CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Over five years ago, the John C. Calhoun statue that stood over Charleston’s Marion Square was removed. On Tuesday, the City of Charleston announced that the statue must be ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Charleston City Council voted to approve a settlement that turns over the John C. Calhoun statue that once stood high in Marion Square to an organization led by his ...

Despite a South Carolina law protecting monuments, officials in the historic city of Charleston announced Wednesday that they plan to remove a statue of slavery advocate John C. Calhoun from a ...

It’s been five years since the statue of John C. Calhoun was removed from Marion Square, and as of June 2025 the statue remains in an undisclosed location, entangled in lawsuits and intergovernmental ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Five years ago after eight black church members and their pastor were shot and killed in a racist attack, South Carolina came together and took down the Confederate flag from the ...

For centuries, the center of governance in South Carolina has been the Statehouse, and the central governing authority has been the Legislature. That has remained the case even as lawmakers slowly ...

It’s understandable that the politics of this moment — one fed by passion over the videotaped killing of an African American man by a Minneapolis police officer and shaped by a white supremacist’s ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The historic South Carolina city of Charleston was removing a symbol of its legacy on Wednesday, sending crews to take away a statue honoring John C. Calhoun, an early U.S.