Herb Frazier

The Charleston Symphony expected a $30,000 grant for a new fellowship program, and the Berkeley County Museum in Moncks Corner planned on vital support for its annual Colonial Days fundraiser. But without warning in the last month, the federal government yanked away its money.

Historians say it is possible that George Laurens is among the 20 people buried in unmarked Mepkin graves that abut the small brick-walled Laurens family cemetery where Henry Laurens’ cremated remains rest near his son, Revolutionary War hero John Laurens, once an aide to General George Washington.On Saturday, the Most Rev. Jacques Fabre-Jeune, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston, blessed both cemeteries, which are part of a new Meditation Garden of Truth and Reconciliation at Mepkin Abbey

The distant clippety-clop cadence grew louder as Charleston tour guide David Collins’s horse-drawn carriage loaded with tourists approached the Powder Magazine Museum on Cumberland Street.

Charleston residents can share concerns about climate change during a listening session at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 21 at the Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston.

A gunshot in April 2023 sent Leslie Brewer running to her partner and the horror of seeing him dead from a self-inflicted wound at their Hanahan home.

The rustic blacksmith shop and cottage where legendary artisan Philip Simmons worked and lived until his death in 2009 will become a classroom for historic preservation students at a local college he inspired.Students in a preservation research methods class at the American College of the Building Arts (ACBA) took on a new history assignment Jan. 13 to write a report on the Simmons property at 30½ Blake St., said the college’s provost Christina Rae Butler.

Majority of preschool suspensions are Black students, data shows

Barbados-born Kevin Farmer ended his first visit to Charleston recently with the vision of an annual festival to celebrate the historic ties between his Caribbean homeland and South Carolina.

A sand-carved etching on glass honors the 19th century legacy of Catherine B. “Kitty” Smith Springs, a little-known free woman of color whose philanthropy helped to build places to worship, learn and heal the sick in Summerville after the Civil War.

State working to fix broken mental health system

The WeGOJA Foundation in Columbia, which promotes South Carolina’s African-American experience, will visit Cordesville in lower Berkeley County later this summer to interview people like Stanley Richmond.

Mark and Sandra Myers, founders of the Black Cowboy African American Cultural Festival in Rembert, are happy that more than 2,000 recently came each day during the three-day event, May 23-26, but they said they want to do more in the coming years to showcase Black history.

A tri-county advocacy group wants to collaborate with educators and the parents of Black preschool children who have been suspended from schools to create culturally responsive policies that keep children in school to thrive.

South Carolina leads the nation in the number of preschool children, ages 2½ to 5 years old, who are suspended from school one or more times.

The Historic Charleston Foundation’s (HCF) annual spring house and garden tours, which attracts thousands of tourists to the city, has a new name and a refreshed schedule to lure more local residents.

Tourists pose for pictures outside the Anne Frank House before they quietly file in to choose one of nine languages for an audio tour through an empty house filled with horror and hope.

The Dutch solution to flood control is not confined to its iconic 17th century crescent-shaped network of canals lined with skinny houses and flat houseboats that form an inner-city drainage and transportation system in Amsterdam’s historic core.

Cainhoy and Huger residents who have seen how I-526 has changed their communities are issuing a stark warning if the freeway is extended across Johns and James islands:  If you build it, you’ll get rampant development, a traffic deluge and life-changing “culture shock.”  “We have just absolutely been overwhelmed with traffic and wrecks. We now […]

The rise of the right-wing extremist group Moms for Liberty has pushed public education even higher among the community concerns for the Charleston Area Justice Ministry (CAJM).

Two Awendaw brothers began Sept. 23, the first day of fall, with a drive to Charleston’s airport to pick up a friend, returning home with takeout food.