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 ...

COLUMBIA — The late Sen. Strom Thurmond's family on Monday said it "acknowledges" a California woman's claim that she is the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of the one-time segregationist.

Strom Thurmond bragged for years about dehydrating his body to prepare for his speech opposing the Civil Rights Act. He didn’t talk about his Black daughter, though.

Robert J. “Duke” Short, the long time chief of staff to the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, has died at the age of 89. Beginning his career as an investigator for the U.S ...

LESLIE E. KOSSOFF Associated Press via The State archives Robert J. “Duke” Short, the long time chief of staff to the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, has died at the age of 89.

Late Strom Thurmond name on U of South Carolina complex eyed Posted: Aug 21, 2020 / 08:53 AM EDT Updated: Aug 21, 2020 / 03:47 PM EDT ...

Two of Thurmond’s children — former South Carolina state lawmaker Paul Thurmond and Strom Thurmond Jr., a county prosecutor — did not immediately return messages seeking comment on the proposal.

FILE - In this March 1, 2003, file photo, University of South Carolina students head towards the 192,000-square-foot Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center in Columbia, S.C.

Joe Biden once praised the segregationist Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina as “one of my closest friends” and championed him as someone who believed in America's diversity.He ...

He wrote in The Washington Post in 1981 that Thurmond seated all-white juries to judge black defendants even though the U.S. Supreme Court had condemned the practice.

For more, we speak to Wanda Williams-Bailey, the interracial granddaughter of the late South Carolina senator, former governor and longtime segregationist, Strom Thurmond, who died at the age of ...