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2 - The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, September 19, 2012
SCLC and Civil Rights Community
Join Forces for 50th Anniversary of
March on Washington
and Mr. Joe Beasley (Rain-
Hearts are joyous
and spirits are high in the
civil rights community as the
renowned Southern Chris
tian Leadership Conference
announces with The King
Center, their eager anticipa
tion and celebratory plans
for this year’s lead up to the
50th anniversary of the fa
mous March on Washington,
D.C. and Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. ’s “I Have A Dream”
speech.
“We still have to march,”
opined SCLC President Dr.
C.T. Vivian, who served on
Martin Luther King, Jr’s Ex
ecutive Staff. “We must tell
the President and Congress
that 50 years later, the strug
gle continues and poverty
continues unabated.”
A news conference
held at SCLC national head
quarters kicked off the official
planning/events phase for the
next 11 months, culminating
in what will be global com
memorations during August
24-28th at both the Lincoln
Memorial and the Martin Lu
ther King, Jr. Memorial on
the Mall in Washington, D.C.
Dr. C. T. Vivian
The King Center simultane
ously released their official
announcement of plans and
events for the 50th anniver
sary commemorations as
well.
D i s t i n -
guished leaders of the civil
rights community in Atlanta
joined in the announcement
moment, including Ms. Hel
en Butler (People’s Agenda),
Rev. Alfred Love(Concerned
Black Clergy), Ms. Rita
Samuels (SCLC Women),
GA State Rep. and GABEO
President Tyrone Brooks,
bowPUSH).
SCLC’s Chairman
Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr.,
President Dr. C.T. Vivian,
CEO Charles Steele, Jr., Ex
ecutive Director Damien Con
nors, Georgia State SCLC
President Rev. Samuel Mo-
steller and GABEO President
Rep. Tyrone Brooks spoke in
glowing anticipation of the
events planned.
President Vivian an
nounced with pleasure that
SCLC would be “in collabo
ration with Dr. King’s fam
ily,” that it would “not be real
to be without them - and them
without us!” CEO Steele fol
lowed up the President’s re
marks, making clear that with
The King Center’s commu
nication, “protocol has been
established.”
The 1963 March
on Washington for Jobs and
Freedom was one of the larg
est political rallies for human
rights in Linked States his
tory and called for civil and
economic rights for African
Americans.
Gray’s Reef
to Hold
Marker
Dedication
On Saturday, Sept.
22, at 2:30pm officials from
NOAA’s Gray’s Reef Nation
al Marine Sanctuary and the
City of Savannah will dedi
cate six bronze markers com
memorating the sanctuary, its
marine life and natural his
tory, and its connection to the
city and the state of Georgia.
The public is invited to attend
the dedication ceremony.
The markers are lo
cated along a 50-yard stretch
Susan L. Taylor Speaks at SSU’s
Distinguished Lecture Series
Discusses “Bold Visionary Leadership: From the
Inside Out”
Susan L. Taylor speaks to students
Photo Credit: Joshua Crawford
making $350 per month as board.
fashion and beauty editor for
Essence magazine. She often
worried about paying rent
and putting food on the table
for her daughter. Taylor soon
ended up in the hospital with
an anxiety attack. Upon her
release she was drawn to a
local church and heard a ser
mon that changed her life.
“ The preacher said
‘if you control your mind,
you control the world.’ There
are habits we have that are
death causing, not everyone
is healthy enough to have a
front seat in your life,” Tay
lor said. “Life will bring you
to the edge. Everything in
your life is by divine order.”
Some of us have
been physically, mentally,
and emotionally abused,
but we are here. We suffer
because we have compas
sion and pain is life trying to
awaken us.”
Taylor encouraged
young journalists graduating
college with little to no job
prospects to polish their craft
and learn to write across the
“Aspiring journal
ists have to understand the
media landscape is changing
face,” Taylor said. “ You have
to polish your craft, master
the language, know all the
different platforms, study the
marketplace and when you
cover a beat, know your his
tory.”
Taylor said that
black media is the “drum”
and when the black commu
nity does not support black
media, their market is deval
ued.
“We have to awaken
the black community. Black
media does not get its fair
share of dollars, but it gives
us what we don’t get from the
general media,” Taylor said.
Taylor asked the au
dience to look within them
selves for happiness.
“ The Holy Spirit is
alive as you. When you fig
ure out what you would do
if you did not have to get a
paycheck, you will achieve
peace. Inner peace is what we
seek,” Taylor said.
By Whitney Hunter
Managing Editor
The Savannah Tribune
Susan L. Taylor,
former editor-in-chief for
Essence magazine said last
Tuesday at Savannah State
University, no one gets to live
life without pain. Pain is a
natural part of life, but suffer
ing is a choice.
“What brings you
joy is accepting who you are,
being grateful for the breath
of life, and being happy with
what God made. Life is a
gift,” Taylor said.
Taylor spoke to a
packed audience filled with
students, faculty and staff as
part of SSU’s first installment
in their distinguished lectures
series entitled “Bold, Vision
ary Leadership: From the In
side Out.”
The legendary au
thor and editor presented a
promotional video for her
foundation National Cares
Mentoring Movement, which
she founded in 2006. The
video featured celebrities
such as Mariah Carey, Oprah,
humanitarian Harry Belafon-
te, and others calling on the
public to prevent poverty, the
degrading of women, the de-
monization of black men and
other issues within the black
community.
Taylor had no formal
training as a journalist when
she began at Essence maga
zine, but soon became author
of their most popular column,
“In the Spirit.”
She recalled her
days as a struggling mother
of the city’s historic Rousakis
Plaza on River Street.. Fund
ing for the project was pro
vided by the National Marine
Sanctuary Foundation. Al
derman Van Johnson, City of
Savannah ; George Sedber-
ry, superintendent, NOAA’s
Gray’s Reef National Marine
Sanctuary; Jason Patlis,
president and CEO, National
Marine Sanctuary Founda
tion.
NOAA’s mission is
to understand and predict
changes in the Earth’s envi
ronment, from the depths of
the ocean to the surface of
the sun, and to conserve and
manage our coastal and ma
rine resources.
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