 Hello, I am Ovita Glover and I am the president of Funds Incorporated, Friends United as a Neighborhood Developmental Society. And every year, our big event, this is year number 15 and we are really excited about putting on the annual statewide Black History Parade and Festival. As I said this year number 15, our grand marshals this year, I went all the way out of, got three of them. So with that being said, we have Senator John Scott. We will have the regional director for the Q5 fraternity, Howard Jackson is his name. And we will also have the first black mayor for Orangeburg, South Carolina who will be the major grand marshal this year. In the past we've had Angie Stone, we've had Joshua Rogers, we've had Judge Finney, we've had Bob Cobo, we've had Mayor Benjamin, we've had 15 years of folks. I created the parade and I just felt that it was a necessity to teach our history. We hear about Martin Luther King and Scepter Clarke and Majesca Simkins and some of the locals, yes, but there are more locals in the state of South Carolina that need to be highlighted. I would encourage them to come out because we have all types of entities we are going to do. I'm going to highlight throughout the year, the gospel, you know, one year we did gospel, one year we did jazz, one year we did R&B, one year we did hip hop, one day we did nothing. But I'm going to encourage people to come out because we are going to do it all this time. We have Allen University's choir, VOP, we have Benedict College's Gospel Choir coming. We even have some babies coming from VV Reed School called the VV Reed Singers. We've got some local artists and I can't put out there quite yet who the hip hop artists are going to be because of the partnership I have, but yeah, we're going to have some hip hop artists there as well. A jazz saxophonist, Darius Starks will be there, vendors, education vendors, health vendors. Your typical event like that, but like I say, you will walk away educated. The parade will start at the corner of Hampton and Hardin Street, right in front of the Treasure Office, and we will proceed south to Green Street into Martin Luther King Park, and that's when the festivities start at the park. Parade starts at 12 o'clock, and I usually start on time. I haven't failed yet, and I intend to fail this start on time at this point as well. It's a free event, and we're still taking participants. If you'd like to participate and can get to me by Thursday, you can call me at 803-361-5470-8033-361-5470, and that's Oveda, Oveda Glover. They can go on the website, www.fundsinc1.org, that's www.fundsinc1.org. So I'm going to encourage the people to really, really come out and support. Just like you go out and support the Santa Claus for Christmas, I think this particular event needs to be supported. Because of the fact that it is an educational event, what better way to teach your child than a live experience? They'll be able to meet the first black mayor of a city. They'll be able to meet the woman, one of the women, that integrated the schools for South Carolina. Charleston was a catalyst, and I've got to pat myself on the back. I was the one, the youngest one that did so, so, yeah, and that was in 1963. So I'm kind of proud of that, and I want people to get my message and my story so they can also say, yeah, thank you or question why. I'm already ready for dialogue about what I've done in the past. To everyone please, this is my plea to you, and again I am Oveda Glover and the organization that's putting the event on the annual statewide black history parade and festival, and we do have people that come from out of the city, from all over the state to participate. We have a vendor, Chuck Town Seafood is there, and he's pretty, yeah, so that's going to be pretty interesting to have him there as well. I've tasted his food, so the food is good, the vending will be good, and I believe everyone will have fun. Again you can come to the parade, the parade starts at Hampton and Harley Street. We're going to parade down through Five Points into Martin Luther King Park, where the festivities will take place, spouse houses, horses, the typical festivities will be there for everyone to enjoy, especially the entertainment will be extremely well, so come on out.