More than 60 people converged in a reconstructed, one-room schoolhouse in Berkeley County on Saturday to strategize and network on developing the African-American tourism niche in the Lowcountry.
The first-ever “Raising the Curtain: African-American Niche of the Tourism Industry” conference was hosted by Wando Huger Community Development Corp. and featured sessions on developing business, public grants [...]
Civil rights leaders bothered by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s stance on issues like requiring voters to show their IDs at the polls are reminding the governor that she is a minority, too.
“She couldn’t vote before 1965, just as I couldn’t,” said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, referring to the Voting Rights Act that abolished poll [...]
Life in South Carolina under Jim Crow laws have been a common practice for most of the southern United States. The purpose was to keep certain citizens from voting—poor whites, Native Americans and African Americans–through political corruptness.
This segment of society has been dissatisfied with South Carolina voting for a long time, going back to early [...]
Newt Gingrich stormed to an upset win in the South Carolina primary Saturday night, dealing a sharp setback to Mitt Romney and scrambling the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Texas Rep. Ron Paul trailed badly. (AP)
Race is no longer as overt a factor in South Carolina politics as it was when Strom Thurmond, who is memorialized in a statue looming over the state Capitol complex here, quit the Democratic Party for the GOP after Congress passed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Yet race remains embedded in the state’s political [...]
