Black Ancestors Pearl Duncan letter applauds Essie Mae Washingon-Williams, black daughter of Strom Thurmond, for her quest to find out truth about her heritage (July 2 article) ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The biracial daughter of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond defended the former segregationist Tuesday and said the Rev. Al Sharpton "overreacted" upon learning he descends from a ...

COLUMBIA — After a 100-year life that shifted from segregation to reconciliation, Strom Thurmond was eulogized Tuesday by black and white, Democrat and Republican, as a man who redeemed himself ...

In breaking news this week, former New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus finally finished his authorized biography of William F. Buckley Jr. It took him only about 25 years to complete the 1 ...

There, the family befriended figures like the Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond, who garnered more than 80 percent of the vote in their county in 1948, and the archconservative textile magnate Roger ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a one-time Democratic segregationist who helped fuel the rise of the modern conservative Republican Party in the South, died Thursday. He ...

ASHINGTON – Just after 2 p.m., two aides wheeled Strom Thurmond in his black and silver wheelchair through a crowd of supporters in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. “Hiya doon, hiya doon,” the ...

Alameda County deputies handcuffed a Black family in a Starbucks parking lot when the mother refused to show her ID. A jury awarded the family over $8 million.

Even some relatives of the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond wondered if indeed their 64-year-old distinguished family member was carrying on with a 20-year-old coed, Nancy Moore.

One MAGA who is now a former member of the UVA Board of Visitors wasn't happy that Jim Ryan extended the contract of Carla ...

TheBigSpur will provide complete coverage of both events, but we've already heard of a handful of schools that will participate, including Ridge View (Columbia, S.C.), Strom Thurmond (Johnston, S ...