Two Charleston thought leaders have been recognized with state Governor’s Awards in the Humanities, arguably South Carolina’s prestigious award for academic and cultural achievements in the humanities.

Charleston recipients this year include history professor Bernard Powers and Margaret Seidler, a Charleston-based author and community leader.

Powers, the College of Charleston’s professor emeritus of history and director of its Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston, is the author of “Black Charlestonians: A Social History 1822-1885.”

He is co-author of “We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel , ” which recounts the events surrounding the city’s 2015 racially motivated murders. A key past leader of the International African American Museum, Powers also edited

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