Several hundred people gathered in Marion Square in the historic South Carolina city of Charleston early Wednesday to watch the removal of a statue of former vice president and strong slavery ...

Crews in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday removed a statue of politician John C. Calhoun from its tall pedestal in Marion Square. The operation took most of the day, with the statue ...

Neither an apology for slavery nor relocating a statue reach the root of racism in Charleston. Mr. Glee participated in civil rights marches and protests in the 1960s; now, he says, ”we’re ...

FILE - In this May 31, 2016, file photo, a statue of Vice President John C. Calhoun, whose ideas on state rights were a spark of the Civil War, looms over a public park in Charleston, S.C. Despite ...

A statue of John C. Calhoun, a staunch defender of slavery and former U.S. vice president, was coming down Wednesday in Charleston, South Carolina, the latest memorial of a historical figure with ...

The city of Charleston voted unanimously on Tuesday to remove a statue of John C. Calhoun, the latest statue to come down as protests across the country cause local officials to reckon with ...

The future of a bronze effigy of John C. Calhoun continues to be debated in South Carolina courts — rather than in City Hall — years after Charleston City Council initially voted to remove ...

The fate of the larger-than-life statue of former vice president and slavery supporter John C. Calhoun remains in legal limbo more than three years after it was removed from its 125-foot perch ...

It's estimated 40% of all enslaved Africans brought to North America arrived via ship in Charleston. The issue of removing the Calhoun statue and monument was last at the forefront of Charleston's ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS/WVAH) — Work is finished to restore and conserve statues in Charleston. On Wednesday, a conservation crew applied a hot wax treatment to the Henry Gassaway Davis ...

The base of a Confederate statue in Charleston, South Carolina, was covered with graffiti in red spray paint over the weekend, including "Black Lives Matter," "This is the root of our evil," and ...

Officials in the historic South Carolina city of Charleston voted unanimously Tuesday to remove a statue of former vice president and slavery advocate John C. Calhoun from a downtown square ...