Black Voices: Lowcountry historian to release new book about South Carolina [Video]

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – A Lowcountry historian-turned-storyteller is shedding light on cultures worlds apart and the connections between them.

Damon Fordham knows the art of storytelling. It’s in his blood.

“I had a father who loved to tell stories and who lived through a lot of history, and so he loved to talk about these things and I loved to listen,” Fordham says. “And then I was pretty much a bookworm as a kid. So I read a lot of things and when I would read some of the very things that my father would talk about, say World War II, the Great Depression, segregation and such, it really struck a cord that I was able to connect these things.”

Fordham, an adjunct professor of history at The Citadel is writing his own stories to tell and experiences of Black communities in the Palmetto State are taking center stage. Fordham …