judges.

North Charleston first new mayor in nearly 30 years says the struggles and sacrifices of his past will help him shape the city's future as its first African American mayor.

Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey share stories and recipes of the foods that make the South Carolina Jewish table in a new cookbook, "Kugels and Collards: Stories of Food, Family, and Tradition in Jewish South Carolina."

The University of South Carolina will unveil a 12-foot bronze monument in 2024 that will honor the first three Black students to enroll at the university on Sept. 11, 1963.

An historic school built for African Americans in 1925 is restored and reopened in St. George, S.C. as a community center and museum. It will share the stories of those who created it and were educated there.

The city of Charleston wants to hear from Gullah Geechee communities to document and preserve their history. A $75,000 grant from the National Park Service has launched a 2-year project called the Gullah Geechee Heritage Preservation Project.

The new International African American Museum in Charleston shares the untold stories of enslaved Africans in America at the site where nearly half first set foot in this country.

The wide empty spaces in pews between parishioners at a Sunday service at Zion Baptist Church in South Carolina's capital highlight a post-pandemic reality common among many Black Protestant churches across the nation. According to a new Pew Research Center survey, attendance fell 15 percentage points at Black Protestant churches after the COVID outbreak. Researchers say no other major religious group has registered a decline of this magnitude. Despite the drop, pastors and parishioners say Black churches remain fundamental to Black communities, providing refuge and hope, especially during times of challenge.