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Posted inEditor's Pick

The Death Chamber Doctor’s Dilemma

by Seyward Darby April 27, 2022October 19, 2022

A law went into effect in South Carolina last year allowing people on death row to choose their method of execution, including by firing squad. Last week, the state supreme court issued a temporary stay on government-sponsored killing, in advance of executions scheduled for April 29 and May 13. As we wait to learn whether […]

Posted inEditor's Pick

They Executed People for the State of South Carolina. For Some, It Nearly Destroyed Them.

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 8, 2021October 19, 2022

“The tools of death could next be electric volts, bullets or a drug cocktail. Regardless of the method, executions are likely to return to South Carolina. When they do, state workers will again be the ones tasked with handling the weapons — and the consequences.”

Posted inCrime, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

How a Hurricane’s Trailing Winds Retold Willie Earle’s 1947 Mass Lynching

by Krista Stevens February 27, 2020October 19, 2022

“Even with a preponderance of evidence and testimonies, every man on trial got away with murder. This fact was not front-page news but tucked beneath odd stories called ‘Flashes of Life.'”

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

How Southern Cities Are Joining the Knowledge Economy

by Aaron Gilbreath June 29, 2018October 19, 2022

Greenville, South Carolina has revitalized its city center by incubating start-ups. Can other Southern cities do the same?

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes

The Unexpected Reemergence of an Elusive Strain of Rice

by benhuberman February 16, 2018October 19, 2022

Hill rice was supposed to be extinct, until a South Carolina chef stumbled on it — in Trinidad.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking

by benhuberman February 15, 2018October 19, 2022

Historians of African-diaspora cooking have considered hill rice a mythical, long-extinct staple. Then, one of them stumbled on it while walking in the Trinidadian countryside.

Posted inNonfiction, Uncategorized

The South Carolina Dylann Roof Knew

by Matt Giles August 22, 2017October 19, 2022

For GQ, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah travels through the state that taught Roof a perverted viewpoint of the antebellum period.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

‘See What Y’All Can Work Out’: The State of Empathy in Charleston

by Alison Kinney January 3, 2017October 19, 2022

Charleston’s—and our nation’s—systemic racism, through the lens of the Dylann Roof trial.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

‘See What Y’All Can Work Out’: The State of Empathy in Charleston

by Alison Kinney January 3, 2017October 19, 2022

Charleston’s—and our nation’s—systemic racism, through the lens of the Dylann Roof trial.

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