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Sunday, April 14, 2013  In 1947, nothing said America like baseball, apple pie, and segregation. That is, until Jack Roosevelt Robinson stepped up to the plate and knocked the leather off of some dusty white balls.

Friday, January 11, 2013  A group of protesters gathered outside of a restaurant in West Columbia Friday after news of the businesses controversial shirts spread this week.

Tuesday, January 08, 2013  Controversy is swirling around a Midlands taco restaurant Tuesday because of t-shirts that its employees are wearing.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012  A 24-year-old Johnsonville man has been ordered to spend four years in prison for a racially motivated attack against a black teenager.

Thursday, August 30, 2012  South Carolina's NAACP president says a racist email acknowledged by the author of the state's voter ID law should help persuade a panel of federal judges to find against it.

Monday, July 30, 2012  Romney praises Israel's success, but his failure to mention occupation outrages Palestinians

Friday, May 18, 2012  The political director for South Carolina Senate Democrats has been reprimanded for referring to Republican Gov. Nikki Haley as a "Sikh Jesus."

Thursday, May 03, 2012  Online Popchips ad featuring Ashton Kutcher in brown makeup is yanked from YouTube, Facebook

Thursday, November 19, 2009  A Democrat running for governor says South Carolina should remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds if it wants to grow its economy.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009  Republican Gingrich says he shouldn't have called Sotomayor 'racist,' retracts allegation

Sunday, May 31, 2009  A GOP senator on the committee that will consider Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination says her early life of hardship is praiseworthy. But it doesn't make her better than he or other white men.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009  Department of Agriculture to review civil rights complaints filed against it since 2000

Friday, November 21, 2008  Bob Jones University is apologizing for racist policies that included a one-time ban on interracial dating and its unwillingness to admit black students into the 1970s.