Late hip-hop legend Biggie Smalls returned to Brooklyn Friday in the form of a 9-foot statue. Christopher Wallace, better known as The Notorious B.I.G, was born in Bed-Stuy, and ttransformed the ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) – A statue of the Notorious B.I.G. will be unveiled in Cadman Plaza Park on Wednesday by Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. The statue was created by artist ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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 ...

The Robert Smalls statue will be the first monument to honor an African American person. ¹South Carolina will soon erect its first individual statue for a Black person on its Statehouse lawn in ...

Now, more than 150 years later, South Carolina will create a statue commemorating Smalls for the State House in Columbia—the first dedicated to an individual Black South Carolinian to be placed ...

Smalls was born into slavery in 1839, but then escaped, sailing himself and his crew to freedom on a Confederate ship during the Civil War. He later served in the state legislature and congress.

Author Justin Tinsley discusses the life and legacy of the Notorious B.I.G., who was killed in 1997: "You can't talk about the story of hip-hop without mentioning the name Biggie Smalls." ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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 ...

Smalls helped the Union for the rest of the Civil War. After the South lost, Smalls went on to serve in the South Carolina House and Senate before being elected to the U.S. House.

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.