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Preserving An Important Part of History

Joe McGill, a historic preservationist, wants to sleep in at least 20 slave cabins across South Carolina. He hopes spending nights in the cabins will generate interest and prompt their owners to preserve them as an important part of history

Food Bank Volunteers

These guys don't mind some "hardworkin'":  They do it from the heart.  Denzel Ware, Nicholas Edwards, Tyrell Pringle autistic and mentally disabled students from Stall High School.  They  received the Lowcountry Food Bank's first ever Volunteer of the Year award for all their had work every Thursday at the North Charleston Food Bank.

From Sweetgrass Baskets to Neck Braces

AFRICA:  It is not easy to find a neck brace in the Tanzanian bush.  A neurosurgeon from the Medical University of South Carolina had a thought that maybe the village basket weavers could make them.  Dilan Ellagala came up with the idea after noticing similarities in baskets in Tanzania and the sweetgrass baskets made in the Lowcountry. One of his colleagues gave a woman named Emastela Yohani, 45, a foam neck brace; she spent a week making a prototype.  Doctors in the bush rarely have enough braces; the ones they get take weeks to order or are donated through various foreign aid groups.  Now, the braces can be produced in Haydom for less money and provide a source of income for the village.  The increased supply of home-grown neck braces also could help the hospital treat more patients.

It Launched the Civil Rights Movement

February 1960 four North Carolina A&T College Students went upagainst segregation laws in Greensboro, NC in their fight for equality.  They staged a sit-in at a "whites only" lunch counter at the Woolworth.  It was the start of the civil rights movement as all across the south, other young black students followed by holding sit-ins.  Today that F.W.Woolworth is the International Civil Rights Center and Museum

Protecting Our Past Preserving Our Future

The Sturgeon survived whatever killed the dinosaurs and have struggled against habitat destruction and overfishing.  Now many of its 25 species are endangered, but a small pocket in upper Wisconsin boasts of having one of the world's largest concentrations of the fish. The success is because of the state's strict spearing limits, poaching laws, restocking efforts and well-protected spring spawning

Steve Benjamin Mayor Elect Columbia, SC

Steve Benjamin has been elected the next Mayor of Columbia, SC, and therefore, becoming the city's first new leader in 20 years.  Benjamin defeated his rival in the race, Kirkman Finlay III, in Tuesday's runoff.  At his victory speech Tuesday night Benjamin said, "The people of Columbia spoke and together, we made history. We are one Columbia, one Columbia."