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Friday, July 4th, the United States will observe Independence Day, which commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which declared the thirteen American colonies free from ...
On Sunday, June 8, 2025, the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation hosted a successful New Board Member Reception and Open House at the historic Beach Institute African American Cultural Center. The event ...
Hospice Savannah will launch their latest program, Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE), on July 1st through the Steward Center for Palliative Care in partnership with the Edel Caregiver ...
Deveaux, born in 1848 to a free black family, was a prominent businessman in Savannah and had sufficient personal resources to finance the venture. Many black publications folded with the end of ...
John H Deveaux 1875 – 1889 Louis B. Toomer, Sr. and Louis M. Pleasant were co-founders along with John H. Deveaux of The Colored Tribune in 1875. The name was changed to The Savannah Tribune in 1876.
The first medium I chose to tell our (American) history was Poetry. I had a column in The Savannah Tribune while I attended Morris Brown College. I performed in the coffee shops in Atlanta – Poems ...
Robert Sengstacke Abbott and his nephew, John H. Sengstacke, were pioneers and newspaper publishers who became giant legacies of The Black Press. Robert Sengstack Abbott was born on St. Simons Island, ...
Charles Hoskins Shortly after I arrived in Savannah in July 1975, to serve as rector of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, I attended a workshop on life in Black Savannah, at St. Paul’s Baptist Church on ...
Savannah Gardens will be hosting a Back to School and Job Fair Event Friday, July 10th from 3 PM - 6 PM. There will be free food, music, job and medical vendors, and free school supplies (while ...
Following three days of trials in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Louisiana State women’s basketball player and Savannah native Flau’Jae Johnson has been selected to the 2025 USA Women’s AmeriCup Team ...
Savannah Technical College (Savannah Tech), the premier provider of career ready technical education and workforce development in Coastal Georgia, held the successful grand opening and ribbon-cutting ...
At the heart of this momentum is our fearless leader, Katrina Bostick, CEO of Family Promise of the Coastal Empire. Katrina has been a tireless advocate—raising awareness about the impact of social ...