Freedom Edition Hello Savannah July 2023

Fr eedom EDITION

Fr eedomEDITION

President andChief ExecutiveOfficer

JuliusP. Hall

VicePresident CharlieBrown

ExecutiveEditor ChantayeMcLaughlin

ManagingEditor Epiphany L. Williams

Senior Editor TomecaEvans

AdvertisingDirector BelindaBradley

Director of Information Technology

ContributingWriters

ChrisSmith

Dr. Amir Toure?

Sharon Butts

CraigButts

Eboni Holmes

AshaDickerson

Harrison Davis

ChantayeMcLaughlin

Anderson Aries

JuliusP. Hall

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the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved

7. Mrs. EloiraGilbert Mother of theNAACPof Georgia

10. & 16. MalcolmX -- TheBallot or theBullet

14. Rock - UR- Natural Hair Expo by AndersonAries

18. City of SavannahEmployment

19. Mrs. FrancesBright Johnson 20. Nat Turner

24. Health& Wellness by Tori Anderson

25. TheWorld'sGreatest -- MuhammadAli

26. Four Freedoms by AndersonAries

29. The isOut of theBag by ChantayeMcLaughlin

31. Dick Gregory 34. ThePoetry Corner by AndersonAries

35. FelaKuti

38. SavannahBananas by Tori Anderson

39. Johnny Cochran

FROM THE CEO

Welcome to OUR magazine. We are a monthly publication that will be bringing information and content to Our community to better inform Our citizens. Each month we hope to cover the subjects you want to read more about. Unlike the mainstream media, at OUR Black Media, we will highlight positive events, progressive leaderships, and movers and shakers in our community, our state, and our nation

Our monthly publications will thrive to showcase fairness, openness, and transparency. We inform, you decide. Please stay with us while we're in our infancy, and join our growth by letting us know what is important to you in a publication like this. All advice is welcomed, and we also accept letters to the editor.

Our main goal is to bring information that uplifts and moves all of us forward In the long term, we hope to start a dialogue that will begin to create ans Agenda for America Not just a Black Agenda, but a People's Agenda

Our first two digital magazines, The Port City Review and Hello Savannah, currently goes out to over 50,000 emails in our area. We're projecting an August 5th date for Hello Atlanta and Hello Jacksonville, our newest publications.

Each month will be something you'll be excited to turn the pages of This month is our Freedom Edition, where we look at FREEDOM & INDEPENDENCE from a different perspective of African Americans.

WE hope through this publication we show our readers the greatness of OUR community in every aspect, from politics to community activism, from sports to entertainment, and from finance to love and relationships.

This publication is only available to the general public in a digital format now, with a limited number of printed hard copies. Coming very soon, you'll be able to subscribe to get your hard copy in the mail.

So stay tuned, and as always, share, share, share.

Julius Hall, President OUR Media Group

EloriaGilbert, theMother of theNAACPinGeorgia, wasa model for humanrightsactivism, andleadershipinthefight for civil, andpolitical rightsduringtheeraof segregation.

Mrs. Gilbert servedasfearless monitor regardingcivil rights violation.

Shelater engagedinnationwidetour speakingonhumanrights.

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Iconic Speeches

By Any Means Necessary

Malcolm X Addresses Police Brutality

The Ballot or the Bullet

The Ballot or the Bullet The Ballot or the Bullet

The Ballot or the Bullet The Ballot or the Bullet

The Ballot or the Bullet Prospects For Freedom

Message to the Grass Roots

Malcolm X?s embrace of Black separatism shaped the debate over how to achieve freedom and equality in a nation that had long denied a portion of the American citizenry the full protection of their rights. It also laid the groundwork for the Black Power movement of the late sixties.

Malcolm X believed that Blacks were God's Chosen People.

The Ba l l o t or t he Bul l et

?The Ballot or the Bullet" is a speech given by human rights activist Malcolm X in 1964. in the speech,Malcolm X encouraged African Americans to exercise their right to vote,but also warned that if the government continued to prevent them from attaining full equality,it might be necessary for them to take up arms. The speech was delivered twice,once in Cleveland and once in Detroit. Malcolm X declared 1964 "the year of ballot or the bullet" and outlined a new,global sensibility in the fight for racial justice. He encouraged black militants to get involved in voter registration drives and other forms of community organizing to redefine and expand the movement. The speech became one of Malcolm X's most recognizable phrases and was one of his greatest orations.

https://www/youtube.com/watch?v=CRNcirylmqg

Assistant City Attorney- Civil Litigation

Assistant Director, Recreation & Leisure Services

Audio/Video Production Specialist - Cultural Resources

Building Maintenance Tech I - Facilities Maintenance

Code Compliance Manager

Cold Case Investigator - (Part-Time)

Management Analyst - Development Services Department

Plant Operator

Police Officer Trainee or Police Officer Sworn

Senior Administrative Assistant - Office of Management & Budget

Senior Water & Sewer Maintenance Mechanic

Utility Services Director

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Fr ances Br ight Johnson

Civil RightsActivist

1937 - 2015

Graduate of Richard Arnold High School

1972 received the Outstanding Civil Award in Savannah

NAACPLifetime Member

- Order of Eastern Star Chapter 258

- Political Advisory Council

- Chatham County Federation of Democratic Women

- Local 342

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SCLC(Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

- The Betterment Council

- YMCA

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YMCA Executive Board of Democratic Forum

Baker's Conference Workers Local 110

- Coalition of Ministers & Layman

- Teamster's Local 728

- Crusade for Voters

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Elected First Lady Business Agent for Public Employee Union Local 342

Ran for Labor Commissioner and Mayor of Savannah.

- Frances Bright Johnson Day --- in Savannah, Georgia

Mrs. Bright Johnson marched with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in which she was jailed over 44 times during the struggle for Civil Rights. She wasn't well-behaved--she made history.

Nat Tur ner

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was a Black American slave who became a preacher and made history as the leader of one of the bloodiest enslaved revolts in America on August 21, 1831 On this day Turner and his supporters began a revolt against white owners with the killing of his owner, the Travis family.

Following the insurrection, Turner hid for six weeks, but he was eventually caught and later hanged. The incident ended the emancipation movement in that region and led to even harsher laws against the enslaved. While Turner became an icon of the 1960s Black Power Movement, others have criticized him for using violence as a means of demanding change.

DID YOU KNOW?

Turner was an educated minister

NAT TURNER

He once ran away from his master---and returned a month later.

Turner claimed to have been divinely chosen to lead the rebellion.

An eruption of Mount St. Helen's may have triggered the launch of the rebellion.

The rebellion may have killed as many as 60 men, women and children.

After eluding the militia for two months, Turner was captured by a farmer

More than 50 were executed in the rebellion's aftermath

The divinely inspired Turner met his end in a town named Jerusalem

Turner's body was dismembered, his head removed , and he was skinned after his execution

In the wake of the rebellion, states passed laws making it illegal to teach African- Americans how to read or write

T he Wor l d's Gr eat est Muhammad Al i

The isOutof theBag

By: Chant aye McLaughlin

Why is Savannah Georgia?s black leadership so ass backwards?When you have an opportunity to correct centuries of wrong, when you have an opportunity to help level the playing field, when you?re given a clear mandate to help underserved and marginalized communities, then you have a duty and an obligation to do so.

Savannah City Council, under the Van Johnson administration is the worse City Council for the advancement of colored people in the history of Savannah. White racist from past administrations have done more to advance Blacks than Van Johnson?s administration There is not a single major project or initiative that Van Johnson has put forth to help Blacks in this city. We?ll cover more of his failures in future issues of this magazine.

Let?s move on to the Chatham County Commission and the Chat ham Area Transit Aut horit y (CAT). Because of poor judgment and a lack of respect and intellect, the CAT Board did things that moved the county backwards instead of forward You don? t govern because of your feelings, or a disdain for someone. You?re supposed to govern to advance your community, setting all personal feelings aside. Chairman Ellis appointed ex-commissioner Tabitha Odell to a CAT board seat that she should have never been appointed to. She had an ax to grind with the CAT CEO Bacarra Mauldin Once she was back on the CAT board after losing her seat because she lost the confidence of the voters in her district, thereby losing her reelection bid to the County Commission, she sought to settle a score with Bacarra Mauldin . Odell orchestrated a vote to oust Mauldin , a Black woman Black on Black crime is lethal in all forms.

So the fix was in, and Odell was successful in ousting Ms. Mauldin from her position. It was selfish, lowdown, dirty, and spiteful. There was no concern for anyone except Odell?s thirst for revenge against Mauldin for their well known differences.

Odell never cared one iota about the well being of the organization, she never cared about the CAT employees, she didn? t care about the thousands of bus riders that used CAT daily, she didn? t care about the voters or the taxpayers, she only cared about one person, herself. Fast forward to today, the CAT board does a search for a new CEO. Instead of replacing Mauldin with a well qualified African American CEO, the board decides to replace Mauldin with a white female. Talk about biting off your nose to spite your face?Mauldin was on her way to fixing the ills at CAT. From what we are told, the employees loved her and morale was on the rise But somewhere along the path to fixing things, Mauldin and Odell had a run in and bad blood was formed. Odell used her clout, leverage, and connections from being a former commissioner, to influence other board members who don? t have a governing idea and just tow the line, to go along with her to oust the Black CEO. Several of these board members have absolutely no need to be on this board and probably should never have even been elected to their other elected positions. If all you are in the position to do is vote, you should not be elected. You have a Charge To Keep when you?re elected to serve the people The least you could do is study The least you could do is know what you are voting on. The least you could do is invest time asking pertinent questions. The voters who elected you deserve that much. Now you have a Mess at CAT. No HRdepartment. No Security Force. Low Morale. No management/employee engagement. Understaffed. Overwhelmed and overworked And now, with a workforce that is possibly 80%African American, you bring in a white female to be the new ?Slave Master?. How ironic that your black board members have put us right back to the back of the bus. Sometimes, we?re our own worst enemies. Too many of our people have died to give all of you the opportunities to lead. And you shirk your responsibilities and govern in stupidity and selfishness.

Dick Gr egor y

Fel a Ku t i

Fela Aníkúlápó Kut i (born Olufela Olusegun Oludot un Ransom e-Kut i; 15 October 1938 ? 2 August 1997), also known as Abam i Eda, was a Nigerian musician, bandleader, composer, political activist, and Pan-Africanist. He is regarded as the pioneer of Afrobeat, a Nigerian music genre that combines West African music with American funk and jazz. At the height of his popularity, he was referred to as one of Africa's most "challenging and charismatic music performers". Fela Kuti is described as "a musical and sociopolitical voice" of international significance.

JOHNNIE COCHRAN