Charleston Currents

MYSTERY PHOTO: Look familiar?

This building might look familiar to some readers in the Lowcountry. What and where is it? (Note: We blurred part of it to make it a little harder to identify.) Send your guess to mailto:editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo: Our March 25 mystery, “Not for climbing purposes,” got two kinds of guesses. Some folks thought the pink and gray elephants were at South of the Border near Dillon on Interstate 95. Great guess. Unfortunately, they were wrong – although a pink elephant really is the kind of thing that should be at the attraction. Others correctly guessed Papa Joe’s Fireworks in Hardeeville near the other end of the interstate (exit 5) in South Carolina.

by Charleston Currents · 04/01/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY: Not for climbing purposes

These elephants are pink and gray, not red. So are they Republican? Where are they located? (Hint: Somewhere in South Carolina). Learn next week who sent in this mystery. Send your guess to :editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery PhotoOur March 18 mystery, “Lovely spring streetscape,” was a snapshot of Church Street looking toward White Point Gardens,

by Charleston Currents · 03/25/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

BRACK: Time to deal with elephant in state’s room

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Removing the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds doesn’t confront something lurking in rooms across South Carolina for generations — the elephant of racial division.

So that made us wonder — how can the state move forward to reconcile and heal generations of slights, violence, fear, prejudice and deaths? What can be done to level the playing field, to thwart dreams lost because of skin color or poverty?

“Using any measure, the prospects of success for an affluent white baby born today in South Carolina are significantly higher than those of a baby whose skin color is not white and whose parents are poor,” says Steve Skardon, head of the Palmetto Project.

by Andy Brack · 08/03/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

8/3, full issue: Foundation, what’s next, Palmetto Poem

In the Aug. 3, 2015, issue, Charleston Currents outlines a new foundation by the Pinckney family. Andy Brack discusses the elephant in the state’s room — racial division. And Katrina Murphy offers a new Palmetto Poem.

Click to read lots more too.

by Charleston Currents · 08/03/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue