On December 17th, the City of Orangeburg will commemorate Gloria Rickenbacker Hutto Day.
Gloria Rickenbacker Hutto Day was declared by the City of Orangeburg in 2021. Mrs. Hutto is the Founder and President of Rickenbacker Xcel. This will be the 28th year that she has given 100 % of her time and effort for this prestigious event. She is a living legend.
SCETV partners with Maryland Public Television on “HBCU Week NOW” programming initiative
South Carolina ETV (SCETV) is pleased to announce continued participation in the national HBCU Week NOW programming initiative. This involvement includes the production of a new short film for the project’s signature YouTube (@channel), HBCU Week NOW, alongside a local community event to celebrate historically black colleges and universities.
SCETV’s new film, SmartHOME, is one of six new shorts that began premiering on YouTube (@in)mid-September to coincide with the 2024 Annual National HBCU Week Conference. SmartHOME is a short documentary film that explores a groundbreaking tech-forward health initiative at South Carolina’s oldest HBCU, Claflin University. Maryland Public Television (MPT) and other PBS station partners including Howard University Television, PBS North Carolina, Louisiana Public Broadcasting and WABE (Atlanta) will produce the other five films.
Additionally, two episodes of the Local, USA documentary series that the digital channel, WORLD, produced in 2023, will also be presented
on TV and online. HBCU Week: Beyond the Field and HBCU Week: Tradition and Competition are available to stream online.
Congress defines an HBCU as “any historically Black college or university that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of Black Americans.” Today, the country’s 107 HBCUs continue to deliver on the promise of their founding, with more
than 237,000 students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds currently enrolled, alongside at least one million alumni from all walks of life.
Launched by MPT as a national project in 2023, HBCU Week NOW’s growth is supported by a new investment from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for 2024 and 2025, along with funding from The Center for Maryland History Films and Morgan State.
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