Highlights is a 30 minute weekly TV show featuring organizations, events, grass-roots efforts and people who move our state and community forward in a positive way.
The show is a collaboration with HD Media, The Media Center and Jim Strawn & Company.
The show taped and premiering at 8:30 p.m. on June 13, 2022 highlights the Freedom Celebration Concert, the 61st Charleston Public Courts Tennis Tournament and the Capitol Market.
We first interviewed Barry Skeenes, Music Director at Calvary Baptist Church and Coordinator of the Freedom Celebration. This is the 6th Celebration.
The theme this year is Rosie the Riveter.
Rosie the Riveter was the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industriesduring World War II, and she became perhaps the most iconic image of working women. American women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers during the war, as widespread male enlistment left gaping holes in the industrial labor force. Between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. workforce increased from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent, and by 1945 nearly one out of every four married women worked outside the home.