Jodi A. Barnes

The Council of South Carolina Professional Archaeologists opposes the College of Charleston’s plan to construct a dormitory building on the site of a cemetery at 106 Coming St., historically known as the “Strangers and Negroe Burying Ground.” The proposal has the potential to uncover thousands of people and adversely impact one of Charleston’s most significant burial grounds — a place that served enslaved ancestors, poor white people and others who were marginalized in life and deserve...

I felt compelled to write this letter due to common responses about the Nov. 8 midterm elections that I both understand and fear: I’m over politics. Voting won’t matter. It’s too much. While I empathize, voting remains our most effective, legal right to change our representation or to support the status quo. On Nov. 8 I am voting for Mokah Jasmine Johnson for House District 120. And I want to share why by briefly describing what I will be voting for.

Revealing material-culture findings that contextualize historical constructions of race, class, and power The Materiality of Freedom uses the lens of archaeology to provide original perspectives on the painful Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras by studying the material culture inherent in the struggles for racial equality in America and the Caribbean. Editor Jodi A.