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Minority
Carver State Bank
President Robert E. James
was one of six (6) presi
dents of minority-owned
banks to meet with Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner
on Wednesday, January 20,
2010. The other presidents
were Paul Hyon of
MoreBank, Philadelphia,
PA; Kim D. Saunders of
Mechanics and Farmers
Bank, Durham, NC; Ignacio
Urrabazo, Jr. of Commerce
Bank, Laredo, TX; James
Young of Citizen Trust
Bank, Atlanta, GA; and B.
Doyle Mitchell, Jr. of
Industrial Bank,
Washington, DC. The group
was joined by several key
Treasury Department offi
cials, including Donna J.
Gambrell, Director of the
Community Development
Financial Institutions Fund,
as well as Michael Grant,
President of the National
Bankers Association, the
Bankers Meet with Treasury Secretary
(Left to Right) Michael Grant, Paul Hyon, B. Doyle Mitchell, Jr, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Ignacio
Urrabazo, Jr., Kim D. Saunders, James Young, and Robert E. James.
trade organization that rep
resents the minority-owned
banks of America.
Grant coordinated the
meeting so that a represen
tative group of minority
bankers could share with
the Secretary ideas to help
the Obama Administration
continue to unfreeze credit
markets; strengthen the
capital positions of the
nation's community banks;
and encourage businesses
to create more jobs, espe
cially in the country's most
economically distressed
communities.
Grant told the
Secretary that the banks
Geithner
that are members of the
National Bankers
Association are the
lifeblood of many of the
country's inner cities that
were devastated by the
recent recession. “We con
tinue to provide capital and
liquidity to support lending,
job creation, and other
types of economic develop
ment in the communities we
proudly serve,” Grant said.
The bankers who
attended the meeting put
forth several innovative
ways that the Treasury can
strengthen the minority-
owned banks and help stim
ulate the flow of credit
within inner-city neighbor
hoods.
James said that he was
extremely pleased that the
Secretary was aware of the
importance of our institu
tions to the economic uplift
of our communities, and
that we have provided high-
See Treasury, page 8
Black Heritage Festival
Opens with Silent March
Abeni Cultural Dance Group
The 21 st annual
Savannah Black Heritage
Festival will take place Feb. 6-
21, 2010. This year’s opening
activity introduces a new event
that underscores the festival
theme - Our Journey From a
Glorious Past.
The Silent March to the
African-American and Haitian
Memorial monuments will
commence at noon on Feb. 6.
Marchers will convene at First
African Baptist Church, 23
Montgomery St., where they
will hear the “Call to
Remembrance” by profession
al storyteller Lillian Grant-
Baptiste, who will lead a com
munity call and response.
The return path will include a
remembrance at the Haitian
Memorial Monument, which is
located on Franklin Square
near the church.
The inaugural Silent
March is presented by the festi
val in association with the
Savannah Waterfront
Association and First African
Baptist Church.
In conjunction with this
year's Savannah Black
Heritage Festival, Abeni
Cultural Arts will be hosting
free performances at Sol C.
Johnson High School.
Local performance
group, Abeni Cultural Arts will
be presenting a performance
entitled Visions: An Odyssey in
Black Dance, on Saturday, Feb.
13 and Sunday, Feb. 14 begin
ning at 7:00 p.m. The perform
ance will present a journey
through history with African,
Modem, Contemporary, Jazz,
Tap and Hip-Hop dance.
Abeni Cultural Arts was
founded in 2006 by Muriel
See Festival, page 3
New Center at SCAD to be
Named for Walter Evans
L-R: Mrs. Linda Evans, Dr. Walter O. Evans and SCAD President Paula Wallace.
Image by Adam Kuehl, courtesy of SCAD.
The Savannah College
of Art and Design held a his
toric groundbreaking cere
mony for the SCAD
Museum of Art complex,
which will include the future
home of the Walter O. Evans
Center for African American
Studies housing one of the
finest collections of African-
American art in the United
States, as well as other sig
nificant museum collections
in new galleries and academ
ic spaces. The groundbreak
ing took place Thursday, Jan.
21.
The Walter O. Evans
Center for African American
Studies, the heart of the
museum complex, is named
for Savannah native and
nationally renowned art col
lector Dr. Walter O. Evans.
Listed frequently
among America’s top 100
collectors by Art and
Antiques magazine, Evans
assembled a legacy collection
that spans 150 years of
African-American art—from
19th-century landscape paint
ings of the Hudson River
School to works by masters
of the Harlem Renaissance,
as well as folk art, examples
from the Federal Art Project
of the 1930s, and later 20th-
century works by Lawrence
See Evans, page 2
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