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Wednesday, February 06, 2013  The founder of the Slave Dwelling Project is scheduled to give an update on his three-year effort to preserve old slave dwellings around the nation.

Tuesday, January 08, 2013  January was a trying month for a President of a country torn in two, trying to pass an amendment destined to change the fabric of our history, and Steven Speilberg takes you straight to the heart of the rotunda.

Tuesday, January 01, 2013  For those of you who are warped enough to enjoy profanly intelligent banter during an intensly violent, border-line believable, uber-choreographed action sequence set to a funky 70's groove, then throw in a backdrop of Cival War meets Spaghetti Western, and you have Django Unchained.

Saturday, December 29, 2012  Midlands residents have a chance to see a brand new traveling exhibit on a South Carolina hero.

Sunday, December 09, 2012  A symposium of rare American Face Jug ceramics is wrapping up at the University of South Carolina.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012  At the end of the day Wednesday, the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention will pass to an African American pastor for the first time.

Thursday, May 24, 2012  A relic hunter from Columbia has found a rare freedman's tag near Charleston that dates from the late 1700s.

Thursday, March 11, 2010  Dozens of scholars from across the nation are gathering in South Carolina for a conference on life after slavery in the American South.

Thursday, June 18, 2009  Senate unanimously OKs apology for slavery, segregation in time for Junteenth; goes to House

Sunday, June 14, 2009  The Reid Chapel AME Church held their annual "Juneteenth" celebration.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009  A South Carolina plantation is telling the story of how blacks lived on their journey from slavery to freedom.

Saturday, March 21, 2009  A formal dedication is being held this weekend for a new exhibit on the international slave trade at Fort Moultrie on South Carolina 's Sullivans Island .

Thursday, November 13, 2008  Authorities in Austria have filed murder charges against the man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years