The flag-raising honors the South Carolina State Bulldogs, who won the 2025 Black College National Championship. South Carolina State University’s success on the football field is being recognized at ...

After the U.S. Capitol denied requests lay the late Rev. Jesse Jackson in state, the South Carolina Capitol agreed to honor the civil rights icon. The Late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. will lie in state in ...

A monument to honor Civil Rights pioneer, war hero and politician Robert Smalls is set to be erected on the SC State House grounds.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr. was honored Monday in the state where he grew up under segregation with a hero’s memorial, his flag-draped casket under the Capitol’s ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., a prominent civil rights leader, returned to South Carolina to lie in state at the Capitol on Monday, marking a final tribute to his legacy. This ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Back in 1960, the story goes, a teenaged Jesse Jackson entered the whites-only branch of his hometown library with seven comrades-in-arms who’d be christened the Greenville Eight ...

COLUMBIA, S.C., Jan. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 1000 students, parents, and teachers will rally at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia on Wednesday, Jan. 28 with a common goal: to ...

The Late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. will lie in state in his hometown’s state capitol. Next Monday, March 2, the South Carolina Capitol will have Jackson’s body lie in state at the South Carolina ...