Adam Parker: The Orangeburg Massacre and the Need for Truth and Reconciliation Adam Parker, arts and culture reporter at The Post and Courier is the author of a biography of Cleveland Sellers Jr., the SNCC activist caught up in the Orangeburg MassacreRead more
Mount Zion AME Church's Annual Black History Month Observance presents Reverend Howard Brown of Charlotte, who will discuss modern barriers to the American Dream.
In this talk, Dr. Matthew Pettway will explore how nearly four hundred years of Spanish colonialism and African enslavement invented the myth of white supremacy and nurtured the creation of another fiction, black inhumanity. The emphasis of his talk will beRead more
Critically-acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Stephen Kurkjian, speaks about his recent art heist thriller, Master Thieves. It is a case defined by superlatives - the largest art theft in history, carrying the world’s largest reward offer, longer on the FBI’s listRead more
Join us for the Juror Lecture with Amy Yoes for Young Contemporaries 2018 in room 309 of the Simons Center for the Arts. In this lecture, she will discuss her own creative practice. Amy Yoes was born in 1959 and grewRead more
Join us as we host Pulitzer Prize finalist, Larrie D. Ferreiro as he discusses his most recent book, Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It. The remarkable untold story of how the American Revolution'sRead more
Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the YearRead more
Join us Thursday, March 22, 12 pm for lunch at Halls Signature Events when Charlotte Caldwell presents her new book The Faces of Local Food: Celebrating the People Who Feed Us. In The Faces of Local Food, we step outRead more
Charleston’s music scene is on the rise. Some have likened it to Austin, Texas twenty years ago, and many feel it’s on the precipice of taking off. For that anticipated growth to become a reality, a strong support structure needsRead more
In 1818, Joseph Jacotot, a French professor, determined to teach his native language at the University of Louvain in the Netherlands. Many of his students spoke only Flemish; Jacotot knew only French. How could he teach these students his nativeRead more
