More than 100 years after his death, Robert Smalls — a Civil War hero, educator and South Carolina politician — will be ...

Officials in South Dakota are pushing hard to build President Donald Trump’s proposed National Garden of American Heroes in the Black Hills near Mount Rushmore.

The South Carolina Capitol grounds will soon include a statue of Robert Smalls, a formerly enslaved Civil War hero, among the statues of five white men, most with ties to the Civil War or Jim Crow.

Monica Bagby began her career as a preschool teacher and went on to teach reading and English at a variety/range of schools.