South Carolina State Museum: South Carolina State Museum Launches its First-Ever Online Collection Database

South Carolina State Museum: South Carolina State Museum Launches its First-Ever Online Collection Database . “The South Carolina State Museum’s art collection is now available to explore online allowing educators, students, researchers and others to explore portions of the museum’s collection digitally for the first time. The art collection features more than 4,500 pieces of fine and folk art, historic and modern pottery and ceramics, sculptures, contemporary works, and even topiaries.”

College of Charleston: College Libraries Receive Grant to Launch New Lowcountry Oral History Initiative

College of Charleston: College Libraries Receive Grant to Launch New Lowcountry Oral History Initiative . “The College of Charleston Libraries has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation’s (GDDF) ‘Broadening Narratives’ initiative in support of the new Lowcountry Oral History Initiative (LOHI). To deepen understanding of the Lowcountry’s rich history and culture, LOHI gathers and makes available recorded memories from the region’s residents.”

Greenville Journal (South Carolina): New interactive online map shows needy people where they can get reliable food and resources

Greenville Journal: New interactive online map shows needy people where they can get reliable food and resources. “The Food Access Map can direct people to food pantries, community organizations and social-service offices, giving them access to safe, reliable and healthy food. Users can search the map by zip code, address and city. Organizations show up as various colored dots on the map, and clicking on the dot will yield info, such what’s available, what services are offered and hours of operation.”

Clemson University: Summer institute to reconstruct South Carolina’s “Black Archive”

Clemson University: Summer institute to reconstruct South Carolina’s “Black Archive”. “Clemson English professors Susanna Ashton and Rhondda Thomas will join Furman faculty members Gregg Hecimovich and Kaniqua Robinson to lead a summer institute entitled ‘Reconstructing the Black Archive: South Carolina as Case Study, 1739–1895.’ The three-week residential institute is designed for more than 20 higher education faculty to study ways of reconstructing Black histories, using South Carolina as a case study. The institute is supported by a $198,317 grant from the NEH.”

Ars Technica: South Carolina lawmakers want to banish abortion talk from the Internet

Ars Technica: South Carolina lawmakers want to banish abortion talk from the Internet. “Known as the ‘Equal Protection at Conception—No Exceptions—Act,’ the bill would ban any website from hosting or publishing any information about accessing or self-inducing abortion ‘knowing that the information will be used, or is reasonably likely to be used, for an abortion.’”

Post and Courier: Oral history project aims to connect recent activism to larger civil rights movement

Post and Courier: Oral history project aims to connect recent activism to larger civil rights movement. “About a year ago, local filmmaker Joshua Parks wanted to interview activists who were affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement in Charleston. He approached two staff members of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston — Erica Veal and Daron Calhoun. Veal, an archivist, and Calhoun, coordinator of public programming and the Race and Social Justice Initiative, demurred. They weren’t eager to revisit the challenges and traumas of the recent past, Veal said. They told Parks, then a graduate assistant at the Avery, to circle back.”

College of Charleston: Avery Research Center Receives Grant to Support Oral History Project

College of Charleston: Avery Research Center Receives Grant to Support Oral History Project. “The Avery Research Center will use its grant to fund the Documenting the Arc Oral History Project (DTA) to continue its mission of preserving and documenting the Black experience of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Avery’s staff recognizes the need to be actively engaged in collecting stories and records of the current civil rights movement, and Documenting the Arc is an attempt to do just that. The project has two parts: video oral histories and a community submission portal.”

The State: SC breaks COVID record again with 16,600 cases, as omicron variant surges in state

The State: SC breaks COVID record again with 16,600 cases, as omicron variant surges in state. “The state Department of Health and Environmental Control released three days of COVID-19 data on Monday showing that 16,630 cases were reported for Saturday. The following day, Sunday, the Palmetto State recorded its second-highest all-time case count, with 15,234 cases and 30 deaths. DHEC also reported 12,827 cases and 12 deaths for Monday.”

The Sun News: Horry hospital beds 90% full during omicron surge, leaving staff ‘emotionally drained’

The Sun News: Horry hospital beds 90% full during omicron surge, leaving staff ‘emotionally drained’. “Hospital bed occupancy has reached 92.2% in Horry County, according to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), and positive tests are being recorded at a higher rate than at most points throughout the pandemic. In total, 701 hospital beds are in Horry County, 646 of which were occupied as of Thursday. COVID-19 patients make up 91 of the beds across the county.”

WLTX: SC Department of Juvenile Justice issues state of emergency over COVID

WLTX: SC Department of Juvenile Justice issues state of emergency over COVID. “As COVID-19 cases surge, it’s causing serious issues behind the fences at the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). That’s according to an email sent to DJJ employees from Acting Director Eden Hendrick. Hendrick said the omicron variant is spreading through the agency’s facilities and it’s creating major staffing shortages.”