The commission picked Basil Watson, from Lawrenceville, Georgia, to sculpt the statue. Watson also sculpted the memorial to desegregation on the University of South Carolina campus. Fundraising ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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 ...

In a respite for Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati, the Supreme Court on Wednesday drew the curtains on a 2009 public interest litigation (PIL) seeking reimbursement of public funds ...

During the brief hearing, the bench also observed that with the additional expenditure required to remove these statues, using public funds for such an act would not be prudent In a respite for ...