Last week at around 2 a.m., multidisciplinary artist John C. Sims was awoken by the sound of intruders storming his home. Sims quickly grabbed his phone to call 911, jumping into the bathroom of his ...

EXCLUSIVE: “While I am very glad to be alive I know many have never made it out alive,” John Sims tells theGrio. A Black artist in Columbia, South Carolina was held at gunpoint, handcuffed and ...

John Sims thought neo-Nazis were about to kill him early Monday morning. In the gallery adjacent to his loft apartment at 701 Center for Contemporary Arts on Whaley Street, he’d created art that put ...

Netflix’s Rebel Ridge is a tale of police violence, administrative corruption, small-town prejudice, and a man left with no choice but to stand up against all these things. At a crucial juncture in ...

A Black artist in Columbia, South Carolina was held at gunpoint, handcuffed and detained by police officers who thought he was an intruder in his own apartment and art gallery. Artist and activist ...