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Week of August 13,2008 - August 19,2008 • Vol. 36 No. 26 • www.savannahtribune.com • 912-233-6128 • Fax: 912-233-6140
In Memory
Isaac Hayes
Dies at 65
Isaac Hayes
Isaac Hayes, the singer and song
writer whose luxurious career included
arrangements in songs like “Theme From
‘Shaft’” died on Sunday in East Memphis,
Tenn. He was 65.
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office
said that Hayes’s wife, Adjowa, found him
collapsed near a treadmill at their home in
Cordova, an eastern suburb of Memphis,
and he was pronounced dead an hour later.
See Isaace Hayes, page 15
Actor,
Comedian
Bernie Mac
Dies at 50
Bernie Mac
Actor, comedian Bernie Mac died
Saturday, August 9 at age 50, of complica
tions from pneumonia in a Chicago-area
hospital, his publicist, Danica Smith, said
in a statement from Los Angeles.
Bernie Mac gained stardom as a
standup comedian, in films including the
See Bernie Mac, page 15
Grand Re-Opening
Ceremony held for Hill Hall
Among the leaders attending the grand re-opening of Historic Hill Hall are SSU President Dr. Earl
Yarbrough, former SSU Interim President Dr. Clyde Hall and State Senator Regina Thomas.
T he oldest building on the Savannah State
University's campus, Walter Bernard Hill
Hall, is now re-opened after 12 years. A
grand ceremony was held on Monday, August 11,
2008 with faculty, students, alumni and communi
ty supporters.
Designed by Gunn, Meyerhoff and Shay
architects of Savannah, renovation included data
wiring, fire protection systems, electrical
upgrades, plumbing and new stair wells.
The new facility also include state-of-the-art
technology computers and students will be able to
access the university's Web-based system. There
will be seating areas for students and visitors in
the reception area.
Hill Hall is an historic site that was formerly
a bookstore, student center, male dormitory, and
library. It also served as a a backdrop in the John
Travolta movie "The General's Daughter" and
barracks for black World War I troops in training.
It will now house the admissions, financial aid
and registrar's offices. This building will be
known as the university's Enrollment
Management center, with professionals trained in
every area.
A presidential suite, complete with adminis-
See Hill Hall, page 16
AKAs Celebrate 100 Years of Service
Under the leadership of
President, Emma Conyers,
approximately seventy-five (75)
local members of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority traveled by train,
plane, cars and motor coach to the
nation's capital to enjoy the festiv
ities of the Centennial celebration
of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
Inc. National and international
media took note of the solidarity
of 25,000+ members spotlighting
100 years of years of service to all
mankind.
As CNN broadcast the
momentous march on Capitol Hill
from Dorothy Height's National
Council of Negro Women's head
quarters (6th and Pennsylvania) to
the Nation's Capitol, we saw
women from all walks of life:
doctors, lawyers, teachers, busi
ness women, authors, politicians,
public administrators, government
workers, military personnel, enter
tainers, college professors,
retirees, mothers, grandmothers,
and students. Not only were they
Members of the Unity March.
marching to celebrate 100 years of
existence but the march denoted a
Call for Change. Other fraternal
and sororities in a unity march
joined Alpha Kappa Alpha calling
attention to the need for better
education, health care and
employment, particularly for
African Americans. The climax of
the march included speeches by
Alpha Kappa Alpha's
International President, Dr.
Barbara McKinzie and Speaker of
the House, Nancy Pelosi,
Congressman Sheila Jackson Lee,
who is an AKA of Texas, and sev
eral others.
It was in 1908 when nine
women came together on the
campus of Howard University in
Washington, D.C. - each the prod-
See AKA, page 13
Obama's
Strategy to
Maximize
Vote in Black
America
Senator Barack Obama
By. Cash Michaels
Special to the NNPA from the
Wilmington Journal
WILMINGTON, N.C.
(NNPA) - Two weeks before
his momentous Democratic
National Convention appear
ance in Denver, Colorado, pre
sumptive presidential nominee
Sen. Barack Obama knows he
is in the fight of his life with
GOP rival, Sen. John McCain,
in their intense battle for the
White House.
After a barrage of nega
tive attack ads that questioned
the Illinois senator’s experi
ence and patriotism, and
likened his celebrity to that of
fluff princesses like Brittany
Spears and Paris Hilton,
Obama is counting on a 50-
state strategy to force McCain
to spread his resources.
That means going toe-to-
toe with the Arizona
Republican in so-called GOP-
leaning states like North
Carolina, which the Obama
campaign has designated as a
top tier target they intend to
take from the Republicans this
presidential election.
While North Carolina
remains very much a
Democratic state in terms of
electing its governor and state
Legislature, the Tar Heel state
hasn’t been won by a
Democratic presidential candi
date since a little known
peanut farmer and governor of
Georgia, Jimmy Carter, took it
in 1976.
The Obama campaign
says it plans to change that
paradigm, and bringing more
eligible Black voters into the
process will be key.
See Obama, page 12
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