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Week of March 24,2010 - March 30,2010 • Vol. 38 No. 5 • www.savannahtribune.com • 912-233-6128 • Fax: 912-233-6140
Health Care Finally Passes
President Barack Obama
One
Million
Mentors
Tour
Comes to
Savannah
Michael Baisden
Michael Baisden will
roll into Savannah March
27th, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30
p.m. as part of The One
Million Mentors Campaign,
which is designed to encour
age qualified adults to sign up
as mentors.
There are more than 14
million children in the United
States in need of mentoring
and Michael Baisden will be
bringing his message of sup
port to 72 cities during the
next seven months with the
Save Our Kids Bus Tour.
Representatives from
local mentoring programs,
including Big Brothers Big
Sister, The National CARES
Mentoring Movement and
100 Black Men will be avail
able at Savannah State
University’s Ballroom to reg
ister qualified adults for
matching with area children
on waiting lists for mentors.
In addition to driving
registration for new mentors,
Baisden will also be raising
funding for mentoring pro
grams across the tour markets
by matching contributions
from participants up to
$350,000.
The Michael Baisden
Foundation, which is dedicat
ed to providing educational
support in communities, will
then direct the funds toward
local mentoring programs.
The program is free and
open to all ages. Seating is
limited, so get there early!
By Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Editor-in-Chief
t finally passed. The
health care bill for which
President Barack Obama
has vehemently fought
almost since day one at the
White House has finally
passed both houses of
Congress and was headed to
his desk for his signature this
week.
As Congressional
Black Caucus Members cel
ebrated the 219-212 vote, the
President put the historic
moment in perspective on
Sunday evening:
“Tonight, after nearly
100 years of talk and frustra
tion, after decades of trying,
and a year of sustained effort
and debate, the United States
Congress finally declared
that America’s workers and
America's families and
America's small businesses
deserve the security of
knowing that here, in this
country, neither illness nor
accident should endanger the
dreams they’ve worked a
lifetime to achieve.” He
explained,“If you have
health insurance, this reform
just gave you more control
by reining in the worst
excesses and abuses of the
insurance industry with
The 50th Anniversary of
the first mass meeting for inte
gration in Savannah, Georgia,
was held on Sunday March 21,
at the Historic Bolton Street
Missionary Baptist Church,
821 Martin Luther King Jr.
Blvd.
In a recent interview,
Elizabeth Catherine Jackson, a
participant in the first's sit in
gave her account of the activi
ties as they unfolded. The first
some of the toughest con
sumer protections this coun
try has ever known - so that
you are actually getting what
you pay for.
“If you don’t have
insurance, this reform gives
you a chance to be a part of a
big purchasing pool that will
give you choice and compe
tition and cheaper prices for
insurance. And it includes
the largest health care tax cut
for working families and
small businesses in history -
so that if you lose your job
and you change jobs, start
day of the sit in was scheduled
to be held on Monday, March
14, 1960. Word of the sit-in
leaked and the Police and Fire
Dept, and the media were put
on alert. The group under the
leadership of W. W. Law post
poned the sit-in. It was
rescheduled to be held on
Wednesday, March 16, 1960.
Members of the NAACP
Youth Council had been
instructed by W. W. Law,
that new business, you’ll
finally be able to purchase
quality, affordable care and
the security and peace of
mind that comes with it.
President Obama has
fought long for the bill, esca
lating the battle after the
death of his friend and for
mer colleague Sen. Ted
Kennedy last year. Kennedy
was considered the Senate’s
champion for health care.
Still, many will now
wonder what it all means for
African-Americans who suf
fer the most from low quali-
Hosea Williams, Rev. and
Mrs. L. Scott Stell and Harry
Ladson. "We were given
instructions on how to present
ourselves as we browse and
shopped at the various restau
rants and lunch counters. After
making a purchase in another
area, we would then proceed
to the lunch counter where we
attempted to be served. None
was served and three members
of the group were arrested.
ty health care and health dis
parities. Members of the
CBC say they believe the bill
will make significant impact
in the Black community.
“We cast our votes for
all those people who deserve
health care but simply can’t
afford it. We cast our votes
for our senior citizens who
will see their prescription
drag costs go down. We cast
our votes for our children
and grandchildren, so that
they can live longer, fuller
and healthier lives. We cast
our votes in the memory of
those people who didn’t have
preventive care and died pre
maturely,” said a statement
from Congressional Black
Caucus Chair Barbara Lee
(D-Calif.), applauding the
passage.
“ To those who suffer
from those health disparities,
our vote tonight carries sig
nificance similar to the pas
sage of the Civil Rights Act
in that it fulfills a dream that
has been elusive for far too
long and for far too many
Americans.”
Editor’s Note: Neither
Congressman John Barrow
or Congressman Jack
Kingston voted in favor of
the health care bill.
The total idea of our actions
were to conduct ourselves in a
non-violent manner. The com
munity was outraged. These
events lead up to the the
NAACP Mass Meeting which
was held the following
Sunday, March 20, 1960 at the
Bolton Street Baptist Church.
Rev. James Shipman, Pastor
Emeritus, Bolton St., helped to
organize this celebration.
Women’s
History
Month
Spotlight:
Marian
Wright
Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman
is an American activist for the
rights of children. She is
president and founder of the
Children's Defense Fund.
Edelman was born the
youngest of five children to
Arthur Jerome Wright and
Maggie Leola Brown in
Bennettsville, South
Carolina.
She attended Spelman
College and traveled the
world on a Merrill scholar
ship and studied in the Soviet
Union as a Lisle fellow. She
became involved in the Civil
Rights Movement, and after
being arrested for her
activism, she decided to
become a doctor and entered
Yale Law School in 1963,
joining the NAACP Legal
Defense Fund in 1968.
Edelman was the first
African American admitted
to the Mississippi Bar.
In 1973, she founded
the Children's Defense Fund
as a voice for poor, minority
and disabled children.
The organization has
served as an advocacy and
research center for children's
issues, documenting the
problems and possible solu
tions to children in need.
To keep the agency
independent, she saw that it
was financed entirely with
private funds.
Source: wikipedia.org
NAACP Mass Meeting Remembered
Pictured are the honorees of the 50th Anniversary- Maggie Hightower, Elizabeth James, Magnolia Moxley, and Eloise
Williams (absent). These women are members of Bolton St. and were present at the first mass meeting during the civil rights
movement. Photo courtesy of Kim Gusby/WSAV TV
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