Local Impact Spotlight: The Chatham County Health Department’s Environmental Health office is alerting the community that a bat has tested positive for rabies. This is an important reminder to avoid contact with unknown animals and make sure your pets are up to date on rabies vaccinations. A resident in an area near Highway 80 and Pooler Parkway in Bloomingdale reported finding a dead bat on her porch July 15. The health department sent the bat for testing at the public health laboratory, and the animal tested positive for rabies. There is no known human exposure to the infected bat. Several…
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Local Voices. Statewide Impact. Stay Informed with Georgia News HMGMA Becomes Presenting Sponsor of Junior Achievement of Georgia’s JA BizTown Savannah ELLABELL, GA — Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) is proud to announce it has become the presenting sponsor of Junior Achievement of Georgia’s JA BizTown Savannah. Located inside the Colonial Group Discovery Center on Georgia Southern University’s Armstrong Campus, JA BizTown Savannah provides thousands of area sixth-grade students with an immersive learning experience each school year. Through the hands-on simulation, students learn how to operate businesses, manage personal finances, and explore real-world career opportunities while developing important leadership,…
City of Savannah: Official News, Events & Community Updates TRAFFIC ALERT: Bee Road Areas Impacted by Water Main Break Reopened SAVANNAH – All previously affected sections of Bee Road between 50th and 52nd Streets have reopened following repairs to the roadway that was damaged on Saturday, July 18. The roadway failure was caused by damage to two water mains, which resulted in a sinkhole. City of Savannah crews repaired both water mains and restored the roadway over the weekend and into this week. From July 18: SAVANNAH – City of Savannah crews have implemented a traffic closure on Bee Road…
City of Savannah: Official News, Events & Community Updates Tremont Road will be closed between Dodge Avenue and Ogeechee Road from 9:00 AM on Wednesday, July 22nd, until 4:00 PM on Monday, November 23rd. Commercial vehicle detour is via I-516. Local traffic may detour via Plymouth Avenue. Read the full announcement on the official site
From Hollywood to Home: Black Voices in Entertainment Grammy Award-winning producer Nineteen85 has spent the last decade helping define the sound of modern R&B and hip-hop—and now, he’s stepping further into the spotlight. In an exclusive conversation with HipHollywood, Saturne Tchabong sits down with the Toronto native, born Paul Jefferies, at his Beverly Hills restaurant, 88 Club, to reflect on the career that transformed him from an aspiring producer into one of music’s most influential hitmakers. As a key architect of the OVO sound, Nineteen85 helped create some of the biggest records of the 2010s, including Drake’s Hotline Bling and…
Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights A Howard University alumna played a pivotal role in bringing one of music’s biggest icons back to the big screen. Marci Rodgers, a 2005 Howard graduate, served as the head costume designer for “Michael,” the Michael Jackson biopic that recently became the first music biopic to surpass $1 billion at the global box office. According to reporting by The Dig, Howard University’s platform for campus news, Rodgers was meticulously recreating Jackson’s legendary wardrobe, from the sparkling glove to the iconic “Thriller” jacket. The project marks another milestone in a career…
Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care Have you ever noticed that your skin is super stretchy or that your joints are constantly crackling, locking or maybe even popping out of place? Are you more flexible than most of your friends, but also often feel fatigued? You may have joint hypermobility, which is when joints bend beyond the normal range of motion. Joint hypermobility is pretty common, and affects somewhere between 10 and 30% of the population. For some, it may not have much of an impact on everyday life. But this isn’t the case for everyone. Hypermobility…
Tomorrow’s Tech, Today: Innovation That Moves Us Forward When Hugging Face got hit last week, co-founder Clement Delangue suspected a frontier lab, given the agent’s sophistication. He was right. Delangue said on X that after a day working with OpenAI he strongly believed there was no malicious intent and that it was mind-blowing the whole thing had happened autonomously.The two OpenAI models that broke into Hugging Face last week did not breach it through malice or superintelligence. They breached it through credentials and permissions they should never have been able to reach, a non-human identity failure that is the oldest…
From Campus to Classroom: Stories That Shape Education Coahoma Community College was recognized during the HBCU Brilliance Initiative Graduation Ceremony held onJuly 18, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia, after being selected as one of only 11 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to receive a $40,000 grant through the HBCU Brilliance Initiative Reinvestment Fund. The initiative was spearheaded by Christina Alexis, who leads comprehensive programs dedicated to advancing HBCUs nationwide. Through leadership development, technical assistance, and strategic investment, the initiative equips participating institutions with resources that promote institutional transformation and expand opportunities for student achievement. The HBCU Brilliance Initiative Graduation celebrated institutions that successfully completed the program…