Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, and died in 1915 in his hometown a free, but somewhat forgotten man tossed aside by a Southern society determined to keep Blacks inferior.

The memorial to Civil War hero Robert Smalls is set to be erected on the Statehouse grounds. Design and location set. Now, they just need a way to pay for it.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist.

This image from the Library of Congress Brady-Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls created between 1870 and 1880. The Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group studying ...

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Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 years ago.

The news reports about and video of the New York prison treatment of Robert Brooks, a Black man from Greece who died after being beaten by white corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility ...

DNA replication is the biological process by which an exact copy of a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule is created and it is the basis for biological inheritance. Each of the two strands of the ...

A DNA vaccine is a substance that is composed of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and encodes antigens. After administration of the DNA, antigens are produced and stimulate an immune response.

Jan. 15, 2025 — A groundbreaking study finds evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife's community. This is ...