Healthy Savannah Announces Tree Planting Ceremony Honoring Founder Dr. Otis Johnson Community Invited to Celebrate Health, Legacy, and Local Stewardship on January 17, 2026 (SAVANNAH, GA) Jan. 8, 2026, Healthy Savannah, in partnership with the Savannah Tree Foundation, will hold a special tree planting ceremony in honor of its founder, Dr. Otis Johnson, at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 17, 2026, at the Scarborough Sports Complex on Skidaway Road at Bona Bella Ave in Savannah. The honoree has been invited to deliver remarks, along with Healthy Savannah’s executive director, Armand Turner, and City of Savannah officials. After the brief ceremony,…
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Style Spotlight: Looks, Trends & Fashion Inspiration Camp. Ronke Womens African Print Maxi Dress Black History Month shows up on workplace calendars the way “team culture” does: well-intended, widely discussed, and occasionally mishandled. You might want to say something supportive. You might want to learn. You might also worry you’ll say the wrong thing and turn a meaningful moment into a cringe one. That tension, good intent, plus fear creates silence. Or worse, it creates the kind of forced conversation that feels like a performance. This guide is the alternative. It’s a practical, human approach to talking about Black…
Black Arts & Culture Feature: Julie Mehretu’s “Uprising of the Sun”: Ethiopian-Born Artist Creates 83-Foot Masterpiece for Obama Presidential Center The abstract painter from Addis Ababa delivers what may be the most significant public artwork by an African-born artist in American history. Julie Mehretu doesn’t do small. The Ethiopian-born, New York-based artist has spent three decades building a reputation for monumental abstractions that pulse with the chaos and beauty of urban life. But nothing in her celebrated career quite prepared the art world for this: an 83-foot glass installation rising from the north façade of the Obama Presidential Center in…
Black Background & Cultural Viewpoint: I paid attention to someone on tv use the expression, “skin in the video game,” and because that’s exactly how my mind functions, I questioned the start. It winds up that “skin in the video game” has no well-known start, actually did not become part of consume till the late the twentieth century, and has no connections to American enslavement. I after that asked on your own which typical expressions have beginnings in slavery and produced this listing. Some have had their values modify with time, yet enslavement is where they got their start. Others…
Aging Well: News & Insights for Seniors and Caregivers As President Trump prepares to nominate a new Federal Reserve chair in the coming months, he hasn’t been shy about his goal for the powerful economic posting: lower interest rates. “I want somebody that when the market is doing great, interest rates can go down because our country becomes stronger,” the president said during a speech in Detroit on Tuesday. He’s long pushed for lower rates, which could boost economic growth and make it cheaper to borrow.He has also made no secret of his frustration with outgoing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell,…
Real Estate News & Market Insights: Eli Manning has shared his thoughts on the Travis Kelce retirement rumors amid reports that the Kansas City Chiefs tight end and Taylor Swift have put their wedding plans “on hold.” Manning, who retired in 2020, opened up to People about the furious speculation that Kelce, 36, is preparing to hang up his football jersey at the end of this season—after his team missed its shot at a spot in the NFL playoffs. Kelce—who announced his engagement to Swift, also 36, in August—has been dogged by rumors that he will end his professional career…
City of Savannah: Official News, Events & Community Updates SAVANNAH – Downtown traffic will be rerouted for several hours on Jan. 19 for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade. The parade begins at 10 a.m. at the intersection of East Broad and Liberty streets. Parade route streets will close to vehicular traffic at 9 a.m. Impacted streets will remain closed until the parade has cleared the area. The parade travels north on East Broad Street to Broughton Street, west on Broughton Street to MLK Jr. Boulevard, and then south on MLK Jr. Boulevard to Anderson Street, where it…
Empowering Black Entrepreneurship: Stories of Success, Strategy & Growth by Jeroslyn JoVonn January 16, 2026 The musical received a total of 13 Tony nominations. After a nearly two-year Broadway run that generated more than $100 million in ticket sales, Alicia Keys’ Tony Award–winning musical Hell’s Kitchen is preparing to take its show overseas. Hell’s Kitchen will end its nearly 800show run at the Shubert Theatre on Feb. 22, Deadline reports. By closing night, the show is projected to have recouped about 60% of its $22 million capitalization for investors, with further returns anticipated from touring and international productions. The show…
Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights Brevin Caldwell’s rise now includes a Division I destination. The former Johnson C. Smith (JCSU) wide receiver and ‘Brick x Brick with JCSU Football’ standout has committed to play for head coach Michael Vick at Norfolk State, taking the Division II–to–Division I leap while staying inside the HBCU football ecosystem. Caldwell, a two-time HBCU All-American and one of the most productive receivers in Division II, enters the next phase of his career as both a proven playmaker and one of the most recognizable faces in HBCU football. From CIAA Star…
Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care A key program aimed at helping individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities gain access to home care may be getting a refresh in 2026. Officials at Georgia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities unveiled a series of proposals during a December board meeting aimed at restructuring the waiting list for a state-run Medicaid program that provides waivers to people with disabilities designed to keep them out of institutional settings. The waivers can be used to provide services like medical supplies, personal care assistants and emergency alert systems. However, the proposals made…