Orangeburg massacre

The February 1968 killing of three student protesters in Orangeburg, SC marked a turning point in the black freedom struggle.

The shootings occurred two years before the deaths at Kent State University, but remain a little-known incident in the Civil Rights Movement.

Jaime Harrison lost to Lindsey Graham but expanded Democrats’ vision of what’s possible in the Deep South.

The deadly episode stood for a bitterly divided era. Did we ever leave it?

A personal account of how one young woman travels to South Carolina in search of her family history and freedom narrative.

On Pete Souza’s Obama.

The shootings at Kent State and Jackson State at 50 years later.

In April 1968, students took over campus buildings in an uprising that caught the world’s attention. Fifty years later, they reflect on what went right and what went wrong.