The city of Charleston—whose history is intimately entwined with that of America’s slave trade and which owes a good deal of its longstanding prosperity to the practice—has decided to offer an official apology for its crucial role.
The Season 4 premiere of Southern Charm opens with Thomas Ravenel, a 54-year-old former South Carolina State Treasurer who was indicted on federal cocaine distribution charges and removed from office in 2007.
After nine Charleston, South Carolina churchgoers were slain in 2015 by white supremacist Dylann Roof, the nation turned a condemnatory gaze towards the Confederate flag flying at the Statehouse. After much protest, it was ceremoniously removed. However, the 15-year-old Heritage Act has ensured that the rebel flag …
Dylann Roof was given permission to represent himself by U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel in late November. Roof was arrested for the murder of nine parishioners at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015, and faces the death penalty.
We have never deserved Michelle Obama: it’s a truth made more certain with each passing day. And we’ve been reminded anew by two grotesquely racist officials in West Virginia who recently referred to her as an “ape in heels.”
There is probably no Bravo series as horribly addictive as Southern Charm, with its trust funds and stupid family names and loving references to Henry Kissinger and embarrassing meetings with Vox Media’s Lockhart Steele. If you are, like me, trapped in a confusing relationship with these upsetting libertarians, you’re…
On June 17, 2015, white supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine people worshipping inside Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Nearly a year later, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that, in light of Roof’s crimes, the Department of Justice would pursue the death penalty. But…
The South Carolina Senate has voted to remove the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds. The New York Times reports that the vote was 37-3. The Senate still has one more procedural vote to ratify the bill. The House will also have to vote in a two-thirds majority to remove the flag.
Monday morning in the South Carolina Legislature, state lawmakers began debating whether or not to take down the Confederate flag that flies on State Capitol property. The removal is likely, but lawmakers will also debate whether they should hold a ceremony to commemorate taking down the flag or put it back up yearly…
The sister of Dylann Roof—the man who walked into a black church in Charleston, South Carolina and gunned down nine people during their bible study—is soliciting funds to pay for her wedding that was postponed following the tragedy.
Right now, there’s a federal manhunt for the man who burned a Baltimore CVS. After two months of prolonged public investigation, the ATF has finally fingered the man responsible: one Raymon Carter, age 24, black, five-foot-eight, 180 pounds. He’s probably “fit the description” for a decade now—but now, the description…
Bree Newsome, the heroic woman who climbed a flagpole in Columbia, South Carolina and briefly removed the Confederate flag that still waves over the capitol building, has spoken out about her actions.
On Friday, South Carolina Senator and Rev. Clementa Pinckney was memorialized in a packed auditorium at the College Of Charleston. As his wife and two young daughters sat and suffered what must be the worst moment of their short lives, President Obama delivered Pinckney’s eulogy with fervor and deliberation. It was…
Barack Obama’s eulogy for South Carolina State Senator and Emanuel AME Reverend Clementa Pinckney, delivered on the heels of a historic stretch of American tragedy and renewal, was a defining moment of his Presidency—as well as the ragged, bloody, gorgeous reckoning with social justice that’s been forced into the…
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Days after nine people were murdered in a racist attack on a black church in Charleston, and after studiously ignoring the issue for as long as she could, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is holding a press conference at 4 p.m. today, where she’ll reportedly call for the removal of the Confederate flag that flies…
Earlier today Hillary Clinton delivered a speech at US Conference of Mayors in San Francisco where she addressed the murder of nine people at Charleston’s Emmanuel A.M.E Church. Clinton spoke about the “hard truths of race and justice in America,” and called for “common sense” gun reform measures.
On Thursday night, an NRA board member manipulated the national tragedy at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church by turning the murders into an argument for his political gain, because this is America.
Jon Stewart scrapped whatever plans he had for the Daily Show last night and devoted a pretty stunning two full segments to railing about the mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.
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