From preventing chronic disease to making sure families have healthy food on the table, one South Carolina organization is working to address some of the barriers impacting communities across the state.
Nearly a century after Columbia photographer Richard Samuel Roberts captured Black life through his lens, his photographs continue to tell the stories of a community and a generation.
Billie Jean Shaw sits down with the Columbia mother and business leader to talk about how her son’s rare kidney disease changed her life and taught her the power of asking questions.
On this week’s Awareness, Billie Jean Shaw sits down with members of PAALS, an organization that provides support and services to people living with HIV.
On this week’s Awareness, Billie Jean Shaw sat down with Baba Amin and Lashia Washington Wylie of Uhuru Academy in Hopkins to discuss the importance of Juneteenth.
Financial, and many experts say we’re in the midst of a Black Wealth Renaissance—a movement focused on financial education, investing, entrepreneurship, and building generational wealth.
Actor, dancer, and Charleston native Woody McClain returned to South Carolina with a message of purpose, perseverance, and faith as he delivered the commencement address at Denmark Technical College.
On this episode of Awareness, Billie Jean Shaw takes viewers inside the ongoing effort to protect Palmetto Cemetery, the largest community-formed Black cemetery in Columbia.
Former Bad Boy Records artist Mark Curry is speaking out in a deeply personal and revealing conversation on Awareness, reflecting on his years inside one of hip-hop’s most powerful empires and the toll it took on his life.
From the Lowcountry to national playlists, Southern Soul artist Nephew Jones is proving that music rooted in family and culture can move crowds everywhere.
Never too old. That’s the message Paul Manning, Jr. is sending to viewers this week as the 85-year-old has fulfilled his life- long dream of becoming a published author.
This week on Awareness, Billie Jean Shaw breaks down the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) in schools, specifically among Black students.
Filmed in Clarendon County, the newly released film, “Bull Street” is based on Columbia’s Bull Street and the history of the former mental hospital with a shaky past that once sat on the street.
April is Autism Awareness Month – and one woman is bringing attention to some of the hardships she’s faced for several months searching for treatment options for her sister.
The South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs shares tips with WIS on how to stay safe and prevent security breaches, and threats of Identity Theft.
Sixty years ago, in segregated Washington, DC more than 200,000 people gathered for the first and largest protest against racial inequality, the March on Washington.
This week on Awareness, Billie Jean Shaw visited the beautiful and historic campus of South Carolina State University ahead of the inaugural entertainment masterclass taught by actor and singer Jason Weaver.
On this week’s episode Billie Jean Shaw has an exclusive sit down with Sheila Johnson. Johnson is the co-founder of BET and America’s first Black female billionaire.
This week’s episode features Dawn Johnson. A successful entrepreneur who was just named a 2023 Top Entrepreneurial Woman to Watch by “Career Mastered” magazine.
A rural unincorporated community in Clarendon County that sits about nine miles outside of Manning is home to the county’s first public school for Black students.
