Mother's Day Edition Hello Savannah May 2023

M O TH ER' S D AY ED ITIO N

President andChief ExecutiveOfficer

ExecutiveEditor

Julius P. Hall

ChantayeMcLaughlin

ManagingEditor Epiphany L. Williams

Senior Editor TomecaEvans

AdvertisingDirector

Director of Information Technology

ContributingWriters

BelindaBradley

ChrisSmith

Dr. Amir Toure?

Sharon Butts

CraigButts

Eboni Holmes

AshaDickerson

Harrison Davis

ChantayeMcLaughlin

LeonoraMoore-Bogus

Julius P. Hall

By CraigandSharonButts

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 Mother's Day Edition, where we CELEBRATE and Honor some of the city's GREAT MOTHERS and in June, we will CELEBRATE and honor some of the city's most OUTSTANDING FATHERS.

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

Savannah - Chatham County Public Schools 2023

Commencement Excercises at Enmarket Arena

Details have been sent to families of graduating seniors along with other important information about the remaining weeks of school.

All graduating seniors will receive 15 tickets to their school's ceremony. Enmarket Arena enforce a clear bag protocol for entry into the Arena 10

The Ot her Side of Joy for Black Mot hers on Mot her 's Day

By Craig & Sharon Butts

Mother's Day should be a time of joy for Black mother's , but in America, it is often a time of fear and uncertainty

The killing of Ahmaud Arbery is a reminder that black children are targets and making it to Mother's Day unscathed is a miracle. As a mother, it's not about gifts we receive, but about watching our children grow, hoping to have just a little bit more time with them. Unfortunately, outside our doors, our children are not valued by white people, who see their blackness. The fear us bit just for black sons, but also for daughters, who go missing at a high rate and are attacked by people in authority. The hope for safety is not even fully true for girls, let alone boys and men. Black mothers are tired of trying to get white people to understand that our black husbands, nephews, cousins and uncles are not to be feared We don't care it you don't like us or them The issue is what will it take for our children, at any age, to walk down the street or jog and not be followed , profiled, or shot.

When racial violence occurs, a task force is formed, and few, if any, black people are on it. Little discussion is had about the racist machine that built America and continues to drive it. Someone always wants to talk about black-on-black crime, and there are a couple of meeting and a lunch, and then it;s forgotten. A white person comes and expresses empathy, but nothing changes.

The reason there were any arrests in Ahmaud's killing was the outcry that jogging while black is a crime. Black mothers celebrate Mother's day with a different kind of blessing: the blessing of making it to the day without harm coming to our children. Our children are targets and toys from birth, and they fight against these labels every day of their too-short lives. Black mothers need real change, not just empathy and sympathy, to make America a safe place for our children to grow and become who they are meant to be.

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Shonda Br own