The deep history of the Penn Center, a former school for enslaved West Africans, and its connection to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. − South Carolina women's basketball survived a tight Sweet 16 game against No. 4 Maryland on Friday and after a 71-67 win, is playing in its fifth straight Elite Eight.

It was late spring 2002, and I was barely into my tenure as a sportswriter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution when I first met then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage while in D.C.