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American College of the Building Arts. / 32.7785; -79.9372. American College of the Building Arts (ACBA) is a private, four-year liberal arts and sciences college located in Charleston, South Carolina. It is licensed by the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education to grant a Bachelor of Applied Science and an Associate of Applied Science ...
The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston, located in Charleston, South Carolina. Designed by Brooklyn architect Patrick Keely in the Gothic Revival style, it opened in 1907. The Most Reverend Jacques E. Fabre, the fourteenth Bishop of Charleston, was ordained and installed on May 13 ...
The South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) owns and operates public seaport facilities in Charleston, as well as Inland Ports in Greer, South Carolina, and Dillon, South Carolina. Established by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1942, [1] it is authorized and charged with promoting, developing, constructing, equipping, maintaining and ...
The 1970 political documentary I Am Somebody, directed by Madeline Anderson, highlighted the Charleston strikes on a national level. On August 15, 1969, two hundred black Charleston city sanitation workers led a similar strike to protest and demanded better wages and improved working conditions. After two months, the strike was resolved with a ...
Local newspapers in Charleston include The Post and Courier, the Charleston City Paper, The Charleston Chronicle, the Charleston Regional Business Journal, The Catholic Miscellany, and the Island Eye News. A local online-only paper is TheDigitel. A popular, local digital publication is Charleston Daily. Charleston Daily can also be found across ...
The 2012–13 Charleston Southern Buccaneers men's basketball team represented Charleston Southern University during the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Buccaneers, led by eighth year head coach Barclay Radebaugh, played their home games at the CSU Field House and were members of the South Division of the Big South ...
The alcohol laws of South Carolina are part of the state's history. Voters endorsed prohibition in 1892 but instead were given the "Dispensary System" of state-owned liquor stores. Currently, certain counties may enforce time restrictions for beer and wine sales in stores, although there are no dry counties in South Carolina.
The Charleston church shooting, also known as the Charleston church massacre, was an anti-black mass shooting and hate crime that occurred on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed, and one was injured, during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest black church in the southern ...