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The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, January 27, 2010-7
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National Black HIV/AIDS
Awareness on Feb. 7,
Savannah State University
(SSU) will present Plenty
Good Room, the final play in
the Juice trilogy, sponsored
by SSU’s "Get In The Know"
HIV/AIDS/Substance Abuse
and Hepatitis Awareness
Project.” Performances are
Feb. 4-6 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 7
at 3 p.m. in the Kennedy Fine
Arts building at Savannah
State.
The play, which is free
and open to the public, is rec
ommended for mature audi
ences (15 and older) unless
accompanied by an adult.
“The play is powerful in
its message on the transmis
sion of HIV and what we
must do to stop its rapid
spread among African
Americans and especially
young adults,” said Johnnie
Dumas Myers, Ph.D., pro
ducer and project director for
"Get In The Know"
HIV/AIDS/Substance Abuse
Project” at Savannah State
University.
Written by Ja Jahannes,
Ph.D., a Savannah playwright
and retired SSU professor,
Plenty Good Room tackles
life and death issues that are
often swept under the rug.
He says all of the Juice plays
are about sex and sensibili
ties. In Plenty Good Room,
hidden relationships unravel
involving two older women, a
young ‘stud’ and an old
school playa’, each with
opposing characteristics
within them. The result is a
story of tender love, mis
placed trust, anger and unre
solved responsibility.
“Similar stories are being
played out every day in our
communities where the
fastest growing at-risk group
for HIV/AIDS is Black
women 50 years and older,”
says Jahannes.
Plenty Good Room is a
complete student production.
It is directed by Brittney
Bickham, a SSU senior and
2009 Cadillac CTS
Leather, only 2800
miles
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Help Haiti Now
By Marc H. Morial
NNPA columnist
(NNPA) - My faith in the
essential goodness of the
American people and our
government has been
strengthened as I have wit
nessed the extraordinary
mobilization of relief efforts
on behalf of the nation of
Haiti following the devastat
ing January 12 earthquake
that has taken the lives of per
haps as many as 100,000 or
more of its citizens.
As I watch the scream
ing, tear-stained scenes of
death and anguish unfolding
on the nightly news, I cannot
help but recall that only five
years ago, my own home
town of New Orleans might
have disappeared into the
abyss of forgotten history
were it not for the compas
sionate outreach of millions
of people in this country and
around the world.
As recovery and relief
efforts intensity, we recom
mend the following:
It is clear that right now, cash
donations are the best way to
help. We are urging every
one to donate to the Haiti
Support Project's Haiti Relief
Fund at www.ibw21.org.
Headed by noted political sci
entist and scholar, Dr. Ron
Daniels, IBW, or the Institute
of the Black World 21st
Century, is committed to an
enhanced quality of life and
the overall development of
Black people and the Global
Black Community. You can
also go to
www.whitehouse.gov/HaitiE
arthquake to choose another
organization to contribute to.
While we applaud
President Obama's swift
response and commitment of
$100 million in immediate
emergency relief, we urge the
government to take further
steps to rectify years of U.S.
trade and immigration
embargoes that have had
adverse consequences for the
people of Haiti.
We are pleased that, in
the wake of this disaster, the
Obama Administration has
halted deportations and has
granted Temporary Protected
status to 100,000 Haitian
nationals who, prior to
January 12, 2010, have been
living in the United States
illegally. This will allow
them to continue living and
working here for the next 18
months.
In our view, the United
States has both a moral and
political obligation to lead a
comprehensive plan for the
reconstruction of Haiti, like
the Marshall Plan, to ensure
that the physical infrastruc
ture and human lives are per
manently rebuilt.
Marc Morial is president
and CEO of the National
Urban League
Savannah Country Day School Wins First Place
Float Award for the 2010 MLK Parade
Savannah Country
Day School walked away
with the First Place Float
Award for the float the
school designed and placed
in the Martin Futher King
Day Parade held last
Monday.
Pictured above are
students and faculty posing
by the float.
Congratulations to the
Savannah Country Day
School!
All Copy is Due by Friday,
Before 4 p.m.
Savannah State to Present Play as Part of National
Black AIDS Awareness
veteran of The Juice Cycle.
Most of the characters —
Ashley Smith, Leon Hall and
Ja’ohn Moore — are all Juice
veterans while newcomer
Jalisa Roberts makes her act
ing debut in Plenty Good
Room. All of the cast and
production crew are volun
teer, upper-level students and
not part of the drama program
or co-curricular drama activi
ties at the university.
According to Myers, the
public was enthusiastic about
the previous plays - Juice,
Brothers Who’d Never
Consider Suicide and Sisters
Going Through, which cul
minated in a three-play
evening at the Lucas Theater
last February.
“The response increased
my appreciation for the
importance of theater in edu
cating while entertaining
around the devastating and
misunderstood issue
HIV/AIDS,” she said.
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