Featured Stories
Remembering Willie Earle
On February 17, 1947, 24-year-old Willie Earle was brutally killed in Greenville, South Carolina. Earle is the last known victim of racially motivated lynching...
For Many, Celebrating Black History Also Means Dealing with Trauma
Documentary filmmaker and historian Julian Gooding shares personal stories to help create spaces for conversations about trauma and mental health. He said as a child he witnessed his father’s struggle...
Group to restore bowling alley, crux of Orangeburg Massacre
Big plans are being realized for a once-segregated bowling alley that stands dark and dusty 54 years after state troopers fired into a crowd of Black students in the killings now known as the...
Orangeburg Massacre: A Conversation with Henry Smith's Sister
REPOST: February 8, 2022 is the 54th anniversary. Ora Sue Smith Hughes shares memories about her brother, Henry Smith (1948-1968), one of the three slain victims in the Orangeburg Massacre. South...
Gullah Bible | Palmetto Scene
South Carolina has a rich Gullah culture in the state’s Lowcountry. Many of the Gullah people adopted Christianity, but the laws, for hundreds of years, prohibited them from learning to read. It was a...
South Carolina Hall of Fame
Benjamin Elijah Mays | SC Hall of Fame
Benjamin Mays (1894-1984) was a minister, educator, scholar and social activist. He was known as the "Father of the Civil Rights Movement." Mays was born the...
Septima Clark | SC Hall of Fame
Septima Poinsette Clark was known as the “Queen Mother” or “Grandmother” of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Martin Luther King, Jr., commonly referred to Ms. Clark, as “The Mother of...
David Drake aka “Dave the Potter” | SC Hall of Fame
David Drake was an enslaved African American in Edgefield, South Carolina during the first three quarters of the nineteenth century. He’s known today for the magnificent quality of the pots he made...
Ronald Erwin McNair | SC Hall of Fame
Inducted into the South Carolina Hall Of Fame, Ronald McNair was the second African-American to go into space, and was part of the STS-51L crew that died when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded...
Ernest Finney | SC Hall of Fame
Ernest A. Finney, Jr. (1931-2017) was South Carolina’s first appointed African-American Supreme Court Justice, since Reconstruction. Born 1931 in Smithfield, Virginia, his mother died when he was an...
SC African American History Calendar
SC African American History Calendar: September Honoree - Elise Jones Martin
Born in Hartsville, S.C., on February 7, 1915, Mrs. Elise Jones Martin’s lifetime has spanned nineteen U.S. presidents, four major wars, and two pandemics. Mrs...
SC African American History Calendar: May 2022 Honorees - The Gaither Family
Walter B. Gaither, one of seven children of Fairfield County farmers Walter and Fancie Gaither, and Fannie Mae Little, second daughter born to Anderson County homemaker Molly and mill worker Louvel...
SC African American History Calendar: April 2022 Honoree - Nick Aaron Ford
Dr. Nick Aaron Ford was born on August 4, 1904, in Ridgeway, S.C. to Nick Aaron and Carrie Ford. The family valued education and hard work, with Carrie teaching a young Dr. Ford to read and write...
SC African American History Calendar March Honoree: Chadwick Boseman
Chadwick (Chad) Aaron Boseman was born on November 29, 1976, in Anderson, S.C. to Leroy and Carolyn (Mattress) Boseman. Graduating from T. L. Hanna High School, he was active in speech and debate and...
SC African American History Calendar February 2022 Honoree: Dr. Linda Bell
Dr. Linda Bell is originally from El Paso, Texas. Her parents, Wesley and Gladys Wilson, encouraged her early interest in science, eventually leading her to seek a degree in Molecular Biology from the...