Newspaper Page Text
lit SPIRIT
BLACK B
EXCELLENCE
SlifS II . 11 r ■! >i i:p J ii H. Phil
Saturday, October 30, 2010 7:00pm
Savannah Marriott Riverfront
PRSRT STD
U.S POSTAGE
Savannah. GA
Permit No. 923
Cfje
“GEORGIA’S BEST WEEKLY”
afcannaf) tribune
ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED
Week of October 27,2010 - November 2,2010 • Vol. 38 No. 35 • www.savannahtribune.com • 912-233-6128 • Fax: 912-233-6140
Mayfield
to Speak
During
3rd
Annual
Founders
Honor
Banquet
Chauncey Mayfield
As a part of Freedom
Week in Savannah, the 3rd
Annual Founders Flonor
Banquet will be held on
Thursday, November 4th from
6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Ralph
Mark Gilbert Civil Rights
Museum Annex.
Officials at the Ralph
Mark Gilbert Civil Rights
Museum and the Savannah
Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee will
be observing the heroes of the
Civil Rights Movement of 50
years ago and will present the
photographs of Frederick C.
Baldwin.
Baldwin’s images chroni
cle crucial events in the civil
rights movement from voter
registration drives to meetings
in the longshoreman’s hall to
public marches and demonstra
tions.
Savannah native
Chauncey Mayfield will be
addressing the banquet in honor
of his father, the late Savannah
attorney B. Clarence Mayfield,
who is also featured in the
Baldwin’s photo collection.
Mayfield has been the primary
visionary, strategist and archi
tect of Mayfield Gentry Realty
Advisors, LLC.
For more information on
Freedom Week, please contact
the Civil Rights Museum at
(912) 231-8900.
EDITOR’S NOTE:
We Must Vote To Keep Moving
Forward
The Savannah
Tribune has a proud and
glorious heritage. Our his
tory dates back to 1875,
when three African-
American civic and busi
ness leaders recognized the
need for a newspaper dedi
cated to serving the
African-American commu
nity.
We have always been
in the forefront of positive
efforts to move our people
in a direction that benefits
us, as well as the overall
community. Therefore, we
encourage our readers to
vote on November 2.
Election observers are
predicting that less than time to go to the polls to
40% of the registered voters vote this year, and the pre
in Savannah will take the diction for African
American participation is
much less.
This is a source of
grave concern and frustra
tion for us and for all
African-American leaders
who understand the impor
tance of voting and actively
participating in the political
process.
This year, the enemies of
our progress have been
especially aggressive.
Therefore, we are urging
our readers to go to the
polls on November 2 and
vote. This is certainly not a
time for us to go back. We
must continue to move for
ward!
Ceremony at Savannah State Marks
Student Center Construction,
Wright Stadium Renovations
SSU President Earl G. Yarbrough, Sr., Ph.D., (seventh from left) and other SSU administrators, students, city
officials and project representatives digging into the dirt to celebrate the start of construction for the new stu
dent center and T.A. Wright Stadium renovations.
S avannah State
University students
and administrators,
city leaders and other part
ners put shovels in the dirt
Wednesday, Oct. 20, to
mark the construction of
two new capital projects on
campus: a new, 50,000-
square-foot student center
and renovations to T.A.
Wright Stadium.
The groundbreaking,
held at 10 a.m. on the South
Tompkins Road site where
the new student center will
be built, featured remarks
from SSU President Earl G.
Yarbrough, Sr., Ph.D.; Vice
President for Student
Affairs Irvin Clark, Ed.D.;
Student Government
Association President
Ruben L. Chiza; and repre
sentatives from Woodline
Solutions, Lott-Barber
Architects and R.W. Allen
Constniction, the compa
nies involved in the design
and constniction of both
projects.
SSU students voted in
2009 to pay an extra $150
semester fee to fund the
new student center con
struction and were
involved in the planning
and design process. When
complete, the center will
include meeting and event
space for student organiza
tions; an office suite for the
Student Government
Association; a food court
with four dining venue con
cepts; a coffee bar; study
lounges; a computer lab;
dance studio and a small
convenience store.
The renovated T.A. Wright
Stadium will be able to seat
approximately 8,000
patrons in a combination of
bleachers and seats.
There will also be
new team locker rooms,
concession areas and bath
rooms, as well as a 500-
seat student section and a
box for SGA officers to
entertain visiting campus
queens and officials during
home games.
Expected to cost a
combined $ 17 million, both
projects are slated for com
pletion in Fall 2011.
Black
Voters
Alert:
Don’t Let
Anyone
Break
Your
Spirit
Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.,
NNPA Columnist
Once again, it is worth
emphasizing that Black
Americans have a serious vested
interest in the outcome of the
2010 midterm elections. The
Black press, in particular, has to
continue to help wake up the
masses of African Americans to
make sure that we have the
largest possible voter turnout on
or before November 2, 2010.
Beware of the playa haters
and the spirit killers. Don’t
believe the hype that a majority
in our communities are not
enthusiastic about voting, and
therefore will not vote because of
some misguided notion that this
election is really not that impor
tant.
In our long struggle for
freedom, justice, and equality,
there have always been attempts
to make some of us believe that
there are just too many obstacles
in our path or life journey and, as
such, we should just throw in the
towel, give up, and quit fighting
for freedom and empowerment.
Some national pundits, most on
the conservative right, are over
joyed about their predictions that
Black Americans are
See Spirit, page 16