Child custody — for parents who were never married, or for those divorcing with kids — is unique in every state. Child custody in South Carolina too has its own laws.
An interesting thing I just learned is that "South Carolina is the only state without a woman on its supreme court" (Candice Norwood, The 19th, March 1, 2023).
On May 25, 2023, Governor Henry McMaster signed a ban on abortion after six weeks of gestation, and it took effect immediately. However, the next day, a court blocked it indefinitely.
SC United for Justice & Equality advocates for legislation to protect "the lived and legal equality of LGBTQ+ people" in South Carolina. See also: "Reduced trans health care access cause for concern," Chelsea Grinstead, Charleston City Paper, February 1, 2023
Also important:
"Briggs v. Elliott is a South Carolina case named after Harry Briggs, one of 20 parents who brought a lawsuit against Clarendon County School Board President R.W. Elliott." This case, along with several others, led to "the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that outlawed segregation of public schools across the country." — HuffPost, May 28, 2023
A play set in South Carolina in 1964:
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“Enslaved African women were the chief herbalists in the antebellum American South. Plant medicine formed the basis of rural health care for both Black and white households, and Black herbalists treated community members across racial lines. Enslaved people had intimate knowledge of the pharmacological and spiritual powers of the local plants and animals, much of which was taught to them by Native Americans or learned through experimentation. Enslaved doctors gathered and prepared flag root, jimsonweed, garlic, calamus root, arrowroot, dogwood, snakeroot, pokeweed, peach leaves, sassafras, privet root, mayflower root, and cotton root, among others. For example, Caesar (b. 1682) was an accomplished Black herbalist who developed a cure for enslavers who believed they were poisoned, using plantain and horehound as the active ingredients. In a rare act, the South Carolina General Assembly of 1750 awarded Caesar his freedom and an annual stipend in exchange for his recipe and a commitment to continue developing medicine. They published his cure-all poison remedy in the May 1750 issue of the South Carolina Gazette. For Black herbalists, the forest was experienced as a liberator space, one where they could gather medicines and edible wild plants, meet up with lovers, and engage in spiritual practices. It was said that these herbalists could read the forest like a book by old age. The forest was a place where, in the words of the historian Sharla Feet, ‘spiritual power intensified and the social power of slavery waned.’”
— Leah Penniman. Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations With Black Environmentalists. Amistad, 2023. Chapter: “These Roots Run Deep.”
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