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Dylann Roof faces the death penalty or life in prison when the penalty phase of his hate crimes trial resumes on January 3.

The officers refused to believe Elijah Pontoon was not hiding any drugs on him and subjected him to a cavity search in broad daylight. A female officer searched Pontoon's girlfriend, Lakey Hicks, exposing her breasts.

After disagreeing on a $5.3 million commission for the flag and repairs for the museum, a $3.6 million budget was considered.

The 21-year-old racist gunman who heartlessly took the lives of 9 Emmanuel AME Church members during a South Carolina bible study could possibly face the death penalty for his actions. Trial prosecutors revealed Tuesday night that they plan to request the death penalty for murderer Dylann Roof on the grounds that he intentionally murdered more […]

The House of Representatives in South Carolina has officially ended the debate on the Confederate flag, as legislators have voted to remove the rebel flag from capitol grounds. In a vote of 94-20, the House’s decision supports the bill that passed in the Senate a few days prior calling for the flag to be taken down […]

Days after 30-year-old community organizer Brittany “Bree” Newsome scaled a 30-foot pole to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds, the nation…

Tensions have just about reached their peak surrounding the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse in light of the recent Emmanuel AME shooting that saw a racist 21-year-old white man take lives of 9 innocent Black people during a weekly Bible study and one brave Black woman decided she’d had enough […]

A tense confrontation between a Charleston, South Carolina police officer and a group of young black children is currently under investigation after the officer was caught on tape making what sounds like a callous reference to the recent Emmanuel AME church shootings that left 9 Black church members dead at the hands of a racist […]

The Confederate flag has long been known as a symbol of hatred and racism in the United States. Defenders of the historically prejudice mindset that the flag represents consistently try to write it off as nothing more than a showing of “Southern pride,” but people of all races and backgrounds have protested against the flying […]

A shooting in South Carolina  at one of the most historic and largest Black churches in the nation has left at least nine people dead with the suspect still at large. According to multiple reports, a gunman opened fire at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina just after 9 p.m. The gunman has been […]

A video taken from a dash cam in North Charleston, South Carolina Police Officer Michael T. Slager’s cruiser was released Thursday, showing 50-year-old Walter Scott…

  A white South Carolina police officer was charged with murder on Tuesday after a newly surfaced video showed him fatally shooting an unarmed black man…