Artist Basil Watson is creating the first statue of an African American, Civil War hero Robert Smalls, to be placed on South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - Gov. Henry McMaster placed his signature Thursday on a bill that will celebrate a South Carolina Civil War hero on the State House grounds. A ceremonial bill signing for a ...

Lonnie Randolph, longtime South Carolina civil rights leader and NAACP state president who for years fought to rid the State House grounds of the Confederate flag, has died after a lingering ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union troops, the city was in chaos.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious ...

The historic Mrs. A.J. Morton & Son Funeral Home in Columbia is now a member of the African American Civil Rights Network. ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A bill awaiting Gov. Henry McMaster’s signature will memorialize Robert Smalls on State House grounds with a monument. There are 27 monuments surrounding the State House ...

Robert Smalls was a historic South Carolina lawmaker who escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship.