Local Voices. Statewide Impact. Stay Informed with Georgia News July 7, 2026 Augusta Chronicle Joe Hotchkiss reports that the Augusta-based manufacturer of one of the world’s leading brands of golf carts could split from parent company Textron by the end of 2027. Textron has announced its intention to concentrate its aerospace and defense subsidiaries into a separate company called New Textron, including Textron Aviation, Textron Systems, and Bell, a brand that produces military-grade helicopters and tiltrotor aircraft. July 7, 2026 Georgia Trend – Exclusive! Amy Faeskorn reports, imagine a greenhouse no bigger than a modest backyard. At one end stand containers…
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Sarah, Betty, Doll, Nan – just a few of the names commonly given to enslaved African women during the transatlantic slave trade.We know that they would have suffered unspeakable sexual violence. But now that history is being given greater prominence.Last month, Ghana hosted an “historic” reparations conference, where the Caribbean Community (Caricom) presented its updated 10-point plan for reparative justice. Billed as Next Steps, the event was the first major gathering since the landmark UN resolution in March to declare the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity. It concluded with the adoption of a global framework for…
City of Savannah: Official News, Events & Community Updates SAVANNAH – The City of Savannah’s 311 Department invites the public to provide input through a survey that will help the City better understand any challenges customers face when using the 311 system and to also improve it as a single, easy‑to‑use hub for submitting and tracking service requests. The survey can be found here. The feedback given will help the department monitor service quality, recognize changing community needs, and strengthen how residents are informed and engaged about City services. It will also aid in enhancing principles as outlined in Savannah GPS Strategic Plan Goal 5: Improve Quality of Life by Raising Municipal Service Standards (Objective 3: Strategy 2). Paper copies will be at City Hall available for residents during days of city council sessions.…
From Hollywood to Home: Black Voices in Entertainment After a bit of a hiatus, mega streamer Kai Cenat is back with his flagship program, Streamer University, and, for the second consecutive year, he’ll unite a new class of creators for an experience designed to inspire, educate, and equip the next generation of streamers. Cenat made his live-stream return on Monday night (July 6) and officially announced the 2026 roster of students and staff on his YouTube and Twitch channels. This year, Cenat recruited several of his celebrity friends, including Lizzo and T-Pain, to join the 26-person staff as professors, club…
From Hollywood to Home: Black Voices in Entertainment Dwayne Johnson went through 12 different Maui wigs before landing on the perfect one for the live-action “Moana,” and laughed “so fucking hard” when he saw the internet’s reaction to his flowing mane. “I went through 12 wigs,” Johnson told Variety‘s Marc Malkin on Tuesday night at the Los Angeles premiere of “Moana” at the Hollywood Bowl. “Maui’s hair is one of his powers, so, you know, we had to get the wigs right.” Johnson then addressed the online fixation on his wig. Social media all but exploded when the first “Moana”…
Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights The Sacramento Kings have announced their Las Vegas Summer League roster, featuring a former CIAA guard on the coaching staff as an assistant. One year after beginning his coaching career, former Virginia State standout guard Imhotep (Tap) George will get his shot on an NBA sideline as a member of the Kings’ Summer League coaching staff. In his playing career, George’s previous stops included two seasons at Allegany College, one at Tallahassee State College, and two at Eastern Washington, before making his way to Virginia State in 2023. His lone…
Tomorrow’s Tech, Today: Innovation That Moves Us Forward Your compliance team is drowning. Regulations are scattered across different spreadsheets. Policy updates live in email chains. Control testing happens in random documents. Someone knows where the audit evidence is filed. No one else does. It’s 10 PM, and your Chief Compliance Officer is manually consolidating compliance data from five different departments because there’s no centralized system. They’ll be here until midnight. Again. This is what broken compliance management looks like. And it’s costing your organization far more than you realize—in wasted time, missed deadlines, regulatory risk, and staff burnout. The good…
From Campus to Classroom: Stories That Shape Education Beginning in early 2023, students started spending less time on word problems while continuing to spend about the same amount of time on graphing problems. The gap widened every quarter. By the end of the study period, near the end of 2025, average time spent on word problems had fallen 31 percent among high school students and 27 percent among college students — from about four minutes per word problem to less than three. (Middle school students showed only a modest decline of 9 percent, and fifth graders showed essentially none.) The…
Stay Informed: Latest News from Across Georgia NEWTON COUNTY — A Covington man is set to spend the next quarter century behind bars for his role in trafficking drugs.Walter Brian Johnson, 52, pled guilty in Newton County Superior Court on Monday to an array of drug-related charges including trafficking of methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana. The charges stem from two different incidents that occurred two years ago.On June 22, 2024, officers with the Newton County Sheriff’s Office responded to a Mote Road residence in reference to a person suffering from a bullet wound. The residence was occupied by Johnson’s mother, in…
Black Travelers: Explore Culture, Adventure & Connection The most expensive souvenir from a trip can be a fever you never budgeted for. Travelers will compare flight routes for six weeks, read hotel reviews like legal contracts, and still treat vaccines as a last-minute errand squeezed between packing cubes and airport snacks. The mistake is thinking every travel shot does the same job. Travel vaccines fall into three buckets, each with a distinct role. Routine vaccines keep your everyday protection up to date. Required vaccines satisfy entry requirements, while recommended vaccines address the real risks of your destination, route, season, activities,…