By Jessica Holdman | Reporter
Good morning South Carolina!
University of South Carolina President Michael Amiridis will deliver his State of the University address on the historic Horseshoe today. Established in 1801, the public university celebrates its 225th anniversary this year.
“It is important to us to preserve that tangible memory that allows us to tell the stories that we want to tell.” - Joy Raintree, South Carolina State Parks director on efforts to restore historic slave quarters destroyed by Hurricane Helene.
A former slave quarters on South Carolina’s Redcliffe Plantation was destroyed by Hurricane Helene. Nearly two years later, the state is rebuilding the 169-year-old structure. (Photo courtesy of SC Parks and Recreation)
By Jessica Holdman
For more than a decade, the descendants of sharecroppers and people once enslaved on South Carolina’s Redcliffe Plantation gathered each year inside the former slave quarters on the property — now a state historic site. Two years after Hurricane Helene, the state park service is preparing to reconstruct the destroyed building, which the agency called “a rare and essential resource for understanding the site’s history.”
The state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., is connected to a prison where an inmate died, leaving 21 inmates on death row. (Provided by the S.C. Department of Corrections)
By Skylar Laird
A death row inmate convicted of killing his estranged wife died in prison Monday morning after an extended illness, according to the state Department of Corrections.
The Greenville Gay Men's Chorus, founded in 2011, consists of more than 35 tenors and basses "dedicated to artistic excellence, meaningful collaboration, and the power of choral music to build community and connection," according to the group's website. (Photo courtesy of Nakeshia Shannon)
COMMENTARY
By Paul Hyde
The Greenville Gay Men's Chorus and Proud Mary Theatre Company, two LGBTQ-related arts organizations in the Upstate, had been recommended for South Carolina Arts Commission grants through the agency's normal review process. But commissioners singled out these two and postponed their grants until they can make another case for their artistic merit.
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