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Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the University of Virginia and the Vernacular Architecture Forum to sponsor and...

The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture has been an integral part of the Lowcountry community since...

Join the Avery Research Center for a unique learning experience in honor of Juneteenth! During this event visitors are invited...

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Educators! Join the Avery Research Center for a 30-minute self-guided tour of our latest exhibits, receive resources to support your classroom, and learn...

Although the Civil Rights Movement is completely inseparable from Black history in the United States, the American Civil Rights Movement...

Kwame Nkrumah today carries a mixed legacy of African self-determination, and authoritarianism: of both the successes of Pan-Africanism and Socialism...

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Join us for our April Community Open House on April 13, 2022. Guests can register for a 30-minute self-guided tour...

In the two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the largest effects since then has been...

Activism is one of the most defining characteristics of the 1960’s in the United States, and much of that has...

In front of a massive camera stood three children: Rebecca, Charley and Rosa. Rebecca and Rosa were wrapped in capes...

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Congratulations to our 2021-2022 James E. Campbell Student Leadership Award Recipients! Mia Douglas- Benedict College Arianna Bastian-Benedict College Jay Scott-...

As the end of the COVID-19 pandemic in Western countries is beginning to come within clear view, despite the clear...

Joseph Irwin Hoffman, Jr., MD was born in Charleston in 1898. A graduate of the Avery school, Dr. Hoffman completed...

While there is no corner of the world today that has remained completely untouched by the COVID-19 pandemic, certain places...

Septima P. Clark (1898 – 1987) was a pioneer educator, civil rights activist, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called...

Structural racism has been a pervasive problem through much of Charleston’s history. For that reason, in 2015, thanks to a...