african american history

Over 50 years later, South Carolinians can again stow a physical Green Book in their glove compartments — this time designed to learn about and celebrate African American cultural sites across the state.

Jonathan Green says that he creates his art for a purpose: to educate and inspire. He describes the newly published collection of his paintings, Gullah Spirit, as a kind of call for a community of mothers working together like those who raised him. He believes mothers are better together raising children.

The Long Point Schoolhouse which opened in 1904 to serve Black children will be restored after being moved within an historic African American community in an unincorporated area of Mount Pleasant.

The South Carolina House approved a bill Thursday that would revise a required college course on America's founding that hasn't been changed since 1924.The bill passed 91-12 on Thursday after Republicans agreed to a Democratic amendment that the class include “one or more documents that are foundational to the African American Freedom struggle.”

On June 19th, 1865, Union general Gordon Granger read federal orders in Galveston, Texas, that all previously enslaved people in Texas were free. The news…