Opposition to Confederate and proslavery memorials has a long history, even in a Deep South city like Charleston. In 1908 in White Point Garden, a bust of poet William Gilmore Simms, an outspoken ...

Officials in Charleston announced Wednesday their intention to remove a statue of John C. Calhoun, an advocate for slavery in the early 1800s, from its downtown location despite a South Carolina ...

Charleston’s John C. Calhoun monument has its origins in a parlor at the corner of Meeting and Ann streets, the brainchild of three bored women looking to honor the loss of South Carolina’s ...

The FBI and Charleston police are investigating additional letters referencing racial violence in the city of Charleston, vandalism to a Marion Square monument and several bomb threats.

Now that the statue of John C. Calhoun has been removed, Charleston City Council is expected to vote soon on a contract to demolish its remaining column and pedestal at Commentary: How Charleston ...

Charleston removed its John C. Calhoun monument in 2020, but challenges persist in this Southern city about what to do with depictions of the slavery defender in the city’s own art collection.

American Heritage Association President Brett Barry gave a letter to Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg and members of city council asking for them to open discussion on the future of the monument.

After Charleston, Confederate monuments fall roughly into three categories: The vast majority that have remained unchanged and largely unremarked upon.

Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg said he won't try to remove any of the city's many Confederate-related monuments but will seek to have them tell a broader narrative — warts and all.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS/WVAH) — After a plaque with names of former members of the Kanawha Riflemen was removed from a Confederate monument Monday in Charleston, there has been a lot of ...