A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist

A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert Smalls will stand on the South Carolina State House grounds and what it will look like. The monument will be located in the northeast quadrant of the grounds between the Spanish American War Veterans monument and the African

State lawmakers are preparing for a new legislative session, and one of their top priorities involves South Carolina’s private school voucher program.