Can Charleston's tourism and true history co-exist with the recent attention to the Black Lives Matter movement and the current global awakening? John Moore/Getty Images'Not everything is pretty here'Doug Warner, vice president of Media & Innovation Development at Explore Charleston, acknowledges the deeper truth of his aesthetically lovely city. But he says the hard work of confronting racism had already begun for Charleston -- before 2020, Covid-19, protests and a resurgent Black Lives Matter movement -- and especially for the tourism industry. Demonstrators gather outside of Emanuel AME Church on the fifth anniversary of the Charleston Massacre on June 17, 2020. Magnolia Plantation's "From Slavery to Freedom" tour is more popular than the tour of the plantation house.

Source: CNN August 28, 2020 12:22 UTC