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In " Payne-Ful Business," Charleston resident and author Margaret Seidler becomes an "accidental historian examining her familys role in the slave trade.

“Payne-ful Business, Charleston’s Journey to Truth” and “Sleeping with the Ancestors” are both the products of books that offer unprecedented insight to the enslaved.

Leaders of the Historic Charleston Foundation say they want the public to still be able to access the 215-year-old Nathaniel Russell House even if its sold.

There’s a big tea party on Sunday, but you won’t have to hold out your pinky. Instead, wave a flag during this big anniversary celebrating colonial revolutionary fervor that first came two weeks before the famous Boston Tea Party.

Escalating racial tensions and a brawl that ended in bloodshed characterized the Charleston Race Riot of May 10, 1919. The event is now permanently acknowledged in the form of a

At the coming Charleston Literary Festival, you may have your mind blown by what you hear in any of the 34 conversations from Nov. 3 to Nov. 12 at downtown venues.

Charleston museum to host sessions on race with global news organization

The University of South Carolina launched an effort to commemorate the achievements of Black students and professors who desegregated the campus in during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.

CHARLESTON, SC, October 03, 2023 (EZ Newswire) -- Charleston Literary Festival announces an international partnership with renowned global news organization, The Guardian, to produce two sessions that will take place

Press Release Charleston Literary Festival today announced an international partnership with renowned global news organization, The Guardian, to produce two sessions that will take place at the newly-opened International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston on November 12th, the tenth and final day of the 2023 Festival.  The first session, slated for 2pm in the […]