Awareness

Awareness is a local program that focuses on issues facing South Carolina and its communities.

Host Billie Jean Shaw met a local Columbia woman who has created Black culture-themed board games that’s bringing families together for some good old-fashion fun!

This week’s guests include a former inmate who’s sharing details on his journey from to a free man, plus Dominion Energy is offering high schoolers careers without the need for a degree.

This week on Awareness we are focusing on education in the Black community. In an article by The Brookings Institution, the organization once wrote.

Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday.

Dr. Patrick Dicks joins us for this week’s ‘Awareness’ to discuss the future of automation.

This week on Awareness, Billie Jean Shaw sits down with officials from the department as they break down how families can sign up for free tutoring services and the summer meals program.

This week on Awareness, Billie Jean Shaw sits down with a local couple who received their PHDs from a Midlands college as they share their journey to higher education.

This week on ‘Awareness,’ Billie Jean Shaw is highlighting Black-owned businesses with a twist.... black-owned businesses owned by young black female entrepreneurs.

This week’s show is dedicated to Black Boy Joy. You may have seen the hashtag floating around social media but what exactly does it mean?

This week’s show was action packed with several phenomenal guests.

This week on Awareness, in two separate interviews Billie Jean Shaw goes one-on-one with two community organizations aiming to bring awareness about the need for more black male teachers and resources for those infected with HIV and AIDS in the Midlands.

On this week’s show we continue to honor the icons of Black history.

Some of the prominent figures of Black History Month are civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, abolitionist Harriet Tubman, scientist George Washington Carver, and America’s first black president Barack Obama. But what about here at home?

Joining Billie Jean Shaw on this week’s show is James Patrick and Curteeshia Bell of Aspire Fitness.

Billie Jean Shaw talks about two notable celebrations in November.

In this week’s show, we break down why you can still dress up in creative costumes but still avoid cultural appropriation.

Thursday, Oct. 28 is your chance to grab a treat for a good cause.

From Columbia’s mayoral race to the status of the hate crime bill in South Carolina to the nearly two-dozen unsolved murders in Columbia, stay in the know with this week’s ‘Awareness’ show.

This week on Awareness, Billie Jean Shaw discusses signs of breast cancer and prevention tips.

It was responsible for more than 47,500 deaths in 2019. That is one death every 11 minutes.