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Week of May 19,2010 - May 25,2010 • Vol. 38 No. 12 • www.savannahtribune.com • 912-233-6128 • Fax: 912-233-6140
Protecting Press Freedoms Worldwide
President Barack Obama talks with Adam Pearl, son of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, before signing the Daniel Pearl
Freedom of Press Act in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Special from
The White House Wire
By Jesse Lee
President Obama
recently signed the Daniel
Pearl Freedom of the Press
Act into law, a bill that rein
forces the nation’s commit
ment to ensure freedom of
the press, including blog
gers, around the world.
The President
described the act as uphold
ing our “core values” and
sending a strong signal to the
world about journalistic
rights.
The President was
joined by members of the
murdered journalist Daniel
Pearl’s family, including his
son Adam and his widow,
Mariane.
He thanked the Pearl
family for their courage in
ensuring that Pearl’s legacy
of holding governments
accountable lives on. The
bill directs the State
Department to record how
press freedom operates in
conjunction with our human
rights assessment, and hold
countries that facilitate press
repression to world opinion.
All around the world
there are enormously coura
geous journalists and blog
gers who, at great risk to
themselves, are trying to
shine a light on the critical
issues that the people of their
country face; who are the
frontlines against tyranny
and oppression.
And obviously the loss
of Daniel Pearl was one of
those moments that captured
the world’s imagination
because it reminded us of
how valuable a free press is,
and it reminded us that there
are those who would go to
any length in order to silence
journalists around the world.
AWWIN, Inc. Honors Top Ten
Working Women
Honorees are pictured with AWWIN, Inc. founder Sarahlyn U. Argrow. Photo courtesy of D & D Photography
AWWIN INC. held Honorees included Law, and Norma Curry. Congratulations to all
the “AWWIN Top Ten Tanya Scott-Pilcher, Stacy Taffanye Young, of the the honorees, and to
Working Women of the Year Jennings, Shirley James, Community Outreach Sarahlyn Argrow, and
Awards Gala & Silent Mary Morrison, Camellia Coordinator of the Curtis AWWIN, Inc. on another
Auction on May 14 at the Pflum Reid, Senea Crystal, and Elizabeth Anderson successful Awards Gala and
Mighty Eighth Air Force Stacy Jennings, Rev. Cancer Institute delivered Silent Auction.
Museum. Jonetta Prater, LaWanda the keynote address.
Local Memorial
Service to Honor
Dr. Dorothy I.
Height
Dr. Dorothy Height
The National Council
of Negro Women, Inc.,
(NCNW) Savannah Section,
will lead a community Wide
Memorial Tribute for Dr.
Dorothy I. Height on June 5,
2010, 11 a.m. at St. Philip
AME Church located at 613
Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Known as “Godmother
of the Civil Rights
Movement”, Dr. Height
served as chair of the
National Council of Negro
Women for 50 years and
national president for 40
years.
Dr. Height transitioned
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at
the age of 98.
She helped shape the
organization's vision for
women, their children and
families.
The National Council
of Negro Women is a nation
al organization of organiza
tions.
The memorial service
will include national affiliate
organizations and communi
ty representatives who want
to pay tribute to an icon of
social justice.
Inside This Week’s Edition:
Perry Named Director of Development
at SSU, pg 2
Savannah Children’s Choir to Present
Concert and Dinner, pg 3
SONATA to Hold Annual Scholarship
Luncheon, pg 4
Delta Sigma Theta Awards Annual
Scholarships, pg 7
New Book has a Local Connection,
Pg8
Savannah’s Own Attends Hollywood
Fundraiser, pg 9
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