State officials took quick action downstate this year after seeing a much larger outbreak in Chicago last year, Vohra said.

The South Carolina Capitol grounds will soon include a statue of Robert Smalls, a formerly enslaved Civil War hero, among the statues of five white men, most with ties to the Civil War or Jim Crow.

More than 100 years after his death, Robert Smalls — a Civil War hero, educator and South Carolina politician — will be ...