A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert Smalls will stand on the South Carolina State House grounds and what it will look like. The monument will be located in ...

Thankfully, the same cannot be said for USC’s Desegregation Monument. Crafted by the world-renowned sculptor Basil Watson, ...

A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument. Basil Watson, of Georgia, design selected was selected to sculpt the statue. Provided photo COLUMBIA, S.C. A monument honoring a former Black ...

A statue designed by Jamaican sculptor Basil Watson has been chosen to stand in London's Waterloo station as a tribute to the Windrush generation. The 12ft-high (3.6m) statue, selected from a ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist ...

"It was an absolute honour." The government gave £1m to fund the statue, which was designed by Basil Watson. Prof Serrant added: "The national Windrush monument commemorates the bravery of men ...

Basil Watson, a Jamaican-born sculptor, was unanimously chosen to design the monument. Watson was previously commissioned for a statue honoring desegregation at the University of South Carolina.

Sculptor Basil Watson's proposal is Smalls dressed in a tuxedo as a congressman at the height of his power. It was chosen over an idea that included multiple versions of Smalls as a riverboat ...

“This is South Carolina right here,” Cox said. This image provided by Basil Watson shows the sculptor's proposal for a statue honoring Reconstruction hero Robert Smalls at the South Carolina ...