Police cases converge to stir national debate
By TOM HAYS and COLLEEN LONG From the White House to the streets of some of America’s biggest cities, the New York chokehold case converged with the Ferguson shooting and…
South Carolina
DEMOCRATS WORK TO RAISE NUMBER OF FEMALE GOVERNORS
By STEVE PEOPLES FILE – In this Sept. 27, 2013, file photo, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan speaks at an Emily’s List town hall discussion entitled “Madam President” in Manchester,…
Rapper DMX again arrested in South Carolina
FILE – In this Sept. 23, 2009 photo, DMX arrives at the 2009 VH1 Hip Hop Honors at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in New York. A spokeswoman for the…
$75 MILLION BLACK HISTORY M– USEUM ENVISIONED IN SC
By BRUCE SMITH Wilbur Johnson, left, the chairman of the board of the International African American Museum, listens as Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., announces updated plans for the…
STUDY: SLAVE’S STAY INSPIRED ‘UNCLE TOM’S CABIN’
By BRUCE SMITH FILE – This May 17, 2005, file photo, shows the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Brunswick, Maine. A professor of American literature at Clemson University in Clemson,…
25 YEARS IN MAKING, HINDU ENCYCLOPEDIA IS COMPLETE
By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER This Aug. 21, 2013 photo provided by the University of South Carolina shows Dr. Meera Narasimhan, vice dean of the University of South Carolina School of…
SC GOV: HEAVY RAINS A DISASTER FOR AGRICULTURE
By BRUCE SMITH South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and state Agriculture Commissioner Hugh Weathers discuss the effect of this summer’s heavy rains on farmers in South Carolina during a news…
SANFORD: I WAS AT EX-WIFE’S HOME TO BE WITH SON
By BRUCE SMITH FILE – South Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Sanford, and his wife, Jenny, watch returns at an election-night party in this Nov. 5, 2002 file photo taken…