Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and ...

The likeness of Robert Smalls, the escaped slave turned South Carolina lawmaker, will be remembered as the first African-American person honored with a statue at the State House at the hands of a ...

Artist Basil Watson is creating the first statue of an African American, Civil War hero Robert Smalls, to be placed on South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Basil Watson emigrated to the United States in 2002, setting up a home and studio in Lawrenceville. In addition to creating the local Hope Moving Forward monument of the ...

It was a brief encounter, but as with nearly everyone who ever met the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, the meeting was impactful. It was 2005 at an art fair and sculptor Basil Watson, just three years ...

A model by Jamaican sculptor Basil Watson for a statue the University of South Carolina commissioned him to create honoring Henrie Monteith Treadwell, Robert Anderson and James Solomon Jr., the ...

Sculptor Basil Watson said, “The monument is about togetherness, about moving forward together. Harriet and Lewis worked in tandem. That was important.” ...

Thankfully, the same cannot be said for USC’s Desegregation Monument. Crafted by the world-renowned sculptor Basil Watson, the monument is balanced, just and a symbol of equality. Watson based ...

A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed Friday, at the very spot where a contentious monument to the confederacy stood for more ...

The artist behind the piece told NBC6 it was an honor to be apart of this mission as a way to pay homage to a living legend. “Oh it means a lot,” said artist Basil Watson. “Bolt is ...