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South Carolina

July 2024

  • three women hold up model spines

    Three Republican South Carolina senators who stopped total abortion ban voted out

    There are now no GOP women in South Carolina’s state legislature – and just two female Democrats in the chamber

June 2024

  • a woman speaks into a microphone

    South Carolina implements one of US’s most restrictive public school book bans

  • Two people stand and talk in a flooded street surrounded by trees

    Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans’ lives by 2050, study finds

  • A young white couple, him in a white collared shirt and khakis, she in a white lace wedding dress, walk through a gauntlet of smiling people holding sparklers.

    Husband of bride killed on South Carolina beach awarded nearly $1m

  • A Black woman with long hair wears a Biden T-shirt and holds a Biden sign among crowds doing the same.

    In South Carolina, Black voters are split on immigration

  • Alex Murdaugh’s son sues Netflix over docuseries linking him to 2015 death

  • Complete abortion ban in South Carolina more likely after primaries

  • Who is Mr X? How a true crime podcast helped identify a 1975 murder victim

  • Nancy Mace beats Kevin McCarthy-backed challenger in South Carolina primary

  • Charleston bridge closed as out-of-control ship powers through harbor

May 2024

  • Pink outline of South Carolina on antique map.

    South Carolina’s supreme court to be entirely white for first time in 20 years

    State where African Americans and Hispanics make up third of population to join 18 other states with all-white high courts
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    Supreme court rules South Carolina doesn’t need to redraw congressional map to consider Black voters

    Justices send case back to lower court, saying it didn’t properly evaluate evidence in ruling Republican plan was discriminatory
  • man in a suit

    South Carolina governor signs into law ban on gender-affirming care for minors

    State becomes 25th to restrict or ban care for transgender children as LGBTQ+ rights groups consider legal challenge

April 2024

  • cicadas on a stick

    South Carolina police field calls from residents alarmed by noisy cicadas

    Newberry county sheriff’s office reassures people siren-like roar is male cicadas singing to attract mates after a decade dormant
  • Black man with very long dreads, wearing black T-shirt, cream blazer, and gray khakis poses in front of long chalkboard between two chairs.

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    ‘I Gullah Geechee, too’: the educators keeping a language of enslaved Africans alive

    Sunn m’Cheaux and Akua Page teach Gullah language and culture from juvenile incarceration facilities to Harvard
    • South Carolina mulls mystery $1.8bn in account: ‘We don’t know why it’s there’

    • Millions brace for extreme US weather as thunderstorms sweep across states

    • Alex Murdaugh sentenced to 40 years for stealing from clients and law firm

March 2024

  • woman holds sign saying fight for fair maps

    The fight for democracy
    South Carolina Republicans can use discriminatory map for 2024, court rules

  • A historical map overlayed on modern New York

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Sites of resistance: threatened African burial grounds around the world

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