Basil Watson calls it an honor to create a likeness of Smalls, the first Black person honored with a statue at the SC State House.

Artist Basil Watson is creating the first statue of an African American, Civil War hero Robert Smalls, to be placed on South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

Beaufort police arrested two men after an apparent gunfight in a McDonald’s parking lot Wednesday night. The two suspects, a 24-year-old Beaufort man and 35-year-old Burton man, were each charged with ...

A 19-year-old sailor was believed to be lost at sea this week in an assumed overboard incident that led to a 45-hour search ...

The Handala Freedom Flotilla was intercepted by Israeli troops on Sunday as carried baby formula, nappies, food, and medicine ...

Before he was a South Carolina lawmaker recognized as a champion of civil rights, Robert Smalls escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship. Eventually, he would become a top ...

Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and ...

I’m sharing the incredible true story of Robert Smalls—a man born into slavery who became a Civil War hero, a pivotal ...

The sailor, assigned to the USS George Washington, was reported missing on Monday afternoon local time, and the Navy ...

The search for a sailor who went missing from the USS George Washington at sea north of Australia has ended, the Pentagon ...